I posted a few times already as an unregistered guest. Then I got an account and for some reason never got around to posting anything for a week or two!
Well, may as well start off right and introduce myself even though most regulars have seen me around.
Been around in anime fandom a _long_ time. Since 1983. Back before there was even a wide ranging anime hobby. Back when it was only "Starblazers" and a smattering of other stuff from Matsumoto. Later my interests in anime branched out into other offerings from Japan in the sci-fi/fantasy vein.
I've always maintained an interest in american SF/&F genre shows and movies as well as comics.
Gaming. Can't forget gaming. That interest actually pre-dates my entry into anime fandom by 1 year. I started not with D&D (although I did play that before anything else ONCE at a friends behest). No - the game that drug me into Role-Playing was Traveller, from the late, lamented GDW (Game Designers Workshop). That's where I get my "handle" BTW - Logan Darklighter was my very first character in Traveller. An Imperium Scout. Rolled him up in 1982. Retired him from play sometime around 1995 or so.
And art. I've drawn since I was a kid. In fact, I remember that some of my very first drawings were of the Mach 5 from Speed Racer! They weren't very _good_ drawings. And they are long gone now. But I do remember them.
I became a fan artist shortly after getting into anime fandom in 1983. And have slowly built up my own style over the years. I've even dabbled a bit with professional work. I did a couple of ship designs for Digest Group Publications "Solomani & Aslan" - an alien races sourcebook for the MegaTraveller line. And recently in 1999, I did some artwork for the "Kazei 5" E-Book for 4th Edition Champions. (Which you can order and download at the Hero Games website at www.herogames.com)
Recently I've been in a creative slump. I haven't drawn anything of significance in almost a year. But I hope to break out of this in time. In the meantime, if you're interested, you can see some of the stuff I've done - including some of the work in the two supplements I've mentioned above - here
Discovered Drunkard's walk a while back and have been with the story since around Chapter 5 or so. I really enjoy this series and look forward to seeing what Bob has in store next! I also enjoy the forums, particularly now that the new forum is up. A lot of creativity here. And I have been really enjoying the little peeks Bob has been giving us of some of the steps that never were or might yet be. I've never lost my love of the superhero genre and Bob's got a really unique character concept going here. Cross dimensional stories and crossovers in fan-fiction are also a favorite, so we're touching most bases here. ^_^
Anyway. Introductions over. Now go back to what you were doing. ^_^

Hello, I have just finished reading Drunkards Walk II, and eagerly await the next installment, and I have a question about some songs that I just have to ask.
As I have a rather odd outlook on things I was wondering what the effects of the following songs would be:
Cruel Angel's Thesis - NGE Theme Song
The Prize(Kurgans Theme) by Queen
The Battlehymn of the Republic
I don't know but after seeing that he actually invoked the Fates, the last song there gives my the chills. Thank you for providing such an entertaining hero and story. I'll just fade back into the woodwork again.
Maelore

It's John Lennon's birthday today, and my local radio station (WFUV 90.7, for New York area readers) is doing a tribute to him. So of course I started thinking about Doug.
Two songs that come to mind -- "Imagine" might be nasty against deities, nationalists, or the greedy. And "Back in the U.S.S.R." -- in a world where the U.S.S.R. still exists, it might just be a "teleport to location" song. But without it -- imposing Communism locally, for the duration of the song?

Okay, as noted in another topic, these were a couple of things that I wrote a while back. The first is my complete set of notes plus a few scenes for a BtVS
Step set early in the show's continuity, somewhere in the first or second season. (Despite the mention of Glory at one point.) The second bit is just a
one-off throwaway thing I wrote more as tension relief toward the end of the Glory plotline a season and a half ago. It is not to be taken seriously.

Enjoy.

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Okay, and the Glory scene:

-- Bob

(Edited to remove some spoilers for DW2 that I had forgotten were there.)

(Edited again in December 2008 to remove the blocks of malformed text, which were just freakin' old and out of date anyway. The Glory scene is so
long dead and no longer relevant to our plans.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I originally wrote this with the full intent of finding a place for it in the narrative, but unfortunately that didn't work out. Enjoy.
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"Sylia?""Yes, Nene?""His head is on fire.""Yes, Nene.""It's not bothering him, Sylia.""Yes, Nene.""It's bothering *me*, Sylia!"" Yes, Nene."

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Fighting evil by flash light
Writing copy by daylight
Never running from a real fight
She is the one named Sailor Loon
She will...never turn her back on a story
She is...always hunting for glory
She is...the one who takes the pictures for me
She is the once named Sailor...
...Sailor Genom
...Sailor ADP
...Sailor IDEC
...Sailor Knight Saber
With secret powers all so new to her
She is the one named Sailor Loon
Fighting evil by flash light
Writing copy by daylight
With her Sailor Scouts to help fight
She is the one named Sailor Loon
She is the one named Sailor Loon
She is the one...Sailor Loon
Enjoy...
Offsides
Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large

After yesterday's surprise venture into Sailor Moon territory, I did a little brainstorming at lunchtime and wrote down a few ideas. One of them was this very rough concept for an opening.

Quote:

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I don't remember any of this, but the journal entries from which I constructed this particular account were in my helmet. Locked with my password. And from a period for which I have no memories. I cannot vouch for their truth. I cannot answer any questions about this span of time. I can only assume that this actually happened. What I *remember* is arriving on that Earth, and spending a year living an ordinary, average life while searching for the next gate song. I don't remember anything that this account claims happened, or the people with whom Iam supposed to have experienced it. At all.

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Doug would, no doubt, have some interesting interaction with O'Neal and Teal'c... not to mention the Gua'uld, To'kra and Jaffa Resistance... Perhaps an encouner with Horus or something...
"I've met gods. Even killed one once. You, sir, are no God!" or something

-Z
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programms, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Of late, I've been thinking thoughts about putting Doug in worlds where his metagifts would be mostly useless in dealing with the kind of plot that might evolve therein.
Worlds like Love Hina and maybe even Sister Princess. (If you haven't seen or heard of Sister Princess, it's a very very low-key shojo series about a guy who gets shuttled off to some high school he's never heard of on an island off the coast of Japan, and discovers that he has a dozen or so half-sisters that he's never known he had waiting for him there. It's 26 hours of slow personal growth and self-discovery, and the biggest conflict is Wataru learning to deal with 12 adoring sisters and feeling guilty because he can't recompense them for all the things they do for him, as well as facing an equally low-key conspiracy that seems determined to tear him from them. This is not a show for adrenaline junkies.)
Anyway, Kodocha is technically in this category, but I was wondering what people thought of forcing Doug to take a far less martial course in some of his stops.

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Theme songs for DW installments have been on my mind recently, as you will know if you've been reading the other fora. Well, those of you who know Kodocha will be able to judge this candidate for DW3's theme in its proper context.
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Something familiar,
Something peculiar,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!
Something appealing,
Something appalling,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!
Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns;
Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns!
Old situations,
New complications,
Nothing portentous or polite;
Tragedy tomorrow,
Comedy tonight!
Something convulsive,
Something repulsive,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!
Something aesthetic,
Something frenetic,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!
Nothing with gods, nothing with fate;
Weighty affairs will just have to wait!
Nothing that's formal,
Nothing that's normal,
No recitations to recite;
Open up the curtain:
Comedy Tonight!
Something erratic,
Something dramatic,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!
Frenzy and frolic,
Strictly symbolic,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!
Something familiar,
Something peculiar,
Something for everybody:
Comedy tonight!
Something that's gaudy,
Something that's bawdy--
Something for everybawdy!
Comedy tonight!
Nothing that's grim.
Nothing that's Greek.
She plays Medea later this week.
Stunning surprises!
Cunning disguises!
Hundreds of actors out of sight!
Pantaloons and tunics!
Courtesans and eunuchs!
Funerals and chases!
Baritones and basses!
Panderers!
Philanderers!
Cupidity!
Timidity!
Mistakes!
Fakes!
Rhymes!
Crimes!
Tumblers!
Grumblers!
Bumblers!
Fumblers!
No royal curse, no Trojan horse,
And a happy ending, of course!
Goodness and badness,
Panic is madness --
This time it all turns out all right!
Tragedy tomorrow,
Comedy tonight!
-- Comedy Tonight
from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
(written by Stephen Sondheim)


-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.