Previous thread is here.

Tonight is the expiration for all the pages in the Workshop that I put on notice last week.  At least one was rescued and launched since then, but we need to take a look at the rest before midnight UDT and decide what else has been sufficiently rescued or not:

• The Bully is a Nerd
  
• Faction Mechanics
  
• Fantastic Tribulation
  
• Shield Slinger
  
• Words act more than Actions

Reuters: Donald Trump found in contempt of court in New York civil case

Quote:A New York judge on Monday held former U.S. president Donald Trump in contempt of court for not producing documents subpoenaed in the state attorney general's civil probe of his business practices and ordered Trump to be fined $10,000 US per day until he complies.

Trump lost a bid to quash a subpoena from state Attorney General Letitia James, then failed to produce all of the documents by a court-ordered March 3 deadline, later extended to March 31 at his lawyers' request.

Justice Arthur Engoron ruled that a contempt finding was appropriate because of what the judge called "repeated failures" to hand over materials and that it was not clear Trump had conducted a complete search for the responsive documents.

"Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously, and I take mine seriously. I hereby hold you in civil contempt," the judge said, although Trump himself was not in the courtroom.

Or, how do the various magic systems in the Metacontinuity interact?


Some characters have magic powers or spells that are defined in terms of their own works of fiction, rather than being defined in real-world terms.

How do they interact with each other, and with the systems with capabilities and limitations defined in real-world units?


Here are a few suggestions to start the discussion; feel free to tear these apart and use them to build a more robust system.

First: Somebody went to a lot of trouble to make Lyrical Nanoha's magic systems not only self-consistent, but also consistent across the Belkan and Midchildan systems. And it appears that TYPE-MOON used the same system for Fate/stay night.

Which means that Yuuno cannot force Saber to teleport, since his rank in the spell is B+ and she can ignore all magic that's less than rank A. He can, however, catch her in a Struggle Bind.

Since two works in the Metacontinuity appear to use the same system already, shall we use it as well for our baseline?


Second: The Sailor Senshi are shown to be among the most powerful spellcasters in their world, and most of them have four attacks. I propose, if we're going with the Midchildan/Belkan/Fate system, setting their first-season attacks at rank A, their "Ail and En" arc attacks at rank A+, their later-second-season attacks at rank AA, their "Infinity"/S attacks at rank AAA, and their SuperS attacks at rank S. As a counterpoint to starting with powerful magic, they do start with the "stand, pose, and call the attack" limitation on these attacks.


Third: There's a second, more powerful type of magic that Caster calls "True Magic", that always defeats normal magic. No matter which story a mage is from, spells cast from the heart are intrinsically more powerful than spells cast from the mind (as far as I can remember), so that's a decent starting point for a definition of True Magic. Magical formulae are (usually) easier than raw Will and Word, so there isn't a lot of True Magic out there.

Particular cases: The Clow Cards weren't True Magic, but the Sakura Cards are. True Sight is not, but Glam Sight is. Moon Spiral Heart Attack isn't, but a Ginzuishou effect is. Starlight Breaker usually isn't, unless Nanoha is pouring her heart into the spell (as she did at the end of StrikerS).


And that's as far as I've gotten, so far. If this is the approach that we want to take, then seelie, Crowleyan (both Rental Magica and Academy City versions), Cephiran, Yggdrasilian, and Remnantian magic needs to be integrated with what's given above. (And when Arc 2 comes around, Forcelian, Orarian, and Claire Bible magic will also need to be incorporated.)


Thoughts? Additions? Bouquets? Brickbats?

We've had some thoughts about putting the original Sakura Wars characters into the Metacontinuity, and we've even figured out where they are. What we haven't figured out is who they're fighting. They can't fight their canon foes:

Quote:As to why they need a spur line to the subway lines... well, everybody knows why the Kobu need ready access to any point in Atlanta.*

* Everybody but the writers, that is... It can't be to fight demons - Hild won't let them wreak havoc on Earth during the duration of the emergency.

Apparently, opera villainesses are usually altos. Can anybody provide some examples of this, preferably in a format similar to "Alice in Alice and Bob is written for an alto", please?

I'll take examples from musicals (stage or film), too...

Because this doesn't fit nicely anywhere else - some place to talk about taking off-the-shelf resources and turning them into art for TNB.

Keep in mind that I use Daz Studio, but I have the filters that allow use of some resources for Autodesk or Blender.

...and Trump publicly says the words "I didn’t win the election."

Of course, in the same breath he insists it was still rigged.

Apparently, Muse Records released a collection of 50 covers of 4'33" back in 2019.

He's a child of Chinese and Canadian parents.

She's the child of a deaf mother and her first language was Pidgin Signed English.

They fight racism and ableism!

Not a joke: Ian Griffiths and Amy Braun are "HALF/ASIAN with Amy the CODA" (official website and Youtube channel).

Which, for our purposes, raises a question...

Doug only gets powers from music if he understands the lyrics. Do the lyrics need to be sung, or can they be signed? (And does Doug know any sign languages?)

I notice that we're coming right up on 200 users and 200,000 posts overall, according to the stats at the bottom of the top level page. Get your noisemakers and party hats ready!

edit: I finally remembered the word I goddamn meant to use for the title. That's been bothering me ever since.