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Okay, yeah, Ninja Sex Party are not the most powerful beings Doug could summon to his side, even realized as their stage personas. Buuut, it lasts for over twelve minutes, and in some cases duration has a quality all its own - he's got a great many options for things ranging three to five minutes, still a solid selection out to eight or so, but getting into double digits things cut down considerably, and most simulacrum songs only bring out one extra pair of hands as well. A "heal everyone in the party" effect around the 10-11m mark is justified by the lyrics as well, which might be worth using on its own if there's time to wait that long to set it up.

Or I suppose it could be a gate song to or from a fantasy world and a modern one, or even reusable two-way travel between a pair that are linked in their own right like the Magic Kingdom of Landover series by... Terry Brooks I think? (Help me, Googleman!) Yes. Or Narnia if Doug wasn't so averse to god-bothering, or possibly any of several "MMO becomes real" or issekai stories. Maybe it's how he got into or out of SAO in that one Stagger? But I still like the double simulacra idea better, NSP are a good match for Doug's oddball methods.

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Now if I remember correctly there was a big vampire war arc in the original Warriors campaign (I think there was a temporary GM who was dead set on adding horror stuff to your Silver Age-y superheroes?) that ended with some epic ritual to revert the PC who'd been turned and destroy all vampires in the setting, or something along those lines? This is not that Vampire Maggie, though, and possibly not even the same kind of vampire depending on exactly how the original ones worked.

Instead, this is a version who was turned by or beside Doug himself and got the blood-crazy murderbeast mostly out of their systems over the course of a century or so before settling down into the resulting Vampire Hunter D like post-apocalypse until getting dusted per the first verse. She knows she's a simulacrum just like the normal version he called up in DW2 and that her blood vanishes shortly after leaving her body or at most when the song ends or stops so she can't turn him (or anyone else for that matter) but loves her Doug as an immortal loves, timeless and brilliant as a flawless diamond, so she is generally willing to listen to him and be helpful, on the terms of a human-eating monster humoring a favorite pet at least.

I figure in continuity he probably discovers this in the Buffy Step while checking the songs he picked up along the way for anti-vampire effects, having hoped to get something like the eponymous drink-and-die tainted blood from the first verse or just to induce suicidal apathy in vampires within his AoE, to simplify fights where they're being used as minions or keep the population down so more attention can be focused on the season arc rather than normal patrolling.

What it actually gives him... well, I'm sure there's some situations that it would be ideal for, but in general it's probably solidly high on the Do Not Play list. From an omniscient narrator perspective it's most likely something his subconscious came up with as an irrational worst case and pushed forward as our brains often do at the most inconvenient times (E: especially if someone mentions the Vampire Willow incident) or possibly the Buffyverse PtB messing with him for their own reasons.

AP, October 3: Facebook whistleblower alleges social network fed U.S. Capitol riot

CBC, October 4: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by global outage

I'm not saying they're connected. I'm just saying this is the lead story in the national news in Canada today.

At 90 years of age, William Shatner is heading into space on the next Blue Origin flight. No word on whether he's got the big seat in the middle.

If this story is accurate - and I see no reason why it wouldn't be - you'll have to pick one or the other.

What if Chrome broke features of the web and Google forgot to tell anyone? Oh wait, that's exactly what happened

If you don't use sites with pop-ups, this is still worrying because Google is choosing to ignore the W3C standards for webpage design. So if you like the idea of being able to access next year something you wrote last year, and you remember what happened to all those "Flash sites" when Adobe stopped supporting Flash... well, here's the download link for Firefox.

After a quick discussion on discord, it seems, maybe, a seperate thread from the memes might be a better idea. Leave memes to their own space rather than trying to fight with them.

Let us open things with the ever amazing Alita



And in Black and Chrome

Gigantic Jet Lightning from Puerto Rico

Assuming Doug's ever heard of the phenomenon, of course - it's quite rare.

I don't have any Apple devices to watch it on at this point, but that's what I read elseforum, and there's a page for it on IMDB. Anyone following it to comment?

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