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A Mute Button - Evil Midnight Lurker - 12-01-2006
A post elsewhere on the boards reminded me of something I'd been meaning to post: a power song that while undeniably useful would probably be frowned on by the other Warriors...
Came in from a rainy Thursday
On the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights, the TV
And the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you
What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some are saying
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away
But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
Passion or coincidence
Once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window
Cross the rooftops
Run away
Left me in the vacuum of my heart
What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away
But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
Papers in the roadside
Tell of suffering and greed
Here today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news
Of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk
And I don't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
Every one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world, I will learn to survive
Any one
Is my world
Every one
Is my world
--Duran Duran, Ordinary World
Now there are a lot of valid readings for this one, but the impression it always gives me is of resignation to/acceptance of mundanity. So, my suggestion:
It inverts Doug's chaos field, and for the duration transforms him into that most feared of all opponents -- a Level Three Mundane. Only his own song-power is exempt from this (so it will end).
To support this effect, Doug is subject to a massive delusion -- he's convinced that he never had superpowers. Either he thinks he's just woken up from a long spell of insanity, or his memory reconfigures itself so that he doesn't know he ever was a Warrior... pick one, or randomly choose every time the power activates.
Whichever, he's also disinclined to turn off the music and will rationalize leaving it and his helmet on as long as possible.As usual for the condition, he'll also be quite convinced that there's no such thing as superpowers, aliens, technology beyond 1990's Earth, et cetera... but whether or not he retains his memory, this won't bother him much. He's okay with the ordinary world, and he'll learn to survive...
--Sam
"You're making the other accountants nervous."
Re: A Mute Button - Bob Schroeck - 12-01-2006
Hm. I like everything but the amnesia/memory thing.
-- Bob
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