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Furies - ECSNorway - 07-09-2009 This one probably gets filed in Doug's "Do Not Open Except In Case Of World-Endage" folder, but.... Quote: What's packed in my holdEffect: Summons the Three, in their incarnation as the Furies; Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megeara. And he'd better have a Damn Good Reason For It. -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode. - Wiregeek - 07-09-2009 where's the band, title, and youtube link? the freaking lyrics made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, I want the rest of the package! "No can brain today. Want cheezeburger." From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies - ECSNorway - 07-09-2009 Mercedes Lackey, "Magic, Moondust, and Melancholy". It's performed by Leslie Fish. I don't know if it's on youtube. Amusing note: David Weber wrote a novel with an almost identical plot (Path of the Fury, recently much-expanded and slightly-revised into In Fury Born) some years later. Both he and Misty steadfastly deny that either was aware of the other's work before the similarity was noted by the fen. And yes, it's right up there with "March of Cambreath" for I-Want-You-Dead-So-I-Can-Jump-On-The-Gnarly-Bits RAGE. -- Sucrose Octanitrate. Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode. - DHBirr - 07-10-2009 The effect I envisioned for it -- back when I said I didn't even want to think about the possibilities (purple rhinoceri, anyone?) -- was that it turns whatever vehicle Doug's piloting/driving into a kamikaze, with way more explosive power than just the fuel tank blowing up could produce, and even if the fuel can't blow up. Maybe equivalent to a nuke or total-conversion weapon; possibly adjustable power to guarantee it'll kill any enemy. But Doug's gonna die too. The exact title, by the way, is "Eumenides." Magic, Moondust, and Melancholy is available on CD from Firebird Arts and Music. And Leslie Fish's grating voice is perfect for the rage in this song. ----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING. - Proginoskes - 10-19-2011 Sorry for the thread necro, but since Bob never chimed in, I feel like I can add my own idea (related to, but different from, DHBirr's). It has a condition: an enemy Doug can attack must have killed one (or more) of Doug's allies. Doug only needs the tiniest speck of mana to use this song, even for its full length. At the beginning of the song, all of Doug's injuries are healed and his reserves of stamina become effectively bottomless. Over the course of the song, Doug and his Improbability Field both become more and more powerful and vicious. His field might start inflicting transformations (potentially horrifying transformations) on people who get too close, for example. Doug will become stronger, faster, and less careful. During the last verse, Doug can make a person save or die (or possibly just die) just by touching them. The moment the song ends, Doug dies. (Or needs to save or die, or otherwise becomes Only Mostly Dead. Whatever Bob deems best.) The trick is that the initial heal and stamina boost, and most of the mana to maintain the song, comes from the Three-as-Furies. They're not actually getting summoned, so they won't be quite so ticked as with ECSN's idea, but Doug still had better have a Damn Good Reason. - Bob Schroeck - 10-19-2011 Definitely an "only as a last resort" song, either way... -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. |