NanoSteps Brainstorming 2 - Stepping Out
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NanoSteps Brainstorming 2 - Stepping Out
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Hm. Doug's going to use Starship's "We Built This City" to turn a village with a wooden palisade into a stone fortress in DW1 (a bit at a time, to be sure, but yeah...). Depending on how broadly I define that effect, maybe that would do the job.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
I think there was a song. But I don't recall the name of it. The only thing I can say about it is Jem and the Holgrams.
The other three cartoon bands might also have a song. Josie and the Pussycats The Archies The Junkyard Band(Fat Albert and the Cosyby Kids) If Doug showed up in Jem's world, I forsee a quick and painful death for one Eric Raymond. The Archies along with Fat Albert don't really have anything that would cause Doug any problems. Those would be peaceful, if bizzare steps. Now Josie and the Pussycats OTOH would be quite fun for Doug to show up. All those mad scientists that Josie and the gang encounter. -------------------- Tom Mathews aka Disruptor  Bob Schroeck Wrote:Hm. Doug's going to use Starship's "We Built This City" to turn a village with a wooden palisade into a stone fortress in DW1 (a bit at a time, to be sure, but yeah...). Depending on how broadly I define that effect, maybe that would do the job.Damn! That's a good one! Thanks, Bob. I'll modify the nano-step right now.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
It was the middle of the
night in the Louisiana bayous. And sure enough, there were vampires. Loads of them, all mixed with a brigade of crack Confederate troops. Even though I had been in this dimension and time for some months now, I still couldn't believe it. Vampires! In the middle of the 1860s, influencing the rebellion of the southern states against the Union. As I heard the massed screams of a whole brigade of Union troops charge the Confederate works protecting the rebel vamps' home base, I steeled myself as I prepared to unleash my meta-gift via Here Comes the Sun on the blood-suckers I could SMELL were in the crowd of greycoats ahead of me. "Colonel Sangnoir!" I grinned on hearing that flat Maine accent, and then turned. "Colonel Chamberlain!" The former commanding officer of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment came up to me, silver sword drawn, at the head of his special brigade of troops that had been assigned to this operation. "Can you use that magic of yours, Doug?!" Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain then asked as he indicated the enemy ahead of us, who were being lanced into and bayoneted by the first wave of bluecoats. "You read my mind, Lawrence!" I called back, which made the former professor of rhetoric from Bowdoin College grin, and then I called out, "System! Here Comes The…!" "LAWRENCE! DOUG!" Lawrence growled. "Damn it, Tom! How many times do I…?!" Tom Chamberlain shook his head, pointing. "LOOK!" We looked. We blink-blinked. Our jaws were no doubt around our knees. And we just STOOD there like idiots. As were a whole bunch of Lawrence's soldiers. Then again, I couldn't blame them. "Oh, my God…!" Lawrence finally gasped. I almost echoed him… …for in all my years of experience fighting paranormal and metahuman threats, I had NEVER seen the likes of what was now tearing the hell out of a flock of vampires at the centre of the Confederate lines. And he was doing it with just a silver-coated AXE! "Is that…?!" Buster Kilrain, Lawrence's brigade sergeant-major, gasped. "President Lincoln?!" Tom exclaimed. I focused my mage-sight on the man in funeral black for a moment. "It's him," I declared. My friends from Maine all gaped at me, and then looked back. "Damn…!" Tom breathed out. "Do we help him?" Buster asked. "No." We looked at Lawrence, who had a smile on his face. "He's your Commander-in-Chief, Lawrence," I reminded him, though I simply couldn't tear my eyes away from the ghastly yet beautiful ballet of death that was playing out before us at about four hundred metres' distance. "Look at him, Doug!" Lawrence said. "Do you want to stop him?!" I looked again as the man in black literally SPUN in mid-air to decapitate two vampires with his axe. Realising what my friend was implying, I had to nod. Who on Earth — even MY Earth — would ever believe that the Great Emancipator was also THIS? "Let's at least keep the heat off him so he can do his work," I proposed. Lawrence nodded. "Sound plan," he said before bellowing out, "BAYONETS!" And we charged…
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Oh, now that's clottin' beautiful....
Even though Howard Tayler's review inclined me against the story it's clearly set within. Edit: I don't know if it's coincidence or what, but the reference above to Starship's "We Built This City" filled me with the desire to listen to that song again ... and, as it happened, the YouTube video I watched has a scene where the statue of President Lincoln in the Memorial comes to life to sing along with the chorus. I found it hilarious considering I'd just been reading your take on AL:VH. ----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING. DHBirr Wrote:Oh, now that's clottin' beautiful....LOL! Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it, DH. I'm reading the novel right now; borrowed it from the local public library. Not as exciting as the movie (I've only seen the previews on YouTube) seems to be, but given Hollywood's drive to make things more enjoyable for a movie audience, it makes sense. Still, the battle scenes in the previews were beautiful to watch. Whoever choreographed those scenes really knew their business. It actually inspired me to do an add-on to Phoenix From the Ashes (the fanfiction story whose universe Doug visits in Loon and the Ladies from Avalon) where the right honourable gentleman from the State of Illinois would actually live on (but not as a vampire as he does in the book) past his "death" in 1865 at the hands of John Wilkes Booth…and would discover a plot by certain vampire groups to try to drive the Avalonians off Earth, fearing that interbreeding between Terran and Avalonian would make a vampire's traditional food too poisonous to consume (the mesonium in the regenerative enzymes that are in an Avalonian's blood would move to convert the vampire back to normal human, thus killing them if they had outlived a normal human lifespan). This plot would involve the use of a dark witch to act as a living sacrifice to bring a being that could destroy the Avalonians — and by extension other undesirables — wholesale. But the summoning ritual would go wrong thanks to a whole alliance of people. And I just might bring in a certain living eating machine just to lighten things up. *wink* "Gon!"
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
I was flatly convinced.
Yes, sir. There was no persuading me otherwise. He HAD a metagift! A minor one…but it was still there! Case in point… SNAP! As the jukebox literally stopped, I breathed out in relief. "Thanks, Fonz!" "Heeeeeeeeeey," the man sitting beside me in one of the booths at Arnolds' trilled out with a nod. "No problem, Doug." He then smiled at the girls nearby. Watching him flirt with the ladies, I just had to shake my head. Damn! Marines trolling for dates at a bar had NOTHING on Arthur Fonzarelli…!
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
 Quote:No matter how hard I tried, I still found it hard to believe that this silver-haired lunatic was Sylia Stingray.... ________________________________ --m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
While thinking idly about transfictionality, I had an evil, EVIL idea. In the hands of a good enough writer (which rules me out), it could be a hilarious Stagger -- and, despite the subject matter, it wouldn't even need to be NSFW, since the focus would be on Doug's reactions rather than the very NSFW stuff causing them.
The Loon is outraged, and sets out to deliver a "cease and desist" order with extreme prejudice, when he learns that a sleazy movie studio, in a world aware of transfictionality, is setting out to make a XXX-rated parody of the Drunkard's Walk. In the "Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking" category: "And to top it off, Maggie is a redhead, you bozos, not a ditzy blonde!" Edit: Just in case I didn't make it clear enough, I'm not talking about writing a Rule 34 Stagger. I'm talking a Stagger about Doug explaining (the humorously painful way) to these idiots that they are NOT going to make a Rule 34 movie about him. All sexual activity would be implied, rather than described, by his furious-almost-to-the-point-of-incoherence commentary on the take-our-word-for-it-it's-filthy script. ----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.  Pyeknu Wrote:A salute was given. We stand relieved, Okita-taisa, Aruga Kosaku solemnly declared.Let's just say - you got this old school Yamato fan to get misty-eyed. (snif) That was sublime. (And I'm damn glad DHBirr pointed me here from the 2199 thread in General. Thanks!)
My pleasure, Logan. Glad you enjoyed it.
And thanks for reminding me to look into that thread. I need more Yamato 2199 . . .!
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
I'd been in Kyoto for a little over a week, although it was called "Koto" in this world. I'd found a place to live, and was taking the commuter train to a job interview to save money on gas for my bike. That's the only reason I was there when the train's brakes failed.
While I was cursing the fact that I'd left my helmet at home, somebody flew past the window, landed in front of the train, and brought it to a stop - after it overshot the station, but before it entered the intersection. What do you know; this world had metahumans. Well, it had at least one metahuman. After the adrenaline rush wore off, I thought about what had happened. I wasn't going to complain about her saving everyone's lives - that would be wrong - but she did need at least some advice on how to use her abilities more delicately, and for some reason I thought I was the right person to give her that advice. Now how was I supposed to find this "Nana Ranger"? -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(I had reason to go through the "Crossovers That Should Be" threads, and found a NanoStep that I wrote but hadn't previously copied here. The setting should be obvious...)
I was pretty sure I had a good idea how this Kruger fellow thought. Now I hoped I had enough willpower to beat him at his own game. The song was ready to go, so all I had to do was concentrate and say the words, "Play Song." Sure enough, the surroundings started to reflect my desires. They were somewhat more grim than I was used to, but that's the nature of the song. "What is this?" Freddy asked when he discovered he couldn't change the dreamscape, or stop Alice Cooper's voice from filling the area. I grinned. "Welcome to My Nightmare." -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Oh, turn the tables on the guy, eh? Nasty!
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
 robkelk Wrote:I grinned. "Welcome to My Nightmare."Just in case that doesn't work, Doug had better be prepared to activate the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up, Little Susie" really fast. ---------------------------------------------------- "Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV
Or the Beatles' "Good Morning".
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. Pyeknu Wrote:I opened my eyes to find myself in a grassy field.I looove that game, currently playing it!^_^ --- - Nightgazer Starlight, Loyal Servant of The Royal Pony Sisters Princess Celestia and Princess Luna... Forever Equestria! Signature Pyeknu Wrote:Touching.. though should not Vice-Admiral Seichi Ito also be present as the Operation Ten-Go commander?Bob Schroeck Wrote:Oh, wow.Glad you liked it. __________________ Into terror!, Into valour! Charge ahead! No! Never turn Yes, it's into the fire we fly And the devil will burn! - Scarlett Pimpernell Neko Hibiki Wrote:I love the anime, all seasons of it. You can watch it on Crunchyroll, BTW.Pyeknu Wrote:I opened my eyes to find myself in a grassy field.I looove that game, currently playing it!^_^
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
ordnance11 Wrote:I didn't think of including him to be honest with you. But since the admiral is the FORMATION commander and only Yamato was restored to service in the series - the wreckage of the cruiser Yahagi and four of the escorting destroyers should be nearby - it simply makes sense that only the old crew of the Yamato be involved for the "change of command" ceremony depicted here.Pyeknu Wrote:Touching.. though should not Vice-Admiral Seichi Ito also be present as the Operation Ten-Go commander?Bob Schroeck Wrote:Oh, wow.Glad you liked it.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Somebody suggested this, once, a long time ago … for that matter, I referred to the possibility in a slightly more recent posting:
“No, thank you, Landlady-san.” I’d more-or-less adopted Tina’s term for Aoi, I’m not sure why, but translated into English just to be, well, me. It seemed like a tradition in this household, anyway, that everyone had a somewhat different name for Aoi, and for Kaoru as well. I rose from the table and bowed to her. Aoi comes closer to Belldandy’s level than most other cooks I’ve met, and with a few dishes she’s, not necessarily better, but just as good in a different style. If they could somehow exchange recipes … no, bad idea; the universes might be shattered by that much culinary excellence all in one place. I had too much to do this evening, though, to sit quietly and give the meal the reverent attention it deserved. Between hints I got out of him without his realizing it, and things Aoi and Miyabi had mentioned, I’d finally put together the whole ugly story behind those scars all over Kaoru’s back. It was time and past time for Grandfather Hanabishi to learn that wasn’t behavior he could get away with any longer, no matter how much of Japan he owned…. Ai Yori Aoshi ----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING. DHBirr Wrote:I had too much to do this evening, though, to sit quietly and give the meal the reverent attention it deserved. Between hints I got out of him without his realizing it, and things Aoi and Miyabi had mentioned, I’d finally put together the whole ugly story behind those scars all over Kaoru’s back. It was time and past time for Grandfather Hanabishi to learn that wasn’t behavior he could get away with any longer, no matter how much of Japan he owned….If there is someone in all of animation or manga who doesn't deserve to experience my theory that abusive parents deserve to be killed in the worst way possible more than Kaoru's grandfather, I can't think of such a person.
Canadian lighthouse to U.S. Warship approaching it: "This is a lighthouse. Your call!"
Quote:deserve to be killed in the worst way possible more than Kaoru's grandfatherIn fact, after posting that snippet, I began wondering ... what would Doug do to the old s.o.b.? Who is, after all, "crunchy" (someone else can find out if he's good with ketchup, thank you). And I came up with the following: Doug sneaks into the Hanabishi compound on initial recon. He discovers that Granddad has gone senile and physically feeble, as in canon. What's more, and not canon, a mind-reading spell informs him that every now and then, the old man recovers his mental faculties completely, alert and sharp ... and at such times, he's utterly paralyzed physically, unable to so much as blink by his own volition. The Loon actually wonders for a while if some god did this as a curse on the vile bastard, but there're no traces of supernatural action. In the end, he decides there's nothing he could do to old Hanabishi that is crueler than what life has already done to him. He feels, in fact, a bit guilty about not mercy-killing the guy, and muses about dropping by a certain location to see if certain goddesses are there in this world, too, because he'd really like to talk it over with Bell. ----- Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING. DHBirr Wrote:And then discovers that the local incarnation of The Mother is not as nice as Bell? Wasn't one of Doug's biggest surprises in that Step the personalities of the various gods? Why would he expect to find another incarnation of The Mother with the same personality as Belldandy?Quote:deserve to be killed in the worst way possible more than Kaoru's grandfatherIn fact, after posting that snippet, I began wondering ... what would Doug do to the old s.o.b.? Who is, after all, "crunchy" (someone else can find out if he's good with ketchup, thank you). And I came up with the following: ----- Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea. "Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
I forget which dev file I have it in, but I have s scenelet where Doug invokes Skuld, and instead of a kawaii preteen gadgeteer, he gets a cloaked and veiled woman who tells him, rather coldly, that she is most explictly not the godling girl he's expecting.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. |
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