Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-12-2006, 05:55 AM
Title: Filter
Artist: Assembly of Dust
Album: Gathering of the Vibes, Live 8.18.06
Track: 5
Time: 8:09
Available: www.emusic.com
May I lead you away
to a silver day passing.
All your thoughts are there.
May I drown your beliefs
in a blue water chasm.
You can taste the air.
/You can taste the air./
Memories grow like scarlet poppies
on a silver quilted shore
melting in the moments you adore.
While I was waiting
While I was waiting
Do do do do do
Yeah yeah
Do do do do do
Do do do do do
Through the filtered remains
of a Picture Show past life
chosen moments play.
Through a rose colored lens
that you look with your eyes closed
you recount your days.
/You recount your.../
Memories grow like scarlet poppies
on a silver quilted shore
melting in the moments you adore.
While I was waiting
While I was waiting
Do do do do do
Do do do do do
Do do do do do
Yeah, well well
[Instrumental -- 3:48]
Leave the golden threads bare.
Leave the past born and naked
pulsing like the moon.
Not the ghost of a day
but just one chosen moment
screaming though the room.
/Screaming through the.../
Memories grow like scarlet poppies
on a silver quilted shore
melting in the moments.
You are, melting in the moments.
You are, melting in the moments, you adore.
You're melting, you adore.
You're melting, you adore.
You're mel..el el..ting.
(Thanks for melting with us tonight.)
Doug has We Didn't Start the Fire to impart information about the Warrior's World to another. This song would be used to give information about Doug's Walk to another.
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-12-2006, 06:43 AM
Hmm. No.
Not just the Walk - Doug's entire life.
The question, in my mind, is...
Does it work in exactly the same way as We Didn't Start The Fire, or does the song innately come as a single target effect, such that Play for You allows another person to show either Doug or a third individual theirs.
One is logical and consistent for gameplay, but the story potential in the other is absolutely lovely.
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-12-2006, 09:58 PM
Hm. Some interesting ideas there... it would certainly make explaining his life a lot easier for Doug... Hmmm. I wonder where I could use this.
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-13-2006, 03:49 AM
Along a somewhat similar line, I have an idea for a power that needs a song (yes, I know I'm doing it backwards).
When activated, this gives Doug a scan, similar to "We Didn't Start the Fire", of world history in a world other than his own. The limitations are that, first, it is a scan -- Doug commented in DWII that he sees something he hadn't noticed before every time he plays "We Didn't Start the Fire" -- so he could miss something important.
Second, he has to select a native of the world in question, within his range limit, as his source, and although the power can show Doug events this native never heard about, it only covers what happened during the native's lifetime: if he targets on a 20-year-old, he only gets 20 years of history.
Maybe it's still too powerful, even with those limitations. But it could come in handy for getting a quick background assessment, particularly in a pre-Internet sort of world.
The question is, though, what song might be good for this? The song from the old Kodak commercial ("Do you remember / The times of your life") popped into my head right away, but that's way too short to get anything useful. (Unless he played "Play That Song Again" first, and started at sunset -- then he could pull an all-nighter studying history. )
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-13-2006, 06:35 AM
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I have an idea for a power that needs a song (yes, I know I'm doing it backwards).
Not really. I do it that way when I have a story need for an effect, but no song handy to do it. Or don't you remember the long thread about songs for smelting or forging metal?
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-13-2006, 08:18 AM
I suggested, some time back, that local versions of WDSTF might have just that effect -- our own would give him our world's history, and so forth...
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-13-2006, 10:23 AM
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The question is, though, what song might be good for this? The song from the old Kodak commercial ("Do you remember / The times of your life") popped into my head right away, but that's way too short to get anything useful.
Perhaps this one would work, it's about 3:19 long (unless it IS the one you were talking about, I've never seen the commercial you talked about):
PAUL ANKA lyrics - "Times Of Your Life"
www.OldieLyrics.com
Good morning, yesterday
You wake up and time has slipped away
And suddenly it's hard to find
The memories you left behind
Remember, do you remember
The laughter and the tears
The shadows of misty yesteryears
The good times and the bad you've seen
And all the others in between
Remember, do you remember
The times of your life (do you remember)
Reach back for the joy and the sorrow
Put them away in your mind
The mem'ries are time that you borrow
To spend when you get to tomorrow
Here comes the saddest part (comes the saddest part)
The seasons are passing one by one
So gather moments while you may
Collect the dreams you dream today
Remember, will you remember
The times of your life
Gather moments while you may
Collect the dreams you dream today
Remember, will you remember
The times of your life
Of your life
Of your life
Do you remember, baby
Do you remember the times of your life
Do you remember, baby
Do you remember the times of your life
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-13-2006, 11:16 AM
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Not really. I do it that way when I have a story need for an effect, but no song handy to do it. Or don't you remember the long thread about songs for smelting or forging metal?
Grok, but that's for you. The game for us, I thought, should be offering you songs we think will be useful, not challenging you to come up with a song for a power we think you could use. But hey, if you don't mind every once in a while....
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unless it IS the one you were talking about
It is. I didn't realize the full version of the song ran that long. Of course, there still remains the question of whether Doug's subconscious would run with it -- or is it only good for destroying stars on the other side of the galaxy?
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-13-2006, 04:57 PM
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Perhaps this one would work, it's about 3:19 long (unless it IS the one you were talking about, I've never seen the commercial you talked about):
I remember the commercial, and it's one and the same song.
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-13-2006, 04:59 PM
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there still remains the question of whether Doug's subconscious would run with it
You know, I could probably work with that one. It's a bit on the melancholy side, so Doug would no doubt be affected emotionally, but it's certainly workable.
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-14-2006, 07:12 AM
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Second, he has to select a native of the world in question, within his range limit, as his source, and although the power can show Doug events this native never heard about, it only covers what happened during the native's lifetime: if he targets on a 20-year-old, he only gets 20 years of history.
I wonder what Doug would see if his target was someone like Urd?
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-14-2006, 07:20 AM
Whatever she wanted him to see. God trumps metahuman.
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-14-2006, 09:52 AM
The phrase "whatever she wanted him to see," with reference to Urd ... I can practically see Doug blushing, before he hastily switches off the song....
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Re: Answering the question "Where have you been?"
12-14-2006, 05:10 PM
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