Spy in the sky

[HoagieOfDoom]

Electric Eye, by Judas Priest
Up here in space
I'm looking down on you.
My lasers trace
Everything you do.
You think you've private lives
Think nothing of the kind.
There is no true escape
I'm watching all the time.
I'm made of metal
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean.
I'm elected electric spy
I protected electric eye.
Always in focus
You can't feel my stare.
I zoom into you
You don't know I'm there.
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
's nothing you can do about it.
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows.
Protected. Detective. Electric eye.
Gives Doug control over a spy sat of his choice, or just really, really, really good spying capabilities.*********
I am a very sensitive person! I can go from laughing to crying with just a kick to the face.
- Dave Attell

[chibipoe]

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I take a pride in probing all your secret moves

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And with that line, one could say that he would have the ability to know his opponent's every skill and the opponent not know that he knows. Useful for those enemies who pull out new abilities left and right.
"This hand of mine glows with an awesome power. Its burning grip tells me to defeat you....
Shining FINGER!" -Domon Kashuu, Mobile Fighter G Gundam

[Bob Schroeck]

Hm. That might be a bit too powerful. But a kind of minor combat precognition, advance warning as it were, combined with telepathy might be a good effect.

-- Bob
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It's spelt "Frodo Baggins" but it's pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."

[Foxboy]

Ah, but if he means that Doug knows what skills his opponent posesses rather than knowing the skills himself? That could provide a useful, but not overbalancing effect.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[HoagieOfDoom]

Actually, re-reading the lyrics still makes me think that this is a reconnaisance song, but more powerful than I thought. Lookee at this stanza here:
I'm elected electric spy
I protected electric eye.
Always in focus
You can't feel my stare.
I zoom into you
You don't know I'm there.
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.
My thoughts now are that Doug is invisible, gives him eyes with an unlimited viewing range (i.e., as long as it's in his LOS, he can zoom up on it in microscopic detail), with supersentive directional hearing. I don't think it will give Doug instant knowledge of any "secret moves" since line only says "probing". But it is possible to learn them with the song.*********
There's no need to hear, I can shout you.

[Bob Schroeck]

Hm. Yeah, that sounds a bit more workable...

-- Bob
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It's spelt "Frodo Baggins" but it's pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove."

[Happerry]

I was reading Drunkard's Walk II when this Passage jumped out at me.
Most days I don't even get the three or four minutes' of practice that I can extract from a playing of "Eye in the Sky"
I thought that it was Electric Eye for a while.

[classicdrogn]

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You can't feel my stare.

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Note too, that he doesn't set off spidey-sense type abilities while using this song.
- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?

SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[Bob Schroeck]

Hm. Only if they somehow twig onto him because he's actively perceiving their user... But it would also make Doug immune to the perfectly mundane "someone's looking at me" effect...

-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03