Commentary on Chapter 12

[Bob Schroeck]

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They would probably become his idealized versions of the real people... faults would become less, strengths would become more, etc.

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Hm. That's an interesting idea. I hadn't thought of that, but it might be something to use in a Step further on down the line...

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On a side-note, does Doug have a song to generate a simulacra of himself?

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Not a single simulacracum, he didn't... I've speculated that the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show could let him bring in multiple real instances of himself from up and down his personal timeline. And for the longest time I was planning to use John Fogerty's "Centerfield" as an excuse to do the old Bugs Bunny baseball game schtick against a large group of boomers -- which would involve generating at least nine simulacra of Doug and possibly more. However, I never found the right place for that in the story, and when the strength cost of creating only four simulacra became a plot point, I abandoned the idea of the song entirely. (I could do it in V&V -- it costs remarkably little to generate a solid energy illusion and set it on its merry way -- but it was clearly Too Much for Doug's prose counterpart.)

I have seen the post over in "The Game" that offers a good song suggestion for a single self-simulacrum. He might well add that to his repertoire.

-- Bob
("Eh, watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermous percussion pitch.")
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.