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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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
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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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.