Star Ranger4 Wrote:in fact, Bob has Doug flat out explain it in 2-3I'm aware that the song doesn't do anything the first time. I'd still think that he wouldn't even listen a first time (to see if his metatalent reacts), since that means that, should it be a valid power song, the very next time he hears the song without interference, it will work.
Quote:I nodded wordlessly, trying to make a guess at what would happen the next time that I'd hear that song. The first time that I listen to a song, it never does anything. It's only after my subconscious and my metagift have both had a chance to muse on it that it has a chance to trigger some effect. I already knew this "Hurricane" song was going to give me a metapower. The question was just exactly what, if not the obvious, it would be.
So, there we have it, straight from the Wabbit's mouth, so to speak.
I can, however, see Doug being unwilling to play it a second time after realising his magegift has locked onto it out of fear that in either case he'd get a rather litteral interpretation of The dead deciding to sit up, and or move around, effectively making this a create zombie song for the first. You have to make a save vs death for the second. for really nasty results everyone in the AoE has to make a save every combat round till SOMEONE fails and keels over dead.
Now Doug is known to have some songs, like Everyone Has AIDS and Dead Heart in a Dead World, on password protected lockout. I do wonder if he has even listened to either of those songs a single time, or if he locked them out based simply on the lyrics. The appropriate thread lists definitive results for both songs (http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/top ... senal-quot), which suggests that they've both been played twice, but I'd peg Doug as likely to have had a major breakdown if he'd either given a bunch of people AIDS or just caused them all to just drop dead.
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