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Re: Answers & Questions Q: Doesn't she like me anymore? We just had sex last night! A: 1001011110.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? What's My Scene? - Hoodoo Gurus

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Good Times - Jimmy Barnes and INXS

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Original Sin - INXS

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Hard Luck Story - Men at Work

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Down Under - Men at Work

Re: [Campeign Creation Project] Pirates of the Naebbirac Astroid Belt I always like to start at the basics and work up. We need to define how everything works - what is the technology base, and how does it interact with itself? To start with: we want Pirates. Therefore we have to have a technological and economical climate that will support them. We've already got the main economic requirement, a buyer for what the pirates will bring in, since our pirates are operating under Letters of Marque. We'll assume that their brief is to steal (metal) rather than indiscriminately commerce raid; otherwise they'd just vapourise any targets instead of trying to board. Technology - how do we prevent freighters just hypering out to prevent attack? The obvious is to lock them in normal space. How? Well, most "hyperdrives" in fiction need to be far enough out from a gravity well to jump out. We also want to make the Naebirrac a pretty big place. So, what say this: The Naebirrac system consists of four blue-white supergiant stars, orbiting each other closely. The system is very dirty, full of ring after ring of asteroids and planetoids, dust clouds and meteoroids, but no true planets. The combined gravity of the four supergiants so distorts the fabric of space-time as to prevent hyperspace access out to 10 light-days from the centre of the system; standard methods of travel are to use low-impulse ion drives, or if outbound, solarsails. Huge solarsail cargoships, flying off of the ecliptic to avoid the worst of the dust, haul tonnes of the (metal) from the mining and processing nodes out to the big transit stations beyond the limit - and are the natural prey of the privateers. But those are the domain of the big mining companies. Rock Rat habitats are everywhere, wildcat miners looking for their one big strike. Most don't get that strike - they die in an accident, or give up, or turn real pirate to pay their debts. The four supergiants have one other major effect. They put out so much radio hash and radiation that radar is unreliable beyond a few kilometers, and radio the same. Nor is lasercomm reliable - too much dust. If you're lucky, you might hit a relay station with an SOS - or you might not. By and large, once you're away from the (few) major habitats and processing nodes, you're on your own. Good enough for the basics?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Surf's Up Tonight - Midnight Oil.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Turn it Up - The Alan Parsons Project.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Yeah, but A) Mickey's not that quick on the uptake, and He's trying to make a clean break, be a new and better man. Too much chance of falling back into old habits if he kept hanging with the boys.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Let's Talk About Me - The Alan Parsons Project

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Mickey "The Mouse" Bernadetti had never quite lived up to expectations. His father expected him to be a good son, go to college, and take over the family bakery. Well, Mickey didn't quite get good enough marks to go to college, so he went to the local technical school instead. And...he failed to graduate. And...he sort of got into trouble a lot. When the time came, it was his sister Margretta who inherited the business. It was probably just as well. Mickey just never seemed able to concentrate for long enough on things. Mickey got involved with the local mob, just small scale stuff. Not that he wouldn't have liked to do more, but somehow...that always went to the other guys. The guys who kept their eyes on the business instead of chasing girls. Or getting drunk. It was the latter that caused all the trouble. Mickey woke up one day, with a powerful urge to go out into the woods. He got dressed, put on his clothes, and headed out of town. Unfotunately, the road out of town led straight past Easy's - Mickey's favourite drinking hole. Five hours later and drunk as a skunk, Mickey staggered into a clearing. That's all he remembers for a little bit. Then he remembers a bright light and a booming, triumphant voice: "...and you shall be the answer to that question!" Looking up from where he was lying, Mickey could see a swirling disc of colours rising away from him at great speed. And Mickey realised he was no longer drunk. In fact, as he found out over the next few days, he couldn't GET drunk. His body was now far more efficient than it had ever been before, strong enough to carry a car without difficulties, faster than a striking snake, able to run at 30 MPH all day without tiring, or leaping effortlessly betwen buildings. Mickey had no one to talk over these things with; no real friends, and his family had disowned him. He saw himself at last as what he was: a loser - and it was all his own fault. Hell, he didn't even know what he was supposed to do with these powers! Mickey stopped hanging out at Easy's. He stopped working for the mob. He got a job as a busboy in the town hotel, and then he made himself a costume. Then he set out to destroy the local mob. He still didn't know what he was supposed to do, but he decided that was okay. He'd wait for The Answer; for now, he would be The Question.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From my Champions game Saturday night: The Stormlord is preparing to carry 3 and the Swarmling into the air with his powers over the winds. Swarmling, basically a unified, humanoid form made up of 500 rats, gazes up at him: "Please, be gentle."

Re: WWYCD if their reflection suddenly winked at them? Terminus would take the mirror, turn it around, be very confused and probably take it to Edge HQ to tell the others. I, on the other hand, would be going "Oh, god, Weldun's bringing in the darklands stuff from Palladium..."

Re: WWYCD: Discovering the nature of reality? Terminus is pretty much the world's biggest opportunist. He'd figure: This guy is in charge of my world. I am now in charge of HIM. Therefore... I think I'd just make a decision to GM only from here on...

Re: WWYCD: Snakes on the Plane! Haven't you heard? Steve Irwin died a week or so ago! Anyway... Terminus has a public ID, but steadfastly refuses to sign up with any government agencies or registration agencies. Which means, his body armour and Retributor Pistols are nicely locked away in the secure locker of the aircraft. And no, he's not immune to poison. So, what he'd probably do: grab the largest snake he can see. Then start hitting every other snake he can find with that one...

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Too Much Love Will Kill You - Queen. All Hail Freddie!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Rosalinda's Eyes - Billy Joel

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Cyberbird - Yoko Kanno, off Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST 2

Re: Help with alternate U.S. history? Yeah, politically we vote Dems, but our social side is much less "let it all hang out" than our southern neighbours. Though that might be the weather...

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? All Join Hands - Slade

Re: Help with alternate U.S. history? I actually have a problem with Washington being included with Cali and Oregon. Washington is much more conservative. I'd actually see it joining Canada rather than Oregon. It and British Columbia are almost mirror images of each other.

Re: Making colonization attractive? All you need is the promise of a new life. People will go. Those who don't fit in. Those who have failed once and want a new start. Those who want their children to have a better chance than they got. The free-spirits. The free-thinkers. Those with poetry in their souls, those for whom there is nothing else left. They won't be the people you choose - NASA would have a heart attack. They'll be the people who choose themselves. Give them a way to get there, a capacity to earn a living, and some hope, and watch them break down the barriers to grasp the chance.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Lady Stardust - David Bowie

Re: WWYCD: The Darkest Hour Ack. Terminus would just go nuts. His primary motivations are a determination to destroy the Disruption, matched with his Vengeful - and the Disruption is responsible for the deaths of all of the other Terminus Soldiers. Plus, he's no more resistant to mental attacks then any normal. He'd probably go into "behind enemy lines/infiltrate and sabotage" mode. Requiring the rest of The Edge to try to hunt him down before he does something really bad. Afterwards? WE have our own teleporter, and our own psychic. This guy would meet two Retributor Pistols (.50 Coilguns) head on.