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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? A Sisters Love by Cell Mates from Between Two Fires That's just ending, and next up is song #355 of 1,026 in the media player: Reach Out by Cheap Trick from the Heavy Metal soundtrack

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? It did seem that way, with how episodes were run out of order when they had been broadcast. I need to go back through my VHS tapes and pull out the TV ads for the show (I'll make my own extras, dagnabbit.) The concept of the Mixmaster compound is a good one for making weird science critters for a game. (I really should pity the players if I can assemble some, I've had too long to come of with stuff.)

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Tremors - The Complete Series DVD release, contains all 13 episodes in the original production order (rather than the out of order they were broadcast by the Sci-Fi Channel). No extras of any kind are included.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Witchy Woman by The Eagles from Selected Works: 1972-1999 Disc 1 The above song is drawing to a close as I'm typing, so let's see what my long-suffering media player comes up with next: Aqualung by Jethro Tull from Original Masters

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Veteran of the Psychic Wars by Blue Öyster Cult from Fire of Unknown Origin Which was just ending, and "Random Play All" changes to: Astronomy by Blue Öyster Cult from Secret Treaties

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Countdown by Rush from Signals

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Theme [from Shotgun Mary] from Shotgun Mary (comic soundtrack CD) by Pink Filth Along with: Razor Sharp from Warrior Nun Areala & Razor (comic soundtrack CD) by Pink Filth And: Man is a Threat (Beelze-Bug Theme) from Warrior Nun Areala (comic soundtrack CD) by Pink Filth

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Shadowtime from Superstition by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Entertainer (Theme) by Marvin Hamlisch, et al. from The Sting (Special Edition)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Rage from Brother to Brother by Van Zant (I used this one as the themesong for one of my Black Fury Werewolf characters.)

Re: The Non Sequitor Thread C-Sharp is blue.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Preyed Upon from Ancient Heart by Tanita Tikaram

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Dear Prudence by Siouxsie and the Banshees from Twice Upon a Time: The Singles An interesting cover version, slower paced and slightly creepy when one is about to curl up in one's den for the night.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? John, I'm Only Dancing (Aladdin Sane Outtake) from Sound + Vision Disc 1 by David Bowie "Hey look, shuffle works!"

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? 2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx by Rush from 2112 (And it'll be the rest of the album after that, of course.) I just finished spring cleaning my media player, so I've got music loaded I haven't listened to in awhile.

Re: Beating Dr. Destroyer...how do (or did) you do it? In the long and long ago... Our small group of heroes were faced with the Doctor's latest plot, unfortunately I can't recall why Doctor Destroyer was going to detonate one, but we had to stop him from setting-off a Hellburner Bomb. Hellburner Bombs should be known to anyone who's played Space Opera. For those who aren't familiar with the weapon, it is a combination of force field and contra-gravity generators, and a 40 megaton nuclear bomb. The result is a 40-megaton blast the burns for 4-40 minutes. (Nasty, these.) At the time of the game, specific Destroids (Macross/Robotech, anyone?) hadn't been published, so our GM at the time created some. The result came from one of my favorite anime series and meant that we had to make our way through a quartet of Bu-12B Combat Boomers. Our victory was tactics-based, as we didn't actually defeat the Doctor in combat. We managed to boost my character's Teleport power in a seriously risking-oneself-to-save-others kind of way, and sent the bomb off-world to explode harmlessly (though it did provide a nifty lightshow for about half-an-hour). This was also the session in which Bloodbird discovered that she could survive a burst from the Bu-12B's 12.7mm gatling gun as well as a direct hit from the 46mm bazooka...though recovery took a LONG time. (This also meant being taken away by the Doctor for an experiment, which is a story of its own.)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Unknown Tongue by Blue Öyster Cult from Cultosaurus Erectus

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft (The Road to Madness) Del Rey Fantasy; Arkham House ©1996 (ISBN #0-345-38422-9) This is a compilation of 29 stories (of which, four are collaborations), detailing the concept of horror-induced madness and madness-induced horrors. This particular collection brings together some of the better-known "Cthulhu Mythos" stories (a term Lovecraft himself never used). This volume includes: The Beast in the Cave The Alchemist Poetry and the Gods (collaboration with Anna Helen Crofts) The Street The Transition of Juan Romero The Book (fragment) Dagon The Tomb Memory The White Ship (a tale that would have found a good home in the Dream Cycle volume) Arthur Jermyn The Temple The Terrible Old Man The Crawling Chaos (collaboration with Elizabeth Berkeley) The Tree The Moon-Bog Herbert West—Reanimator (one of the most well known stories to the general public, thanks to the film) The Lurking Fear The Festival The Unnamable (a Randolph Carter tale not set in the Dreamlands) Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (collaboration with Harry Houdini) The Shunned House He The Horror at Red Hook Cool Air (this story—along with Pickman's Model—had been done on the TV series Night Gallery) Nathicana (poem) At the Mountains of Madness (novella, and one of Lovecraft's best stories, in my own opinion) In the Walls of Eryx (non-mythos sci-fi, collaboration with Kenneth Sterling) The Evil Clergyman These collected books are a good way to read more of Lovecraft's work that the few stories most often mentioned or featured elsewhere. As usual with a compilation, some of the best work is here along with some of the least.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Season 4 — 1977) Episode: Beyond the Barrier Episode #612; Airdate 07 March 1977

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Having an Average Weekend (aka theme from Kids in the Hall) by Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet from Savvy Show Stoppers And, as the tune is short and ended before I was done typing: X-Offender by Blondie from the 1977 Warm-Up show at the Old Waldorf I wanted to give three-in-a-row Rep to Nolgroth for the Concrete Blonde tunes, but I have hand some to other folks first.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Song for Kim (She Said) by Concrete Blonde from Concrete Blonde

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) — just ending and The Sky is a Poisonous Garden — just starting from Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde

Re: Military Promotions If you've any of the Robotech RPGs from Palladium, there are some suggestions in there. Once the initial promotions of one Corporal the rest PFCs, and then one Sergeant the rest Corporals has passed, what they suggest in the books boils down to one promotion for every two Robotech experience levels.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Star Wars: A New Hope (series) Episode 5 (of 13) Jedi that Was, Jedi to Be

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft (Dreams of Terror and Death) Del Rey Fantasy; Arkham House, ©1995 (ISBN #0-345-38421-0) This is a compilation containing 25 of Lovecraft's stories (of which, two are collaborations). This set of stories features those tales set partly or wholly in Earth's Dreamlands and beyond. Some of the included stories only barely touch the Dreamlands, and seem to appear in this volume based on even a mention of a character or place from the Dreamlands. This volume includes: Azathoth (fragment) The Descendant (fragment) The Thing in the Moonlight (fragment; opening & closing paragraphs by J. Chapman Miske, the rest from a letter of Lovecraft's to Donald Wandrei) Polaris Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Doom That Came to Sarnath The Statement of Randolph Carter (the title character is a recurring one through several stories) The Cats of Ulthar (the first tale in this volume set wholly in the Dreamlands) Celephais From Beyond (more a weird science tale than otherwise) Nyarlathotep (an introduction to this servant of the Elder Gods) The Nameless City (introduces a location later used by Derleth in some of his works, and the couplet 'That is not dea, which can eternal lie / and with strange aeons even death may die) The Other Gods Ex Oblivione The Quest of Iranon The Hound Hypnos What the Moon Brings Pickman's Model (the iconic Lovecraft ghoul tale) The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (novella) The Silver Key The Strange High House in the Mist The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (novella; might be a little predictable to today's reader, but still a good story) The Dreams in the Witch-House Through the Gates of the Silver Key (sequel to The Silver Key, collaboration with E. Hoffman Price) A good mix of better-known stories with those lesser known.