"You now have two members of House Jurai in your cargo
hold. You can add that to your inventory."
"I am
not property. In fact, I'm adding her and her spaceship to my
inventory."
So began the Galaxy Police RPG session, which was so much
fun that all parties involved wanted to continue the story. I told Kevin to keep
copious notes, but I didn't see him do anything but snuggle with our resident
cabbit, so I'm not sure how much he remembers. Fortunately, my memory is good;
when Aaron returns from vacation I'll see about posting the running story on the
site.
For those of you that weren't there, we simulated a
Tenchi-style story using various RPG rules. There was a dopey Galaxy
Policewoman, two members of House Jurai who couldn't stand each other, a space
pirate with a nose ring, and Cam-Ohki. Cam-Ohki is a spaceship like Ryo-Ohki,
except it has a little red beret and pigtails when small, and can do a Cannon
Drill attack when large. Cam-Ohki also prefers a good scotch over root
vegetables any day.
I don't know when the story will
continue, but I want to be inclusive and do something different next week.
Hopefully, someone will come up with a cool story idea, because otherwise I'm
going with Moonbusters, where the players are hired by forces in the Negaverse
to trap magical girls in toaster shaped containment boxes so that the evil
forces can extract their gel -- I mean love energy. To trap them, however, first
you need to hold them still with one's ion stream projectors.
And don't think about going after their secret
identities: if they're untransformed, you'll just fry them to a crisp and the
Negaverse won't pay.
So, I'm glad we had a significant
presence this week; vacations tend to steal people from us. We saw some good
stuff, although not Daiundoukai, but hey, we may push it next week as well.
As for other stuff, I know that there were about three
hands up for the writing half of our web site projects. We'll deal with the
Shockwave stuff later. What I think would be most valuable to start work on
would be as follows. If you're interested, pick one:
-
Anime Deathmatch 1: Godzilla vs. Chibi Usa
- Anime
Freak-Out 1: Anything from "The Littlest Knight Saber" to "Sailor Zelgadis"; if
it's funny and weird, it works.
- Anime Deathmatch 2:
Inverse vs. Schneider (fun fact: D. Schneider is one of the singers in Twisted
Sister. Yet another rock reference in Bastard!)
I personally want to do Miyu vs. Naga, because I have some
serious thoughts on the subject. If there's anything else you have an abiding
interest in, e-mail me.
The meeting will most likely be
in Blair 205 at 7 PM next Friday as I have yet to complain to AV services about
the malfunctioning video thing. I will, though.
- Ben
PS- About the subject: we decided that the Guardian units from Tenchi Muyo release a shock equivalent to Pikachu's thunder strike.
HARD: For a better power source for Yuri, it's gel. Both Jillian and Robert guessed the consumption of Sailor Senchi, which is sort of close (not a winner, though). I’d say that since bishoujo senchi have more “love energy” or whatever (it’s chemically similar to gel) than normal people, if Yuri was able to absorb them in gel form, she’d be hell on bipedal motive units.
EASY: G'xqlx has spoken, and Amano Ai (I tend to list Japanese names surname first) prepares food better, mostly because only five people that I know of seem to approve of Princess Mononoke's "bird style" feeding practices. Anyway, following Cynthia Heimel's lead, the Princess has written a book: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Feeding You Pre-Chewed Raw Deer. If you don't know of Ms. Heimel's work, enter her name into Amazon.com.
Now, for this week's questions:
HARD: What anime series has consistently uglier outfits than the hideous orange and blue combo Key wore to her auditions?
EASY: Better kisser: Asuka or Princess Fatora?
HINTS: In this week's showing of Key the Metal Idol, Key was dressed
by Sakura in a uniquely dysfunctional combo (Sakura was still the looker in her
red dress; does she have any brain to speak of?) including blue and purple
striped knee socks and a bell around Key's neck so she jingled occasionally. It
was bad. Do you know what's worse?
Asuka is a character
from GAINAX's Neon Genesis Evangelion (okay, so most of you knew that).
She's about fourteen and she kisses the wimpy protagonist once. Princess Fatora
is everyone's favorite Roshtarian Princess (don't tell me that anyone
really likes Rune Venus) from El-Hazard; she is also the most
aggressively lustful character from that series. She manages to score one big
kiss on Shayla-Shayla, Priestess of Fire, while pretending she's a man disguised
as a woman. Sounds like Victor, Victoria, doesn't it?
http://www.io.com/~katsucon/- One of the conventions we’ll be going to next semester. I met the program artist at Neko-con, and he explained to me the genesis of Pocky-man.
http://www.nausicaa.net/ - the home of the Ghiblink, a Miyazaki fan group. In case you wanted to know about Mononoke Hime or anything else that Miyazaki has done. If you want to see Nausicaa, we have it. It's long, though.
http://members.xoom.com/channel_v/ - All you ever wanted to know about Sailor Venus. Okay, so I guess I have a perverse interest in Sailor Sites, but I don't stay very long.
http://www.sorrelltech.com/animazement/ - This is another convention. I was there last year; it was pretty good.