Future Steps

Sailor Moon Step Question

feeds@yuku.com (kentmagus) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:05:52 GMT

If Queen Beryl decided to brainwash Tuxedo Mask, wouldn't she try to do the same to Doug?

A Little Treat

feeds@yuku.com (Bob Schroeck) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:57:45 GMT

The following was in the "discards" section of my Harry Potter development file. And for the life of me I cannot remember writing it, nor can I remember where I wanted to go with it. But it's interesting enough, even in its incomplete state, that I thought people might like to see it and long wistfully for a might-have-been.

Hermione blinked. What had happened to Hogwarts? She turned in
place, carefully studying the unfamiliar...

Not a step, just... a message in a bottle

feeds@yuku.com (SkyeFire) — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:45:16 GMT

Exerpted from "The Unauthorized Drunkard's Walk" DVD, deleted scenes section.

OPENING SCENE: A fairly ordinary modern bedroom. It is dark outside the windows.

MAGGIE "SHADOWALKER" Sangnoir enters the shot and sits on the bed, looking dejected and just worn out. She removes her sunglasses and sets them on the nightstand beside the bed, before reachig out to:

CLOSE-UP...

Okay, let's try this again, four years later...

feeds@yuku.com (Bob Schroeck) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:50:37 GMT

I was going through some of the older posts in this area over the weekend, and I came across a combined teaser/audience participation bit that I posted for the Harry Potter Step just before that hacker whacked so much of ezBoard. It got a lot of responses, but they were all blanked, and judging from my notes, before I'd been able to get from them what I'd hoped for. So, let's try it again...

"Go ahead," Dumbledore said, holding out a...

One for the Sakura Wars Step

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:16:06 GMT

Seen on The Economist (via the SJGames forums): British Steam Car Challenge hope to beat the land-speed record for steam cars.

There's just enough layman's-tech description in the article to make it possible to describe in-story how Doug and Kohran might build one, if the need arises during DW XII...

Room of Requirements holding facility idea continuation

feeds@yuku.com (kentmagus) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:07:40 GMT

Basic Idea: Room of Requirements.

Hold Umbridge by luring her in to hold her and only her

Objections:
1)Room reconfiguration
A:The Ravenclaw Diadem was not accessed until someone needed that room again.

2)Anytime someone else accessed her room, they'd let her out.
A)Use a password-locked holding cell. This way, even if they do get into the Room, they'd still need to get past the cell door.

Another Snippet

feeds@yuku.com (Bob Schroeck) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:29:11 GMT

After sharing a glance with Ron and Hermione, Harry pushed open
the door to the Room of Requirement. He wasn't quite sure what
he was expecting, but a large and elegantly-appointed entry hall,
such as might be found in a grand Muggle mansion, certainly
wasn't it.

His eyes flicked around the room, searching for possible threats.
At the same time, he was taking in the whole of his surroundings.
Marble floors, staircase and balustrade of the...

A Snippet In Progress

feeds@yuku.com (Bob Schroeck) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:04:23 GMT

Professor Sangnoir grew uncharacteristically serious. "The
simple truth is, there are *always* people whom you will have no
choice but to kill, who *deserve* and *need* killing. The mad
dogs, we called them in the... in...

Missteps

feeds@yuku.com (Murmur the Fallen) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:48:28 GMT

As in, worlds that Good Ol' Doug Sangnoir should avoid, for whatever reason:

You know, maybe the world of Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki. The thematic and character development stuff would probably be covered with the AMG step, as well as the fact that it would take a lot of plot contrivance to NOT send Doug on his way almost immediately. Hmm . . . still . . .

The world of Melnibone. Or Jerry Cornelius' London. Heck, any of the Eternal Champion's stomping grounds....

Girls Girls Girls - Theme Song!

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:34:17 GMT

I don't remember who suggested that Bob adopt Kevin Gillis, Jon Stroll, and Stephen Lunt's Run With Us as performed by Lisa Lougheed for the Girls' theme song, but whoever it was didn't have a copy of it.

I found one.

I'd forgotten just how good Ms. Lougheed's cover of the song is. (Especially compared to

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Step

feeds@yuku.com (Scrambler) — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:48:41 GMT

Is there any possibility of there being a Step in this world, or should I start thinking of doing a Stagger?

Japan's Oldest Robot

feeds@yuku.com (robkelk) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:39:54 GMT

Spotted on The Inquirer: Ancient Robot Rebooted

What I find interesting in that article are that the robot was built in Showa 1 - in our calendar, 1928 - and that it was powered by a primitive pneumatic system.

Now, if we were to change "pneumatic" to "steam-powered", and push the date just one year earlier so that it was...

Song of the Day, 4/22/08

feeds@yuku.com (Bob Schroeck) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:22:45 GMT

Male voice, spoken:
Kommt zu mir.
Kommt zu mir in mein dunkles reich...
Kommt zu mir in mein dunkles reich...

(Sempiternus raptus est...)

Blutige Rache.
Verrat und Raub.
Asche zu Asche.
Staub zu Staub.

Aus Rheingold geschmiedet,
von Gottern erzwungen.
Vernichtend der Fluch.
Der Ring der Nibelungen.

Kommt zu mir.
Kommt zu mir in mein dunkles reich...
Kommt zu mir in mein dunkles...

Another Teaser for a future project

feeds@yuku.com (Bob Schroeck) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:26:00 GMT

I've been feeling guilty about how slowly chapter 6 has been going recently, so my conscience (or something...) has been nudging me to post bits and pieces of other projects as a kind of apology.

I guess I'm feeling apologetic again, because here's another enigmatic but suggestive sequence for people.

Doug was wearing his helmet by the time she caught up with him.
Makoto was already at his side, posed...

Nano-Stagger: The Bat and The Loon

feeds@yuku.com (Wiredgeek) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:34:54 GMT

One of the biggest things I was going to miss, I reflected as I swam up through the murky waters of unconsciousness, was Bell's cooking. She'd said that the breakfast she had prepared for me would 'help with the recovery' after I Gated, and it appeared she was right. I was still drained, but I didn't feel like Loon Soup, more like a thick chunky stew. I took a deep breath to brace myself, and opened my eyes.

A looming sky was overhead, dark clouds reflecting the...

Just for fun...

feeds@yuku.com (Bob Schroeck) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:47:54 GMT

I don't know if I'll ever write this story, but it's fun coming up with bits and pieces and slowly stringing them together in a development file.

When the song faded, so did the golden light around Aldonza,
evaporating in tiny motes that streaked meteorlike into the night
sky. She just stood there, stunned, looking at herself as best
she could without a mirror.

As I had promised, she was dressed...

Silly little thought:

feeds@yuku.com (Timote) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:41:07 GMT

It's the Muppet Show! With our very special guest: Colonel Douglas Sangnoir! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!"

*Cue music*

Another HP Snippet...

feeds@yuku.com (Bob Schroeck) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:08:46 GMT

"What are you doing?" Hermione demanded as the song kicked into
gear and power started to flood me.

I spared a glance at her. "I'm going to give Riddle one hell of
a migraine."

Curiosity obviously was consuming her. "*How?*"

I raised my right hand and let it hover over the unconscious Death
Eater's Dark Mark. "You ever see 'Dr. Who', Hermione?"

...

A Fanfiction Snippet in a Different Universe(Path of the Fury)

feeds@yuku.com (kentmagus) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:47:03 GMT

Alicia Devries looked at the prisoner in the leather jumpsuit with the LT patch. He had apparently awoken according to the guard she'd set here. She'd been trying to scan him for days but every scan indicated anomalous results. Sometimes he wasn't even there at all according to the instruments. Her hands had an interesting time trying to pull of his gloves, or his armor or his helmet trying to touch bare skin for telepathy. It kept evading her as distance was apparently arbitrary...

Hospital Care - snippetstagger

feeds@yuku.com (Kokuten) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:05:54 GMT

"Douglas Q. Sangnoir, Colonel, United Nations Metahuman
Peacekeeping Force Warriors Alpha. My serial number is...
12."

"Twelve?" The nervous young man in OD Green mouthed, behind the moustachioed man currently holding a stethoscope to various portions of my upper anatomy.

"Well, Mr. Twelve, you happen to be in one of the finest O.R.s in Korea, and while we can't technically _require_ you to give...