Somewhere in a lonely hotel room there's a guy starting to realize that eternal fate has turned its back on him. It's 2 AM.

It's 2 AM
The fear is gone
I'm sitting here waiting
The gun's still warm
Thinking my connection is tired of taking chances
Yeah there's a storm on the loose
Sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence
All circuits are dead
Cannot decode
My whole life spins into a frenzy

Help, I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

Help, I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

I'm falling down a spiral
Destination unknown
Double-crossed messenger all alone
Can't get no connection
Can't get through, where are you?
Well the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
When the hit man comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated
And he says

Help, I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

Help, I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

- Golden Earring
"Twilight Zone"
Cut (1982)

Always loved this song--just put it on, of course--but I can't help but wonder who in WL would merit being the subject of such a song. Zoner, maybe, but I can't see him doing wetwork.

(Actually, I'm really impressed with how you've captured the colorful, larger-than-life, Exalted-lite flavor of the SFRPG while excising the unspeakable cheesiness. Yeah, it's a bit wacky in places (and I think Sakura could've taken those punks), but there's a razor's edge, a fine line between the two that you've tread far better than big-time comics ever were able to.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard

>Always loved this song--just put it on, of course--but I can't help
>but wonder who in WL would merit being the subject of such a song.
>Zoner, maybe, but I can't see him doing wetwork.

Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but we do already have a character in WL who is, for better or worse, essentially a professional killer. I'm not sure it's actually come up, now that I think about it, but Cammy's SIS service number is zero zero five.

--G.
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>>Always loved this song--just put it on, of course--but I can't help
>>but wonder who in WL would merit being the subject of such a song.
>>Zoner, maybe, but I can't see him doing wetwork.
>
>Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but we do already have
>a character in WL who is, for better or worse, essentially a
>professional killer. I'm not sure it's actually come up, now that I
>think about it, but Cammy's SIS service number is zero zero five.

Aha. Would you believe I've never seen a single Bond movie? I'm sure that's some kind of sacrilege, but it goes to show how much movie-watching I do. I admit I didn't think of her as -that- kind of agent, but shit, (assuming she was one of Bison's dolls like in Street Fighter Alpha and the anime), that's assuredly where her original training would have gone.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard

>Aha. Would you believe I've never seen a single Bond movie?

Yeah, I'd buy that.

Admittedly, having the 00 clearance ("licensed to kill", as they call it in the trade) isn't the same thing as automatically receiving full-sanction missions all the time?

But she's probably had to kill someone at some point to get a job done.

--G.
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>>Aha. Would you believe I've never seen a single Bond movie?
>
>Yeah, I'd buy that.
>
>Admittedly, having the 00 clearance ("licensed to kill", as they call
>it in the trade) isn't the same thing as automatically receiving
>full-sanction missions all the time?
>
>But she's probably had to kill someone at some point to get a job
>done.

Makes sense.

...I really need to quit rereading SotS for the eight hundredth time and go back and read this again.

"They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead, so I say, 'nice try'." --Lezard

>But she's probably had to kill someone at some point to get a job
>done.
>

At least twice, actually, or she wouldn't be classified as a Double-0.
That, in itself, takes two diffrent assignments ending in a dead target.

Actually pops up in the trailer for the new Casino Royale.
'Your file shows no kills, but to become a Double-0, it takes...' 'Two.'
About the only thing they have from the original story, as it seems, but
at least they have SOMETHING 'right' so to speak.

/Mooneyes