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Gryphon
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Apr-05-15, 01:14 PM (EST) |
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10. "RE: OWaW 12"
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>True, true. But they replaced it with parts crafted to the original >specs, as it were - as close to authentic as they could. That's part of the joke about the Belv, actually - Gryphon's discovery that the design was really quite good, and what let down previous examples of the type he's experienced was a combination of substandard materials and shoddy build quality. He and Shirley are, more or less by accident, essentially hand-building the car the Belv's designer intended, rather than the one Transbelvian Automobile Industrial Works managed to come up with. >...then again I actually know next to nothing about automobiles >period, so. Salt grain about the size of a beagle goes here. "Ewww, what is this?!" Lucchini demanded, pulling an epic face and backing away from the salt lick. "Where's Wolfgang?" --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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ebony14
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Apr-07-15, 08:28 AM (EST) |
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27. "RE: OWaW 12"
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>(If we really wanted to bend things? Imagine if they'd found a >Citroen DS!) I was going to suggest a Trabant, but then I discovered that a) they weren't produced until '57 and b) they were produced by a country that didn't exist in our world in 1946 and isn't likely to exist in the Strike Witches 'verse at all. Which would make the discovery certainly very interesting, but might result in Gryphon trying to get the Trabant up to 88 mph and sending 1.21 gigawatts through it. Which would likely do something to the poor car, but it probably wouldn't be the desired effect. (Assuming a Trabant could actually reach 88mph without a tailwind and downhill slope.) Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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The Traitor
Member since Feb-24-09
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Apr-07-15, 01:53 PM (EST) |
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31. "RE: OWaW 12"
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My own thought? Original Mini Cooper. Which, in fairness, could actually be derived from this universe's Belv. The Mini Belv. I... I want one. In British Racing Green. --- "She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards. |
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The Traitor
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Apr-08-15, 05:53 AM (EST) |
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34. "RE: OWaW 12"
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They're for the spares I'll (somewhat inevitably) need later. --- "She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards. "Neuroi-chan, you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" |
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Gryphon
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Apr-09-15, 10:16 PM (EST) |
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35. "RE: OWaW 12"
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>(If we really wanted to bend things? Imagine if they'd found a >Citroen DS!) D'you know, I've always rather wanted a DS. When I was a tiny, tiny child, the people in the apartment across the hall had one. I had no idea what it was or why it was special, of course - I was, I think, four when we moved out of that apartment - but I distinctly recall being strangely fascinated by it. Many years later, when I knew what a DS was, I saw it in an old photo my parents took of their own car (which was parked next to it), and had one of those holy-crap-that-was-real? moments. (This is also why Coraline Jones has one in UF - it appears briefly in Welcome to the BPRD.) Anyway, the great thing about the image above is that the DS was startlingly futuristic in 1955. In 1946, in a world where nobody had been making new cars in Gallia since 1939, it would be downright mind-blowing... ... although I've just seen one source claiming that the actual Citroën development project that eventually resulted in the DS began in 1937. Hmm... --G. Who knows what desperate Gallians may have stashed in the catacombs during the frenzy of the Fall of Paris? -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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BobSchroeck
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Apr-09-15, 10:26 PM (EST) |
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36. "RE: OWaW 12"
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>D'you know, I've always rather wanted a DS. When I was a tiny, tiny >child, the people in the apartment across the hall had one. I had no >idea what it was or why it was special, of course - I was, I think, >four when we moved out of that apartment - but I distinctly >recall being strangely fascinated by it. Oh yeah. Someone living along the route I walked to elementary school on owned one, and I would pass it every morning (from behind, so I saw those roof-mounted lights first every time), and I always marveled at just how freaking different it was. >Anyway, the great thing about the image above is that the DS was >startlingly futuristic in 1955. I never thought of it as futuristic myself, just fascinatingly weird. Or maybe weirdly fascinating. I can't be sure now, forty years later... -- Bob ------------------- My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite. |
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discord
Member since Jun-24-07
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Apr-05-15, 00:17 AM (EST) |
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6. "RE: OWaW 12"
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LAST EDITED ON Apr-05-15 AT 01:09 AM (EDT) Well well! I figured that maybe UF-Gryph was working on SOME kind of evolution (maybe even a revolution?) of the Jedi philosophy while working with the witches, but what it might ultimately become is yet to be seen. I mean, I've always thought of the his ryū as an evolutionary off-shoot of the Jedi ways - given its origins - but this is promising to be an even further departure from that.In the broadest term I currently like to think of it as a new order of Force Warriors, though with less emphasis on melee combat and more on energy manipulation; more Jedi Consular, perhaps, than Jedi Guardian (to use SWTOR terminology). Also, as an aside - anyone ELSE here, when you started to twigg to what UF-G was doing, get this picture of some kinda WWII-era-looking lightsabre? I did, so maybe its just me...? Nice little parallel between Trude's reaction to seeing Neuroi-chan and Erica in action, and UF-Gryphon's OWN reaction to first seeing the 501st in action too. :) |
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Verbena
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Apr-05-15, 00:25 AM (EST) |
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7. "RE: OWaW 12"
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I was thinking Jedi Consular as soon as I realized Gryphon wasn't about to try to teach them kenjutsu. Kind of ironic, though, that the Jedi who focus on Force manipulation over the lightsaber are named after their diplomatic functions, yet the witches going that route are still warriors. --------
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Gryphon
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Apr-05-15, 01:11 PM (EST) |
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9. "RE: OWaW 12"
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>Nice little parallel between Trude's reaction to seeing Neuroi-chan >and Erica in action, and UF-Gryphon's OWN reaction to first seeing the >501st in action too. :) Where it's due etc., that is in both cases a Doctor Who reference. Both the 10th and 11th Doctors occasionally did that when confronted with a situation they found momentarily incomprehensible (e.g., 10th in the scene where the Titanic rammed the TARDIS - no, really, that happened - and 11th when he realized that the towering inferno in the Sexy Constable costume was in fact little Amelia Pond). --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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The Traitor
Member since Feb-24-09
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Apr-06-15, 02:36 PM (EST) |
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20. "RE: OWaW 12"
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It'd be easier to combine it all into a collapsible unit with sleeves and so forth - reducing the cast to wearing their Service Maillots, alas - and go full Mega Man. With added Briefcase Iron Man Suit. Actually, y'know what I said about this being simple? Scratch that. Scratch that completely. =] --- "She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards. |
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The Traitor
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Apr-06-15, 06:40 PM (EST) |
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24. "RE: OWaW 12"
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Yeah, but that's, like, remotely sensible and useful. This way you can get Striker Units on your hands. Combine with heavy armour and you have a massive potential for the kind of Ramming Always Works tactics that are, let's be honest, kind of hilarious. Insert Magic Missile joke here. =] --- "She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards. |
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zojojojo
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Apr-07-15, 10:34 AM (EST) |
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28. "RE: OWaW 12"
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>This would also technically require UF-G to teach a form of Force-use >/ swordsmanship that he has no training in, which would also be a >pretty impressive trick. :) if he could puzzle out the theory of "make an energy blade from a wooden stick" then he could probably adapt the lightsaber forms to suit.... of course this is like saying that Egyptian is easy once you learn the vowels, or that Tiger Soup is easy once you've caught the tiger... -Z --- Remember kids: guns make you stupid, duct tape makes you smart.
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Gryphon
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Apr-12-15, 07:01 PM (EST) |
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38. "RE: OWaW 12"
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>>if he could puzzle out the theory of "make an energy blade from a >>wooden stick" > >Huh? I thought G had someone who taught him, and that he was teaching >priss. Hmm. Research required, methinks. Trying to remember which >exile story this first comes up in, anyone have a hint? I think you guys might have a wire or two crossed. Gryphon doesn't know the Jyuraian Jei technique, which involves using an object (normally a carved piece of wood) as a focus for manifesting and controlling a blade composed entirely of the wielder's own concentrated spirit energy. That's a trick that very few, if any, people outside the Jyuraian royal family can do, and it isn't in his repertoire. You made be conflating it with the shinseina tamashiken, Katsujinkenryš's trademark "Inviolate Soul Blade" technique, in which a normal weapon is reinforced with the wielder's ki to make it abnormally resistant to inconveniences like breakage and being cut in half by someone with a lightsaber. Both methods can be used to fight a high-level esper battle with a stick, but the implementations are a bit different. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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