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I wrote a song to commerorate a win...

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BrendanM1
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I wrote a song to commerorate a win...

So, I was playing a game versus Akash’buta in Insula Primus on my ipad. (PAX Aus last year, to be precise.)

Mr Fixer, Unity, Argent Adept, Fanatic, and Tempest. I was getting the crap kicked out of me. Blood was pooling through cracks in the ipad’s screen, moans of the damned circulating around the room...you’ve been in those games, you know what I’m talking about.

Unity’s incapped, everyone else is down to 7 or less hp, Mr Fixer’s on 1. Akash is so close to Final Doom herself (4 hp), but she has so many cards in play, and she’s just taken away everything I own . There’s sod all damage dealing cards in anyone’s hand. I’m done on her next turn, no doubt.

But I do have two Bloody Knuckles in Fixer’s hand, and with the Adept’s assistance, I end up with both of them in play by the time he comes to his power use. Which means Fixer’s base power now does 5 damage...

 

To quote the message I sent my friends:

‘Mr Fixer just beat the local manifestation of Chaos to death with his fists.’,

and then one of their responses:

‘looks more like bloody elbows.’

 

I wrote some ad hoc bad-ass dialogue for Fixer which the same friend said could almost be sung to the tune of the Firefly theme. So I rewrote it over a hasty gamer lunch, but then got distracted by a PAX-related shiny thing and forgot entirely about it.

And here I am months later, with some spare time at work (ie: skiving) and I found the file, so here it is:

 

*ahem*

 

The Ballad of Mr Fixer (to the tune of the Firefly theme)

 

"take my crowbars, take my stance

take my cards right from my hand

I don’t care, I focus chi

you can’t take my fists from me"

 

"take my hit points, leave me one

try to tell me that I’m done

take my ongoings all from me

you can’t take my fists from me"

 

"bloodied knuckles, ripped and scarred

beating you just weren’t that hard

you took my crowbars, took my stance

but you couldn’t take away my hands"

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I Play "Vigorous Applause".


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This is awesome. =D

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Of this song I am quite a big fan

as an ode to the best handyman

I like the melody too

but I'd have chosen to do

John Henry the Steel Driving Man

 

 

(no, I'm not going back to writing entirely in limmerick.  But it seemed a fitting reply to a song)


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Heh. I went with the Firefly theme because that's what came up in conversation. But yeah, John Henry would be a great setup for a Mr Fixer song.

'you'll die with a crowbar in my hand'

And thanks for the appreciation, you guys!

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Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Of this song I am quite a big fanas an ode to the best handymanI like the melody toobut I'd have chosen to doJohn Henry the Steel Driving Man  (no, I'm not going back to writing entirely in limmerick.  But it seemed a fitting reply to a song)

I was so happy, then I read the last sentence.


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I truly can't tell you how much I love this. You just combined two of my favoriate things in the world.

 

 

 

(I would love to have some SotM emoticons. Hey, I think I'm going to go create a thread...)

 


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