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8E: At Academy recitals and with the Havilah Harmonics, Nahimana “Dory” Shybear played a double bass balanced upon an elongated end-pin of her own devising. In rehearsals she would sometimes set aside her bow and pluck the strings pizzicato, wandering through meandering bass lines while daydreaming she was a black cat slinking through the night. In 1962 Dory set aside her acoustic bass, which had always been difficult to mic, and picked up a pink Fender Precision electric bass, or P-Bass. The notes passed through a spring reverb box so she could duet with her own slapback echoes. Yet the electric bass required adjustment. It lay horizontally across her chest upon a shoulder strap, though it also freed her to dance about the stage. Not that this improved her visibility very much. The bass player, despite being indispensable to the band’s sound, was traditionally ignored, even by the most ardent fans. Dory possessed enough confidence to sing backup vocals, though never solo.
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"Play Both Sides" by Head Cleaner was the hottest cassette in 1986 #GenX
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"Play Both Sides" by Head Cleaner was the hottest cassette in 1986 #GenX
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"Play Both Sides" by Head Cleaner was the hottest cassette in 1986 #GenX
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"Play Both Sides" by Head Cleaner was the hottest cassette in 1986 #GenX
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"Play Both Sides" by Head Cleaner was the hottest cassette in 1986 #GenX
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8C: Samael “Sammy” Zinter played on the Academy football team and performed percussion both at the Academy and with the Havilah Harmonics. Sammy pounds the skins with all the power of the offensive guard he is, yet runs effortlessly in and around Dory’s rock-steady bass lines, punctuating her almost machine-like low-end notes with improvised drum fills as varied as snowfall. Sammy is telekinetic, though he must touch an object to move it. He can toss heavy timber about like balsa wood. His code name on Pranks is “Sabotage.” DECON suspected Remiel’s wings, examined in detail during her incarceration, to be a genetic mutation and sought to lay hands upon her brother Samael to confirm. Bill “Raguel” Sloane was tasked with capturing Sammy, a duty at which he consistently failed, though always with tantalizing explanations for the near misses. You do not really wish to put your hands upon Sammy, lest you discover your bones break far more easily than the equipment Sabotage is accustomed to destroying on Pranks.
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8B: Remiel, daughter of Ariel, sees her future as a vivid daydream continually collapsing like a house of cards with each personal action that renders the former vision counterfactual. The sequence of events in the new future then reassembles itself within her mind. It is almost impossible to harm Remiel, for she may simply absent herself from the place of danger. She calls this technique the Dance of Life. Yet in truth it is a terrible power. Remiel knew when her husband Elroy would betray her with Bat Kol. She knows when people she dearly loves will die, yet at times she can say nothing, because the warning itself leads to outcomes far worse. This Mercy makes Remiel the most formidable among the angels. Davar once told her that she alone in all the universe shares the Old One’s divine power of free will. Yet the burden of this thing was judged so terrible that Davar required Remiel to submit willingly unto murder before he would permit her to retain the power. Her death proved a temporary inconvenience.
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8A: Dory’s brother Wiiya Wiiya (Coyote Cub) Shybear possesses the XY allosome of baseline human males. Nevertheless, as one of the Sarim, descendants of Sar Lailah, he has been granted the power to effect a Mercy. His talent resembles the “Bag of Holding” of Dungeons & Dragons, though in Cubby’s case a black velvet bag conceals his hand where it vanishes into a space-time pocket that always accompanies him. Even Yeshua found this sight disturbing. With his right hand Cubby may place objects into this pocket or retrieve them. With his left hand, retrieval leaves a duplicate behind. This Mercy is made possible by the growing-block nature of time. Loops generate new parallel branches of history. A warm loaf of bread placed within Cubby’s pocket may be set beside a prior instance of itself, resulting in two loaves. One time he produced five thousand loaves in this manner. Hagar named him El Roi (God sees me). Cubby accepted this, and now goes by the nickname Elroy. When out on a Prank he is known as The Magician.