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Hal's Dossier
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A few song lyrics that help explain and describe Hal's personality and
background, as well as a few that he just likes
T. Rex -- "(Bang a Gong) Get It On"
**Hal's thoughts about Cecie...although it could be ANYONE!**
Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black don't look back and I love you
You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well you're slim and you're weak
You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Well you're built like a car
You've got a hub cap diamond star halo
You're built like a car, oh yeah
Well you're an untamed youth
That's the truth with your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on - oh
Well you're windy and wild
You've got the blues in your shoes and your stockings
You're windy and wild, oh yeah
Well you're built like a car
You've got a hub cap diamond star halo
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on - ooh
Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black, don't look back and I love you
You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well you dance when you walk
So let's dance, take a chance, understand me
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on - ow
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on - ow - get it
on - mh
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on - a-a-a-a
Get it on, bang a gong, get it on - a-a-a-a ....
Take me, for a meanwhile I'm still thinking
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Emiliana Torrini - "Gollum's Song " (from the soundtrack to "LOTR II:
The Two Towers")
**Hal's thoughts about his adopted father's rejecting him**
Where once was light
Now darkness falls
Where once was love
Love is no more
Don't say goodbye
Don't say I didn't try
These tears we cry
Are falling rain
For all the lies you told us
The hurt, the blame!
And we will weep to be so alone
We are lost
We can never go home
So in the end
I'll be what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me
Now we say goodbye
We say you didn't try
These tears you cry
Have come too late
Take back the lies
The hurt, the blame!
And you will weep
When you face the end alone
You are lost
You can never go home
You are lost
You can never go home
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"Kodachrome" Written by Paul Simon
**Hal as photographer**
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a
wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome,
it gives us those nice bright colors
Gives us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh
yeah!
I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph
So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away
If you took all the
girls I knew when I was single
And brought 'em all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
And
everything looks worse in black and white
Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors
Gives us the greens of summers
Makes
you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph
So momma, don't take
my Kodachrome away
Momma, don't take my Kodachrome away
Momma, don't take my Kodachrome away
Momma, don't take my
Kodachrome away
Momma, don't take my Kodachrome
Momma, don't take my Kodachrome
Momma, don't take my Kodachrome away
Momma,
don't take my Kodachrome
And leave your boy so far from home
Momma, don't take my Kodachrome away
Momma, don't take
my Kodachrome
Mmmmmm
Momma, don't take my Kodachrome away (Okay)
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"Mister Cellophane " from the musical "Chicago"
**Just a song Hal likes to sing when he's in a good mood.**
If someone stood up in a crowd
And raised his voice up way
out loud
And waved his arm
And shook his leg
You'd notice him
If someone in a movie show
Yelled "Fire in the second row,
This
whole place is a powder keg!"
You'd notice him
And even without clucking like a hen
Everyone gets noticed, now and
then,
Unless, of course, that personage should be
Invisible, inconsequential me!
Cellophane
Mister cellophane
Should have been my name
Mister
cellophane
'cause you can look right through me
Walk right by me
And never know I'm there!
I tell ya
Cellophane
Mister cellophane
Should have been my
name
Mister cellophane
'cause you can look right through me
walk right by me
And never know I'm there. . .
Suppose you was a little cat
Residin' in a person's flat
Who fed
you fish and scratched your ears?
You'd notice him
Supoose you was a woman wed
And sleepin' in a double bed beside a man
for seven years
You'd notice hime
A human being's made of more than air
With all that bulk, you're bound
to see him there
Unless that human bein' next to you
Is unimpressive, undistingueshed
You know who. . .
Should have been my name
Mister cellophane
'cause you can look
right through me
Walk right by me
And never know I'im there
I tell ya
Cellophane
Mister cellophane
Should
have been my name
Mister cellophane
'cause you can look right through me
Walk right by me
And never know I'm
there
Never even know I'm there
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Patti LaBelle - "Lady Marmalade"
**And a song praising his favorit kind of Mecha...**
Hey Sister, Go Sister, Soul Sister,
Go Sister (x2)
He met Marmalade down in Old New Orleans
Struttin' her stuff on the street
She said 'Hello,
hey
Joe, you wanna give it a go?
'Mmm Hmmm Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya
Here
Mocca chocolata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Stayed in her pool while
watch he crashing up
That boy drank all that night don't know why
Oh the last sight she went
he started to freak
Gitchi
Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Here
Mocca chocalata
Ya Ya
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec
moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Heh, Heh,
Hehhhh
Seeing her skin feeling silky smooth
Colour of cafe au lait
Made the savage beast inside
Roaring till it cried More, More, More
Now he's at home doing 9 to 5
Living his brave life of lies
But when he turns off to sleep
All memories keep More, More, More
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da Da
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya here
Mocca chocolata Ya Ya
Creole
Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
Creole Lady Marmalade
etc.etc
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Friends, Enemies, and Lovers
A few profiles of people Hal at times wishes were not in his life...
NAME: "Sledge" (we don't know his real name)
TEMPLATE: A young hacker in training.
AGE: 25 ?
SPECIES: Orga (possibly has some implants somewhere)
HEIGHT: 5' 7"
WEIGHT: 150 lbs.
SEX: Male (heterosexual)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Dark tousled hair, pale-skinned narrow
face, rather well molded. Perpetually clad in the hacker's uniform: black tee shirt and black cargo pants. Soft-spoken, keeps
to himself, very harmless. You'd never know this guy could cut through a firewall like it was butter.
BACKGROUND: Unknown. All we know for sure is that he lives somewhere
around Rouge City and he's training himslef up as a hacker, with Hal's tutelage.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: VEEERRRYYY advanced computer ops, some
knowledge
of Mecha repair.
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NAME: Anselm McGeever
SPECIES: (Orga male)
AGE: 75
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: moderately tall, about 5' 10", slender
build,
dark hair now mostly gone iron grey (you can thank Hal for that!). Bad
eyesight which forces him to wear very
thick tri-focals.
BACKGROUND: Part owner of Poulenc-McGeever, a pharmaceutical
company he helped to build from the ground up (he went to medical school, but he switched to business college when he discovered
he couldn't stomach the more squeamish aspects of medicine). His wife Elana, whom he married when he was fifty-five, was unable
to conceive, though since both of them were of independant means, they were able to qualify for a license for more than one
child. She left him when it was found out he was sterile. At a loss, Anselm looked for a child to adopt. While observing a
presentation on the results of the human trials of a new treatment to halt the effects of congenital syphillis, he noticed
in the presentation holos, a small, spindly teenager with dark hair already starting to recede. He researched the lab records
and found the boy was one Halloran Doe, a foundling now a ward of the State of Minnesota. Anselm offered to adopt Halloran,
but he was warned, "You'll have your hands full, McGeever: that one has an IQ almost off the chart, but he has an off switch
on his conscience." Elana, hearing Anselm had adopted a child, returned home: "You won't manage him on your own," she warned.
But she could hardly manage Hal herself. Despite the fact that
"Halley" was a fair enough student, who excelled at computer programming, she found he was sexually precocious far beyond
his years. He terrorized the housemaid Mechas, though of course they could not respond to his advances; he also raided the
refrigerator so often Anselm felt obliged to put a smart lock on the door. He hoped all this was a phase and Halley would
soon calm down as he got older, but it only grew worse. At 17, Hal developed a pronounced Oedipal fixation on Elana (he rigged
several hidden digital cameras into her bedroom); Anselm had him sent away to a military academy in upstate New York. Hal
succeeded in having himself expelled after one year, for sexual misconduct and insubordination. Anselm gave Hal one last chance
to prove himself: he helped Hal get into MIT, where the young man excelled for two years, only to be expelled again, for similar
reasons. Anslem cut Hal out of his will and gave him 3 million NB, telling him never to contact them again. Hal took the cash
and left to pursue his other ideal career: photographing the sensational.
It should be noted that Anselm collects Hal's photos; he has
whole scrapbooks of newspaper clippings from the various papers Hal has worked for.
PERSONALITY: A bit professorish, something of a natty dresser.
Punctillious
in his work, but often clueless about human relations.
He's as much of a diametric opposite to his adoptive son as you
can
imagine.
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NAME: Julien (Belladerma JL-1432), or as Hal calls him, "the sweet young thing"
SPECIES: Mecha
AGE: 3 years
GENDER: Male by design (bisexual interaction programming)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A small (5'3", weighing about 110 lbs),
dark lover-Mecha
BACKGROUND: The closest thing Hal has to a steady lover, the one Mecha
most often seen
disappearing into the unheroic photographer's room late at night. Believed to be a companion Mecha which went AWOL for one
reason or other, but which was picked up by the Sapphire Blossom Escort Service. Hal has been utilizing his services fairly
regularly for the past year and a half, but Hal seems to have told him about Cecie's "penchant" for Mechas, since he often
tries to catch her attention if they should happen to encounter each other.
PERSONALITY: Rather high-strung and "moody", but generally pleasant, even a little feisty
(you have to be to put up with Hal!).
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