Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[DocMan]

Shouldn't his name be Fleeing Falcon?

Doc

[Manic Typist]

Is this question directed at me?

Sorry, I thought it was clear. My bad. Yes, it was directed at you.


I have no clue who Arlo´s father was. In fact, I barely recognize the name Arlo Guthrie. It´s one of those hazy, indistinct names that when used in conversation I MIGHT recognize as belonging to a famous musician.


And I don´t think the Mighty Falcon was fleeing... I think he was taking the device with him. Right? Hope there was no roof...

[Shadow Hawk]

Alas, no, Fighting Falcon was fleeing. He flew out through the skylight in a blatant display of non-heroness, not even taking a hostage to safety with him. FF got the nickname "Super Chicken" for that one. Amythyst would sew a yellow stripe on the back of his costume. His defense was his lack of PD/ED. He'd been knocked out of several fights by explosive/area affect attacks. His high DCV made him immune to pretty much everything but aoe, exp, and ego attacks.

I miss my old group. I sincerly hope this new group works out.

[Lord Mhoram]

Sorry, I thought it was clear. My bad. Yes, it was directed at you.

I thought so, but without a quote, I wasn't sure if it was me, or going back to Alice's restaurant.

We actually used the now obscenely skilled superhacker (skills already at 14s with +54 int....), along with some inside information and destroyed the VIPER internal network. We almost got the supreme serpent (and there is secondary information that in bringing down the system we did... but don't consider them dead until you see the body... as it were).
The next session the team is going after a local Viper base to make sure that it is in fact isolated, then they are going to let every superhero everywhere know the situation, so world wide Viper can be taken down.

The GM is basically set up an adventure where we can actually remove Viper as a threat, which is pretty cool.

[Rapier]

"Does anyone have a spare retainer?"

[Shadow Hawk]

"I've never seen a ballista before. What do they do?"

[Fabricati]

The Team's Big Amazon: I've mastered everything except the longbow.
Naive Caster: Why the longbow?
Big Amazon: *leans over deliberately* Do I really need to answer that?

[Shadow Hawk]

The Team's Big Amazon: I've mastered everything except the longbow.
Naive Caster: Why the longbow?
Big Amazon: *leans over deliberately* Do I really need to answer that?

A real Amazon would have one removed just so they could use a bow.
(That part never makes the comic books, I wonder why?)

[Fabricati]

A real Amazon would have one removed just so they could use a bow.
(That part never makes the comic books, I wonder why?)

Real Amazons are male persian mounted troops.

[Susano]

A real Amazon would have one removed just so they could use a bow.
(That part never makes the comic books, I wonder why?)

Because they didn't?

[ghost-angel]

A real Amazon would have one removed just so they could use a bow.
(That part never makes the comic books, I wonder why?)

because it's a myth. . .

[Shadow Hawk]

Heck, the Amazons were myth. Why not get the myth right?

(Yes, there were tribes of women warriors that were the basis of the myth. But they didn't call themselves Amazons.)

[ghost-angel]

Heck, the Amazons were myth. Why not get the myth right?

(Yes, there were tribes of women warriors that were the basis of the myth. But they didn't call themselves Amazons.)

Amazon is an Ionian Greek bastardization of an Iranian/Persian Word to describe a class of warriors of the Scythian's (cavalry IIRC).

The "Amazon as a people" myth comes much later when Europe screws it up even further. Also introducing the extremely wrong etymology of the word Amazon to begin with.

So, the "Amazons" were not a myth at all. (at least, not from the Greek POV.)

[Netzilla]

Heck, the Amazons were myth. Why not get the myth right?

(Yes, there were tribes of women warriors that were the basis of the myth. But they didn't call themselves Amazons.)

Actually, as I understand it, the source of the myth is generally believed to be beardless Scythian and Mongolian tribes from around the Black Sea region. Archeological evidence suggests that women were allowed higher station than in Greek society (not hard to do aside from the Minoans) and some did fight in their wars. However, there's no historic evidence of breast removal that I've seen.

[Netzilla]

Amazon is an Ionian Greek bastardization of an Iranian/Persian Word to describe a class of warriors of the Scythian's (cavalry IIRC).

The "Amazon as a people" myth comes much later when Europe screws it up even further. Also introducing the extremely wrong etymology of the word Amazon to begin with.

So, the "Amazons" were not a myth at all.

How much later are you talking about? Homer and other classical age Greek writers wrote about the Amazons as a people, including several stories about their queen.