Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[Major Tom]

About Adonis and his ladies: where can I find the thread in which the group
and their HQ were described?



Major Tom

[bubba smith]

adonis is from dark campions the animated series

[OSAT]

For the record, I don't understand half of what you guys are talking about, other than that you're making fun of my character's name.

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary thinks it's all pretty ironic, given what the original motivation was for playing a Felucian.

Mok is the villain in the movie Rock & Rule, he's an evil musician looking to find the one voice so he can summon up a daemon. He has a set of henchmen who are identical they never mention if their actually triplets they do say they are brothers. Its a good flick i have it on DVD. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086203/

[ParagonAlpha]

Mok is the villain in the movie Rock & Rule, he's an evil musician looking to find the one voice so he can summon up a daemon. He has a set of henchmen who are identical they never mention if their actually triplets they do say they are brothers. Its a good flick i have it on DVD. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086203/

MY NAME IS MOK
Written and Performed by Lou Reed

My name is Mok
Thanks a lot
I know you love the thing I've got
You've never seen the likes of me
Why, I'm the biggest thing since World War Three
Girls

(His name is Mok
Thanks a lot
You think he's acting, but he's not)

My name is Mok, and I'm on fire
I'm the match, and I'm the pyre
I'm the voodoo black musician priest
Why, I'm the greatest thing since World War Three
Girls

(You think he's acting, but he's not
His name is Mok
Thanks a lot)

My name is Mok, thanks a lot
I'm the power Sodom used on Lot
I am the pillar, huh huh huh
I am the snake
I am the beat that makes you shake

Why, I'm the top, the point, the end
I'm more than a lover, more than a friend
I am the power of pure desire
My magic will take you higher
Than you've ever been before
So follow me beyond the door
Of the stupid hopes and dreams you've got
My name is Mok
Thanks a lot
Girls

(His name is Mok
Thanks a lot
You think he's acting, but he's not
The show that you're about to see is the absolutely, baddest, greatest wonderment since World War Three)

My name is Mok
Thanks a lot
Just wait'll you see what I have got
There is nothing up my sleeve
Come look at this
There's nothing compared to me

I am the killer, I am the source
And you will worship me of course
I'm the oracle
I'm the seer, the wit
There is no question that I am it

I know what you've been waiting for
And you won't have to wait no more
Cause, history reveals, my friend, it reveals one thing
There's only one beginning and one end
There's only one
One and only is there not
My name is Mok
And thanks a lot
Hey, girls

(His name is Mok, so thanks a lot
He looks so cool, but he's hot
His name is Mok so thanks a lot
You think he's acting, but he's not)

My name is Mok, thanks a lot
My name is Mok, thanks a lot
My name is Mok, thanks a lot
My name is Mok, thanks a lot
My name is Mok, thanks a lot
My name is Mok, thanks a lot
My name is Mok, thanks a lot

Thank you, thank you...

[NestorDRod]

Mok is the villain in the movie Rock & Rule, he's an evil musician looking to find the one voice so he can summon up a daemon. He has a set of henchmen who are identical they never mention if their actually triplets they do say they are brothers. Its a good flick i have it on DVD. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086203/

Definitely. Funny flick. The funniest part was how Mok suspiciously looked like Mick Jagger, down to the humongous lips.

Has some great quotes:

"Yeah, I have his latest album. My gerbil's using it as a room divider."

"Word to the wise, guy. Be nice, or be dog food."

[steamteck]

About Adonis and his ladies: where can I find the thread in which the group
and their HQ were described?



Major Tom

http://www.herogames.com/forums/show...ghlight=adonis


There you go.

[Enforcer84]

adonis is from dark campions the animated series

No Differnt guy... oh steamteck found it.

[Lucius]

Now I think of it, I should be grateful no one is making fun of the name of my character's home planet.


Of course, I didn't make that one up so what would I care.

Lucius Alexander

If it were not laughed at it would not be a palindromedary

[Egyptoid]

Middle Earth D20:

Ranger Samuel, the Northern Barbarian
Warrior Brame, Prince of Gondor.
Adept Snake, the Mannish Magician
Farmer William, the Man-at-Arms from Adorn (low level)

Saruman's steward is outfitting us the adventurer's for our task,
handing out items to help in the hard desert of Harondor:


Steward says quietly: Is this uh, William, a notable member of your group?

Samuel: well, we have a belief that in adventuring groups, the lesser member mays have some role that destiny will call them forth to play, so the correct answer is: no and yes.

[Major Tom]

http://www.herogames.com/forums/show...ghlight=adonis


There you go.

Thanks.




Major Tom

[Major Tom]

I had thought the adventure was done, but Serendipity mentioned that she wanted to investigate the owners of a beauty salon (A Touch of Venus) she thought was suspicious. Not having Bureaucratics but being rich, she hired a PI friend (Nick Barr) to look into it.

Other background info under the spoiler, to keep from boring anyone.

Spoiler:

show spoiler

That salon had been introduced months ago, when I was first started bringing Adonis and his ladies into the game. (BTW, thanks, Hermit! They're a great group!) A few weeks before that, the heroes had also seen a piece by a TV news reporter friend of theirs, at the newly-opened Temple of Aphrodite, which was played off by the reporter as a wacky nutcase religion. Adonis is the head priest of the Temple, and also owns and occasionally fills in at the salon. He is actually chemist Dennis Meager, once a 95-pound socially-inept geek prior to "enhancing" himself chemically.

If you haven't read Hermit's stuff on Adonis and his ladies, the Temple is basically where Adonis and his bevy of babes hang out, most of the latter in various states of dress or, more to the point, undress.

During the course of the past several months, individual heroes had battled individual ladies of Adonis, specifically Candy Striper, Glamazon, and Cyberia. The heroes had not yet realized the ladies are connected in any way. Sentinel, an EMT and medical student in her secret ID, is particularly and almost irrationally irritated with Candy Striper.

Nick: Y'know, I should probably be paying you for this one.
Serendipity: Why? What did you find out?
Nick: Well, A Touch of Venus is owned by Olympus LLC, which is a paper corporation wholly owned by some guy named Dennis Meager. (puts down a picture) He's a chemist, graduated from Stanford. (another picture put down) He also did some consulting work for PRIMUS. Olympus also happens to own the property for the Temple of Aphrodite. (big grin) I took a lot of pictures there, but you probably don't want those...

The heroes contact the reporter, Sabrina Swain for more info on the Temple.
Sabrina: We had a lot of footage that had to be cut.
Squeeze: Hopefully by the censors...
Sabrina: Yep. You got it.

Serendipity (to Sentinel, the only other female on the team): We should infiltrate the Temple of Aphrodite.
Sentinel: Me having a secret ID, walking around naked wouldn't be a good idea.
Styx: We think it would be.

Squeeze: You're a doctor type, we could get you a candy striper outfit...
GM: Sentinel, make an INT roll.
(Sentinel makes the roll quite handily.)
GM: As Squeeze says that, you're watching Sabrina's footage, and you say, "Son of a ... that's her!"
Sentinel: Candy Striper?!
GM:

After the other heroes pick out Glamazon and Cyberia in the footage:

Sentinel: It's like an evil sauna club!

I seem to remember there being a writeup for Candy Striper somewhere here
on the boards, but I can't remember where I saw it. Can someone point out
where it can be found?



Major Tom

[DJ Blackrock]

Had quite a bit from our Hunter: The Vigil game tonight

Concerning being pursued by gangbangers:
Glitch: “We’re in an RV. I say we flush. Should make for an oil slick. We’ve been eating a lot of Fast Food lately.”

The lead zombie escapes:
GM: “He went through a wall. Not the Hulk way. The ghost way. There’s was unchained melody, and much pottery to be had.”

Concerning tactics, and the gangbangers grasp thereof:
GM: “They’re gang-bangers, not Sun-Tzu.”

Beginning the new adventure:
GM: “Now we proceed with Dead Bang.”
Rest of the Table: ::eyebrows raised::
GM: “The last one was House of Magnus. I named this one!”
Glitch (OOC): “Indeed.”

Glitch got his hands on a Desert Eagle:
Scott (OOC): “He’s got a gun the size of a toaster!”
GM (OOC): “Some toasters are smaller!”

Not even sure what prompted this:
Genevieve: “Go go Gadget Gangbanger!”

Glitch tries to pretend to be a gangbanger. I decided not to talk, because if I did, it'd totally blow the illusion:
GM (OOC): “Bitch, I will burn you like a disc I want to listen to on the way to the Sci-Fi convention!”
Zach (OOC): “Your GP or your HP, Bitch!”

Scott thinks he's being quiet:
Glitch (OOC): “You think your being stealthy. In point of fact, you sound like an angry bull elephant dragging a Volkswagen down the hall.”

Several headshots still don't drop a zombie:
Glitch: “Note to self. Romero don’t know crap. Headshots + Zombies = nothing happens.”

Musings on gatherings:
GM (OOC): “New name for a group of zombies. I’m going to call it a Groan of Zombies.”

Glitch is a smart monkey:
GM: “You, Mr. Brainiac, this tells you they’re clever, tool using ape-zombie-things.”


Best out of context:
Cain: “Shoot the goddamned bulge!”

Cain: “I’m aiming for the hole!”

[Gnaskar]

Some one wanted more backround on the evil DnD campaign with Kale (I apologize in advance if it seems a tad ... bitter):
Spoiler:

show spoiler

The campaign is a DnD 3.5 level 10 evil, cheese cake deluxe game. The twink factor is through the roof both amongst the players and the NPCs. Kale, for example, can control over 600 undead, where the normal max for my level is 40. He can cast twice the spells he should be able to, and has a Caster Level 4 times what it should be. Kales army, plus the three other members of the party with leadership means we have over a thousand minions to fall back on if things get rough. Which they often do. The average challenge rating (in the few encounters using standard monsters) is 4-5 levels above the party, and the average combat involves us fighting a twinked up party of adventurers with some sort of theme (a church of Pelor, power-rangers vigilantes, an evil necromancer and his allies, a warlock with demon friends, kobolds and their hirelings, to name but a few). The plot consistently feels railed and combat heavy, and has been described as a testing grounds for the GM’s twinking ideas, and to be honest the only reason I didn’t quit (before now) was that I am good friends with the GM, that as his first try at GMing some slack had to be given and that the role-playing we make for ourselves (often forcing the GM to role-play with us) was awesome mostly because the characters are evil and insane.
The story revolves around Kale’s plan to take over the world, starting with the campaign city of Brownwell (it’s in a canyon; don’t think too much about it). Starting with his arrival with a group of adventurers of questionable motives (the caravan trip lasted three whole sessions and made us all sick of bandits for a while), and his preaching about a new world order (and offering immortality to his followers). Over time more and more of the city (and his companions) have converted to his faith, and this very worship (and some horrible misuse of the sacrifice rules found in a more questionable source book) has made Kale a god (by accident, IC). He has his own dimension (which he can alter at will) and everything.

The final session here starts with us going of to fight a dragon (with very little in character motivation; just an OOC request from Naomi) which, of course, was heavily twinked, something we discovered after it killed three party members in the opening salvo. We retreated, and I modified the dead members of the party to be immune to that attack (which it for some reason never used again…) allowing us more success on the rematch, though after having dealt more than twice the damage needed to kill my most powerful servant (if you know dnd, we dealt 578 points of damage in two rounds without any effect), we started getting worried. Turns out the GM had found a spell that, when combined with a certain set of feats, allows the combatant to continue to fight no matter how much damage it takes. My dispel magic (after a lucky knowledge skill roll) made the thing explode. Then we (for once) got the chance to ambush a pair of vigilantes in the city. Pity no one told us they could fly, making our massive land mine idea useless. Another well placed dispel magic fixed that problem (I have 9 prepared) and killed one of the vigilantes. A zombie dragon, a stone elemental dwarf fighter, a machine gun archer and a berserker bear handled the other one.

The next battle did not go well. Frost Golems and teleporting frost mages are not a nice combo. The golems were healed by the mages AoEs, we were boxed in by the golems, and when we finally did reach the mages, they teleported in the middle of our melee attack, moving just out of reach. Half way through the battle, the mages teleported back to a second chamber, where a greater basilisk and a couple of demons (of a kind I’ve used as a challenging encounter for a level 20 party (including the GM)) waited as reinforcements. We said **** this, and retreated.

Going back to the city, we were told the last few days rain (in the desert of a world with little or no connection with the elemental plain of water) was the harbinger of the apocalypse, and that in a few days there would be 2km of water over the city. They gave us emergency rule of the city. Kale said **** this, and left.

I decided I had had enough of that GM, and realizing that Kale was the de facto main character of the plot. It was decided to end the campaign and start a Champions campaign, with me as a GM.

Then the quotes:
No further explanation:
Naomi (OOC): Wow! There's a long way between one and infinity.

On how to solve the hyperactivity problem of the Bear:
Naomi: Can I neuter him with an arrow?

How to ambush a dragon (after the first damsel was ripped apart we've found few volunteers):
Dusty: Wait! I can make a damsel.

Planning how to ambush the vigilantes:
Kale: So… (catches himself) wait, I'm discussing tactics with a Int 6 bear I might as well talk to myself. (to the Bear) So what do you think? Should we ambush them in their sleep or when they do their next attack? (long pause, Bear is playing on his PC) Sigh, I'll just go out side and talk to a wall.

No further explanation:
Kale: Gasp! Actual terrain! Not another featureless plane!

Ditto:
Dusty: They're puppies. There is no will save.

The Bear has a hang-up with certain concepts:
GM: Can you stop messing with doors

A common argument:
Bear: I kill you in your sleep if you make me dead!
Kale: I don't sleep.
Bear: But you have a bed!
GM: He has a bed, but that for...

On the plan to ambush the mages that have been petrifying people in town:
Kale: They're trapped like a mouse in a rat.
Famous last words… we were forced to retreat three rounds later.

And now Kale's good bye speech to the city of Brownwell:
Citizens of Brownwell! Gather round, gather round! When I first arrived here, an anonymous caravan guard, six long months ago, I saw only opportunity. I saw a city awaiting salvation, I saw a people awaiting Immortality, a starting point for a New World Order! (pause for applause) I promised myself that I would see myself in charge, that I would lead you into a new era. I stand here now, in answer to that promise! (pause for applause) The last amongst you have, in these dire times, turned to me for salvation. Brownwell finally stands united in its plea for help! (pause for applause) So, as emergency ruler of Brownwell, I can continue the proud tradition of your rulers and say: (dramatic pause) Bugger You All! (pause for shocked mutterings, changing to an accusative tone)

From day one you've had nothing but whining, pitiless tasks for us! Your City Guard stands helpless against a kobold infestation, so a group of five inexperienced amateurs does what two-hundred trained professional locals fail to do! Your law enforcement fails to solve a crime with only one suspect, and panics in the face of a pair of costumed fools! Your gate guards are so lax a basilisk can sneak unnoticed in and out of your city!
And every time you face a problem you're too lazy or incompetent to solve yourselves you turn to me. Case in point: a pair of vigilantes plague the city. Your law enforcement won't pay a few hundred gold pieces for a divining spell, but pays a thousand to resurrect the victims! And pays us 3 thousand to solve the crime! This is plain and simple lazy incompetence on behalf of your leaders! And only one of dozen examples I've gathered over the last six months.

I know now why my brethren choose to rule behind the scenes. If the masses don't know you exist, they can't beg your help for every petty problem. And now you turn to me again, to save your city from the apocalypse! To construct the greatest architectural wonder of the millennia, a dome strong enough to survive under two kilometers of water, surrounding the whole city, to save all twenty thousand souls. A true miracle of science and engineering. (dramatic pause) In. Three. Days.

All hell be buggered if I'll give up three nights of sleep to save you lot. To the faithful amongst you who have chosen to ascend: rejoice, for you'll not fall to a flood. To the faithful who have not yet given your life for immortally: heaven awaits you as the flood takes your life, and given time you can be returned to your bones, and live forever beneath the ocean. To the rest: (dramatic pause) pray your gods are as forgiving as me.

I bid you now farewell. (approaching armor plated dragon zombie) I will see those faithful amongst you again, either here or in heaven. (mounting dragon, which rears up impressively, breathing lightning into the storm) To the rest of you: Good luck. (flies off into the rain)

[Manic Typist]

...surreal.

[Querysphinx]

One from the P4.ND0.R4 game last night, before I was too busy running it to write anything down.

Dr. Williams (Archaeologist): We need a plan.
Dr. Oktenstein (Sidekick to the world's smartest monkey): No, a plan is just a list of thinkgs that can go wrong. We need a scheme.