Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[matrix3]

Sorry, ran out of time yesterday. Here's more from Sunday's Champions game:

The heroes discover security video footage of a suspect in the Calling Card Killings, in a hospital where one killing took place. He used smoke to hide himself, but they do catch a glimpse of him wearing scrubs. They also notice his forearms are overly large.

Sentinel: Like Popeye?
GM: Actually, yes, very much like Popeye.
Sentinel: Okay, then I'll search for a supervillain with high strength, who uses smoke bombs, and has Popeye arms.
Subliminal: I don't think you're going to get many hits on "Popeye arms".

(Note: He's wrong. I got 436,000 hits.)

Meanwhile, Serendipity (who owns a bar in her secret ID) decides to host an open party on Halloween. The theme: superheroes and supervillains.

GM (unrolling a hex map of her bar): Could she *make* it any easier for me? I mean, she just pitches it underhand, right over the plate...
Styx: That's not pitching. That's T-ball. It's just sitting there on the post, waiting for you to hit it.

Sentinel's ambulance partner Charlie talks to her about the coming party:

Charlie: You and Frank (Sentinel's husband) should come to the party at Callaghans! You could dress up as Candy Striper and Adonis!
Sentinel (who despises CS): NO. I DON'T THINK SO.

Speaking of CS, on the night of the party a group of girls show up at the bar, costumed as some of Adonis' girls: Mouser, Djinnie, Kyu-To, Candy Striper, and Whiplash.

Sentinel: So, is that really Candy Striper?
GM: The costume looks the same, but you've met her before, and you know she's not an oriental girl.
Sentinel: Wait a minute... So, what does the girl in Kyu-To's costume look like?
GM: That woman looks a lot like Candy Striper...

[Yes, they just exchanged costumes among themselves. And props to Hermit for creating a very fun group, and I think to E84 for creating Candy Striper.]

Sentinel: I really should tell Charlie that Candy Stiper's really here. But I won't.

At about this time, the heroes get an alert that all of the Calling Card Killer victims have gotten up from their spots in the morgue and are now converging on a location across town.

Synergy (calling the hero team's base): Have someone get me the fire extinguisher from my room. And call Father Flannagan -- he may need to bless a few more for me. [Yes, he has a "holy fire extinguisher" left over from a past battle against some demons. Don't ask. Trust me, you don't really want to know.]

Subliminal: The hot chicks finally show up, and we're taking off to fight zombies?! There's something seriously wrong with us.

After taking out the zombies, the heroes head to the location the zombies were converging upon. Sentinel uses her x-ray vision to look inside a building:

GM (placing various supervillain figures on the hexmap of a warehouse): You see Nightmare, Nightblade, Harvester, Electrocutioner, Hangman...
Sentinel: Aren't those last two with Ravager's crew?
GM (placing normal people figures on the hexmap, including a few bloody bodies): Yep. And you also see a bunch of normal people too, some standing or kneeling, some lying on the ground, possibly dead. This guy (puts one figure on a die near Hangman) is hanging from the rafters, his feet still kicking. Yeah, they've been having fun while they were waiting for you to show up.
Sentinel: Fun?!
GM: Well, fun for them. Different strokes for different folks.

Nightmare, Nightblade, Harvester, Electrocutioner, and Hangman. I wouldn't want to go near them on Halloween, even with superpowers...

Oh, and Candy Striper is pretty benign (CvK, PsyLim:soft hearted), why does Sentinel despise her so?

I hope more quotes are coming?

[BoloOfEarth]

Oh, and Candy Striper is pretty benign (CvK, PsyLim:soft hearted), why does Sentinel despise her so?

I think it's a player thing. Something about CS really rubbed the player wrong. But as a GM, I don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Charlie used to have a crush on Sentinel, so he would often gush about her to his ambulance driving partner Caren (Sentinel's secret ID, though Charlie doesn't know that). Caren/Sentinel has never exhibited the least attraction to Charlie; in fact, she seemed a bit exasperated with his attention.

Then one day they were called to a truck stop, where they found Candy Striper performing CPR on a truck driver. She was going to steal the truck, but the guy had a heart attack. So she called 911 and started CPR, and then as soon as the paramedics took over on the driver, *she* drove off with the truck... after first flirting with Charlie. He's been smitten with her ever since.

And ever since, the mention of Candy Striper seems to get under the player's skin. Gotta love it.

[matrix3]

I think it's a player thing. Something about CS really rubbed the player wrong. But as a GM, I don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Charlie used to have a crush on Sentinel, so he would often gush about her to his ambulance driving partner Caren (Sentinel's secret ID, though Charlie doesn't know that). Caren/Sentinel has never exhibited the least attraction to Charlie; in fact, she seemed a bit exasperated with his attention.

Then one day they were called to a truck stop, where they found Candy Striper performing CPR on a truck driver. She was going to steal the truck, but the guy had a heart attack. So she called 911 and started CPR, and then as soon as the paramedics took over on the driver, *she* drove off with the truck... after first flirting with Charlie. He's been smitten with her ever since.

And ever since, the mention of Candy Striper seems to get under the player's skin. Gotta love it.

Ah, ok. So, it's not the "you keeeled my father, prepare to die" sort of despise, just a random issue the player has with Candy Striper (or thinks his/her PC should have) that a good GM takes advantage of.

BTW, my fingers really want to type "Candy Stripper" but that would be a totally different character.

[Blue]

Out of curiosity, do you guys take notes on these comments?

I wonder because while my attention span is that of an insect, on my best days I'm lucky if I remember even one good quote even though there are likely to be several.


I do own this one from last game though...

Following a run-in with a vampire last game that ended in the vamp fleeing and us totally depleted (the DM easily could have done-in the group if he'd felt like it), a player is going over the equipment list in the book.

Player 1: "Garlic! I buy lots of garlic going to rub it on any room we sleep in."
Player 2: "I buy some too! And stakes!"
Player 1: "We buy lots of stakes. Can't find Mallets in here."
Me: "So you're saying there's an absence of mallets?"
(group groans)

[hfergus]

Me: "So you're saying there's an absence of mallets?"
(group groans)

I do puns like that.

Yes, I am lucky to be alive.....

[Susano]

Out of curiosity, do you guys take notes on these comments?

Yes. I take a lot of notes during the game, and write down crazy/funny/cool comments as they happen. I'm often told "write that down!" when someone drops a line that breaks everyone up.

A great GMing tool was demonstrated to me by a GM who wrote down PC (and player comments). He's make notes of PC/player speculations and the like and then use those lines to develop new plot lines. The classic example (that concerned me and Nestor [on the boards]) went like this:

It was a teen supers game and I was playing Orion, who could power-up from normal kid into an energy projector form. Nestor was playing... uhm... (I've forgotten his name....) Anyway, Orion's mother was an alien, while Nestor's PC was an alien himself. After defeating the most current villain threat, I noted "You know what the difference between your family and mine is? Mine's never tried to take over the Earth."

Guess what plot the GM sprung on me a number of sessions later?

[matrix3]

Yes. I take a lot of notes during the game, and write down crazy/funny/cool comments as they happen. I'm often told "write that down!" when someone drops a line that breaks everyone up.

A great GMing tool was demonstrated to me by a GM who wrote down PC (and player comments). He's make notes of PC/player speculations and the like and then use those lines to develop new plot lines. The classic example (that concerned me and Nestor [on the boards]) went like this:

It was a teen supers game and I was playing Orion, who could power-up from normal kid into an energy projector form. Nestor was playing... uhm... (I've forgotten his name....) Anyway, Orion's mother was an alien, while Nestor's PC was an alien himself. After defeating the most current villain threat, I noted "You know what the difference between your family and mine is? Mine's never tried to take over the Earth."

Guess what plot the GM sprung on me a number of sessions later?

That must have been an awkward family reunion...

[Ian Mackinder]

That must have been an awkward family reunion...

Well, you undoubtedly know that old saying - "You can choose your friends, but not your family ... ".
Nowhere is this arguably more true than in a classic superhero setting.

[cranialspasm]

I take notes as well, but I do it all the time. Typically, when something makes me laugh, it makes my quote book. It's sort of become my compulsion. Luckily, everyone benefits from it afterward

[NestorDRod]

That must have been an awkward family reunion...

Heh. The way the scenario actually went down is that, during a later adventure involving time travel, Orion woke up back in WWII and found out a relative was secretly helping out the Nazis as a way to soften up Earth for invasion.

He (Susano) had no idea the GM was going to spring this on him. The rest of us were brought in to the trick and given temporary characters of the era to play out for the run.

The best part was Susano's face on the big reveal when Orion discovered the supervillain they were getting ready to fight was none other than his uncle!

[Susano]

Heh. The way the scenario actually went down is that, during a later adventure involving time travel, Orion woke up back in WWII and found out a relative was secretly helping out the Nazis as a way to soften up Earth for invasion.

He (Susano) had no idea the GM was going to spring this on him. The rest of us were brought in to the trick and given temporary characters of the era to play out for the run.

The best part was Susano's face on the big reveal when Orion discovered the supervillain they were getting ready to fight was none other than his uncle!

And what was your PCs name?

[NestorDRod]

And what was your PCs name?

Ah.

Valyous Kzenos. In the first adventure, bystanders listening to the teens call out to each other got his name wrong, which resulted in him getting the hero name Valor.

His background was actually a fun one to come up with. I made this crazy mashup of Rom Spaceknight, The Powers of Matthew Star, and even some Star Wars.

What can I say? It was a late night.

[phelar]

The most recent memorable quote was: Pc to Farmer "So which do you think is smarter a sheep or a goat?"

[Blue]

Yes. I take a lot of notes during the game, and write down crazy/funny/cool comments as they happen. I'm often told "write that down!" when someone drops a line that breaks everyone up.

I'm the guy who writes the recaps of the games which is both a good and a bad thing. I'm the only one obsessive enough to try and write a recap of every game. I'm also the one with the shortest attention span. So I typically write form memory and often forget salient details, who it was that killed the big monster, and naturally--the funny joke.

For example, I can vaguely recall the coining of the phrase "Clown-alingus", but can't recall the context.

But I often get, "Oh that's going in the write up isn't it!"

[Querysphinx]

The most recent memorable quote was: Pc to Farmer "So which do you think is smarter a sheep or a goat?"

That's easy: goats.

Sheep stay up nights thinking of ways to die.