Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[lemming]

Sorry, it just amazes me the frequency with which people think the occasional shock from everyday items is nifty instead a warning that death is near. Didn't this just recently happen with showers in Iraq as well? The previously mentioned half hour kind of made me touchy on the subject. My apologies for the sidebar.

No apologies needed.

[novi]

I enjoyed this one from our high-level Exalted game tonight.

"This is a little embarrassing, but we kinda got lost and found ourselves by Thorns. One thing lead to another, and we ended up blowing up Mask of Winter's house again."
-Adama, Golden Herald of the Dawn

[Querysphinx]

Having spent a half hour doing CPR on a guy from an improperly grounded welding unit, and from hearing this tale reported elsewehere regularly... When your electrically powered equipment gives you any kind shock when it's not designed to STOP USING IT!

And just how many appliances are designed to shock you, one wonders.

[Greywind]

Before you buy it, or after you own it?

[Celt]

And just how many appliances are designed to shock you, one wonders.

Well, there's your basic incapacitating equipment such as tasers. There's a bunch of therapeutic equipments, some valid, some spurious. And there's various sex toy items.

[BoloOfEarth]

And just how many appliances are designed to shock you, one wonders.

If it works past the 1-year warranty period, I'm pretty much shocked. But we're getting off topic.

Here's one from an email from a player, about things he's adding to his character:

TF: Combat Aircraft, Industrial & Exploration Spacecraft (Which will take effect after I finish Earnhart's "How Not to Crash" Flight School Training.)

[Manic Typist]

I enjoyed this one from our high-level Exalted game tonight.

"This is a little embarrassing, but we kinda got lost and found ourselves by Thorns. One thing lead to another, and we ended up blowing up Mask of Winter's house again."
-Adama, Golden Herald of the Dawn

This is amusing. Can you explain? (I know nothing about Exalted)

[Querysphinx]

From 7th Sea Pirate Group:

Nikkita Vast, Russian pirate. Ship's botswain. Keeper of the book of rules.
Petra Teenaged Russian ship's mascot. Six feet tall. Pretty in pink. Deadly with an axe. Has a tendency to morph into an otter.
Alfredo Ship's nominal captain.
Pia Brilliant, passionate, Italian navigator. Recently voted most likely to be stripped naked by a sea-monster.

Explaining Nikkita's personality to a captive NPC whom Nikkita has threatened with death.

Petra: Nikkita is a teddy bear at heart.
Alfredo: But what is he at arm's length?

The ship has been raided by a malevolent spirit that has trashed the chartroom.

Alfredo: How bad is it?
Pia: (Tosses some map-confetti in the air) We used to have an ocean with a shape.

Explaining Nikkita's tendency to threaten hyperviolence on any boy who approached within fifteen feet of Petra:

Petra Nikkita is sort of like a were-father.

[Netzilla]

Email exchange referencing this Saturday's coming game:

Player S: Just to let everyone know, I won't be at the game this Saturday! Somebody kill something for me.

SCUBAHero: Well, I'll be there (finally!) and Danny's a bit behind on killing things, so....

GM: Duly noted: SCUBA wants Danny to encounter things that kill.

SCUBAHero: Fine. Just as long as they're not psychotic, knife-wielding dream-clowns.

GM: How about psychotic, knife-wielding mimes?

SCUBAHero: BASTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRDDDDDD!!!!!!

[novi]

This is amusing. Can you explain? (I know nothing about Exalted)

Explaining everything would take an awful long time. Simply, Adama is one of the PCs. He was speaking to an important NPC arranging a meeting (Memnon, if you must know). We went off course on our way to that meeting due to my character's limit break (a powerful curse many important people in the in the setting suffer from, including all PCs, that causes them to act strangely under certain circumstances). Thorns is a city that has been taken over by the villain Mask of Winters to be his base of operations. Simply, he's a megalomaniacal necromancer ghost/lich thingy. And the last time we were there, it ended in the destruction of his stronghold.

As it did this time, as well. Okay, by this time, we've found the airship and restored the superweapon on it, so we just had to shoot at the foundation of his tower to bring it down after he started firing things at us. He started it, honest.

[Ian Mackinder]

He started it, honest.

Don't they always?

[Matt Holck]

The night had been a rough one for the Jolly Ranchers.
(Name and sponsorship may change soon due to protest of the players)

After first discovering a werewolf in Senator Hook's mansion,
two of the players were severely wounded
but the beast had escaped into a wooded river valley
and pursuit of the rabid monster was intermediately necessary.

The players had no method to regain lost body
so depended on the paramedics that showed up on the scene.

Knowing the fight was not over, I opted to allow some repair
rolled a die that came up 6 for the martial artist meaning they restored 6 body:
an astounding amount for paramedics to provide.

I stated that they had popped his shoulder back into place
and quoted Kung Fu Hustle.
"He recovers quickly."

[Drhoz]

No Champions again - I was working until 3

But we did get a few rounds of the in

Purrdence : You realise that if you play [Ellen Tigh] you'll have to sleep with him [ Sundog is playing Brother Cavil ]
Me : *pause. Puts Ellen Tigh card at bottom of stack*

Me : Two 8s in a row...
Purrdence : *snerk* smut field engaged...
Me : Hmm?
Purrdence : Two Eights in a row?
Me : ...Oh.
Sundog : I'm sure there's slash-fiction about that...
Weldun : There is.

Purrdence : WWSD - What Would Starbuck Do?
Me : Fly it, frak it, frak it up, or drink it. Or possibly smoke it.

Sundog playing Cavil : I don't have any Treachery cards
Me : Cavil with no treachery? Who are you and what have you done with the real Cylon?

Purrdence : We've been frakked by the big blue dildo of Destiny

Purrdence : Every time I see that Maximum Firepower card it looks like a porcupine fish.
Me : Launch porcupine fish! BWOMPH!!!

Starbuck faces off against a wave of Cylon Raiders

Me : That's not good. She's all out of porcupine fish

Me playing Gaius Baltar : My Movement is to run around in a circle, and my Action is to mash the keyboard in the Main Batteries.

Sundog : Which one are they targeting?
Me playing Gaius Baltar : The Galactica. Because it's the one I'm not on.
Purrdence : That's our Gaius...

Draws the next Crisis card, and looks up at Weldun, who is playing the now President-Admiral Helena Cain

Me playing Gaius Baltar : I hate you
Weldun playing President-Admiral Cain : Why?
Me : *paraphrases card* The president may have the current player executed, or lose two skill cards etc etc etc
Weldun : *surprises me by not having Gaius thrown out an airlock* See? When you're not distracted by politics you're actually useful

Unfortunately the incoming Cylon missiles nuke the Admiral's Quarters and the Airlock

Weldun playing President-Admiral Cain : Now who hates who? *realises something else* Hey! With those gone I can't have anybody executed! Bastards!

Purrdence playing Starbuck : There is one way we can prove that Gaius isn't a Cylon...
Me playing Gaius Baltar : Will you stop trying to get into my pants again? I do have some morals.
Sundog : What? We've got Starbuck, Baltar, Cavil & Admiral 'Lunatic' Cain! WHAT morals???

[Enforcer84]

Well, we could start with a Flash with a linked Ego-based Entangle, only versus those with appropriate sexuality...

I posted a write up for a similar character named Godiva.
Might still be around somewhere.

[Egyptoid]

forgot this one from last week:

"Look who brought a tri-corder to a gun-fight"