Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
They're back, and they're wackier than ever. Part three of the ULTICORP Champions Quotes (from our mega weekend session). Be warned that this session started at 9 pm and went on for six hours, so none of us were quite ourselves. Especially me (the GM), and Andy, who had some jet lag to get rid off, and slept through most of the session.
Silverbolt: Lightning mage. Also a bit of a transmuter, being able to make food out of thing air, and change clothes as a half action. Fond of practical jokes.
Ultisaur: Genetically modified Brick. ULTICORPs latest genetic super-soldier prototype. His spit is acidic and he's somewhat aggressive.
Steamjack: Steam-powered Power-Armoured Brit. Enough said. Also, he's going slowly mad.
Pinpoint: Asian Acupuncturist hero, and natrual enemy of the Triad. Speedster Cyborg after an incident last time.
Andy: Snot Elemental controller.
The usual list of random statements:
Pinpoint (at his glass): Yay! Liquid containment Fields!
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Ultisaur: Can we not talk about what my piss would do to Stonehenge
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Ultisaur: I wanna change out the following skills: Teamwork, tactics, stealth.
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Steamjack: How much damage does he die?
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GM: Rule one of combat: do not wear red.
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GM: The two of you need to start existing.
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GM: It's the final mook down.
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GM: He's entangled, unconscious and *rolls snake eyes on knockback* over there.
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Steamjack: This is my Morbane, there are many like it, but this one is mine. I call it Betsy.
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GM: As long as he isn't doing anything fancy… er than flying a steam train.
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GM: We do not drink liquid alcohol in solid form.
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GM: I shouldn't be gesturing with a coke bottle. *looks at glass* this isn't a bottle.
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Steamjack: Inhale deeply through my foot-scent. It will either cure you, or make you pass out.
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Pinpoint: I beat my ridicules sh*t roll by two. Can I dip him in mustard?
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Silverbolt: We don't want to dent the paintwork of the tank.
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GM: I don't 'ate lions. Lions ate me.
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GM: I have to include the DEF manually, because someone is stupid. Most likely the computer.
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GM: When you're a hundred feet tall and in a mecha, having a sword is sort of redundant when you could have another missile launcher.
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GM: My brain is fine. My Blain just needs a little rest. Brain, not blain.
Steamjack: Take a moment to gather up your tongue.
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Ultisaur: I tried, I failed, I gave up.
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Steamjack: Dude. After a full speed move through with the train, your überbuffed haymaker, his haymaker and my haymaker failed to do anything to it, you still thought spitting would work?!
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Steamjack: When R&D arrives, I will change the priority of my targets.
Picking up where we left last time, the players need to reach Stonehenge as fast as possible, and convince UNTIL to teleport them:
GM: 2 seconds and 5 million dollars later, the Champions find themselves onboard the Gateway space station.
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Silverbolt: "Stonehenge now. Fight evil, save world, talk later."
Andy: "Ok."
Ultisaur: "See this guy? I'm gonna hit him with this part of Stonehenge."
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GM: You do remember what Walter (the team ULTICORP contact) said about damaging Stonehenge?
Silverbolt: What did he say?
Walter: "The first killteam to arrive will be from ULTICORP."
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Ultisaur: They have a whole team devoted to "Ultisaur f*** ups".
GM: Yes. Its called "Research and Development Division". Oh and "Press Relations".
They begin wishing they had their train:
Silverbolt: Beam it down, Scotty!
GM: You realize that "Scotty" spent 10 million dollars getting YOU here.
Andy: "wait! I forgot something. Beam me back!"
Steamjack has gotten some fish that only he can see, who tell him things, granting powers like telepathy and sonar:
Steamjack: There's not such thing as magic, only advanced science.
GM: "Or so my fish tell me."
A British Hellfire mage is helping DEMON out:
Steamjack: Ultisaur! That guys made out of British! Go eat him!
Ultisaur: Mmm, biscuit flavored…
A name was mentioned to Silverbolt during a private conversation with his mentor:
Silverbolt: Luther Black? Are you ripping of marvel or something?
GM: No… He's official champions IP.
Silverbolt explains the mission to Andy:
Silverbolt: We're looking for a ring. The One ring to Rule Them All!
Andy: Seriously?
Silverbolt: No. I just had to get that out of the way.
GM: There's actually five of them.
Silverbolt tries finding out were the ring is buried:
GM: The Zombies over there are digging, that would be a dead giveaway.
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Andy: Stonehenge was built as a hiding place for this ring? That's not a very good hiding place…
Tactical planning:
Pinpoint: We should take out the guys digging up the Stargate first.
Silverbolt: Yeah, we've figured out the plot already, you're beaten now GM.
GM: Huh. That could work.
Silverbolt (to Pinpoint): Well sh*t, thanks a lot. Now we're gonna have aliens to fight, too.
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Silverbolt: I suggest we start at the outside, and work our way into the chewy center.
Ultisaur: I suggest we start by taking these guys and throwing them at the chewy center.
Steamjack: No no, lets take out the small annoying ones first. Having something beating on you while you're beating on something else is really annoying.
Combat begins:
Ultisaur: I throw this guy at the necromancer.
GM: The necromancer is still in Detroit. That's the British guy.
Ultisaur: I throw him at the blimy limy then.
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Silverbolt: You missed the blimy limy!
Ultisaur: Well he's a slimy blimy limy.
A later mission involves an alien probe. Cue notes mix up:
GM: Next up is the alien probe… No, wait. He's not here yet.
Silverbolt: I knew it. It is a Stargate.
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GM: Cthulhu Dogs don't exist. Alien Probe doesn't exist. Why are these things on my list?
The morbane charges at Silverbolt with his mace:
Morbane: "Why. Do. You. Keep. Showing. Up?!"
Silverbolt: "Because. Your. Mom. Is. Just. That. Ugly!"
Morbane: "That. Just. Didn't. Make. Sense!"
Andy is very jet lagged:
Andy: He looks British. Like he hasn't had his cup of tea yet.
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Andy: Aim for her C-cup.
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Andy: I need a paper from the government saying I'm not a rapist.
Some things one just can't prepare for:
Ultisaur: Now would be a great time to turn on my allies
GM: Wait, What?!
Everyone rolls Ultisaur's attack for him and all of them roll repeatedly thirteen, until Silverbolt's third try rolls a six:
GM: It's pretty clear that the powers that be want him to miss that demon.
Silverbolt: So he misses?
GM: No. The powers that be are mean. I hereby overrule them.
Steamjack's turn:
Steamjack: I land. Just not, you know, explosively.
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Steamjack: I feel like raping their EGO.
GM: Things not to take out of contexts.
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Steamjack: I stab them with my mental swordfish, chanting "its science, its science, its science"
I explain how things work:
GM: after Silverbolt defeated the entire southern army with his lightning bolts, the southern army got lightning rods, and then you defeated them anyway. So now that you've defeated the bosses of DEMON with a paralyzing needle, DEMON develops counter measures, and you defeat them with your other needles.
Plot summary:
Ultisaur: So you've found the ring, put it on, and now its the apocalypse?
Pinpoint: Pretty much.
Because no superheroic campaign is complete without an alien attack:
GM: Early one morning two weeks later the serenity of the Champions HQ is rudely interrupted by an explosion and the building shaking violently.
The players have never seen anything like the attacking alien, and Steamjack wants to reroll his KS
octor Who roll:
Steamjack: I attempt to McGyver my brain to recognize it. Do I succeed?
GM: What before was red has now turned green. Green has turned blue, blue has turned yellow, and yellow has turned pink.
Silverbolt: He knows this from personal experience from the times he forgot to sleep.
GM: Oh, and everything else turns cyan.
Silverbolt: That happened after the 36 hour mark. At school.
GM: Then we had a test, and I fell asleep. The teacher made me run around the school. Twice. In the cold. I got top marks.
Silverbolt makes a power roll to reset his brain with electricity:
GM: Your reality appears slightly more normal.
Steamjack: Are there still fish?
GM: Of course. You paid points for them.
Some weapons are stranger than others:
Ultisaur: What's the thing doing?
GM: It's shooting things. And people. But mostly things.
Pinpoint: It shoots people? That's a cool gun…
After the Alien Probe has been described:
Steamjack: If its really scary, do I lose, or gain sanity points?
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Silverbolt: You said this thing was bloated, disgusting, Cthulhu-like, violent, and quite possibly evil. KS:Lawyers roll!
Silverbolt is convinced the attacking alien is vulnerable to shampoo:
Silverbolt: Does her check tell her it's weak to shampoo?
GM: Does she know its made of silicon? Do you know its made of silicon? Is it made of silicon? These questions and more will not be answered on this tv show. Instead: Crazy alien carnage!
Ultisaur makes a successful contact roll:
Ultisaur: I'm hoping they have some powerful experimental anti-alien non-collateral weapon.
GM: Non-col… I hear your words, but they don't make sense.
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Ultisaur: Its evil, its an alien and its wrecking the city. I want a brutus injection.
GM: yes, that would be their ultimate experimental weapon…
Silverbolt:"Is it worth the risks, sir?" "by the gods, I hope so!"
GM: And then they teleport out. They don't care that they lack the technology, they do it anyway.
The players look over their steam train's stats:
Pinpoint: How is that concealable?
Ultisaur: Lots and lots of alcohol. *pause* I can make funny quotes too.
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Steamjack: Why does electricity cackle over the hull? I do not like electricity laughing maniacally at me while I drive.
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Steamjack: I can't drive my own train?
GM: No, I can't skillfully drive your own train.
The game time, real time difference explained as the players modify their character sheets so they can fly the train:
GM: here's what's happening: the heroes are piling into the turbolift that will get them up in half a second. Meanwhile, we see a montage of how they all learned to fly it.
The players ram the giant alien with the train, not only doing knockback, but a full six hexes of it:
Steamjack: Did it hit the orphanage?
GM: Well it was 6 hexes away, and you did six hexes *moves alien to right in front of orphanage.*
Pinpoint: Yay, we'll get it next time.
Andy, who been asleep after a bad case of jet lag, comes to for a moment:
GM: It's your turn, what do you want to do about the alien?
Andy: Kill it. * turns around and goes back to sleep*
Steamjack notices something important about the train's character sheet:
Steamjack: Owned by ULTICORP R&D department?!
GM: Yes, its on load to you.
Steamjack: On which floor is this department?
GM: In the heavily fortified building on the other side of town.
Steamjack: When this is over I'm going to accidentally demolish that floor.
Steamjack calculates how much END the train has used. Its a bit over budget:
Steamjack: I land.
GM: There is now one less car on the road, and that skyway you were floating over…
Silverbolt: Go, go, Team Collateral.
The GM's throat makes some pretty weird noises, like he's getting a hair ball out:
GM: My biological system was not built to handle this.
Silverbolt: Handle what?
GM: Reality. Who's turn is it?
Steamjack tries advancing his awareness of the tactical situation:
Steamjack: I consult with the fish.
Illusionary fish: "giant mech! Giant Mech! GIANT MECH!"
Pinpoint: I take over the train controls. He is not fit for driving.
Steamjack: I chain-smoke to stay awake. There's a chain and everything.
Pinpoint has no more END for his typical attacks, so tries to take out the probe's eyes with a gatling gun but misses:
GM: You hit the hull next to the eyes.
Silverbolt: Which is made of Wonder-f***ing-flonium
GM: No, US-military-really-wants-to-study-this-ium
Steamjack: Salvage Rights!
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Silverbolt: It should take R&D at least two minutes to get a salvage team out here.
GM: Last time you were in combat it took UNTIL 20 seconds to arrive. By that time both the media and ULTICORP were already there. City response time is excellent, when you're involved.
Ultisaur: I'd like to point out that it's not dead yet.
We calculate the damage the probe does to Ultisaur:
Silverbolt: Oh, the suspense…
GM: It's killing him.
The players finally spot the reactors on the probe's back, and Ultisaur wants to know if there's any obvious way of detaching them:
GM: It's a military vessel. It does not have a sign that says shot your photon torpedo through this hole to destroy this battle station. And it hasn't leaked the targeting information to the rebel alliance.
Ultisaur: Can they be unscrewed?
Silverbolt: did you bring a wrench?
GM: It's an alien vessel. Did you bring a sonic screwdriver?
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GM: Hey! I anticipated this happening! You actually did something I expected! Two days of planning were not completely wasted.
Steamjack: You planned acid spitting effects for two days?
GM: …Yes.
Targeting:
Pinpoint: Does it have a left nostril?
GM: No.
Pinpoint: Can I make one?
Steamjack: Believe me, I've tried.
ULTICORP R&D arrives with a hover truck to capture the heavily damaged probe. Steamjack chases after them:
Ultisaur: I try to stop him. "dude its the R&D department. You don't want to know what stuff they have. At one time I disobeyed, and they had this thing that looked like a cattle prod, only it makes you sneeze. And I'm not talking normal sneeze either, I'm talking snot flying everywhere, hair going static, eyes flying out of your head, and you just feel allergic for the rest of the year."
Silverbolt and Steamjack at the same time: I want one.
Steamjack: and while you say that, I'm about up there.
Location, location, location:
Ultisaur: Lets get out of here. We don't want to be associated with this mayhem.
GM: *points to heavily damaged building on battle map* That's your HQ.
Ultisaur: oh… Did someone else see who did this, so they don't think we did?
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GM: Five minutes pass, the structure is now back online.
Steamjack pays a visit to the ULTICORP building:
Secretary: "who are you here to see?"
Steamjack: "R&D department"
Secretary: "do you have an appointment?"
Ultisaur: I pick up my cell-phone and call the secretary; "Is Steamjack there? Do not under any circumstances let him…"
GM: "your input is valuable to us, but sadly all our operators are currently busy, please hold." "I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain…"
Ultisaur: Let me show you why I have a spare cell-phone. SMASH.
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Silverbolt: Do you remember the last building we destroyed?
Ultisaur: The one with the plasma pool?
Silverbolt: No, the one after that, but thanks for reminding me. That was fun.
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Steamjack: Does the secretary respond?
Silverbolt: You're still role-playing?
GM: she continues to ask you if you have an appointment. You begin wondering if she's a robot.
Steamjack: I poke the android.
GM: She activates her force field. At which point he (ultisaur) comes busting in through the window of the revolving door.
Ultisaur: "This isn't metahuman friendly. Also, don't ever let this man anywhere near the R&D department that doesn't exist."
GM: She taps a sign saying no pets allowed.
Ultisaur: "Ok, that's highly offensive, I'm offended, I'm spitting acid on you."
Steamjack: Property damaged noted, I leave.
GM: She taps the next sign saying "no spitting" and the one under that saying "in case of emergency all personnel are protected by force fields."
Ultisaur: I attempt casual conversation "so, what kind of force field model are you guys using these days?"
Steamjack teleports up to the R&D department, climbing upward one floor at the time. The safeguards protecting the floor from teleportation attempt hold, and Steamjack ends up a floor about the R&D department, in the press conference room the players have long since been banned from:
Steamjack: I stare at the floor, revving my chainsaw, and look like I'm contemplating something very important. How do the press react?
GM: Photos. Lots of photos of you looking profoundly at the floor, and lots of photos of security guys in power armor dragging you away.
Steamjack: I teleport to outside the window. How do the guards react.
GM: They look around in surprise, then they try not to look silly in front of the press. They look like they planned for that to happen, and then notice that you're right outside the window. Then they brake through the skylight to go get you.
Ultisaur: "We're not paying for that!"
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GM: they've had most of their press conferences in a fortified bunker. This is the first one they've had up here since the … incident.
I'm uncertain about quantum mechanics.
I'm proficient in: Carnage 314, Dark Heresy, DnD 3.5, HERO system Fifth Rules Edition, Conan, D20 Modern, D20 Future, DnD 4e, HERO System 6th Edition, Inquisitor, Shadowrun 4th Edition, Star Wars Saga Edition, Cyber D20 GURPS; including Transhuman Space, Traveller, and Super-GURPs, Rogue Trader, Star Wars Revised Edition, Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play, New World of Darkness; including Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Hunter and Changeling
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