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Last session.
In a town where they don't like outsiders, the sorcerer decides to charm the lady at the general store in order to find out information. He finds out there is a roving bad of people who come in on full moons (werewolves) and steals money, goods, whatever. He wants to stay and fight (we are all 4th level) and his reasoning?
"How bad can it be?"
Faeco-Cerebro Surrogacy
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Tabletop Diplomacy session, from years ago, in a dorm lounge. Seven players at the table, a few other folks in other seats.
"France" takes a long time looking at the board and finally says to "England", "What do you say to this. You can have Belgium, Burgundy, and a free hand against Italy, as long as I get Spain ... and Martha ["Germany"'s girl friend]."
Martha, who is in the room but not in the game, looks up from her reading and stares wordlessly at the guys at the table.
"Germany" spends a couple of minutes looking at the board, occasionally glancing at "France" and Martha. Finally, he says, "Deal."
Martha is now staring open-mouthed.
"France" gets up with a nod and takes two steps from the table towards the door. "France declares internal disorder," he says to the players. To Martha he says, "You come with me."
... abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.
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Dare I ask what happened next?
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Faeco-Cerebro Surrogacy
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I was France. The deal ended up being ... ah ... abrogated, predictably but unfortunately. A pity; Martha was hot.Originally Posted by Korvar
... abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.
Feel the Bitterness
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When a game is moveing slowly from too much non game related talking, or if there is a lot of roleplaying going on and no fighting, I will often as I joke say something like.
"Come on people this is Rollplaying, I haven't rolled any dice in the past hour, lets kill something" of course in jest.
There was a time where the running gag was to toss the attack dice [3d6, or d20] on the table as the GM is about to speak and say, "I hit him!"
We've all had encounters with players whose attitudes were not much removed from this, so we made fun like good nerds do.
One fellow was noting that his character never got a chance to actually converse with any of the NPC's as they would get butchered by the other PC's before he would get a chance. He figured a typical encounter would go like
"Hi I'm.... Covered in your blood" [wipes hands on shirt followed by looking at the other players with disapointment]
Prime Minister - GCA
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Huh. I knew a Martha at Boston University who was not at all hot but was quite loose (I didn't know her well enough and I was not bold enough to find out for myself). Seems the deal would have worked with her.
Did you seriously expect such a deal would come to any fruition? Pardon the OT, I'm just curious, since the notion a boyfriend or even husband could promise off his mate in such an exchange is a bit, well, archaic!
KTR - as Sinatra said "try a little tenderness"
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Esper Weapon
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Yesterday, at work:
"What would a world run by bags be like?"
"A matriarchy?"
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I've been in a few situations where there would be a reasonably good chance that the deal would have been honored.
But then again, I don't hang with the average gamer crowd.
(Thems aint normal gamers Caleb... normal gamers don't play Zombies by blacklight with a bunch of hot nekkid girls)
And if you never got with the Martha of your past, how do you know she was loose?
Frequent excercise makes strong kegels, after all
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Prime Minister - GCA
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I know it sounds stupd, but until now I never realized that "loose" had a literal root to it! I wrote a different response until I realized the joke you meant.I've been in a few situations where there would be a reasonably good chance that the deal would have been honored.
But then again, I don't hang with the average gamer crowd.
(Thems aint normal gamers Caleb... normal gamers don't play Zombies by blacklight with a bunch of hot nekkid girls)
And if you never got with the Martha of your past, how do you know she was loose?
Frequent excercise makes strong kegels, after all
KTR - as Sinatra said "try a little tenderness"
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Star-Spangled Joiner
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psssst Zorn, buddy, I think it was in jest.
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Long ago, my friends told me about a table game called Suburban Slasher, based on all the slasher films of the '80s. Basically you play a serial killer or movie monster and rack up points trying to kill various targets. You get to use certain attack cards and the target gets to use defense cards, and if the defender wins, he gets a counterattack. The fun is that other players can give the target their own cards to have the target fight back in order to eliminate the attacker or save a high-point target for themselves.
In one game we played, one of those high-point targets was the Church of Satan. One of the players drew their card and attacked them, so one of the players gave them his best defense card: "Faith in God."
With this, the Church of Satan beat the initial attack and the player barely survived the counterattack to escape.
This led to my coining the phrase, "There are no Satanists in foxholes."
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Prime Minister - GCA
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Well, he still forfeited his position! I mean that part was NOT in jest! And the weird part is they did get up and go off, even if just for show on her part.
I know Diplomacy...and NOBODY just gives up unless the incentive is a real possibility at sex! Not in my experience anyway.
KTR - as Sinatra said "try a little tenderness"
Kindness,Tolerance,Respect
Yes, We Can - we can overturn 16-20 years of increasing acrimony; we can change the level of political discourse; whether liberal or conservative, it isn't just that we can, it is that we must
I AM the letter C. Look upon my works, and despair!
Who Watches The Watchnuts
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From last night's Fantasy Hero Turakian Age campaign:
Raz (Human Rogue) and Grangnar (Drakine Wizard) take a load of silver ore found on their last adventure to a local smithy to sell it. As the smith's apprentices are carrying the loads of ore into the store, Grangnar, a little leery of... well.. everyone, after all the cultists that they've run into lately, asks the Smith -
Grangnar: "So... you haven't raised a horde of ravaging undead in the basement or anything, have you?"
Smith: "... Define 'Horde'."
Grangnar: "Umm... Over 5?"
Smith: ".. Do you mean 5 and over, or just more than 5?"
Grangnar: "Umm... more than 5."
Smith: "Oh. In that case, no. No I haven't."
Grangnar: "Oh. Good."
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After a brief exchange overnight with Avelyne Lindsey, another prisoner being kept in the tower, where the PCs found themselves imprisoned, Raz speaks to Grangnar:
Raz: "I don't know if you noticed this or not, but that woman up there in the cell next to yours is a total psycho."
Grangnar: "Well.. she IS a woman."
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And later, as Grangnar attempts conversation with the unusually reclusive Avelyne:
Grangnar: "So... what are you in for?"
Avelyne: "... I killed my husband."
Grangnar: "Oh. You.. didn't raise ravaging hordes of undead or anything afterwards, did you?"
Avelyne: "... Define 'Hordes'."
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From our game last night. Two character's were talking about how they had been tempted to kill each other. It led to this quote by one of them:
"I don't kill you because you're somewhat of a good person, and you don't kill me because it will cost you money."
Prime Minister - GCA
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Wow, that sounds like a couple of my PCs, if they got angrier at each other!
KTR - as Sinatra said "try a little tenderness"
Kindness,Tolerance,Respect
Yes, We Can - we can overturn 16-20 years of increasing acrimony; we can change the level of political discourse; whether liberal or conservative, it isn't just that we can, it is that we must
I AM the letter C. Look upon my works, and despair!
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