Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[SimComm]

The "losers" of a romantic battle for a male PC's heart having drinks with another female PC (Red):
Kate (normal girl)
Multi-Girl (duplicating action spy)

Multi-Girl: I can't believe I lost to her! I mean, she has horns, glowing eyes...
Kate: And she tried to kill us all!
Multi-Girl: Oh you're not over that?
Kate: What?
Red (other PC): Yes, almost everyone has tried to kill us before joining up with us, sort of initiation process.
Kate: That's insane!
Red: (shrugs) It's practical, after all, how can you tell if people are really committed if they're not going to spill blood for it. I mean look at your father.
Kate: (sighs) I'd rather not.
Multi-Girl: I would, he's pretty cute.
Kate: (irked) Stay away from him. It's not like he'd like you, he's pretty selective...
Multi-Girl (duplicates into 8): Quantity has its own quality.
Red (extra snarky): Yes, that quality being "cheap."

-SC

[SimComm]

Oh and one more from the same session, where Sgt Superior and his daughter Kate are being debriefed by the heroes as to what to tell the government

Red (PC): And umm... that big castle thing was due to... heat waves.
Kate: Heat... waves?
Sgt: Don't interrupt the lady Katie. Heat... waves... got it. And those big horn-and-teeth monsters?
Dreamy (other PC): Uh... mutants.
Sgt: Mutants. Got it. They're always crazy lookin'
Kate: Daddy! They said they were demons and I was held in a magic castle in the middle of a...
Sgt: Katie, honey, I know this is your first op, but you have to understand, there are two kinds of truths: 1) The real truth, the one that Daddy suspects, but can't tell anyone because they will put Daddy in a big crazy house full of the people Daddy's been putting in there for most of his life where they will beating me with socks full of pencils and soap all day and 2) The truth that the intelligence people tell you that you can tell is full of it, but you're better off not questioning for the good of everyone. Especially Daddy's career since that your shrew of a mother decided to stab Daddy in the back with additional monthly payments. (gets more enraged) You know I don't have any foreign accounts woman! If only you were a super-villain, I'd... (looks at Kate) But you know Katie-bear that we love you very much and no matter how much we fight, we still care about you.
Kate: Uh, thanks Daddy.

[Ian Mackinder]

Oh and one more from the same session, where Sgt Superior and his daughter Kate are being debriefed by the heroes as to what to tell the government

Red (PC): And umm... that big castle thing was due to... heat waves.
Kate: Heat... waves?
Sgt: Don't interrupt the lady Katie. Heat... waves... got it. And those big horn-and-teeth monsters?
Dreamy (other PC): Uh... mutants.
Sgt: Mutants. Got it. They're always crazy lookin'
Kate: Daddy! They said they were demons and I was held in a magic castle in the middle of a...
Sgt: Katie, honey, I know this is your first op, but you have to understand, there are two kinds of truths: 1) The real truth, the one that Daddy suspects, but can't tell anyone because they will put Daddy in a big crazy house full of the people Daddy's been putting in there for most of his life where they will beating me with socks full of pencils and soap all day and 2) The truth that the intelligence people tell you that you can tell is full of it, but you're better off not questioning for the good of everyone. Especially Daddy's career since that your shrew of a mother decided to stab Daddy in the back with additional monthly payments. (gets more enraged) You know I don't have any foreign accounts woman! If only you were a super-villain, I'd... (looks at Kate) But you know Katie-bear that we love you very much and no matter how much we fight, we still care about you.
Kate: Uh, thanks Daddy.

Interesting family dynamic going on there, and it seems kinda like the Sarge might have a few .... issues.

[BoloOfEarth]

Interesting family dynamic going on there, and it seems kinda like the Sarge might have a few .... issues.

Issues? I think he has a subscription or two!

[Blue Jogger]

The heroes are talking to the suspected supervillain who built the first hotel-size space station in orbit.

Hero: "They just don't understand your vision, do they?"

Supervillain: "And they don't have any business sense, do you know how much it costs to ship water to orbit, when you can just recycle it from urine?"

Hero looks at her drink with concern.

Supervillain: "More lemonade? I made it myself."

[Narf the Mouse]

Everything is recycled, anyway.

[Lucius]

Edit: Just to add that I'm having a blast and really glad I made it to GenCon this year!

Tonight I played Muppet Hero.

Now, one of the things I love about Hero System is that you really can do just about anything with it; but for this purpose, I do have to wonder why he didn't just use Toon! But in any case I had a blast.

I played Gonzo the Great. Even for a Muppet, he's a weirdo.

We're coming up on the big finish and there's an erupting volcano and rivers of lava in addition to killer robots and frog bounty hunters and Muppet Hammerhead Sharks etc. (which we can't escape because of rivers of lava you see) and he breaks for a "Public Service Announcement." He had the players who were playing Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker (the mad scientist and assistent from Muppet Labs) improvise a commercial for kids emphasizing the importance of learning math. As part of that, Beaker demonstrated multiplication - resulting in a multitude of Beakers.I state that Gonzo was listening and watching carefully and asks if he's learned to multiply too. Before you know it, we have a horde of Gonzos. Now, Gonzo's weird performance art involves a lot of fires and explosions and so forth, so written on the character sheet was a power representing resistance to "Energy Damage" which includes things like fire and heat - and lava. So I announce "I am going to use my multiple selves to make a living bridge across the lava so everyone can flee to safety. Like a bridge over troubled lava, I will lay me down."

And I asked "Do I get my theme music?"

The Game Operations Director turns to the group and says "all together now...." and they sang in chorus "Like a bridge over troubled lava, I will lay me down...."

That's when I lost it. I literally fell out of my chair and lay on the floor laughing. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

Should I tell you about Miss Piggy and the hot tub?

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary always wanted to be a guest on the Muppet Show

[Narf the Mouse]

...That was also the perfect aftertiser to watching Green Lantern: First Flight

[Tim]

Should I tell you about Miss Piggy and the hot tub?

Baked ham?

[bubba smith]

Baked ham?

miss pigy's reply"HI -YAHHH

[Major Tom 2009]

Baked ham?

I think that'd be more along the lines of boiled ham, actually.


Major Tom 2009

[SSgt Baloo]

Multi-Girl (duplicates into 8): Quantity has its own quality.
Red (extra snarky): Yes, that quality being "cheap."

-SC

I'd rep this but I must spread some.

Should I tell you about Miss Piggy and the hot tub?

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary always wanted to be a guest on the Muppet Show

Do tell! I don't know if I repped you for this, but I'm out for the day. Would someone else do the honors please?

[greenbriar]

Tagged Lucius for you.

[Drhoz]

Edge City 3D, weeks and weeks after the last session. Trawler's player's notes are typically unhelpful

"I've got 'Coalition Territory' with a box around it that I think means avoid... and 'Grey Seers' with a box around it that I think means go to..."

On supervillain names

Trawler's player : Major Disaster and his sidekick Amateur Cameraman, who is always at any scenes of Major Disaster's

Trawler : We learned how to hunt yaks!
Weldun, GM : I'm sorry, did you say we learned how to hump yaks?!
Trawler : HUNT
Zero : We weren't there that long. Besides, they were probably aurochs.
Terminus : So, we got our aurochs off?

NPC : We had an oracle look at it, but all she could tell was 'To open it meant death'
Zero : Now that's an amazingly useful prophecy

Terminus : It's extracting zero-point energy from a sub-space pocket, but the pocket is destabilizing
NPC : Bwah?
Zero : Basically it's eating a universe to keep your truck running

Zero : Hmm. I wonder what would happen if we saved some protoculture tea for Lancer?
Miss Chaos :
Zero OOC : Two psykers, one world class, and feed the mother psionigenic mutagens...
Weldun, GM : Menton would go 'I'll have to kill that child before it Wakes Up... Too late, the doctor just slapped it. I'm toast.'
Zero : It's a good life

Then we played Rio Grande's boxed cardgame Race For The Galaxy. Weldun takes notes of the results, for SF-setting inspiration.

Draws Homeworld card - Ancient Race. It features a suspiciously hyena-like humanoid with a staff.

Me : Oh dear.
Barbara vdB : Vitus again??!
Me : Indeed - is there no system he won't show up in?

David : "We'll make you an honorary David,and you can part of the Hive-mind"

Barbara and I team up for the second game, since I'm still learning. By one of those inspirational co-incidences, the cards we get immediately suggests a theme for our stellar empire.

Drhoz : Old Terra, Exporting Drugs To The Universe!
Barbara vdB : Spice World! We grind up the Spice Girls and sell them by the gramme

Barbara vdB : We're setting up a distant world as a cloning colony, so we can farm the Spice Girls for drugs. Or cook them as Pop Tarts.
Purrdence : Farm them for drugs? Not Amy Winehouse instead?

Barbara vdB : Spice World and New Columbia get producing, and the second colony ship lands on Narcotica

We lose, alas.

Weldun : Terra, still the tired old man of the galaxy.

The winner traded his doomed homeworld for a galactic bazaar, and worked his way up with alien toy shops and more until he ruled THE economic superpower in the game. He also acquired Space Marines.

Weldun : Repo men.
Me : Mall cops

[Tim]

Today's Pathfinder Society Game:

GM: What domain's did you take?
Cleric: Fire and Healing.
other player: I cast Cauterize Wound!

joke told by GM: This is a chain Sword. It came from the Nexus. It was used to kill lots of people there. Haven't you heard of the Nexus Chainsword Massacre?

GM in box text mentions in box text that a Society member has died. A player that has gone negative hps in every adventure he's played in starts to close his binder like he was the one.
GM: No, You cannot be killed in box text.

After being attacked by lepers and our monk getting infected: "This is why Monks with short swords make sense.

Our rogue keeps trying to use feint with usually bad results.
Rogue: (to goblin) Look over there! *successes with bluff check*
Goblin: Where? *turns*
Rogue: (proceeds to roll a nat one on the attack* I don't know. Where?

another time:
Rogue (to HObgoblin) You're shoes untied!
hobgoblin: Huh? *rogue then rolls a nat one to hit*
GM: Your arrow passes over his head as he bends down to tie his shoe.

Sorcerer: All I have left is Ray of Frost. I'm going to go Timmy on him!
(MTG reference. A early creature called a Prodigal Sorcerer could be tapped to do 1 point a damage a round. It got nicknamed Tim from Monty Python)