Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[Lucius]

And now we have one.

We need a thread for "Quote of the Week from My Life."

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary asks why I don't go start one.

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75563

[Greywind]

Aw, she's so sweet to me!


(Ow! Ow! Needle in the neck! Ow!)




I got killed a couple of times and had to shamble around as a zombie for a while. Let me tell you, that whole deal is overrated. I've decided it's easier just to not die in the first place.

...but death becomes you...

[IKerensky]

Thoses are from an Earthdawn game some weeks away, I will try to translate them correctly.

The party is exploring wasteland and stopped by a large gully filled by nearly invisible watery substance.

"Ok, your groups stop at the feet of the pit" (this one mine)

"Can I see the river ?" One PJ.
"No there is the gully that block the view" Another PJ

"Did I see the invisible water ?" (thoses are theirs)

[input.jack]

From a World of Dimness game
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Savannah (OOC): I dont want to see Karl again! I killed him once for a reason!

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Savannah: Its not MY fault Im blonde!


[Note: This had nothing to do with any kind of "bimbo moment". It turns out that Karl was a Nazi, and was obsessed with Savannah because shes a drop-dead gorgeous blonde, and the hottest girl in town]
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And now...EMBRIA quotes!

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The PCs are investigating a long-abandoned Dwarven Crafthold that has been overrun by goblinoids

Rhiannon (OOC): I listen at the door.

GM: You hear labored breathing, and the sound of many voices

Rhiannon: Im not sure whats in there...could be Goblins mating

Varga: Oh, well, we GOTTA put a stop to THAT!

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GM: In the little alcove, way in the back, theres a little metallic glint

Rhiannon (OOC): We're in a Sierra game!

Metrion (OOC): The Way Back Machine just hit me in the face

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GM: In this room you find a deep well...

Varga (OOC): Insert Hobbit...

Rhiannon (OOC): Recieve Balrog!

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GM: The Ork Priestess seems very agitated, and kind of high from the fumes

Metrion (OOC): Doped up on sugar and Yoo-Hoo, no doubt!

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Chyra (OOC): Can we tell what it is?

GM: It could be a monitor lizard

Rhiannon (OOC): "Let me sssssssee your hall passsssssss"

Entire Group: *Facepalm*

[Shadow Hawk]

Star Gate Quotes
Cast
Cpt. Alan "Dick" Tracy, USMC Pilot and team leader
Cpt. Zoey Spencer, USAF Ph.d Mechanical Engineer
Cpl Zues Brown, USA Ranger/Scout
PFC Jim Roth, USA Demolitions
LCPL Apollo Anatazi, USMC Sniper
Dr. George Ganim, linguist/archeologist

ooc
Zues: Dumbass freshmen.
Jim: Just kill them already.

How to deal with Space Nazis
Zues: We should just carpet bomb the Nazis.
Jim: I like the way you think.
GM: You don't have air superiority.
Jim: We do have Captain Tracy, though.

Refering to Dr. Ganim 1
Jim: If it weren't for you, we could just kill people.

and 2
Zoey: I'm the real scientist.

[Drhoz]

Edge City 3D - Penultimate Issue!

Trawler : 12-ft tall, about the same wide
Terminus : Genetic warrior, now with a family of clone-siblings
Miss Chaos : Increasingly frustrated by lack of Nookie
Avatar : Autonomous fragment of the Sun, and mobile Chernobyl
Stentorian : Big-mouth bass, woofer, sub-woofer, tectonic woofer, and Brown Note speakers
Zero : Won't use his his powers for evil - unless he's in his civilian ID

Ferrying PCs & NPCs across the river

Zero: I think I've seen this logic puzzle before.
Stentorian : The one with the fox and the chicken? Obviously Lori's the fox
Zero: So which one's the chicken? *long pause* Oh come on, I feed you a straight-line like that and nobody bites?

Weldun, GM : Ah, Cerenkov radiation - if you can see it, you're already dead

One of Terminus's fellow clones is more of a mosaic - an anthro canine with the same Terminus-soldier improvements as the human versions.

Zero OOC : I'm guessing she won't appreciate being greeted with "Yo, Bitch"

Zero: I'm needed AND leading the party? What kind of Bizarro reality is this?
Weldun, GM: Oh, come on - the last time you fought the Black Paladin you attacked him with a sword.
Zero: True... And the team brick was opening doors with a lockpick.

We're joined by a grandfatherly figure riding cross-legged on a rainbow bubble.

NPC : You lot are looking for the Grey Seers. We work with them. We're the bubble-blowers.
Zero: Given he's riding around on one I'm not sure I want to know where he blows it from

Juicer NPC : What about this guy who can cure you with a tear?
Juicer NPC 2 : *Beats fist against palm* Don't worry, I can make him cry
Zero: Just tell him about the spelling on a WoW server - that'll make most people bawl.

And in Cthulhu - Bless The Beasts And Children

Amy Wells, daughter of the New England aristocracy, slumming it as a nurse
Paddy McGinty, proud bearer of an impenetrable Irish accent
Sydney Delthorn, "Brainy likes his booky-wook"
Col. Conrad Lancaster, Ret., collector and trader in strange antiquities

Quizzing Amy's player about whether or not Amy's a Boston Brahmin leads to this old ditty

"So this is good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,
And the Cabots talk only to God."

Col. Conrad Lancaster OOC : Shoggoths are not tribbles and should not be treated as such when encountered

Me, GM : I don't really need Lucy Smith this session, and it's easy enough to write her out. No doubt she's staying in today, drinking herself further into an alcoholic stupor
Lucy's Player : How about she got called out of town for a job? Some location filming in New York, maybe?
Me, GM : Not a Broadway production of Shoggoth on the Roof?

Me, GM, reviewing the PCs : We've got lapsed Catholics, Irish Protestants, Russian Orthodox, Anglicans, and the comic relief - also known as Unitarians

Me, GM : No, you are not going to crossbreed pitbulls and Hounds of Tindalos. **** off.

PCs spot a clue - children's cutlery in a childless house

Farmers wife: We had the niece and nephew over a week ago
Col. Conrad Lancaster, Ret. : So you haven't done the dishes in a week?
Me, GM : *pause* Good point.

Lancaster parks himself on a clifftop, reloading his rifle and taking potshots at unarmed nannies as they escape out to sea in dinghies

Col. Conrad Lancaster, Ret. : So... Battle Hymn? No, inappropriate under the circumstances. Ah, I have it -

'Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves,
dum dum dummiliddydumdum, dum dum dum'

Me, GM: reconstructing villain's backstory : ...and dragged back to shore, rolled over to see the face of his rescuer...
Delthorn, OOC: ribbit

Lancaster donates a large sum to the Massachusetts State Hospital For The Insane

Col. Conrad Lancaster, Ret. : Especially for anybody that gets brought in raving about monsters and alien gods.
Me, GM: So you'd like to fund the wing for people driven insane by the party's 'leisure activities'?
Col. Conrad Lancaster, Ret. : Not just us - I'm financing the Clue Factory

Paddy acquires a flashy Packard car, more Tommy guns, and some violin cases

Col. Conrad Lancaster, Ret. OOC : He's getting in on the bottom floor there...

[SCUBA Hero]

Netzilla couldn't be present for Saturday's game, but one quote from the session:

"I won't have you questioning my intelligence!"

"I'm not questioning your intelligence, I'm questioning your plan."

[Faizan]

champion of this week?

[Manic Typist]

Lancaster parks himself on a clifftop, reloading his rifle and taking potshots at unarmed nannies as they escape out to sea in dinghies

So repworthy.

[Egyptoid]

I forgot one last week, from Bench Transformers:


DM describes the secret base, and the hidden mission of
the Transformers on the east coast:

Crow-Bar:(incredulously) we...we...we're an Auto-Bot sleeper cell !!!

DM: indubitably


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expect more robotic goodness tonight!

[Doug Limmer]

champion of this week?

It's been a long week.
And welcome!

[hfergus]

Haven't played in over a month, but last night finished the module "Shades of Black."; which was well liked.

Me as GM, trying to herd cats. (Trying to stop the chitchat and start the game.) "Ok, it's time for death and destruction." Pretty much in unison both players ooc say "Death and destruction! Yea!"

I have 3 gm run characters as they need them. One will very shortly be retired and I will temporarily add a new one. (plot device)

Cast of Characters:
Disarray: mentalist and tk specialist
Silverswirl: Energy user from another dimension
Volt (mine): team leader and energy user
Black Tiger (mine): Martial artist
Olorin (mine) Mage and large vpp user (with oddball restrictions)

Scene: climax of Module. Olorin has imprisoned Black Paladin, but can do almost nothing else. Chantal is back and gloating. Then I make a verbal slip and say "Black Paladin is on Chatnal" Meaning to say Black Tiger and that he was attacking her. Smut field was apparently on.

Disarray (ooc) "In the middle of battle? Can't he wait?"
Silverswirl (ooc) "We really don't need to see that."

Both the above more than once said something to the effect of "Aw, true lust. How sweet." in refence to Black Paladin and Chantal. In character

[Egyptoid]

Bench Transformers: LINK (Auto-Bots in BESM-D20 Sci-Fi)

The PC Party: Griffon the News Van, HRT the Bus, and Chessex the Train
get waylaid by a blob of toxic sludge. The cleanup and aftermath
was quite informative:

HRT: what kind of slime-bag planet are we on ?
Griffon: You mean it's only a Wealth-Check 12 to bribe a cop in this town?
GM: DC 15, 15, I meant 15 !



Chessex: where there's a wheel, there's a way.




The only way the team can think of to rescue a hostage
is blow through the front of the building in vehicle form,
switch to mecha-form, and fight it out:

HRT & GM in unison: This is why we can't have nice things.


Finally it is decided to belay the rescue plan
and try to do it with some stealth later on.

[Lucius]

From GenCon again:

I played in a Stargate Atlantis game. Believe it or not, I've never watched the show, although I have some familiarity with the premise from having watched the original movie and the first series. I like the premise, even though they stole it from Chaosium's Future World!

So I'm totally unfamiliar with the character, who is the head of the medical department, but I was told I did well with her anyway.

At the start of the game, the Game Operations Director gave the day and time, mentioned a couple of things that were going on, and went around and asked each player "what are you doing right now?"

Me: "I'm making a list of candidates and writing a request to have a top genetics specialist brought in, and equipment for DNA analysis. I'm thinking if we can examine their mitochondrial DNA and haplogroups, we can figure out how long ago the local Humans split off genetically from the Humans of Earth."

I was told that was an excellent thing to be doing.

Later, when what was supposed to be a routine trip to an outpost planet turns into a crisis (predictably) : "Cutting edge scientific research, they said. First rate, fully funded lab, they said. They didn't mention the part about getting stranded on some hostile alien planet and getting shot at by even more hostile alien beings!"

I said something like that more than once, variations on that theme. Another repeating theme, after things like seeing the victims of ghoulish alien life draining powers : "I take it all back. I don't care what I have to do to help you guys. I do NOT want these things alive in the same universe with me."

After looking at the data from the computer in an alien laboratory complete with one dead Human experimental subject who looked like a caricature of an obsessive body builder : "This stuff is like steroids on steroids. I can think of six different ways it would kill a Human being and no telling which way this man died."

And finally, when back "home" in her own lab : "I'm going to analyze the data and the samples we got from that mad scientist's excuse for a lab, in case I ever have to treat someone who's been subjected to that stuff who hasn't died of it yet."

Lucius Alexander

Stargate Palindromedary

[Lonewalker]

More quotes from Teh Bunneh's D&D 4th campaign - Bloodmäter.

I'm fairly certain I missed some good ones....haven't been doing my best on noting 'em down.

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The Party

Brontus Rexx: A barbarian from a far-off land, kidnapped by slavers at a young age and forced to fight in the gladiatorial pits. Recently freed from bondage and seeking a new life.
Clio: A tiefling paladin, servant of the goddess of death. She is trying to atone for a terrible crime she committed as a youth.
Rody Falcos: Elven ne'er-do-well and con artist. He's the son of a wealthy merchant; he was left behind when the caravan master decided he'd had enough of the young rascal's shenanigans.
Hakkoz Stoneshanks: A dwarven priest, his tragic past has shaped him into the bold hero he is today.
Alix Twilight: An animalistic shaman from the deep deserts that surround Bloodmäter on 3 sides; she can barely contain the bestial fury within her.
Paxton Lux: A young human fighter who adventures in the hopes of finding out who she really is.
Justine: Newest member of the party with the description of: "Warlock chick."
Berrian Wildheart (NPC): A cheerful young gnome wizard; apprentice to the most powerful and famous wizard in the city.

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The party takes the Unaligned option very seriously at times...
Clio: Why is the Tiefling always having to take the moral high ground?

While scheming on how to get an ex-cultist safely out of the city, a plan involving murder, dismemberment, and subsequent resurrection is suggested...
Justine: Um, any plan that involves resurrection is probably already failed.
(This has now become a recurring joke in the game...)

The party is ambushed in the back alleys of the city...
Brontus: Those aren't hobos! They're ratmen!

The newest Troubleshooter finds herself set upon by half the ambushing force...
Justine: Please don't kill the first level hot chick.

Teh Bunneh updates the players on the status of some of the bad guys...
GM: Okay, these two guys here are bloodied. This ratman fighting Brontus is also bloodied...but only because his partner recently exploded right next to him...

Alix flubs an attack roll and the GM inquires...
GM: Are we wasting a reroll?
Alix: It's not wasting!!

Commentary as the ratmen attack with anything available, particularly stink arrows...
Justine: Who's your arms dealer...Oscar the Grouch?

The ex-cultist, Peter, has been running about trying to evade the attackers. While he is hiding behind Brontus, the barbarian brutally kills two foes at once...
Peter (NPC): You remember I'm on your team, right?
Brontus: Yes, you are....so sit the hell down!

Alix attempts a Heal check on the fallen Rody despite having been blinded by a wizard spell a moment earlier...
Brontus: You're doing first aid blind!
GM: She's feeling her way through it.

Random resurrection comment...
Justine: Oh, heck, you only live once.
GM: Unless you get resurrected.

The nasty enemy spellcaster is finally whittled down to the point that Berrian finishes him off with a Cloud of Daggers spell...
Hexer (NPC): Killed...by...first-level spell...the humiliation....<dies>

Rody is dropped to zero hit points twice in the battle. The first time, he is revived by Alix. The second time, it's by Clio.
Brontus: I think Rody gets himself knocked out just so the beautiful women will come and rescue him.

There's no love for the gnome...
Justine: I still say that burning gnome should constitute a missile weapon.
Berrian (NPC): I object!

Random comment...
Brontus (OOC): Using two rods at once is just being greedy.

Rody tries to talk Brontus into taking a typical barbarian trophy...
Rody: You could chop off ears and wear 'em as a necklace.
Brontus: That's unhygenic.
Pax: Can we talk about your pet rat head?

During a discussion about the nastier and nastier plans the party seems to come up with...
Pax (OOC): We're shifting toward evil alignment.
GM: I call that character development!

A second ambush has the added complications of innocents in the way, which doesn't seem to be a problem for the team's druid...
GM: The entire bridge is filled with travelers and bystanders.
Brontus (OOC): So we can assume any area effect power kills extra civilians?
Alix (OOC): Not me! My powers only affects 'enemies!'
Brontus (OOC): So if you throw down a spell and guys drop over dead, we don't need to feel guilty.

Berrian takes damage and complains, prompting an inside joke...
Brontus: It's good for you, Berrian.
Berrian (NPC): In what way?
Alix and Justine: <simultaneously> It builds character!

Alix is impressed with one of the enemy's skills...
Alix (OOC): If I kill her, can I take her feats?

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Enjoy!

Lonewalker