Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[Ockham's Spoon]

Rumbaba and Al the Wizard make a great comedy team. If they ever give up adventuring they could take their act on the road. Sadly too soon to rep you again.

[Narf the Mouse]

"And now, for the comedy duo of Rumbaba and Al the Wizard!" The names work, too.

[Drhoz]

Rumbaba and Al the Wizard make a great comedy team. If they ever give up adventuring they could take their act on the road. Sadly too soon to rep you again.

Rumbaba would probably be up for that - he's an entertainer that circumstances are forcing to adventure, after all. Some humorous patter during the juggling act would probably go down a treat with the punters.

[Susano]

In session three of Well of the Worlds one of the PCs single-handedly eliminated an entire squad of attacking Lizard Person troops. Leading to:
"The leading cause of death in Lizard People is Billy Jo"

followed by:
OOC: "Hello, I'm Hissy S. Gator. You may remember me from such films as Rub my Tummy and Put That in Your Mouth. I'm here to talk to you about the leading cause of death among male adult Serpent People, Billy Jo. If you or your loved one has come in contact with Billy Jo, seek medical care immediately."

Billy Jo, the PC in question, also reminds several of us of "Keith" Ellis's friend from Left 4 Dead 2. Leading to the following Ellis dialogue:
There was this one guy Keith knew named Billy Jo. Said that dude taught him all he knows when it comes to doin' s**t. Y'know what I mean? Like ridin' them mowers and s**t.

Keith was tellin' me this guy Billy Jo one time went around killin' like Raptors and s**t with hot girls or sumthin'. I don't know how he did it cause I wudn't there but Keith said that Billy Jo like totally killed these Raptors with a butter knife and sum s**t. But one of the Raptors caught him and tore up like 90% of his body. So he was just like a head with a knife and sum s**t. I don't know. But Keith said he was a cool guy.

[Egyptoid]

various bits, no context:

"I look at the bodies, I look at the bandit princess,
I look at the bodies, I look at the bandit princess,
I look at the bodies, I look at the bandit princess,
I look at the bodies, I look at the bandit princess...."
finally the DM interrupted me.


Hide Armor cannot be looted from my body, because it is my skin.


No, Hide Armor is not a substitute for Stealth.


My brother was a hero, who died with out whining.
(lots of players took less damage, and complained bitterly at the GM)


Is there enough loot in the pile to provide me some cover ?


the female marid got dubbed B.A.S.S. by the PCs
Spoiler:

show spoiler

Bad A$$ Super S1ut

please note my battle cry tenors up sharply from medic to man down


the chainmail is crafted from the finest handwavium, and can only be pierced by unobtanium.

[Susano]

WELL OF THE WORLDS

The Cast
Billy Jo Earl Brown -- construction worker from the state of Georgia.
Calvin Murdoch -- frustrated artist.
Cyan Chartreuse -- ex-Army medic, now an EMT.
Donovan Knight -- ex-Air Force, now an airline pilot.
Edward Aldrich -- ex-Army, now a computer tech.
Marcus Dreamseed Anderson -- 17 year-old whiz kid and technical prodigy.

Session 3

Donovan Knight (OOC): "A bokken is a club that has style."

Marcus Dreamseed Anderson (OOC): "He absorbs the powers of things that damage him?"
Donovan Knight (OOC): "C'mere so we can hit him with this shark."

Donovan Knight (OOC) to Marcus Dreamseed Anderson: "You're just an exposition bitch."

Marcus Dreamseed Anderson (OOC): Suggestion to Billy Jo Earl Brown: "Charge 'em!"
Billy Jo Earl Brown: "Billy Jo charges 'em!" doing a non-combat Move-Through, arriving in the center of the enemy squad at 0 DCV.
Marcus Dreamseed Anderson (OOC): "I was joking."
Donovan Knight (OOC): "Sarcasm only works on the mentally able."
Billy Jo Earl Brown proceeds to hit and roll maximum damage and maximum knockback, and the players stop laughing at him. This sets the tone for the entire combat.

Example #1: Edward Aldrich takes an NND shot and goes down. Billy Jo Earl Brown gets hit twice and doesn't.

Example #2: Seeing this, the bad guy with a gun says "screw taking them alive" and does 5 BODY, 27 STUN past defenses. Billy Jo Earl Brown is picked up by the villagers and takes one Phase to recover to positive STUN, then charges and guts the aforementioned shooter.

[one of the villagers picking Billy Jo Earl Brown up]: "Damn, Billy Jo's heavy."
Donovan Knight (OOC): "He's full of badass."

Calvin Murdoch (OOC): "The dice are genre-savvy today."

Billy Jo Earl Brown: Charges and kills yet another bad guy.
Calvin Murdoch (OOC): "Can of whoop-ass? No, you're a keg."

At this point the adventure is officially titled, "The Day Of Billy Jo."

Cyan Chartreuse (OOC): "Billy Jo's like a dog after a car. Not sure what he'll do if he catches it."
Marcus Dreamseed Anderson (OOC): "He'd rip the fender off."
Donovan Knight (OOC): "And hump it."

Billy Jo Earl Brown: "Maybe I'm getting too overconfident."
There is general disbelief among the players.

Billy Jo Earl Brown's in one of the enemy APCs and two [retreating] bad guys aren't.
Billy Jo Earl Brown: "I have the high ground. I can't lose!" and he multi-attacks.
GM: "His [Billy Jo's] spear turns into a lightsaber."

The enemy commander challenges Edward Aldrich to a duel, and after a few inconclusive rounds...
Edward Aldrich: "You're good, but not good enough." and rolls a 6 to hit.
Donovan Knight (OOC): "And he rolls two sixes for damage."
Result? Two sixes for maximum damage.

Marcus Dreamseed Anderson attempts to board an enemy APC, and gets shot off into the arms of the smith's wife, who refuses to let him back into the fight.
Donovan Knight (OOC): "You've been rescued by your mom."
After running across half the village Marcus approaches another APC, but it lifts off with Billy Jo in it before he can board.
Marcus Dreamseed Anderson: "God dammit."
He then sees Donovan fly up and get on (this is the first appearance of this power).
Marcus Dreamseed Anderson: "God Dammit."
He turns to pick up a sword he'd passed, only to find that it'd been picked up by the smith's wife, who'd followed him (and she’s not giving it up.)
Marcus Dreamseed Anderson: "God Dammit!"

We count it up and of the 28 enemy attackers (who dawn-assaulted a spear-and-club Viking-era village with guns and flying APCs), 3 of the pilots flew away and 3 attackers managed to run off. Of the 21 dead (one was taken alive), Billy Jo killed at least 8 of them—and captured the fourth APC.
GM: "Autopsies show the leading cause of death in Lizard People is Billy Jo."
Cyan Chartreuse (OOC): "Hello, I'm Hissy S. Gator. You may remember me from such films as Rub My Tummy and Put That in Your Mouth. I'm here to talk to you about the leading cause of death among male adult Lizard People, Billy Jo. If you or your loved one has come in contact with Billy Jo, seek medical care immediately."

Marcus Dreamseed Anderson: is asked what to do with the prisoner: "I have some definite opinions—they start with "V" and end with "-ivisection.""

There is discussion on who will be allowed to question the prisoner, and Mister Edward "shoot first and question the survivors" Aldrich won't let Cyan Chartreuse be alone with him.
Edward Aldrich: "The Geneva Convention states interrogations have to be 2 people."
Marcus Dreamseed Anderson (OOC): "Prisoner and torturer equal two people."

And you [the GM] cannot fail to mention how you divided up the casualties.

GM: "By my count, 17 villagers went down. Divided by six players, each of you tell me what happened to three NPCs your character's associated with."

The players then proceed to prove the statement, "No GM is as cruel to a character as the player himself." Highlights include:

1) Billy Joe's lover loses her sister and brother-in-law, leaving the niece an orphan. As the PCs have to leave and the little girl can't, this is considered an effective, if cold, way of arranging a break-up. Considering the quality of the prose written about the creation of the relationship, we're looking forward to reading about this.

2) Marcus, the geek, instead of choosing an NPC has one of the storage buildings that burned contain his computer, electronics, and other various experiments.

3) Cyan, the medic who lost her husband in a fire, has two children burn to death in one of the buildings. The GM interrupts with Cyan gaining the necessary strength, life support and defenses to brave the flames and retrieve them unharmed, but still... the intent was to have a woman who'd lost her husband in a fire to now lose two kids in a fire. That's harsh.

Cyan Chartreuse (OOC): "Happy characters are boring characters."

To all you GMs out there—if you want to do evil things like this, just give the players the opportunity to do it to themselves.

[Egyptoid]

from our path-maker king-finder game:

your so-called "ambush" seemed much more like an exceptionally lethal frat-prank.

[Susano]

your so-called "ambush" seemed much more like an exceptionally lethal frat-prank.

Who's ambush?

[teh bunneh]

Who's ambush?

MINE!!!! ::kills Susano::

[Susano]

MINE!!!! ::kills Susano::

*ack* "I... I.... rosebud...." *thud*

[torchwolf]

*ack* "I... I.... rosebud...." *thud*

:: ponders the "rosebud" reference momentarily, shakes head, then surreptitiously pockets the mysterious list dropped beside the body reading "EOC", suspecting it may lead to Carlotta ::

[Enforcer84]

*teabags Susano's corpse and writes LOSER on his face in sharpie*

[Susano]

*teabags Susano's corpse and writes LOSER on his face in sharpie*

Wait... you're going to make me vote for Sarah Palin?

[Major Tom 2009]

Now that just flat-out transcends the limits of cruelty.

And I thought that Dr. Destroyer had the market on absolute cruelty.


Major Tom 2009

[Egyptoid]

AVATAR: AIRBENDER; game BESM20

the party goes into town looking for an air-bender.
instead some joker directs them to the local blow-hard,
a knife fight breaks out, hilarity ensues:

Constable: what's all this then?
Fire-Bender: Misplaced Cultural Reference, sir.

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The earth-bender encases himself in earth-armor,
and the rogue is making called shots to the eyes.
both were decried as fighting dirty.
both had their honor soiled.

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the earthbender gets a critical hit on a rogue, severing a limb.
so he protests he was only trying to disarm the miscreant.

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Later on the party is cased by a bandit.
The GM describes him as giving the party a
"boba fett" nod as they go past.

so for the rest of the evening, everyone had to describe their gestures:

botched skill check : chewbacca flail. <arms overhead>
loud battle cry : tusken roar. <weapon overhead>
made willpower save: solo shrug-off. <meh>

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The avatar is trying to decide who is a worthy vessel for her telepathic channeling.

she looks over the steam-tech character,
and analyzes him as having "a mind built of oil and wheels"
other player OCC: "with all the personality and charm of an overclocked lap-top"
Steam-Tech: well I would be a gateway.