Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[Mjolnir74]

Chyra (OOC): Whats the Knowledge Skill for that?

Metrion (OOC): Knowledge of My Butt

Rhiannon (OOC): Would that be "Dungeoneering"? "Structural"?!?

Metrion (OOC): Arcana!

Spelunking?

[input.jack]

Pictures of the characters from the Embria campaign:


Chyra, the Undead-aspected Sorceress, (bodycast as Skye Sweetnam)


Metrion the Black, Wizard (bodycast as a young Ian McKellan)


Lee Reighborn, Cleric of Pelor (bodycast as Christian Bale)(art by ProdigyDuck)


Rhiannon, Half Elven Fighter-Rogue (bodycast as Hayden Panetierre)


Tash, Half-Orc Ranger (bodycast as Rosario Dawson)


Varga, Barbarienne (bodycast as Phoenix from American Gladiators)

I hope this helps people picture the characters when you read their silly quotes



Edit: Here is Rhiannon's new, heavier armor

[Drhoz]

Another oppurtunity to inflict my Hollywood Cthulhu adventure on somebody - Leecetheartist asked me to guest GM for her group, on the strength of what they've heard and read about my games

As a bonus, it gave me the oppurtunity to run up some back-up PCs ( Tigris threw some together so credit to him ). Thus, I could happily designate some as 'Meat' and not leave the player with nothing to do. Also, I can throw in John Wayne as an NPC ( Trufax : Wayne was one of the extras that didn't get killed or crippled during the filming of Noah's Ark )

Me, GM : One of the changes Zanuck has insisted on for the refurbished Babylon set is as many ornamental ponds and fountains as you can fit in. You'll probably all go home with malaria, but it could be worse. You could be filming RKO's The Conquerer and all go home with radiation poisoning.

Me, GM : That's just one of the things that's making this movie an unmitigated disaster - Curtiz at least wanted you to act. Zanuck wants so much ham it's probably just as well he's the only [1920s] producer who wasn't Jewish

Me, GM : *On Zanuck's press releases* it would appear that on top of the captive zebras, okapi, elephants and dik-diks, he's also got a wild hyperbole

Zanuck : Can you make their costumes more Fonickyian?

Me, GM : Red-footed wamps thrive in ruins and places of corruption - I'm sure you'll agree that Hollywood qualifies as the latter

Cameraman PC : I've got a starting SAN of 25???
Leece : Well, we told you not to snort developing fluid

Regarding the very real movie I redid as a Mythos film

Stuntman's Player : A Noah's Ark story with a parallel WWI plot?? What???
Me, GM : *nods* Apparently there's a burning bush scene as well. Don't ask me why, it made sense to Zanuck

[Major Tom 2009]

Heh. I honestly can't recall what game this quote originated in, but it's become the tag line for at least one pulp hero in any of our games:

"Women seem to have a problem with my face. They either want to punch it or kiss it. Sometimes both."

Sounds more like something Captain Jack Sparrow would say...he certainly got more
than his fair share of both in those flicks ().



Major Tom 2009

[DJ Blackrock]

From my Shadowrun game:

For reference, players are:
Hank "Venom" McNeil - Mechanic and pseudo-rigger, human
Haru Tetanuga - Technomancer and man-whore, elf
Mina "Red" - Cybered out gun-bunny go-ganger, human
Thaddeus Lamont - Highly cyber and biowared out Street Samurai, Troll
Carotis Lamont - Physical Adept elemental martial artist, Troll
Diom "Die" Zanuff - Mystic Adept swordsman, Ork
Susan - Wiccan med-mage, Dwarf
Beldaran Corbin - Eagle Shaman Sniper, Elf

Of this group, the only one with even a modicum of discretion is Beldaran.

The group gets the job:
Mr. Johnson: I need you to break into this Shiawase facility and swap this blood sample with one already on site.
Hank: Sounds like a sneak type job.
Mr. J: I'd prefer if no attention were called to this swap...
Hank, Thaddeus and Carotis stand and leave
Mr. J: ...preferably by drawing attention away from their medical facilites.
Hank, Thaddeus and Carotis turn around
Hank: That sounds like it could involve a boom. I'm back in!
Mr. J: Uh... excellent?

Planning:
Hank: Well, I've still got about 20 pounds of commercial grade explosives, and we have that RV from the last mission...
Susan: Could we maybe have a mission that doesn't involve some kind of explosion?
rest of the group: ::blank stares::
Susan: Wrong crowd, sorry.

Running Matrix interference:
GM: Haru, you recognize that icon. Looks like their security hacker is the same guy from your first job, Frogger.
Haru: Oh, that little **** I remember him. I'm gonna try to seal him off.
GM: Opposed hacking check sweetcheeks.
GM & Haru: ::roll lots of dice, Haru crits, Frogger scores a critical glitch (botch but worse for those not familiar with SR4)
GM: Hmm. Okay, you manage to seal Frogger off, he's sitting there happily unaware of everything going on around him.
Haru: Good, and as soon as he tries another scan, I'm gonna flood him with Gay Porn.
GM (quasi-OOC): It's always Gay Porn with you, isn't it?
Haru: ::quietly:: not always...

Haru hacks the security chief's PAN (Personal Area Network):
GM: Okay, your in. Two seperate rolls, one to shut off his gun, and the other to switch off his goggles.
Haru: ::makes both rolls nicely::
Security Chief: ::fails firewall roll for gun, crit-glitches roll for goggles::
Haru: A crit-glitch? ::smiles evilly::
GM: Porn?
Haru: Lots of it. As gay as it gets.
GM: *sigh*

On being a good guy:
Beldaran: Okay, after the explosion, I sneak into the facility.
GM: Okay, the rather unfortunate guard who saw the explosives in the first place is lying on the ground near the door you need to get through. His right leg is ruined, and at least half his face is hanging off the chain-link fence on the far side of the property. He seems to be in considerable pain, and he reaches out to you.
Beldaran: I shake him off and continue what I was doing.
Haru (OOC): You just lost Karma!
GM (OOC): This is not Fallout!

Beldaran has a harrowing experience with a blood drinking THING in the med-facility:
Beldaran: V-V-Vampire!
Rest of group: ::scoffs, laughs or skeptical::
Beldaran: Oh come on! I'm a gawddamned elf! I cast spells! :oints at Thaddeus:: Hell, just look at him! Vampires aren't beyond the scope of possibilities here!
Thaddeus: Hey!

Haru plays video games with a novacoke addict:
Haru: I disconnect his controller.
GM: The game continues playing. It's catching up with what he pressed. He's his own personal turbo button!
Haru (OOC): ::imitating the Boondocks:: HE CHEATED PLAYSTATION!

[Klytus]

But you did post a link. I saw it. I watched it in your post. Did you change your mind and remove it or am I going mad?

I wasn't trying to post a direct link to the vid, only the web-page. So once I saw the embedded video, I changed it. The link was only posted for like less than a minute, though. Your timing must have been perfect.

[BlackCobra]

Big fight. Hero whacks the villain with a table from the restaurant:

"Your table is ready, sir!"

[Drhoz]

Big fight. Hero whacks the villain with a table from the restaurant:

"Your table is ready, sir!"

but did he have a reservation? Apart from strong reservations about being brained with a table, presumably

[Steve]

Our gaming group is doing a Kazei Five playtest of the new rules, so this week's session was a focus on powered armor and cyborgs.

The group was composed of the following SWAT officers:
Sgt. Drake Nickels – combat cyborg
Officer Jack Murphy – combat cyborg
Officer Tyrone "Stubby" Washington – powered armor
Officer Leonard “Twinkletoes” Morgan – powered armor
Officer Felicia “Overkill” Artemis – an experimental model Puma

Twinkletoes earned his name by managing to not fail a single stealth roll while wearing 200 pounds of powered armor. I can't remember exactly how the other callsigns were earned.

"NYPD Inc - To protect and serve our shareholders."
"In my experience, there’s just a fine line between interrogation and seduction."
"We're at Mook factor five."
"Mecha ballet is something to see." (After Morgan made his third stealth roll in a row.)

[jtelson]

Big fight. Hero whacks the villain with a table from the restaurant:

"Your table is ready, sir!"

Among that villian's bag of tricks was being able to arrange furniture such that the Feng Shui of a room would kill the next person who entered which then prompted a handful of comments after his defeat by table...

"You overcame him with the power of artfully placed furniture"

"See I can teach you a thing or two about Feng Shui!"

[Major Tom 2009]

Among that villian's bag of tricks was being able to arrange furniture such that the Feng Shui of a room would kill the next person who entered which then prompted a handful of comments after his defeat by table...

"You overcame him with the power of artfully placed furniture"

"See I can teach you a thing or two about Feng Shui!"

Which will doubtless lead to the inclusion of the following subject in the curriculum
of the local super-school:


Interior Decorating from Hell 101.




Major Tom 2009

[Major Tom 2009]

Pictures of the characters from the Embria campaign:


Chyra, the Undead-aspected Sorceress, (bodycast as Skye Sweetnam)


Metrion the Black, Wizard (bodycast as a young Ian McKellan)


Lee Reighborn, Cleric of Pelor (bodycast as Christian Bale)(art by ProdigyDuck)


Rhiannon, Half Elven Fighter-Rogue (bodycast as Hayden Panetierre)


Tash, Half-Orc Ranger (bodycast as Rosario Dawson)


Varga, Barbarienne (bodycast as Phoenix from American Gladiators)

I hope this helps people picture the characters when you read their silly quotes

The scary thing is, I can quite easily picture Rosario Dawson as a half-orc female --
especially after all the years she spent with a lobster on her head in Star Trek:
Voyager.


Major Tom 2009

[Celt]

The scary thing is, I can quite easily picture Rosario Dawson as a half-orc female --
especially after all the years she spent with a lobster on her head in Star Trek:
Voyager.


Major Tom 2009

Except The ST:V actress would be Roxann Dawson.

[Major Tom 2009]

Except The ST:V actress would be Roxann Dawson.

Oops.

My bad.



Major Tom 2009

[Balabanto]

A D+D Game set in the Forgotten Realms Land of Impiltur.

The characters are

Warsword Thund: Sacred Fist of Torm

Katervali Chernosk: Paladin/Ranger of Illmater

Vimak, Mercenary Goliath Reincarnated as a Lizard Man: Ranger

Amaril: Drow Prisoner Druid.

They encounter a Cloud Giant, who surrenders after they beat up his hill giant ally, while looking for an evil Storm Giant named Roaknir.

Thund: So you have surrendered.

Giant: Yes.

Thund: Is there any particular reason you didn't fight to the death.

Giant: I have fulfilled my obligation. Roaknir is a filthy swine. It is Maug of me to serve him without obligations to others.

The PC's work out an arrangement with the Giant so that he will guard them while they sleep. The next day, they assault Roaknir's throne room, kill him, and enter his quarters. His wife ambushes them from invisibility, almost kills all of them, and then when they finally get her on the ropes, she surrenders too.

Giantess: I surrender! I just had to make a good showing so I didn't shame Stronmaus!

Thund: I accept your surrender.

Giantesss: He was a filthy swine. I only wish to take what is mine by right and leave. He was disgusting. I am happy he is dead!

Vimak: She's leaving? With some of the treasure?

Katervali: Apparently Roaknir did not treat her with any form of respect. (Wincing, has six hit points) She should get to leave with what she is legally entitled to. Besides, she's not evil.

Amaril OOC: I heal the Giantess on the way out. Her life sounds a lot like mine used to be.

Thund: Didn't ANYONE serve this man out of real loyalty? Everyone only served him out of obligation! He must have been the biggest scum on Toril!