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Re: The eulogy of a HERO! Oh I like that. Repped.

Re: The eulogy of a HERO! Jack-a-Dandy would *not* be invited to do anything of the sort, since he would (regardless of his relationship with the deceased or their gender) insist on beginning: "I remember the last time we made love, how amused we both were at the expression on the Pope's face..." or something similar.

Re: adding the Jack Ryan universe I agree. I enjoyed Patriot Games for its unalloyed and unselfconscious "sucking up to the idea of royalty" tone, and I enjoy many of his books. He does tend to start quoting stats and specs for every item that's mentioned. Not being a military man I tended to gloss over those parts anyway, but kind of assumed that maybe that's how military types talked. And then one of his characters met a computer geek. More my field of knowledge. And the geek spake thus when handed a floppy disk (paraphrasing): "Ah yes, it's a three and a half inch disk, double sided and high density. Can be formatted to hold one point four four megabytes of data. The tab in this position means it's write-protected." Where I believe most techy types if handed a floppy disk, if they had chosen to mention it at all rather than say "thanks" would have said "Oh a disk" rather than quote the full catalogue description. Maybe the military speak is a bit overdone too then I guess....

Re: Looking for a Greek God Picture Damn, I was just about to upload a photo of myself. If you're already sorted though...

Re: Show you story telling skills. On reflection, Jack-a-Dandy decided, he'd quite miss Drang, despite the fact that the teutonic buffoon had been a thorn in his side for almost a decade now. He'd spotted Drang at once, of course, in his civilian identity tall, muscled and magnificent, strolling into a cocktail bar shortly after midnight. Drang was in the company of a lithe creature in a slashed-to-ribbons cocktail dress composed of about enough material to mop ones brow (assuming one was not sweating too much). Jack strolled in after him, winking at the bouncer on the door and passing by unchallenged. Drang had already taken a seat in a mirrored booth, sprawled casually with the woman leaning against him, looking adoringly past the blond crewcut and seeing his bank account rippling. Jack narrowed his eyes just a little and made mental contact. The woman stood, chuckled loudly and walked away without explanation, humming lilibulero to herself. Jack gestured as he cast one more nasty little spell and strolled up to Drang and sat opposite him, grinning charmingly. "Good lord," he said, "Drang! It must be my lucky night." Drang curled his lip at the slim man in front of him. "Leave me alone you degenerate," he snapped in crisp tones, "and send my woman back to me. I'm not working, and you have no right to bother me." Jack-a-Dandy frowned theatrically. "Bother you? Dear boy, nothing could be farther from my intention. I just wanted to warn you that the deal you made with the Rheinalfar expired a week ago and I just bet they never bothered letting you know." Drang scowled. "How did you...?" "I keep my ear to the ground, or the puddle in this case. So you should think about getting your magical defenses renewed. You should also think about having done that before tonight. You'll have quite a while to think, actually. Tata for now." Jack-A-Dandy stood, smiled, and walked away. Drang tried to follow him but found an invisible wall of ... what... holding him in place. He opened his mouth to shout but realised that no one else in the bar seemed to hear him. His date for the evening, Roxana, came back to the booth looking more composed, but a little confused. She looked around the booth as she sat down as though she could not even see her teutonic lover. Then, to Drang's relief, she looked him straight in the eyes and smiled. His relief was short lived however as she produced a small brush and began to tidy her hair. "Can I get you a drink," said Jack-a-Dandy walking up to her. Roxa glanced at him and smiled. "That would be nice," she said, "I was here with someone but he seems to have left." She stood and walked away while, trapped within the mirrored surface of the booth, Drang raged silently watching the degenerate Jack-a-Dandy leave with HIS girl. Jack-a-Dandy would miss Drang, he decided. On reflection.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Which person would be stupid enough to run naked across the baseball pitch where Who's on first, What's on second and I Don't Know's on third? A: Yes, but it went rather oozy by the end of the game.

Re: Stop Bleeding Herb? I couldn't help my first response to the thread title being "Yeah, Herb gets away with it far too often as it is."

Re: A Torch is a Torch? BRAVO to the Mr Ed contributory powers of Shaft! Repped!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Depending on the letter, it could be a real problem.

Re: Representatives of Pantheons Norse definitely needs to be in there - it's accessible to most players as being a nice series of recognisable fantasy tales rather than some of the more abstract, trippy and surreal pantheons of some other cultures (mentioning no names you Mabinogion type scamps). Odin or Loki would be the best diplomats, but don't make the mistake of making Loki a pantomime villain. Part of his threat was that he was incredibly compelling, persuasive and able to charm almost anyone. You can't do that while you're twirling a moustache and cackling. On the other hand, Odin was far more devious, underhanded and nasty than Marvel paints him - he was a warrior god yes, but he was a consummate disguise artist and trickster. Other fun pantheons include the Egyptian ("Don't mind Sebek, he just has a thing for raw meat, but he likes you. He must like you, he's smiling"), the Romano-Greek Classical deities (for added fun, treat them as separate and have Mercury AND Hermes turn up and glare at each other bitchily for wearing the same outfit), and the Judaeo-Christian pantheon, though you only really have three to choose from. Or one, or something. It's a bit tricky ("You served me seafood! I will smite you and your offspring! Actually, no I won't, I'll forgive you instead. Actually not only will I forgive you, I'll make you babble incomprehensibly."). And there are some interesting voudoun deities you can use too - Legba is a great diplomat, though about as trustworthy as any deity. Interesting idea, I hope you'll let us know what you go with.

Re: WWYCD: the mermaid You can wash it in soap, you can wash it in soda But nothing removes that Billingsgate odour.

Re: WWYCD: the mermaid I love the idea of "European in outlook" towards nudity. I sometimes forget how big a thing it *seems* to be in the US... though looking back over the thread I suppose the clues were there: "There's a half human half fish supernatural being out there!" "Meh" "And she's topless" "WTF!!! Call SWAT!"

Re: D&D twists on Fantasy Hero Ok??? Quoted for truth. In my experience all someone needs to do is ask if there are any fairies in the vicinity and the combat rules suddenly get a very very good playtesting.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: "So why do they call you Dyslexic Bill Smithers?" A: Never with a whelk, and only at Christmas.

Re: Jokes Warning, warning, adult (ie adolescent) content!

Re: WWYCD: the mermaid I imagine they don't have a rum ration, flogging or shillings aboard either. The last few comments were general slurs on naval traditions not reflections upon the professionalism or morals of the Seaview's crew.

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Re: Daily Art Findings This is Iseult, the NPC daughter of a character from my Amber inspired campaign.

Re: WWYCD: the mermaid It would make a great episode of NCIS

Re: What OOC role do you play in groups? GM, tone-setter, genre fiend, walking reference book, slayer of lawyers, deflowerer of gaming virgins.

Re: WWYCD: One Wish Jack A Dandy would be torn. His real wish would be to be able to return to his life in Faerie as though all the... unpleasantness had never happened. However he is naturally untrusting of the goodwill of supernatural beings and, having granted more than one wish himself in the past (and taken great glee in making sure it went wrong) his cynicism will triumph over his hope and he'll wish for a big bottle of brandy. Then he'll go off and drink it, and then another. Then he'll be perfectly beastly to someone who doesn't deserve it, and probably wake up in bed with someone splendid whose name he cannot quite recall and cannot see the point in making the effort to do so.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Rebecca was an expert at "neutralising" communist agents all the way through the cold war. She records her current tally in her board identity.

Re: Complicate the Person Above The dreaming spires of Oxford are dreaming about Bazza. Soon they will wake up screaming.

Re: Complicate the Person Above And the song "Lola" is about L. Marcus. That's what the L stands for as I found out when I met him in a club down in old Soho.

Re: Is your character religious? Jack A Dandy is happily and annoyingly sacreligious. He will mock anyone's religion, often claiming falsely to have personal experience of the deity involved and to consider them effete, lazy, drunken or boorish.