Korvar

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Once in a great while, a player almost unwittingly utters a line that suspends all gaming activity for a noticeable amount of time. Thus do I present unto this forum....
....Tomorrow Boy: The Defenders' uber-genius teenage gadgeteer from the future with a penchant for accidentally dropping references to future events.
 
The group was investigating a crime scene when Foxbat (who is convinced that The Defenders have shown him the error of his ways and is striving to prove he's now a hero and worthy of joining the team) interrupted them in an attempt to "help." Having already determine which direction the criminals had fled by using his high-tech gadgetry, Tomorrow Boy points the overeager Foxbat in the wrong direction.
 
Tomorrow Boy - You might be able to help us after all, Bats. Looks like whoever did this went THAT way! *points* We still have some wrap-up work to do, but if YOU hurry, you might catch 'em!
 
Foxbat - Ah ha! Evil doers beware! *he ascends to his Foxbatcopter and heads off.*
 
Nighthawk - Nice work dealing with that lunatic, TB.
 
Tomorrow Boy - Eh, no problem. Still.... hard to believe that guy actually becomes President.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"You don't entangle a mentalist. Why? Because they can still look at you...and their eyes glow, and then you think you're a turnip."

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From Saturday's Champions game (this was TOTALLY unplanned between me and Shane, but it just WORKED):
 
Whisper: "Want to go beat up on each other in the Danger Room? Straight up martial-arts, no magic, no mental abilities."
Midnight: "You're going to hand me my a**. On the other hand, if we were playing chess, I could probably hand you yours."
Whisper: "I play chess, too."
Midnight: "And I suppose you have a perfect memory too!"
Whisper: "As it happens, yes."
*pause*
Midnight: "Call out moves?"
Whisper: "As we fight?"
Midnight: "Three seconds per chess move?"
Whisper: "You're on."
Midnight: *with a gleam in her eyes* "Touchstone, keep track of the moves we call out as we spar."
Touchstone: "Wha-?"
 
Off go Whisper and Midnight to the Danger Room with Touchstone. Vice (the base computer) pulls up a dojo (and a chessboard for Touchstone to use to keep track), and the two ninja start slugging it out, calling out chess moves.
 
(Both Shane and I actually started reciting chess moves - no idea if we were playing legit games, but it sounded good. The GM actually tells everyone else to shut up so he can watch this... I roll Midnight, Shane rolls Whisper... and Shane rolls something like an 11 on a Tactics 15- roll. I roll a 4.)
 
GM: "Midnight beats you in 12 moves."
Shane: "Wha-?"
 
Michelle
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Samuraiko

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Situation: The fabric of the universe is tearing. Rifts to pure chaos are opening faster than Starbucks.
 
One of the villians is a Dragon, gives a beautiful speech about welcoming the destruction of the world and all the people on it as it means unbelievable wealth and power for him.
 
One of the heroes who has a Strong Code vs. Killing ponders killing the dragon by throwing him into one of the growing chaos rift so that he has time to stop the main villian and rolls his ego roll. Natural 3.
 
"It appears you've just mastered situational ethics."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
As a player.
 
 
A big mean bad guy is holding Domingo up in the air strangling him. All i can see is his armoured legs and leather boots.
 
Me "I'll shoot him in the feet and take the -8 ocv."
 
Domingo "If you shoot me I'll kill you."
 
Me "I don't think you quite understand how it works. If I shoot you I'll kill You"

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GUPRS Fantasy. The PCs are at the closing of a Tournament, and they have just been hired by the Queens champion when the the anouncements begin.
 
Anouncer: And to Stewart DeLancey, the King awards one of his prize mares.
Doomed PC: Not the Queen!
Queen's Champion: *Quickdraw sword, critical hit, location 5 (head), result 3 (instant death), quickdraw hankerchief (I kid you not), wipe sword clean.* (Everything the Queen's Champion did was in a single GURPS combat round. i.e. 1 second.)

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In tonight's WWII limited series American Ace and pals are flying a stolen German plane so they can reach the secret Alpine castle/laboratory of Dr Strauss...
 
American Ace: "Right gang! Let's take this baby and fly it right up the Kaiser's schnitzel hole!"
 
 
later...
 
Cpl Hamilton:"So Ace, where ya gonna land this thing?"
 
Ace: "Land? Strap on your 'chute, son. I'm gonna crash this crate right into that castle!"
 
Hamilton: "Aren't we supposed to take Strauss alive? What if he gets killed by the plane?"
 
Ace: "He won't son. He's in the basement. Krauts always got secret basement labs."
 
 
 
Later they ran into Die Valkyrie, a Nazi villianess simular to the Black Canary.
 
Gauntlet (OOG): "So she's like the Canaryan?"

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(Told in the most matter-of-factly way possible, on both sides of the conversation.)
 
"So, what do we do?"
"I have an idea."
"Is it a stupid idea?"
"Please, have you forgotten who you're talking to?"
"I remember precisely who I'm talking to, that's why I asked."
"If you remembered precisely who you were talking to, you wouldn't have to ask."
"So, it *is* a stupid idea."
"Insanely stupid, yes."
"Very good, then. Carry on."

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Thanks muchly; the gaming's been good of late!
 
Here are a few more; these are all from our Teen Champions game:
 
 
"Nadia's started enough trouble for now, so she's sated...but that could change."
 
 
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"Hmmm...since each cat has nine lives, does that mean that for every cat, there ends up being 9 undead cats? A feline necromancer might not get the most powerful of minions, but they'd sure get a lot of them."
 
 
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"If they start pulling out dodge balls, I start pulling out dead guys."
 
 
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"I don't lift heavy weights...I get some dead guy to move it for me."
 
"Yeah, but what if you have to move a body?"
 
"Are you kidding? I just get the body to move itself!"
 
 
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"No, we don't have a monk...we have an initiate. We're sure going to be wishing we had a monk!"
 
 
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"Warning...monk overload in progress; two minutes to catastrophic monk failure. You have two minutes to reach minimum safe distance."
 
 
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"When a monk blows, he really blows!"
 
"So, what happens when a monk loses it that badly?"
 
"Where do you think ninjas come from? Duh!"
 
"So a monk who loses his cool becomes a ninja?"
 
"Sure...the same way milk left out of the cool of the refrigerator too long becomes sour cream."
 
 
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(Potential, the class gadgeteer/brick, has just been testing out a new energy-absorbing vest by having another classmate shoot him with heat blasts. The vest didn't live up to expectations, and a woozy Potential finally called it quits before he was knocked out.)
 
Tranquility: "We could have done the same test by putting the vest on a coat rack and shooting it."
 
Twilight: "Of course...but this way is LOTS more fun!"
 
 
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From Secret Worlds:
 
(Two characters meeting and talking in the rain in Cambodia)
 
Ryu: Did you bring me any dry clothes?
 
Damien: Yeah , I got a ton of 9mm dry socks.

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It was far less than I suspected, truth be told. His character has Unrequitted Love for Countess X, Oath of Fealty: Countess X, Code of Chivalry, and Rivalry Countess X's Husband, Social Limitation: Bastard, and Reputation: Paper Baron and Bastard Knight. Since the opening of the game the rivalry and the fact that he's in love with his liege have been played up on both of our parts. And the character has turned out to be religious and is struggling with both his desire to eliminate the husband and his passion for another man's wife in a big way.
 
However, he's just been elevated to be a Baron and is now leagues away from the Countess' Castle. He has three or four other immediate problems on his plate, and knows that, with the Countess in the running for the throne, that she is in the center of the intrigue swirling around the upcoming succession crisis. He isn't very well established and cannot afford to do anything stupid if he's to do his job. Now, in one post he learned Countess X's husband struck her during a major row they had over his appointment as baron and received two letters from her (I wrote both before starting the scene, but he played right into it):
 
1) very formal and businesslike - but it informs him she will be wintering at one of her more out of the way holdings (political reasons), but its also very close to the place he will be going to purchase horses for the troop he is raising. He deduced the political reasons with impressive exactness, but also made a deal about the character wishing she was going there to facilitate a romantic liaison with him (and also did the self-flaggelation thing over such sinful thoughts!).
 
Then he gets...
 
2) very personal - informs him of the row, but not the blow - and that her husband has withdrawn to one of his manors until spring. In it she mentions that the upper crust has been propogating some scandalous rumors about how he got his new post and muses that she wishes they were true. She also asks if he remembers the old garden bench (which is where they shared their only doomed kiss the day before her wedding six years before).
 
Ahem...
 
I haven't seen his reply, but between his Code of Chivalry and Oath of Fealty and Religious streak, and his Passionate Unrequitted Love and near violent Rivalry with the husband- the character is being twisted around like taffy. And the player knows it. He's really into the story and I have a feeling he's been pacing. Does he ride off to challenge the husband to a duel (imagine how that would look with all those rumors swirling about)? Does he leave the husband be, but fall prey to temptation when he goes to buy horses and fall from grace leading to massive self-hatred and angst? And what if the duel breaks out after he (presumably) cuckolds the husband? Can he truly feel like the good guy if he wins?
 
Its all so... Soap Opera!
 
The logs can be found at the link in the Chronicles of Counter Harn thread in the Fantasy Hero Forum.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Here is another go at RL's Watcher. A 7th Sea character, but with a bit of batman attitude.
 

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
After a long weekend at Origins (a few years back), my wife and I returned home with a couple friends to enjoy a little Golden Age Champions. We were all a little slaphappy, so a few entertaining tidbits were sure to creep up.
 
My wife was new to the game, though she'd seen us play several times before. Upon seeing her character, she began to ask me about the things on the character sheet and I explained them in detail. Eventually, she started looking very intently at the sheet, even turning it over to look on the back for something...
 
Me: "What are you looking for?"
Wife: "Does my character have super vision?"
Me: "Nope."
Wife (without missing a beat): "Sweet! I'm unsupervised!"

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In Saturday's game, a couple members of the team are meeting with a high-ranking VIPER member, incognito, during a function being held at the Scarab Club in Milennium City. Sentinel, the team's power armor wearer, stations himself on a nearby rooftop "just in case" something goes wrong or VIPER gets any "funny ideas." It turns out that the VIPER member had the same idea, and there's a VIPER aircav agent also stationed on the rooftop. After a bit of "strange cats sizing each other up" behaviors, Sentinel and the VIPER aircav agent come to the conclusion that (a) they're both there to do the same type of job and ( there's nothing to be gained from starting a fight with the other guy just this moment.
 
Sentinel is also moderately infamous inside VIPER circles because, before he was piloting it, the suit of alien power armor he wears was in the hands of VIPER. He's the main reason it's not in their hands any more, and they really do not like him much.
 
So, after some uncomfortable silence, the VIPER aircav agent tries to strike up a conversation with Sentinel, and is rather unsubtle about making a bid to get him to "come back" to VIPER.
 
VIPER: "I really don't understand why you left VIPER in the first place. You put your life on the line every day, and for what? Public adoration? That and two bucks will get you a cup of coffee. The rewards for being a member of VIPER are much higher than veneration by the masses."
 
Sentinel: "I make $300,000 a year. How much are you pulling down?"
 
VIPER: (more silence) "There are a lot of perks for being part of VIPER, the sorts of things that, as a superhero, you just don't get to do. That's a much bigger incentive than mere money."
 
Sentinel: "One of my teammates is the avatar of the goddess of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. How do you think that compares to your perks?"
 
VIPER: (long pause) "I think we should keep our minds on the job were supposed to be doing up here." (lapses into silence)
 
 
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(One of Sentinel's teammates, Scarab, is a multiformer and most of her alternate forms are based on one of the gods of the Egyptian pantheon. One of those forms is that of Hathor. )

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Modifying an storyline from a Silver Knight fanfic with some characters and situation moved around:
 
The scenario revolves around two super teams: the Silver Knights and the Claw (super team arm of FIST, ie a VIPER analogue). Nova of the Silver Knights had fallen in love with the secret ID of one of the Claw's members: Lasher. When she found out she went livid and nearly killed him but the two made up when she realized how deeply he felt about her. A secret affair went on for over a year even as the two teams clashed repeatedly.
 
Finally, one of FIST's major commanders Deathstorm (and heavy weight super) launched a scheme to blackmail the world through a nuclear strike. With the gloves off, the Silver Knights strike only to be defeated. When the deadline passes, Deathstorm decides to launch. Lasher decides to side with the Knights and frees them. In the battle, it's found out that Deathstorm's armor will send the final command and he needs to be taken out to stop the missiles from exploding. DS is pretty much unstoppable and scatters the team to the winds. Just before he can kill Nova, Lasher attacks Deathstorm with a lethal strike only to be mortally wounded. In a huge explosion, DS and his armor are destroyed and the world is saved.
 
As Lasher is dying, Nova cradles the man in her arms and both are crying as they are overcome with grief. He starts to lament that he was so selfish and only cared about himself.
 
"Sssshh.." Nova whispered as she stroked his burned face. "Don't talk like that my love. You're a hero, you saved the whole world."
 
A shaking hand coated with blood reached up to caressed Nova's cheek while a smile touched his lips despite the pain and tears. "I just wanted to save *you*."

Re: British peerage
 

 
Argh! Bad looping MIDI! Nooo!
 
You know, as well as a popup-blocker, I want a backround audio blocker. I've never found a website where that was a good idea!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Caleb is worried that he may spend too much time chasing after women.
 
Caleb: "Would you say that I'm an inveterate philanderer?"
Erin: "Is that a nice way of saying you're a ladies man?"
Caleb: "Actually, 'ladies man' is a nice way to say 'inveterate philanderer."
 
Later...
 
Caleb: "Besides, we've already established I'm an inveterate womanizer"
Regina: "Spineless womanizer?"
Caleb: "I really have to get a thesaurus to look up a synonym for inveterate. It sounds too much like 'invertebrate'..."
 
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Regina: "Maybe I can help you with your little ghost problem.. "
Caleb: "So... any details? What should I be doing?"
Regina: "Lemme ask you somethin' Caleb.. you believe in God?"
Caleb: Just the vengeful, vindictive one. Why?
Regina: "There's other sides too.. and when you start to see those ghosts.. I want you to rebuke them.. you ever hear of that? "
 
[pause]
 
Caleb: "Reg, doesn't that mean calling upon the power of Christ to compel demons to leave the mortal plane and return to hell? *That* rebuke? I don't think I can do that."
Regina: "Why not?"
Caleb: "For one, don't you need to be A) a priest, somewhat faithful, C) entertain the possibility that God might actually listen to *my* prayers, and D) require a God that isn't a complete choad? Can't I rebuke them with one of the fun gods? I like Bacchus."
Regina: (slow, deliberate breath.) "No.. you don't have to be a priest.. but you do gotta have faith.. and you already know that demons exist... They hear you.. what makes you think God doesn't? "
Caleb: "Oh, he hears me. He just doesn't *listen.*"
Regina: "Maybe he does Caleb... it'll work.. trust me.. if you believe it will."
Caleb: He's like a Jewish mother whose son grew up to be a gay stripper in the East Villiage rather than a doctor... he doesn't acknowledge that I exist, I'm such a dissapointment. Goin' out. Murdering people, taking his name in vain, coveting women of all stripes. Putting Bacchus before him. Ach, such a schundik!"
Regina: (Shrugs) "You could always keep livin' with the hauntings."
Caleb: "Oy, gevalt!"

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
DT, it is called "Storn is a moron!"
 
I stupidly crossed off Alu-demon on my Commission to Do list when I did BC's? Afreet. And I simply stopped thinking about it.
 
Worse, I dropped the e-mail that contained Alu-Demon's info when I completed Afreet.
 
Resend the info and I will do it ASAP!

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
His website, http://www.stornc.rpggallery.com/ - go to "Character Commissions"