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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Well, time to resurrect this thread again. BTW, I've really been enjoying all the funny stories ever since this thing got posted. Just thought I'd mention that. Anyway - it's back to the Final Fantasy 7 game we've been playing the last few months for this weeks addition to "Quote of the week" thread. We skipped a couple of weeks. Last week we didn't play the game because the GM was out of town and the previous week, there was no new stuff because no one wrote anything down. This week we just had one incident worthy of passing along. But it's a doozy... So, we're lurking around the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim. It's dim and dusty. There's the occasional monster encounter. It's a classic creepy haunted house. We found proof Sephiroth had been in the Shinra mansion the day we arrived there! A note from him to us personally, left the same day. Kinda freaked us out a bit. My character especially, since he was the one to find the note. So what does our resident shape changing master of disguise and whip weilder Djinn do? She unsheathes the Masamune (the long blade of Sephiroth's, which we got when he was recued by Jenova from an ambush we had set up. We actually fought him to a standstill! But that's another story...) and holds it up, shouting... "HEY ASSHOLE! I STILL HAVE YOUR SWORD! WANT IT?! COME AN' GET IT!!" We were rather annoyed with her for that. Nothing happened, though. The GM had Djinn roll some dice, but never said what it was for, and he was screwing around with a lot of dice rolls to freak us out, considering the mansion was creepy. He was doing a very very good job of generally freaking us out. So, naturally, we were all kind of psyched and twitchy. Or at least our characters were. (Lots of good role-playing, here) So what came next really was to be kind of expected. Our fire mage, Nina, had gone up to the attic to look around, but none of us knew it... so, everyone who made their perception roll hears "-creeek... creeeek-" from above... you know, that creepy "someone's walking in the attic" sound, with dust dislodging and falling from the ceiling boards... Hoooo boy. So... it comes around to Jason, the gunblade-wielder's turn (that's me, BTW)... and he's right beneath where Nina is walking, making the creaking noise... and he figures it must be Sephiroth up there. Hey, he left the note that VERY DAY. Maybe he's waiting around to ambush US in return for what we did to him? I want to point out that OUT of character, everyone knew EXACTLY what was going on. But IN character - not a clue. I was absolutely playing with the situation and what I knew my character would think of the situation. Not what I knew. So here I am, sounding somewhat bemused as I talk about what Jason's going to do. All the while giving a dirty look to the GM who has set this up so perfectly. And I can SEE him stifling his laughter! (Squeek, you rat bastard! Squeek, I say! ) The rest of the group are snickering, and Nina's player's just looking like "Ohhhhh boy... " Jason pointed up and fired through the ceiling at the creaking sound. What followed were several rather tense dice rolls. When it ended, the casualties were a hole in the back of Nina's cloak and the back of her loincloth, her ponytail band shattered... and all of the hair that had been in the ponytail. She got a gunblade administered trim of her hair... We watched as Nina's player made an EGO roll... ...and rolled an 18. So, instead of just yelling at Jason, or simply using a fireball... she used her brand-spanking-new, never-been-used, just-got-it-in-the-latest-round-of-powerups... ULTIMA MATERIA. Next thing anyone knew, there was now simply one very large area where that wing of the second story and the attic had been, all the stuff in the attic, three shell-shocked onlookers, one frazzled and now newly shorn fire mage, and one gunblade wielder, extra crispy. Our summoner-mage Pharah had been climbing a second set of steps up to the attic, and was still just standing there on them, only now the steps were completely on their own, supported by a barrel of molasses. Djinn had been opening up a door, and was now standing there, still in the position of holding the doorknob, with an old-style dress wrapped around her head. Our dragoon, Kess, had been just outside this ballet-studio type room, and wound up covered in bits of mirror. Nina was sitting straddling the charred Jason's middle, with a dressmaker's mannequin under one arm, and Jason was described as "spread-eagled and looking like he was making a carbon angel". Well, everyone recovered. Yes, Even Jason. But Nina's hair was still shorn. Regeneration spells don't do anything for hair. (Nina = ) The rest of the session was one long apology from Jason. Every time the session threatened to lag a bit, I'd have Jason off to the side saying, "I'm sorry! I really am! It was an accident! I mean, it wasn't an -accident-, I did mean to aim and all, but I thought it was Sephiroth! Really! See this note? How was I to know..." and on and on. I think I should be given some kind of an award for follow-through for that situation...

Re: Real World Issues in the Game World Interesting thoughts. On the idea of having Carter send in a super team in 1979 to end the hostage crisis - Wouldn't you have to take into account the possibility that there would be super-powered resistance? Perhaps Iran wouldn't have as many or as varied superhumans as the United States, but I think there would be -something- there. It might not change the final outcome in that the hostages were ultimately rescued. But it might change the body count. And if one of the prominent American Supers were to be killed - Yikes. Imagine the bad press THAT would get! Or - this still being during the Cold War, what if the Soviet Union ran super-powered interference? However - and my memory is a bit fuzzy - wasn't the Ayatollah pretty hostile towards the Soviet Union as well as America? But the Soviets might "assist" Iran whether it asked for it or not. I could most definately see a KGB run super-powered overt ops group in existence during that timeframe. Totally deniable of course. It would be a bit like the Soviet fighter pilots who we now know flew MIGs against the US over Korea. Depending on the intelligence level the Soviets might or might not have, that scenario might have devastating consequences. - On whether Carter would have been re-elected or not, given the rescue of the hostages - Maybe, or maybe not. Change one thing, and you have to assume other things change as well in response and not remain static. The main problem facing America at the time was really the incredibly poor state of the economy. Not the hostage crisis. It's generally assumed that if the hostages were rescued, it would insure Carter's re-election. But is that really the case? Wouldn't the Republicans have shifted their election strategy to compensate? Focussed more on the economy and all? Anyway. Not saying it couldn't happen in a supers world, just that the initial scenario seems a little simplistic. Interesting food for thought nonetheless.

One almost essential feature of "adventure" cities is the presence of water. Specifically, either the ocean or a large river leading to the ocean. A port city has so much more going for it than a land locked city in several ways. - Waterfront/docks - Crime organizations and supervillains always seem to have something to do with these areas. Whether smuggling something into the country, corrupting the labor force or the inspectors, or what have you. The docks are always a potential source of intrigue. Plus there's lots of heavy stuff to break or throw around in a fight. Ships themselves can be great mazes to hunt or be hunted in. - Water avenues of transport or escape are always handy. - Terrain is almost always more varied in interesting ways at a port city. San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area, for example, is defined geographically by the ocean, the bay, and the surrounding hills and mountains. London is defined by the Thames. Bridges over the spans of river/bay are always good sites to hold confrontations (Spiderman movie is a good example). Those are just a few examples. I could do more, but I'm tired and I need to go get something to eat.

As a matter of fact... So - What's the premise here? Gina goes back in time to the Golden Age? Or a bit of a rewrite to place her origin (and that of the rest of the family) back in the Golden Age altogether? Surprisingly, once I start to think of it, the latter wouldn't require -that- much of an alteration. The magic elements such as her father's aura magic and Britanny's origin could be left almost entirely unchanged. Ace could still be the best pilot in the world, he just flies a Delta Clipper instead of a C-130 Hercules. Or Howard Huges employs him as a test pilot! Maybe he gets to put the Spruce Goose through it's paces! (Hmmm... On the other hand, I just thought of a kink in the ointment. Both Ace and Penny would find it almost impossible to do what they do in an era where racism still exists to the degree that it did back then. On the other hand, if you want to ignore that element or handwave it, then do it. It is your game after all. ) The archeological aspects can work just fine. Both Gina and Penny are Indiana Jones seen through a very warped mirror after all. Ryan could still have the "photographic reflexes" thing going. Of course, with martial arts not having become widespread yet, his repritoire will be a little more limited. Maybe he uses guns more often? Brianna's origin would be almost the same, I think, except the trappings of her initial "birth" might be look more like they came out of "Young Frankenstein". (heh, there's all kinds of jokes just waiting within that concept. ) The technological aspects are the ones that will cause the most headaches. What can and can't Gina invent and still keep the flavor of the age right? Seems like the Batman Animated adventures from the early 90s might be a good guide there. Note that the world in that show had a sort of Golden Age feel, yet had such anacronisms as jet propulsion and computers. Although TVs still were in black and white, and cars still looked like they were being designed by Packard. It had a feel of "sometime in the 20th century, but we're not saying just when" to it. Maybe anything that Batman/Bruce Wayne could invent is something that Gina could reasonably be expected to accomplish. Anyway, there's some thoughts to start with.

I was driving home from work today and because there was a wreck on the freeway on my usual route (and thankfully I heard about it on the radio before I got stuck in the backup), I took an alternate route. On this alternate route was a little landmark I had almost forgotten about. And I said to myself, "I have to share this with the Hero Boards." What it's all about is this - A few years ago, I was running a Champs game. Of course, the home setting was our home area of Dallas/Ft. Worth. I was running the murder mystery out of Champions Presents #2. And I needed a bar for a fight that was likely to occur between a couple of our team members and a group of low powered super-thugs/henchmen. Well, there was this little dive called "O'Malleys Bar" in a downscale section of Dallas known as Oak Cliff. It's right off one of the freeways and its flickering neon sign is easily seen from the road if you know where to look. I took a peek at it and figured that it would do for a location. It looked kinda like the sort of location where some ne-er-do-wells would hang out at. Well, we ran the adventure and sure enough, a fight broke out. Started off as a classic bar-room brawl, but because of the super-powers involved, things got quickly out of hand. A good time was had by all. The bar didn't survive. But I figured, what with superfight insurance and such, it could be rebuilt and serve again at a later date. The weird part is - A couple of weeks after the gaming session, I happened to drive past that same real-life bar. The sign said, "NEW O'Malley's Bar" To say that I goggled would be an understatement. So - anybody else have any Twilight Zone moments like that?

Firedrake One last post tonight before I hit the sack. Firedrake, a standard fire elemental type. The bodysuit will be orange with a yellow flame pattern. The leggings are white. And the boots are the same orange as the bodysuit, with yellow cuffs. I intend to do some photoshopped flame effects using the light sketch lines of the flames around her as a guide. Oh, and she's a redhead, naturally.

Speaking of Kazei 5 (and just to prove I draw males, too, heh...) - Here's one of the characters from the PDF. Jagger the Enforcer. This illo came out rather postage stamp sized in the K5 PDF, so maybe the little joke here wasn't obvious. But yes, he's wielding a VERY BFG! (It's a railgun, BTW.)

Re: Re: Lance Corporal Lora Doubet Oh hey there, Jon! Long time no see! Yes, Lora does get a fair amount of my headspace. As you can see here. I'm actually playing a version of her in Surbrook's Kazei 5 PBEM game. Slightly different origin. Same overall abilites. She fits very well in the cyberpunk milieu. Not surprising, really.

And one of her in action. Pity the poor VIPER goon on the receiving end of that kick...

Well! Now that that whole business with the coding is all worked out, how about a couple more pictures, eh? These aren't colored yet. But I'd like to get to them soon. First is a close up of Lora -

Thanks, Lemming. That whole thing with the <> versus brackets is what screwed things for me. You'd think there would be something in the online help about that, but noooo...

Nope. I still can't make it work. Email me here with the exact code, because it sure isn't obvious from the board instructions, and I think the way you're trying to get around the activation of said code on the board is confusing. I swear - this is the one aspect of the boards I freaking HATE!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for trying to help though. And at least the image can be viewed in your post above.

Would someone please show me how to get the stupid image to show in the actual post? I can't figure out how to do that for the life of me!

Lance Corporal Lora Doubet I bought the recent release of the UNTIL book, and was quite pleased with it. Despite being a decided non-fan of the real world United Nations, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief in an effective version of it for the Champions Universe. Particulary given superpowers in that world and an enforcement arm like UNTIL. Anyway - one version of a character I've had around for a long time was a member of UNTIL in a PBEM game I was in a few years back. I didn't have a definitive version of the UNTIL uniform to work with back then. So I decided to design my own. WIth some input from a fellow player, Rob Hudson. The design takes some inspiration from The Rocketeer, Silent Mobius, and just a touch of Masamune Shirow. I've made a few other pictures of her in this uniform since then. A few days ago, I was looking at one of the copies of the picture on my hard drive and thought - *hmmm... let's try coloring this.* The original concept's color scheme had the bodysuit as a middle grey color. But looking at the design of the UNTIL uniform in the new book and reading the description made me think it would work well to change that to the navy blue that the offical UNTIL suit uses. I think it really looks sharp that way! The fact that this is a non-standard uniform wouldn't play as much havok with current continuity as you'd think, considering that as she's a super-strong full-body cyborg (think brick/martial artist) she would likely join Unity, UNTIL's super team. I can see her as the one who is a somewhat more by-the-book type than the other, more flamboyant members of Unity. As it stands, even the rank pin on her collar matches with the UNTIL ranking system in the book! Anyway - I used a shot of the actual UN building in NY City as a backdrop for the the character design once I was finished with the coloring. I may have to go back and do a little more shading on the boots. They're supposed to be white, but I think they get washed out a bit here. (Thanks for the help on the coding, guys. I didn't realize that the coding used <> instead of brackets. It says NOTHING about that in the vB Code help onsite. That's what was buggering me up.)

This week's Final Fantasy 7 gaming quotes. ========== "We have a CPS... a Chocobo Positioning System." ========== Djinn's player: *to laid-out dice, skill dice all ones, damage dice all sixes* "Now... every time I roll you tonight, I wanna see these -same damn faces-." ========== Scar: "Sector Three's po'. They're so poor, they can't afford the 'or'." ========== Scar: "Sector Three's so poor, they think gil is the guy that lives next door!" ========== Jason: "And who, pray tell, are you?" "Me? I'm Gil." Djinn: "YOU LIVE NEXT DOOR!" ========== Scar: "Lemme tell ya where I'm from... I'm from straight offa Rufus' ass, and I'm feelin' homesick!" Jason: "So... you're a polyp?" Scar: "That's right, baby, I'm CANCER!" ========== Gil: "I'm sure Rufus would -love- to see you!" Djinn: "Yeh, he misses his li'l polyp..." ========== "'Yay! Daddy! Let's strip him!'? This game has gone into interesting territory." ========== Barret: "When you're black, that's a skill you've got to pay double points for, 'Summon Cab'." ========== Red XIII: "I may be naked, but I'm not happy to see you. Trust me, none of you assholes got -nothin'- on me." ========== GM: "'There is an elevator here." Jason: "We take the elevator"' GM: "You can't take that!'" (rest of party lynches GM for making a bad Zork reference) ========== Jason: "I know one way this elevator could get us down quickly... gravity!" Djinn: "AND HERE'S WHERE WE START SPINNING!" ========== "FINE! But if we die........ we'll be dead!" ========== "Blew my perception roll." "Well, you know where Dexter's laboratory is, but not Hojo's." ========== Jason: "He's cloning a Gilgamesh." Djinn: "I suggest we support a woman's right to choose and hit the 'Abort' button!" ========== "Hey, Pharah?" "What?" "Sephiroth's made a harem out of your clones." "WHAT?!?!!" ========== GM: "You open the box and there's Guns. Lots of guns. Neo would be proud." "And all of you hear Scar say 'OH YEAH!'" ========== "Can we get to the killing and the bloodletting!" ========== "Anyone got a convenient motorcycle and cinematic...?" ========== Jason: "Oh! The helicopters! That's our way out of here! ... DON'T SAY A WORD, DJINN!" "And from over Gil's shoulder, comes this little whimper..." "Gil looks back at Djinn. 'Something I should know?'" "... It involves spinning..." ========== Gil: "Oop. There you go. Sorry." Djinn: "Are you sorry about the buttsqueezes?" Gil: "........ Not especially." Djinn: "... That's okay, I don't especially begrudge 'em to ya." ==========

More quotes from last Saturday's session of the Final Fantasy 7 game -- ========== "That was the last thing I remember of that day. I woke up a few days later in a little town..." "Did you have a traffic cone with you?" ========== "Sephiroth wasn't mad. Just disappointed." ========== "The summon didn't like me." "... Didn't like you?" "Yeah." "... It's a rock with a monster in it." "They have -feelings-." "... ... It's a -rock-." ========== "Talking to Sephiroth was like talking to a brick wall." "Yeah, a brick wall that's an asshole." "Well, he was nice to ME." ========== "We got lots of help from a girl named 'Yuffie'!" "... I'm gonna whip that girl's ass." ========== "So why does Hojo keep Vincent around, anyway?" "*cough*keptboy*cough*keptboy*cough*" ========== "Jason's just got this theory that Vincent is this prototype that Hojo uses-" "*snort*" "-Not- like -that-! ... Well, that's not what I -meant-, but..." ========== "Sooo many objects that could be stuck in the orifices of a snarky GM..." GM's wife: "I have a few!" ^.^ ========== "Especially that part with Diamond Weapon stomping across the land." "o/` Up from the depths, thirty stories high!"o/` "STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!" ========== "Do not poke the Weapon!" ========== "Djinn wandered off to the side during this, and now returns, wearing a t-shirt that says 'I got boned at Bone Village'. Visited the souvenier shop." ========== "From the looks on your faces... did he owe you money or something?" "More like a pound of flesh. From somewhere vital." ========== "I like to tell stories 'bout the barrier 'round North Crater!" "That's gone now." "Really!" "Yeah." "Guess I have a new story to tell!" ========== "She came out with two little girls?" "Yeah!" "And was a strange woman?" "Yeah!" "Must run in the family." ========== "Well, another day, another quest where all the other attempters have wound up dead. 'Bout typical for us." ========== "No one ever said anyone DIED..." "They went in the forest and didn't come out! I don't think they went in and said 'Oh my, what a lovely place for a cottage!'" ========== "The fog itself is a magical effect..." "Okay, who put on their Fog Hat?" (GROAN) ========== "It doesn't have anything that would make, like, a loud warning sound?" "It has a machine gun..." ========== "Save versus dropped anchors." ========== "I'll go right." "You're with Jason, then." "Djinn's with Jason? That'll make some interesting-looking kids." ========== "I need to edit my mental images. Someone hand me a fork." ========== "TIME TO MAKE WITH THE KILLING!" ========== "What's this all about, Sephiroth?!" "Revenge." "WHAT A COINCIDENCE!" ========== "Who is Jenova?" "Mother. Creator. God." "Bitch." ========== "Nina's limit break summons a huge sandworm to attack the lich!" "YOU BROKE INTO THE WRONG DAMN REC ROOM, DIDN'CHA?!?!?!" ========== "I'd appreciate never being mistaken for Sephiroth AGAIN." ========== "It's the ominous ring of land!" ========== "You've heard of crop circles? These are Weapon circles." "M. Night Shyamalan's next movie. Mel Gibson plays Cloud Strife." "With Danny Glover as Barret!" ========== "You see a sword plunged into a stone." "Anyone got a scraggly blonde would-be king handy?" ========== "If you want me to serve you, you must trade with me." "... I think he's propositioning you." "My cost is quite high, little summoner!" "... I REALLY think he's propositioning you!" ========== "Question!" "Yes?" "What's a spirit need with gold?" "What's a woman need with love?" "I dunno. ... Misogynist!" ========== "AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! And he fades out." "Such a cheerful fellow. I look forward to working with him." ========== "Y'know... if I find out, when we go to the moon, that these warriors we have to fight are wearing miniskirts..." ========== "You just wanna work with a guy that has eight hands." "It's four hands. That way it's four-play." ========== "Does that mean that Gilgamesh is basically just the ultimate lawn gnome?" ========== *to dice, after prior voice has been compared to the Joe Cartoon hamster* "Back to Saddam's ass with you!" ========== More quotes next week? Maaybe...

More quotes from the Final Fantasy 7 Game First, some background. So, here we are, playing a Hero System version of Final Fantasy 7. We're playing original characters with what appears to be a slightly different plot line. Characters - Fahra - Possibly an Ancient, or at least infused with genetic material from one. Kinda quiet, but with an occasional mischievious side that peeks out. She is our summoner and can merge with her summons, rather like the main character from FF6. Scar - A former Turk, and master of the Grammaton school of two-gun-fu. Asian, bald, wears a variant of the Turks blue suit. Master of security systems and electronics. A surprising amount of charisma for someone who doesn't really talk all that much. Nina Scirocco - A native of the western desert regions. Our resident dark/red mage. Good with offensive magics. Particularly anything to do with the element of fire. Beautiful and exotic. Blonde hair and dark skin. Very VERY fast on her feet. Most likely member of the party to have someone look at her and say - "Aren't you cold, wearing that?" Djinn - A chameleon, in both dress, body and personality. An expert at disguise and subterfuge. So good at her job we thought for sure she was a male until later when we visited a hot springs and she went over to the female side of the bamboo screen... A bit of a snarky, sarcastic personality. Hates Sephiroth with a passion - and won't say exactly why. She uses a whip primarily, although she seems capable of drawing almost anything from within the folds of her cloak. And I do mean ANYTHING. Jason Sikorski - Expert pilot and weaponsmith for the party. Carries a large blade with an integral six-shot gun along the spine of the blade. Dark hair, grey eyes. Wears a leather bomber jacket and goggles. Calm and cool, almost laconic. Except when it comes to talking "tech" on the subject of either weapons or airframe design with someone else who understands these things. He's modified and improved the party's weaponry on at least two separate occasions when they found the resources and materials. Idolizes his uncle Cid Highwind and wants to design his own airship. Cid let him acquire his latest airship, the "Blackjack", for the party's quest. (If you've played FF6, you should know what it looks like.) He's also turned into the more or less default leader of the group. Tifa, Barret and Red XIII are supporting characters (NPCs) in the party. Anyway. One of our players has been documenting all the various quotes over the last few weeks, and I thought I'd share. They're probably more fun out of context. Heh. And some of them are in character. But a lot of them are just the players bullshitting and trading jokes and double-entendres. So here we go! ========== "The landing is definitely bumpy, and everyone gets jostled around some, but you get down okay." "Can I make a roll to see if I land anywhere fanservicey?" "Roll a d6." "Dammit! 1! #@##!" "No, you don't. Well, actually, you get fanservice, but it's Barret." "OH MY GOD! HOW DOES HE WALK?! MY -GOD-! HE'S STILL GOT TWO GOOD ARMS LEFT!! SWEET MERCIFUL LORD! GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!! (He hides behind Tifa.) Get awaaay! Shoo!" ========== "So if we land it there, it's gonna be rough." "Yeah, and if we go to Junon, we get shot. We left Rufus stranded at the mines, and I bet he wasn't pleased." "Yeah, but if we put down in that clearing, the plane's never lifting off again." "Between a rough landing and a pissed-off Rufus Shinra, I know what I'd pick!" ========== [The party is in a shack, trying to figure out how to escape without being attacked by the large group of Shinra guards outside.] "Well, we could send Tifa out and she could flash them, and while they're distracted by the blood gushing from their noses..." "You don't even finish your sentence before she slaps you." ========== "I don't know why we haven't ditched you already!" "Yeah, that's really meaningful from you, Ms. Run-and-hide-behind-a-tree." ========== "I made my disguise roll by one." "So, yeah, okay, you make a decent Sephiroth. You're suddenly a whole lot taller and an asshole." ========== "I missed the opportunity to see someone's panties AGAIN?! Dammit!" ========== "So, since I probably have greater presence after that resounding destruction of the mecha, I'm gonna do a presence attack, running at them and screaming." "Ah! The Han Solo Maneuver!" ========== [something you really don't want to hear the GM say, especially after one vehicle-related accident already:] "Did you remember to check the plane's fuel gauge?" ========== [Close after, in reference to the previous accident, wherein our intrepid pilot didn't notice a helicopter was missing its rear rotor assembly (we were in a very great hurry, and being shot at, a leisurely walk-around of the vehicle was out of the question):] "Great, right about now we're going to start spinning again, aren't we?" ========== "That materia better be a NATURAL yellow!" ========== "So Jason, being covered in Midgar Zolem blood and swamp water, kind of pauses and tugs at his collar, going "Whew! And I thought they smelled bad on the OUTside!'" ========== "So, you see a horrible sight... one of the Midgar Zolems, shoved down on this big flagpole outside the mine, and basically gutted." "After the crap that one in the swamp just now gave us, this is a HORRIBLE sight?" ========== "Yes, your presence attacks have definitely caused the Midgar Zolem to notice you. This is not particularly a good thing." ========== "I'm not con-stunned anymore! Put me down!" ========== "The fight so big, we needed two weeks to prepare for it!" [The previous session was canceled on account of sickness.] ========== "Can I get 'Respect' as a character skill? How many points to buy that?" "No." "Man, I'm never gonna get any Respect." ========== "It belongs to Shinra! Let's blow it up!" More than one player: "NO!" ========== "I predict our visit to Junon will wind up with me in drag again. In fact, I strongly suspect that I will be required to seduce Rufus Shinra. This is not a premonition... it's a mission statement." ========== "The bathroom is a horrible mess. It's basically a port-a-potty." "I'll take care of this. Restore! Restore! Restore!" ========== "The last time we slept in a Shinra installation, it turned out bad." "Yeah, but it also means we got this plane!" "SHUT! UP!" ========== "So, since Fahra has merged with Ifrit, a fire summon, Nina should have a greater affinity with her, since she's got a Fire element." "Ya! Bad thoughts! Bad thoughts! ENTERTAINING thoughts, but bad! Entertaining but bad thoughts!" ========== "So he looks at Barret and says, 'Does that thing have any other attachments?'" "... Just a minute..." ========== "The Gelinka cargo planes, luckily, have a lot of rings and hooks to attach stuff to." "I could be very happy here!" ========== "I can pilot it, sure!" "You said that about the helicopter, too." "Well, yeah, but that was much more complicated." "Yes, the fact that you can only use simple stuff really makes us more inclined to put our lives in your hands..." ========== "Sephiroth said he went to 'talk' to Rufus, but I doubt that's what he means, since I don't think he really does the 't-word', unless it's followed by '-erminate'." "... ... OH! Oh, okay. I was kinda weird there, thinking 'talkermitate, what's that?'" "It's when Sephiroth shoves his hand up the ass of a green felt puppet to talk with. 'Rufus, I'm very disappointed in you!'" ========== "Sephiroth's down there, we could-" "Shoot him in the head!" "... try talking to him." "And THEN shoot him in the head!" ========== Yuffie: "YOU! YOU NEVER WRITE! YOU NEVER CALL! YOU JUST LEFT! I'VE GOT YOU NOW, YOU LOUSY, ROTTEN EXCUSE FOR A BOYFRIEND!" We all turn and LOOK at Djinn. "... I just turn and start beating my head against a tree..." (It should be stated that at this point, we STILL weren't sure of Djinn's gender. And this didn't help the confusion any...) ========== "The stuff that was stolen... was it shiny?" "Everything was." "Someone is stealing -shiny things-!" "I DIDN'T DO IT!" ========== "We'll need to bait the trap with something shiny..." "NO! You can't have any of my shiny things! They're MY shiny things! Mine!" "My preciousssss..." ========== "Since you ALL botched your perception roles, you wake up and you've been robbed blind. All your materia's gone, and Djinn's missing his last pair of clean underwear." "GOD NO! NO! MY SATIN THONG!" "Oh dear lord it was a shiny thing!" ========== [GM RPing a little girl in a coastal village] "Since I lost my whistle, it's not as easy to play with Mr. Dolphin... NOT LIKE THAT, PEOPLE." ========== "And so, as you come out, you spot the Bouncy Trio, I mean, the girls..." "Yes. What we have here is Medium, Large, and Family Size." ========== "Magical Office Lady Transformatiooon!" ========== "Curatives now come in four sizes: Potion, Hi-Potion, X-Potion, and Barret's..." "AHEM!!!" ========== "The good news is you have plenty of Shinra rations. The bad news is they make Barret gassy." ========== "What's WRONG with Shinra rations?!" "Trust us, Barret, they're helping to destroy the planet. -Through you-." ========== "I've got Red XIII hooked on candy! Soon he will be mine to toy vith!" "... Dude, just... no." "I just like saying that." ^.^ "With the French accent and all?" "Eet's like wiping your ass weeth silk..." ========== "And Tifa says 'I am NEVER having children!'" "Now there's a crying shame, right there." ========== "I still say we should blow the Gelinka up." "-No-. There's -no reason-." "Shinra could come back and get it!" "They've got plenty, they won't care." "I WANNA SEE AN EXPLOSION DAMMIT!" ========== "And so, you see Junon, with its giant cannon." "Do you think Shinra's compensating for something?" ========== "Consider that Scarlet's the one in charge of that thing..." "Caliber envy." ========== "Boy, I bet that thing would blow the head clean off a giant sea monster!" ========== "I want to see an explosion! I just don't want to be at the CENTER of it!" ========== "And a giant tentacle tears its way down from above..." "Quick! Hide the schoolgirls!" ========== "You do realize that trying to kill Sephiroth would most likely result in the sinking of this ship?" "There are _probably_ lifeboats!" ========== [Talking to a local Shinra Guard] "It's sort of a catch-22... I can't go off duty because I don't have my keycard, and I can't leave my station to go look for it." "How long have you been on duty?!" "Ten hours. ... I need to go to the bathroom REALLY bad..." ========== "So Nina's off just trying not to puke..." "Looook, Nina! I got you some stuff from the galley! Greasy bacon, a big pile of scrambled eggs, sausage...!" "... HUAAAARG!!" "Nina, roll to hit. He was asking for that." ========== "That'll hit." "Wow, thanks, Djinn! I feel sooo much better now!" "Yeah. You're welcome. To show how welcome you are, here's a big hug!" =========== "NO MORE HELICOPTERS FOR YOU!" ========== "May I remind you you haven't actually LANDED either of the last two vehicles you've piloted?!" "Well... the Highwind doesn't really -land-, per se, anyway..." ========== "Djinn -could- be a girl! A girl with an intense interest in Tifa's breasts, sure, but then, who doesn't have that?" ========== [Djinn hands Tifa a roll of binding tape while the group is disguising themselves as sailors.] "Well, this hurts a lot, but at least the shirt's more comfortable, now!" "Yeah, I know what you mean." "... What?" "... Nothing!" ========== "Red? Your species made the cave paintings, right?" "That's what my mother said, yes." "... HOW?!" (Red XIII is a quadruped creature with no hands. Kinda looks like a cross between a Wolf and Lion.) ========== [While Djinn is busy writing a letter.] "And Barret's all 'We still gotta stop the Shinra!' He's waving his hands around wildly and shouting 'They're still tearin' shit up and messin' up the planet!'" "'The large black man continues to be excessively loud...'" ========== [After a party member has learned Cid, his uncle, may have been taken captive by Wutai] "Don't worry, Jason! Those stories of Wutaians torturing captives are SLIGHTLY exaggerated!" "Somehow, I am not reassured." ========== "Worse yet, Yuffie's BROTHER has a thing for you, too. Thinks he's a girl, and has sent him flowers for the last four Valentine's days. In fact, there's probably some poor delivery guy sap wandering around Midgar right now." "Oh lord." "But then, her brother's got a kind of screwed-up gender sense anyway. He calls Yuffie his little brother." ========== "That was Yuffie Kisaragi. Her family's pretty much the royalty of Wutai." "That's your royalty? No wonder you're such a royal pain." ========== "Our country's kind of poor, but they're still the richest people around. So that might have offered some incentive... IF SHE WASN'T SO ****ing NUTS!! ... That and the fact she'd probably have to share me with her brother." "I think we've heard enough of this story..." ========== "I had the Family Size Fun Bags!" ========== "Don't worry, WE wouldn't leave you to die in the desert without at least telling you first!" ========== "Welcome to the Fellowship of the Damned. Our medical coverage sucks, but you get dental. Barret has an attachment for that." ========== "Is he dead...?" "No." "Kill 'im." ========== "After touching the screen, you have fingerless gloves. You didn't, before." ========== "You LOST our SUMMONER?!" ========== "You made her trip and fall in some hole?!" "I didn't -make- her do anything, she did it perfectly fine on her own." ========== "Okay, so touching the Leviathan Token, it feels like sticking your hand in cold water." *makes motion of reaching up and touching something to other player's forehead* "Brainfreeze." ========== "So, as you hold the token out in front of you, the flames SWEEP apart." "I TOLD YOU TO LET MY PEOPLE GO!" ========== "First lesson of life in Wutai. Do not cause a ruckus in a bar where the bouncer is a former sumo wrestler." ========== Cid: "It's a great ship!" "Yeah, hope the bottom doesn't scrape off like the Tiny Bronco's did that time you crashed it, Jason!" "..." Cid: "YOU DID -WHAT-?!!?!?!" ========== In Wutai, we also met up with Momo, Yuffie's cousin who has adopted my character Djinn as a "big brother". "Those god damn Shinra!" "Djinn claps his hands over Momo's ears." "Those god damn jerks and their bleep bleepin' bleep bleep!" "Would somebody SHUT HIM UP, PLEASE?!?!?!" ========== "Can we please not piss off Godo at -us-? I really don't want to get kicked out of my own country yet." "... Yet?" "There may come a time when there will be something worth getting banned from my homeland over. This ain't it." ========== "What if it was getting banned to get Sephiroth?" "Kill Sephiroth, yes. Chase Sephiroth, no." ========== "So you walk into the pagoda, and eventually find Godo in the garden. He's sitting on a stone in the middle of the pond, with a scroll in hand, looking deep in contemplation. ... After a moment, you hear, 'zzzz, zzz...'" "Okay, Scar leans down to pick up a rock and-" "NO." ========== "You know, it might have been nice to find out from her who the bad guys WERE..." "Who cares?! Let's just go kick their asses!" "And you were ragging on -me-?" "YOU WERE GONNA THROW A ROCK AT HIM!!" ========== "Okay, I'll take the left side." "And perhaps the only time in Logan's life we'll hear him say THOSE words..." ========== "Well, we already took the left path. This time let's go right. We'll be more Centrist." ========== "He's Kuno to Djinn's Ranma." "He's Amelia to Yuffie's Lina." ========== "Wow. You actually managed to land a vehicle we were riding in -normally-." "Oh, shut up." By the way, our current tally of vehicles: Helicopter - Was missing rear rotor assembly. Crashed. Gelinka (Cargo Plane) - Beached somewhere outside of Junon. Low on fuel. (We may use it for something later, as it's in perfectly good shape otherwise.) Sea tanker - Crushed by Jenova monster, sank. Dune buggy - Cannibalized interior for metal to sell. Still working okay, if uglier. Left in Rocket Town. Tiny Bronco (Gyroplane) - Crashed the everliving hell out of it. Repaired. Actually landed normally outside of Wutai. Hooray. Blackjack (Airship) We've actually managed to hang on to this one and make it our base of operations. Sephiroth stole it once. But the steering gear was wrecked and he crashed it. We repaied it and it's now in good shape again. We've even added weapons to it in the form of a large deck gun and some missiles. ========== "You both wake up halfway back to the Blackjack, feeling like you've been five sheets to the wind recently." "More like that one preview for Troy..." ========== "Kess, you wake up with a fuzzy taste in your mouth and vague memories of Djinn cracking her whip and shouting 'Call me queen!'" "Oh lord." (I would like it noted, it was the GM who stated Kess' booze-addled memory.) ========== "So, this dragon, it-" "Breathes fire." "Right. All I needed to know." ========== "So, in a friendly way, still from concealment, I say, 'Now, Smokey-'" *giant groans and protests from the other players* "What? I named the dragon, so what?" ========== "'I am the spider-killer, and the barrel rider!'" ========== "'This home! You go now or be...' and you see him trying to think very hard of the word... '... food.'" "Right. We'll just be going." ========== "Um, do you mind if we use that elevator?" "... Leave faster?" "Much." "*grunt*" (I might add that we actually ROLE-PLAYED a conversation with a dragon and TALKED our way out of the situation! I consider that something of a notable accomplishment.) ========== "So, you go to the hot springs." "o/` Naked women, ICE cold beer!" ========== "Um, boys! Sound travels over water!" "We're too drunk to care!" ========== "And Djinn, in the auxiliary control room, you realize that everything's tilted and think 'Hmmm, that's not right.' You kind of have to walk lopsided." "That's okay, I'll just, like, pad this one side, sort of balance myself out." ========== "She screams and goes running off into the city." "What did you DO, Jason?" "I was, um, just trying not to startle her." "Worked out real well, huh?" ========== "Well, since I'm the cook, I'll check the kitchen." "Someone's raided the fridge. It's -cleaned out-." "MOTHER&*#@!#ER!" ========== "There's so little food left in there, the cockroaches are bitching." ========== "A famous phrase comes to mind. And that phrase is...?" "'Whip it, whip it good'?" ========== "You see a lot of fragments of nonworking materia." "Which are the shiniest?" ========== "Uh-oh, trouble." "This is where we start spinning again, right?" ========== "Look, if it involves stealing something or blowing something up, it's good with me." ========== "One of the craziest rumors is that there's a city on the moon!" "That's true." "Oh." ========== "It looks like a giant hand. Anyone know what that looks like?" *entire party simultaneously raises their hand* ========== "That was where I fell down the hole, remember?" "Summoner go down the hoooole..." ========== "They're referred to as 'the enemy'! They must be scary!" "Actually, we know one." "Really? Is he scary?" ========== "Hello? Anyone in here?" "Don't be alarmed, we's Asians!" ========== "Someone should tell that woman she's naked." ========== "Smokey's a very old dragon." "Oops. Hope the sugar doesn't hurt him." ========== "I can so see Sephiroth as that Cats guy. 'How are you Shinra? All your bishonen are belong to us. You are on the way to yaoi. Your anal virginity has no chance to survive, make your time. Ha-ha-ha-ha.'" ========== "Metagaming skill, bribe GM." "Behold, the power of cheese... popcorn." ========== "Metagaming skill, threaten player. Gimme the cheese popcorn. ... Please." ========== "Well, the pile of bones kind of gives us a hint of the dragon's disposition." ========== "Yes, your limit breaks are charged." "Ooooo, I'm gonna need more dice!" ========== "Um, Jason... seems that Sephiroth crashed the Blackjack." "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!" "And, for just a moment, Jason is wearing a yellow shirt with a black zig-zag line on it." ========== "Hey! What's all the-... oh. Um. Oh. ... That'll buff right out!" ========== "So I put my horn in the little hole and I see all that as a vision?" "I'm so glad we got the plug-and-play Summoner..." ========== "You're squatting on something hard and stone and something is clutched between your legs." "..." *player curls in on themselves in their attempts to neither kill themselves laughing or make a thousand dirty jokes at once* ========== "You realize that the Blackjack has come to rest atop this statue's head, and that you're crouched on its nose." "... I'm sitting on his face?!" *rest of the group bursts out singing, in perfect unison* "Sit on my faaaace, and tell me that you love meeee!" ========== "Put your thing in." (In reference to the Summoner's forehead crystal horn, which has shown to be a key to some locks.) ========== "Can I make a seduction roll against Odin?" ========== More quotes later. This pretty much catches us up to date as we stand.

Edit - Ah crap... This post was SUPPOSED to go into the Gaming Quotes thread. I don't know what happened. I'm going to be doing a copy/paste over to there where it is supposed to be. ========== First, some background. So, here we are, playing a Hero System version of Final Fantasy 7. We're playing original characters with what appears to be a slightly different plot line. Characters - Fahra - Possibly an Ancient, or at least infused with genetic material from one. Kinda quiet, but with an occasional mischievious side that peeks out. She is our summoner and can merge with her summons, rather like the main character from FF6. Scar - A former Turk, and master of the Grammaton school of two-gun-fu. Asian, bald, wears a variant of the Turks blue suit. Master of security systems and electronics. A surprising amount of charisma for someone who doesn't really talk all that much. Nina Scirocco - A native of the western desert regions. Our resident dark/red mage. Good with offensive magics. Particularly anything to do with the element of fire. Beautiful and exotic. Blonde hair and dark skin. Very VERY fast on her feet. Most likely member of the party to have someone look at her and say - "Aren't you cold, wearing that?" Djinn - A chameleon, in both dress, body and personality. An expert at disguise and subterfuge. So good at her job we thought for sure she was a male until later when we visited a hot springs and she went over to the female side of the bamboo screen... A bit of a snarky, sarcastic personality. Hates Sephiroth with a passion - and won't say exactly why. She uses a whip primarily, although she seems capable of drawing almost anything from within the folds of her cloak. And I do mean ANYTHING. Jason Sikorski - Expert pilot and weaponsmith for the party. Carries a large blade with an integral six-shot gun along the spine of the blade. Dark hair, grey eyes. Wears a leather bomber jacket and goggles. Calm and cool, almost laconic. Except when it comes to talking "tech" on the subject of either weapons or airframe design with someone else who understands these things. He's modified and improved the party's weaponry on at least two separate occasions when they found the resources and materials. Idolizes his uncle Cid Highwind and wants to design his own airship. Cid let him acquire his latest airship, the "Blackjack", for the party's quest. (If you've played FF6, you should know what it looks like.) He's also turned into the more or less default leader of the group. Tifa, Barret and Red XIII are supporting characters (NPCs) in the party. Anyway. One of our players has been documenting all the various quotes over the last few weeks, and I thought I'd share. They're probably more fun out of context. Heh. And some of them are in character. But a lot of them are just the players bullshitting and trading jokes and double-entendres. So here we go! ========== "The landing is definitely bumpy, and everyone gets jostled around some, but you get down okay." "Can I make a roll to see if I land anywhere fanservicey?" "Roll a d6." "Dammit! 1! Shit!" "No, you don't. Well, actually, you get fanservice, but it's Barret." "OH MY GOD! HOW DOES HE WALK?! MY -GOD-! HE'S STILL GOT TWO GOOD ARMS LEFT!! SWEET MERCIFUL LORD! GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!! (He hides behind Tifa.) Get awaaay! Shoo!" ========== "So if we land it there, it's gonna be rough." "Yeah, and if we go to Junon, we get shot. We left Rufus stranded at the mines, and I bet he wasn't pleased." "Yeah, but if we put down in that clearing, the plane's never lifting off again." "Between a rough landing and a pissed-off Rufus Shinra, I know what I'd pick!" ========== [The party is in a shack, trying to figure out how to escape without being attacked by the large group of Shinra guards outside.] "Well, we could send Tifa out and she could flash them, and while they're distracted by the blood gushing from their noses..." "You don't even finish your sentence before she slaps you." ========== "I don't know why we haven't ditched you already!" "Yeah, that's really meaningful from you, Ms. Run-and-hide-behind-a-tree." ========== "I made my disguise roll by one." "So, yeah, okay, you make a decent Sephiroth. You're suddenly a whole lot taller and an asshole." ========== "I missed the opportunity to see someone's panties AGAIN?! Dammit!" ========== "So, since I probably have greater presence after that resounding destruction of the mecha, I'm gonna do a presence attack, running at them and screaming." "Ah! The Han Solo Maneuver!" ========== [something you really don't want to hear the GM say, especially after one vehicle-related accident already:] "Did you remember to check the plane's fuel gauge?" ========== [Close after, in reference to the previous accident, wherein our intrepid pilot didn't notice a helicopter was missing its rear rotor assembly (we were in a very great hurry, and being shot at, a leisurely walk-around of the vehicle was out of the question):] "Great, right about now we're going to start spinning again, aren't we?" ========== "That materia better be a NATURAL yellow!" ========== "So Jason, being covered in Midgar Zolem blood and swamp water, kind of pauses and tugs at his collar, going "Whew! And I thought they smelled bad on the OUTside!'" ========== "So, you see a horrible sight... one of the Midgar Zolems, shoved down on this big flagpole outside the mine, and basically gutted." "After the crap that one in the swamp just now gave us, this is a HORRIBLE sight?" ========== "Yes, your presence attacks have definitely caused the Midgar Zolem to notice you. This is not particularly a good thing." ========== "I'm not con-stunned anymore! Put me down!" ========== "The fight so big, we needed two weeks to prepare for it!" [The previous session was canceled on account of sickness.] ========== "Can I get 'Respect' as a character skill? How many points to buy that?" "No." "Man, I'm never gonna get any Respect." ========== "It belongs to Shinra! Let's blow it up!" More than one player: "NO!" ========== "I predict our visit to Junon will wind up with me in drag again. In fact, I strongly suspect that I will be required to seduce Rufus Shinra. This is not a premonition... it's a mission statement." ========== "The bathroom is a horrible mess. It's basically a port-a-potty." "I'll take care of this. Restore! Restore! Restore!" ========== "The last time we slept in a Shinra installation, it turned out bad." "Yeah, but it also means we got this plane!" "SHUT! UP!" ========== "So, since Fahra has merged with Ifrit, a fire summon, Nina should have a greater affinity with her, since she's got a Fire element." "Ya! Bad thoughts! Bad thoughts! ENTERTAINING thoughts, but bad! Entertaining but bad thoughts!" ========== "So he looks at Barret and says, 'Does that thing have any other attachments?'" "... Just a minute..." ========== "The Gelinka cargo planes, luckily, have a lot of rings and hooks to attach stuff to." "I could be very happy here!" ========== "I can pilot it, sure!" "You said that about the helicopter, too." "Well, yeah, but that was much more complicated." "Yes, the fact that you can only use simple stuff really makes us more inclined to put our lives in your hands..." ========== "Sephiroth said he went to 'talk' to Rufus, but I doubt that's what he means, since I don't think he really does the 't-word', unless it's followed by '-erminate'." "... ... OH! Oh, okay. I was kinda weird there, thinking 'talkermitate, what's that?'" "It's when Sephiroth shoves his hand up the ass of a green felt puppet to talk with. 'Rufus, I'm very disappointed in you!'" ========== "Sephiroth's down there, we could-" "Shoot him in the head!" "... try talking to him." "And THEN shoot him in the head!" ========== Yuffie: "YOU! YOU NEVER WRITE! YOU NEVER CALL! YOU JUST LEFT! I'VE GOT YOU NOW, YOU LOUSY, ROTTEN EXCUSE FOR A BOYFRIEND!" We all turn and LOOK at Djinn. "... I just turn and start beating my head against a tree..." (It should be stated that at this point, we STILL weren't sure of Djinn's gender. And this didn't help the confusion any...) ========== "The stuff that was stolen... was it shiny?" "Everything was." "Someone is stealing -shiny things-!" "I DIDN'T DO IT!" ========== "We'll need to bait the trap with something shiny..." "NO! You can't have any of my shiny things! They're MY shiny things! Mine!" "My preciousssss..." ========== "Since you ALL botched your perception roles, you wake up and you've been robbed blind. All your materia's gone, and Djinn's missing his last pair of clean underwear." "GOD NO! NO! MY SATIN THONG!" "Oh dear lord it was a shiny thing!" ========== [GM RPing a little girl in a coastal village] "Since I lost my whistle, it's not as easy to play with Mr. Dolphin... NOT LIKE THAT, PEOPLE." ========== "And so, as you come out, you spot the Bouncy Trio, I mean, the girls..." "Yes. What we have here is Medium, Large, and Family Size." ========== "Magical Office Lady Transformatiooon!" ========== "Curatives now come in four sizes: Potion, Hi-Potion, X-Potion, and Barret's..." "AHEM!!!" ========== "The good news is you have plenty of Shinra rations. The bad news is they make Barret gassy." ========== "What's WRONG with Shinra rations?!" "Trust us, Barret, they're helping to destroy the planet. -Through you-." ========== "I've got Red XIII hooked on candy! Soon he will be mine to toy vith!" "... Dude, just... no." "I just like saying that." ^.^ "With the French accent and all?" "Eet's like wiping your ass weeth silk..." ========== "And Tifa says 'I am NEVER having children!'" "Now there's a crying shame, right there." ========== "I still say we should blow the Gelinka up." "-No-. There's -no reason-." "Shinra could come back and get it!" "They've got plenty, they won't care." "I WANNA SEE AN EXPLOSION DAMMIT!" ========== "And so, you see Junon, with its giant cannon." "Do you think Shinra's compensating for something?" ========== "Consider that Scarlet's the one in charge of that thing..." "Caliber envy." ========== "Boy, I bet that thing would blow the head clean off a giant sea monster!" ========== "I want to see an explosion! I just don't want to be at the CENTER of it!" ========== "And a giant tentacle tears its way down from above..." "Quick! Hide the schoolgirls!" ========== "You do realize that trying to kill Sephiroth would most likely result in the sinking of this ship?" "There are _probably_ lifeboats!" ========== [Talking to a local Shinra Guard] "It's sort of a catch-22... I can't go off duty because I don't have my keycard, and I can't leave my station to go look for it." "How long have you been on duty?!" "Ten hours. ... I need to go to the bathroom REALLY bad..." ========== "So Nina's off just trying not to puke..." "Looook, Nina! I got you some stuff from the galley! Greasy bacon, a big pile of scrambled eggs, sausage...!" "... HUAAAARG!!" "Nina, roll to hit. He was asking for that." ========== "That'll hit." "Wow, thanks, Djinn! I feel sooo much better now!" "Yeah. You're welcome. To show how welcome you are, here's a big hug!" =========== "NO MORE HELICOPTERS FOR YOU!" ========== "May I remind you you haven't actually LANDED either of the last two vehicles you've piloted?!" "Well... the Highwind doesn't really -land-, per se, anyway..." ========== "Djinn -could- be a girl! A girl with an intense interest in Tifa's breasts, sure, but then, who doesn't have that?" ========== [Djinn hands Tifa a roll of binding tape while the group is disguising themselves as sailors.] "Well, this hurts a lot, but at least the shirt's more comfortable, now!" "Yeah, I know what you mean." "... What?" "... Nothing!" ========== "Red? Your species made the cave paintings, right?" "That's what my mother said, yes." "... HOW?!" (Red XIII is a quadruped creature with no hands. Kinda looks like a cross between a Wolf and Lion.) ========== [While Djinn is busy writing a letter.] "And Barret's all 'We still gotta stop the Shinra!' He's waving his hands around wildly and shouting 'They're still tearin' shit up and messin' up the planet!'" "'The large black man continues to be excessively loud...'" ========== [After a party member has learned Cid, his uncle, may have been taken captive by Wutai] "Don't worry, Jason! Those stories of Wutaians torturing captives are SLIGHTLY exaggerated!" "Somehow, I am not reassured." ========== "Worse yet, Yuffie's BROTHER has a thing for you, too. Thinks he's a girl, and has sent him flowers for the last four Valentine's days. In fact, there's probably some poor delivery guy sap wandering around Midgar right now." "Oh lord." "But then, her brother's got a kind of screwed-up gender sense anyway. He calls Yuffie his little brother." ========== "That was Yuffie Kisaragi. Her family's pretty much the royalty of Wutai." "That's your royalty? No wonder you're such a royal pain." ========== "Our country's kind of poor, but they're still the richest people around. So that might have offered some incentive... IF SHE WASN'T SO FUCKING NUTS!! ... That and the fact she'd probably have to share me with her brother." "I think we've heard enough of this story..." ========== "I had the Family Size Fun Bags!" ========== "Don't worry, WE wouldn't leave you to die in the desert without at least telling you first!" ========== "Welcome to the Fellowship of the Damned. Our medical coverage sucks, but you get dental. Barret has an attachment for that." ========== "Is he dead...?" "No." "Kill 'im." ========== "After touching the screen, you have fingerless gloves. You didn't, before." ========== "You LOST our SUMMONER?!" ========== "You made her trip and fall in some hole?!" "I didn't -make- her do anything, she did it perfectly fine on her own." ========== "Okay, so touching the Leviathan Token, it feels like sticking your hand in cold water." *makes motion of reaching up and touching something to other player's forehead* "Brainfreeze." ========== "So, as you hold the token out in front of you, the flames SWEEP apart." "I TOLD YOU TO LET MY PEOPLE GO!" ========== "First lesson of life in Wutai. Do not cause a ruckus in a bar where the bouncer is a former sumo wrestler." ========== Cid: "It's a great ship!" "Yeah, hope the bottom doesn't scrape off like the Tiny Bronco's did that time you crashed it, Jason!" "..." Cid: "YOU DID -WHAT-?!!?!?!" ========== In Wutai, we also met up with Momo, Yuffie's cousin who has adopted my character Djinn as a "big brother". "Those god damn Shinra!" "Djinn claps his hands over Momo's ears." "Those god damn jerks and their bleep bleepin' bleep bleep!" "Would somebody SHUT HIM UP, PLEASE?!?!?!" ========== "Can we please not piss off Godo at -us-? I really don't want to get kicked out of my own country yet." "... Yet?" "There may come a time when there will be something worth getting banned from my homeland over. This ain't it." ========== "What if it was getting banned to get Sephiroth?" "Kill Sephiroth, yes. Chase Sephiroth, no." ========== "So you walk into the pagoda, and eventually find Godo in the garden. He's sitting on a stone in the middle of the pond, with a scroll in hand, looking deep in contemplation. ... After a moment, you hear, 'zzzz, zzz...'" "Okay, Scar leans down to pick up a rock and-" "NO." ========== "You know, it might have been nice to find out from her who the bad guys WERE..." "Who cares?! Let's just go kick their asses!" "And you were ragging on -me-?" "YOU WERE GONNA THROW A ROCK AT HIM!!" ========== "Okay, I'll take the left side." "And perhaps the only time in Logan's life we'll hear him say THOSE words..." ========== "Well, we already took the left path. This time let's go right. We'll be more Centrist." ========== "He's Kuno to Djinn's Ranma." "He's Amelia to Yuffie's Lina." ========== "Wow. You actually managed to land a vehicle we were riding in -normally-." "Oh, shut up." By the way, our current tally of vehicles: Helicopter - Was missing rear rotor assembly. Crashed. Gelinka (Cargo Plane) - Beached somewhere outside of Junon. Low on fuel. (We may use it for something later, as it's in perfectly good shape otherwise.) Sea tanker - Crushed by Jenova monster, sank. Dune buggy - Cannibalized interior for metal to sell. Still working okay, if uglier. Left in Rocket Town. Tiny Bronco (Gyroplane) - Crashed the everliving hell out of it. Repaired. Actually landed normally outside of Wutai. Hooray. Blackjack (Airship) We've actually managed to hang on to this one and make it our base of operations. Sephiroth stole it once. But the steering gear was wrecked and he crashed it. We repaied it and it's now in good shape again. We've even added weapons to it in the form of a large deck gun and some missiles. ========== "You both wake up halfway back to the Blackjack, feeling like you've been five sheets to the wind recently." "More like that one preview for Troy..." ========== "Kess, you wake up with a fuzzy taste in your mouth and vague memories of Djinn cracking her whip and shouting 'Call me queen!'" "Oh lord." (I would like it noted, it was the GM who stated Kess' booze-addled memory.) ========== "So, this dragon, it-" "Breathes fire." "Right. All I needed to know." ========== "So, in a friendly way, still from concealment, I say, 'Now, Smokey-'" *giant groans and protests from the other players* "What? I named the dragon, so what?" ========== "'I am the spider-killer, and the barrel rider!'" ========== "'This home! You go now or be...' and you see him trying to think very hard of the word... '... food.'" "Right. We'll just be going." ========== "Um, do you mind if we use that elevator?" "... Leave faster?" "Much." "*grunt*" (I might add that we actually ROLE-PLAYED a conversation with a dragon and TALKED our way out of the situation! I consider that something of a notable accomplishment.) ========== "So, you go to the hot springs." "o/` Naked women, ICE cold beer!" ========== "Um, boys! Sound travels over water!" "We're too drunk to care!" ========== "And Djinn, in the auxiliary control room, you realize that everything's tilted and think 'Hmmm, that's not right.' You kind of have to walk lopsided." "That's okay, I'll just, like, pad this one side, sort of balance myself out." ========== "She screams and goes running off into the city." "What did you DO, Jason?" "I was, um, just trying not to startle her." "Worked out real well, huh?" ========== "Well, since I'm the cook, I'll check the kitchen." "Someone's raided the fridge. It's -cleaned out-." "MOTHER&*#@!#ER!" ========== "There's so little food left in there, the cockroaches are bitching." ========== "A famous phrase comes to mind. And that phrase is...?" "'Whip it, whip it good'?" ========== "You see a lot of fragments of nonworking materia." "Which are the shiniest?" ========== "Uh-oh, trouble." "This is where we start spinning again, right?" ========== "Look, if it involves stealing something or blowing something up, it's good with me." ========== "One of the craziest rumors is that there's a city on the moon!" "That's true." "Oh." ========== "It looks like a giant hand. Anyone know what that looks like?" *entire party simultaneously raises their hand* ========== "That was where I fell down the hole, remember?" "Summoner go down the hoooole..." ========== "They're referred to as 'the enemy'! They must be scary!" "Actually, we know one." "Really? Is he scary?" ========== "Hello? Anyone in here?" "Don't be alarmed, we's Asians!" ========== "Someone should tell that woman she's naked." ========== "Smokey's a very old dragon." "Oops. Hope the sugar doesn't hurt him." ========== "I can so see Sephiroth as that Cats guy. 'How are you Shinra? All your bishonen are belong to us. You are on the way to yaoi. Your anal virginity has no chance to survive, make your time. Ha-ha-ha-ha.'" ========== "Metagaming skill, bribe GM." "Behold, the power of cheese... popcorn." ========== "Metagaming skill, threaten player. Gimme the cheese popcorn. ... Please." ========== "Well, the pile of bones kind of gives us a hint of the dragon's disposition." ========== "Yes, your limit breaks are charged." "Ooooo, I'm gonna need more dice!" ========== "Um, Jason... seems that Sephiroth crashed the Blackjack." "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!" "And, for just a moment, Jason is wearing a yellow shirt with a black zig-zag line on it." ========== "Hey! What's all the-... oh. Um. Oh. ... That'll buff right out!" ========== "So I put my horn in the little hole and I see all that as a vision?" "I'm so glad we got the plug-and-play Summoner..." ========== "You're squatting on something hard and stone and something is clutched between your legs." "..." *player curls in on themselves in their attempts to neither kill themselves laughing or make a thousand dirty jokes at once* ========== "You realize that the Blackjack has come to rest atop this statue's head, and that you're crouched on its nose." "... I'm sitting on his face?!" *rest of the group bursts out singing, in perfect unison* "Sit on my faaaace, and tell me that you love meeee!" ========== "Put your thing in." (In reference to the Summoner's forehead crystal horn, which has shown to be a key to some locks.) ========== "Can I make a seduction roll against Odin?" ========== More quotes later. This pretty much catches us up to date as we stand.

It seems you've taken a shine to Leela, as played by Louise Jameson! Fierce, feral, and fair to look at, descended from the jungle tribe of Sevateem, she's uneducated but undeniably bright. This exceedingly fit Amazon is a great woman to have at your back in times of danger, but don't upset her. She'll kick your ass. Which Lovely Doctor Who Companion Are You Ashamed To Admit Your Crush On? brought to you by QuizillaGAH!!! Two for two!!

You are the Fourth Doctor: A walking Bohemian conundrum with a brooding personal magnetism and a first-rate intellect concealed somewhere beneath your charmingly goofy exterior. You are perhaps the most terribly clever of all the Doctors, though your occasional bouts of childishness get you in trouble. You never go looking for a fight, but when someone messes with you... good heavens, are they ever sorry they did. Which Incarnation of the Doctor Are You? brought to you by QuizillaWell, well, well! My favorite!I always had a sneaking suspicion that the 4th Doctor would have been a close match to my personality. But I thought that I might wind up with the Third or Fifth Doctor instead. I like both Jon Pertwee and Peter David a lot, but Tom Baker is a true classic. I must say I'm quite pleased!

Suggestion: Based on everything I've heard above (plus some hazy memories of my own), I think that you would likely find the write-up of Professor Muerte from the 4th Ed Classic Enemies (If you have that book) to be a good template for Doom at least as far as his physical capabilities go.

First, some background. So, here we are, playing a Hero System version of Final Fantasy 7. We're playing original characters with what appears to be a slightly different plot line. Characters - Farah - Possibly an Ancient, or at least infused with genetic material from one. She is our summoner and can merge with her summons, rather like the main character from FF6. Scar - A former Turk, and master of the Grammaton school of two-gun-fu. Bald, wears a variant of the Turks blue suit. Nina Scirocco - A native of the western desert regions. Our resident dark/red mage. Good with offensive magics. Beautiful and exotic. Blonde hair and dark skin. Very VERY fast on her feet. Jinn - A chameleon, in both dress, body and personality. An expert at disguise and subterfuge. So good at his job we didn't find out officially he was male for a couple of sessions... A bit of a snarky, sarcastic personality. Hates Sephiroth with a passion - and won't say exactly why. Jason Sikorski - Weaponsmith and expert pilot. Carries a large blade with an integral one-shot gun along the spine of the blade. Dark hair, grey eyes. Wears leather bomber jacket and goggles. Calm and cool. Almost laconic. Idolizes his uncle Cid Highwind and wants to design his own airship. (My character) Tifa, Barret and Red XIII are supporting characters (NPCs) in the party. So, there we are at the Gold Saucer amusement park. We had scheduled a run through the Battle Arena to win favor with Dios, the owner of the Gold Saucer. When we get there, we find Sephiroth and the Turks already there. Long story short - It briefly turns into a 3-way Mexican stand off and then a brief battle before Sephiroth escapes by flying through the skylight (grabbing Farah in the process - uh oh!) Then Dios - basically playing the role of super-bouncer, gets everyones attention, Avalance and Turks alike, and says if we continue to damage his property any more, we'll regret it. And he can back it up, too. He's just fought a couple of our party members to a standstill all on his own - barehanded! And flanking him on either side are several guards, two Iron Giants (enormous iron golems) and a dragon!! Oh boy... So, we're staring each other down... And Jinn... Jinn gets this narrow eyed look of seriousness in his eyes, as if about to join battle... "Alright... here's the plan..." ...Foot scritches across pavement slightly... "... RUN LIKE YOUR ASSES ARE ON FIRE!!!" And he takes off... poof... - this just BROKE me. I LITERALLY fell off my chair I was laughing so hard. Everyone else was laughing too. It took us ten minutes to get calmed down... And then my bastard friends broke me again by repeating the line above... Yes, it's now a "break trigger". Sigh

Ask and ye shall receive! It's a differenet angle, but between this and the other pic, you should have no trouble spotting all the major design features and such.

The Highwind If you've ever played Final Fantasy 7, I direct you to the Highwind airship for an excellent example of "steampunk" airship design. And it's a _beautiful_ ship as well. It might be a little too advanced for a Nazi era campaign though. I don't know what keeps it aloft, because while it does have obvious gas envelopes all over, they don't appear to be large enough in proportion to realistically to the rest of the ship to lift it. Of course we _are_ talking about a _fantasy_ world here, so the Highwind probably works via differnt principles. Maybe they have some type of gas that has greater lifting properties. Or hydrogen/helium iteself works different in that universe. Nevertheless, you could possibly take some design cues from it. It has much of the right "feel" to it, IMHO. Alternately, a Highwind style ship might make a really cool _hero_ base ship. Imagine if the heros get their own airship and get into a aerial battle with the villain's airship/base. You could have the infiltrators, non-flying bricks and martial artist types being dropped onto the airbase for fighting inside, while an aerial battle rages outside with Nazi fighters and flying heros dogfighting it out and the two airships trading machinegun fire trying to shoot each other's lifting envelopes to hell. That could be quite an exciting final battle!

Just a couple of points NuSoard. First - The VF-1 Valkyrie did indeed fly in outer space on its own without the FAST pack boosters. In fact, in the original series, the FAST packs weren't introduced until late in the series. They were made to augment the Valkyries and make them into "Space Superiority Fighters". I don't know what type of engine the Valkyrie's used for normal use, but it definitly could be used in space. Maybe some kind of variable jet/aerospike engine? What is not in debate is that the VF-1 had difficulty reaching orbital velocity without a booster of some kind. It could be done, but it would take a while and use up almost all of the fuel. In episode 3, Roy Fokker heads up and out of the atmosphere in his VF-1S carrying Hikaru Ichijo and Lynn Minmei in the nose module of the wrecked VF-1D trainer tucked underneath in place of his gun pod. He landed on board the SDF-1 when it was in orbit. Later in the series (in the aftermath of Space War 1), it was shown that there was a disposable booster pack that would allow ballistic takeoff from ground to orbit. It wasn't the FAST package though. It was a single unit that the VF-1 was fitted to that included multiple boosters and fuel. And the Valkyrie in this configuration was launched from a gantry because the booster wouldn't allow the use of the landing gear. The FAST pack was meant solely for space superiority and not for atmosperic use. It was never shown being used while in the atmosphere. The Battroid did not need a "surface effect" in order to hover. In the next to last episode, both Max and Miria were shown in their respective VF-1J Valkyries hovering several hundred feet up for a short amount of time while they discussed options. Their VF-1J's were shown clearly "standing" on their thrusters in mid-air. (You could assume reasonably that this sort of thing was not something the designers recommended. Or that it was not done for very long, as it might overheat the engines doing that in a relatively "stationary" mode. Then again, Max and Miria were the best of the best and knew their machines and how much they could push them. This might be a case of a "power stunt".) One last thing - you might consider building the "Strike Valkyrie" variant from the Macross 1984 movie Do You Remember Love. It was a standard FAST pack Valkyrie, with one alteration - a double-barreled energy cannon of some kind on the right upper FAST pack booster instead of a missile pod. Whether that was a particle cannon or a laser of some kind I couldn't tell you. But I thought I'd mention it. Sorry - hope I don't sound like I'm ragging on you. In all other particulars, I agree with your design choices and consider them excellent. Just that you missed some stuff and I thought I'd help jog your memory. (Edit: Changed the section on escape velocity. I meant orbital velocity. Escape Velocity is the speed you need to reach to break free of Earth's gravity entirely and reach other planetary bodies, such as the Moon or Mars.)