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Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread The yellowjacket trap that I set up several weeks ago is finally starting to catch yellowjackets! Hates me some yellowjackets, yessir.

Re: Confessions of an Online GM Today's confession is in re: The West Coast Avengers game on HeroCentral. (It's probably OK if my players read this. If they haven't figured out what's going on by now then I should probably just come out and tell them). The characters have just been introduced and are standing around chatting. I get the impression that they're wondering when the adventure is going to begin (or more likely, I'm just impatient), so I start casting around for an idea. Yeah, that's right. I started the game with no idea what the first adventure was gonna be. Anyway... So I'm looking at the characters' disads list. Rivalries, hunteds, psych lims, backgrounds... I'm thinking, "Mad scientist. Mecha. Yeah, we're on the West Coast. Shogun Warriors! Except Red Ronin already showed up in the Thunderbolts game, and that would be a total ripoff. Hmm... Ooh! Godzilla! Perfect!" So Godzilla shows up and starts tromping on downtown LA. OK, so now what the hell do I do? Godzilla is a hurricane, a force of nature, not a supervillain. You can't punch him and make him go away. So I need to come up with a good reason why he's here. (Keep in mind that the adventure has already started -- I've already introduced the Big G into the scenario, with no idea of why he's there or what he's doing or anything). Looking back on what I had already written, I see that I heralded Godzilla's arrival with an earthquake. Did the quake wake up Godzilla? Did it summon him somehow? No. Again, I need someone for my heroes to punch, and an earthquake isn't any good for that. So I bounce this back and forth in my head for a while. Ah ha! There's an old Marvel villain named Moses Magnum who could cause earthquakes. He got his power overcharged by Apokalypse so now any time he sets foot on solid ground, he causes earthquakes. He's also a wealthy industrialist and arms-dealer. Now we're getting somewhere! OK, Magnum has lured 'Zilla here using a sonic ray that causes the big lizard pain. Godzilla isn't so much attacking LA as he's just looking for the thing that's hurting his ears. Why? Magnum. Earthquake powers. Overcharged. Hey, maybe his powers are so overcharged that even getting near land causes earthquakes now! That's what caused the tremblor that heralded Godzilla's arrival! So he's looking for a way to control his powers. Great! There's a lab here in LA that's working on creating a device to suppress earthquakes. It's heavily guarded by SHIELD. Magnum tried to buy it but they wouldn't sell, so now he's going to steal it. But he needs to distract the guards, so he stages a huge disaster (cue 300 foot tall radioactive lizard). The guards leave in order to do damage control, he walks in and takes the device. Score! Now I have a plot! (And only two+ weeks after the game began...) So I tell my wife my brilliant idea and she's like, "So he lures Godzilla halfway across the Pacific just to distract some guards?" Yeah, OK, it's far-fetched. But it's the Jim Shooter (as interpreted by Bunneh) Marvel Universe! What do you expect? My hope is that, reading this, my players will say "Oh my god, I had no idea you were just making this up as you went. I assumed you had this all planned out from the beginning!" Well, that's my hope, anyway.

I'm pretty sure I know what color ring they'd give me... In hottest rage, in fury cold When evil has grown brave and bold Let those who laugh at anger's pyre Beware my light: Red Lantern's fire!

Re: Musings on Random Musings I dunno, man. You haven't seen my colon.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. What a sweet story.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Guess what I got the second time I took the test?

Re: Musings on Random Musings This should come as no surprise to anyone here.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings Yup, fo' rizzle. I brought them to my FLCS to show off, and they said, "Hey, let's put them in the display case so everyone can see!" A couple of weeks later I got a call from the comics shop, saying someone wanted to buy them and how much was I asking. I quoted a rediculous price, and they said "Sounds good!" A few days later when I went to pick up my comics they handed me a wad of cash and said if I make any more, they have a buyer for me.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Did you not see my previous MLP thread? I sold Vision-Pony and Scarlet Witch-Pony for $75!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... A quote from our Deadlands game... We were fighting a hideous, misshapen, patchwork man whose vocabulary seemed to consist of nothing but a raspy, wheezed-out "bbbobbbbbbbb". He's carrying the unconscious body of a woman he's kidnapped, and our bullets seem to be having little effect. Old Man Larson: Maybe we should try to parlay with him? Father Jack: Right. What do you suppose the conversation would sound like? Boggs (wheezing): "Hheeeeey, Bbbbobbbbb, iiiisss ttthaatt yyyooouuuuurrr neeeeewww gggiiirlllffrrieeendddd?" Father Jack (also wheezing): "YYyyoouu ttwwwwwwooo looooookkkk reeeaaaaaallyyy ccccuuutte ttooggggeeethhherrrr..." It took us five minutes to stop laughing and get back to the game.

Re: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Bunnyverse Fixed!

Re: Musings on Random Musings Schwing!!!! :love: Er... I mean... how interesting...

Re: A Thread for Random Musings When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be grown up. -- C. S. Lewis I'm working on my fourth My Little Pony conversion. If I get her done by Gencon, I'm bringing her along. Best case scenario, I'll have both her and her twin sister finished by then, but I'm not holding my breath. Everything else is mostly done, but rerooting the hair is a long, difficult process. I'm pretty sure I can get one done, but two is another story.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... As far as I know, Winter 1152 isn't out yet*. I think he's on book 6 of 8 (I'm sure he'll have the individual issues at the con, though). *I'd love to be wrong, though!

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Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Toldja!

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... [nitpick] To Say Nothing Of The Dog [/nitpick]

Re: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Bunnyverse Anyone spot any errors, please let me know (especially Rebus)...

Re: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Bunnyverse Yeah, I do need to update it... except I don't know anything about Rebus' real name or background or anything to put in the Handbook.

Re: Musings on Random Musings No, but one thing is kind of funny. You could be watching hard-core pr0n on your computer and that's fine. But if you've got a girly pin-up on your cubical wall, that's against company policy.

Re: Unwanted advances Of the ladies on the team, I think: Black Knight would say, "Sure! As long as the guys play too!" Iron Girl would say, "You've got to be joking." Shield Maiden would say, "This is a strange Midgard ritual. Why must I wear this odd and flimsy attire, rather than my normal battle dress?" Ms. Marvel would probably be with Black Knight on this, but would insist the guys wear speedos, not trunks. Arachne would stammer and blush and be horribly embarrassed about the whole thing, but would secretly be flattered and might actually go along as long as folks didn't make a big deal of it. Cinnabar would quietly and politely excuse herself, her head filled with whirling and conflicting emotions that she wouldn't know what to do with. All of them would look mighty fine in swimsuits on the beach.

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