Dr. Anomaly

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
It's really too bad that changes of avatars, etc. are "retroactive" in that your current avatar, etc. appears even in your oldest posts when someone views them. I say that's "too bad" because there are a number of jokes, gags, etc. (like Thrakoween, or the April Fool's Day Simonization) that become pretty much incomprehensible without the context of changed or altered avatars, user IDs, and such.
 
Oh, I know it would be an impossible consumption of space to keep every instance of every avatar with every post -- and not to mention a programming pain in the tush trying to keep varying user IDs, etc -- but I still find it unfortunate. It's like a bit of "board history" slipping away, or being rendered incomprehensible...
 
(sigh)

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Background: our power armor wearer (Sentinel) has had sort of a long-running tentative relationship with a lady mage from the 17th century for a while now; and it was obvious to everyone in the group except Sentinel that she really had a "thing" for him...but he just wasn't getting the clues. She was beginning to get frustrated, and finally asked Dr. Anomaly "Am I doing something wrong? What approach should I take?"
 
Knowing that Sentinel, while a true outside-the-box thinker, tended to be rather clueless in social matters, Dr. Anomaly told her the best way to make sure she wasn't misunderstood was if she just told him, up front, how she felt...leave no room for missed hints or misunderstandings.
 
Well, it didn't go well.
 
She did tell him, during a late-night stroll along the beach (the group is at Sanctuary currently, and Shanna -- the lady mage -- is there as a guest of ours). Unfortunately, Sentinel still managed to say the wrong thing; what he said was, in so many words, "I consider you a good friend..."
 
The problem is, what Sentinel meant by that was, having been burned in the past in relationships, he now considers a really strong, deep friendship a necessary foundation before exploring other relationship possibilities. What Shanna interpreted that as, though, was the "let's just be friends" speech. She teleported away from him and locked herself in her room in the bungalow.
 
Dr. Anomaly was still up, reading, when that happened and given her body language, etc. had a pretty good general idea that things had gone sour. When Sentinel showed up a while later (having walked back) he and Dr. Anomaly had a rather lengthy talk about perceptions, etc. Sentinel ended up sitting down to try and draft a note he could slip under her door to explain what he'd actually meant, that he was interested, the fault was entirely his, etc. etc.
 
(Unknown to Sentinel and Dr. Anomaly, another team member was also having a rather lengthy talk with Shanna about perceptions, etc.)
 
Some time later, having finally concluded it to the best of his ability, Sentinel left the note at Shanna's bedroom door and went to his own room. When he opened the door he stopped in surprise, because he hadn't left a dozen candles burning in his room when last he was there. The door closed behind him, he was drawn across the room to the bed, and before he could manage to say anything else that could have been misinterpreted, Shanna shut him up a full-on kiss...and let his hands discover she wasn't wearing anything under the sheets.
 
GM: "You know all that stuff you put into your letter to her?"
 
Sentinel: "Yeah..." (a bit dubiously)
 
GM: "She's telling you the same things now...except that you get to read her letter in Girl Watcher's Braille."
 
GM: (pause) "You're going to...busy...the rest of the night, and probably well into morning."
 
Sentinel: "But...but...I'm only mortal! I can't...!"
 
GM: "She's got spells for that."
 
 
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Okay, so that was two good lines, not one, but hey...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"And the Lord said...
 
'Let there be dice!'
 
...and there were dice. And the Lord saw that the dice were good."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"It's a causual dinner and we're relatively safe, so I'm only carrying the 9mm, my backup 9mm, and just four knives."

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Said to me tonight by a friend of mine:
 
"There's a problem when looking at the bondage queen makes you want to take her home and give her a cup of tea and a teddy bear."

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 

Sometimes things backfire on you. About 11 years ago, I was gaming with a group that played regularly on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoon/evenings. A number of us GM'd, and it was often a toss-up as to who was going to run what system/scenario/campaign on any given game day. Sometimes we'd have something that someone wanted to run that took about two weeks (4 sessions, including 2 of the much longer Saturday sessions) and sometimes it was a series of one-shots. It depended on individual schedules, moods, etc.
 
As it happens, when this particular bit takes place, we'd finished up a long d6 Star Wars scenario on Saturday, but hadn't yet decided what we were going to do on Wednesday. One of the players was also co-owner of the local game store, and I stopped in there most days over lunch to chit-chat, and often times after work. This particular Wednesday had been a real b*tch at work, and not only had I not been able to get away over lunch to stop by the game store, but was in a generally crabby mood...I was really looking forward to some gaming to unwind.
 
When I got to Richard's house (where we met to game) everyone else was there first. I asked what we were going to be playing, and with a big, cheesey grin Richard said "Hey, you didn't show up over lunch, so those of us who did took a vote and decided you'd be running something tonight."
 

 
Given the way I was feeling, I did not appreciate the joke. I could have said "No," and explained I'd had a bad day at the office. I could have blown my stack and let the frustration come boiling out. Instead what I did was turn around and walk out without a word, back to my car, and open the trunk. (At this point in my life, my trunk was crammed full of my gaming library, in secure, tough, sealed plastic file boxes with carrying handles. I kept it in the car because unlike everyone else, I lived a 30-minute drive out of town, and never knowing what we'd be playing, kept all my stuff with me.)
 
I have a habit of buying games that I have no intention of playing, either becuase they're just "neat", or to use as source material for another game. (I've got a lot of Torg stuff for that reason.) I pulled a game book out of a box, closed the trunk, and went back inside. I held it up in plain view, and explained "Okay, since you did this to me, this is what we're going to be playing tonight!" It was a game I knew the rest of them did not want to play, would protest about, and would be upset to be forced to play. Well, I was feeling very annoyed and spiteful, so I stuck to my guns and made them play it.
 
Teenagers From Outer Space.
 
(sigh)
 
I should have known karma would 'get' me for being spiteful. Despite the shock, horror, grumbling, and loud protests of the players, it proved (after we'd played that session) to be a huge hit. So big, in fact, that I ended up GMing it as a campaign for nearly 3 years on a weekly (sometimes twice weekly) basis!
 
Yup...sometimes doing a really good job at GMing can seriously backfire...

Re: "Neat" Pictures
 

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Ah, but even good game contributions are no guarantee.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"We fight for justice and HAVE NO PANTS!"
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"Cool, I can summon beer!"
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"We need to get Avalon (the Knight of Faerie) to learn some modern smacktalk. This 'blackguard' and 'cur' stuff isn't cutting it. You know, stuff like 'Thou momma art so fat ...'"
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(Brick holding a car over two prone VIPER Agents)
"If you vanna see me unpimp dese agents, let me here you say 'vot'."
Other PCs, in unison: "What!"
*KRA-FUNCH*
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"So, was my research fruitful?"
"Dude, why are you researching fruit?"
*slap*
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"Pardon me, guys, I gotta go defrag my brain."
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"I want to move my sister into the base, where she'll be safer."
(Table-Wide Stare)
"What?"

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."

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."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
All from our Teen Champions campaign:
 
 
"Ewww...I've got monk all over me."
 
 
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Potential (gadgeteer): "...so when I was thinking about how we can make Tranquility [the monk] a bit better able to take a hit, it occured to me to create a spray-on polymer compound -- similiar to what's used in flak jackets, personal armor, and so on -- that we could use on his robes. It'd deflect most small-arms fire and some larger stuff, too."
 
Gestalt: "Are you telling me you're trying to make an actual Bulletproof Monk?"
 
Potential: "Well...yeah, I guess so..."
 
 
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"You got the monk a Dragonball Z t-shirt, didn't you?"
 
"Heck no! I've got better taste than that...it's Street Fighter!"
 
 
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"Did you know that you get into a lot of trouble if you use your mom's washing machine to refine uranium?"
 
 
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"Well, I'd call 'coughing up a lung' a significant side effect!"
 
 
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Twilight: "You realize you've just turned a supercomputer into the world's most expensive Post-It note."
 
 
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Twilight: "No, what I summon are damned souls. Just think of it as being like a prison work-release program, but they're not making license plates."
 
Potential: "That's good; after all, when you put zombies to work making license plates, they all come out reading 'Brainsss...' "
 
 
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
All from our Teen Champions campaign:
 
 
"Ewww...I've got monk all over me."
 
 
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Potential (gadgeteer): "...so when I was thinking about how we can make Tranquility [the monk] a bit better able to take a hit, it occured to me to create a spray-on polymer compound -- similiar to what's used in flak jackets, personal armor, and so on -- that we could use on his robes. It'd deflect most small-arms fire and some larger stuff, too."
 
Gestalt: "Are you telling me you're trying to make an actual Bulletproof Monk?"
 
Potential: "Well...yeah, I guess so..."
 
 
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"You got the monk a Dragonball Z t-shirt, didn't you?"
 
"Heck no! I've got better taste than that...it's Street Fighter!"
 
 
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"Did you know that you get into a lot of trouble if you use your mom's washing machine to refine uranium?"
 
 
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"Well, I'd call 'coughing up a lung' a significant side effect!"
 
 
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Twilight: "You realize you've just turned a supercomputer into the world's most expensive Post-It note."
 
 
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Twilight: "No, what I summon are damned souls. Just think of it as being like a prison work-release program, but they're not making license plates."
 
Potential: "That's good; after all, when you put zombies to work making license plates, they all come out reading 'Brainsss...' "
 
 
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"Okay, I need my dice, my character sheets...and a lot more alcohol."
 
 
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"...but then again, I'm just a scientist who's come back from the dead with a headful of multiple personalities."

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From the inaugural Pulp Hero game:
 
"I'm certain there's a perfectly logical, rational, scientific explanation for this. However, that doesn't mean it doesn't scare the (urine) out of me, so I'm running away now."
 
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Nightsky (former WWI Pilot): "I knew a lot of lieutenants in the service who needed a pole-up-the-butt-ectomy. I just need to get you up in the plane, and we'll get it out of you."
Edward "Surname stolen from Keith" Curtis: "If by 'it', you mean my urine, I'm certain that shall be the case."
Nightsky: "So long as we're upside down, that works for me."
 
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"We're evil Satanic supervillains, we've got to think big! WE MUST SACRIFICE THE VIRGIN ISLANDS!"

Re: Self Defeating Powers
 
Why, ain't you the purtiest patch of nuthin I've never seen, ayup.
 
Extra COM (whatever amount you want) linked to an all sense invisibility (including detects) that is always on. This power has the nice side affect of making your oratory/persuasion skills (or anything else requiring verbal communication) pretty hindered.
 
Heck, may as well add some presence to that. (Only for PRE attacks of course. Too bad no one can see or hear you.)

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
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?"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
I haven't had a chance to post any quotes lately, so they've sort of been piling up. Since as more than one person has noted, I don't really need the higher post count, I'm just going to post them all in one long post.
 
There will be a quiz later, so pay attention!
 
(Yup. Definitely been playing Teen Champions lately...)
 
 
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"Don't trust them!"
 
"Why? Just because they're dressed in black, all-concealing robes and have huge metal claws?"
 
 
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Dr. Trent: "Dear god! Tell me you are not seriously considering showing Jurassic Park to the thousands-of-years-old Sidhe shapeshifter! (sigh) Well, it could have been worse...you could have been considering showing her Aliens instead."
 
Lilly (the afore-mentioned shapeshifter): "What's 'Aliens'?"
 
Dr. Trent: "Me and my big mouth..."
 
 
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"No, there was no blood, not that we saw...so, unless it bleeds something we can't see -- on second thought, considering the things we run into these days, it just might."
 
 
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"Have you guys noticed a pattern lately? Here we are, in what amounts to Horror Central, and everything we run into wants to either kill us or have sex with us...and considering what we've run into so far, I'm not sure which is worse."
 
 
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"You did what to our representative? She'd embedded how deep in the floor of the stadium?!?"
 
 
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"I had a funny feeling they were going to pull a nymph on me."
 
 
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"Hang on, my pants are ringing."
 
 
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"I wasn't aware that tourism was a major industry in Heaven."
 
 
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"Mashed potatoes and alcohol...delicious!"
 
 
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"We're gonna need a plug-in because she's going to keep running out of batteries if she plays with it every night."
 
 
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"We need to give him a frog-ectomy."
 
 
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"What just happened in the girl's dorm?"
 
"It involved batteries and an electric guitar amp...it's best not to ask too many more questions."
 
 
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"Let's not scare the person who can blow up the Sun, okay?"
 
 
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"An ice cream sandwich crawled into the heat ducts and died."
 
 
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
I haven't had a chance to post any quotes lately, so they've sort of been piling up. Since as more than one person has noted, I don't really need the higher post count, I'm just going to post them all in one long post.
 
There will be a quiz later, so pay attention!
 
(Yup. Definitely been playing Teen Champions lately...)
 
 
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"Don't trust them!"
 
"Why? Just because they're dressed in black, all-concealing robes and have huge metal claws?"
 
 
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Dr. Trent: "Dear god! Tell me you are not seriously considering showing Jurassic Park to the thousands-of-years-old Sidhe shapeshifter! (sigh) Well, it could have been worse...you could have been considering showing her Aliens instead."
 
Lilly (the afore-mentioned shapeshifter): "What's 'Aliens'?"
 
Dr. Trent: "Me and my big mouth..."
 
 
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"No, there was no blood, not that we saw...so, unless it bleeds something we can't see -- on second thought, considering the things we run into these days, it just might."
 
 
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"Have you guys noticed a pattern lately? Here we are, in what amounts to Horror Central, and everything we run into wants to either kill us or have sex with us...and considering what we've run into so far, I'm not sure which is worse."
 
 
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"You did what to our representative? She'd embedded how deep in the floor of the stadium?!?"
 
 
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"I had a funny feeling they were going to pull a nymph on me."
 
 
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"Hang on, my pants are ringing."
 
 
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"I wasn't aware that tourism was a major industry in Heaven."
 
 
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"Mashed potatoes and alcohol...delicious!"
 
 
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"We're gonna need a plug-in because she's going to keep running out of batteries if she plays with it every night."
 
 
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"We need to give him a frog-ectomy."
 
 
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"What just happened in the girl's dorm?"
 
"It involved batteries and an electric guitar amp...it's best not to ask too many more questions."
 
 
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"Let's not scare the person who can blow up the Sun, okay?"
 
 
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"An ice cream sandwich crawled into the heat ducts and died."
 
 
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

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...
 
"Okay, that's it...we're going to need a bigger dragon."
 
 
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"Hey...just because I haven't died, then been brought back by some kind of lizard shaman and gotten superpowers as a result, doesn't mean my life isn't complicated!"
 
 
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"Okay, I'm going to change forms to Hathor, wearing a FedEx uniform...as no FedEx uniform has ever been worn before!"
 
 
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"And thus the main guns of the battleship Missouri are used to shoot down a mosquito."
 
(referring to Hathor turning the full force of her attentions on a mere mortal.)
 
 
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Dr. Anomaly's sister, Rebecca: "Come in and sit down, Solomon...or should I say, 'Dr. Anomaly'?"
 
Dr. Anomaly: (stunned silence, followed by) "How...when...how long have you known? How did you find out?"
 
Rebecca: "I've only known for a few minutes; I never had cause to probe your mind before, and never suspected my brother was more than the flake the popular press thinks he is. In hindsight, of course, it should have been obvious."
 
Dr. Anomaly: "Waitaminute...my sister is a metanormal? Rebecca, when did this happen?!?"
 
 
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Rebecca: "Honestly, Solomon, at this point, I think we should move any further discussion to my laboratory/HQ." (She flips a concealed switch and a bookcase slides aside, revealing a hidden staircase leading downward. A faint hum of some kind of esoteric power generator can be heard from below.)
 
Kathleen: "Solomon, why doesn't our base have a secret laboratory like this?"
 
Solomon: "Do you have any idea how difficult it is to try and remodel an indestructible, invulnerable building?"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From our long-running Champions game:
 
 
"Now Dr. A, let me go over this again, because I'm sure I'm missing something somewhere, okay?"
 
Dr. Anomaly: "Go ahead."
 
"First off, Kathleen [Enigma] is the woman of your dreams, and you're deeply in love with her."
 
Dr. Anomaly: "Correct."
 
"Second, she's in love with you, and has been for years, but has been afraid to say anything, at least until recently."
 
Dr. Anomaly: "That does seem to be the case, yes."
 
"Okay, now to the part I'm sure I'm screwing up. The two of you are in your bedroom, and Kathleen's planning on spending the night there..."
 
Dr. Anomaly: "That was her intention, and I certainly was not objecting."
 
"So...the woman of your dreams is going to spend the night in your bedroom...in your bed...and what the two of you end up doing isn't the 'obvious', but instead spend most of the night writing physics equations and chemical formulas on a blackboard and start assembling a list of components, equipment, and supplies?!?"
 
Dr. Anomaly: "Well, neither of us sleep more than a few hours a night, and there is a new lab we've been considering putting together once we're back home in Millennium City, so it seemed to both of us like an opportune time to..."
 
(heavy sigh) "Geeks...superpowered geeks...in love."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
"Okay, that's it...we're going to need a bigger dragon."
 
 
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"Hey...just because I haven't died, then been brought back by some kind of lizard shaman and gotten superpowers as a result, doesn't mean my life isn't complicated!"
 
 
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"Okay, I'm going to change forms to Hathor, wearing a FedEx uniform...as no FedEx uniform has ever been worn before!"
 
 
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"And thus the main guns of the battleship Missouri are used to shoot down a mosquito."
 
(referring to Hathor turning the full force of her attentions on a mere mortal.)
 
 
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Dr. Anomaly's sister, Rebecca: "Come in and sit down, Solomon...or should I say, 'Dr. Anomaly'?"
 
Dr. Anomaly: (stunned silence, followed by) "How...when...how long have you known? How did you find out?"
 
Rebecca: "I've only known for a few minutes; I never had cause to probe your mind before, and never suspected my brother was more than the flake the popular press thinks he is. In hindsight, of course, it should have been obvious."
 
Dr. Anomaly: "Waitaminute...my sister is a metanormal? Rebecca, when did this happen?!?"
 
 
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Rebecca: "Honestly, Solomon, at this point, I think we should move any further discussion to my laboratory/HQ." (She flips a concealed switch and a bookcase slides aside, revealing a hidden staircase leading downward. A faint hum of some kind of esoteric power generator can be heard from below.)
 
Kathleen: "Solomon, why doesn't our base have a secret laboratory like this?"
 
Solomon: "Do you have any idea how difficult it is to try and remodel an indestructible, invulnerable building?"