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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Father the death of the braincase ship, Tyria, the crew has stumbled across a previously unknown lab on their home-base. In the lab, they found an experiment of Tyria's - a transfer of her neural net into a holographic memory matrix. They install the back up into a security drone... (a nearly impossible task, but on a roll of 3, what are you going to do?) they brief her in the events of her death. A month later, the crew find Tyria in her quarters, weeping.
 
Tyria: I am dead.
Isune: not so much. I mean, you're right hear, talking to us.
Tyria: it's different.
Milli: of course it is. We're here for you, we'll help you through this transition.
Tyria: I don't think you can comprehend what's happening. I am... Not me. I am a recording - a simulation. I can feel the mathematics driving my mind. I can feel the fact that nothing that I am feeling is anything more than a simulation. I'm not real.
Milli: I don't think that's...
Tyria: (interupting) you are not in here, you don't know. You once you would do anything for me.
Milli: I meant it then and it still stands.
Tyria: then help me end this. Shut me down and dedstroy this... This thing I've become.
Milli: as you wish.
 
The goup gathers and holds a ceremony (as is fitting for a character that has been played for 13 years). At the end of the ceremony, everyone is hugging and weeping before they pull the plug.
 
Tyria: i want to cry, but there doesn't seem to be an algorithm for tears. Please, just end it now.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Star hero game.
Brief backstory: through sabotage, the corvette Sun Descending is suffering a critical reactor failure. The PCs have limited options. They can fly the ship as far out of atmo as they can (which will not be far enough, killing 10% of the planet's population) or someone will have to sacrifice themselves. It comes down to Millicent (xeno-archeologist) and Maxmillion (geni-mod super human).
 
Max: go, milli!
Milli: nothing doing!
Max: don't be stubborn.
Milli: I'm not being stubborn.
Max: that exactly what you are doing.
Milli: look, can you fly this thing?
Max: (swallowing hard) no.
Milli: then it has to be me.
Max: fine, I'll run sensors.
 
Milli turns to head to ops and Max knocks her unconscious with a blow from behind.
Max: I'm sorry.
 
Max leaves Milli in the hall and heads for the engine room. He enters the radiation filled compartment and disables the reactors, saving everyone, a la wrath of Kahn. He manages to get milli onto an escape pod and to safety (the reactors offline killed life-support) before succumbing to the rad poisoning. Milli regains consciousness before he does.
 
Milli: oh, max.... No no no!
Max: it's alright. I've had worse.
Milli: (yelling at him) what the he'll? We have most of them safe!
Max: it's not about that.
Milli: 9 billion lives saved, max!
Max: (coughing hard) Milli, we would have died, too.
Milli: I know! It had to be done.
Max: no.
Milli: don't give me that "the lives of the many and few" bs from star trek! It was trite then, it's trite now!
Max: I don't care if it was 9 or 10 billion lives, all that...
Milli: (interrupting) that's a hell of a thing for a hero to say!
Max: milli... It wasn't about them. It was about you. As long as you are safe, my life was not given in vain.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Somewhere around page 210 I think, someone complained that the quotes were all funny and there should be some awesome quotes in here... So I gathered up my notes from 25 years of gaming (which is all the way back to junior high) and thought I would share some... Each does require a teeny bit of background, but I hope you can forgive that. I will post them one at a time to avoid backstory overload.
 
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The PCs were on brain-case ship. Think terminally ill human voulenteering to become a ship AI. Near the end of the campaign, the rest of the PCs cared deeply for her. Due to a series of phenomenally bad decisions, they have ended up at the ass end of the universe with a dreadnaught bearing down on them. The PCs have manned the fighters and launched, only to find that the nav systems are all locked on their home and the overrides destroyed.*
 
Janik: Isis. What the hell are you doin?!
Isis: I am overloading the reactors and cramming them down their throats. In short, ending this once and for all.
Davies: you can't do this!
Isis: if you stay, you all die.
Janik: if you do this, you'll take them out, but you'll die, too!
Isis: I've already died once. It's not so bad. Go. Live your lives, mine ends the way I want it to, in an act of love and defiance. Never forget that.. I love you all.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
More quotes from the quantum engineer.(Half gadgeteer, half Mage, and half psion)
 
"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
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"Have you heard that entropy isn't what it used to be?"
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During an encounter with a Confederation of Known Worlds security patrol. The following is a commentary on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Security Officer: "Do you know how fast you were going?"
Isunne: "No, but I know where I am."
 
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A conversation between Isunne and Tyria, the ship's A.I. Core.
Isunne:How many theoretical physicists specializing in general relativity does it take to change a light bulb?
Tyria: in spite of the fact that I suspect that I do not want to know. How many?
Isunne: Two. One to hold the bulb and one to rotate the universe.
 
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Isunne: Does a radioactive cat have 18 half-lives?
 
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Isunne is dancing through the ship chanting to himself.
 
Mariko: what ARE you singing?
Isunne (reciting a limerick)
There was an old lady called Wright
who could travel much faster than light.
She departed one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous night.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Sorry... Thread derail...
 
Pulp HERO with heavy cthuloid presence...
 
"Timber... Men in black trench coats don't go 'squish'"
 
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Frank has been exposed to no less than 6 mythos images this evening and is on his way to a permanent stay in the loonie bin. (all through his own doing)
 
Jeff: Frank, I hate to tell you... Those aren't chicken thieves?
Frank: what are they?
Jeff: from here, I can't be absolutely certain, but they look a lot like deep ones.
Frank: and what are they doing?
Jeff: they appear to be eating chickens.
Frank: did they PAY for them?
Jeff: god, I hate you
 
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when dealing with a midget psychic.
 
"Hey, did you hear? There's a small medium at large!?"
 
The same night, they are at the diner and they stumble across the very target of their search (said mystic).
Waitress: what will you have, Hun?
Small medium: bring me a triple with a double order of fries and the biggest coke you have. I'm famished!
Timber: small medium at large... Super size me?
 
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The adventurers find a scroll case. Timber goes to open it. Hoshi, a self styled Chinese American "samurai" and Frank, the chicken farmer are present.
Timber: this kinda makes me feel funny.
Frank: good funny, or bad funny?
Timber: kinda like I need mental floss.
 
(snip)
 
Timber: so... Either of you guys ever heard of this hastur guy? *pointing a spot in the scroll*
Frank and Hoshi look at each other for a moment...
Hoshi: I fall on my sword.
Frank: ya, know what? I fall on his sword, too.