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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Shouldnt that be "CQC"? Acronyms arent fair if they dont use the letter the word starts with

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... As long as were going for Paranoia quotes: The PCs are issued a "Med-bot" that we find out, during the mission, was originally a Security-bot that had been re-tasked and reprogrammed. Mostly. The characters get into a fire fight, and one of them is badly wounded. Med-Bot [with a robotic voice] *picks up the unconscious character by the lapels*: What is your blood type? *shake...shake* What is your blood type?...Wont talk, eh? *slap! slap slap!* We will get this information out of you eventually! WHAT IS YOUR BLOOD TYPE!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... So, naturally, just as Im really -really- wanting more Feline Fury quotes to post...the game takes an odd turn and she is being temporarily rotated out while she does some long-term, Secret ID orienteted stuff. Plus all of our game schedules have hiccupped :/ Ill get you more quotes as soon as we can start making them again

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... And maybe Id be better reading these threads when Im not tired and on a caffiene-deficiency headache jag. If some of you will quit with the derogatory remarks and the name calling, Ill quit with the knee-jerk overreactions and spazz-outs. Fair enough?

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Shes four times stronger than her size and build would indcate, meaning shes got a 19 STR and is stronger than most pro football players. And she regenerates almost instantly from minor damage. Making her immune to stretchmarks. That should cover the "physics" angle. Even tho the point is that she was saying she cant fly. But it seems every time shes come up lately someone has decided to give me grief about her. I can just quit posting Feline Fury quotes, if thats what you guys want.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... And heres what I originally came in to do >_< ---------------- Neutron (OOC): Okay, Ill go to the San Diego Comics Con and take pictures of all the people in costumes. Feline Fury (OOC): And Ill use the "Interpose" Feat to be in all of his shots! -------------- Feline Fury: Whered you spend your vacation? Inertia: Oh, I went all over. The south of France, Italy, Greece, Madrid, and the some time in Hawaii. I flew all over. Feline Fury: Its cool that you can fly all around the world so fast. Neutron: Youre lucky. I have to obey the laws of physics. Feline Fury: No you dont! You can fly too!I have to obey the laws of physics! Samson: HA! You can run like 30 miles an hour! You can jump 70 yards! I cant fly, or jump, or even run fast! My power is density control! Thanks to how physics works I cant even FALL faster than you!

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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... QFT. Whats to say they couldnt actually GET all this stuff by the deadline? I dont see "stupid" in the Player's actions here either. Getting the egg of a Giant Hunter Turtle sounds like a cool adventure. A chunk of stone from a pre-Rifts gravestone. No biggie. A branch from a cyprus tree. Easy-peasy. Eyes of a Mutant Crayfish. Well, either thats a cakewalk (if there are several kinds of Crayfish mutants and you can take the eyes from the easiest one to kill you can find), or another cool adventure if a Mutant Crayfish is something specific thats worth some XPs. If shes willing to decapitate a comrade and hang on to his head for FOURTEEN WEEKS (otherwise known as THREE AND A HALF MONTHS) waiting for the bounty to go active, then maybe the Knight of the White Rose wasnt pretending to be evil after all.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Thats one of the character hooks for her. She wants to be a legitimate actress. She has the talent. She has the skill. She has the inclination and the drive. She cant get hired for a real job. Youve read the other Feline Fury quotes, so Im betting you know what kind of person she is. Shes not a two-dimensional cutout character. Her build is one of her problems, and theres nothing she can do about it. I mean, she regenerates about as fast as Wolverine at the height of his power; it aint like she can get a reduction! Part of her "says what ever she feel like" attitude comes from the fact that people are going to stare at her, no matter what she does!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... THANK you!

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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Some quotes from the Embria game in Pathfinder: Chyra: Hot teen Undead-aspect Sorcoress Rhiannon: Hot teen heavy fighter ("the Littlest Roherrim") Varga: Hot barbarienne Metrion: Dashing young Wizard (who will one day look like Gandalf) Tash: Hot Half Orc ranger Lee: Handsome young Cleric ------------------------- Metrion: *suddenly sings* Im Metrion the Black! Im Metrion the Black! Im Metrion, Im Metrion, Im Metrion the Black! Not Metrion the Blue! Not Metrion the White! Not metrion the Orange, Ill...fix that later, Im Metrion the Black! Rhiannon (in the next room): Do you hear something? Varga: No. And neither do you. ------------------ Rhiannon (OOC): Rhi scuffs upstairs to her inn room, and then falls over like Arte Johnson on a tricycle. ---------------- Chyra: I hear you have a wagon for sale. Villiager: I do indeed. Metrion: How much? Chyra: Can we see it? Metrion: Oh! Good point! ----------------- Chyra (considering a riddle): Its a puzzle. Maybe it wants a Light spell cast on its head. Metrion: I can cast a Light spell. Chyra: I can cast a Light spell. Rhiannon: I cant. Varga: I can throw a Wizard at it! Metrion: Hey now waitaminute! ------------------ Metrion: What kind of magic is on the sarcophagus? Chyra *casts Detect Magic*: Necromantic. Rhiannon: Buh-bye! Metrion: Indeed. The Party: *Leaves* GM: ........Huh. 0_o -------------------- Tash: *comes in quietly and gently shakes Metrion awake in his inn room* Metrion: *groggily* mmmf.....mrrp....take another goldpiece, m'dear................huh what? ------------------- Lee: Is there room in that wagon for me? Im very brave in the face of Pelor...but the sun is down and I dont want to be all alone out here now ------------------ GM: The hydra is about the size of an elephant. Its five heads have large beaks, and its a reddish color......Its a red snapper!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Actually, part of her power is the ability to extend and retract her claws. They dont pull back or anything; she grows them out and grows them in (so to speak) kind of like a werewolf or something. Hey, if the Hulk can change his body mass so much all over -and- turn green, this didnt seem like so much of a stretch.

Re: Dumbest Moment Ever in your games -I- was the GM for that game. It was my first time running a Champions game solo, and I had seven Players. Plus, the guy playing Dr. Death was -really- hard to anticipate. He was working on being a stand-up comedian (it was 1983, after all), and I couldnt tell what he was going to do or not. Plus, this was about the eighth combat the team had been in, and hed never managed to kill anyone. I was counting on the other PCs to run interferance. I always include a major NPC now, to make sure I have a voice.

Re: Dumbest Moment Ever in your games Early CHAMPION game, run in 1983. The PCs have just defeated an entire team of eight supervillains. The seven heroes are all conscious, alert, and fine. But most of them have things to do. The UNTIL agent asks if one of the heroes can ride along in the armored super-paddy wagon, to make sure the villains dont regain consciousness and do something dire. None of the heroes volunteer. EXCEPT for the scary looking guy who dresses like an Victorian undertaker, carries a razor-sharp magical scythe, and calles himself "Doctor Death; the Collector". Now, the rest of the Players ALL know that Dr. Death begins each fight by writing the name of each and every villain on site down, in his Book of the Dead. (This is usually a Full Phase Action for him, and the PLayer just assumed that if there were more than five villains, it would take two Phases). If any of the villains survived the fight, Dr. Death would then strike their names from the book, looking very, very annoyed. Everyone thought this was funny, because the rest of the team all had Codes vs. Killing, and had managed to stop Dr. Death from keeping ANY names in his Book of the Dead. Until now. Somehow, all 6 of the other PCs just blanked on what Dr. Death was really like. The team leader even told him to go ahead and ride in the back of the van! Cut to the inside of the van, some three blocks from the scene, and Dr. Death knocks the single UNTIL agent in back wtih him out. Dr. Death's Player then mimes picking up his scythe. Light gently dawns on the other Players, who begin to look horrified.... Dr. Death: *SLASH!* Its not as much fun this way.... *SLASH!* ...But Ill take what I can get. So Dr. Death callously murders eight helpless, bound human beings, and merrily hops out of the van when it stops at the next light, blood dripping from the scythe and the doors of the police van. Dr. Death's Player was quite gracious about retiring the character, who (naturally) was placed on the Most Wanted list, and became an NPC villain. Half the other PCs had the decency to retire over the indicent. It still gets brought up from time to time.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... For those who may have forgotten:

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From the Titans game: ------------- Feline Fury: I may need to redesign my costume. Neutron: Why?! We all LOVE that costume! Feline Fury: I need a utility belt. Ive got so much stuff crammed into the tops of my boots theres not enough room for my knees anymore! ---------------- [A documentary about "vigilantism" is on. It is ambivalent; it lists some pros and some cons but doesnt really take a stand.] Canadienne (OOC): Like a bad freshman paper, it poses a lot of questions, and draws no conclusions. "F"! ----------------- Creepy Goth Dude: *Tries to flee out the back* Feline Fury: *Stands between him and the door, backlit, eyes luminous and claws extended* Creepy Goth Dude: Runs back into the main room* Werewolves in the pantry! WEREWOLVES IN THE PANTRY! Spacey Goth Chick: Oh I LOVE that band! Theyre SO sensitive! --------------- Samson: I am NOT gonna wear eyeliner! ---------- [Feline Fury is gettign nowhere in an investigation] Feline Fury: I really want Telepathy.....And a complete disregard for peoples' rights. --------------- GM: ...And the last story in the news is of a "vigilante" who stopped a carjacking in San Francisco. Witnesses say that a couple of assailants attacked a woman as she was getting into her car. Then seemingly out of nowhere, a large man in a "panda suit" rushed onto the scene, and dragged the two men off of her. He knocked one of them down, and the other one ran. He chased the fleeing carjacker and tackled him, then they fought. Witnesses described the man in the panda suit as straddling the carjacker and hitting him, over and over. Then people noticed the non-stop string of obscenities that the panda-man was shouting. Several parents had to lead their children away from the scene, and reporters have dubbed the man "the Pottymouth Panda" Feline Fury: I am SO getting his action figure!

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? I ran a game called "Millennium City" where one of the main NPCs was a Dr. Manhatten type called "Doctor Millennium". (The game started with him losing most of his power, and the PCs had to take up the slack). Another NPC the characters ran in to was "The Eye", who was based more on The Question than on Rorschach, but since Rorschach was himself based on the Question....

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... A few quotes from my new DC Earth Alpha Universe campaign. The campaign centers around Gotham City, and the group of heroes defending it now that Batman is spending most of his time with the Justie League. The players are: Catwoman, Nightwing, Batgirl, and Arrowette. The primary NPCs are Robin (Tim Drake), and Titania (an original character who is an escaped "offshoot" of Clayface). --------------- Catwoman (OOC) *petting real life cat on lap*: This is my prop! ----------- GM: You get a Hero Point. He drops a Hero Point in your mouth. Catwoman (OOC) *Mimes eating a sardine*: Mmmm! Salty! ----------- [Nightwing offers to carry Catwoman up to the top of a building on his grapple line.] Catwoman (OOC): She slides up against you and slips her arm around your waist. Her costume is so tight you can tell shes not wearing underwear Nightwing *mimics sound of grapple laincher*: Zzzzzzing! Arrowette (OOC): Was that your grapple launcher, or something else? ------------ Batman: *menacingly* How good are you without the bow? Long Uncomfortable Pause: *occurs* Arrowette: *small voice* I like the bow.... ------------- [Catwoman and Nightwing have been snooping around a crime boss's expensive penthouse apartment.] Catwoman (OOC): Yeah, OK, so we plant the bugs, and Ill be looking around at all these nice things he soon will have owned ------------ Catwoman:*materializes out of the shadows of the Batcave next to Robin* Robin: Gaak! Dont sneak up on me like that! Catwoman: Sorry...Im all out of bells ------------- GM: Ok Batgirl, when you kick the door open youll stun the mook who was hiding behind it. And from down this way youll hear escrima happening, cause now its Nightwing's turn! ------------- [The PCs have defeated a large number of mooks; a gang of bank robbers, and a band of Two-Face's men who came to double cross them] Police Sirens: *wail* Arrowette (underage street kid with a bow): Um...how do we do this? DO we wait for the cops? Nightwing: We wait. Catwoman: Im going to head out now. Arrowette: ....I ...rode with her! *runs!* ---------------- GM: You see a couple of young punks knocking over a Mom and Pop grocery store. Catwoman: They still make you in this town? -------------- "Waiting for Detonite", a surrealist play by Edward Nigma ----------------- [The group are watching the TV news, which shows Commissioner Jim Gordon commenting on the defection of one Reginald "Reggie Two Shoes" Batwikki, who has asked to be placed under protective custody in exchange for turning states evidence.] Gordon: If what Mr. Batwikki says he has to offer us is genuine, then is "alleged" former boss, Rupert Thorne, should be very upset. But thats life in Gotham City. In fact *looks at his wristwatch*, I believe Rupert Thorne is going to be upset with him right...now. Dick (Nightwing): Ive always liked Jim. He has such a way with words. Barbara (Batgirl): "Pick up your room. Do your homework. Get off the phone. Be in before nine..." ------------- Batgirl: *over radio* Look out! Hes in a combat suit! Mr. Freeze: *Smashes thru the wall in a modified 10 foot Lexcorp battlemover* Arrowette: Thats not a suit! Thats a robot! A guy in a robot is NOT a guy in a suit! --------- Arrowette: Lexcorp? They make this bad@$$ game system; the Lex-box!

Re: The Joker Scenario Feline Fury would probably destroy the Monster; hes a construct and thus not truly "alive". But Caine would be pummeled mercilessly and taken to the authorities. One of the main NPCs in the game world I just started IS Batman. Not an analog; BATMAN! (Im running a DCAU campaign). His responses would be basically the same. (The PCs are the Flash, Green Lantern, Power Girl, and Wonder Woman for the JLA game; I dont feel bad about having Batman there as an NPC at all!)

Re: Unmaking If the scenario resolves itself through a clever third option, or something like what DocMan was saying happening, then Im OK with it. Otherwise... And yes, if the villain falling into the vortex didnt close it, then theres no reason to believe that the hero doing the same would close it either.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Feline Fury: Emma (Canadienne) isnt lying! Shes just a victim of her own "enhanced reality"! -------------------------- --------------------------- Quotes from the Embria came (Pathfinder) --------- Rhiannon ("the Littlest Roherrim") is a blacksmith in addition to a soldier. She releases some prisoners held by a Goblin tribe. Rhiannon: Huh. Pretty shoddy workmanship on these manacles. Metrion (OOC): Metrion is now trying NOT to ask how pretty little Rhiannon is an expert on manacles! -------------------------- We are attacked by a baby Dragon thats ONLY about the size of a large Human. Varga the Barbarienne: *Grapples the Dragon and gets it in a hold!* Rhiannon (OOC): *sings to Prodigy* Smack My Drake Up! -------------- Metrion (OOC): A Hobbit without his bits is just a Hob! ----------- Metrion: How are we ever going to get these barrels up out of this steep ravine? Chyra: That would be a "Rope and Varga" system ------------ GM: Did you make the Perception roll? Chyra (OOC): No, apparently Im lost in Chyra-land ------------- to a Goblin: If youd been a cute Halfling chick, you wouldnt be on FIRE right now!

Re: Superhuman women and normal women Most of the female Marvel characters are 5'6", 120 lbs, according to the OHOTMU. Not all, but enough that it became a sort of running joke in my game group for a while. In our games, for some reason the female supers tend to be 5'4" or less, or 5'9" or taller. Not many between 5'5" and 5'8". Dont know why.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Events lead the Embria fantasy game group to the entrance of a tomb of an ancient people called the Ddragash, who we thought were Lizard-men or something, but who turned out to be Dragon worshipping Elves. The Cleric uses his ability to channel power to activate the door. Chyra (the hawt gothy sorcoress) and Metrion (the wizard) slip inside to look around. Rhiannon ("the littlest Roherrim") guards the entrance. Chyra grabs a vial from a table, and Metrion picks up a statue. Then the five sarcophagi open and the skeletal remains of Ddragashi heroes lurch out to attach us. Rhiannon tells everyone to retreat, and the Cletic manages to reseal the door after us, barely ahead of the skeletal elves. Varga (the Barbarienne) looks around the large antechamber. Varga: Ive found an inscription on this fountain! Metrion: What does it say? Rhiannon: It says "Do Not Remove Things From ALTER!" Metrion: Ok, ok, ok... >_<

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... GM: Hominy is "bad corn". Hominy is corn that touches you at night and makes you cry... ------------------- Kat (OOC): So, how embarassing is what hes doing when I slip in thru the window? GM: Well, hes got a dead goat, and its dressed up like Raggedy Anne... -------------- The rest of the good quotes were too weird or racy to post