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Mayday

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    Mayday reacted to Dr. Anomaly in Quote of the Week from my gaming group...   
    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
     

    Some time back, I was GMing a years-long-realtime Amber campaign. We always used background music for our games, and one disc we almost always had in the player in those days was the soundtrack to Last of the Mohicans. There's one particular track on there (don't remember which one now) that has a very ominous, loud, "dramatic" part...and it had an unnerving tendency to play just as I (the GM) got through delivering some dramatic announcement, or a disturbing bit of news from a major NPC. This happened lots of times, not just once. It got to be something of a joke: "Well, it couldn't have been that important...the CD player didn't do its 'dramatic bit'!"
     
    Not strictly gaming related, but...
     
    I seem to have an affinity with and for fire; enough so that most people who've got to know me over the years notice it without me telling anyone directly about it. They tend to capitalize on it when they can, too: "Scott, I can't get this ******* fire to light -- get over here and get this started so we can have a fire in the fireplace tonight!" and things like that.
     
    One this particular occassion, I was the current GM and we were gaming at the house of a friend a couple of miles outside the city limits. As was usually the case on days with nice weather, at least one meal of the day-long game session was cooked on the grill out on the patio behind the kitchen. That day I was sitting out on the patio, talking over character development and background stuff with the player whose house it was...and he had been trying for many minutes to get the charcoal to light, but it was stubbornly refusing, and he was getting hot, sweaty, and very frustrated. Finally he put down the lighter on the patio rail, turned to me in annoyance and said: "Look...can't you do something about this? Use your influence or something!"
     
    I said "What do you expect me to do, just wave my hand," -- and I did, in the general direction of the grill -- "and cause the fire to..."
     
    WHOOOOSH!!!
     
    A yard-high pillar of fire erupted from the charcoal, very nearly catching my friend in it, and then immediately settled down with the briquettes beginning to turn white at the edges as they burned. My friend, who had reflexively jumped back when the fire roared up, gave me the most venemous look you can imagine and said "Next time, wait until I'm out of the way!!"
     
    I was sitting there mouth open, not finishing my sentence, because though I have a 'way' with fire, it had never responded so...vigorously...before!
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