BoloOfEarth

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Pre-game: Sentinel (OOC): Why is your back hurting? Squeeze (OOC): I raked the leaves in the yard. Sentinel (OOC, knowing he has a bad back): And why were you raking leaves? Squeeze (OOC): Because they're too hard to mop. Last session, the heroes of S-Squad captured two superpowered IRA terrorists. One had the ability to become any substance he touched (kinda like Marvel's Absorbing Man, but he has no choice in changing forms). They captured him by spraying him with a fire extinguisher, turning him into foam. Now, at UNTIL's request, three of the five heroes are accompanying the villains back to Ireland to stand trial. Styx: ...and we transport that absorbing guy in a big bucket. GM: But as soon as he touches the bucket, he'll become steel, and in that form he's pretty tough. Synergy: Okay, we'll use a styrofoam container instead. Squeeze: That's gotta be embarassing, being locked up in a styrofoam cell. Serendipity, a former member of the IRA who faked her death and went off to America, returns to Dublin to talk to her former fiance (Ronan). She's just explained how she faked her death and why she left. Ronan: So why didn't you fake both our deaths and take me with you? Serendipity: Um.... er.... GM: ...because it wouldn't have fit in your origin story? Back in Chicago, Synergy and Sentinel are in secret ID with friends and family as a huge storm is about to hit the city. They hear about a tornado touching down on I-290. It then proceeds to follow the freeway toward town, so they each head toward the tornado. Inside, they find a man (Stratosfear), obviously directing the tornado. After getting close enough, Synergy tries to talk the villain into stopping his rampage. Synergy: You have to stop! Stratosfear: I don't have to do anything! Synergy: Well, will you stop? Stratosfear: What is this, "Mother May I"? Meanwhile, Styx and Squeeze are in London, breaking into the Montenbourg Embassy to free a young girl being held hostage there. Styx enters the girl's bedroom... to find a superpowered assassin (Doubletap) standing there instead. GM: ...and you have no way of knowing this, but he's had to do without cigarettes for the past three hours, so he's not in a good mood. Meanwhile, out in the hall, Squeeze is jumped by the Hong Kong Kid. Squeeze: Okay, I grab him. (Rolls dice) GM: His DCV is currently 14. Squeeze: Okay, I don't grab him. The Hong Kong Kid KO's Squeeze, while Styx punches Doubletap through the glass doors and over the balcony railing. The HKK then moves in to attack Styx. The fight moves to the sitting room. Styx: No way I can hit him, I'll have to use something to attack his hex. What's in the room? GM: There's a sofa, coffee table, TV.... Styx: I don't suppose it's one of those 60" plasma TVs, is it? GM: (rolls a die) As a matter of fact, it is. Styx: Then I guess he's on TV now. After Styx smashes HKK with the TV and coffee table, the martial artist runs away down the hall. Styx grabs the sofa and uses it as a battering ram to smash HKK through a door and into the far wall of the darkened bedroom where the kidnapped girl is hiding under the bed. Styx: I make sure the Hong Kong Kid stays out by smashing his face into the wall. Then I say, "Amber, we need to go." GM: She's screaming in fear and cowering under the bed. Styx: I point at the Kid, whose head is stuck in the wall, and tell Amber, "Don't worry about him, he's just hanging around."

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Welcome to Rap Hack Search, where K-Fed tries to find someone, anyone, with less talent than him. "Today, our returning champion, an unidentified corpse from the city morgue, competes against an asthmatic goat and a block of cheddar cheese for the grand prize -- a lifetime recording contract with Screw-U Records!"

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why is there a giant mining starship-sized hole through our house? And why do I feel the need to call someone a Smeghead? A: Enslave the cheerleader, enslave the world.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat You know its a bad day for the Terminator when those pictures from high school of the whole "Animal Husbandry Misunderstanding" come to light.

Re: "Your girlfriend works for VIPER!" Huh?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I have a great idea for a new Reality TV show! We'll have a presidential election every month! Nonstop political ads! Weekly debates! What do you think? A: Mares eat oats, and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy.

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat I'm with you. On November 1, I turned on the radio in my car and heard a Christmas song. I promptly reprogrammed that button to a different station. He wouldn't. Pakistan has no green-skinned chicks with whom to carry out his own personal Prime Directive.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Faces filled with joy and cheer What a magical time of year Howdy Ho! It's Weasel Stomping Day Put your Viking helmet on Spread that mayonaisse on the lawn Don't you know it's Weasel Stomping Day (Credit and apologies to Wierd Al Yankovic)

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What is the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard Death Tribble say? A: It's worse than jumping naked into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Doesn't it really piss you off when you run out of dental floss?" NT: Most ill-advised holiday tradition.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: What will we call the anniversay of Death Tribble taking over the world? A: Whipped until bloody, dipped in lemon juice, and then forced to listen to a William Shatner/Roseanne Barr duet.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Mold it all into a life-size turkey centerpiece, just in time for Thanksgiving.

Re: Answers & Questions Drat, DT beat me. Okay, I'll try it again. Q: How long can I take to work up the nerve (and rip out my eyeballs) before ringing the bell at Roseanne Barr's house? A: I got 47 candy bars, 28 suckers, three blackjacks, a pair of brass knuckles, and 39 dum-dum bullets.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What do the kids say when they stop at the dentist's house on Halloween? A: I got 47 candy bars, 28 suckers, three blackjacks, a pair of brass knuckles, and 39 dum-dum bullets.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Blasting trick-or-treaters with cosmic radiation so they become whatever their costumes depict.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Um, all of them? (1) Get a lab mouse and name it "Pinky". (2) Find a way to mimic Orson Welles. (3) Glue fur all over body. Add tail, whiskers, and a pink nose.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat I'm surprised at you, Death Tribble. I figured you would define "love" as "the divine Miss Gillian". As for me... Love is... a really irritating one-panel comic. And I don't know if anybody loves anybody anyway. I'm still trying to find out if anybody really knows what time it is, and does anybody care?

Re: Why do you like to play Super Hero Games? Why do I like playing Super Hero Games? Because Hero Games puts out lots of super stuff! Actually, I'm typically the GM for our group, and that's one genre that all the players agreed upon. I'm not one for fantasy genres, preferring a world more modern-day. Throw in supers with the wide array of powers available, and the players can do all the wild, wow-type stuff they want. I tried Pulp, but nobody was into it. Likewise an attempt at a modern-day spy/agent game.

Re: Jokes A cowboy is captured by indians, and the chief tells the cowboy, "we kill you at sunset, but you get three last requests. What you want?" The cowboy says, "First, I want to talk to my horse." So some braves bring the horse to him, the cowboy whispers in its ear, and the horse takes off running. About an hour later, the horse returns with a beautiful blonde woman on it's back. The chief smiles knowingly and offers the use of his teepee. After an hour or so, the man comes out and says, "For my second request, I'd like to talk to my horse again." Just like last time, the horse is brought to him, the cowboy whispers in its ear, and the horse takes off running. It again returns an hour later, this time carrying a gorgeous red-headed woman. The chief smiles and gestures to his teepee, and the cowboy and woman go inside. An hour or so later, the man comes out of the teepee and tells the chief, "Same request. I wanna talk to my horse." The horse is brought to him, and this time the cowboy raises his voice a little and says in its ear, "Listen, ya damn fool, I said POSSE!"

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "I'm sorry, Robin, but I'll need the Batmobile to get to my Elizabethan Poetry recital..." NT: Dumbest supervillain hobby

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Re: What Are Your Hero's Most Embarrassing Moments? As Bolo, two incidents leap to mind. The first had to do with a series of Disadvantages my character had. He was Hunted by Firewing, Vulnerable to Fire (2x STUN), and Vulnerable to Explosions (1 1/2x STUN). The GM ran a story arc involving Firewing initiating an invasion of Earth, bringing a force of Malvan troops (agent-level grunts armed with energy weapons). Keeping in theme with Firewing's powers, the GM had them firing explosive bursts of flame. Had nothing to do with my Disads. Anyway, during the first battle, Bolo got one-shot KO'd by one (*ONE*!!!) of Firewing's troopers. - - - - - - - - - The second I blame on lack of sleep. We were trying to track down a mystery mega-powerful villain that was going around killing supers who had harmed innocents and either got free on a technicality or escaped from police custody. After many failed attempts to catch the guy in the act, for some stupid reason we decided to "make" him come to us by grabbing some guy off the street and breaking his legs. In our defense, we had tried everything else we could think of to get the guy, and it was like 1:30 a.m. so we were pretty tired. - - - - - - - - - Okay, there was a third thing, but I'm not directly responsible for it. I just share in the group embarassment. After rejecting every other name individual members could think of, our superhero group was finally named the Ann Arbor People's Justice Co-op (abbreviated as the "A-squared PJC"). Absolutely the WORST name I've ever heard for a super-group, and that includes my players naming their first team "The Heroes of Eastern Michigan," also known as "THEM."