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  4. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Not my best but from last week's D&D campaign.

     

    A little background.... One of the characters,  Strings (Axel's PC), was told to get out of town by a friend he's trying to rescue. However Strings ignores this and we wind up having to sneak out of town because we've drawn way too much of the wrong attention. This means my character, the half-orc champion gladiator, Garshak, nick-named "the Mighty", can't now star iin the arena as he intended and he's going to have to let down a lot of people. (I tend to find I have fans wherever I go.) When he figures this out, he's not best pleased, leading to this little exchange:

     

    Garshak, pointing a thick finger at Strings: "Later, when we're away from here, you and I are going to have words"

    Strings: "Sorry, this is all my fault"

    Garshak, still not pleased at the thought of missing out on the glory and the cash he could have won: "Yes, it is"

     

    And, because my sense of humour works like this, I OOC had Garshak send out this "tweet": "Sorry, I had intended to appear in the arena today, but I've fallen in with lunatics and have had to cancel. #BlameStrings."

     

    Not the caliber of Ian or McGinty's antics, but it got a laugh from the rest of the party at the time, especially the notion of a half-orc gladiator having a twitter account.

    (Also #BlameLorgar" had been going around in my head that day, so....)

  14. Philosophy of Complications: Secret Identity

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    On 10/10/2018 at 1:25 PM, bubba smith said:

    as I understand it marvel considered the secret ID obsolete due to the preponderance of security cameras/devices

     

    Also, 4chan and their weaponised autism. IRL case in point: there was an altercation at a free speech rally last year in which an ANTIFA member struck a civilian over the head with a bike lock. 4chan set to work using facial recognition programs (another reason why Secret IDs are obsolete) and found out that said ANTIFA member was an East bay professor called Eric Clanton.

     

    So yeah.....

  21. Has anyone read any good or interesting superhero fiction novels?

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    On 3/19/2018 at 6:32 PM, Cassandra said:

    I have a book of superhero short stories using original characters.

     

    One has an alien scientist who believes his planet is doomed, and sends his son to Earth.  Turns out his planet doesn't explode, and the son lands in the Soviet Union.  Raised in the Soviet System he obeys all laws to the point he turns himself in to spend decades in a Siberian Prison.

     

    In another a Crime Fighter is put on trial by his fellow heroes for getting a child across a state line during a divorce case.

     

    And another story has a hero with amnesia told he must go into a hopeless fight, the what he is told isn't everything he should know.

     

    I know the anthology you mean. I used to have it and I enjoyed a lot o the stories. Unfortunately, I gave it away during a clear out. :(

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