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Old 07-08-2008, 02:48 PM   #201
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Last night, playing DF. The party (dragon-blooded priest, human swashbuckler with fire magic, gnomish "acquisition specialist" {yeah, he's a thief} and a winged elf fighter) is being taken upriver via dugout canoe by a band of tribesmen when we are attacked by a crocodile. The gnome shoots his crossbow and throws one of his precious knives to no effect, the swashbuckler launches a series of completely ineffective explosive fireballs (well, almost ineffective -- the winged elf took a point), and the priest feeds fatigue to the swashbuckler. The winged elf is in the middle of her canoe, which is exactly where the croc wants to bite. There is a protracted battle, which is almost entirely won by the elf, who fired, among other attacks, an arrow straight down the beast's throat, planted another in one of it's eyes, almost left her shortsword stuck in the other eye, and narrowly avoided being eaten several times. Finally, it dies after a coup de grace bow shot from one of the tribesmen, and we manage to drag it to shore. It was all very dramatic, and the tribesmen are throughly impressed with the elf.

Me: How big is it?
GM: About 20 feet.
Me: That's gotta be about half a ton.
GM: No way, more like 1000 pounds...oh, wait, I'm thinking metric.
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Old 07-10-2008, 02:44 PM   #202
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During a D&D game years ago, our party encountered an individual who had been somehow shifted through time by the name of Karl Kolchak (yes, The Night Stalker, for all you fellow Boomers...) In the course of trying to explain a little about the world he was from, he gave us a crash course on politics in Chicago, which he admitted was quite rough-and-tumble "unless you're a Democrat."

To which our gnome fighter, who'd been quiet until that point goes, "Is that anything like a hippogriff?"

ISTR the game stopping dead for at least 15 minutes while we laughed ourselves sick. it still brings a smile to my face to this day.
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Old 07-10-2008, 03:18 PM   #203
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During a D&D game years ago, our party encountered an individual who had been somehow shifted through time by the name of Karl Kolchak (yes, The Night Stalker, for all you fellow Boomers...) In the course of trying to explain a little about the world he was from, he gave us a crash course on politics in Chicago, which he admitted was quite rough-and-tumble "unless you're a Democrat."

To which our gnome fighter, who'd been quiet until that point goes, "Is that anything like a hippogriff?"

ISTR the game stopping dead for at least 15 minutes while we laughed ourselves sick. it still brings a smile to my face to this day.
Absolutely awesome.
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Old 07-11-2008, 05:42 PM   #204
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From my Serenity game tonight:

After a shootout on their boat, the crew has killed two assailants and captured a third. Interrogating him, they find out he does work. That is, he does 'work'. When they still don't get it, he explains:

"That's 'work', spelt W-assassin-R-K."
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Old 07-12-2008, 08:44 AM   #205
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From my Serenity game tonight:

After a shootout on their boat, the crew has killed two assailants and captured a third. Interrogating him, they find out he does work. That is, he does 'work'. When they still don't get it, he explains:

"That's 'work', spelt W-assassin-R-K."
<<falls out of chair laughing like a madman and stays on floor for several minutes afterward>>
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Old 07-12-2008, 08:45 AM   #206
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Absolutely awesome.
I know. Anytime I need a quick laugh, I just remember that line. Priceless.
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Old 07-12-2008, 03:03 PM   #207
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And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
Wife
And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? ...am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
My god!...what have I done?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

I may be going mad.
What do you think Dr Lovecraft?

I actually said that in character once...

Bonus twinkie points for the first to "ID" the quote...
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Old 07-12-2008, 04:44 PM   #208
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It is a Talking Heads song but I suspect you quoted it from somewhere else?

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Old 07-12-2008, 05:04 PM   #209
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After learning about the poor girl Tatyana gradually turning into a Vampire and the really bad stench at the Burgomeister's house, our band of haphazard heroes - destined to perish at the House of Stradh - visit the local church where they meet the middle aged, kind and shy priest of Somegod (I really can't remember), Blabla (yes, I can't remember his name either). After a long talk he choses a kind and indirect way to remind us that it is dinner time and says "I'm going to eat dinner; I'm really a bad cook but if you like we can share."

We thank him and say goodbye going back to the stench and all sorts of weirdness.

(Now, have to give some info about the GM - he has this superb tactic; when the players are losing interest for some reason, he introduces an absolutely shocking but totally irrelevant scene and when he gets everyone's attention back, he returns back to the story).

Next morning, with some new developments to discuss from the night before, we head back to the church.

(he starts doing it) We push open the half open doors through which strange, arcane voices seep. When we push open the door, we see that Blabla has a dagger in his hand, raised overhead, poised to strike and the altar in front of him is covered with blood. He also has a scarf wrapped around his wrist, dripping blood (heh, anyone getting the reference?).

Anyways, shocked we may be, one of us realize this as one of the GM's famous numbers says "heh, there wasn't an altar!"

The GM congratulates him and having all of ours attention resumes the game from the point we came to the church doors. At that point me and another player start to laugh and he says "Oh, he meant "bad" as in "evil!" He's an evil cook!!" (it's probably necessary I should explain at this point that "bad" and "evil" are a single word in Turkish :)).

Cheerio!
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Old 07-12-2008, 07:19 PM   #210
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It is a Talking Heads song but I suspect you quoted it from somewhere else?

Cheerio!
We have a winner. 2 Twinkie Points to Mehmet, just 998 more and I can mail you your free Twinkie.

Yes it is the Talking Heads.

The bit about being mad and Dr Lovecraft was mine.

I always thought that song more than a bit mad...
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