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Sheer and utter genius. IMHO

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I've no quarrel with your objection to being railroaded. I just wonder what makes you feel that presenting players with the choice between surrendering and having their characters killed isn't railroading.


Hans

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But you didn't present them with a choice. You told them they were surrendering. Even having a high IQ score doesn't mean you won't occasionally make a stupid decision, especially if it's based on a sense of defiance...

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No I didn't. I said that given the situation Ultraviolet described, I wouldn't have let the fact that the player didn't realize that the NPCs were pointing machineguns at them make me assume that the character wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The part about telling them that they surrendered was really just a throwaway line based on my opinion that giving a player the "choice" between having his character surrender or be shot to doll rags was tantamount to telling him to surrender (or gather his stuff and leave, of course).

So when Mark Skarr told me he'd leave a campaign where the GM told him flat out that his character did the only sensible thing he could do in the situation, I wondered why putting the PCs in a situation with only one sensible thing to do wasn't already railroading them.


Hans

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Because the GM is telling me what my character is doing without verifying if it's what I want the character to do. What if the character responds aggressively to threats? What if they don't believe that they'll survive surrendering? What if they have a secret from the rest of the party that they're wanted?

Because the party can make many decisions that doesn't involve surrendering. Or maybe it does, but the moment the enemy lets their guard down they strike, or run. Because saying that "I want you to surrender so your character surrenders" is railroading. Saying "Are you sure you want to do that, they have machineguns not machinepistols, surrendering is probably a wise choice" still leaves the decision to surrender in the party's hands. It makes them feel that they made the right choice instead of having it made by the GM, for them. If you're just going to tell me what my character does why am I "playing?"

When you take the choice away from the players you're no longer playing a game but telling a story.

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Obviously none of that was the case in the situation Ultraviolet described, because the decision to shoot two of the NPCs was portrayed as a ludicrous thing to do, something the player wouldn't have done if he hadn't mistaken machineguns for machine pistols.

Well, it's railroading if the players don't like it when the GM bridges parts of the plot with narrrative. In some genres it's more or less a convention that the heroes get taken prisoner every once in a while. When the plot calls for the heroes to be taken prisoner, I think it's a kindness not to waste the players' time pretending they have a choice.

Telling them that their characters will most likely be killed if they don't surrender is giving them a choice? I don't see it.


Hans

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Now now, I'm very proud of this thread, dont get it locked, its one of the few reasons I come back to the forums every now and then.

Please disperse (take it elsewhere etc) ok? Much appreciated.

Also, given the choice "are you sure, they're machineguns not machinepistols." I'd have changed my answer to 'Oh...well in that case I shoot the two gunners."

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(Anyway, back to the thread's intent and purpose)

Superheroes Game. Beez-man returns, the old RP ended ten years before this one started with the break up of the hero group they were in due to politics.
Betrayed by the State and rejected by his former 'friends' who chose to take the goverment Dollar. Bee man went back to being a homeless. Until a up and coming politician had him head hunted for a Job.
Support his campaign as part of a group of trained performing monkeys in superhero costumes. Good Pay, Great Benifits, Wonderful Accomodation. The Works.
Bee-man said no, then someone walked into the boardroom and told the Senator that a group of very vicious Supervillians had broken out of prision (Who were part of a clever press Pull by an old PC who was now an NPC running for president.) The senator cleverly manipulated Beez-man into doing 'this once, only once' in return for something very minor.

One of the Villians was a man known as 'Heamophilliac' (Or something to that extent (Also a PC)), he had power over Blood. So Obviously the insect man was sent after him as insects don't have blood.

Now, Heamophilliac has heard of Bee man and gets a bit suspicious when this huge cloud of Bees (Beez) starts wandering in the same direction as him.

H:Hmm...I think I'm going to kill those bees...
B: Why?
H: Well, they're not acting very reasonable are they...I mean, it's odd behaviour.
B:...They could be migrating...
H: Bees...Migrate?!

(Took us Five minutes to get back to play between the laughing and the argument over wither or not Bees Migrated.)

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Hehe... I think that was the point of Ultraviolet's post all along :)

The mistake is not attacking the machinegunmen but not eliminating the two whooters first. So, nope, not much railroading there...

Cheerio!

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After the character had spent quite a long time involved in some energetic ribald pleasantries:

OOC: Well, detached and objectively she'd ask "I'm sorry, what was your ultimate goal for said activity?" However, the objective part of her brain is currently sitting in the corner reading Moby Dick.

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From last night's session:

(the delvers are just about to melee with 3x their number in lizard men)

Mordreona: "I'm not sure I like this, I don't like it at all."
Lenia: "We'll be fine, Mordreona."
Mordreona: "I'm sure 'We' will. It's me I'm worried about."
Connell: "Worst that will happen is you get gored by a lizard and crippled for life, like Hammer." blinks, "Wait. That was a little more truthful than I wanted."

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God, yes! *Nobody* who was there will ever forget it...

It took aprox ten minutes before anyone could speak without someone else suddenly cracking up and setting off the whole room again.

High point of the aftermath once we all became coherent again was seeing the creator of Swamp Thing shaking his finger vaguely in Ms Lackey's direction and trying to squeak out something past the laughter tears. I think she did permanent damage to how he views his own creation.



Shameless plug: They sell highlight reels from previous years on DVD. They actually caught this whole thing on tape.

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A few of the deeper and more meaningful arguments in our group recently.

PC1 (Cynical Soldier): Look, It's impossible, there is no way we can break into their base that way.
PC2 (Unrelenting optimist): Yes we can. Nothings Impossible.
PC3 (Usually a very mild and Quiet character): *Looks up from his book* Have you ever tried to Slam a revolving door?

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PC1: Your Face!
PC2: Your Mum!
PC1: Your Mum's Face!
PC2: Your...Your...Your Mums Face...On Toast!!!
PC3: Oooh...nasty.

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Star Hero, one PC is the target of a kidnapping attempt, the only other PC in position to help right away is the psionic. The psi gets a very nice roll on her Ego Attack on one kidnapper.

GM: And they don't have Mental Defense, this will be like a railroad spike through a cantaloupe.

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A friend got the Anniversary Edition of Axis and Allies, so some of us were trying it out. One turn, the player running Germany spent almost all his cash on new infantry units.

Me: I see you got the Lebensborn program up and running.

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Our Hero game. We'd just scared a 5/8ths of spec-ops team into surrendering (I Succored the werewolf's PRE to 77, and MonkeyFist has a 2D6 Suppress VS PRE as well). Three of them managed to resist and were knocked stupid by the werewolf (two of them by using the third as a club).

Dallas (werewolf): "Guy's I'm hungry. Can I eat this one?" (indicating the "club.")
Ana (me): "We just got you a hamburger!"
Dallas: "I know, but I'm hungry again."
Gummi (GM): "Yeah, roll that PRE attack again."

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Our group of angels in In Nomine had just kept a Remnant Calabite from destroying a plane and was trying to restore his mind and save his soul at the same time. Gareth, my angel of Destiny, believed his Superior could help and raced to the scene, making it from Madison to Chicago in five minutes by "shortcutting" from a Madison bookstore to Yves' Library in Heaven and then to the Chicago Public Library.

On arrival, the following exchange ensues ...
Fellow angel: "How'd you get here so fast?"
Gareth: "Oh, I booked it."

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Shadowrun campaign; we are on a pseudo dungeon crawl in tunnels below the sewer and subways. The GM says, "As you're walking along, you realize you're cut off electronically -- your comm links have no service." I reply, "But I have The Network! See the huge crowd of engineers?"

GURPS campaign, weird American Victoriana. Two male PC's and one female. The female character is a librarian with limited combat skills, and combat paralysis; however, she is also pretty much always willing to get into the midst of things with us. Because people tend to look askance at women doing such "unladylike" activities, she likes to get into disguise when things get rough, finding an unoccupied pair of pants and a shirt and coat. In one scene, we were on our way to destroy a wooden box that had a foul spirit bound into it. We had scored some lamp oil, which she was carrying along with a lantern. I had my walking stick and an enchanted knife that would keep the spirit from possessing me (it had already taken the other male PC). She went to the box, poured the oil on it, and started rummaging in her pockets for matches. Unsure how long I could hold off the opposition, I called to her to just smash the lantern on the box! Unfortunately, some of the oil had splashed on her pants, and now caught on fire. She managed to douse her legs, but a few minutes later, one of the possessed crawled to her through the flames on the floor, catching his own clothing on fire before attacking her. Between us, we managed to subdue the fellow, and douse him. Unsure of whether her own clothing had caught again, she said, "What about the fire in my pants?"

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During a game, Campire PC who ran a nightclub was being attacked by the police. He had high contacts and called his contact in the police, the local police chief.

Vamp: Hello, is this the police chief?
PC: Yes, who is this?
Vamp: It's XXXX, I'm currently in my night Club and your stupic men are attacking me, call them off.
PC:...Why should I? I've heard whats going on there and you broke the law.
Vamp: Well if you don't then certain...picutres will get out into the public.
PC: Damn you! How did you get those Pictures of me in a Gimp suit in the First place!!
Vamp: I have pictures of everyone in Gimp Suits Police chief...

Game playresumed about 15 minutes later when everyone had stopped laughing at 'the vampire loving powerful men in gimp suits'.

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Manfred, the vampire who’s home we were in to do some research. I get possessed and killed (death noogie from the werewolf pulled my head off). I teleported the party to the ancient history so they’re stuck in like 10,000 BC (hey, getting mind controlled by the GM sucks). After we appeared, Manfred decided to leave, to let them fight the nasty. After we lose two other characters and the party returns to the temple:

Manfred: “So, did it all work out?”
Jamie (my, quiet, unassuming, sister’s werewolf character): *extends her hand into the gaming table and flips off the GM*
Jamie (ooc): That’s with the head hanging out of this hand.
Everyone: Laughs
Kit: “And thus the ancient enmity between werewolves and vampires is born!”
Everyone: Laughs more

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Had another good one at work:

We were discussing the new Day the Earth Stood Still movie. Now, I'm horrible with names, so that's what caused this.

M: "Who was that in the original."
Me (without even thinking): "Michael Rennie."
M: "Yeah, that's right. Wait, Mark, how do you know that."
(at this point my friend, L, walks by on her way home)
Me: "L, would you please tell them how I knew that Michael Rennie was there The Day The Earth Stood Still?"
L (without missing a beat): "Because he told us where we stand."

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Someday, I'll have to inflict a GURPS Rocky Horror campaign on my players. Not the actual plot, of course, because they'll know what's going on right away, but maybe if they somehow ran into the second mission, with aliens who are just as strange as Dr. Furter, but in different ways...

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Playing a soul sucking character in an evil game I'd just been shot from all sides by poison tipped crossbow bolts from HELL. I thump to the floor and the following ensues.

P1: Do you have first aid?
P2: No do you?
P1: Hm...Welp he's dead.
Me: Neither of you guys have First Aid? I have first Aid.
Gm: I'm going to need another HT roll from you.
Me: Always ALWAYS get First Aid on your character sheet. This is why.
P2: Knowing first aid isn't going to help you when you're the one on the floor.
Me: Just bring me an orphan or a properly bludgeoned old lady, I'll be fine.

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The rest of the post was good for context, but something about the wording of the above appeals.

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For some reason, my Sunday afternoon group tends to roll Hit Location 13 (officially "vitals", most gamers around here define it as "crotch") more often than random chance would dictate. In yesterday's Star Hero game, the just-rescued prisoner (new PC) blasted the first bad guy in the groin.

"Was there something about your captivity that you haven't told us?"

Then, the same player rolled back-to-back Location 13's on another bad guy.

That Player: Hey, it's not me, it's the targeting system on this gun.

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God, Blood Legend made me remember this:

We were playing Star Wars D6, and the players' tramp freighter was blasted off from the sky by a merc´s fighter. They fall into a swamp, are rescued by local lizard men, but they are unable to help one of the VERY injured PCs (because of the dissimilar physiology), which is suffering severe injuries, while the others are relatively unscathed. The following ensues:

p1 (injured one): so, can any one of you help?
p2 : ... sorry, I have no First Aid on my sheet. What about you, man?
p3 : Nope. I'm an engineer, remember - I treat damaged stuff, not people.
p4 : don´t worry, man I do have First Aid.
p1 : Yeah? Well, that's good. Which level?
p4 : ...1d (very low level, by the way)
p1 : Are you crazy? No, no way, don't even touch me!
p4 : Hey, man, don't worry, I'll put you back in no time.
p1 (draws his blaster and points at p4) Get away from me. I'll take my chances with the lizards...

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ROFLMAO

Well P1 does have a point... I have played d6 Star Wars

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Berkun: Wait, Blessing adds to damage?
Harald387: Every roll you make. Every time dice shake. Every crit you make, every feint you fake, I'll be Blessing you.
Bruno: Oh baby can't you seeee? Your crits belong to meeeeee... Oh how my poor heart aches, with every hit you make.
Harald387: We're bad people.

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Oh, yes you are. I got this going through my head right now. Damn you!!

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Sometimes a memorable quote doesn't have any words at all...

The players in my Victorian fantasy game have learned that they must track down the Wendigo and destroy it. They are about to head into the frozen wilds of Canada.

They did some research and one of the things I, as GM, told them was that the Wendigo is supernaturally drawn to acts of cannibalism.

They all just started looking at each other.

It was at this point that I realized the campaign had gone terribly, terribly wrong...

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Oh, I don't know. Sounds like they were finally getting their teeth into it. <ducks>

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It was more like a string of quotes, only made memorable by the whole situation that made it arise. It was our first Vampire: The Masquerade game, and a GURPS one, at that. The PC team was a very ecletic one: a Gangrel, his ghoul girlfriend, a Tremere and a Brujah (I guess). They were in a car, during mardi gras, and started a discussion among themselves that ended with a flash-bang grenade being blown in the car and with the Gangrel going on full rotschrek frenzy, drinking his girlfriend ghoul to the bone.

As soon as he recovers, he goes crazy over her and tells the others to drive to a hospital (at gunpoint). They left him at the hospital's door, and got the %$# out of there. The Gangrel then goes into the emergency section, screaming that his girlfriend (covered, as him, in blood) was hit by a car and was dying. The put her into a stretcher, and start looking for wounds. They don´t find any, because the gangrel had lick shut them. He goes "oops!" and says "oh, god, it´s in her leg, look the size of that hole!" when the doctors and nurses look at the leg, he extends a claw, punctures her belly, licking the finger very quickly and goes "oh, sorry, my bad - it´s in her belly, after all".

He is told to wait, sits down and asks the desk nurse for "a menu - no, sorry, a magazine, you please. By the way, do you have a blood bank around here? With ATM?"

The game couldn´t return for almost half an hour. Every time we remembered that we had to stop and laugh.

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This quote is from my first campaign ever. :)

The PC's have all received a scroll from their new friend Emerald, which have teleported them to a campsite in an undisclosed location. Upon arrival, she told them to wait here with a boy called Phobos, who is actually a (friendly) Tentacled Horror. "If you ever need me, just call my name"- says Emereld, then she flew off.

The players later tried to summon her by crying out her name aloud. She didn't come back.

Even later, after a small fight with Phobos, he took out a moblie phone, and dialed 555-MRLD. The players were surprised and groaning.

I was excepting this reaction. My campaign note about it was "WTF moment".

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"A Tie Fighter? What does he do - strangle you with it?"

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Not an RPG quote, but from a naval wargame session:
"Twenty-seven inch torpedoes?" <holds hands about two feet apart>
"That's not very long..." <laughter from other players>

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RPG quote:

Sann Arkis Me Invisible mage variously doing Staff and Spell
Lord Tyrius Semi Crazed Post Up Fighter
Enemy (name Rank) Female

Tyrius: "Invisible Demon SUCK OUT HER SOUL!"

Arkis <whine> "But its FATTENING."

Lady Goggles....and runs about 2 rounds later...

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I had this very interesting situation with players playing final fantasy setting. There were 5 of 'em in the group. They went to temple of Leviathan, which was actually a massive labyrinth, and they split into 3 groups. 2 of 'em, white mage and blue mage, went to the left side of labyrinth, to solve one mystery.

A fighter went to middle and done nothing.

And the dragoon and the black mage went to the right to find a mechanism with a compass and a lever. They didn't know what to do, so the dragoon gave him a "brilliant" idea.

Dragoon: "Hey, what about that Break spell you learnt about 2 days ago? Maybe it will work!"
B.Mage: "Well, you are pretty smart, that REALLY is a good idea!"

And so the black mage cast Break spell on a very delicate mechanism. I really didn't know what to do except to declare that both of 'em just earned 0 points in total for that session.

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Fighting a homogenous demon with no facial features:

Me: "I carved it an eye socket when I couldn't find one to stab"


Another game, town elders went bad so Panzerfaust loudly proclaimed: "I wanna stab old people."

I haven't laughed geniuinly outloud in the longest time, give this man a cookie.

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While playing Demon Hunter campaign, we had so much of laugh... amongst others, here's one of the situations.

A character, hereby named A, enters the church in Boston, in which he knows he must tell the secret password to a priest so he can venture to the catacombs, where Demon Hunter organisation is.

The password was "The Revelation has begun.", but A just couldn't remember it, so it went something like this.

A: Um...hello.

Priest: Welcome, child, have you come here to confess?

A. Uh...no. I just wanna pass trough the door thing you have there.

Priest: I have no idea what do you speak of, my child. Are you on drugs?

A (histerically): NO, GOD DAMN IT!

Priest: *achem* (points at the cross)

A: Err... sorry. I forgot the frickin' password... uh... Revolution is starting, Rebellion has begun, Rampage is on, uh... that **** that is mentioned in the Bible... y'know... COME ON, lemme in, I've been there before!

Priest: Fascinating vocabulary.

A: Yea, I know... argh, that's not the point, just lemme in, I can't remember it!

(another player enters the church)
B: The Revelation has begun.

Priest: It has begun indeed.

(B enters the secret passageway, while A stares furiously)
A: Right. Revelation has begun.

Priest: You forgot the definite article "the".

A: (freaks out)

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A PC Seargent with a Insubordinate NPC Soldier:
Sarge: "Right, now you go do Track Circuits until I say to stop."
Corp: "With all due respect sir, you and what army?"
Sarge: "..." *Huge Grin Splits his face, he walks over to the Corp and puts his arm around his shoulders* "I'm Glad you asked that. Come with me for a second."
(Takes him over to one of the close combat fighting rings)
Sarge: *Stands opposite him* "Right, hit me."
Corp: "...What?"
Sarge: *Still grinning* "Go on, hit me as hard as you can, right on the chin."
Corp: "...You're going to do something arn't you?"
S: "No Corporal, hit me as hard as you can, go on, free shot at your commanding officer..."
C: "...You know I'm a sniper and can't hit for S*** and then you're going to smack me back."
S: "Well if you're more comfortable with it go and get one of the Stun Guns" (They're used in ranged combat training and kick like a mule)
Other NPC Soldier: "Er...Sarge, I don't think that's a good Idea..."
S: "It's fine, we're at point Blank, he's armed, it's during training and there's no way he could miss me..."
*C returns*
S: "Well, go on, shoot e if you're going to."
C: *Raises the gun and aims at him for a second then looks at him (Still griining) and lowers it and slings it over his shoulder* "I think I'll save my bullets for the enemy Sarge."
S: *Nods and walks over to him, takes the gun from him and goes and puts it back in it's box very carefully, then walks back over to C, grabs him by his lapes and holds his face about 0.0001 mm from his own* "Right, glad we got that out the way, now remember this, until you have the balls to beat me until I die of concussion, shoot me until I die of massive blood loss, the enemy gets me or I get transferred I am your God Damn Sargent and you do what I say When I say it...Got that...NOW GO DO GOD DAMN TRACK CIRCUITS!!"

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that was extremely well handled.

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It was during the first time we were playing Shadowrun, 2nd edition, for the historically inclined ones. It was the DNA/DOA module, by the late Dave Arneson. There's a point where the players go through the sewers to get into Aztech's underground labs. Up that point, the players were excelling in stealth and infiltration skills. They invade a guard room by means of a service duct, the mage knocks out two ork guards in there, and the team proceeds to check the rest of the building outside the guard room. The team's obligatory heavy weapon user troll stays behind to tie the guards.
He can't find cuffs, so he improvises. He takes off their clothes, fills their mouths with their own socks, and uses the guard's belts to tie them in a most... peculiar way, to say the least. Bondage is a word that comes to mind. Then he thinks that maybe he can fit into the guard's armored clothes, since they are so much better than his, and almost the right size, and starts unclothing.
The mage goes back to see if the troll needs help with the guard, sees the scene above, and manages to say "Gods, I'm sorry. Need more five minutes?"

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The same Seargeant as the last Quote.
During a battle planetside we discovered that the enemy forces on the planet were a lot larger and better trained than we'd thought they were or intel had thought they were. There were about 5 enemies for every one we'd thought there were, our order was to attack however if we had then we would of been destroyed.
Our entire army quickly retreated into a circle around the dropzone about 25 miles in diameter so that reinforcements could come in however the enemy had jammed our signals so we couldn't contact reinforcements.
We spent about 3 or 4 weeks hiding in a series of haberdash built trenches while getting bombed before a Officer was sent down to find out why we wern't back yet.
The officer was one of those types who belives our average soldier is expendable, war is easy and had probably never fired a gun.
So he arrives, finds out what happend and gathers everyone together (Leaving our defences very weakend as only the motion sensor guns are left running)

Officer: Well, I've heard what happened here and I'm disappointed, you're members of the UNSC MArine and I didn't expect such Cowardice from our troops. Now tomorrow first thing we're going to attack in full force and when we get back to the Ship I'm going to report every one of you for *Long, long speech on how we're all cowardly monkeys who couldn't fight our way out of a paper Bag and how he's going to have us all shot for gross incompitance if we survive tomorrows attack.* Now get back to your posts you imici-*Head Explodes as a plasma Bolt (Weapon only used be the enemy, equivalent to a sniper) flies in one ear and out the other, everyone turns to where it came from guns raised, the seargean steps up, qalks throught the silent crowd to the platform and kicks the body off the stage then looks at the soldiers* The officer was, regretuflly, killed in an enemy action during a speech in an attempt to motivate the troops, no one else was killed due to our quick response time and training. Regretfully there was nothing that could be done or any way this could of been forseen. In reponse we decided to bunker down so as to avoid any more casualties when we obviously were outgunned. Does anyone have any Questions? No? Good. Lets hope they send someone more intelligent Next time. Back to your posts *Slings the plasma Gun over his shoulders, picks up the corpse and walks off.
*Total silence for a few seconds then*
Random NPC Soldier: Why arn't you a general yet again?

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I was on a roll at our Hero game yesterday, I can only remember a couple though:

Storm Shadow (a weather witch, not a ninja. Shadowvyce is our ninja) is using a magical book to divine information about the location where we're supposed to go. The book is writing the information out as she reads it.

Dirk (NPC): That's a neat trick, is it wireless?
Red Velvet: Yes. She's plugged into the Ethernet.
Shadowvyce (world's loudest ninja): Hey! Bad puns are my domain!

Same conversation, moments later after explaining to the head NPC that one of the people who brought us to him was the famous paranormal doctor, GummiBear.

Jacques (NPC): My word, that's GummiBear? I never thought he'd be so dour in person.
Red Velvet: Well, you know that new rage with candy, right? Make sour versions. This is the new, sour version of GummiBear.

End of conversation as we're preparing to leave. We have gotten up and are walking to the gate.

Jacques (NPC): Would there be anything else I could help you with?
Red Velvet: We could use a dog collar and a leash. For Shadowvyce. He's always wandering off.
Shadowvyce (was having an IC conversation with another player): I'm going to go inside and get some biscuits and jam.
GM: So, you're walking away from the party?
Shadowvyce: (nods) Yeah.
Red Velvet: SEE!
Backup: Can you make it a shock collar, keyed to his voice?

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"Since I want to be quiet, I'll throw a fragmentation grenade."

(If you were to guess that player had had a bad day IRL, you'd be right.)

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Our supers game. Bedrock extremely strong stone man is trying to grab a boulder to hurl it at a bunch of sci fi type heavy troopers but is taking heavy fire.

Thunderchild ( basically Doc Savage lite with golden age Superman's powers and the first modern super) " You get the boulder and I'll draw their fire."
he leaps between them puffs out his chest and calls on them to surrender and they blast him about 10 of them with ion rifles and miniguns. Thunderchild takes a lot of stun and even a little damage but they ignore Bedrock until he hurls first a 4 hex boulder through the group then grabs a smaller boulder and scatters a bunch more.

Bedrock "Are you crazy? How could you expose yourself like that?

Thunderchild " Its OK , At least I allowed you to get your rocks off.



Meanwhile in the science fiction universe, dimension traveling two fisted pulp adventurer occultist. Logan Starke and his lovely assistant Tyra Von Shrakenburg are pulp like dancing around their attraction to each other. They are both " not wanting to damage their relationship, waiting for the right time "etc. etc.

They are adventuring with Laryn Caligari ( yes her advisors are the Caligari cabinet) smartest woman in the universe but totally socially inept. They come upon Mina Lekatariba ,genetically engineered super human who is super beautiful, super strong ,super fast, super intelligent, no need to sleep, etc. etc.. Also totally socially incompetent.( think Leeloo from the 5th element squared)

Now Mina is hardwired to find heroic men almost irresistible so she explains to Logan she is super strong, double jointed , never gets tired and has memorized 47 books on sexual pleasure. Logan is shall we say a bit uncomfortable as is Tyra. Laryn who has empathy as a power but is NOT empathetic says about Tyra "This woman also would like to have sexual relations with you if there are scheduling issues I'm sure my secretary could help out."
Mina applauds her efficiency while Logan and Tyra are dumbfounded, embarrassed and now paralyzed in the next step of their relationship. Laryn is totally puzzled when Logan complains to her.

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In our "Teen" Supers game (the Teens have all graduated from High School and the youngest is now 19 and they have new identities [those who survived do, anyway]):

Jules (OOC): Seriously, he just doesn't get it. Remember, he's clueless. Nothing Sticks.
MonkeyFist: Yeah, his mind is a frictionless surface.

-----Edit
Forgot this one:
We got home about 0130 Monday morning from gaming all day Sunday. As MonkeyFist and I are closing the car up, another car pulls up in the parking lot and a kid with a vinyl mat and some D&D books gets out of the back seat of a car.

Me: "Look. More gamers."
Kid: *laughs*
MonkeyFist: "Who else would be in a parking lot, at one-am, sober?"

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During a really over the top martial arts RP (Think Anime style battles with stupidly long titles) a few of the attacks (Yelled Very loudly by the players)

"Stance of the Drunken Mice!"
"Strike of Ten Badgers!"
"Leap of the Crouching Dragon (Also known as running away until you think of something to do to defeat your opponent, 'Ready, set, Run away!')"
And my favourite
"Battle Warbling (Allows the character to use rudimentary sonar to see in the dark using E-flat (Yeah, Johnny English))"

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During a spaceship mutinee the players are deciding who lives and who dies during the chaos. The conversation turns to an NPC whos' fond of Clone-Vatting.

Robot to his Mutant Compatriot: "Because like him or not we are sort of friends? We kill him a lot, or at least you do, but we are all in this **** together"

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It's been years, so forgive me for fudging some of the details. The end is right, and that's the important part.

This was an old-school VtM game, and the party had just been shoved together. The dominant member of the gang was Vincent, a Ventrue who had an attractive female teenaged ward named Kathi, as well as a butler we never really named - we just called him Alfred because he was very much modeled on Mr. Pennyworth's dry wit and localized omniscience. The other relevant party members were Diana, a very cynical Toreador prostitute, and Lori, an Assamite with a Really Fast Sports Car.

Anyhow, the characters are getting to know each other at Vincent's place - in some cases with narrowly-avoided violence, as when Diana almost slams her stiletto heel through Vincent's forehead after an offensive remark - when they hear the unmistakable screech of a car peeling out of the driveway At Velocity. The party leaps to the windows, just in time to see Kathi behind the wheel of Lori's car, heading for the downtown clubs. Quoth the party:

Vincent: "My ward!"
Lori: "My car!"
Diana: "My God!"

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...oh that's just classic.

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modern game, characters are vigilantes mowing their way through an underworld casino. One PC is firing his assault rifle on full-auto, but can NOT get a decent damage roll. After rolling 2 points of damage to one opponent (which didn't get through that opponent's body armor), another player cracked "What sort of magazines are you putting in that thing, Reader's Digest?"

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Have to use that one!

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The party had just taken out a pirate base, and from their "salvaged" starship, were trying to get the prisoners seperated from the pirates. They were looking for a technician for their crew.

Jeff: "Let's have the technicians come aboard and we'll see if we want to keep any of them."
Ned: "I hate interviews!"
Jeff: "I'll do all the interviews, that's what I'm good at."
Ned: "Okay." Into the PA "All the technicians move to the right. The rest of you, into the showers."
A moment of silence.
The rest of the group laughing hysterically while moaning.
GM (me): Dude, that is so not right!

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1930's Rocketter setting. PC's are in a bullet scared faux German tavern run by the Amercian Bund, being shot at by a host of Bund members, some Hitler Youth, and a trio of TL6 Nazi power armour equip soldiers. One PC (that has gone Beserk) has been hit at a range of two yards with a flame thrower armed power armoured nazi. The PC's Rocketter suit, which is layered leather, silk and asbesotos, is slightly on fire. It comes around to the PC's return fire...

GM: "....Ok, -2 for range, +1 for size, and -2 for light."
Mike: "I'm on fire, right?"
GM: "Yep."
Mike: "Shouldn't I get a light bonus for my flying suit being on fire?"

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I think its am amusing thing that my mind went straight to 'answering his question' instead of laughing. I'd say yes but only as per torchlight, which will be neatly cancelled out by distraction penalties. Made me smile though.

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From someone else's [1] Shadowrun game:

"That was subtle; we used grenades, not C4."

[1] I inexplicably didn't note the original attribution. I will probably go find it again later, and edit this post accordingly.

Edit: "someone else" = username "John Campbell" on the Irregular Webcomic Forum.

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The PC's were in a low tech campaign. They have spent the night being 'purified' by a group of priestesses, and are riding out of town on a brace of camels.

Player (mumbled aside): "...mmn, 'Erotic Art (full release)(ruminants)'".

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The Action heroes are responding to a break-in alarm in the party-going (male) Faceman's hotel room. They find the (female) Infiltrator going through the Faceman's matchbook collection, sorting out all the ones with the name "Sam" on them. She believes the Faceman is selling the team out to his cousin Sam.

Investigator: "What are you doing?"
Infiltrator: "I think he's trying to betray the team!"
Wire Rat: "By picking up women?"

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From my Free RPG Day run.

Superstrength Brick: Can I hit the raptor with a van door?
Me: Hell yes you can!

I was very much running the game on the rule of awesome.

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*A BBEG is holding the entire group apart from our very random rouge hostage, they're in their cells and she's gloating.*
PC1: He'll come for you you know, for you and for us. And I wouldn't want to be here when he comes...
BBEG: Who, you're theif friend, my men have aleady killed him an-
*Earth shakes*
PC2: What was that?
PC1: I don't know...but if this place collapses before he gets here to help up we're done for... we're nearly a mile underground...
BBEG: No one is coming for yo-
*Earth shakes again, harder this time.*
BBEG: What on earth is th-
??? (From below ground): SUPRISE!! (As the ground benieth the BBEG gives in a perfect circle about 3 meters in radius and she disappears into the ground. At which point the rouge appears wearing a mining helmet, water waiders, dungarees and weilding a Pick.
Rouge: 'lo, you folks need an 'and? *Big grin* She'll be fallin' do'own thar' fer' a while no'ow, it's nearly 12 stories deep.
PC1: But we need her alive
Rouge: I know, There's a safty device at the bottom (This rouge earlier used 'safty device' to describe a bomb that 'only went off when you dropped it, not when you carried it' as a example of his idea of safty devices)
PC1: What? What is it?
*From far below there's an echoing *Splat**
Rouge: Dusty (A trained Ball of slime who the wizard had made while drunk from things he'd found in the gutter and the bottom of his beer glass in a really bad pub.)
Took all the PCs several moments IC to realize what he'd just said, then everyone burst out laughing.
BBEG: *From far, far below* There's gum in my hair!

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Is the character's name Rouge (the makeup) or Rogue as in thief? Gives me an interesting idea for a fem fatale..

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From the D&D session a few weeks ago:

The GM: "I keep assuming you're saying something important, and then I'm struck how dumb it was." (the conversation had degenerated to zombie babies on sticks)

Quinn: "Praying for help is actually useful in a fantasy world!"
rolls
The GM: "Heck, with a 32, it might have actually worked in the real world."

Kethra: "Nobody tries to move a dwarf. Who's PLAN was this?"

From todays D&D session (in progress!)
Kethra: "Little black suit of armor: Timeless!"

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Suryn (Elf druid), having a confrontation with Ballard (Human pyromaniac wizard).

Suryn: "Humans have two kidneys, one on either side, right?"
Ballard: "Everything's basically flammable, right?"

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In the course of an Archangelic golf outing between Michael and Marc (yes, really), the Archangel of War decided to even things out by using "Outlaw Golf" tactics to rattle his opponent. Which is why, as Marc lined up a shot, Michael's caddy pulled a gigantic paintball gun from out of his bag.

Marc: "What are you doing?"
Michael: "Winning."
***

Later, Gabriel begins to play through. She and Marc watch in puzzlement/amusement as Michael lies on the ground sniper-style and begins to line up a golf shot with the paintball gun.

Gabriel: "We can do that?"

Marc: "He can do that. Me? That's another story."

(The "shot" knocks the ball astray, into the rough)

Marc: "Of course, there's a reason most of us don't do that..."

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From our Hero game on Sunday. We were trapped in a cave, with a portal leading to a Hell dimension. We might have been able to go back the way we came, if we wanted to deal with the nasty sleep gas and something coming to kick our butts. We were in an underground cave, under a lake, in southern Louisana:

Backup: "Hey, Red, how long can you hold your breath?"
GM: "I love ideas that start with that question."
Red Velvet: "Uh . . . a couple of minutes . . . why?"
Backup: "You think you could damage the ceiling so it'd collapse and fill the portal?"
Red Velvet: "Um . . . I don't know. But then holding our breaths becomes irrelevant, we'll be crushed by the sludge."
Backup: "No, that's just it, we'll flood the Hell dimension with the swamp, and then climb out."
Stormshadow: "That's assuming the portal doesn't suck the whole earth in."
Red Velvet and Backup: "What?"
Stormshadow: "Once it starts sucking the swamp in, what's going to keep it from sucking the rest of the world in?"
Backup: "The fact that we know they've opened it before, and it didn't."
Red Velvet: "A six-sextillion ton ball of iron."
GM: "Wait a second, I thought Red wasn't that smart?"
Red Velvet (OOC): "It's cool. It's got the word 'sex' in it."


Just a little bit later, still the same argument, after the laughing subsided.

Stormshadow: "You can't do that. It would cause an ecological catastrophe."
Red Velvet: "Yep. But we don't live in Louisana."
Stormshadow: "But we need to go through the portal and find out of Marshal is still there."
Red Velvet: "No, really, we don't. I'm pretty sure that he's not there. I don't wanna go to a Hell dimension."
Stormshadow: "Well, we have to, to get out."
Red Velvet: "What's wrong with Backup's plan?"
Stormshadow: "It would cause an ecological catastrophe here, and who knows what it would do to the Hell dimension."
Red Velvet and Backup: "Who cares what it would do to the Hell dimension."
Red Velvet: "For a mercenary, you're not very mercenary."


After going to the Hell dimension, while Gummi (the GM) was off for a moment. All OOC.
Red Velvet: (to another player) "what's your character's name?"
Argent: "Malcom."
Red Velvet: "Whew. Okay, Gummi can live."
Stormshadow: "Why?"
Red Velvet: "Well, if his name was 'Will' we'd have to hurt Gummi."
Stormshadow: "Okay?"
Red Velvet: "Think about it, if his name was Will, we'd have Holly and Will, looking for Marshall in a land that time forgot after taking a one way portal to this new land."
Stormshadow: (Laughing uncontrollably, the only one who got it).
Malcom, a returned Gummi and Backup: "What?"
Red Velvet (sining): "Marshall, Will and Holly/ on a routine expedition/ when the greatest earthquake ever known . . ."
Stormshadow: "You are so bad!"


At the very end. After returning from the Hell Dimension. Red Velvet and Backup go out to dinner.
Backup: "We should probably let the authorities know what happened down there. I'll call the New Orleans Police."
Red Velvet: "Yeah, I'll call the guy who let us ride on his sub."
Red Velvet (miming using a cell phone): "Hi there. It's Holly. You can recall the sub, we're fine now and they have their stuff. Also, you may want to avoid doing anything in that area as there's a portal to a hell dimension there. If you plan on going back, you might want to, at first, saturate the area with thermonuclear weaponry. Or, get with the police and fill the place with cement."
GM (Reeling from how fast it was said): "Hey, wait a second. Nuclear weaonry? Weren't you guys worried about an ecological catastrophe?"
Red Velvet and Backup: "No. SHE was." (Indiciating Stormshadow)

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After a particularly nasty fight:

Lauren: How bad off are you?
Dan: I'm Canadian . . . I'm almost French.
Nienna: Wow. There's no amount of healing that can cure that.

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Playing D&D 2e. My character, a thief, failed to detect/disable a trapped door and fell victim to its poisoned-needle trap. The other characters (for reasons I don't recall) were not aware of the nature of the injury, and simply found me unconscious. They took me to a cleric for healing; after a quick examination, the cleric said something to the effect of, "I've looked him over, but I didn't find anything but this little prick"

Playing D6 Star Wars, one of the players, whose character had been grievously wounded and placed in a bacta tank to recover, interjected his opinion on the IC discussion we were having. I responded with something to the effect of, "Shut up! All you can say right now is, 'Blub, blub…'"

Playing Deadlands, my character had been through a great deal of wierdness, and had decided that nothing was real anymore. The GM, for whatever reason, was trying to rectify the problem, and had a side-session with me, where he had God visit with my character, on a beach, in lawn chairs, under a beach-umbrella; God in the guise of a "modern" older man, offered me a mojito while he tried to soothe my character's concerns. When I was returned to where the rest of the group was, they all asked what had happened. I responded, "God gave me a mojito."

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A couple of days ago at a Con game appropriately titled "Zombie Apocalypse"...

At the first sign of a disturbance, my character had moved casually away from the direction of the unrest, and appropriated a chair to use as an improvised club--primarily with the intent of using it on a window.

Another player took issue with this. "You should stick with the rest of the group and follow me [towards the disturbance]. I have a *knife*!"

I wished him luck with that.

(Suprisingly, my character escaped. The first PC to do so in the several years this GM has been running the game there. <shrug> Getting out of the building was, of course, only the first hurdle, but it was the biggest one.)

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Yesterday, I picked up my Hero 6e GenCon CD from my friend who pre-ordered my copy (Gordon Feiner). I was doing a scan of one of the books on my work computer when another gamer I only vaguely knew came up behind me. Keep in mind, that for this entire exchange, the CD case that says "Hero System Sixth Edition GenCon Special" is sitting on my desk, in plain view.

Other: "Hero 6? When did this come out?"
Me: "Next month, September."
Other: "How did you get a copy?"
Me: (Scroll up to page 2 of the PDF and highlight Gordon's name) "This guy works over in ICC, I have some good blackmail material on him. I made him get me a production PDF before they were available."
Other: Stunned into silence with mouth hanging open.
Me: (Laughing and holding up the CD case) "No, seriously. If you pre-ordered it at GenCon, you got the PDFs."

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My Sunday group tends to run miniseries instead of campaigns. Yesterday was the start of a low-powered superhero game, and all of the PCs are being brought to Vibora Bay by assorted odd events.

One PC is a sorceress specializing in telekinesis spells, her main attack is to telekinetically throw stuff at her opponents. In case there isn't anything suitable in the area, she carries a bag of steel marbles with her in hero ID. Her intro story was that she came home to find her bags packed and a note from her (deceased, but when you were a big name voodoo priestess ... ) grandmother telling her she needed to go to Vibora Bay stat. The player looked up at the heavens and cried "Did you remember to pack my marbles?"

Another PC is a somewhat-retired Secret Service agent who followed a tip to Vibora Bay. As he drives to the hotel, he gets a text message on his cell telling him to visit a certain community center (the location we were all meeting at), but there's no originating number given for the message.

Player: (miming throwing the cell out of the car) Well, this has been compromised.

He then turned on the car radio, which just happened to be playing a PSA for that community center.

Player: (miming pulling the radio out of the car) Well, this has been compromised.

(we were all voting for a flyer to land on his windshield next, just to see him try to rip that out and toss it ;) )

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The PCs, in a modern day Action! campaign, have just discovered they're fighting a werewolf or faerie.

Joel: Do you have Occult?
Rachel: No, but give me some robes and a few hours and I'm sure I can start one up.

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Bandits, in a basically unassailable fortress; we were running out of ideas on how to get up.

Bandit 1: "There's a dragonborn riding an emu coming up to our front door."
Bandit 2: "OK. We're letting that one up just so we can ask."

EDIT: And another from the same session (just ended):

Dwarf warrior: "Is there normally a horrible bloody tentacled undead ooze monster commanding an army of monstrous shadows in the pit out front?"
Terrified halfling villager: "NO???"
Dwarf warrior: "Well, there still isn't..."
Terrified halfling villager gapes in horror and brain-fried confusion at the Dwarf.
Dragonborn's player: If he doesn't shut his mouth, I'm putting an apple in it and patting him on the head.

(we'd killed the monsters on the way in)

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Z: But I am not playing a Kender!
Jakim: Not in game, no...
<game resumes a minute or two later after Z was done smacking me>

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I am running a modern campaign where the mundanes are dealing with the supernatural. The first full session, I start out by having a shape changing cat come out of the faucet as one of the characters, Cotter, is getting ready for work.

After the initial shock, Cotter decides to finish getting ready for work. Instead of drinking out of the sink, he flushes the toilet a few times and gets some water out of the bowl as it seems safer. Beck, another PC, asks Cotter, "What if your face gets eaten by a toilet alien?"

Later, after a hostile encounter with the cat, a PC by the name of Hannibal is scratched by the cat. Hannibal is convinced he has been infected by the shape changing disease. Cotter asks Hannibal, "What you're saying is that you're now a weird sink alien also?"

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If my face gets eaten by a toilet alien, then I need to stop drinking so much that I puke.

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So, the Party is in Dallas, Texas where they're set upon by a rather unattractive, lizard-looking female with giant tusks. There is a bit of a fight and the creature runs off.

Red Velvet: "Yeah, get out of here, you monster!"
Shadow: "Well, let's not be too hasty, she may not be a monster."
Backup: "Yeah, here in Dallas, she may just be a Cowboys fan."

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"A poisoned .50 bullet is extreme overkill."

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Well, depends on how it's administered. Administered at high velocity, sure.

If you use it as a suppository, it's about right. ;-)

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates, Rule 34:

"There is no 'overkill'. There is only 'open fire' and 'time to reload'."

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How is that related to Rule 34?