Memorable Quotes.

[Mark Skarr]

GM: “Weird but Wonderful is this store. Weird but Tasty is the fast-food joint across the street.”
Peppermint (OOC): “Tasty but Wonderful is the adult shop on the other side of the street.”

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Peppermint: “Do I know you?”
Shelly: “Well, the internet knows you, and I know the internet.”
Peppermint (OOC): “I was young, I needed the money!”

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Mahou (OOC): “Ah [expletive]!”
Players (OOC): “What?”
GM (OOC): “Mahou dropped the die tower into one of the black holes [we use for discarding "faulty" dice].”
Yasmin (OOC): “I’ll move the black hole.”
GM (OOC): “No. Stop. Don’t.” Clicks and closes the black hole. “I’ll close it.”
Yasmin (OOC): “Oh, I forgot the black holes had doors on them.”
Peppermint (OOC): “That would be a handy feature on black holes.”

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Peppermint: “She does have a viewfinder up to her face.”
GM: “Yes, as a point of order, this isn’t a camera viewfinder, it’s actually a Viewmaster viewfinder.”
Peppermint: “Yes, each frame is a different filter—she looks totally insane.”

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MP #1: “She seems . . . harmless.”
MP #2: “Mostly Harmless.”

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Peppermint: “Don’t you chase after me! I was innocently fleeing.”

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GM: “You’re in a small area with tables they have set aside to dink twee.”
<beat>
GM: “Wow. That was harder to say than I thought.”
Mahou: “Arnold Palmer.”

[Mark Skarr]

Yasmin (OOC): “There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore, looking like an idiot.”
GM (OOC): “I’m on the other side of that line.”
Yasmin (OOC): “You’re swimming?”
GM (OOC): “I’m a fish.”

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Asking about Yasmine’s coven:
Shelly (OOC): “They’re at burning man.”
GM (OOC): “They’re off burning a man.”
Mahou (OOC): “NOT THE BEES!”

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GM: “NO! No. Your mentor is not Jack Burton!”

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GM: “Unlike the Mystery Machine—this one does not have that skunky, herbaceous odor.”

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GM: “This computer is adequate to order the computer you’re going to need.”

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After a 30-minute call from a co-worker who needed help working from home (because they turned off the work-from-home help room).
Yasmin (OOC): “Work emergency—like a potty emergency.”
GM (OOC): “Yeah, like a potty emergency, but with more [excrement].”

[Mark Skarr]

Said while discussing the possibility of a new IST Alice Springs game (that's our joke character location).

Chaos: “Kay wouldn’t buy beastspeech, but she’d be able to understand her dinos.”
Mark: “Why buy ‘speak with animals’ when all you need is ‘delusion?’”
Bobb: “Is that because the dinos she summon only exist in her mind?”
Chaos: “Possibly.”

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by Mark Skarr

Said while discussing the possibility of a new IST Alice Springs game (that's our joke character location)...

Alice Springs, NT, AU?

[Mark Skarr]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Alice Springs, NT, AU?

Yep.

Back during the last ice age, when I was setting the game, I just saw this city, out in the middle of the outback, and figured "hey, that would be a great place to put the useful, but potentially dangerous supers." As this was before the Internet, I didn't have a lot of information on what was out there.

Ever since, it has been an in-group reference to supers that, while an interesting idea, have something about them, either their actual powers, personality, or past history are quite comedic. Basically, our semi-serious joke characters.

[Luke Bunyip]

Originally Posted by Mark Skarr

.. I didn't have a lot of information on what was out there.

Ever since, it has been an in-group reference to supers that, while an interesting idea, have something about them, either their actual powers, personality, or past history are quite comedic.

They could take part in/sabotage the Henley-on-Todd Regatta. The only regatta that is occasionally cancelled because the Todd river has uncharacteristically flowing water...

[Mark Skarr]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

They could take part in/sabotage the Henley-on-Todd Regatta. The only regatta that is occasionally cancelled because the Todd river has uncharacteristically flowing water...

That is hilarious, because the first badguy they ever beat was a guy who had been permanently turned into body of water, and his shape was held by him consciously controlling his surface tension. They knocked him out and he made a break for the sewers. No one brought a sponge.

Running Gag: "HE'S GETTING AWAY!"
Dinokid: "He's unconscious, how is he getting away?"
Running Gag: "HE'S FLOWING TOWARD THE SEWER!"
Dinokid: "Well, lap him up, wolf-girl."
Running Gag: "BUT HE TASTES BAD!"
Dinokid: "Afraid you'll live up to the 'Gag' portion of your name?"

(Running Gag is very excitable. And loud. She's a nine-foot-tall combat-werewolf with little self-control.)

And, uh, these came up today:

Jesse: “What happened?”
Jasmine: “I think Rio has become the avatar of an ancient, forgotten God. I am now her slave.”
Jesse: “Uh, what?”
Jasmine (OOC): “What? Did I stutter?”

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Mark: “Oh, no. I don’t want that. That frigate has defective torpedo tubes.”
Bobb: “It’s had its tubes tied?”

[ChaosCoyote]

Originally Posted by Mark Skarr

(Running Gag is very excitable. And loud. She's a nine-foot-tall combat-werewolf with little self-control.)

Again, my character. Yes, there is a “coincidence” of many of my characters being excitable. And loud. But in her case, in her defense, she IS the avatar of Coyote.....

[johndallman]

Discord chat, talking over some of the things that have happened in a setting that's been running since 1975:

"If you have an unwanted god in need of a good home, Storm is always a good person to ask."

[johndallman]

Of the leprechaun in a T&T party:

"He might have fainted. We'd better loosen his wallet."