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<blockquote data-quote="Wolf1066" data-source="post: 5273563" data-attributes="member: 88680">Player stupidity abounds and I'm hard-pressed to think of which is the most stupid I've witnessed.However, the OP was about CoC and that reminds me of a CoC game in which a female player wowed the GM by deciding that her character was going to stand up on a table in the library of 1920s Miskatonic University wearing a low-cut evening gown and sing &quot;Love Me Tender&quot;.As the player was a great singer, she gave a brilliant rendering.Not a &quot;stupid&quot; thing, but certainly a memorable CoC moment - given that, in game time, those lyrics would not be penned for around 30 years (though the tune &quot;Aura Lee&quot; would probably be well known at the time).For stupid - after due consideration - I'll have to go with a Traveller game in which some of the crew of our Free Trader (captained, as it happened, by the same player who sang &quot;Love Me Tender&quot; in CoC) ignored repeated signage saying &quot;No Spacers&quot; and other less grandma-friendly variants of same and wound up in a Miner's Bar.&nbsp; In the midst of the increasing hostility against the ship's landing party from the miners in the bar, one PC (whom I shall not identify as I'm still acutely embarrassed by the incident) decided to &quot;defuse&quot; the situation by discharging a shotgun into the air and shouting &quot;All right, just calm down!&quot;And that, Your Honour, is when the brawl started.We ended up having to phone the police ourselves and get ourselves arrested just to get out of the bar alive.&nbsp; We were fined and kicked off the planet under threat of imprisonment if we returned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolf1066, post: 5273563, member: 88680"] Player stupidity abounds and I'm hard-pressed to think of which is the most stupid I've witnessed. However, the OP was about CoC and that reminds me of a CoC game in which a female player wowed the GM by deciding that her character was going to stand up on a table in the library of 1920s Miskatonic University wearing a low-cut evening gown and sing "Love Me Tender". As the player was a great singer, she gave a brilliant rendering. Not a "stupid" thing, but certainly a memorable CoC moment - given that, in game time, those lyrics would not be penned for around 30 years (though the tune "Aura Lee" would probably be well known at the time). For stupid - after due consideration - I'll have to go with a Traveller game in which some of the crew of our Free Trader (captained, as it happened, by the same player who sang "Love Me Tender" in CoC) ignored repeated signage saying "No Spacers" and other less grandma-friendly variants of same and wound up in a Miner's Bar. In the midst of the increasing hostility against the ship's landing party from the miners in the bar, one PC (whom I shall not identify as I'm still acutely embarrassed by the incident) decided to "defuse" the situation by discharging a shotgun into the air and shouting "All right, just calm down!" And that, Your Honour, is when the brawl started. We ended up having to phone the police ourselves and get ourselves arrested just to get out of the bar alive. We were fined and kicked off the planet under threat of imprisonment if we returned. [/QUOTE]

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