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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dyson Logos" data-source="post: 4799932" data-attributes="member: 83678">Today was the "Great Glebe Garage Sale" - a community garage sale in one of the nicer residential parts of downtown Ottawa. Having had success at previous Glebe sales (I scored a copy of Cyborg Commando for $3 two years ago), I loaded up with my backpack and hit the neighborhood at 7 am to see what I could find. $20 later, I'm home with two Top Secret / S.I. boxes in my backpack. Two very heavy Top Secret / S.I. boxes. Heavy because they are full of books, far more than just the core game and the High Stakes expansion (basically the Monte Carlo & Vehicle expansion for the game). <img src="http://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Box 1 - the Top Secret / S.I. box <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Top Secret / S.I. core books (player & administrator books ; equipment & adventure booklets)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dungeons & Dragons Mentzer 1983 Basic Rules (player & DM books)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Palladium's "Compendium of Weapons, Armour & Castles"</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All the vehicle "cards" for the High Stakes boxed set (like the GDW 2nd edition of Twilight 2000, this game came with a pile of material printed on lightweight card - in this case, a bunch of stat sheets for cars, boats, planes and bikes and so on, over a half-inch thick of them)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A folder with a hand-stenciled "TOP SECRET" logo containing seven Top Secret / S.I. characters and two Villains & Vigilantes characters.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blueprint style map from the TS/SI game</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Monaco Map from the High Stakes box</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bunch of blank character folders</li> </ul>Box 2 - the Top Secret / S.I. High Stakes box <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Top Secret / S.I. - Guns, Gadgets & Getaway Vehicles supplement</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Top Secret / S.I. - High Stakes books (3 booklets - Monte Carlo, Grand Prix & Adventures)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Top Secret / S.I. - Freelancers book (basically a near-future superspy supplement for TS/SI)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Top Secret / S.I. - Administrator's Screen</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 AD&D2e character (level 7 human fighter)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 AD&D1e character (level 1 human cleric)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 Plastic Cow</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">1 "limousine" graph paper booklet (roughly 5" by 8" booklet full of five-rule graph paper)</li> </ul>and then the pay dirt... I hadn't dug through the boxes completely when I bought them, so I only noticed these when I got home. <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Top Secret Companion (expansion rules for the original Top Secret game, not /S.I.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Operation Sprechenhaltestelle (first adventure for the original Top Secret game)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Top Secret Administrator's Screen</li> </ul>and the piece de resistance... <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Top Secret RPG, Second Printing</li> </ul>I'm a Top Secret junkie. What pains me is that while I learned the game with the second printing, the copy I owned until now was the first printing which has inferior layout and still uses Wrestling Rating instead of subsuming it into the HTH rating. So I finally got (one of) my Holy Grail(s) - the second printing of the first edition Top Secret RPG. I am geeked right the heck out.Have any awesome thrift shop or garage sale scores to reminisce about?</blockquote>

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