Sagiro said:
One time when we had just made the switch from 2E to 3E, Piratecat and I got into a heated debate over whether certain spells should go from being 1 round/level to 1 minute/level, since rounds changed from a minute to 6 seconds.
Idiot. Everyone knows that a round is 3 minutes, or six hectares in the metric system. This is why it's known as a "New York minute".
We argued for a while, and one thing led to another... I ended up pulling a trophy dagger off the wall (that he had won for some RPGA judging thing)
So, is it like, called a trophy, because you get it for KILLING PLAYERS? Because it sure sounds like it to me!
I felt really bad about it right afterward... 'cause Piratecat is a martial artist.
HAW HAW! Piratecat is a ninja!
At least I was right handed. I scrabbled around for a pencil and managed to jam it into his eyebrow, which made him release his arm lock. While he was wiping the blood out of his eye I tried to kick him in the groin, but he's a wily bugger. He dodged out of the way and used another sneaky martial-arts trick to get me in a headlock with one arm, and then started shoving d4s into my mouth.
Here we go with the shuriken!!1!! More proof that "Piratecat", as if that his his REAL NAME, is really Ninjacat!!!!1
Good thing for me I hadn't let go of the pencil. I stabbed him in the buttocks and he quit it with the plastic caltrops.
What an ignominious place to get penetrated by someone's pencil. If you know what I mean, and I think you do.
I rolled away, and we squared off across the gaming table, grinning maniacally at each other.
Obviously, everything up to this point was just an elaborate troll.
"Give up," I said. "It's a minute per level."
"Not in this lifetime," he said.
D00d, if your DM starts talking about this lifetime, it's time to start planning your NEXT lifetime.
I thought I had the advantage at that point, since I'm faster than Piratecat.
Six-speed, 500 horsepower Sagiro SUV, on nitrous.
But then he lunged over the table at me. I did manage to stick the pencil into the webbing by his left thumb, but he disarmed me and started beating me silly with an AD&D DM's Guide that been shaken loose from his shelf.
Beaten to death by Gary Gygax's prose. How much of that damage was caused by the wandering harlot table, I want to know.
Before I blacked out I had kicked him pretty good in the ankles and knees a few times, but eventually I couldn't take the pain of a shattered elbow along with my dislocated shoulder.
The nice thing was, his wife KidCthulhu drove us both to Mt. Auburn Hospital that night.
You stupid troll. Everyone knows that KidCthulhu is Piratecat's husband. This is because KidCthulhu's real name is Kevin Kulp, and Piratecat is Peggy O'Connell, as might be guessed from the initials.
Piratecat had an eyepatch for a while -- turns out I had got him lower than I thought with the pencil -- and needed some stitches for his leg.
Darn, the least you could have done was cut it off.