Lines I'd like to see Morrus put into his Gencon report

[Barendd Nobeard]

7) "I love the smell of gamers in the morning!" [okay, maybe not]

Actually, that's your best chance for the freshest smell. Wait til it's 5 p.m. and they've all been walking around in the sun between MEC and the Arena all day....

My contributions:

"To LARP, or not to LARP, that is the question."

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

"Hasta la vista, Gary."

"It is an unwashed gamer
And he stoppeth one of three
'By thy food-stained beard and glittering die
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me ?' "

"If there's any girls here I wanna DOOOOO them!"

 

[hong]

Re: Hong, are you and actuary?

Hong, I've been meaning to ask you this for a while.

One of my former players (when I lived in Sydney up until a few months ago) is an actuary and, when people inevitably ask, "What's an actuary?" she describes it as, "A kind of financial statistician."

Isn't an actuarist someone who keeps bees? <-- said to me by a "friend", ha ha

I remember you once describing yourself as a "financial statistician."

So, are you an actuary? If so, given there aren't many of them in Australia, I think you might know at least one of my former players.

Well, I did in fact do actuarial studies at Macquarie for my Bachelor's. I even sat for one of the professional exams, but it didn't work out, so I switched to statistics (there is a difference, although the two fields overlap a lot). I could possibly know your former player, since there aren't that many actuaries around, but I wouldn't count on it. It's been many years.

I was talking with one of the girls at work, and it turned out her bf was actually sharing my office at the ANU while I was there! Not only that, but he was also into D&D, or at least he was before he went off to Americaia on a Fulbright grant. Small world.

 

[Tratyn Runewind]

Hello!

Morrus' GenCon Odyssey:

"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of role-playing,
the webmaster, trolled for years on end,
after he took on the burden
of the proud site of Noah.

He saw Milwaukee
and learned the minds of many big-name fen,
and enjoyed many sleepless nights and days
in his hotel o'erseas, while he strove gladly
to play the games, and bring the stories home."

Posted by BiggusGeekus:
"And then I walked up to Gary; my hand clenched so tightly around the d4 that it drew blood, just to show how tough I was."

Excellent. Kind of makes me wonder what that author's Will save is...

 

[Dark Helmet]

"Eric? Kevin? Gary? A giant mutant from an alternate dimension is besieging the convention center. Large smelly people in costumes that reveal more than is sane are running in terror. Only we can save them now...You know what we have to do...POWER RANGERS TRANSFORM!"

KM, don't you mean POWER GAMERS TRANSFORM! ???

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"On second thought, let's not go to Gen Con... It's a silly place!"

 

[Numion]

"Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

 

[Bihor]

"Now that we know who you are Eric... I know who I am...I'm not a mistake"

 

[Uller]

I think you're all fu**ed in the head. We're ten hours from the fu**ing GenCon, and you wanna bail out! Well, I'll tell you something, this is no longer a trip to GenCon . . . it's a quest! It's a quest for fun! I'm gonna have fun, and you're gonna have fun! We're all gonna have so much fu**ing fun we'll need plastic surgery to remove our Goddamn smiles! You'll be whistling Zip-a-dee-doo-da out of your a**holes! I've got to be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see Eric Noah! Praise EGG!

Mr. Noah?
It's Noe.
You're putting me on.
No, it's pronounced: Noe.
Do you also say, Eeric?
No, Eric.
Well, why isn't it: Eeric Noe?
It isn't. It's Eric Noe.
I see.
You must be Russell Morrisey.
No, it's Russel Morr-I-say.
But, they told me it was Morrisey.
Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?

 

[ShadowWolf]

"The man in black fled across the desert. Eric Noah followed."

 

[RedShirtNo5]

Piratecat: You're saying this only to make me go.
Eric: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Morrus. You're part of his site - the thing that keeps it going. If your story hour gets bumped but you don't update it, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. And for the rest of your life.
Piratecat: What about us?
Eric: We'll always have Milwaukee.

 

[trentonjoe]

(YOu have to sing this one)

One night in Milwaukee make a man go crazy.....