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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3084355" data-attributes="member: 158">I'm back to work... sigh... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />...But I had a fantastic time at the gameday. It was as always a great time hanging out with Rel, Rel's wife, Alenda, Belen, AIM-54, The Universe, Queen D, Adamantine Angel, Nakia, Cthulhu's Librarian, and this time getting to meet at least three spouses; it's always nice to know who's responsible for for keeping those guys on good behavior. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Nakia's Grim Tales WW2 game gave me a well-needed dose of surviving by the skin of my teeth; I'll wager that Corporal Carl Grabowski was the only soldier in World War 2 to ever be targeted with a Hold Person spell. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />A few fun moments for me:--Grabowski: (upon seeing zombies rise) Holy Mary, Mudder o'God!"Lt. O'Malley, holy man: (casually said while in the midst of smiting zombies): "Do not take the Madonna's name in vain, my son..."--Marie LeMarc running over Italian Fascists as if going on a Sunday morning drive--The Universe's great British Officer accent, followed by his Super-mario-brothers-style Italian accent when Bluffing in Italian. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--Sergeant Joe's insistence that there were no supernatural occurances: "Those dead didn't move... trick of the light... nope, that SS didn't shoot a gout of flame from his hands... he had a flamethrower... trick of the light... that SS isn't glowing... trick of the light... he's not strong as a gorilla, either..."--Kami Vandisstart, Gurkha killing machine, and his poor Kukri/potato peeler... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />----------------------------The Equilibrium game that I ran went well, too - everyone said they had fun with it, and it went MUCH better than I had even planned. I worried the Cleric would be a little too over the top, but he wound up being exactly what I hoped -- a mook meat-grinder, but not overly powerful versus the big NPC's. Contrary to being too good, everyone was cheering while he was dancing around the battlefield, taking out 3 to 5 enemies per round. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Everyone got their chance to do something cool, or fire incredibly powerful weapons, and fun was had by all.Some of my favorite moments:--The hacker, Override, slicing his way into the Palace of Justice sub-net (crit threat confirmed), getting tons of info, installing a back door, and basically being a smooth mamma-jamma, and then going back in for "doctoring one last piece of info" -- and rolling a natural 1 fumble, losing his back door and alerting the police to his whereabouts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--The driver, Mauler, causing a "diversion" for half of his team by driving an armored van INTO the front doors of the Palace of Justice, cutting doughnuts in the lobby, while teammates are firing automatic rifles and a .50 cal out of the back--The cleric, Flynn Davis, cutting down 4 out of 5 ememies on the second init count before his two allies could react.--The infiltrator recovering the "sense offender" cache, and people's reaction to it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />--and finally Lola's line when the armored van comes to their rescue in one scene, by slamming into the doorway: "Mommy's home children, time for a ride!"</blockquote>

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