North Carolina Game Day IV: May 8

[Henry]

I have no idea what the hell I'm doing online this late at night, barely able to see to type, but I had a great time at Gameday IV! I got to play in not 1, not two, but THREE events! (Corlon, I hope I did Maxilan of Tyriel justice - hopefully, the body count at the front gate will be proof of that! )

Our Arkham Squad game went very well, with quite a few "iffy" situations shared by all, the GURPS Hellboy game was quite fun (I'll never look at Crabgrass again without readying a dodge roll first), and "A Tight Spot" was more like "Custer the RPG." I have to hand my propers to a game where avenues of attack were sealed off by sufficient piles of bodies - both ours and the enemies.

My thanks to everyone, especially Neal (Morgenes) and Rel. Neal, you have put a heck of a lot of time and effort into making this a premiere joint event, and Rel, you have my thanks as always for being a great person to hang out with.

Gotta go, all. Good night, and god bless, and sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs... ah, skip it. 'night, all.

 

[Corlon]

Great gameday. I'm glad to hear we got out of the tightest spot (by the way: did my horse ever show up? A third of my feats need to be used from on top of that guy).

I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

And I have to put Rel's quote in my sig, just because it became very evident in both games I played in.

 

[Jeph]

This calls for a Fireball.


--Jeff

 

[Rel]

And I have to put Rel's quote in my sig, just because it became very evident in both games I played in.

I'm honored to have introduced you to the "hammer-problem-nail" quip, but I must clarify that this hardly originated with me. This one does originate with me however:

"If all you have is a hammer, for God's sake, don't sign up to play in one of Old One's games! His hammer is bigger than yours!"

 

[Rel]

Rel won me and my buddies vote for best one-liners and quips of the night !
~ Old One

Well, shucks.

But if we had no gallows humor, we'd have had no humor at all. I was just trying to keep moralle from going completely down the gong pit.

 

[Old One]

Finally...

Great gameday. I'm glad to hear we got out of the tightest spot (by the way: did my horse ever show up? A third of my feats need to be used from on top of that guy).

I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

And I have to put Rel's quote in my sig, just because it became very evident in both games I played in.

Corlon,

Your mount...left near the gate when you depart for parts unknown, had fled from the huge fire elemental. However, Maxian/Henry ripped a Sythian cataphracti from his warhorse, mounted with great bravado and held the gate with Centurion Carrick and about 20 battered legionnaires. The dead were so thick that the Sythians could not force their way through the ruined gatehouse...so the Valor of Tyrial was upheld until the relief column arrived.

Finally...

~ Old One

 

[NCSUCodeMonkey]

It's that time again! Quotable Quotes!

From Henry's Arkham Squad game:

"I ready to shoot the 8 year old boy in the foot if he attacks" --Corlon
30 seconds later "OK, I shoot him in the foot." --Corlon

Corlon: "I drive by and toss a frag grenade out of the window."
Henry: "Into the group of townspeople?!"
Colorn: "Uh...yeah."

"Well, obviously ma'am, what you have here is a case of methane gas." --Myself to explain almost every freakish occurence in the game.

As the party stands at the shore of a lake that we know contains a dead body, trying to figure out how we're going to retrieve it: "I just toss a frag grenade into the water. That oughtta bring him up." -- Earl's player

"A model public servant" --Earl, commenting on Colorn's citizenry body count.

From OldOne's "A Tight Spot" game:

NOTE: There are, quite literally, too many to account for in this game. For a 7 1/2 hour game, with a quip from someone on average of once every minute, we'd have to remember about 450 hilarious one liners.

As Rel rolls a critical fumble, flings his sword into a room full of enemies that we were "sneaking" up on and then misses with his second attack, he yells, "BY THE MIGHT OF THE EMPIRE, FEAR MY SWORD!"

"Well, yah see, I'm reeealllyyy good at the sneaking and the stabbing. Not so good at everything else." -- Rel

"Good cop, bad cop? Wow, with him around, you don't even need the good cop." --Jon, I think, in reference to yep, you guessed it: Corlon

"See, I'm always hearing people complaining about sorcerers not getting enough spells, but I mean come on, the only spell he knows is fireball!" --Rel in reference to Jeffs...liberal...use of fireball.

"The elemental shall fear my grease spell!" --Myself, after casting a grease spell on the ground in front of a huge fire elemental. Did I mention that bards suck at combat?

"Well, that's 3.5 damage she'll never take," --Rel commenting on his impressive bow damage.

More of a recounting than a quote: Jeff adapts self to look like an enemy witch, walks through a room filled with friends and foes attempting to pass himself off as one of the witches while speaking in a language that half of them probably don't understand. Seeing that he is successful, he turns around and fireballs everyone. Twice.

"Wait a minute...he's trying to simultaneously cower and comfort them?" --Both Rel and Myself in response to Jeff's witch act

"Branadis, you shall never...ever...say backdoor surprise again." --Myself to Rel's description of the secret way in to the fort.

"Oh, ho! Look who comes CRAWLING back!" --Myself to the soldiers who had fled the fort but returned as we began to stabalize the situation.

"Today is a good day. I mean, it could be raining." --Jon

Henry: "You're going to cast glitterdust on my horse!"
Me: "Well...yes...but he gets a save."
Which he made by the way, so there!

"Oh, wait! I forgot about that bard ability that slays entire armies!" --Myself

"I love the way that we're thinking it'll be OK if we can just take down this one elemental. Like that's going to change the 2,700 horse archers on the other side of the gate." --Rel

In reference to the increasing pile of bodies at the gate: "OK folks, the game is now necro-jenga" --Myself

 

[Henry]

Another few favorite moments:

Arkham Squad:

• Bud "Silvertooth" MacGill (Codemonkey) levels his gun sights on a fleeing Burglar, Intimidates and Rolls a 1:
  (high-pitched squeak) Just hold it right- (clears his throat) Just hold it right there!
  
• Doctor Morgan (Curran) and "sharpshootin' Jack" Mendel (Corlon) are confronted by about 30 possessed townspeople wielding pipes and farm implements. Jack shouts, "I have an idea!" jumps into the party's van - and drives off, leaving Doctor Morgan alone with the crowd. The look on Curran's face was priceless. To be fair, he had meant for the townsfolk to chase him, but it didn't work out that way...
  
• Little Peter Henderson, age 9, possessed by ethereal hive-mind insects, is trying to psionically expel them. Talking to Earl (Solenopsis) Walker, he says, "I'm making them go away..."
  "That's nice, Pete, really nice..." as he cradles his Pistol and pointing it at the little boy...

Hellboy: Weedkiller
Alex de la Rosa (adamantine angel) - magically enhanced human, Castillian Spaniard with a god complex
"Ponies" Johnson (Solenopsis) - Former professional gambler who is ridiculously lucky, ridiculously dexterous, and ridiculously amoral
Dweezle Roberts (unsure who played) - Half-troll who is good-natured, amazingly strong, but a little on the *slow* side in mind and body...
Leopold "Leo" Maxwell (Henry) - frenetically fast, accelerated man of italian descent who couldn't stay focused, or unfed, for more than five minutes

• "If he didn't get dumped there, he must be a zombie, 'cause zombies are dead - and they walk, 'n stuff." -Dweezle, hard on the diagnosis
• "My friend, you look parched. Some Kool-aid would help you. Here, I have the Red, the Purple, and the Green. Are you sure you would not like some Kool-aid? Kool-aid is life." Alex de la Rosa, promoting eternal life
• "Oh, my God - the plant monster is going to - Ooh, the cash register!" Ponies Johnson
• Those are Propane tanks, right? *ka-chink* Alex, how fire resistant are you?" - Leo Maxwell, on solving the murderous plant problem

A Tight Spot I cannot do justice to, because I was only there for a couple of hours, but I think the others can cover that game pretty well.

 

[Mark Causey]

Sky Galleons of Mars
I had an awesome time with this game; new to the setting, I found it a wonderful fantasy to involve myself in. I don't remember the screen names for the players but I'm sure they can pipe in if necessary. This game, for me, was full of great moments, not quotes ... well anywho:

Flying across the Martian landscape on a floating ship, we make our way to a previously discovered archaelogical find, only to have to fight our way in through Martians!

The look on the brigands' faces when we took their own Gatling and pinned them in a corner inside the ancient building!

Successfully firing a rifle at over 900 feet distance!

Reloading weapons on a precarious skyship, entangled in another, and dodging Attacks of Opportunity!

Massive beheadings from Russ, and a use of the Cleave feat (first time in my 3 years of d20 rules!)

Our two fisted Captain climbing the burning rigging mid-battle, having it spread across the sheets, snap the mast, and nearly fall on her only to have it all miss and the fire taken care of!

Hellboy: Weedkillers
Wonderful players all around, the game was made through character interaction, in my opinion. Dweezle was played by a guy named Josh, new to GURPS, old to style, he did a great job with limited time for character creation. Solenopsis, your game play was inspired. Henry, I feel like, even after one game with you, that I could say, Great game, as always.

"He's still not in here!" -- Solenopsis, looting a register till, having checked the area rounds ago.
"Would you like some food?" -- myself
"No, I got lucky on a toenail I got to earlier, some good stuff." -- Josh, as Dweezle

Not to ignore humility, but I think I had one great quote:
Scene: Having investigated the mystery and talked to *everyone* that could have anything to do with it, except the Nursery owner; walking into his store and shouting:
"You there, the man killing the people with the weed, yes, we are here to stop you!"

AtR

P.S. Henry: BTW, guess what: they decided to go to Myth Drannor anyway, *without* me prompting them @_@

 

[Rel]

I didn't write down any "quotable quotes" this time around, but from memory:

Sky Galleons Game
The party is flying along in their skyship when they are attacked by flying martians. Tex (adamantine angel) raises his Sharps "Big Fifty" and prepares to fire, then pauses, "With yer permishun, Ma'am?" You gotta love folks that ask permission to fire their .50 caliber weapons!

Later after the party emerges from the Martian pyramid to find large bore weapons pointed at them from skyship of the nefarious frenchman, Abilard:

Tex: "Why should we trust you?"
Abilard (NPC run by yours truly): "Zat' eez simple: I 'ave zee beeger guns!!" (Yes, I'm tooting my own horn a bit but I was thrilled to get a chance to toss that one out there.)

Of Scarlet Orbs And Treachery (I think - Shemeska's morning game anyway)
I poked my head into this session briefly while I ran upstairs for a drink. I asked them how it was going and they replied (more or less as a group): "We're kicking so much ass, there's no time to take names!"

A Tight Spot
Jeph declared that the Hasted Sorcerer he was playing was going to cast Web and Fireball (on the same area). I asked him why not just cast two Fireballs:

"Because THAT'S what I'm doing next round!"

Also from Jeph: "I cast Detect Poison AGAIN!" (while casting it for the FIFTH consecutive time after failing both Wisdom and Alchemy checks on the four preceeding castings.)

And from Jeph (of course) when we were trying to figure out a way to close off a narrow stone corridor. "Would a Fireball be hot enough to melt the stone?..."

Also memorable was the moment when Old One put this large were-bear-like miniature on the table and told us it was an Elemental.

"A 'Bear Elemental'?"
Corlon (I think): "Yes, composed of the Element of Bear."

NCSU Codemonkey was right. There were so many funny quotes throughout this epic game that it is impossible to recall them all.

But "Necro Jenga" is still my favorite!