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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dlsharrock" data-source="post: 4201216" data-attributes="member: 55833">Is this thread turning into 'creepiest person I ever roleplayed with?' Cool:El creepiest guy was at college and we will refer to him as Lord of War. He refereed a Paranoia game and about five of us played. Two were RPG novices, so god only knows what they made of gaming after that.To set the scene: we'd planned to play in our usual spot around the living room or dining room table, in comfort, with crisps and Coke, usual game sort of setup. But this game was at LoW's house and his mum was unexpectedly home from work. She was one of those austere, fussy kinds of mums whose house always sort of sparkles and smells of vacuum cleaners. She banished us and we wound up in LoW's spider infested shed, squatting on upturned milk crates and trying not to breath in too much dust. LoW was a big person and sat on the highest box in the shed, so he sort of loomed over us in a fleshy kind of way. To say it was cramped would be an understatement.IC, We were a bunch of back-stabbing  mercenaries sent offworld to rid a colony of some troublesome aliens. We were given a cool jeep covered in scary weapons and I remember, to give him credit, LoW went to a lot of trouble to repaint an Action Man jeep and cover it in Airfix bits and bobs so it looked the business with our miniatures in it - in true Paranoia style we didn't use official minis, we used Star Wars figures, one guy had an Obelix action figure kitted out in GI Joe clothes, another had one of those brown plastic soldiers that come in a set of about 200, and one cross dressing Action Man in a Barbie outfit (under deep suspicion for subversive behaviour) towering over everyone else. In Character he was the same height as the rest of our PCs of course, but it added to the fun and naturally he was designated driver <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=":)" />.So I had high hopes for a generally enjoyable experience. Then it all went a bit strange.The game was basically a rip-off tongue in cheek version of the Aliens movie, with the Aliens holding the colonists in an underground lair and our motley crew coming to rescue them. All good fun. But when the combat started, Lord of War surprised us all...You know when nine yr olds play at war and pretend to shoot one another and they sort of stick their tongue  between their teeth and make that 'rrrrrrrrrr' sound to simulate a machine gun? Well, he was doing that. For every combat action we and the NPCs/enemies took. It might have added to the general silliness, but he was really getting into it, with these intense eyes and his cheeks all puffed out, spittle flying everywhere (remember, cramped shed). And when a grenade went off, he'd do the explosion noise... Brkssssshhhh! and use his hands to mimick things blowing up! He even did the ricochets, 'pteeow peeown!'. All the humour drained from the game along with the colour from our faces and when LoW called up asking me if I was going to attend the next meet I made an excuse. Everyone else did too. He really had no idea why his game suddenly came to a shuddering halt.</blockquote>

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