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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5541410" data-attributes="member: 19675">Oreo Cookies: from a RIFTS game, the act of continuing to search for something that has already been found, because you weren't listening to what was going on.The party was searching a camp for a person & device, and the player in question was in the mess hall, menacing the cooking staff in his power armor.  He didn't notice that others had found what we were looking for and continued to intimidate the cooks and busboys to give up the info.Finally, we stopped him and asked what he was looking for since we had found our objectives and broadcast that on our channel...and someone asked him if he had found the Oreo cookies in the mess hall.Then, another player and I made the situation into a Cheech & Chong routine; a retired busboy (with Mexican accent) telling his kids about the day a crazy stoner vato in stolen Coalition power armor busted into the mess hall with the munchies "something fierce", demanding to know the location of the Oreo cookies.  And how he almost killed Pedro.  And so forth.What sealed the deal was the clueless player then reenacting the whole scenario in character...yelling "Where are the OREO COOKIES!?!"So now, whenever someone zones out of the campaign and we need to catch them up, the Search for the Oreo Cookies gets brought back up...usually with the various characters' POVs- the guy in power armor, Luis, Pedro and the rest of he kitchen staff.</blockquote>

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