Character Creation
OOC Allison: Um, I was married at 16, my husband left me at 17... I have no hope, no future -GM Jo: No concept...
OOC Anthony: I work there, maintaining the -
OOC Lucas: - status quo?
OOC Lucas: I'm about as occult as Fiona Horne.
OOC Lucas: I'm not a goth, but I could be mistaken for one.
OOC Anthony: Is Michelle Nichols your hero?
OOC Allison: Oh my God, I so want to be black.
A bit of game drift from Heirs to the Last Days of the Universe.
OOC Anthony: What kind of angel are you?
OOC Lucas: An angel of death, dude.
Game One
Lucas: There's got to be something better than this. I don't know what it is, but -
Allison: It's Star Trek.
Lucas: It's not Star Trek!
Lucas: For starters, I'm wearing tighter-than-tight black jeans.
OOC Anthony: For God's sake!
GM Jo: Most people are dressed for a conference, not -
OOC Allison: - hooking. (Re: Lucas in his tight pants.)
Lucas: I strike up some witty repartee, possibly quoting Sean Connery.
OOC Anthony: (with Sean Connery accent) Welcome to Amshterdam...
Possible outcomes of Lucas trying to pick up at the seminar:
Lucas: Check out that dickhead.
Hot Female NPC: That's my brother.
Lucas: Not him, the guy next to him.
Hot Female NPC: That's my Dad.
Lucas: I watch my chances (of getting nookie) trickle away. I cry unashamedly.
Game Two
The players were all asked hypothetical questions about what they would do in various situations. These are some of the answers.
A group of guys are picking on someone.
Anthony: I step in and pull him apart.
Lucas: I do what she (Allison) does. If one of them's hot, I flirt with them.
You have a vivid dream about your best friend being killed in a car accident.
Allison: If they were still alive, I'd tell them about the dream. But if they were dead, I wouldn't.
The local woodlands are going to be clear-felled for development.
OOC Anthony: For DeForest Kelly! Against DeForestations!
Ways to use Forces Magic:
OOC Lucas: Will you go out with me?
Hot Female NPC: No.
OOC Lucas mimes whooshing sounds and hurling a fireball.
OOC Lucas: Now, what have the rest of you learned about defying me?
Back to the game...
Security guards at the seminar start exploding into flame, and no one can see why.
OOC Lucas: (To Anthony) You're awakening dude. You're the one setting people on fire. 'Cos it sure as hell isn't me.
OOC Allison: Well, it isn't me.
OOC Lucas: That leaves you.
Lucas: I fight the urge to hyperventilate and faint.
GM Jo: You fail.
OOC Anthony: That's why I whuffah huffle wuff.
All: What?
OOC Anthony: I said, that's why I need a coffee.
All: That's not what you said. You said 'wuffah huffle wuff'.
OOC Anthony: I did not! You can't quote that! It's not my fault you people can't hear!
Much paying out ensues.
OOC Lucas: It was probably Navajo for 'I really need coffee'.
Lucas is in limbo.
Avatar (GM Jo): You're finally seeing things how they really are.
OOC Allison: Really black.
Lucas: I try to feel whatever it is that I'm not feeling.
The math-deficient strikes again...
OOC Lucas: I rolled an 8 and a 7.
OOC Allison: 13!
OOC Anthony: No, 15.
GM Jo: Everything is back to normal, in the way that burning humans are normal.
GM Jo: He's holding a Buck Rodgers ray gun.
Allison: Really? I wonder if it's an original. He really shouldn't have taken it out of the box.
Mentor (GM Jo): What's your name?
Allison: Allison.
Mentor (GM Jo): Allison, you strike me as someone -
OOC Lucas: - who needs to be unconscious.
Avatar (GM Jo): State your situation.
Allison: A man with a ray gun is shooting at people.
Anthony: But they're bad people.
Allison: You don't know that!
Anthony: I have a bad feeling about them.
GM Jo: Meanwhile, back at the Batmobile...
And when a slip of the tongue gives a little too much away...
GM Jo: The doctor - I mean, the guy gets into the back seat.
Allison: Are you a doctor?
GM Jo: Shut up.
Game Three
OOC Lucas: I ask her if she's ever had sex in the Batmobile.
OOC Allison: What would you so if she said, "Yes, several times. It was cramped and uncomfortable."?
OOC Lucas: I cry.
Allison: Why are we here, again?
Valerie (GM Jo): You see, when a man loves a woman...
Allison: Your sarcasm is not amusing.
Gray (GM Jo): He's a Scientist.
Anthony: Does he work for the University?
Gray (GM Jo): No, he's a Scientist!
Anthony: Does he work for Bell Labs?
Gray (GM Jo): Of course not! He's a Scientist! He invents things!
OOC Allison: Oh, a mad scientist.
Lucas: If you're on fire, it's best not to douse yourself in gasoline. You get my meaning?
Allison: No.
Anthony: So, he made a de-light-acon to fix himself because he often gets struck by lightning?
Gray (GM Jo): Yes.
OOC Allison: Well, at least he's forward thinking.
Lucas: Has he ever thought about making something to stop him being struck by lightning?
Lucas: You know about cause and effect?
Anthony: Yes.
Lucas: Well, he caused this to happen to himself. So, in effect, he's fucked.
Game Four
Anthony: Do you have a totem pole and stuff?
Lucas: I have a totem.
Anthony: Is it on a pole?
Anthony describes a Fourier serious to Lucas.
OOC Lucas: Neil is playing himself! It's not fair!
OOC Anthony: I'm nowhere near this geeky.
After unofficially naming his snap-happy avatar 'Chompy'...
OOC Lucas: Chompy, am I close? Chomp once for yes, twice for no.
Lucas: You can't explain everything.
Anthony: Like what?
Lucas: You can't explain light.
Anthony: Yes you can.
Lucas: All right, is it a wave or a particle?
Anthony: It's a wavicle!
(It's funny because it's true.)
Lucas: It's just that some things can't be explained...
Allison: Yes they can.
Lucas: Like Trekkers...
OOC Lucas: But the minute I turn you into a living fetiush and fill you full of pain spirits you'll believe!
OOC Anthony: (pointing an imaginary ray-gun at Lucas) Pyoo! Pyoo! Pyoo! Pyoo! Pyoo!
Lucas: I attempt to commune with my totem, because I sense something. (To GM) Do I sense something?
Lucas: Technically, if I want his attention, I'll just make fun of him until he bites me.