'Now you're
a picasso.'" - Kingsley
[Tricks...and Tricks]
"She has that mental lilac scent," GM on Violet's Trump Caller ID
[Kyle's Love Notes]
"Remember when we go in, Kyle's set the alarms." - Violet
"I'm going to kill you next time I beat you home..." - Rayina to
Kyle
[If I Were A Minesweeper, We'd All Be Dead]
"Might I...look into your mind?" - Dresdon to Kyle
"Don't go there" - Rayina
"You're braver than I thought..." - Soren
"You've armed your psyche? Kyle I can see having a...mind
field..." - Ostara
[Optimism Abounds]
"You realize that these guys might someday run the known
universe..." - Rayina
"Don't torture us! We're the ones that weren't Kyle!" - Kingsley
[Just In Case]
"You HAVE figured out how to electrify the Throne if [Kyle] ever
wants to
sit on it...?" - Rayina to Soren
[Torturing the Paper Guy]
"I put the paperclips back on the paper guy. They seem to have
slipped." - Kyle
"The piece of paper is dying." - Kyle
"You killed it!" - Rayina
"How do you autopsy a paper doll?" - Ostara
[I Win.]
"You became a card." - Violet
"No, we didn't." - Soren
"Yes, you did." - Violet
"No, we didn't." - Soren
"Yes, you did." - Violet
"No, we didn't." - Soren
"Yes, you did." - Violet
[Opening the First Seal]
"He feels like interrogating someone...we're in trouble." - Violet
about Kyle
[Questions Like These Always Make Martin Nervous...]
"Speaking of the weather, have you been assaulted by any weird
things from
beyond Trump lately?" - Ostara
[Caine Can Be Trusted]
"My father wouldn't lie to me." - Ostara
"He's been dead...how many times now?" - Violet
"Six. But I always figure it out." - Ostara
[Unfortunate Pause]
"Guys! Get a load of this lay...out." - Rayina
[And Just What Do You Think You're Doing?]
"Everyone else is either asleep or out hunting." - Violet
[Bad Vibes]
"I probably enjoy the nasty emotions you send..." - Kyle
"Good. I'm glad it was good for you, too." - Rayina, with, "I go
to sleep with a vengeance."
[It's Always a Question]
"Shooting the demons instead of you seems like a GOOD choice..." -
Rayina
"I'm not...sure." - Dresdon
[The Easy Explanation]
"What's going on?" - Soren
"Just say 'No' to Trump." - Dresdon
[Even Easier...]
"A Pattern within a Pattern... I see a pattern here." - Soren
[The 800 by 300 Yard Trump]
"I never thought of working in that scale..." - Rayina
[Dropsies...]
"What did you just do?" - Rayina
"He dropped the card into the Trump." - Ostara (helpfully)
"I dropped it and it WAFTED into the Trump..." - Soren,
correcting.
[Smartypants]
"You'll notice I haven't Trumped myself." - Rayina
"What you do on your own time is your own business." - Ostara
[Oversharing]
"I'm a shapeshifter. I'm ticklish where I want to be." - Ostara
[You Knew It Was Going to Lead Up To This...]
"Oh no...Kyle killed him." - Ostara
"Again. He killed him...again." -- almost in chorus
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Ghost Stories
This one was fun...but not a lot of opportunity to take down
quotes. I did get a few, of course...and next year? Dworkin's
Laboratory...whaddya think?
PLAYERS
Karen W. as Melin, daughter of Bleys (9)
Lydia L. as Gwen, daughter of Fiona (9)
Kingsley L. as Morgana, daughter of Fiona (14)
Drew W. as Vichi, son of Brand (14)
Paula S. as Sorcha, daughter of Bleys (12)
Richard J. as Phoenix, son of Bleys (12)
Shelly J. as Ember, daughter of Fiona (10)
and Linda C. as Jazz, daughter of Bleys (12)
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[Mandatory Hair-Pulling, Too]
"I have to kick him -- he's my husband." - Shelly
"I'm not her husband." - Phoenix
"Ember & Phoenix, sittin'-in-a-tree..." - Morgana
[Brand and Florimel's Kid]
"He'll buy this house...and redecorate it in his own image!" -
various
[You're All Alone...]
"No lights, no ghosts...nobody." - GM
[Brand's Orphaned Son...]
"He stepped into the dark and got eaten by Brand..." - Phoenix
"Boy, that's sad..." - Sorcha
[The Paper]
"Is it Letterhead?" - Ember
"This is Brand's House...it's Severedhead." - Morgana
[More Amber Crossovers...]
"The Bleys Witch Project: Fiona." - Kingsley
[Your Mother Told You So...]
"And her face DOES freeze that way." - GM
[Blue thigh-high leather boots...]
"These are like hip-waders for fly fishing." - Kingsley
"What kinds of flys were you fishing for?" - Vichi
[She Always Gets You In The End]
"I'm one of the few people who can look Fiona in the eyes..." -
Morgana
"...and then get spanked." - Vichi
[Brand's Kid and the School of Hard Knocks]
"No one was blaming me for anything until I began to kill them
off, one by one..." - Drew
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Black Hearted Ops
This one didn't go quite as well as I'd wished...I'd begun to pick
up The Cold and, well, no one was willing to just shoot Corwin and
Bleys in the back. Shame, that. Or Flora, in the hand. Or Martin,
anywhere...
PLAYERS
Andy R. as Paul
Anneke F. as Lauren
Chris N. as Rain
Ian G. as Kate
Kingsley L. as Mars/Martin (NPCish)
Pol J. as Crunch
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[Mirror, Mirror]
"The infamous five." - Lauren
"There are six of us." - Kate
"They'll never expect that." - Mars
[A Gun You Can Shoot Prehistoric Worms With...]
"Can say you're hunting elephants..." - Crunch
"In [Nevada]?" - Kate
"Escaped from the zoo..." - Mars
"You or the elephant?" - Crunch
[Need to Know]
"Is its blood corrosive? I need to know before I get in close
combat with it." - Paul
[Combat Op Pride]
"You invade a place with five people?" - Mars
"Hey, you got US!" - Rain, referring to herself and Crunch.
[Translation Amulets Activated]
"Now, can we understand Crunch any better?" - Mars
[Lines You Remember From Other Amber Games]
"Is there something you're not telling us? Like that'd be a
first..." - Rain
[Cocktail Hour]
"Holy Water?" - Mars drinks it.
"Is he smoking?" - Pol asks the GM.
"Bad Vintage," - Mars answers.
[One Born Every Minute]
"Either we're very important, or someone had a lot of time on
their hands." - Paul
"From your perspective you're very important...and they have a lot
of time on their hands." - Mars
[Correction]
"That wasn't a threat aimed at you..." - Paul
"Yes, it was..." - Kate
"Well, not from my perspective." - Paul
[Unfortunate Name?]
"Technically, my Dad's Random... it's not really important." -
Mars/Martin
"He chose from a pool?" - Crunch
"You said your Dad was Random." - Lauren
"Technically." - Mars/Martin
[Fair Enough]
"Either you're completely insane, at which point you get a bullet
in the back of your head, or you're our best chance at surviving
what we'll encounter." - Paul to Martin
[Too Many Secrets]
"Where did you come from?" - Bleys [NPC]
"Define human!" - various
"Montana." - Crunch.
[A Rose By Any Other Name]
"You've been listening to the Avernusians..." - Bleys (NPC)
"The Elmos. Yeah." - Crunch
[Your Mom's a...]
"Who's the babe?" - Crunch
"You can call her mom. Many men have." - Martin
[Pointing the Gun at His Head]
"If something's going to jump into your head, I've got you
covered!" - Kingsley
['Struth.]
"You only believe she's your mom because she kicked your ass." -
NPC
[Don't Remember Who Said It, But...]
"Guns don't work? We can't go there."
[Even GMs Change Their Minds...in midsentence.]
"Once you've been trained, your loyalty isn't really in question,
unless, well, there was reason to believe it should be..." -- GM
[Ops Plans for Amber]
"We should just kill them all and pick up the pieces." - Rain
"They are a threat. They can warp reality." - Crunch
[Wait! Wait!]
"Ixnay on the ang-ang-Bay!" - Kingsley
[Awwww...]
"Unless you want to shoot [Corwin]." - Paul
"Not by myself." - Rain
[Ummm?]
"Kate should notice something strange when she tries to strangle
me." - Kingsley
[Truer Words in Rebma...]
"Boy, are we overdressed." - Rain
[More Pattern Explanations -- Did I Forget to Mention...]
"Well, there are the Veils..." - Martin
"We have to wear veils?" - Rain
[and Finally...Guilt Takes Many Forms...]
"...if I actually told someone to point a gun at their father's
head..." - Martin
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Before I Kill You, Katie Karnage
Also check out
Bolthy and Mr. Uyeyama's quotes...
PLAYERS
Pol J. as The Conjuror
Tim H. as Mirror Merle
Jeremy (Bolthy) Zimmerman as The Moonrider
Alex K. as Mighty Mouse
Matthew C. as Kabael/Seraphim
Richard U. as the Lucky Guesser
and Kingsley L. as the inKredible Katie Karnage
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[Helpful Character Suggestions]
"You could play a schizophrenic called 'The Jury'." - Kingsley
[One Point of Good Stuff is Better Than None?]
"A bad-stuff surfer?" - Kingsley in reference to The Moonrider
"That means you have an enemy called 'The Undertow'," - GM warns.
"Who has a sidekick called 'Wipeout...'" - Kingsley
[Character Backgrounds]
"Kind of Renaissance-Disco?" - Kingsley of The Moonrider
"Just put a big piece of cheese in the middle of the Pattern &
you'll be fine," - Pol on the Mouse's Patternwalk.
[Pacing This Way and That Way...]
"We've made a treadmill just for you..." - Pol to Alex
[Still Beating Up the Atomic Robots]
"I say, Mouse?" - MirrorMerle
"Oh. Didn't notice." - Mighty Mouse, sheepishly.
[That Duo Has Already Left the Building]
"I'll let someone with tact and diplomacy tell her." - MirrorMerle
[Hypothetical, Only]
"Ah, an emergency. Let's slack off." - Kingsley
[Princess Oojateev]
"Um, you want my mom?" - The Princess (NPC)
"Mayyyybe." - The Moonrider
[Oooh, The Karnage Kar is All Ours!]
"One of Us gets to drive for a change!" - MirrorMerle
[Fools Rush In]
"Is everyone foolish enough to ride in the Karnage Kar with the
Lucky Guesser driving?" - Lucky Guesser
[Hypothetical, Revisited]
"To me, my secretary." - Kingsley
"I know what this looks like, but that isn't a surfboard in my
pocket." - Kingsley
[I'm Not Falling for That One...Again.]
"Four!" - NPC
"I watch out for golf balls." - The Moonrider
[You RESCUED Her?]
"That's so sweet...well, not you," looking at the Moonrider, "but
the rest of you. That's so sweet!" - Katie
[Good Advice]
"Don't ever kidnap Katie Karnage. And Stop Being Evil." - Mighty
Mouse
[Mind your H and Q]
"We have an interrogation room? Oh, yeah. The snack room." - The
Conjuror
[That's an Order!]
"Take him to your bedroom," - the Conjuror tells Katie of their
hostage.
[To me, my board!]
"You're a hazard." - MirrorMerle to The Moonrider
[Really Hypothetical]
"You're so last week, Katie." - The Conjuror, teasing
"I am so next week." - Katie, flouncing
[Remember, We're a Team!]
"Action pose, everyone!" - The Conjuror
[Important GM Clarification]
"I run through them." - Katie
"The kids?" - GM
"They're not my fans anymore!" - Katie
[The Chute is on the other side of the counter?...]
"I am so vaulting over it." - The Moonrider
[Disco is DEAD?]
"Kool! He's releasing --DISCO--? The Moonrider Fan Club is Dead!"
- Katie
[...and the home game]
"Assemble...eXcessive Force!" - the Conjuror
"eXcessive Force. Some assembly required." - Kingsley
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RETURN to MaBarry and the LintKing's Amber Stuff
Bolthy's ACNW Page
Welcome to my quotes page for ACNW. Where possible, I've tried to distinguish between the player and the character. I'm not posting too many specifics regarding the games, as some GMs may want to rehash their games for future cons. If you want nasty spoilers, you'll need to email me privately.
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Slot 1 Post Traumatic Stress
This was a bit of an unusual one, and I may have really gotten into it a bit more if I knew what the setting was based off of. In this game I got to play Adair, who really hasn't seen any life outside of Craig Johnson's Equinox PBEM. Adair can be summed up as "effeminite and useless". My pride and joy for this game was a point paid for Polaroid camera. 1 point of Mold Shadow in order to create the picture, and 2 points of damage resistance, because I figured its life expectancy would be low. Surprisingly, however, no one broke it, and it actually came in useful.
I was rather proud of the job I did playing Adair. The almighty Wuj at one point got a little concerned about "Adair with a gun" and stopped me to make me put it away or something.
GM - Jan Pieter de Graaf Lloyd, a noble of Amber - Erick Wujcik Adair, a Lord of Chaos - Jeremy Zimmerman Raphaela, a Lady of Chaos and child of Gerard - Cort Odekirk Napolean, son of Corwin - Dennis Castello Alanna, who I believe was an Amberite - Paula Sageser
Jan Pieter: You're in Amber as something besides a tourist. Jeremy: I am? Jan Pieter: Yes. Jeremy: Am I aware of this?
Paula (describing her character): She sometimes talks to herself. Cort: The one true schizophrenic?
Erick: If there's a smoke filled room in Amber, I'm probably in it. Cort: If you've read Zelazny's books, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a smoke filled room.
Napolean: I would just slow you down. Raphaela: And you're doing a wonderful job already.
Raphaela: What's a pig?!
Adair: Are you trying to give me a brush off? Lloyd: Yes.
Paula (before trumping Vialle): I'm going to go somewhere you can't see blood. Oh, it doesn't matter. She can't see.
Cort (about the one armed Benedict): He isn't armed is he?
Cort: There's a man trying to fight with my hair.
Alanna (breaking the news about Random to Vialle):
Someone jumped out of a cake. There are a lot of dead people.
Paula: I didn't want her to hear about this through rumors or-- Cort: Incoherent screaming?
Dennis: I won't be so presumptuous as to touch the queen. Jeremy: Oh, but she's so soft and squishy. Dennis: I'm not like some Lord of Chaos. I have some vestige of manners. Cort: Oh, I'm healing your warlord. Get over yourself.
Cort: Either it was manufactured at the Abyss, and Lord knows there's a heavy cart industry there, or...
Cort (describing the Abyss): Most things just fall into it. Rocks. Crockery. Your neighbors.
Raphaela: Guys, when you're done, I think created, you know, evil.
Cort: Don't talk to strangers out of the Abyss.
Cort: Evil says, "Hey! Evil!"
Alanna: This is incredibly rash and foolish. I just had to point this out.
Alanna (as we ride a boat across the Abyss): That was my way out of here. Dennis: Not any more! Now you're in the same boat with the rest of us.
Cort: Back on the boat. Toot-toot. Big scary darkness. I take a nap. We're there.
Dennis: If you can smoke it, shoot it, drink it, or shove it somewhere, we've got it.
Jan Pieter: It looks cheesy and fake, but it's really Amber's crown.
Cort: While you have your orgy with sex demons, I have to pee.
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Slot 2 & 3 Sunny Delight
I wasn't an actual player in this game. I signed up for it not quite connecting that it was the same as our normal game. Instead, I voiced for Cort, running a group of villainous NPCs. I was rather proud of my work. That is, until I got my ass kicked by Flora. Otherwise I had fun trashing castle Amber and nabbing Random and Vialle.
GM - Cort Odekirk Roland, son of Benedict - Alex Karls Marcus, son of Bleys - Guy Gascoigne-Piggford Emerus, son of Fiona - Thaddeus Rice Naneel, daughter of Fiona - Matthew Chase Achico, daughter of Benedict - Linda Cottrell Arthur, possible son of Corwin - Patrick LaBlanc
Alex: That's it! Trumps are powered by AT&T!
Cort: You're in a shadow called "Plot Device, Not Important".
Guy: Don't fry Fiona.
Cort: He's got her surrounded by candles and he's stroking her head.
Emerus: I want at least three men on my mother, now!
Cort: There are three men on his mother. Patrick: Is that all? Cort: It's Fiona. She's small.
Cort (describing a zombie): He seems to really want to get to you. Guy: And I really don't want him to.
Emerus: This bodes ill. Marcus: Yeah, no shit.
Emerus (after killing a zombified Golden Circle Rep):
We had another Golden Circle representative. Where is he?!
Matthew: I don't know if she can trump a Pattern. Guy: You likely won't do it twice.
Roland: I hate upstarts like you. Patrick: Upstart? He's got you pinned to the wall!
Alex: Congratulations. You just turned a powerful and ancient artifact into a twisted version of itself.
Thaddeus: I'm not being paranoid. I'm just confirming some theories. Guy: No, you're just being paranoid.
Guy: We keep going, checking for secrets, people, mugging servants.
Thaddeus: Stupidity is the best tactical advantage.
Cort: She's coming at... probably you. You're by far the most annoying.
Cort: "Quickly draw" is still 15, 20 minutes. "Sketch, sketch, ooo, scary, sketch, sketch."
Roland: Why don't you just team up and defeat me? Emerus: Well, duh!
Cort: It's not easy being a Pattern sucking zombie.
Alex: I think we're all trapped in our own hellish underworld. Guy: No, _you're_ in your own hellish underworld.
Cort: Servants. They're tense.
Thaddeus: Wow. She dead.
Emerus: He's got some shield of flaming shit.
Marcus (after Emerus finally accepts a trump call):
Finally! Emerus: Sorry. Duel to the death on the edge of the Pattern.
Guy: So, the plan is you draw the trump and we go through and mug Osric.
Marcus: We don't quite know what will happen. Arthur: Yeah we do. We all heard the little ditty.
Cort: You're feeling like someone just stepped on you. Guy: That's because someone just stepped on him.
Flora (interrogating a villain): Who are you?! (punch!) Where do you come from?! (punch!) And where's my dinner?! (punch!)
Osric (holding the JoJ): Stop, or I destroy! Marcus: Fuck you.
Marcus: Let's just chop off his head and take it with us. It's lighter.
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Slot 4 The Sweet Taste of Revenge
This one was billed as a murder mystery in a steam-punk setting. It wasn't so much Amber as diceless. I ran Gustaph van Buhrer, who was supposed to be the most desirable bachelor. I blended him with Adair, since I figured it didn't specify who was desiring this bachelor. Of course, Gustaph also had some dark secrets. I'm proud to say that people practically wanted to kill my little bon vivant within the first five minutes, and after that I couldn't really say anything without it being interpretted as sexual. I found myself regularly struck speechless by Karrin's character. I could not for the life of me think of any clever comebacks to any jibes she sent to Gustaph. I found out later that she was planning on waiting until James and Gustaph were alone, and starting off with the line, "You sure do have a pretty mouth."
Another charming bit was that Jason's character had a typo saying that he could either be an "innocent strangler or homicidal maniac", when I believe "innocent stranger" was what it was supposed to mean. However, Jason took strangler and ran with it. It's rare luck that none of us were ever alone with the reprogrammed steam butler.
GM - Ameer Tavakoli George Ramsey, Archaelogist - Jon Carlaw Dr. Charles Dory, Curator of the London Museum of Natural History - Ian Goodwin TX1100, the Steam Butler - Fred Hicks Dr. Elijah Underwood, Professor of History - Ben Mardukas James Baker, Famed Archaeologist - Karrin Dailey Alexander Williams (?), wayward son - Bernie Hsiung Gustaph van Buhrer, bon vivant - Jeremy Zimmerman Jack, the stranded traveller - Jason Durall
Ben: I'm sorry. I'm the professor of history. I didn't get it.
Ameer (describing the setting): Americans are generally considered rude and loud. Jeremy: How's that different from now?
Ben: Oh... the bon vivant. It's like tossing gasoline on the professor.
Elijah: You certainly are an odd man. Gustaph: You mean like, queer?
Jon: So, do one in ten butlers explode?
Karrin: He has one of those long duster jackets that he prefers to keep on. Ben: So he's a gamer? Ameer: No, just American.
Ben (about the steam bulter): Last night I asked him for a steam bath and he stuck his leg in it. I was lucky it was his leg.
Jeremy (as everyone describes how they got there): I actually rode a steam butler here. (Pause as everyone takes it the wrong way).
Jeremy: Oh, just pinch her. She'll love it. Karrin: I'm not doing that to a French woman again. Jeremy: Got a little more than you planned for last time? Karrin: How do you think I lost the eye?
Alexander: There seems to have been a struggle and then a fall. I don't understand. We were all at dinner. Gustaph: Which don't you understand? The struggle, or the fall?
James (to Gustaph): I'm not much of a lady's man. I'm not much of a man's man, either, so you keep back.
Karrin (about the bon vivant): He's compromising... my... bitterness...
Karrin: James is rifling through his desk. No respect for the dearly departed. Ameer: That's okay. No one respected him when he was alive.
Ameer: The bon vivant monsieur discovered a hidden elevator. Karrin: He's useful?!
Jeremy (while trying to cram three people into a one person elevator): If you're flexible, I'm so in there with you.
James (to the Gustaph and Charles): I don't mean to use a bad pun, but I'll ferry you both up.
Karrin: I thought you said "guttenflog". I know enough German to make that sound bad.
Karrin: I shimmied up the chain and left you guys to be mummy fodder.
Ian (about the attacking mummy): They... don't normally do that.
Gustaph (describing the events in the basement): Books. Scrolls. Sarcophagus. Rrrrrr. Ahhh! Run!
Ameer: He's not very certain what to make of you. Karrin: A casserole most likely.
Ian: I'm following it. I don't know why, but I'm following it. Bernie: Because if you're following it, he's not chasing you.
Ameer: And those are big guns you carry. You're American.
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Slot 5 Beyond the Wardrobe
This one was fairly fun. It was a relatively straight-forward premise, but all in all I had a good time. I played Bill Honeynose, a bear knight who liked to think of himself as "civilized". I was also, by far, the most militaristic character, which disconcerted the peace-nik characters. I had very little tolerance for the "evil" races, such as wolves and goblins, and I didn't hide it too well. Big kudos for this one must go to Roy, however, as he did a mind-bogglingly good job playing a British child with an overactive imagination. Trish was also a marvelous Reepicheep. Reep almost managed to give Bill an ulcer.
GM - John Schleik Samantha, a daughter of Eve - Amber Cook Brendel the Ferret - John Worsley Tommy, a son of Adam - Roy Grutchfield Alastair the Centaur - Jason Durall Reepicheep the Mouse - Trish Hart Bill Honeynose, bear knight - Jeremy Zimmerman Magnolia the Faun - Linda Cottrell Arune the Wolfe - Tracy Worcester
John S. (talking about Scooby Doo before the game): Was it Shaggy and Daphne? Shaggy and Velma? And is Fred gay? I don't know... He's wearing an ascot!
John S.: The stars are aligning. Narnia meets Cthulhu?
Roy: I thought I could fly. But I found it didn't work.
Roy: I could hide under the bed. Oh, wait. There might be sharks.
Trish: Oh my god! The wardrobe killed Kenny!
Roy: I'm a big pirate with a sword, so I'm not scared. Amber: And I'm just playing, so I'm not scared either.
Linda: You see a man with flowers in his beard. Amber: It's Britain... It's Britain...
Roy: I'm nearly 8. Amber: I thought you were nearly 7 and a half. Roy: That's nearly 8, isn't it?
Magnolia: I'm a faun. Tommy: What's that? It's a talking goat, isn't it? Magnolia: Y-- No.
John S.: Are you a good wolf or a bad wolf? Linda: I'm not a wolf. They dressed me up like this.
Alastair (about the gruffness of Bill): Oh, don't worry. He's a big honey bear.
John S.: You see something ahead. It's golden. Roy: Wow. Might be a parrot. Might be treasure.
Tracy and John W. (singing): The hills are alive... with the sound of goblins.
Jeremy (on seeing Aslan): I kill him. How many XP do I get?
Arune: You are one of the sons of Adam and daughters of Eve? Amber: Actually, my mother's name is Claire.
Tracy: I know I can carry Reepicheep. Can I carry them? Roy: I'm big. I don't need to be carried.
Bilbo the Trove: It doesn't have the wingy bits, but that's basically what it is.
John S. (impersonating Tommy): Can I be a slaver too? I have a cousin here. You can have her!
Jeremy: So why are you going in? Jason: It seemed like a good idea.
Roy: Can we understand them? John S.: Yes. Jeremy: They're not speaking Evil? You know, alignment tongue? Jason: The Amber family would never be able to understand each other. "Brand, stop speaking Chaotic Evil!"
John S. (to Jeremy): He throws the jug and you're standing right there. Jason: Are you going to roll on your back and play with it?
Jason: That's frightening. Little goblins with cell phones.
Jason: Groin shots in Narnia?
Jason: Now, remember. I'm a horse. I've got one horsepower here.
Jason: Young Tommy earned his spurs. Oh, wait. Spurs are bad.
Trish: Okay, we kill all the troves now. Tracy: Said the talking mouse. Trish: No, said Trish, who hates the Ewoks.
John S. (to John W.): You are awakened by Reep. Tracy: Out of boneless ferret bliss.
Tracy: I go over with "Hi, I'm an alpha" body language.
Tracy: I go up and chat up the wolves. John S.: "What's a wolf like you doing in a place like this?"
John S. (following the chat-up gag): Tommy asks Alastair what those wolves are doing. Jason: Ask the flower child. It's... something beautiful.
Jeremy: If it, like, moves. I'm killing it.
Jason: Are you letting go? Trish: Um, I don't want you to crush me...
Misc. Goblin (as Arune is giving the speech against industrialism): I coughed up black gunk just yesterday!
John S. (explaining Magnolia's innate stealth ability):
You're used to sneaking up on nymphs and such...
Jeremy (after hearing that the red headed woman is 7 feet tall): On the bright side, it's probably not Fiona. John W.: That wasn't my first thought. Trish: Maybe it's Bleys in drag?
Samantha: Narnians belong in Narnia. And we belong in our world. Except for the occasional crossover.
Tracy (regarding the Jabberwock and the Bandersnatch):
Of course, there's the ecological imbalance we created by killing the top two predators around the tum-tum gree.
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Slot 6 The Trouble with Random
Not a lot of quotes, and I'm not even going to try to do a cast list. This was a LARP, and so there wasn't a lot of sitting around the table bullshitting and jotting down notes. My pride and joy from this session was that I was the murderer, and I didn't get caught. Even with my very obvious dagger stuck into the back of the king. All the characters were pregenerated, and I was really impressed by the work done by the three GMs.
Richard Johnson (describing the death of Eric in another LARP): Which was quite unfortunate since I was Eric.
Page (played by Paula Sageser): Just because you arrived a day ago, I'm not going to assume you're a murderer. Blaine (played by Patrick LaBlanc): I'm willing to assume you are.
Helena: Trust me. I'm family.
Irene (one of the GMs): He landed on your head. Sorry, it's that gravity thing.
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Slot 7 Before I Kill You Katie Karnage...
This was the perfect end to a mentally draining weekend. I played the Moonrider, who was essentially a cross between 70s fantasy hero and the Silver Surfer. My vision of 70s fantasy hero being firmly defined by the 1st Edition AD&D "Dieties and Demigods" book, under the Elric section. Think bell bottoms and flare lapels like it's going out of style. My board was about a 34 point item. There was something resembling a story line, but I was having nothing to do with it. I was quite intent on my marketing war with Katie Karnage.
GM: Meera Barry Victor, aka "The Conjurer" - Pl Jackson Merlin, aka "Mirror Merle" - Timothy Hart Edgar, aka "The Moonrider" - Jeremy Zimmerman Chester Poe, aka "Mighty Mouse" - Alex Karl Cavale, aka "Seraphim" - Matthew Chase Jordan, aka "Lucky Guesser" - Richard Uyeyama Katie K. Arnage, aka "Katie Karnage" - Kingsley Lintz
Meera (regarding Moonrider): You realize that if you take bad stuff, you'll have an enemy named "Undertow". Kingsley: And his sidekick "Wipeout".
Pl: Is anyone playing a sidekick? "Jeepers!" Kingsley: We once had a guy named "Right Hand". Pl: Benedict, right?
Meera: He's the one who had Danger Sense in his pants. Kingsley: "By the tingling in my buns, something wicked this way comes."
Kingsley: Katie comes running out wearing a towel. And grenades.
Timothy: That's your job, isn't it? Thingies?
Meera: It's Princess Ujatee. Jeremy: Is she hot? Meera: She's a red head. Jeremy: So is she hot? Meera: She's 12. Jeremy: So, is she hot? Meera: She looks a bit like a boy. Jeremy: But is she hot?
Pl (on Kashfa): It's chief exports are fish, oil, and giant robots.
Meera: How did you leave the car? Kingsley: Well, I parked it.
Meera: Slightly off Beethoven comes out of all the cars. Jeremy: Right. I suspect a trap and kill the cars.
Meera: People tend not to like unstable atomic robots. Kingsley: And if you look outside, they're pretty unstable.
Pl: Do you see your family members and loved ones? Kingsley: Boy, that's two seperate groups.
Meera: She hits a button and calls out "Four!" Jeremy: I watch out for golf balls.
Alex (while watching water swirl in his cup): This is the most amusing thing I've done all weekend. Just kidding. Your game is fun too.
Meera: Do you take him down tot he Xcessive Force Interrogation Room? Pl: What? Oh, the snack room. Yeah, we'll clean out the plates, put up some black curtains to hide the microwave.
Timothy: I want to see this. We don't normally see what happens in Katie's bedroom.
Mr. Waites (a villain): I have his card. I had his card. I don't have my pants.
as speculation ensues on what Moonrider's flying surfboard is doing in a comic book store when Moonrider isn't watching Kingsley: The proprieter is asking the board, "Are you going to buy that?" Pl: Or better yet, he's chatting up a pair of skis. "So, are you-- Oh, twins!"
Dr. Tyler (another villain): All my records were destroyed in a mysterious fire. Katie Karnage: I wasn't even there. Try again.
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AmberCon NW 1999 (Nov.4-7)
Quotes Sheet (for games I was in)
V1.0 Nov/8/99
Recorded and compiled, and written up by Richard Uyeyama (ru e ama best com)*
* Instances of the letter "y", the "at" symbol, and all periods have been
removed (replaced with spaces) from the above e-mail address in order to
prevent unscrupulous UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) bot processes
from adding to the amount of e-mail I already get...
This document is Copyright 1999 by Richard Uyeyama. Duplication of this
document (in part or in whole) without permission of author is strictly
prohibited.
A few notes:
Number or quality of quotes is not necessarily any indication of the
quality (or fun factor) of the game from which they were taken.
Some quotes are fairly context-driven. The compiler is not responsible
for the reader's understanding or appreciation of the quotes herein. =)
Quotes are not necessarily guaranteed to be 100% verbatim (or accurate in
every way), though the compiler does strive to keep them as accurate as
possible.
Finally, if I've made any obvious mistakes (name spellings, or quote
attributions, or whatever), please let me know, so I can correct them!
A specific note on Katie Karnage quotes:
Since standard ascii doesn't actually have a heart-dotted "i", please
note that the "i" in all instances of Katie's name, as well as any "i"
that appears in any of her quotes, should be considered to have been
dotted with a little heart shape. =)
And now, on with the quotes!
(With the exception of the "More quotes" quotes, quotes are listed, more
or less, in the order in which they occurred)
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Dark Lords (Slot 1)
GM Kristen Gibbs
Matheson Kevin Clark
Marcus Drake Paul Marshall
Luce Jim Holthaus
Marak Edwin Voskamp
Calvin James David Golden
Janice Freelander Richard Uyeyama
"The two of you have heard of each other."
"Wait... which persona?"
-- Kristen Gibbs
& Richard Uyeyama
(Luce has heard of two of Janice's personas!)
"We're all giant cockroaches!"
-- Dave Golden
(pre-game discussions; the world is different?)
"This is a very bad world."
--Kevin Clark
(more pre-game discussions)
"Headhunters are really aggressive in the future!"
-- Jim Holthaus
(side comment on Matheson's intro scene)
"Cut off his arm if you have to. It's what's in his head that's important."
-- Matheson
(more of Matheson's intro scene)
"I'm watching a gunfight?"
"Yeah."
"Anything interesting happening?"
-- Jim Holthaus
& Kristen Gibbs
(...besides bullets flying over your head?)
"Are they accepting prisoners?"
"No."
"Then I retreat."
-- Jim Holthaus
& Kristen Gibbs
(Luce chooses wisely)
"Put your name on the list!"
-- Jim Holthaus, to Richard-as-Janice
(Janice finds Gray Dawn's blacklist)
"How the hell did they know I was living here?"
(Jim points at Richard)
"What?"
-- Marak
& Richard Uyeyama
(Janice broke into Gray Dawn's blacklist?)
"I don't know how to kill people... very well."
-- Jim-as-Luce
(Luce is just a photographer...)
"Keeping the rifle trained on him, I'm gonna dig through my bag...
and find my shoes!"
-- Richard Uyeyama
(keeping an eye on Lorac)
"I don't care if he blows up. I'm getting the hell out of the way!"
-- Paul Marshall
(Drake wasn't hired to keep Calvin safe?)
"'My name is Benedict,' says Mr. Crag."
-- Kristen Gibbs
(wait... I thought his name was Crag?)
"Any viruses that would destroy it would destroy you too."
"Okay, we'll skip that, then."
-- Dr. Saul
& Marak
(trying to find an easy way to kill the phase soldiers)
"'I'm his boss... watch out for the toilet.'"
"That's an interesting name."
-- [does anyone remember who said these?]
(hmmm... I guess Benedict did introduce himself to Janice)
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Crisis of Infinite Ambers (Slots 3 and 4)
GM Richard Uyeyama
Mallory Kevin Clark
Talia Paul Marshall
Ulrich Timothy Carroll
Tara (NPC)
"You get a Trump call."
"I... take it."
"It's your Uncle Caine!"
-- Richard Uyeyama
& Tim Carroll
& Paul Marshall
(Caine, Caine, and a side comment)
"All Ambers have become one."
"All?"
"Ambers?"
-- Annabella
& Ulrich
& Mallory
(Oh... the Command Center...)
"All this talk of food has made me hungry!"
(Dworkin disappears)
"I hope he's not eating that specimin we brought him."
-- Dworkin
& Kevin Clark
(more of Dworkin's, uh, idiosyncrasies)
"I assure you they're not addictive."
-- Mallory, to Talia
(drugs!)
"You universe is a strange place if it indeed has... open spaces."
-- Mallory, to Talia
(Mallory is confused... or perhaps not)
"Mallory. It's Ulrich."
"Aaaa!"
-- Ulrich
& Mallory
(Trump call!)
More quotes:
"Diagnostics reports that everything is fine." (various times, used by GM)
"It's your Uncle Caine!" (various times, used by various people)
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A Dark Cloud on the Horizon (Slot 6)
GM Jon Carlaw
Sipprian John Worsley
Christabell Cort Odekirk
Tybalt Eric Todd
Jason Matthew Chase
Lilienne Richard Uyeyama
"You haven't done anything incompetent. You must be dangerous!"
-- Cort-as-evil-wizard
(in reference to Sipprian)
"I look down through the hole, into the basement. Is there a vine
generator down there?"
-- Eric Todd
(vines!)
"Strangely, you *don't* find any Professor of Evil."
-- Jon Carlaw, to John-as-Sipprian
(poking around the University of Evil!)
"Sure! Stick your fingers in the mailbox of the Professor of Occult
Studies!"
-- Cort Odekirk
(more poking around the University of Evil!)
More quotes:
"Then they invented... scissors!" (various times)
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Before I Kill You, Katie Karnage... (Slot 7)
GM Meera Barry
Katie Karnage Kingsley Lintz
The Moonrider Jeremy Zimmerman
Mirror Merl Tim Hart
Mighty Mouse Alex Karls
The Conjurer Pol Jackson
Serrafin Matthew Chase
Lucky Guesser Richard Uyeyama
Team Name: Excessive Force!
Lucky Guesser's Identifying Quote:
"I'm Guessing that that hand grenade was a dud. Please?"
"Just put a piece of cheese at the Center of the Pattern."
-- Pol Jackson
(in reference to Mouse's Patternwalk)
"Where exactly do you have your grenades?"
-- Meera Barry, to Kingsley Lintz
(Katie, a towel... and grenades)
"Unfortunately, we lost Katie. Wait, what am I saying?"
-- The Moonrider, to King Random
(and the bad news is...?)
"Back to the Excessive Center!"
-- The Moonrider
(Back to the Excessive Center!)
"Katie was removed from the scene... by the power of... Radiation!"
"Radiation?"
"Radiation?"
"Radiation?"
-- The Conjurer
& Jeremy Zimmerman
& Tim Hart
& Lucky Guesser
(Trump conversation!)
"Four!"
"I watch out for golf balls."
-- Mr. Waite's Secretary
& Jeremy Zimmerman
(Please Take A Number)
"My, that was... Excessive."
-- The Moonrider
(in reference to Serrafin's entrance past Mr. Waite's
Secretary)
"Did anything unusual happen while you were wearing that dress?"
-- Jeremy Zimmerman, to Kingsley Lintz
(lunch break conversations)
"*I* have your pants!"
-- Pol-as-Katie
(Katie is, uh, interrogating)
"He's releasing disco? Cool! The Moonrider Fan Club is dead!"
-- Kingsley Lintz
(Fan Club turf war!)
"Katie's there. It's okay."
-- Meera Barry
(shortly before a huge explosion)
More quotes:
"To me, my board!" (*every* time The Moonrider calls his surfboard...)
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