Most Memorable / Funniest RPing Moment(s)

[Liam Devlin]

Originally posted by Spacehand Arioch:
My friends and I played a Traveller session in which we were bounty hunters after human robots (think blade runner).
Our team learned where our target "replicant" was living, in an apartment type building. My chara took a position at the back of the apartment building with a gauss rifle to cover any escape. My teammate decides to try and bluff his way into the apartment by acting like a magazine salesman.
One problem. He goes to the replicants door which has a peep hole. He knocks of the door and says, "You want to by some magazines?" The replicant can see my teammate standing at the door, wearing cloth armour and helmet carrying an M-60.
The result was my teammate being blasted with a shotgun and the replicant trying to escape out the back of the building. Unfortunately my chara wasn't very skilled with a gauss rifle and the replicant ended up escaping.
With a team like ours, chasing replicants was a tough job.

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Good (but painful) lesson on not standing infront of the door! Thanx Spacehand-A!

 

[Liam Devlin]

Originally posted by Mark A. Siefert:
Just last year my friends and I were playing a Halloween game of Call of Cthulhu. The story revolved around a tiny island town being plauged by an old family that had reverted into ghouls. I was playing a 30ish historian who had survived "The Great War" and was just as good with a rifle as he was with card catalog. Among our party we had a Catholic priest who had turned out to be a relative to the ghouls. At one point, someone notices that the priest had gone missing. At that moment, the Keeper announces that there is a scream coming from the woods outside of town. My character seizes a bolt-action Springfield and tells all the able bodied men to take up arms and head out toward the screaming. One of the other players asks "What about the preist?"

Without thinking I say "TO HELL WITH THE PREIST! SOMEONE IS IN TROUBLE!!!"

Yes, the source of the scream was the Preist.

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DOH! That's funny!

Long time no see mark! Got the computer back up and runnin' good? Glad to see you're postin again!

 

[Liam Devlin]

Originally posted by Arbitrary Aardvark:
This occured at a convention game I ran about 20 years ago.

The group consisted of an exploratory team and a 200 ton or so scout ship. There was the captain, engineer, medic, biologist, anthropoligist, archeologist, and a team of three Marines. They were to perform a quick survey on a planet with native life to determine if there were any sophonts. (The previous survey hadn't seen any evidence of technology, so if there were any they were very low tech.) It was seriously hinted to the captain and maybe some of the other crew members, that it would be convenient if there were no sentient life found. I naively assumed that he would interpret this as forging the results. (The mining company was willing to bet that the government wouldn't shut down an operation that had already started even if aliens were eventually found.)

Well, to make a painfully long story short, the party did discover (after they shot one of them)that there were tech-level 3 aliens. While the anthropoligist and archeologist, escorted by one of the marines were trying to communicate with the aliens, the biologist was whipping up a plague to make sure that there would be no aliens.

This plague was released, some of the aliens died. The anthropolgist reported that the aliens were getting sick. The pilot flew the ship over and killed (in order to shut them up I suppose) the anthropoligist, archeologist, and marine with the ships maneuver engine exhaust.

The marine commander found out about this and rigged demolition charges in the engine room, then set them off, blowing the ship to bits.

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Bummer. Serious "game over" there. I take the Marine team leader went up with the ship?

 

[siefertma2]

Originally posted by Liam Devlin:

Long time no see mark! Got the computer back up and runnin' good? Glad to see you're postin again!

Yeah, I was able to get ahold of the ONE compotent Tech Gateway had gave them the following ultimatum: Help me fix my machine or I'm driving to your South Dakota location to hurl it through one of the windows of your corporate office. After I get out of jail, I'm buying a Dell.

We sorted everything out and got things rolling.

Later,
Mark A. Siefert

 

[Liam Devlin]

Originally posted by Mark A. Siefert:
[Yeah, I was able to get ahold of the ONE compotent Tech Gateway had gave them the following ultimatum: Help me fix my machine or I'm driving to your South Dakota location to hurl it through one of the windows of your corporate office. After I get out of jail, I'm buying a Dell.

We sorted everything out and got things rolling.

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There you go! THAT got their attention, I see.

Glad they were "reasonable" and saw yer POV as a client--albeit it took em a while.

 

[themink]

In a FRP game that we were inventing, every creature built up magic points over the course of their life. If something died nearby, you absorbed a little of this magic. Only mages could release the magic in spell form - everyone else spent the points on "Powers" such as extra Hit points, extra attacks etc etc.

We had a group of adventures mooching allong trying to get revenge on the head of the thieves guild - they went on long adventure trips doing deeds of derring do. One of the players was a mage and refused flatly to cast any spells.

After 3 months of real time (playing twice a week) the party finally located the mountain hideaway that the Thieves used (Think volcanic lake with an island in the centre - tower rising vertically from the island.

Looking out at the daunting view the Mage says, in a very flat disinterested voice - "So that's the adventure - I blow it up."

Apparently, the entire time, he had been calculating and re-calculating the size of explosion he could generate if released all his power at once. He was upto the equivalent damage as a meteor strike (near c rock, not D&D) for a radius of roughly 200 feet.

I fold my lovely maps, monster stats etc, place them all in my little "ref" bag and describe the explosion.

I nearly gave in and had something stop the bang - but he had been saving up for so long - I had to let it happen.

The system was replaced when rolemaster came out (to give you an idea of timing) - but you can still get a snigger from the gamers involved by using "I blow it up" in a flat voice.

 

[Liam Devlin]

Things that make ya go

"BOOM"!

I'll be wary of that phrase..."I blow it up." to be sure!

 

[Tarn]

Good one Mink...

 

[Medik]

Greetings all.

The most memorable session for me was in an Airport lounge.
Let me set the scene. I was running a game of Cyberpunk for my regular crowd and they had just completed a rather hairy paid extraction of a young lady. The tem consisted of Paul (playing a nomad) Dids (Retired cop) Simon (mercenary) Foot(medic) and Dom(Mercenary). They have all just finished a rather nice meal and have one by one left the table with various excuses such as the toilet and so on leaving Dids to pay the bill, without him reliasing what they had done. So after paying the hefty bill he goes looking for them to recoup some of his hard earned cash. Along comes Simon with a paper bag and presents them to dids as a way of saying sorry. Dids opens this up to find 6 Jelly donuts and a note to the effect that he should like these as they were a good staple diet for a cop. He throws them to the floor in disgust and proceeds to have a bit of a rant at simon. Along comes a security guard and politly askes him to pick his rubbish up. After a few heated word Dids does so and throws them in the bin. This causes much laughter within the group.
<<Fast Forward to the Airship>>
The team has just settled temselves on board and there is a knock on the cabin door. Dids answers and is confronted by a delivery bot witha box for him. "Funny" he thinks "noone knows I'm onboard" So he carefully checks the box for booby traps. This takes him about 20 mins "just to be sure". Upon finally opening the box he finds 6 dozen Jelly donuts with various coverings and a note from Simon suggesting that he keep these safe just he gets peckish. (Simon had informed me by note that he was going to do this but noone else) at which point the rest of the team burst out laughing and Dids sees red. He's ranting and raving every where.

I have to say that his face was one of the funniest things that I have seen in a long time as they had all somehow all managed to really get into character and had almost lost themselves in the game. Even 6 years on we still chuckle over Dids and his Jelly donuts

 

[Liam Devlin]

Good one Medik! And welcome aboard CoTI! Stars fer you! (We have enough people here where the Jelly donut story rings true in Arkie land, USA! in RL, much less Trav...!) *****

 

[GBoyett]

Originally posted by The Mink:
In a FRP game that we were inventing, every creature built up magic points over the course of their life. If something died nearby, you absorbed a little of this magic. Only mages could release the magic in spell form - everyone else spent the points on "Powers" such as extra Hit points, extra attacks etc etc.

We had a group of adventures mooching allong trying to get revenge on the head of the thieves guild - they went on long adventure trips doing deeds of derring do. One of the players was a mage and refused flatly to cast any spells.

After 3 months of real time (playing twice a week) the party finally located the mountain hideaway that the Thieves used (Think volcanic lake with an island in the centre - tower rising vertically from the island.

Looking out at the daunting view the Mage says, in a very flat disinterested voice - "So that's the adventure - I blow it up."

Apparently, the entire time, he had been calculating and re-calculating the size of explosion he could generate if released all his power at once. He was upto the equivalent damage as a meteor strike (near c rock, not D&D) for a radius of roughly 200 feet.

I fold my lovely maps, monster stats etc, place them all in my little "ref" bag and describe the explosion.

I nearly gave in and had something stop the bang - but he had been saving up for so long - I had to let it happen.

The system was replaced when rolemaster came out (to give you an idea of timing) - but you can still get a snigger from the gamers involved by using "I blow it up" in a flat voice.

Oh that's good.

Note to self: Don't drink freshly made tea while reading discussion boards. Remember, Mr Laptop is now out of warrenty.