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Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

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billytea - May 29, 2008 5:19:30 am PDT #778 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Then they all start to die, horrifically. I don't know what kind of "research facility" they were guarding, but I imagine something along the lines of them all dying of Cap'n Trips from Stephen King's "The Stand". Horrible, slow, agonizing deaths as they all sit in the pub, tankards clasped in their hands. Pustules, choking on mucus, hemorrhagic fever symptoms (bleeding from eyes and mouth and similar). They are moaning and screaming, dying...and they plead with him to get the cure. He knows where it is. He can reach it easily. He stands...and is too drunk to walk. He stumbles forward but can never reach the door, he keeps going the wrong way, dizzy and confused. As the last of his mates expires, clutching at him with bloody fingers, the man (or woman, who knows?) gasps "Harlyn...it's your fault..."

Ooh, I like this. I'll use it. One alteration, I think I'll leave his colleagues acting as though nothing was happening. Harlyn is in an icy panic, trying to reach the cure, while his rapidly decomposing band watch his efforts with detached interest. Until the end...

A simple thought. She has received her dragonmark. Hooray! She is proud and flushed with newfound power. Then someone points at it. She looks again. It is wrong. It's different. It's aberrant. Her power erupts forth (whatever that might mean) destroying all she loves. She is a monster...

Excellent, just what I want. The perversion of her healing power will work nicely.

Thanks MM, these are great.


billytea - May 29, 2008 5:21:43 am PDT #779 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Oh, while I'm at it, I am a robot god. Just played RoboRally, seven computer opponents, Factory Rejects scenario. I won, by killing. Them. All.

So very sweet.


Tom Scola - May 29, 2008 6:52:09 am PDT #780 of 26132
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Preview of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People


NoiseDesign - May 29, 2008 11:09:55 am PDT #781 of 26132
Our wings are not tired

So on the FG side of things, if we want to have a video chat line going while we are gaming we have to run a separate client. Anyone have prefs for Windows based video chat client?


Volans - May 29, 2008 12:12:44 pm PDT #782 of 26132
move out and draw fire

Back to bugs, and nightmares (mine):

I'm sure billytea knows about the fungus that attacks insects and makes them go crazy, then spores out of their bodies? So you get insect corpses with tentacle-y fungus spores growing out of them. VERY Cthulian.

Oddly, it's a different type of fungus for each type of insect.


billytea - May 29, 2008 2:00:33 pm PDT #783 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I'm sure billytea knows about the fungus that attacks insects and makes them go crazy, then spores out of their bodies? So you get insect corpses with tentacle-y fungus spores growing out of them. VERY Cthulian.

Oh yes. That'd be neat for minions of Zuggtmoy, for instance.


Pix - May 29, 2008 7:28:42 pm PDT #784 of 26132
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

We had a very billytea game night with megan. We played Settlers (with Knights and Cities explansion for six people), Zombie Fluxx, and Acquire (this cool old game megan brought). So much fun!


megan walker - May 29, 2008 8:19:25 pm PDT #785 of 26132
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Don't forget "What's It to Ya?"!


NoiseDesign - May 29, 2008 8:22:00 pm PDT #786 of 26132
Our wings are not tired

Coffee is more important that grandparents. I'm just saying.


megan walker - May 29, 2008 8:23:21 pm PDT #787 of 26132
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Toilet paper rules!