Turns out Player A had never heard the folklore about vampires not being able to enter residences until they're invited.
Did he fail his dumbass check or something?
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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NoiseDesign - Jun 18, 2008 1:16:07 pm PDT #998 of 26132
Our wings are not tired
Laga - Jun 18, 2008 1:21:25 pm PDT #999 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
huh. Doesn't that go all the way back to Bram Stoker?
Atropa - Jun 18, 2008 1:30:03 pm PDT #1000 of 26132
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
huh. Doesn't that go all the way back to Bram Stoker?
Before Bram Stoker, IIRC. Of course, all my books that have that information are at home, not next to me here at work, so I can't say for sure.
amych - Jun 18, 2008 1:35:56 pm PDT #1001 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Before Bram Stoker, IIRC.
IR the same way, and of course the power of thresholds and all kinds of warding and permissioning magic are common to a lot of monster myths across cultures and periods.
I'm being too lazy to actually look stuff up, but I can talk into this text box real nice!
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jun 18, 2008 1:37:40 pm PDT #1002 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Did he fail his dumbass check or something?
Precisely. This is the same asshat who screwed up a planned 24 hour marathon Traveller game at the 9th hour by deciding that the game must be over and calling in the cops and running with the money. I was one of the players in that game, and the only player, besides the asshat, to escape from the cops. Everyone else was dead.
Problem for the asshat was that my character hadn't trusted him since the beginning so he'd left a small bomb under the guy's bed which would only activate if the asshat's brainwaves were detected within two feet of it. The bomb would be remotely primed whenever I left the ship in case of a double-cross and of course that's exactly what the asshat did.
He got in the ship, escaped atmosphere, hit hyperspace and after several hours in the cockpit, headed to bed. The bomb detonated the moment his head hit the pillow.
Needless to say, when you explode in hyperspace, there isn't any debris left to find.
Asshat's facial expression was priceless.
amych - Jun 18, 2008 1:47:17 pm PDT #1003 of 26132
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
BTW, Jilli, congratulations on your shiny post number. Who says we need a gaming thread anyway?
Connie Neil - Jun 18, 2008 2:12:37 pm PDT #1004 of 26132
brillig
Who says we need a gaming thread anyway?
Hee. I was thinking the same thing when I saw what the numbers were getting to.
Volans - Jun 18, 2008 3:23:16 pm PDT #1005 of 26132
move out and draw fire
There was a knock at the door, and player A answered it. The figure asked if he could come in, and the player said "sure". As one, all the other players turned and looked dumbstruck at player A who was like "What?
Hah! When we played the combined we had the exact same thing happen. except when Player Asshat said, "Sure!" the rest of us yelled "WHAT?!?!?"
Volans - Jun 18, 2008 3:24:23 pm PDT #1006 of 26132
move out and draw fire
cold pizza:
P-C, how really very cool! I've been doing a little bit with ARGs for work, and she is the bomb diggity.
And that was them on Cute Overload?!?!
Wow the world gets small sometimes.
Polter-Cow - Jun 18, 2008 3:53:23 pm PDT #1007 of 26132
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P-C, how really very cool! I've been doing a little bit with ARGs for work, and she is the bomb diggity.
Nice!
And that was them on Cute Overload?!?!
Hee, yep!