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OOC: Off-Topic Posts.

Posted by The MarshallFor group 0
The Marshall
GM, 49 posts
aka "helbent4"
aka Tony
Fri 25 Jun 2010
at 02:24
  • msg #1

OOC: Off-Topic Posts

Posse,

Now that the game has started, and we get away from character creation, this thread will be for more general OOC posts.

Tony
Arthur Dayne
player, 14 posts
Veteran Templar
Sword of the Morning
Fri 25 Jun 2010
at 03:10
  • msg #2

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

First!
Brother Edgar
player, 15 posts
Doomsayer
Fri 25 Jun 2010
at 03:15
  • msg #3

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

Oh you're such a cheater!
Dakota Jack Cardinal
player, 19 posts
Gunslinger
aka Don
Fri 25 Jun 2010
at 18:19
  • msg #4

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

I'm bored for about 20 minutes...  dumb things that have happened in DL games.

- So in this one game, the Marshall gave each of our characters a free Edge of his choosing.  The Templar in our posse got the Purty Edge.  I don't even remember what I got... Tough as Nails I think.  Also, I specifically asked the Marshal at one point if I could acquire steel toed boots, and my request was granted.

The posse is captured after losing a terrible curb stomp battle, and one of the captors is a very large mutant woman with the Super Soldier Edge and the Pitfighter template, and her mutation makes her look like The Thing (Fantastic Four).  This Marshall was a little strange.  Anyway the bad guys have us all hanging from a beam with our wrists tied together.  There's some valley or pit or something nearby full of some kind of monsters, and they decide they're going to take us all there on a wagon tomorrow and toss us in, but first were going to hang there all night.

Except for one member of the posse.  The Thingette sees the Templar hanging there, decides he looks good, and cuts him down...

That player and the Marshall go into the other room for about 20 minutes, and the rest of us are just laughing our butts off because we're teenagers and this is hilarious.

The player comes back laughing and sits down.  The Marshall proceeds to tell us that just before dawn, someone comes and strings him back up on the beam with us, and he looks like he's seen Death.

Every other player, except me, gives him all sorts of terrible jokes.  I'm playing a very surly syker and I tell them point blank if he'd been a woman you'd all be horrified, so shut up this isn't funny.  And I got a white chip for it.

The Templar, the same character who single handedly killed a badass abomination a session ago, says in a shaky voice:  "We snuggled the whole time..." and reveals he was faking us out.

At this point I got mad at him IC for making us think he was actually violated, and since I'm hanging next to him (facing his back), I kick him in the nuts.  While wearing the steel toed boots from 2 sessions ago.

At that point we had to stop and laugh for about 30 minutes.  You had to be there.
Jane Guin
player, 9 posts
Renegade Black Hat
Fri 25 Jun 2010
at 18:25
  • msg #5

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

From my own HoE days...

I was playing a junker (the sourcebook had just come out, and I'm a math geek) who loved cars and had a hero-worship of Elvis Presley. We ran into another PC, a cyborg who had the whole don quixote thing. We start chatting and he tells me he's a knight without a king, so I tell him about 'The King', and he asks if he could become a follower. I then blow some chemical components to airbrush sideburns on him and a picture of Elvis' face on his chest.

Five sessions later, the borg snaps back to reality and, while forgetting our own journeys, is now 'sane'. He begins grilling us about how we met and things like that. He then looks down at the Elvis face on his chest and asks, "Did I have this when I met you?"
Without even a pause, I answer "Yes."
The player has NEVER forgiven me for that. :)
The Marshall
GM, 55 posts
aka "helbent4"
aka Tony
Fri 25 Jun 2010
at 22:08
  • msg #6

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

Don,

"Large Marge", ha! Love it.

Posse:

We kind of need Roadkill to chime in and offer to take the mutie refugees. Plus Arthur's horse. It's on the way, he's running deadhead and they did kind of help him complete the task given to him by the people in Las Cruces (find out what was happening to travelers on I-10).

That said, if there's no post from him I'll post to move things along tonight. I want to keep up the pace if I can, and this is a no-brainer choice, brainers.

Tony
Dakota Jack Cardinal
player, 21 posts
Gunslinger
aka Don
Fri 25 Jun 2010
at 22:16
  • msg #7

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

Yeah I vote Arther gets to keep the horse whether he can afford it or not by the way, it's too perfect.

Seriously I've never a Templar played like this before.  I'm not kidding.  I've seen them played well but not all old school like this.

Templars are usually awesome because, to be honest, they're pretty twisted and their morality is ambiguous at best sometimes, but they manage to be the good guys anyway.  It's nice to see someone exploring the concept from another angle.
Smoker Nix
player, 10 posts
Scavenger & Tech
Fri 25 Jun 2010
at 23:16
  • msg #8

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

Just so everyone knows in advance I'm going to be away from an internet connection from the 3rd to the 10th of July.  I'm going to be on holiday and we're deliberately going somewhere where there isn't an internet connection so that my work can't ask me to do anything!
This message was last edited by the player at 23:19, Fri 25 June 2010.
The Marshall
GM, 56 posts
aka "helbent4"
aka Tony
Sat 26 Jun 2010
at 02:01
  • msg #9

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

In reply to Smoker Nix (msg #8):

Don,

How have you seen Templars usually played? As in, how is Arthur's angle different than normal?

I'm only asking because I've only played  one HoE adventure ("Hell Riders") and never Marshalled before. In that adventure I played a Templar, as it were, and it was so long ago that the only thing I remember is nothing was working on the "boss" so my PC ended taking the demon Atheron down by using a sniper rifle (my Templar was ex-Special Forces) to put a bullet in his eye... through the body of a team-mate he was going to sacrifice. (The team-mate survived.)

I know, "I rolled reeeeeelly well and killed the monster!" stories are boring, but that's all I got. It was a long time ago! I'm sure there were other hi-jinks I can't recall.

Andy,

Have fun! I went to the 3rd world and couldn't get away from the internet aside from the jungle in northern Thailand! If need be Smoker will be NPCd as appropriate.

For the story at hand, we can assume that people that needed healing have had it courtesy of Brother Edgar and Arthur. The truckers arrived late and were under armour, so they didn't get a scratch.

Tony
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:11, Sat 26 June 2010.
Dakota Jack Cardinal
player, 23 posts
Gunslinger
aka Don
Sat 26 Jun 2010
at 02:42
  • msg #10

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

The Marshall:
In reply to Smoker Nix (msg #8):

Don,

How have you seen Templars usually played? As in, how is Arthur's angle different than normal?


The guy actually sort of acts like a knight of old roaming the west.  I guess maybe I haven't seen the best Templars...

Three I've seen:

- One was a decent enough concept, he was a former theiving bastard reformed by the Templar "gospel".  Very decent character, but not the best at being a Templar as you think of the template.  I mean different is cool and all but, well, I don't know.

- The second one I saw played was The Fastest Gun in the West.  No subtlety at all, rushed in to save everybody no matter what, never raised his gifts... pretty much missed the whole point.  That pretty much tells you what you need to know.

- The last one I saw played took the Super Soldier Edge and spoke in monosyllabic expressions.  I argued he was too freaking stupid to be a Templar, but it didn't matter, he just hit things.
The Marshall
GM, 59 posts
aka "helbent4"
aka Tony
Sat 26 Jun 2010
at 03:06
  • msg #11

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

In reply to Dakota Jack Cardinal (msg #10):

Don,

Yeah, I see what you mean. Very much the figurative knight. My Templar character tried to be in that role, but less romantic. He tended to be strategic and tactical in his thinking, carefully picking his battles and then making sure he would win, whatever it took.

As I recall, the PC who got used as a "meat shield" said after he was healed, "I'm glad you heard me say, "don't worry about me, take the shot!" because we all would have been toast!" whereupon I had to answer, "you said something?"

As for Arthur, dude, he's freakin' Aragorn.

I'll be drawing cards and chips as appropriate. Below is a picture of what I'll be using instead of the online resources:





Tony
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:06, Sat 26 June 2010.
Brother Edgar
player, 20 posts
Doomsayer
Sat 26 Jun 2010
at 03:30
  • msg #12

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

All this talk about old HoE games and Deadlands games...  Makes me wonder...

Anyone here ever actually play in a Deadlands: Lost Colony game?
Peter Firecrow
player, 6 posts
Not that kind of Indian
Wanna buy a gun?
Sat 26 Jun 2010
at 03:30
  • msg #13

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

And you couldn't have drawn cards for us for character creation??? Sheesh, laaaaaaaazeeeeee... LOL! just kidding! I always end up all effed up with random character creation. I am ALWAYS mutated or have a "curse/blessing" lol.
Ian Roadkill Colby
player, 6 posts
Road Warrior
Sat 26 Jun 2010
at 03:49
  • msg #14

Re: OOC: Off-Topic Posts

I'll have my post up shortly. Just need to read over what I've missed.

I apologize for my inactivity. I've got the combo of mother inlaw in town and I blew my knee out at work so I'm having to adjust to being awake during the day while I'm on light duty.
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