Okay, here's a neat idea I'm ripping off emulating from another game.

Think one of the other characters has said something memorable?  Then post it in here, be it witty, funny, heart-warming, sad, or filled with a rage that chilled your very soul when you read it.

One rule: No quoting something your own character said, unless you're posting a section of a conversation, where the other character's smart-assedness is the main focus of the quote.

For the moment we'll restrict it to IC stuff, though I may expand it later.
Have fun.  :)
This message was last updated by the GM at 10:09, Sat 05 June 2004.

I'll start with funny and witty, because that's the easiest to peg, months after reading it for the first time.

Jack, obviously, is the Prince of odd comments, but every now and then a circumstance comes up where he and Aaron have a little row.  Aaron, despite trying times (or should that be 'tying'?), tends to come up with some good sallies himself....


“I just think it’s so cute, the way she hog ties a prince, robbing him of the tattered remains of his dignity.”

- Jack, regarding Kalika and Aaron

“Now you gone and put me in a bind, you being all trussed up like a Christmas goose. I’m gonna have to drag your ungrateful carcass around like bloody Samsonite until she tells me I can untie you, and you don’t have any wheels.”

- Jack, to Aaron

“Ouch, that had to hurt!”
“Yes, yes it did. And I must say, Jack, you're better at hauling the dead than singing. I can judge for both."

- Jack and Aaron, again

"Kalika, I assure you, I'm not about to kill anyone at all, nor do I intend to in the near or far future.  Barring any unexpected circumstances.  I know you don't care what I'd appreciate, but I would appreciate being untied before Jack reaches those stairs."

- Aaron, still being dragged by Jack
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"Good luck, and try not to start a war."

-Fiona, to Anrej, James, Jonee, and Kaelyn

"Reminds me of an old something that I heard once...how did it go? Ah yes...'Join the Army, See Exciting Places, Meet Interesting People...Then Kill Them!' Heh.
Morgan to Duncan



Yes, I am a chronicler of sorts, though the information I gather is for song. And wherever the princes go, excitement follow.

Cyan nods, impressed. "Well said." She grins at the other girl. "And where the Princes of Amber go, so too does Chaos follow...."
Cyan & Lexy



Ares leans back in his chair, folding his arms resolutely across his chest. "Oh, I have a way of getting to Amber, my friend, but I have seen no reason to go there. I have been before, I'm in no hurry to return."
Ares

"You are surrounded, please make no hostile moves or we will be forced to kill you!"
-Nameless Ranger-type in Arden

Nice to see those Arden Rangers were raised well by their mothers...politeness counts!  ^_^

"Your friend need not worry, he is too lean for Hunter's tastes"

Kalika to Cyan


"So what have you done, to make enemies of this land?" she asks directly, never one to conceal what's on her mind.

A simple misunderstanding regarding the ownership of some relics and artifacts, that's all. That and a few drops of spilled blood during my last visit here, or rather, during my somewhat-hasty departure. Oh, and the mysterious way that the three daughters of the family I was staying with at that time all found themselves..... er..... shall we say in a delicate condition?"
"Naturally I was blamed for that, and their father had connections at court. So, you see, it was all just misunderstandings, coincidences and circumstance."


Kalika and Ares

"I am weary of bickering, I am weary of secrecy, I am weary of people promising to 'come clean', and then continuing the obfuscation. I am weary of ulterior motives, I am weary unto death of the way I, too, have been sucked into this morass of confusion." Finishing packing, she stands

Cyan

. "Hey! That's pretty clever. Wonder if they called it the Drunken Porpoise deliberately?"
He nudges james with his elbow, "Drunken Porpoise, see? Drunk On Purpose."

-Jonnee


It seems, that one thinks somebody died and made her the boss.

-Andrej about Kaelyn

Continuing with the 'Jack annoys character X'

[Jack falls down half a mountain and lies with his heart stopped for a good minute before waking]

“Who are you? . . Where am I?”

“Jack?”

“...Gotcha.”

“You...you bastard!”

Jack and Cyan

“What do you think, Princess? Would such a strong young lady like yourself enjoy seeing far away kingdoms and the places of your dreams?" and his eyes glinted, flickering with centuries of knowlege, history, and the visions of worlds he had seen.

“That depends," Chrissie replies, "on whether or not you always talk crap like that."


-Aaron, trying to deal with the fact that he will be shepherding his teenage Great-(to the nth power)-Granddaughter Chrissie.
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"Hush, Berd.  Nor will I, your Highness," she states quietly.  To cover her surprise and a certain discomfort, Cyan sips at her tea.  Then she continues.  "I have no qualms of sharing this duty with others...no qualms save one.  Times past we have had difficulty with those in our group, with the lack of sharing of information.  Now, I do not wish to go back to any bargain or forcing people to tell all.  But we do need to know in whose hands we place our lives - it will be difficult enough to have such a group agree on a course of action, without knowing a little of each other.  I am not adverse to telling all of my background, all of my strengths, but I would at least know something of those with whom we travel.  Preferably from them - better that they choose what they wish to say"

Cyan dictating terms to Fiona and Benedict

"Things here are headed for a serious wipeout."
   -Jonnee, demonstrating hithero unknown powers of prophecy.

"I wish I'd turned this gig down when I was offered the choice."
   -Or perhaps hindsight?

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""You got a choice?!"
   -James

- Shade (Jack's "shadow" side) referring to Jack listening to Berd's suggestion

"Please, oh, please, let's split.  Let's make a clean break and get on with this, otherwise I'm going to be running into battle with my armour on backwards."

--- James, watching the group 'discuss' their disposition with Fiona.

I don't know why, but this line actually had me laughing out loud when I read it.

Hunters comments on leadership:

Me, Berd, Lenore.  The Dream Team.

It's simple.  No other choice makes sense.  We represent a perfect balance of the three classical elements of Being; Flesh, Spirit, and... um... Chicken Kibble.

Now, throw the ball!  Throw the darn ball!

This one holds quite a bit of pathos, and all in such a simple statement for a simple situation...

As all good regret should be.  Regret over the little losses that put the big losses into perspective.

"Rubbing his temple (god, how fine it would be to rub them both), Aaron slowly nodded at Cyan's words."
--- Aaron, on the loss of his hand.
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"He's beginning to hope that Aaron's plan will soon involve an enemy with a recognisable anatomy that he can proceed to make unrecognisable."

James, in Jadus' Shadow

"Man, you timed that right.  Dude, we really could have used your help when we conquered the Archon homeworld, killed all their leaders, enslaved the rest, and set them to work rebuilding what they trashed."

"I tell you, those two weeks, since you fainted, have been the hardest of my whole life."

--Jonnee to Jack, as Jack wakes from a five-minute (if that) coma.

Jonnee to Hunter, both of them about to enter combat: "Last one to draw blood is a poodle!"

Gave me quite a chuckle, that one.  :)

It wasn't honorable, and despite his history of conquest and cruelty, he still had a sense of honor. Some might call it twisted, but he'd silenced most of them long ago.

     Dorian, demonstrating what might be considered a dichotomy, but isn't (IMO).

And yes, Part 46 is where I get totally owned to the point where Devlin's nifty healing powers can't even begin to compete against the awesome damage done to my poor, poor nose.

The Nose is plotting a conspiracy with the Archons to cause the downfall of all reality, only the Archons don't know that the Nose is actually a double-agent. They figure it out eventually (Chapter 46) and, well, there you have it.

Although technically, if we go by Hitchhiker terms, Chapter 42 should've given us all the answers already, but... whatever. Life, the Universe and Everything seems so, so small in comparison with the damage-absorbing powers of my nose. THAT'S where all my Endurance points go.

   Aaron OOC, regarding Aaron IC

"Get up, you rotten bastard. You owe me a horse."

  Aaron, to the leader of a party of creatures who ambushed the Questors (resulting in a truly horrific melee that claimed many lives...including that of Aaron's horse)

"You are free." the man says to the small bird. "Find a world where you can be safe. He studies the small creature a bit more and transfers to it the ability to alter itself. "Be what you choose" and then he watches as the bird flies off.

--Devlin, to one of his Blood Creations.

This didn't make me laugh, not in the slightest.  Instead, I almost cried.  It's very poignant, and very telling as to Devlin's inner character.

The Universe has crappy timing.

-- Dworkin, 'Let Sleeping Gods Lie', winning the understatement of the year award.

"Well, you've done things that are only slightly more insane... I hope you anticipate the future."

Aaron gets some encouragement from his closest companion...

An OOC conversation between Roman and Banglen

Said by Roman OOC trying to figure someone out



Countered by the quickest wit in the west, our own favoirte ditzy blonde




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"Of course I'm not a demon" glancing at Banglen-Yp he adds "not that there's anything wrong with demons, they're just...on a lower social level."

- Roman demonstrating that, while demons are (generally) okay, he wouldn't want any daughter of HIS to marry one.

                        ~more true than she realizes~

Rolling on the floor laughing, Big D still has it.

BLY, doing as asked, shouts for a bath.  :-)

"I'm about done, here..." he said quietly. He didn't even think about how he was hurt... just that his head was seriously bothering him, and that he was having trouble breathing... and how Arianne just wouldn't talk to him anymore... had he been mean to her again? What did he say this time... he couldn't remember... "...sick of rants..."

Aaron.  Stormbringer, Page 8.


He holds the sketchbook out to her, his face pale, ashen, drained, hopeless.

"I said I'd never lie to you. That still stands. More importantly, you know I'd never lie to myself. This is me." The last words were pain.

    ~done~

A small voice inside him said.

                  ~it'll be alright~
  ~it's over~

Dorian.  Stormbringer, Page 8.

These posts hurt to read.

"Quaint. We have dispensed with the obligatory introductions, as well as the superfluous fawning and posturing, at this point."

Dorian was such a charmer in the good old days!

(I'm reading back threads, hopefully it's all right I put this here.)

Just talk, Chance? he wonders. Have you fallen so far that you're only interested in talking? What next? Can't wait to crochet a sweater with her?

The beauties of old age and complacency. ;)

(OOC)

Aaron: "For some reason, I simply find the idea of Dworkin finding some sort of "giant devouring evil cloud of death" completely at random to be more psychologically understandable than, say, a mad, billion-year-old dwarf deliberately creating an anchor of reality to specifically find something that kills everything.

Keep in mind, though, that both those ideas are awesome to me, so Dworkin wins points regardless."

Luke: "Lovely.  And people say I'm a monster."

(Aaron and Luke, in a bit of OOC banter regarding Dworkin's sanity - and their own by comparison.)