Quote File for Sunday, August 28th
On Wikipedia:
GM : I will say this for Wikipedia : it's a great reference or game stuff when I don't care if it's completely accurate.
Yes, we play Dresden Files:
GM : Inali, would you like a Fate Point?
*general laughter*
Inali OOC : That is a loaded question.
When the conversation is not about you:
Sam OOC : Wait, what I got out of that was Blah Blah Blah, shiny new search engine, Blah Blah Blah, giant bats.
GM : Uh huh!
The important questions:
Inali : So there is another giant bat running around?
GM : No, this is not you.
Sam's player gets a phone call:
Sam OOC : Wait, I come back and I hear “at a nearby prison”
GM : Yes. Quote “A mysterious gas explosion”
To clarify:
Sam : So what you are saying is that something large and invisible broke into a prison and kidnapped or killed a bunch of people we sent there?
Matthew : Yes
Sam : Could this be some sort of Winter Court assassin?
While investigating a prison break:
GM : And Erik's car was found not far from there throughly destroyed. As in someone made it explode and melt.
Inali : Generally voided the warranty
GM : Have you seen those pictures of what happens to a car after a wildfire goes through the area?
Sam : No
Inali : Uh huh
GM : Pretty much that. A couple of escaped convicts were apparently trying to steal the car at the time, and it went off. They are now dead. Coroners are not 100% certain which convicts those were. Erik is now howhere to be found. He'll probably turn up some time.
All of Ryan's Voicemail Messages from last game:
“Hi Ryan, it's Sam. We're getting reports of a lion downtown, halfway up a skyscraper. Was just calling to see if any of the nesting dolls is missing, or awakened, or ate you in your sleep. Please call me back!”
“Hi Rayn, it's Sam again. The cat turned out to be a ley line or something. We took it to the Professor. So I guess you're okay. Anyway, if you come by to check it out don't bring anything electronic within, like, a mile!”
“Hi Ryan, it's Sam. We're going to be going on vacation. David needs to talk to this guy, and we're pretty sure he's not in Russia or Alasaka. Hawaii should be nice this time of year. We're traveling by, um, well, non-standard means. You can come too. Erm, you may not be able to bring your stuff though, not sure what that would do to electronics. Anyway, call me!”
“Hi Ryan, it's Sam. The beaches are beautiful! I wish you were here, you could try surfing. Ijoki says hi!”
“Hi Ryan, it's Sam. Hawaii is crazy. We got attacked by a guy on a horse and a pack of wolves. Maybe you made the right call. It's been hell on our rental car. Anyway, we should head home soon, it's all getting out of hand.”
“Hi Ryan, it's Sam. We're home. Call me when you can.”
Ryan's voicemail followed by:
Benabik -> coffee
Benabik <- coffee
Sam : So, Ryan has a lot of voicemail. I was told he had it turned off, so I assume he gets them all at once.
GM : He must have spent the weekend at the reactor working on Matchbox stuff.
Sam : I thought I heard he turned off his cell phone because He thought a girl who might be a computer program was stalking him.
GM : Well, yes. But there would not be a reason for it to be off for several days.
Inali : Maybe he was experimenting with something and accidentally hit it with an EMP.
Matthew, investigating the prison break :
Matthew : Hmmmmm, I forgot to roll a Should I Blame Eric check?
Sound of die rolling
Matthew : Yes, yes it is, this is Eric's fault. I give it a 77% chance of being Eric's fault.
Character sheets:
Matthew : Hrm, I have two or three skill points. Maybe I can do something with them
Sam : Buy skills?
GM : If anyone in this group was likely to forget to use skill points, Ferret is it.
Still investigating a prison break:
Matthew : Does Ryan have a security clearance?
Ryan : Ryan works at a nuclear reactor
Sam : So his security clearance is probably related to science and neuclear reactors, not federal prisoners.
GM : Yes.
Still with the prison break...
Matthew : Let's see, how little classified information can I give away here? I should at least try.
GM : The mere fact of the prison break is not classified. It is on the news as a gas explosion...
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GM : If you told someone it [prison raid] was magic, that would not be classified, Because the people running the the investigation would not believe you...
Re Bank of Antarctica -
GM : It made it into my notes right next to the scorpion-tailed monkey.
Sam : Ack! That can stay in your notes!
GM : Do you know what the really amusing thing about the scorpion-tailed monkey is?
Sam : No.
GM : I stole it from a videogame where it was one of your ALLIES.
RESEARCH:
Benabik set topic to " Bank of Antarctica "
Benabik :
http://www.bankofantarctica.com/specimens.php
Group views the webpage.
Benabik : It is not a real bank, and that is not real currency.
Sam : In our game, it's not a real bank either!
Benabik set topic to " First International Bank of Antarctica "
Benabik : It would be the "First National", but Antarctica isn't a nation.
The Bank of Antarctica has all sorts of odd activities:
GM : And it is interesting that all of this started just after all the computer systems at the bank of Antarctica were wiped.
General laughter – the PCs were partially responsible.
It's good to have friends:
Matthew : I suppose I should thank Inali for making my life even more confusing.
Inali : You're quite welcome.
What were we doing again?
GM : OK, yes! Giant bats. On Friday. Your search engine will interrupt its current results with “Hey, you were interested in this!”
GM : It returns blog posts with phrases like “Giant bats!” and a whole bunch of profanity I do not care to repeat. It being mostly-drunk college students.
When research goes wrong...
GM : Examining the photograph [of the giant bat] later, it does appear to be some sort of pterosaur.
GM provides photographic evidence
Inali : I'm not really sure where to go with this one.
Sam : Now that it's not a giant bat?
Inali : You have successfully thrown the kitsune for a loop.
GM : Yaaaaaaay!
A Lore roll on the subject of necromancy -
GM : That is enough to know that you can theoretically use necromancy on a fossil skeleton.
Sam : And there are rumors about a crazy guy in Chicago...
The "giant bat" sightings were on Fridays...
Inali : Inali lets people know that there is a pteranodon in town.
Sam : But why Fridays? Wouldn't it be around on other days?
Inali : What?
Matthew is a reporter with the college newspaper, and is Compelled to investigate (Trouble Aspect of Must Get The Scoop!”)-
GM : You are compelled to write a story about this before it reaches the tabloids.
GM : Ancient Dinosaur Spotted by Alert College Student
Matthew : On Internet.
GM : Alert may be put in quotes. There was probably alcohol involved.
Contacts rolls, for input from an actual
GM : Mysterious Photograph Improved Theoretical Models. You can actually write two different articles on this.
Matthew : Awesome. Front page for me!
GM : I'm not sure this would... wait, you have a nifty picture. Yes, you make the front page.
Matthew : Mwa ha ha, eat that, science is better than you!
Reactions to the photograph of what looks like a pterosaur being posted on the internet-
GM : One post that you can trace back to an archeological dig says, “Where on earth was this picture taken? Seriously, we need to know! With a picture like that, you could get an article in-”
Mer-ack! [cat noise]
GM : You can get an article in Mer-ack.
Inali can turn into a giant bat, and is investigating the pterosaur -
GM : Would you like a Fate Point to be mistaken for a Black Court Vampire?
Sam : The answer to that is no!
Back to the prison break:
Erik : So it had claws, or whatever it was using, but it's hard to tell if something has claws when it is invisible and being shot at by a SWAT team that it was taking apart.
Matthew : No one bothered to mention to me that a SAWT team got torn apart, but details.
So, that prison break, Erik...
Erik : So what's this about an accomplice?
Matthew : Well, there was evidence that someone scaled the wall before the thing showed up.
Erik : Oh. That.
Matthew : Yes.
Erik : Well, how would you know that this happened before the thing got there?
...
Matthew : Well, that's all the questions I had to ask Erik. I still think it is all his fault.
Matthew has an Aspect that lets him show up wherever it is convenient:
Erik : So, you catch Erik at his apartment, and the samurai [the assassin who got broken out of prison] walks through the door packing his bags to go back to Japan.
Inali : That's not incriminating at all.
On mode of transport:
Erik : So we got a ride from the Red Court people. That new leader we put in power by offing the old one.
Sam : Wait, you get rides from the Red Court? Be very happy that Sam is not there.
Matthew : Well, I already knew he was crazy, but apparently this merits additional investigation.
Matthew does not trust Erik...
Matthew : But that can't be his fault. Which means it was his friends' fault...
So, we still have this assassin that broke out of prison...
Erik : So, are you going to let the Japanese guy go back to Japan?
Matthew : Well...
Sam : Hey, he was trying to kill my boyfriend
GM : No, he was trying to kill Ashiaru, he was going to capture Ikoji. Now, he may have been killed after he got back to Japan.
Sam : Oh. Well Sam still hates him. So, Matthew, he was trying to kill your wife.
Matthew : Well, what does Ahiaru think of this?
GM : How vengeful is Ashiaru feeling today?
Rolls dice.
GM : Moderately vengeful.
GM researches what this means.
GM : Of, she's going to tell Ikoji. Because he was the only one actually harmed.
Erik : Oh crap.
Matthew OOC : Well, you've earned the Fate Point.
GM : Yes, because Ikoji is going to tell Sam. And Ashiaru is going to tell Inali.
….
And we end up with Ijoki and Ashiaru removing his Yakuza tatoos with blood magic.
Erik : That's going to get him killed.
Sam OOC : Not if he talks fast...
GM : Now he has to stay here.
Erik : Now I can't take him back to Japan. I don't want a houseguest!!!
…
GM : So Matthew, Ashiaru, and Ikoji show up at your apartment.
Erik : Oh greaaaat, there goes that deposit.
Ashiaru : Now, now, I promise there won't be any blood on the carpet when I'm gone...
...
GM : You can roll Lore to find out what they are doing before it is done.
Erik OOC : 3
GM : Yup, that's a modified Healing spell.
GM : And Ashiaru brought along a couple of sacrificial rats to power the ritural. Because this guy doesn't deserve her shedding her own blood.
GM : So she says “We're done here” and leaves.
GM : No, wait. I need to make a Hubris roll, so see if she just removes them or replaces them with her own mark.
There is discussion, and the GM remembers that this guy was sent to kill Ashiaru, specifically, and the Yakuza will know what her mark looks like.
GM : It would be appropriate. She gets a Fate Point for hubris and he has her mark.
GM : I will note that there is no blood on your carpet when she leaves. There is blood on the carpet in the interim.
Erik : It's still better than my last apartment.
Mathew : You mean the smoking ruin?
Erik : Yeah, anything is a set up, really.
GM : It was just the one grenade. The first one was a dud.
Still have this assassin:
GM : Well the first question is are you gong to dissuade him from going back to Japan anyway?
Erik : Are they just going to kill him?
GM : Probably not juuuuuuust....
Benabik : I refuse to answer because my answer may incinerate me?
We're off to fight Black Court Vampires:
Ryan : I can only assume Ryan's primary weapon is this is a supersoaker. Assuming someone can get him holy water.
Sam : Can you apply your Guns skill to a supersoaker?
Erik : Yes.
Sam : Sam has regular guns and a supersoaker.
We find someone doing a ritual:
Erik : Why would you cut yourself open and bleed if not as a sacrifice to a dark god?
Sam : Maybe you are just bad at it?
GM : Well, there doesn't have to be magic involved... There are various blood brother ceremonies, for instance.
Ryan : Ack, no Blood Brothers!
Sam : Chortles.
So the Black Court is in a house...
Erik OOC : I say there is too much house here.
Ryan OOC : Ryan is not an arsonist
Erik OOC: I'm not either. And I don't blow things up with grenades either.
Sam OOC : Yeah right.
Everyone points out that Phoenix would want Ryan to light the house on fire.
GM : Phoenix, not much with the sanity
Ryan OOC : Ryan has taken to not listening to Phoenix's ideas.
Matthew OOC : But they are great ideas!
Ryan OOC : Ryan probably listens to too many of them as it is.
The ritual is done:
GM : The sun goes dark.
Inali : Oooo, they went for an eclipse.
GM : No, if you look around, about 40 or 50 feet away, there is an edge to the shadow. It is a very localized eclipse.
Improved weapons:
Inali : You know, instead of holy water squirt gins, we could have holy garlic oil squirt guns.
Sam : I'm not sure we could find anyone to bless garlic oil on short notice.
GM : Well, you could add holy water to regular garlic oil, right?
Sam : Um, no?
GM : The church might not approve, but they don't need to know...
Somehow, the house is still standing...
GM : How are you breaking into the house?
Erik : X-slash.
GM : Ah, weapons.
Matthew : The standard method.
Erik : Yeah, with the bonus from the katana.
GM : You have achieved proper vengeance agains the window.
Erik : Bwa ha, ha ha ha ha.