Quotes of the Week

[kenseido]

More good stuff from Invasion.

Quintessons have their classic movie scene, and the heroes rescue the person tossed into the pit.

You catch the monster, which causes the Quintesson to rage. "How dare you! I find you in contempt of court! You will be skinned alive!"

"'Sides," Frank adds, "we've got nothing but contempt for this court, so the feeling's mutual."

"Strictly speaking that is not true. I have lasers for them."

Charli has all the best lines.

[Bladewind]

Other players - not their characters - were ragging on my thief for joining the city guard... during an investigation, the halfing in the group call into question my thief's sanity. He promptly called for a shrink.

"Why?" I asked. "You're short enough as it is."

[cobalt-blue]

Our weekend gaming group is once again firing up and the old feeling seems to have returned. We had a great night of really good in-character role-playing. Our characters are superpowered ex-government agents who have retired to a small New England town to teach the next generation of enhancers in a school that is a cross between X-Men and Eureka.

One of our "students" has decided the best way for her to get ahead in life is to sleep her way to the top. At an impromptu faculty meeting that turned into one part Illuminati conspiracy theory speculation, one part talking "around" the subject of our failed mission in Bangladesh, and one part discussion of how to handle the mentees we'd been assigned, one character referred to the aforementioned girl as having "phasing crotch critters". We all just busted up.

[kenseido]

I am not sure if GMs are supposed to get in on this, but Crinos has some of the best lines.

In the ARCADE: Team Four game, a soon to be hunter has an encounter with a werewolf with him ending up helping deliver the werewof's babies. After it's all over, the werewolf tells the doctor:

"Hey, thank you so much for helping with the delivery. I was afraid to go to a hospital with her because of the litter. I didn't want to draw too much attention." He rubs the back of his head, "And sorry about killing your nurse. That was unprofessional."

[Lord Fell]

"I'm going to turn you into a fart."
-The Audit.

context

[Bombaatu]

"Zombies...On Valentine's. It's the wrong holiday for zombies..."

Blue Beetle [kenmadragon] in Justice League: Legacies - "The Laughing Dead"

[prodigyduck]

From my Golden Age game:

One of the Players had an assassination attempt on his secret identity by what was later revealed to be a kaftar (were-hyena) assassin. After poisoning him, she lept off the five-story balcony in a manner similar to Kate Beckinsale from Underworld. The PCs eventually track her down...

Manticore: "There are four people inside, including Ms. Jumps-From-Five-Stories."

Patriette: "Her Native American name?"

[betterwatchit]

I've just started a game on RPoL, and I've already got something quote-worthy. For context, here are the PCs...

DJ Crash: Mistress of Sound.
Scalya: Scaly Scientist who wants to repay America for accepting her.
She-wolf: Werewolf who's struggling for self-control.
Silhouette: Former villain turned hero. (Imagine a reformed Inque from Batman Beyond)

Silhouette said about the team: "Oh man, I can't tell if we're a PR department's dream or nightmare. Bound to be exciting times either way."

[cobalt-blue]

Last Night in our Anime based game the group of teenagers decided to go to a military base being over run by extradimensional creatures when a panicked soldier asked what could they do to help. One of the characters looked at him and said, "We're the North Ashwood First String Football team and cheering squad. We can handle it."