Hey all.
Was running a game at a local con this past weekend (SYDCON rules!) and a player in one of my groups did something so...weird that it was a true "What the F**K?!?!?!?!?!" moment.
To set the scene;
A bunch of supers fighting in a warehouse, some of them working for a corrupt, fascist US government, some of them the Underground, one of them a Russian spy. The player in question was playing an illusionist PC, able to make full audio-visual hallucinations. Here's more or less verbatim what happened;
Me: And 7s. What do you do Player?
Player: Umm......I know, I make an illusion of Hitler walking in through the front doors of the warehouse and screaming "Seig heil!".
*slightly shocked looks around the table*
Player: What? Everyone hates Hitler, won't they stop fighting and shoot at him?
Most of the other players say he's right and this happens.
Next round.
Me: 8s. What are you doing now Player?
Player: I make the illusion look like Hitler has been hit by all the attacks and killed.
Round 3.
Me: Aces. Player?
Player: Hitler rises, angel wings sprouting out of his back, a halo forming around his head and he flies up to Heaven with the sounds of a chorus of angels.
Me and Other Players: WHAT? THE? FUCK?
I ended up giving him a prize. Along with the G-Man who decided to infiltrate a Black Panther base using boot polish as a disguise (in his defense, the character was high on coke.)
So, does anyone else have a true WTF? story to tell?
Mostly I want to know what happened to the coked-out G-man after the Panthers got a look at him.
There were, not really moments, as such, as they were ongoing, but there were things that did make me go WTF in the Star Wars games I ran. The shaved Ewok who loved displaying his genitals and going for crotch shots with his stun baton (also, somehow, he was the only PC who knew how to navigate a starship) and the hermaphrodite Wookiee sideshow freak/tech guy are the ones that really stand out in my mind.
Mostly I want to know what happened to the coked-out G-man after the Panthers got a look at him.
They (and I blinked) and then proceeded to try and kill him. 3 lightning bolts to the chest later and Mister G-Man had killed them all. Damn him and his impeneratible soak rolls.
The party smuggled weapons by stealth blimp into Aztlan to support the rebels in Yucatan.
After the container with the weapons (including RPGs and SAMs) was dropped in the desert they were waiting for the rebels to pick up the shipment, when the NPC pilot of the airship warns them about an Aztlaner combat helicopter approaching their position. They only had a minute to react.
This is, when Vladimir, a russian mobster from Seattle said: "Wait a minute. I am calling my boss to save us." His boss was in jail. In Seattle...
Everybody at the table was totally "WTF?!?"
After the situation was solved (obviously by blowing the chopper out of the sky with the missiles...) the player explained, that he really expected his imprisoned russian mafia boss to make a call to the Aztlaner military to convince them to cancel the chopper's attack run in under one minute. Because "i thought this guy has a lot of influence, hasn't he?".
Hey all.
Was running a game at a local con this past weekend (SYDCON rules!) and a player in one of my groups did something so...weird that it was a true "What the F**K?!?!?!?!?!" moment.
To set the scene;
A bunch of supers fighting in a warehouse, some of them working for a corrupt, fascist US government, some of them the Underground, one of them a Russian spy. The player in question was playing an illusionist PC, able to make full audio-visual hallucinations. Here's more or less verbatim what happened;
Me: And 7s. What do you do Player?
Player: Umm......I know, I make an illusion of Hitler walking in through the front doors of the warehouse and screaming "Seig heil!".
*slightly shocked looks around the table*
Player: What? Everyone hates Hitler, won't they stop fighting and shoot at him?
Most of the other players say he's right and this happens.
Next round.
Me: 8s. What are you doing now Player?
Player: I make the illusion look like Hitler has been hit by all the attacks and killed.
Round 3.
Me: Aces. Player?
Player: Hitler rises, angel wings sprouting out of his back, a halo forming around his head and he flies up to Heaven with the sounds of a chorus of angels.
Me and Other Players: WHAT? THE? FUCK?
I ended up giving him a prize. Along with the G-Man who decided to infiltrate a Black Panther base using boot polish as a disguise (in his defense, the character was high on coke.)
So, does anyone else have a true WTF? story to tell?
TrekkieKT
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Originally Posted by Brad Ellison
Mostly I want to know what happened to the coked-out G-man after the Panthers got a look at him.
There were, not really moments, as such, as they were ongoing, but there were things that did make me go WTF in the Star Wars games I ran. The shaved Ewok who loved displaying his genitals and going for crotch shots with his stun baton (also, somehow, he was the only PC who knew how to navigate a starship) and the hermaphrodite Wookiee sideshow freak/tech guy are the ones that really stand out in my mind.
I nearly chocked laughing on these genius pieces! Thank you thank you thank you!
Mine is less entertaining, but I'll throw it in nonetheles.
It was a Vampire the Masquerade game I was running. Extremely, extremely serious and gloomy.
The players where in a situation that required to go around without being recognized. One of them had a power that let him manipulate and sculpt flesh (vicissitude).
the player:"I manipulate all of our faces, changing all the features to make us unrecognizable!"
me:"fine, roll!"
player::"five successes!"
me:"ok, you can give anybody the facial features you want."
player, with a malignant glee in his eyes:"perfect.So now we look all the same. Doctor Spock."
The fifteen minutes of laughter that followed completely destroyed the mood of the game.We had to stop playing that night, but it was worth it.
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the player:"I manipulate all of our faces, changing all the features to make us unrecognizable!"
me:"fine, roll!"
player::"five successes!"
me:"ok, you can give anybody the facial features you want."
player, with a malignant glee in his eyes:"perfect.So now we look all the same. Doctor Spock."
The fifteen minutes of laughter that followed completely destroyed the mood of the game.We had to stop playing that night, but it was worth it.
As the Science Officer on an actively exploring starship I would be very suprised if the Spock from Vulkan didn't have a doctorate in something. Astrophysics or something.
Well, he probably has whatever the Vulcan equivalent is of a dctorate, but he didn't go to any Human academic program with any Doctorate program. Just Starfleet academy. Which is debaable in itself since, in 'Wrath Of Khan', he says that he didn't do the Kobayashi Maru test, and every cadet in Starfleet Academy did go through with it, I don't think he even went to the academy.
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