Tony Finan: > "Why can't we do this?" - Doug > "Because you're not scared shitless like the one guy all alone surrounded by > the natives." - Aaron Newman, FMA Pirates > Referring to a particularly good combat move -- I believe the character in > question sprinted 12". It was 11, but who's counting. When your partner was just gunned down next to you, fear becomes a great motivator. > "He's programmed to like it!" - Nick Caldwell, FMA Pirates > I had just been asked if the Destroyer Droid was vulnerable to suppression. And programmed to blow up after one very lucky shot. ****************************************************************************** Nick Caldwell: Just a word of explanation or three: "We have semi-mobile toilet plungers AND the never-ending scarf. Victory is ours!" - Aaron Newman, Nick Caldwell's FMA Pirates game This of course refers to the Daleks and Dr. Who. They were part of Dr. John's Hyper-Galactic Circus. "Why can't we do this?" - Doug "Because you're not scared shitless like the one guy all alone surrounded by the natives." - Aaron Newman, FMA Pirates Referring to a particularly good combat move -- I believe the character in question sprinted 12". "He's programmed to like it!" - Nick Caldwell, FMA Pirates I had just been asked if the Destroyer Droid was vulnerable to suppression. "This suddenly turned into an Aaron Newman game. I have no idea what's going on." - Nick Caldwell, A Family Crisis. Aaron runs these wonderful Babylon5 Full Thrust games where everyone at the table has a secret objective. Jon Davis's Kravak Civil War game suddenly broke out into spontaneous diplomacy as the 3 sides tried to convince each other that we were all on the same side. It was wonderful to see Aaron acting as Warleader against Chris deBoe and Stuart Murray. "You mean like the Bonehead Maneuver?" - Aaron Newman "Oh! Oh! Oh! Nick!" - Stuart Murray, A Family Crisis I was playing the inferior sub-caste Kravak to Stuart's Warleader, so when Aaron suggested a suicide play Stuart knew just who to turn to . . ****************************************************************************** Jon Davis: In celebration of ECC's fifth anniversary, we ordered two cakes for everyone. I begun cutting the first cake with a 12" long cake knife. Tom Barclay: "Mr. Davis, you're cutting the cake just like a bride." Dan Blezek: "If we clink our glasses, will you kiss Mr. Barclay?" I turned around with this 12" knife and asked, "Do you really want to taunt someone with a knife this big?" There were no further rude comments. I think Jerry caught a picture of this exchage too. ****************************************************************************** Laserlight: > "This suddenly turned into an Aaron Newman game. I have no idea what's going > on." - Nick Caldwell, A Family Crisis. > Aaron runs these wonderful Babylon5 Full Thrust games where everyone at the > table has a secret objective. Jon Davis's Kravak Civil War game suddenly > broke out into spontaneous diplomacy as the 3 sides tried to convince each > other that we were all on the same side. It was wonderful to see Aaron > acting as Warleader against Chris DeBoe and Stuart Murray. Not exactly. I was commanding the 2400 point (Blue) fleet, Stuart controlled a 1200 point Red fleet, and Aaron was the warleader for the 1200 point Green fleet. The way for Blue to win was clearly to take on one enemy at a time, so I offered Stuart and Aaron bribes to go after each other. Aaron bluntly declined. Stuart agreed...I'm not certain if he intended to honor the deal or not, but by the time the question came up, the Green fleet had been destroyed so I could order my minions to deal with the Reds while I placated Yiiiiiiiiiiiii.... ****************************************************************************** John Crimmins: > "I AM THE ANTI-CHEESE!" - John Crimmins, after discovering he had achieved > the lowest (ever!) Carnage Con Queso score (-9 pts) It's not easy being a legend in your own mind...er, time. ****************************************************************************** Tom Barclay: "Where is my room?" - Unknown [Tomb] Another frequently heard quote "Where is Adrian?" (He arrived eventually, but he was hours and hours late....). Apparently morning came early for Adrian in Toronto on Friday (and for me on Saturday at ECC *blush*). "The wonderful thing about snipers is snipers are wonderful things" - David Raynes, singing during the Charlie Don't Surf scenario [Tomb] Did that sniper ever fire a shot? "Is that the command bush?" - Harry Kagelschatz, Tomb's SGII game [Tomb] Both Commanders seemed to like shrubbery..... "He could move into the lichen and take cover" - Tomb, SGII game "I don't want to do that" - Jerry Han "It's not to his lichen" - Harry K. [Tomb] It's a good thing I'm not a violent man, or I'd have assumed the NBS role momentarily here... many groans were heard.... "I called up the chain of command...and someone was paying attention!" - Chris Deboe (as ortillery cleans up the opposing team in Tomb's SGII game) [Tomb] And you had some minor chance of getting something really nasty (which didn't happen). Fortunately, command decided you were not expendable... ;) "Some of us played in the last cheese game and have "issues" with the news crew." - Tomb, Carnage Con Queso "Issues?? Get the whole subscription!" - Pat Muller [Tomb] In last year's Con Queso, Adrian won by seeming weak while being a cheese pirate... meanwhile I think Pat's troops were "an atrocity" committed last year by Aaron Teske's PA. So a lot of us had News Crew issues. Mike Hudak got most of his revenge for his Nuns last year by taking his Gretchen after the News Crew this year. "You can't set flamethrowers on simmer" - Joel, Carnage Con Queso [Tomb] Says the man driving around with his 6x6 on fire. "Eat him. Into the stew pot!" - Tomb referring to the cheesy media crew in Carnage Con Queso [Tomb] Specifically to Mike's Gretchen eating the mostly dead news crew (made mostly dead by the self-same Gretchen). "I AM THE ANTI-CHEESE!" - John Crimmins, after discovering he had achieved the lowest (ever!) Carnage Con Queso score (-9 pts) [Tomb] Yes, and I have the picture to prove it. Saturday Evening: - ----------------- "Everyone busts on Barclay [Tomb]. He has to PAY us to shoot you" - Jim Bell explaining to Jon Davis why he should not be concerned about Tom's running bounty on killing him [Tomb] Jon survived this year. How unfortunate. That will have to be rectified at ECC VI. ;) Usually they say that which does not kill you makes you stronger, but when that group includes Jim and JP, it just makes the pain continue.... :-P "So, one little question: can I smother that grenade with the Zhodani?" - - Mike Richie, Silverstone FMA skirmish game. [Tomb] If the roll had been a bit better, yes. In this case, the Zho in question was outnumbered 4:1 in HTH and decided to pop a grenade then TPort. Only he blew a Tport after getting whacked by an alert Imperial Marine. And then Chris decided he was expendable and put a plasma gun bolt into the melee to take out the Zho and two or three Marines. At the end of Tom Barclay's Silverstone FMA game: "In one of the sad ironies of war, your intelligence crews on both sides were wrong. You were fighting over something not really important" - Tomb (GM) "Death to Tom! Death to Tom!" - Imperial Marine and Zhodani players in unison [Tomb] Ah, what a warm feeling, the tingle of adoration..... ;)