GZG-ECC III: The Quote Board

Okay, the quote board has been transcribed. In some instances I was
able to attribute the game/scenario to the quote. Others were already
attributed.:) Enjoy! Good memories for the participants. Those who
weren't able to come...try for 2001! (or GZG-WCC 2000). My overall
con AAR will come later, when I get some more time. These quotes will
appear on the GZG-ECC webpage in the next couple of days.

Indy
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                   The GZG-ECC III Quote Board 2000

Friday:

"She's parrying me with her nipples" - D Raynes, FMA 'Dark Agendas'

"Are you breaking to avoid my destroyers??" - Aaron Neuman watching 4
BDNs turn sharply to port and starboard, avoiding his 2 badly beaten
destroyers

"How's it going?" "Depends on which side you're on."

"The sound of death is small plastic cubes rattling against each other"
- Aaron Neuman watching Stuart Murray rolling 28 dice.

"I feel like I'm playing a historical fantasy game" - Stuart Murray on
the aforementioned 28 dice

"Bock, Bock, Bock...(cluck, cluck, cluck)"

"Oh, she's worth an extra probe." - David Raynes, FMA 'Dark Agendas'

"How time flies when you're smacking into immovable objects!" - Ted
Arlauskas, Pod Racing

"Yeah! I missed him!" - unknown from the Pod Racing scenario

"Now how do I know if it's dangerous?" - Kr'rt

"It's just a flick!"

"That was not a flick!"

"I remember this position."

"Ah ship!"

"There's just no magic left in those fingers."

"It looks like he's launching his load."

"I have NO staying power." - Bren

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Saturday

"Be nice to me or there'll be trouble" - Stuart Murray

"I'll play xenos for beer!"

"Oh! Oh!! Oh!!!" - Jon Davis

After more of the above:
Indy: "Jon, you're a role-player in denial, aren't you?"
Jon Davis, grinning enthusiastically, "Yes!"

"Okay, you move first. Get outta my way." - Carrier Ops scenario

In Stuart's game: Stuart: "Do we get an answering roar from the dinosaur?
Dean?" Dean: "RRRAUUGH!" Stuart: "We do!"

"Looks like a lot of flashlight warfare here" - Pat Mueller, Carrier Ops
scenario, after almost EVERYbody had repeatedly bad die rolls.

"I *think* they're shooting at us..?" - Ted Arlauskas's response,
Carrier Ops scenario.

"The super-destroyer on...hey, he'll shoot this!" - Ted A again,
pointing to the NAC carrier in front of the destroyer's nose.

"Check please!" - Pat Mueller, Carrier Ops

"Oh my God, what a bad place to park..." - Carrier Ops, after someone's
ship stopped in a not-so-good spot (obviously ;-)

"It looks like he's dumping his load" - Keith Watt

"I'm thinking you want to roll a d8 and get a really high number to be even
moderately scared......'3' is not it." - Tom Barclay to Indy in A Grey
Day To Die

(a little later) "I need someone to roll a ten-sided die. You want
high...give
it to Kochte. He'll get a good number." - Tom Barclay, A Grey Day To Die

More from 'A Grey Day To Die':
Thomas: "QRC, I need a QRC -- quick, someone give me a SG2QRC!"
David: "...Huh?"
Ted: "...Uh?"
Rick: "...Wha?"

"It's better than blowing a Phalon." - Tom McCarthy, FB2 playtest
session

"Okay, Kochte. Roll a d8. Do not roll a one." - Tom Barclay to Indy,
after which Indy rolled...a one.

Not sure what game this was from, or who said what: "Do I have a nearest
base?" "Not anymore!"

"Never give an RV to a guy who rolls '1s'" - Tom Barclay, A Grey Day to
Die, recounting Indy's futile attempt to avoid the Kra'Vak from placing limpit
mines on his infantry walker's legs.

> From Berserker, after Keith scritched a little paint off the side of
"Threshold Check!" (indy) {surprised and momentarily happy look} "....don't
tease me!" (keith)

"We may have to sacrifice him later. It's no good if he dies needlessly
now." - Tom McCarthy

As Indy's Berserker fires a lotta dice at one of Keith's ships: Keith: "I see
a lot of ones." Jerry: "I see a lot of sixes." Keith: "You pay attention to
what you want, I pay attention to what I want."

Followed by Indy rolling 30 points of damage on Keith's SDN: Indy: "That
should be a threshold check." Keith: "Shh! Morale is still high."

Back to A Grey Day To Die: Ted (human): "Key your radio twice if you can hear
me."
Kr'rt (you-know-who): "<click...>

Purple Kra'Vak upon attempting interrogation of first human captives. After
dissection and removal of skull caps: "Mmmm. Their tops are full of
jelly...and their bottoms full of chocolate. Yum!" (A Grey Day)

Back to Berserker: Mark (counting a whole lotta 4s): "Do you still have your
shields?" Channing: "Yes." Mark (tossing 4s frustratedly aside): "&*$$!!"

Returning to A Grey Day, after Dave Raynes' fire team missed hitting the
Kra'Vak squad as it close-assaulted his platoon leader's squad:
Rick: "How're you doing?" Dave: "I just shot my CO"

"If we run out of black skulls I'll be truly horrified." - Tom B, A Grey
Day

"SAW team? I didn't think we were talking about amputations anymore..."
-
Ted A, A Grey Day

"There's a fine line between docking and ramming."

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Sunday:

"I didn't think we were going to be tested."

"I run a Palm Users group." - Ted Arlauskas

"Mark, it doesn't matter how many sides the die has, all 1's are the
same." -
Tom Barclay to Indy, before picking up with the Sunday session of A Grey Day.

"No no, they're very distinctive. [The models] look exactly the same,
except one is 4mm longer." - Indy explaining the difference between NSL
frigates and destroyers, Mission of Merci

"Smart ass" - Nick C, in response to above

"I feel like I'm checking the sex of a cat" - A.T.

"Oh, well look who's playing. Of course he's going to go off the map!" -
Mike Sarno looking in on Mission of Merci and seeing Channing Faunce playing.

> From the King of the Mountain scenario:
"Would you liketo fire at your son, Mr Bell?" Mr Bell: <grin>

More from A Grey Day (yes, it was still going!): Tom P: "Because it's
honorable." Joel: "I don't care. We're French."

Indy (gesturing to the smoking K'V VTOL in the lake): "What happened?" Kr'rt:
"I don't know. That's not my side of the board, Monkey Boy."

Follow-up comment from Kr'rt to the above: "Our air assets became sea
assets."

"Ow!" - Jerry as his NSL corvette took its first point of damage,
Mission of Merci

Back to A Grey Day: Tom Pope, leader of the Kra'Vak: "We're running low on
black skulls." <later> "We've only got 4 left." <later> "We have to borrow
some black skulls..."

Back at Mission of Merci, the UN teammates discuss breakfast options Keith:
"Oh, there are donuts left??" Channing: "Last one <munch!>" Keith: "You suck."

Aaron Teske to teammate Nick C: "You're getting a 'Tuffley' up your butt
again!" (Mission of Merci)

"We woulda kept playing but the figures were getting tired." - Ted
Arlauskas, end of A Grey Day scenario.

I think this was from A Grey Day, also: "I guess he's not listening to you."
"Huh?"

Definitely from A Grey Day: David Raynes (on saturday): "I'll give you $1.50
to stop shooting at
me."
<later> "$3.50"
<later> "$7.00"
<next day> "$12.00, that's my final offer."

"You da man, Nick...now see if you can hit something." - Mission of
Merci

"It's been fun trading cohesive light with you."

Dean and Jon Davis in the aftermath discussion of one of Jon's attempts to
damage the enemy from the Gothic Thrust scenario by hitting his allies' ships:
Dean: "Sounds like a very Imperial thing to do: fire through your friends."
Jon: "Yeah, but not in column."

> At 02:33 PM 3/1/00 -0500, you wrote:

And, as always, a few fixes/comments. ^_^

> The GZG-ECC III Quote Board 2000

In reference to an Alien vs. Lara Croft; the combat went on for... IIRC, seven
turns before she finally died. (Nearly the entire game. And I was so hoping to
be able to probe her... had to settle for two of the GC figs
instead.  See the extra probe quote, below.... ^_- )

> "Oh, she's worth an extra probe." - David Raynes, FMA 'Dark Agendas'

When one of my Grays had nothing better to do....

> "It's just a flick!"

Is the second a reply to the first?

> "It looks like he's launching his load."

Unless this was also said sometime Friday night, this should be on the
Saturday list... which it is.

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Said when the Mercurian player dropped about 10 salvo missile shots onto the
starbase... he ended up with nearly 150 points of damage. The starbase had, I
think, 50 damage points....

> Not sure what game this was from, or who said what:

The Venutian player, after the aforementioned salvo (well, detonation
X-ray
laser) attack.

> "We may have to sacrifice him later. It's no good if he dies needlessly

He died needlessly a short time later. ^_^  (From the Terror Mission
game)

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When I was checking under the tails of the DDs, to see if there was a slot for
the "fin" that is pictured in the fleet book (but that Indy did
*not*
install on his ships!).

Hey all:

Here are two other quotes that I heard but never wrote them on the board (it
was a long tiring weekend and I forgot):

"So, how is it going?" "See those ships on the left flank?" "What ships?"
"Exactly"

During the "Legacies of War" Game.

GM: "I think that will enough for a threshhold check?" The player that shot:
"Sorry about that"

During the "The Third Party Candidate" Game.

> Aaron Teske wrote:

> >"It's just a flick!"

The discussion of what actually constitues a "flick" was pondered throughout
the Carabande game. As one might imagine, a game that requires you "flick"
your
"puck" inspired a great deal of double-entendre at 1am.  They all seemed
funnier at the time, and I'm rather glad that more of them didn't actually
make the quote board. <g>

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At the time, I thought the station had about 80 damage points. At any rate,
with my mission orders, I probably would have launched a maximum salvo anyway.

-Mike

Nearly right, Mark. Instead of:

> In Stuart's game:

It was:

In Stuart's game: Stuart: "Do we get an answering roar from the dinosaur?
Dean?" Dean: "RRRAUUGH?" Stuart: "We do!"

The question mark makes all the difference. :-)

What the quote fails to mention is that one of the predators, Arl'Than had
made an "alpha male" challange call in order to
attract a T-Rex into striking range with his power spear.

I'll do a more detailed writeup. I need to get the photos to Jerry and Dean in
Canada so you all can see what we were doing.

Jon

> Nick and Laurel Caldwell wrote:

> Nick and Laurel Caldwell wrote:

Hey, I only transcribes 'em as they was written down on the quote board! I
like the difference in this better. Puts a whole different spin on the quote
in question.

Mk

> At 10:39 PM 3/2/00 -0500, Jon wrote:

Sorry 'bout that, but I only heard the exchange, not the background behind it.
So I went with the exclamation point.

An AAR would be pretty cool... come to that, so would one from Tom's FMA
scenario. I suppose I could do something about that, if I get some
time....

                                        Aaron

> Nick and Laurel Caldwell wrote: