 Stupid lines NOT to say in Shadowrun?, Real or just thought up now. |
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 Jan 2 2006, 02:42 AM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 2-January 06 From: Seattle Member No.: 8,117  |
It's my character, a mage, Tom Ace. I'm *cough* 'filling in' for a guard at the facility my team needs to hit. Liberal use of the Mask spell and the previous guard's uniform. So, there's my character, standing guard on one side of a door, and then an actual guard on the other side of the door. We're making idle conversation. It's important to note that the GM let me make a spell 'create cookie'.
Guard: "... wow, I'm hungry." Me, the supposedly mundane guard, summons up a cookie right in my hand. Me: "Oh, hey, want a cookie?" Me: "Uh, why are you looking at me funny? It's just a cookie." Minus ten points for not thinking. |
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Jan 2 2006, 06:56 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 6,893 |
"Create Cookie"? That spell just broke some half-dozen laws of SR magic, as far as I know. The energy required to create a 60 gram cookie is greater than the explosive power of at least a few hundred pounds of dynamite. A dumb line: "Harlequin? That guy's gonna geek himself summoning some wussy elemental. Let's kill him and take his stuff". I've heard something not unlike this said before. Needless to say, it was by someone who played D&D.
Heh. I spent my first SR game trying to find out how I could get my PC some sushi, and why it was so darn expensive. (I was trying to roleplay, alright? At least I was'nt the street samurai.) Of course, if I recall, someone made a comment about Sr. Oscuro showing up with a plate of sashimi. Only now do I understand what he meant. |
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Jan 2 2006, 07:33 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,086 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 364 |
How do you figure? It's just a very specific application of the Create Food spell from p.147 of Magic in the Shadows. |
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Jan 2 2006, 10:35 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: 28-August 05 Member No.: 7,631 |
I actually mentioned the whole E=mc^2 thing in a previous thread about the capabilities of SR magic, and it was pointed out to me that in SR mages can bring matter and energy from other planes. So he could have summoned the cookie (or the energy equal to the cookie's mass times the square of the speed of light, which is more like a nuke than dynamite) from a metaplane. The Cookie Metaplane. It's sort of like The World of Nothing But Shrimp, but less squishy. :D |
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Jan 2 2006, 01:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853 |
now your just cruel, but i like you line of thinking. |
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Jan 2 2006, 06:11 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,144 Joined: 22-September 04 Member No.: 6,690 |
What does E=mc^2 have to do with making cookies? |
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Jan 2 2006, 07:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 2-January 05 From: Quebec Member No.: 6,924 |
Nuclear Chocolate Chip Cookies.
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Jan 2 2006, 08:20 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853 |
Hey I think this can be done with an Anchoring Focus, Detect individual + powerball = one nuclear cookie. |
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Jan 2 2006, 09:04 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 2-January 05 From: Quebec Member No.: 6,924 |
If you make it with detect teeth, it will go off as soon as the person tried to eat it. :D
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Jan 2 2006, 09:43 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: 28-August 05 Member No.: 7,631 |
Energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. That's the conversion rate for mass to energy. Which means that if you convert mass into energy (with antimatter or a nuke or by chemical reactions or whatever) you get that much energy for each quantity of matter that ceases to be. and it also means that if you wanted to create mass out of energy (any mass, even a cookie) that's how much energy you'll need. |
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Jan 2 2006, 09:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 27-April 05 From: Summoning a spirit of the land Member No.: 7,362 |
unless it's an old dude |
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Jan 2 2006, 10:53 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,086 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 364 |
So, in short, a Create Cookie spell does not "break some half-dozen laws of SR magic", which was the point I was trying to make. Heck, even going back as far as first edition Grimoire, its been possible to use magic to create cookies, you just had to find a free spirit with the wealth power willing to make "really expesnive cookies". |
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Jan 3 2006, 12:17 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 175 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Imperial Japan Member No.: 6,483 |
After sneaking up to a troll - "Excuse me mister troll, but is that gel rounds in your Panther Assault Cannon?"
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Jan 3 2006, 03:07 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
"Yes, Officer, what seems to be the problem?"
{PC walks up to a loud-mouthed braggard Troll in a bar & taps him on the arm}: "Excuse me, you're in my favorite spot." "What? He was in the way." "No, you ask someone to step aside....you don't shoot them. Especially with an anti-tank round." "Why not?" "Whad'yamean, *I* brought the ammo? *YOU* brought the ammo!" {during a firefight between corp-sec's & the PCs, the nieve Elven Mage says this}: "Uh, excuse me?" (more shooting) "Excuse me?" {more shooting} "EXCUSE ME!" {shooting stops} "Could you nice gentlemen with the security forces mind not firing while we escape? We need to be somewhere else right now." |
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Jan 3 2006, 09:29 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
At least his manners are impeccable.
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Jan 3 2006, 10:17 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 175 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Imperial Japan Member No.: 6,483 |
"Dont shoot at the guy who is reloading! It is against the rules!!!"
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Jan 3 2006, 01:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853 |
What the crap? what is this world going to if you don't follow the rules. |
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Jan 3 2006, 02:03 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
Everyone knows all runners are consummate professionals with the gunslinger flaw, right?
A personal favorite of mine, "I have a chem skill of 1, I am going to try and make phosgene gas and pump it through the air ducts." (actually happened in game, and it worked well enough to disrupt a nasty ritual, stupid Hand of God) |
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Jan 3 2006, 03:52 PM
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Creating a god with his own hands Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 30-September 02 From: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 Member No.: 3,364 |
In my recent game as GM:
"What would we need contacts for???" / :( |
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 Jan 3 2006, 04:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
Bullet Raven: Ever hear of dentures? :P This presumes, of course, that dental implants (where the false teeth are actually implanted and cemented into the jawbones) haven't completely replaced dentures by the 2050s/2060s/2070s (depending upon which version of SR you're playing). Hmm. I wonder if they could vat-grow teeth? Pixel01: I read of a similar situation in a book about World War II. During an Allied bombing raid, a B-17 (I *think*) came under fire from enemy antiaircraft guns. One of the crewmen was heard to remark... "HEY! They're SHOOTIN' at us!" ...as if it was against some sort of rule. :wobble: --Foreigner |
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Jan 3 2006, 07:31 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 617 Joined: 28-May 03 From: Orlando Member No.: 4,644 |
The worlds worst line to hear...........................
Hey Watch This............ Mass Mayhem ensues. From Jeff Foxworthy You might be a redneck. |
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Jan 3 2006, 07:47 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 27-April 05 From: Summoning a spirit of the land Member No.: 7,362 |
it costs 5 essence for false teeth, many an elderly gentlemen who'd been miraculously saved from an accident involving loss of limbs by SotA tech has been taken by surprise here. :D |
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Jan 3 2006, 10:55 PM
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The Dragon Never Sleeps Group: Admin Posts: 6,924 Joined: 1-September 05 Member No.: 7,667 |
Let's take the elevator!
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Jan 3 2006, 11:08 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
This has gotten players in my games in to more trouble than you can imagine, well maybe not than people here can imagine but you get the idea. Elevator make great physical security chokepoints. If a building is designed so that the stairways can be accessed only from inside the stairwell on the ground floor, then people trying to reach other floors have to take the elevators. If the elevators are equipped with MAD's and Cyberware Detectors and monitored by a security rigger who can seal and stop them, then flood them with Neuro-Stun Gas. Further if it is a large enough building to use an express elevator system (travels only to certain floors then shorter elevator systems cover the floors in between)) secondary checkpoints can be built in. |
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Jan 4 2006, 04:58 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,283 Joined: 17-May 05 Member No.: 7,398 |
Which is why you get your decker/hacker to crack into the elevator and do some tinkering beforehand. |
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