Cinematic Tradition.

Instead of a tradition based on a religion, his tradition is based on movies.

He summoned John McClane once.

His reagents are popcorn and VHS tapes.

I think one of his foci might be an Oscar.

That is just too cool for words!

Oh, did John have shoes on? And did he use a car to kill a gyro-drone because he was out of bullets?

Could you post stats?

John McClane was not wearing shoes, and is now a free spirit.

Here are the basic stats.

Drain: Intuition+Willpower

Combat: Fire
Health: Water
Illusion: Air
Manipulation: Man
Detection: Beast

Every spirit is a movie character.

Watchers are Extras.

Focus on Illusion.

Awesome. I love the Extras.

Watchers are Red Shirts.

Ah, yes, that's right.
Very strange movie.
(Wizards is likely stranger still.)

I would have guessed Charisma. I'm actually curious as to how the tradition works in terms in magical theory. Does the magician see magic as a manifestation of alternate fictional realities? Or is just some pink mohawk fun?

Pink Mohawk fun. He's a movie lover who happened to Awaken, so he based his tradition of the movies he loved.

I'd give him Delusion "this's all just a movie"

He's actually a Special Effects Artist, but he does lean heavily on the fourth wall at times.

The Buddhists have that angle wrapped up.

We've gone from incestuous orks to my mage's tradition?

it's not that far of a jump.

You brought it up.

I smashed a bowling-ball sized hole in the fourth wall one game session.

Just because the PCs are a bunch of anti-social bastards who shoot people in the face for money doesn't mean they like abusive relationships.

I've an active char at the mo in an EP game who lost his fourth wall in a egocasting malfunction. See link sig for an example. The history of it is that after Three tried to have a dance-off with Jackson, he shortly introduced me to the floor. He got his comeuppance when the player had to leave for a Star Wars game somewhere else, so we had to find some way to remove his character from play. So, after I critically failed on a Perception Test, I spaced him.

I can't believe nobody's said it yet.

"Movie Magic."

I was trying to avoid it.

A fun line at a session once.

Setup:
One member of the team is going to create a distirbance so the rest of the team can make their escape from the building. Tony Hez, a chromed cyber-addict, enters the lobby and approaches the first guard he can, before crossing through the MAD scanners, etc.

Tony Hez: "Excuse me guard, can you help me with a problem?"
Guard: Gruffly exhales, trying to mentally prep to try an intimidate the metal monster, and quickly blurts out "WHAT?"
Tony Hez: Quick Draws his Ares Predator into his face. "It's my gun... It's got TOO MANY BULLETS!"


We're now playing Ghost Cartels and wrapping it up. At least once a session, at the best possible time, SOMEBODY will say in their best Rick James impression" "Tempo's a hell of a drug." It's sort of become the story's tag line.

Finally got to play again and Des and the new crew have finally located the first member of those that go "Boom" in the night, Tank Girl in an Azzy facility, they've been trying to turn her in to a sleeper agent with little success. By this point the new guys have gotten a bit of polish, Hellion is a truly scary mage, and Slam has turned himself in to a mobile weapons platform with hardcapped augmented strength he uses to carry a "backpack" armory


Tank Girl: "Never thought I'ld be so happy to hear that drawl shouting orders Des, noow where are my babies."

Des: "Sorry, those were not recoverable darlin' but we did get paid in trade with some very nice russkies, let the woman check your pack."

Hellion: "Damn girl, I'm impressed, the stuff they were doing to you and you're lucid?"

Tank girl looks the mage over and shakes her head before speaking: "You've had to deal with the cowboy for how long and you think the brainbenders stood a chance, chica? Now can we start killing our way to the extraction point? I'm cold, dressed in underwear, and covered in blue goo. These fraggers have to pay."

Des: "That reminds me..."

One lightning fast grope, and a less than usually enthusiastic slap later they are headed to make some guards former.

I love this guy ^

Des is a fun character, kind of a strange mix of Captain Jack Sparrow and every Clint Eastwood gunslinger, when he isn't being a goofy, chaotic lecher is when the baddies should worry. Seriously, he has attribute boost with a geas on being serious.

But is the rum gone? And is he going to shoot up a whole town over that fact?

Player´s at home (a nice little house in the elven district), someones knocking at the door ... very loud. He goes to the door-vidfone and answers, seeing a Troll in some kind of uniform, hiding a big baseball club behind his back - in the background are more Trolls with uniforms.

Elf PC *uncertain* : Yes?

Troll *slightly annoyed* : Open the door!

Elf PC *confused* : Why?

Troll *more annoyed* : Open the door, we want to sell cookies!

Elf PC *defensive* : No thank´s, I don´t need any cookies.

Troll *angry* : YOU OPEN THE DOOR NOW!!! *basches the door with the club*

Elf *also angy* : No, go away!

At that point the Trolls recognized that their clever ruse had been found out and shifted to plan B (break in). The Elf called the cops and the trolls left after a very short melee, when the PC swaped his stave for a roomsweeper.

Since then, the most famoust quote in our round is 'Open the door, we want to sell cookies!'

Only if he is out of whiskey and camels as well.

Reason enough for me.

Wow. Trolls with bats. "We want to sell you cookies" indeed. That's amazing.

Were they Keebler trolls? Obviously he wasn't a Keebler elf - nobody sells cookies to them, they make their own ^_^
Or maybe he was a Keebler elf and they wanted to steal his cookies for sale?

*Insert sexual reference here*

I've got a couple from one session I ran with a bunch of particularly lively folks via the internet...

IC Quotes:

Mr. Johnson - "Deliver him dead or alive. However, if he's still alive, we'll just kill him ourselves."

Player A - "Why would I need to slot a BTL when I AM BTL?" *exudes swagger*

Player B - After Player C unleashes his unsilenced weapon inside a building after 20 minutes of sneaking just because he saw an oblivious guard with his back turned about 30 yards down the hallway (and there were 2 other players in front of him). "Why the hell did we bother sneaking then!?"

OOC Quotes:

Player D - After a run has completed that they made a ton of nuyen and karma on without firing a single shot due to their mage doing some amazing dice rolls and some guards oblivious to the world, the first thing said when the game is over and we switch back to OOC... "We didn't get to kill nuffin'..."

Breaking into the house of a corporate douchebag in order to get incriminating information on him:

Tom: Remember, leave no trace. As tempting as it might be to pee on his stuff.

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The Runt was angry about something. Cue Minecraft joke:

The Runt: Ssssssssss. Rrrgh.
Tom: Quiet, Creeper...

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After an amazing camera-dodging bit of acrobatics:

Mr.Black: (in AR) Tah-dah, easy as a tijuana hooker.

After looking at rules for nuclear blasts in WAR!:

"The Pornomancer might survive..."

"You can't seduce a nuclear blast!"

I don't know, with the right vintage of wine...

Annnd another:

After requesting a non-spirit guide for our job from the Draco Foundation, this was said:

"Certainly. We at the Draco Foundation have innumerable expendable doodads which we can distribute. This one's name is George."
One of the players: "No no! I want a widget! Doodads have to be put in a pocket. Widgets just sit there!"

"I don't have a SIN, I live in a tree!"

PC A to naive PC B: "You're kind of adorable, in that 'I'm surprised you're not dead' kind of way."

So we had a run to steal an experimental HERF gun and the party was quite successful at it. We were hiding at a safehouse while we were arranging with the Johnson to do the drop when we were apparently attack by Ninjas (this GM has on more then one occasion said "Frak it, Ninjas attack!"). Small firefight ensued and the ninja used a flashbang to cover his escape and when everyone's eyes cleared he was gone. Problem was the room had no windows and there was a really big dude covering the doorway. The GM called for actions and since I was low man on initiative (I was a medic type character) I went last . No one was able to find anything on this guy (the heavy guns guy had even put a few rounds into the overturned bed), so I said.. "I look up." The GM got this flabbergasted look on his face and said the ninja was clinging to the ceiling. I proceeded to give the ninja a lead based injection and the party managed to recover the gun.

Epic!

Was a 'simple' 3E run with my favorite character Vincent, who had a cyberarm shotgun. Get into an Aztechnology facility and rescue a captive before he's sacrificed to bloodmages. After hours of astral recon and planning our run, we get into the facility and work our way down to the detention level. I go into the room alone, while the rest of the team holds off the gaurds. The captive is unconcious and a robed man is standing in the room with him.

"Wait..." He says, "You don't know what you're doing."
I reply with "That's never stopped me before!" and attacked.
Turns out mages, even boss-level NPC mages, can't take a 12g shotgun blast to the face from point blank range; the GM was crestfallen.

That should be in the Shadowrun notebooks somewhere, as GM advice: exposition and runners with shotguns DO NOT MIX.

I have a dozen quotes that sound great but are planned for stories or whatever... Wish I could share them.

See "The Gamers." There is a perfect example of such in the Forest with the Bandit King. Hilarious.

Here's one from my fanfic I'm working on.

The Gamers and it's sequel = win!!

So much win! <3

The best quote from my group has been OOC and was "I'm taking Bad Luck as a negative quality, we don't use Edge that much and if i do use it there is only a 1 in 6 chance of anything bad happening." The first game, first skill test with that character was a glitch, which he used his edge to negate, and his first bad luck roll was a 1. it was epic.

His Bad Luck was OOC, too.

Reminds me of a little situationwe had once. A player had the Bad Luck quality, too.

Ganger shooting at the char:
Me: He has 4 hits, would be 9 damage
He: I'll take full cover
*rolls dodge* 1 hit... I'll take edge
*rerolls* 5 hit ... rolls a 1...
Me: Uh.. you try to jump over that desk but slip...
He: *rolls soak* 2 hits... I'll take edge
*rerolls* Well at least 4 hits ... rolls a 1...
Me: ...and manage to catch the bullet with your face so it can't hit an innocent bystander...

After that he threw the die that rolled a 1 twice out of the window. The player was really lucky, they had a dedicated medic in the team ^^

Heh, one of the Classic-Battle-Tech forum/mod guys went out and melted a pair of his dice after coming up with several 1's in a row.

I tossed a couple of pairs of dice in the trash after many consecutive snake eyes in Battletech also :> I've also tossed an unruly d20 used in DnD into the cats literbox. She (the cat) was not amused.