GZG ECC IX Quote Board 2006 **Friday Evening** "Quote or Di(c)e!" Adrian (on overhearing JonMark and Jerry H) "It's Friday, the Sheep Game hasn't even started - it's not even tonite - and people are already threatening each other." Unknown: "Kids - they're kind of like miniatures, but they get bigger" Jerry Han (Full Sail): "The object is to kill your opponent as many times as possible." Stuart Murray (Blue Light Special): "How much time did it take to make all these cards?" Damo: "Doesn't matter - I did them at work." Kevin Chase (to Dave H's command platoon, DS3 Demo) : "Come on up and give us moral support. We just got shot at. We need a hug." John Lerchey (during DS3 Demo): "This is the actual firefight. It continues until everyone decides they can't or won't keep going." Mark Kinsey {crying) : "I've had enough!" John Lerchey (DS3 Demo) : "You can only remove the White Skull with an ambulance or something." Indy: "Oh, gee, didn't give you guys an ambulance." Mark Kinsey (to Indy): "Bitch" Damo to Mike Hudak (Blue Light Special): "But in your case, since you've been screwed so many times, it's free." Unknown (Blue Light Special): "Pirate Galley - ship name HMS Aneurism" (Galley has Oarsmen who 'Stroke') TomB (talking while looking at "men in black") : "A day at the convention isn't complete until Cthulhu appears on the table..." Unknown (during Full Sail): "He's got two shots on Chauncey! Oh, but it's Lorenzo firing!" John Lerchey (DS3 Demo, pointing to Mark Kinsey's repeatedly Shaken unit): "They need a medal." Mark Kinsey: "They need a hug!" Mark Kinsey (DS3 Demo, discussing NSL tanks needing better weapons against Kra'Vak) : "Harsh language. Harsh language would at least have the effect of making them Ro'Kah." Mark Kinsey (DS3 Demo, observing the lineup of Kra'Vak tanks in his platoon's LOS) : "Man, this would be perfect if I wasn't Shaken." Kevin Chase (DS3 Demo expanding on the "this unit needs a hug" theme) : "Masseuse to Heartbreak Ridge - stat!" To Unknown Player A (a ship respawns in Full Sail Frag): "Do you want to place your ship to shoot at somebody, or to get a power up?" Unknown Player B: "I want him to place it to run aground!!" Unknown Player: "Do I let the kid kill me, or do I let the other guy kill me?" Kevin Chase (DS3 Demo): "Our first action was that stupid little light tank fiasco in the corner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Saturday Morning** "To Err Is Human, To Quote, Devine" Aaron Newman: "It makes me feel all ionic inside." Noam Izenberg (as Jon Davis played with Noam's battery-operated tape measurer): "Auto-tape! Accept no substitutes." Keith Frye (on stormtrooper marksmanship in Assault on Hoth): "Jango Fett had astigmatism!" Keith Frye (Assault on Hoth, as AT-AT commander): "The Rebels have the moral high ground. That's grid 7 by..." Unknown (Assault on Hoth): "I'm not afraid of lasers. I'm afraid of Vader." Joel Frock (Stuart's Cinegrunt game): "First blood goes to the nuns." Stuart M. "Which ishow it should be." John Crimmins (after Indy rolled many dice in FT Tigers In Combat): "My God, it's full of 1's!" Mike Hudak (later that same game): "Someone else roll for Indy. Heck, Indy, I'LL roll for you!" Indy (during Tigers In Combat): "There's two quotes on the board from this game already." Mike Hudak: "Am I in any of them?" Indy: "Yes." Mike: "Damn!" John Crimmins (preparing to fire a single one-die beam battery, Tigers In Combat) : "Are you ready for the pain?" (rolls a '1') "Keep waiting." Mike Hudak (after John C rolls a '1', Tigers In Combat) "You didn't let Indy roll for you, did you?" Indy: "Die yet?" Derek: "No, I'm staying in the back." Indy: "Come on, no guts, no glory." Derek: "I didn't come here for glory." Adrian (Stuart's Cinegrunt game): "Are the civilians going to stay in our way? Oh well, sacrifices have to be made in the name of the Empire." Chauncey: "I need more dice!!" Rebel Player (with Luke Skywalker trapped on Hoth, Assault On Hoth): "I guess we're not getting a new Jedi." Imperial Player: "No, but we are." JP to Jim Bell (whose naval brigade troops broke the British company and got into the Brit village): "You're the most valuable player because you're molesting their women." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Saturday Afternoon** "No Quotes Here" Overheard from the Cheese Game: "The guy with the big sword should be obvious." Zev Izenberg (Destroy All FOGRES): "I know how I would lose!" Aaron Newman (explaining to JP philosophy of the First One's ship, All Alone In The Night): "Basically their [Vorlons, et al] technology smells like poop." Doug Schavo (referring to attack formation of kamikazes in All Alone In The Dark): "Shouldn't our ships all be in a line?" Jerry Han (All Alone In The Dark): "I'll let the galactic winds blow me!" Bryan G: "My troops are going to shuffle to the side." Tony: "There is no dancing in StarGrunt." Jerry Han (All Alone In The Dark): "I am probably the one person who rolls worse than Indy." (he proceeded to roll four sets of 6d6, getting four 6s with each roll). Unknown: "Gray Aliens - the other white meat?" Don (Singularity, after placing six missile salvos in one spot): "That is how the FSE win the game. If I roll bad for salvo missiles coming in, I lose. That's the price you pay for being French." Aaron Newman (to JP Fiset, All Alone In The Dark): "You may taunt them. You were programmed by the French." Charlie Decker (The Cheese Game, after dropping an artillery strike on Laserlight's 'squad' " or flock " of cute fuzzy sheep, including the "we're harmless" sheep with a pink bow): "I come from a long line of Irishmen. Killing sheep is nothing." Aaron Newman (All Alone In The Dark): "The ships that disappeared entered into something that is not hyperspace" Unknown player: "Wal-Mart!" Laserlight: "So you can move five bodies." Adrian: "But ...there are so many..." Indy: "Mike, are you more NAC or ESU?" Mike: "Why?" (Indy repeats question) Mike: "Ummm, NAC. Why?" Indy: "All will become clear in the fullness of time - and if I could say that any more Vorlon, I would." Jerry Contril (Singularity): "He went from fully active to destroyed in one turn." Scott Biship: "I guess there's no reason for rolling for the PDF's then." Mke Hudak' (as Greg D's squad dumps the commercial powered armor into a tank of cheese): "They're powered armour. They're vacuum proof, but they're not cheese proof?" John Crimmins: "NOTHING is cheese proof!" Unknown: "That thing was in amazingly good shape for a ship with two hits left!" Adrian (to Brian Gordon, Cheese Game): "You look like you're about to start crying." Mike Hudak: "Or lose control of your bowels." Jon Davis (Destroy All FOGRES): "He's experienced. I'm letting him roll the D20." (a '2' is subsequently rolled) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Saturday Evening** "I came, I saw, I quoted" Carl Scheu to Jim Bell: "Don't worry, Jim. You can be pathetic without rolling dice." JP Fiset (as he fired into Aaron's rear arc): "Do you feel that love coming from behind?" Jerry Han (Sheep Game, as he pulled a beagle pup from his pocket and told it to attack): "Go get 'em Fluffy!!" Tony Finan (FMA Sheep, after a Shuggoth manifested itself in the starship's cargo hold): "'Get em'? That was your plan??" Adrian (at end of the Sheep Game as players hummed "Amazing Grace" (with kazoo accompaniment) while final credits roll - everyone died): "So who comes to a game con armed with a kazoo?!" [Tony Finan adds: The question should be "Why don't more people?" Adrian replies: "Says the man with the kazoo....A kazoo. Who'd have thought... ] Adrian (explaining why no one else can run FMA Sheep): "The difference is that he thinks in a linear, logical, engineer manner, and you're creatively Evil - with a capital 'E'" Tony (FMA Sheep): "When Chris runs a game, it just brings out my urge to destroy the entire world." Don (single IJN player in Last Train To Dark's Veil): "Well, you shot at me!" John Lerchey: "No, I didn't. It was at he UNSC." Don: "Yes you did!" John: "No, I didn't. It was the Japanese." TomB: "The apology sounded a lot less sincere when you couldn't stop laughing." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Sunday Morning** "Quote'R'Us" Carl Scheu (running the Jedi Knights during FMA Incident On P4X-636): "I'm content. Do I feel a disturbance in the Force?" Keith Frye (stormtrooper player): "Got a whole lotta disturbance coming your way!" Tony Finan (upon his SG-15 team meeting a face-hugger in P4X-636): "I'm glad Mark ran this game on Sunday - so I can feel unclean all day long" Aaron Newman (playing the Terminators in P4X-636): "I hear dead humans are very calm." Tony F: "All the stress is in their neck. You snap that and all their pain goes away." Indy (after overseeing Tony's third round of Close Combat with a face-hugger in P4X-636): "It's still trying to give him some lovin'." Tony: "Leave me alone. I'm engaged." Chauncey (while on the phone to his girlfriend): "I got to go. I'm commanding a battleship, baby!!" Keith Frye (P4X-636): "I hereby name this planet Suck!" Jerry Han (during Full Sail): "I'm going to leave the cannoneer [who gives a +1 to hit] out of this one." (he then rolled five direct hits - did he not say earlier he is the only person in the world to roll worse than Indy?) Indy (end of the con as the last of the people were packing up and heading out): "How'd the Sheep Game go? I didn't get a chance to get over to it last night." Laserlight: "I don't remember." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Barclay adds: 1. At one point, there is a nameless 'he' in one of Adrian's quotes. But he uses the words linear and engineer in describing the thinking so I'm pretty sure I know exactly who he has in mind, having been accused of being 'such an engineer', etc. several times by the luminary known as Adrian. PS: Please Wish Adrian A Happy Birthday (this Tuesday past)! He's just turned 40! And he doesn't look a year over 37! (That's what you get for talking about me when I'm not around, smart guy) 2. A post-con quote from the trip home when Jim, TomM, TomB, Doug, Adrian and JP 'The First One' were eating at the Binghampton Cracker Barrel: Tomb: "They have all sorts of dice now. I've seen D16s, D14s, etc" Adrian: "I've even seen D3s and D7s." Tomb: "I didn't think you could do D7s due to some geometry issue." Adrian: "Sure you can, a D7 is just two D14s." Everyone At The Table: "...?!..." (We all knew what he *meant* to say was a D7 was represented on a D14 with two sides for each value... but that ain't what it sounded like...) 3. Most traumatic GZG convention event this year: No, not the sheep. No, not even the comments about me making a kilt from a 'welcome' mat and my concerns that the 'welcome' not appear on the rear quadrant. It was JP mooning us (Adrian, Doug and I) out of the window of Jim's explorer as we prepared to depart the restuarant in Binghampton. I'm not sure what brought that on, but I'm just going to cover that situation with a quote from the inimitable Marcus, Space Ranger: "Who knew they were French?".