The Quoteboard

                    THE GZG ECC IV QUOTE BOARD

                            Friday Night:

"Ah, yes, fleet action. How fleet are the escape pods?" (email to Operation
Avalanche)

"I'm still alive by the grace that nobody shot me" - Jim Bell, Pod Racing
scenario

"You're commander's a '3'?" - Stuart Murray, GM of 'Friday Night Firefight'
"Yeah" - Aaron Teske
"That's a shame." - Stuart Murray

Bumper sticker on a pod racer: "If you can read this, you're
eating junk."

"You fragged a mother and child!!"
"Yeah, in one shot, too!"  (Friday Night Firefight)

"You're not supposed to kill the GM's toys, because the GM gets upset"
 - Stuart, Friday Night Firefight

"Tom, don't bother coming back. You're dead. 3 pulse torps - 13 points"
 - Jim Bell, Pod Racing (from undammaged to dead in 30 seconds)

"I want to kill the civilians, what do I do?" - Mike Hudak
"First action, kill the mob. Second action, loot the bodies." - Stuart,
Friday Night Firefight (Mike's first SG game)

"Hey Ted, what was your junk? Cheese Whiz?" - Bob 'Magic' Makowsky asking Ted
Arlauskas what he was doing after trying to win in the final moments of the
race by dropping garbage on Bob, Ord Sarno Pod Racing

"No, the other d20." - Tom Barclay
"I like rolling that one better"  (after hours Formula De gaming)

"Who's blown his lead, Carl?" - Jon Davis as the 2nd of 2 people to pass dies
in a fiery ball, returning Jon to the previously held leading position

                          Saturday Morning:

"The guy standing in the pirate suit is calling us GEEKY??" - Dan, FMA Pirates

"OOGLA OOGLA OOGLA MAK!" - cannibal players (Ted, et al), FMA Pirates

Cannibal Briefing for FMA Pirates:
Nick Caldwell (GM) - "Bring the pirates back to the pot for dinner and victory
 points."
Ted Arlauskas - "Sweet!"
Jon Davis - "No, a bit gamey."

>From Carnage con Queso:
Tom (smugly) - "What's that? I thought I heard something..." (shaking off many
  die of fire...)
Mike (dumps a nasty arty strike on Tom) - "That's for that 'I heard something'
  crack"

EFSB "Bester Gambit" game:
Channing Faunce (doing first threshold check on Psi-Corps mothership) -
  "What's this?"
Aaron Newman (GM) - "That's the jammer. You DON'T want to lose it."
Channing (rolls a '6') - "D'OH!" (and hides head on table, to the cheers
  of everyone else)

Same game a short while later:
"This is the most seriously mauled I've ever seen ships get on the first turn"
  - Aaron Newman (GM, 'Bester Gambit')

"Who's your Jedi!?" - Pat Muller, spoken as 'Who's your daddy', to Joel's
  Obiwan & Bikerbabes squad, 'Carnage con Queso'

"This S.O.B. [Aaron Teske] shot the wounded! Can you believe it? He shot the
surrendering and the wounded!!" Mike Sarno, ref of 'Carnage con Queso', after
saying to Aaron "I don't know what the decision is....shoot the bastards"

"Don' you hate it when the GM corrects people?" - Aaron Newman, 'Bester
  Gambit', to the rest of the players after having Chan reroll his beam
  recharge, which resulted in a MUCH better roll

Carnage con Queso:
"Okay, that's it - for the rest of this it's hammer the news crew!" - Tom
  Barclay
"There will be no footage?" - Mike Hudak

                           Saturday Afternoon:

"How can you tell where he measured? There's a hole in his formation." - Tom
  Barclay, 'Hotspot'

"You can turn the selector off the 'laser pointer' setting, Dan..." - Brian
  Bell, after Dan fires HELs ineffectively

"Oh man...it IS the red button!" - Mike S (after Brian B just rolled 3 twelves
  (on d12) out of 4 rolls and Mike had just missed with an entire unit;
  'Hotspot')

"Sure, you can say 'Bite Me!' as a free action" - Mike Ritchie, PsiWar 2264

"Can we shoot these?" (Raider player, pointing to some freighters)
"Those are your ships" (Earth Force players)
"Okay, we shoot them!" from EFSB game 'Clampdown'

"We come in peace" - EF players
"And you'll leave in pieces" - Raider players ('Clampdown')

"This is against my better judgement but it's not my real ass on the line."
  - Los, recon during SG2 game 'Quest For Beer'

"THOU SHALT NOT COME BETWEEN A CANADIAN AND HIS BEER" - Adrian Johnson,
  Canadian, referring to Tom's beer, 'Quest For Beer'

                          Saturday Evening:

"If I see a maple leaf - shoot." - Bob 'Magic' Makowski, FMS Can-Am game

"Canadians and Gentlemen..." - Jon Davis

"Here's $5, go buy yourself a real parrot" - Dan B to Nick 'the Pirate'

"Brute force and ignorance will work every time!" - Bob 'Magic', Can-Am FMA

"The safest place to be is in the open - we've repeatedly established this."
  - David Raynes, Can-Am FMA

"And now he puts on a Canadian emblem." - Adrian Johnson activating the
  turncoat in the US ranks during Can-Am FMA

"I can't even hit myself with a grenade!" - David Raynes, Can-Am FMA

Dan - "I have an idea for a scenario. It's called 'Shipyard Dock'."
Jon Davis - "You want me to buy an orbital dock, don't you!?!"
Dan - "Well....yes."

Can-Am FMA - Targets in the open: 6
             Grenades: 0

Tom Barclay - "Okay, you hit with your grenade. This guy [Jim Bell's] gets
  cover from the door."
Jim - "NO!! NO!! Please no!! Don't give me cover!"  (Can-Am FMA)

Nick Caldwell - "The good news is I'll get to go to bed soon" (after losing
  most of his K'V force in 'Siege of Sol')

Carl Scheu - "This guy [NSL FF] is going to pound him" (points to k'V CVL who
  he is broadside to and behind)
Joel Frock - "He's going to tickle him in the butt." (Carl rolls 1 point of
  damage; 'Siege of Sol')

"I'm going to kill you for loading all my ships with flashlights" - Mike Hudak
  to Indy after yet another ineffectual round of massed fire
"Flashlights and laser pointers. You weren't supposed to DAMAGE anything,
  just illuminate things" - Indy
"Ohhhhhhhhh, they're target DESIGNATORS...you bastard." - Mike, 'Siege of Sol'


                           Sunday Morning:

"What are you playing today?" - Indy
"I'm...[points] I'm in Stuart's game." - Jon Davis
"Cinegrunt? I'll have t ocome over and listen to you!" - Indy

Joel Frock - "Hey! Guess what? I'm on point!"
David Raynes - "It's your first time, isn't it?" (Cinegrunt)

Stuart - "You're here to kick butt and take chitin"
Player (name withheld) - "Take what?!"
Jon Davis (as Armin Jersinksy) - "I have a dictionary in my office"

"Can I get d8's for my combat move?" - Mike Ritchie, playing the 'Gung-ho Guys'
"If you've got a good reason, you can get a d8" - Stuart (GM, Cinegrunt)
"They're stupid?" - Mike
"You've got a d8!" - Stuart

"As long as your name is not a glyph, I'm fine with it." - Mike Sarno (Can-Am
  Full Thrust)

"Can I make a morale check?" - Aaron

"That wasnt' asensor! That was a garage door opener!"

"They're infected! Shoot them!" *boom**boom* "It was for their own good"
  - Senior VP Armin Jersinsky (Jon D)

 (as the marines attempt to attack the Company security troops)
"We make those, by the way" - Company troops (led by Jersinsky)

Joel Frock - "AAaaarrrrrhhhh!!!!"  (Cinegrunt)

Mike Hudak - "Nice move." (as Indy's ships mange to dodge 6 SM salvos in
  'Sundiver'; Indy's teammates weren't quite as lucky)

Mike Muller - "Not only that, they are going to clean you up with gunfire"
  (indicating an ESU DD that ended movement in the middle of the aforementioned
  SMs, and was directly in front of the FSE fleet)
Pat Muller - "Yeah, yeah. Tell me something I don't know."
Mike Hudak (looking outside) - "It's still snowing..."  (Sundiver)

Joel (Cinegrunt) as USMC Marines - "We're meat shields"

Al Muller - "That was a nice tripod [Tom Barclay] had. Do you know what he
  needs with it?"
Mike Hudak - "A gun?" (Sundiver)

"This isn't rocket science....oh. Yeah, it is." - Adrian, playing a Marine Lt
  Colonel suddenly in charge of a Canadian squadron in Can-Am FT

Bryan M (Cinegrunt) re: The Weyland-Yutani Corp Company Slogan "We bring
  good things to life"

Berserk opens fire, vaporizing three marines and fill a corridor with smoke.
"Was that noisy?" - Aaron (Cinegrunt I think)

Stuart - "You opened the door? That was a bad second action." (revealing
  an alien Queen & guards in Cinegrunt)

"Say my name, bitch!" - Mike Sarno as he strafes a Canadian destroyer, Can-Am
  FT

Stuart - "Back to dying time, dudes"

"These ships are being led by Marines. We're heading for the ground; we feel
  more comfortable there" - Tom Barclay, Can-Am FT, as his fleet angles in
  towards the planet

Aaron - "I want to go last. I have a berserk on one side of me, and a queen
  on the other"
Stuart - "That sounds like a good reason to go FIRST!" (Cinegrunt)

Stuart - "Aaron, by the way, you have to do stuff" (a short time after the
  previous conversation/quote)

Stuart (to Aaron) - "I'm trying to keep you alive for the next 10 minutes"

Mike (elevator voice) - "Bottom floor: Lingere and Aliens"

Bryan Gordon - "Ohhhh, this is just squirrelly" ('Sundiver')

Mike Muller (points to an FSE ship and grabs some dice) - "I'm dropping six
  dice of beam on him."
Al Muller - "You're going to shoot me with my own dice?!? Argh!!"

Jon Davis - "YIIIIII CHAAAA"
Bryan - "Yi cha"
Jon D - "No no no. Like this: (repeat above)"

Aaron Newman - "I open up on the parrot"

Jon Davis - "I'm at Ground Zero" (as a nuke explodes in Cinerunt)

"It's not the size of the paunch, it's the incompetence of the owner" - Mike
  Sarno after Tom Barclay knocked over ships - again (Can-Am FT)

"Ready for the Indy Roll? A one?" - Jim Bell, just before firing a pulse
  torp. He rolled a '1' (Can-Am FT)

Tom Barclay - "...because we're playing 'paper, scissors, rock', and we
  brought the rock and they brought the dynamite."

Indy - "How ya doin', Mike?"
Mike Sarno - "Better than they are, yeah."
Indy - "Is that for the look on Jim's face?"
Mike - "Nah, he's just that ugly."  (Can-Am FT)

Mike Muller - "Here comes the sun!" (as 2 ESU escort cruisers plow into
  the sun in 'Sundiver')

"Better be careful or I'll send you to the quote board" (Cinegrunt)

"These aren't the facehuggers you're looking for." (Cinegrunt)

Jon Davis (looking in on the last moments in 'Sundiver') - "It's looking...
  ...intimate."
Mike Hudak - "We're all hugging....everyone is getting close to Indy>"
  (as Indy narrowly avoids slamming into the sun for yet another turn only
  to find his lone battleship surrounded by the entire FSE fleet and armed
  research station)

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From:  Aaron Teske

At 04:37 PM 3/5/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Okay, guys, here it is: the Quotes from the weekend, transcribed!
>There may be some errors; not everyone's penmanship was 100%
>readable. But I think I got it 95% correct! In any event, I'm
>sure people will post corrections.  ;-)

Surprisingly, there haven't been any yet, so here we go. ^_^

>"You're commander's a '3'?" - Stuart Murray, GM of 'Friday Night Firefight'
>"Yeah" - Aaron Teske
>"That's a shame." - Stuart Murray

Should be "your" commander, but whatever. ^_^  This quote sounds so much
better in my head than it reads, prolly in no small part due to Stuart's
accent....

>"You fragged a mother and child!!"
>"Yeah, in one shot, too!"  (Friday Night Firefight)

I think this continued, "More efficient that way!" but I'm not really sure.
 Mike (Hudak) got in some good lines during this game.

>"You're not supposed to kill the GM's toys, because the GM gets upset"
> - Stuart, Friday Night Firefight

This was after a medevac chopper landed in the only clear spot near a few
wounded characters... a spot where artillery had been called down to polish
off the rest of the squad.  It didn't kill many of that particular squad,
but it did nail the medevac pretty well.

>                          Saturday Morning:
>
>"The guy standing in the pirate suit is calling us GEEKY??" - Dan, FMA
Pirates

For the record (though I wasn't in the game) Nick Caldwell had on a pirate
outfit that was, apparently, his Halloween costume from last year.  I'm
sure there are pictures somewhere....

>"OOGLA OOGLA OOGLA MAK!" - cannibal players (Ted, et al), FMA Pirates

The "et al", of course, including our very own Jon Davis.  See also his
quote from Stuarts game, below, and from last year.  (He seems to really
enjoy those types of things.... ^_- )

>"This S.O.B. [Aaron Teske] shot the wounded! Can you believe it? He shot the
>surrendering and the wounded!!" Mike Sarno, ref of 'Carnage con Queso', after
>saying to Aaron "I don't know what the decision is....shoot the bastards"

No comment. 

>Carnage con Queso:
>"Okay, that's it - for the rest of this it's hammer the news crew!" - Tom
>  Barclay
>"There will be no footage?" - Mike Hudak

That should prolly be an exclamation point.

>                           Sunday Morning:
>
>"Can I make a morale check?" - Aaron

Aaron Newman, for the record; I was in a FT game, so....

>Berserk opens fire, vaporizing three marines and fill a corridor with smoke.
>"Was that noisy?" - Aaron (Cinegrunt I think)

Likewise.

>Stuart - "You opened the door? That was a bad second action." (revealing
>  an alien Queen & guards in Cinegrunt)

And anyone who's played in one of Stuart's games can just *see* the
expression of delight at the misfortune of his players.... ^_-

>Aaron - "I want to go last. I have a berserk on one side of me, and a queen
>  on the other"
>Stuart - "That sounds like a good reason to go FIRST!" (Cinegrunt)
>
>Stuart - "Aaron, by the way, you have to do stuff" (a short time after the
>  previous conversation/quote)
>
>Stuart (to Aaron) - "I'm trying to keep you alive for the next 10 minutes"

Should be kinda obvious that's Aaron Newman by now.  Y'know, I'm not used
to having to differentiate between Aarons; there aren't that many of us
around....

>Jon Davis - "I'm at Ground Zero" (as a nuke explodes in Cinerunt)

Directly under him, IIRC.  Predator-go-boom.

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From:  Rick Rutherford

Here's another one from Saturday morning:

Me: Is that a film camera?
David Reynes: Yeah.
Me: How quaint!
David Reynes: I feel so eighties...

:)