Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

What was utterly hysterical about this adventure was that the players just didn't get it, and just didn't get it for weeks. I was finally reduced to having the guy playing the harp in the place do "As Time Goes By" to let them know what was happening. I laughed my fool head off for over a month. I played the script as is, and even had the bit with the 'very special friend of Ri'ick' scene.

I do a very good Ri'ick and the prefect, I am told.

This is one of the things that never ceases to amaze me. People just don't think! I have lost count of the number of allusions in Chirine's games that have gone right by everybody there.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Why, not a bit of it, Bunky old chum! <snip>

You seem in much better humor now. Perhaps because it is now after Beer o'clock?

That is an amusing story. Did they ever actually fork over real money for your "share" of the red gold wall decoration? Even after they figured out they weren't getting out with it?

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Well it's not Bored of the Rings or Monty Python and it doesn't sound like Retief, so I'm guessing it's from that satirical books series about the grandiloquent British twit you two periodically mention.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

This is one of the things that never ceases to amaze me. People just don't think! I have lost count of the number of allusions in Chirine's games that have gone right by everybody there.

It's not like he was being at all subtle. He named the NPC Rick and the casino bar Rick's Place. Does no one in that group actually pronounce the NPCs' names?

I think my terseness must have come across as grumpiness when I didn't intend it to.

They came back later and finally got out Vimuhla's Collector Plate, and yeah, I got about 5000 Khiatars. Way undervalued, but clanless barbarians can't be choosers.

Originally Posted by AsenRG

I'd just paint them white.
Why white? Well, why not?

It's in the Chessmen of Mars.

Yeah, those player sucked, from what I've heard. Now you just need to start another group...

Excellent!
I admit I've put annoying former bosses a few times in my games, but my players usually don't pay them attention, it's as if they knew...

That's...that's...I need to run something like this now!
We'll see how it would go.

Oh! I'll try is, and see how they look.

Thank you - would be easy to make a set, too...

Agreed. I'll see what happens in the future; I'm a little disenchanted, right now.

And you should.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

One of these days, I will give notice of an impending visit...!!!

H;0)

Sounds good; give me a couple of weeks' notice, so I can get the vacation time off.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

So, I sit back and relax, and Chirine the Ever-Prepared breaks out the bread substitute, the gribble-grub flavored icky-wax, and the fresh-squeezed Hoob-melon juice and we proceed to make a light tiffin.

And I even have a tiffin box, too. Not that I would ever be unprepared, of course. Table for four?

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

I think my terseness must have come across as grumpiness when I didn't intend it to.

They came back later and finally got out Vimuhla's Collector Plate, and yeah, I got about 5000 Khiatars. Way undervalued, but clanless barbarians can't be choosers.

Quite whining; at least you got some cash. I got poisoned with Zu'ur, because they thought that it would be funny. Had to have very stern words with Phil over that one, but there were advantages to the plot. Tsahul and Nyssa, to name two; their barge, to name another. Lovely trip down the Missuma to Jakalla, where we picked up the boat (and Vrisa) and went off to the Southern Continent.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Excellent!!! Dear old Dad taught me to enjoy spaghetti at an early age. Later on I found out about "the man with no name" swords and all on my own. Such good stuff. It's been awhile, but I'm about due for the good old, please kind Lords, help us protect our poor village from the bandits...swords or guns, what the heck, I'll have to watch both!!!

H:0)

And don't forget Kurusawa's "Hidden Fortress", either. Especially today, thirty-nine years ago, when the film student released his homage to the master...

What's not to like? Retired general living in seclusion, disguised princess on the run, two comic sidekicks, action, adventure, and romance. With some fancy sword fighting thrown in for the fun of it, too...

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

This is one of the things that never ceases to amaze me. People just don't think! I have lost count of the number of allusions in Chirine's games that have gone right by everybody there.

Oh, I'd have to agree with this. I've had so much go right by people - who keep telling me how culturally savvy and hip they are, too.

Ah. me.