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Thread: Eric and the Gazebo (and possibly other roleplaying humor) | This thread is pages long: 1 2 3 · «PREV / NEXT» |
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Syllogism
Adventuring Hero
Gazebo Slayer
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posted September 03, 2001 06:12 PM |
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Do you truly believe that? Perhaps my sarcasm detector just isn't functioning properly.
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CraigHack
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Have fantasies, will travel...
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posted September 03, 2001 06:33 PM |
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Sarcasm?
Quote: Do you truly believe that? Perhaps my sarcasm detector just isn't functioning properly.
Sorry, sometimes my sarcasm is too delicate. I need to find a hammer.
El_Diablo did make it funnier with his insanely lame posts though!
Anyway, great thread!!
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Coldfyrius
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posted September 03, 2001 06:35 PM |
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That's the problem with written conversation. It's such a simplified version of actual speefh that it loses mcuh of its meaning. Sarcasm is very hard to detect, and you usually end up ****ing somebody off.
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CraigHack
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posted September 03, 2001 06:47 PM |
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Well said!
Well put Coldfyrius!!
I was hoping to put it in such a way as to draw more input from the hopelessly IQ challenged group just for fun.
Ya gotta be careful with written communications!!
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Oldtimer
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posted September 03, 2001 07:32 PM |
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Gazebo Preservation League
I post this in hopes that you are not all the Gazebo haters that its seems that you are. This is a plea for your support. As some of you have noted the Gazebo habitat is dwindling at a rapid pace. We must put a stop to this.
YOU CAN HELP!
Just e-mail me your credit card information to make a donation, I promise not to deduct more money than is warranted.
(There seems to be some habitat right outside my back door that could use some renovation.)
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Syllogism
Adventuring Hero
Gazebo Slayer
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posted September 03, 2001 08:42 PM |
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Another story, but first some background:
Vecna was an arch-lich who ruled a realm of pure evil. One day some wizards opened a gateway from their world into this dark world. Vecna immediately detected the intrusion into his lands and began to form plans to bring this new found dimension under his tyrannical fist as well. There are several AD&D modules that revolve around Vecna's latest plots in his never-ending quest to dominate the AD&D multiverse. Eventually he did die and his body parts became artifacts of great power.
The Head of Vecna
by Mark Steuer
Many years ago (back when we all were still playing D & D, I ran a game where I pitted two groups against each other.
Several members of Group One came up with the idea of luring Group Two into a trap. You remember the Hand of Vecna and the Eye of Vecna that were artifacts in the old D&D world where if you cut off your hand (or your eye) and replaced it with the Hand of Vecna (or the Eye) you'd get new awesome powers? Well, Group One thought up The Head of Vecna.
Group One spread rumors all over the countryside (even paying Bards to spread the word about this artifact rumored to exist nearby). They even went so far as to get a real head and place it under some weak traps to help with the illusion. Unfortunately, they forgot to let ALL the members of their group in on the secret plan (I suspect it was because they didn't want the Druid to get caught and tell the enemy about this trap of theirs, or maybe because they didn't want him messing with things).
The Druid in group One heard about this new artifact and went off in search of it himself (I believe to help prove himself to the party members...) Well, after much trial and tribulation, he found it; deactivated (or set off) all the traps; and took his "prize" off into the woods for examination. He discovered that it did not radiate magic (a well known trait of artifacts) and smiled gleefully.
I wasn't really worried since he was alone and I knew that there was no way he could CUT HIS OWN HEAD OFF. Alas I was mistaken as the Druid promptly summoned some carnivorous apes and instructed them to use his own scimitar and cut his head off (and of course quickly replacing it with the Head of Vecna...)
Some time later, Group one decided to find the Druid and to check on the trap. They found the headless body (and the two heads) and realized that they had erred in their plan (besides laughing at the character who had played the Druid)...The Head of Vecna still had BOTH eyes! They corrected this mistake and reset their traps and the Head for it's real intended victims...
Group Two, by this time, had heard of the powerful artifact and decided that it bore investigating since, if true, they could use it to destroy Group One. After much trial and tribulation, they found the resting place of The Head of Vecna! The were particularly impressed with the cunning traps surrounding the site (one almost missed his save against the weakest poison known to man). They recovered the Head and made off to a safe area.
Group Two actually CAME TO BLOWS (several rounds of fighting) against each other argueing over WHO WOULD GET THEIR HEAD CUT OFF! Several greedy players had to be hurt and restrained before it was decided who would be the recipient of the great powers bestowed by the Head... The magician was selected and one of them promptly cut his head off. As the player was lifting The Head of Vecna to emplace it on it's new body, another argument broke out and they spent several minutes shouting and yelling. Then, finally, they put the Head onto the character.
Well, of course, the Head simply fell off the lifeless body. All members of Group Two began yelling and screaming at each other (and at me) and then, on their own, decided that they had let too much time pass between cutting off the head of a hopeful recipient and put the Head of Vecna onto the body.
SO THEY DID IT AGAIN!... [killing another PC (= Player Character)]
In closing, it should be said that I never even cracked a smile as all this was going on. After the second PC was slaughtered, I had to give in (my side was hurting)...
And Group Two blamed ME for all of that...
So let that be a warning to you - don't let your head get cut off unless you really know what you're doing.
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Oldtimer
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posted September 03, 2001 11:35 PM |
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"I never lose my head at social gatherings."- Marie Antoinette
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haile73
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posted September 04, 2001 01:33 PM |
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at least I've learned something
I learned what a gazebo is.. thanx guys
I was already wondering, cause I only knew Gazebo as a singer. Early 80's with hits like "I like Chopin" and "Lunatic"... I thought Syllogism doesn't like his songs and so he calls himself "Gazebo Slayer".. lol
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LordPaul
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Crazy Bat Guy.
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posted September 04, 2001 08:58 PM |
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LMFAO... and I thought the Diablo/Gazebo story was funny. How could anyone, in their right mind, try to cut of their head and place another on it? I mean, you'd think that maybe the head would still have it's old personality. Very f'ing funny!
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Gimmickless
Promising
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Cannon Maker
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posted September 05, 2001 12:54 AM |
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You know, if all the gazebos were to be slain, none of our heroes could get an easy level up in the beginning of the game, and that would "reek of sucktitude".
I implore you, keep the gazebos! *grin*
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malkia
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posted September 05, 2001 01:18 AM |
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Quote: That's the problem with written conversation. It's such a simplified version of actual speefh that it loses mcuh of its meaning. Sarcasm is very hard to detect, and you usually end up ****ing somebody off.
It's called PROSODY - here at my work - i'm doing a speech engine for color,playbyplay and announcer game we are making (a hockey one). So I've looked many sites about forms of speech and comments. And i found that the missing thing in pure ASCII text is something called PROSODY
I found one site showing how PROSODY can be implemented using some special fonts... and this font was showing different types of emotions. Something like :-) ;-) symbols - but more extended
here is the link (as search from google on "prosodic font")
http://www.media.mit.edu/~tara/prosodicFont.html
The thing is that eveyrone must learn this way of showing the emotions... which will be not so easy and may lead to misunderstandings...
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Lord_Woock
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posted February 09, 2003 02:59 PM |
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Revived fpor everyone to enjoy one more time .
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silx87
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posted February 09, 2003 10:31 PM |
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Hehee
I thought that Gazebo Slayer thing is kinda funny!
Dunno why this story made some ppl so angry though,or maybe they was just acting?
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Lith-Maethor
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posted April 10, 2003 12:47 AM |
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Eric the Great and other Diabolical stories
this thread has been hidden for too long... REJOICE!!!
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Magus
Hired Hero
Warper of Time-Space
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posted April 10, 2003 03:04 AM |
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I have an interesting story of my own
My party came upon a castle, in this castle were several kobold like creatures. Because our party's wererat was so socially adept, instead of fighting we spent about five minutes in conversation as if we all had intelligences of 3
party)Hello?
kobolds)Hello
party)Hello?
kobolds)Hello
party)Hello?
Kobolds)Hello
After this meaningless conversation, our barbarian trapped them under an upside-down stone bathtub. So we ascended the staircase to the upper level. We saw two things on the upper level. A box on a pedestal across a hallway, and a giant size sleeping dog. Our wererat/rogue checked for traps. There was no hallway. It was thousands of hidden spikes, dart launchers, flamethrowers, etc. So we tried to shoot the box off the pedestal. It had an AC of -20 (for those who don't know, low is good, -10 is the best). So me, being the only good aligned person in the party, said we should kill the dog and see if he was guarding something. I was outvoted, and so we decided to take the stone bathtub up the stairs, and move under it(it was a big bathtub). We told the kobolds we were playing a practical joke and we gave them candy, so they didn't care. so the barbarian moved under the bathtub, and got about a third of the way there before fire started coming out of the floor. At this point, we almost killed the GM, but the dog woke up, and asked us if we wanted to get across. so we said we did and it pressed a button and we walked across to get the box. The box started dancing the macarena.(don't ask me how, it was a magic box.) so we shot it and hacked at it and fireballed it and it just kept dancing. we brought it down to the kobolds and they started dancing with it. The box seemed to be opening, but whenever we grabbed at it it closed. So I, being the only artistically inclined one, use my singing skill to sing the macarena, and eventually use my dancing skill to open it. Not only did we get nearly defeated by a simplistic puzzle, but the GM told us he got the puzzle from sesame street. SESAME STREET FOR GOD'S SAKE!
I know this one isn't as funny as the gazebo or head of vecna, but there needed to be another story in here
I apologize for the length of this post
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Lord_Woock
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posted April 10, 2003 12:50 PM |
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Lol, nothing more. Just a lol .
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Yolk and God bless.
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Magus
Hired Hero
Warper of Time-Space
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posted April 10, 2003 01:40 PM |
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Like most things, it was alot better if you were there...
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So was the land riven by Chaos and Destruction, and so it was cleansed from existence. I did this, the Magus of Ly'kail, Magus of the Sylvan Kingdoms.
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Lord_Woock
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posted July 15, 2004 09:53 PM |
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I just saw Syllo online and decided to celebrate that fine moment with the revival of this truly hilarious thread.
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Yolk and God bless.
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My buddy's doing a webcomic and would certainly appreciate it if you checked it out!
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Vadskye91
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Back again
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posted July 15, 2004 10:24 PM |
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...Again?
Anyway... ROFLMHINY!
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RedSoxFan3
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Fan of Red Sox
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posted October 03, 2004 01:48 AM |
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Revived. Wonderful thread.
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Go Red Sox!
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