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Message no. 1
From: chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject: Good Players
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:53:35 -0500 (EST)
>> Ya know Loki, between Caric and Rookie, sounds like you got an interesting
>> group...:)
>
>Yup, I've lucked out. Our core group consists of Caric, Rookie and Seth
>(not on the mailing list). We've been together about three years and the
>guys are into actually role-playing, comic relief at times, and know the
>ends and outs of the game enough to help keep things running and let me
>focus more on GM duties. It's a good mix.
>
> @>-,--'--- Loki
>
Yeah, our main group consists of myself as a player (Bull), our buddy Russ
(Johnny 99, not on the list), and Steve Tinner (GM, extrordinaire). We
occasionally have our buddy Mark (Mr. White, tech boy, who should be on this
list soon), Skippy (Xerxis, Big dumb TRoll, mostly extra boxes of damage),
and Brian (Codis, Boy is he dead, Team Munchkin). The last three are part
timers.

Russ and me are big time role players, and some nights, dice don't even come
out of the boxes/bags, and I have learned the rules fairly well, so I can
help out our GM on that end. All in all, we have a decent group.

Now if we can just keep Johnny from killing Codis... But he does have a
good reason. After all, he did sleep with Johnny's wife...:) The bug one...:)


#######################################################
# -Bull, aka Chaos, aka Rak, aka Steven Ratkovich #
# chaos@*****.com #
# Order is Illusion! Chaos is Bliss! Got any fours? #
#######################################################

"You do more damage out of simple irritation than most
men can do in a towering rage."
-David Eddings, "Demon Lord of Karanda
Message no. 2
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 16:13:05 -0500 (EST)
>Now if we can just keep Johnny from killing Codis... But he does have a
>good reason. After all, he did sleep with Johnny's wife...:) The bug one...:)

Yeah, but the problem is Johnny thinks it was the human one!!!!!
Message no. 3
From: freak@*****.com (Brian)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:31:28 -0500 (EST)
>Yeah, our main group consists of myself as a player (Bull), our buddy Russ
>(Johnny 99, not on the list), and Steve Tinner (GM, extrordinaire). We
>occasionally have our buddy Mark (Mr. White, tech boy, who should be on this
>list soon), Skippy (Xerxis, Big dumb TRoll, mostly extra boxes of damage),
>and Brian (Codis, Boy is he dead, Team Munchkin). The last three are part
>timers.
>
>Russ and me are big time role players, and some nights, dice don't even come
>out of the boxes/bags, and I have learned the rules fairly well, so I can
>help out our GM on that end. All in all, we have a decent group.
>
>Now if we can just keep Johnny from killing Codis... But he does have a
>good reason. After all, he did sleep with Johnny's wife...:) The bug one...:)
>
>
Yea well it's all your fault Bull. You damn near forced me to do it. And
Johnny will not kill me i'll get Becky to save me....I think :)



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Message no. 4
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 23:09:12 -0500 (EST)
>
>>Yeah, our main group consists of myself as a player (Bull), our buddy Russ
>>(Johnny 99, not on the list), and Steve Tinner (GM, extrordinaire). We
>>occasionally have our buddy Mark (Mr. White, tech boy, who should be on this
>>list soon), Skippy (Xerxis, Big dumb TRoll, mostly extra boxes of damage),
>>and Brian (Codis, Boy is he dead, Team Munchkin). The last three are part
>>timers.
>>
>>Russ and me are big time role players, and some nights, dice don't even come
>>out of the boxes/bags, and I have learned the rules fairly well, so I can
>>help out our GM on that end. All in all, we have a decent group.
>>
>>Now if we can just keep Johnny from killing Codis... But he does have a
>>good reason. After all, he did sleep with Johnny's wife...:) The bug
one...:)
>>
>>
>Yea well it's all your fault Bull. You damn near forced me to do it. And
>Johnny will not kill me i'll get Becky to save me....I think :)


FINALLY!!!!

We drew him out of lurk mode Bull!

Now we can hang him nice and proper!

He is right though Bull, if you hadn't taunted his manhood, he wouldn't have
been driven to sleep with Buggy, I mean Becky.
Too bad he's turning green now! :-)
"I am the lone locust of the Apocalypse! Think of me when you look to the
night sky!"
"I am the drummer from Pearl Jam!"



ADDITION TO STEVE TINNER'S FAMOUS LAST WORDS:
"Hey...that bird's flying straight at the window...."
"Come and look at this guys! Don't worry...he won't get through..."


With many thanks to Hamish, the death by rhino Scot
Message no. 5
From: chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 02:36:04 -0500 (EST)
>>>>Now if we can just keep Johnny from killing Codis... But he does have a
>>>good reason. After all, he did sleep with Johnny's wife...:) The bug
>one...:)
>>>
>>>
>>Yea well it's all your fault Bull. You damn near forced me to do it. And
>>Johnny will not kill me i'll get Becky to save me....I think :)
>
>
>FINALLY!!!!
>
>We drew him out of lurk mode Bull!
>
>Now we can hang him nice and proper!
>
>He is right though Bull, if you hadn't taunted his manhood, he wouldn't have
>been driven to sleep with Buggy, I mean Becky.
>Too bad he's turning green now! :-)
>

<grin>

Ok, so you know what's going on... In Dunks Will, he gave out cash for
rescuing certain people out of Chicago, as well as for capturing bug
spirits. Lucky us, we deccided to try our luck at hunting...:)

<Warning: Next set of comments get a little...sensitive:)>

While we were there, we met up with Becky's Mantis Hive, and while Johnny
was out scouting, or something, Becky and the other Bugs started giving the
other players a hard time, trying to sleep with them...

Well, Codis refused, despite Becky's persuasiveness, and she was gonna give
up. Well, just to be a Prick, I told her that Codis was gay, and that he
didn't like women. Well, Becky was determined to change that...

Later on, Johnny found out, and was a bit pissed, not so much because of his
slleeping with Becky, but that they did it in the next room. He and Becky
had never been big on fidelity anyways. He may have let it go though, but
our big troll pal, Xewrexes decided to tell Johnny about it too, and he got
the wives names mixed up and said Codis was messing around with Xuxa. THAT
upset Johnny a lot.

Well, we made it out of Chicago, but lost track of Codis. Last thing he's
seen is he's in some sprt of green cocoon...:)

<Now ya know why Bull's glad to have extra damage boxes, errr, I mean other
payers in the group... This stuff normally happens to him, except that he
wouldn't sleep around. He's actually very faithful to Marie and the kids...:)>


#######################################################
# -Bull, aka Chaos, aka Rak, aka Steven Ratkovich #
# chaos@*****.com #
# Order is Illusion! Chaos is Bliss! Got any fours? #
#######################################################

"You do more damage out of simple irritation than most
men can do in a towering rage."
-David Eddings, "Demon Lord of Karanda
Message no. 6
From: "Caric" <caric@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:00:42 -0700
----------
> From: Steven Ratkovich <chaos@*****.com>
> To: shadowrn@********.itribe.net
> Subject: Re: Good Players
> Date: Saturday, September 28, 1996 12:36 AM
>
> >>>>Now if we can just keep Johnny from killing Codis... But he does
have a
> >>>good reason. After all, he did sleep with Johnny's wife...:) The bug
> >one...:)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yea well it's all your fault Bull. You damn near forced me to do it.
And
> >>Johnny will not kill me i'll get Becky to save me....I think :)
> >
> >
> >FINALLY!!!!
> >
> >We drew him out of lurk mode Bull!
> >
> >Now we can hang him nice and proper!
> >
> >He is right though Bull, if you hadn't taunted his manhood, he wouldn't
have
> >been driven to sleep with Buggy, I mean Becky.
> >Too bad he's turning green now! :-)
> >
>
> <grin>
>
> Ok, so you know what's going on... In Dunks Will, he gave out cash for
> rescuing certain people out of Chicago, as well as for capturing bug
> spirits. Lucky us, we deccided to try our luck at hunting...:)
>
> <Warning: Next set of comments get a little...sensitive:)>
>
> While we were there, we met up with Becky's Mantis Hive, and while Johnny
> was out scouting, or something, Becky and the other Bugs started giving
the
> other players a hard time, trying to sleep with them...
>
> Well, Codis refused, despite Becky's persuasiveness, and she was gonna
give
> up. Well, just to be a Prick, I told her that Codis was gay, and that he
> didn't like women. Well, Becky was determined to change that...
>
> Later on, Johnny found out, and was a bit pissed, not so much because of
his
> slleeping with Becky, but that they did it in the next room. He and
Becky
> had never been big on fidelity anyways. He may have let it go though,
but
> our big troll pal, Xewrexes decided to tell Johnny about it too, and he
got
> the wives names mixed up and said Codis was messing around with Xuxa.
THAT
> upset Johnny a lot.
>
> Well, we made it out of Chicago, but lost track of Codis. Last thing
he's
> seen is he's in some sprt of green cocoon...:)
>
> <Now ya know why Bull's glad to have extra damage boxes, errr, I mean
other
> payers in the group... This stuff normally happens to him, except that
he
> wouldn't sleep around. He's actually very faithful to Marie and the
kids...:)>
>
How many wives does Johnny have?


Caric and The Coat Check Girl
Message no. 7
From: chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:31:11 -0500 (EST)
<snipped story about Codis, Johnny, and a very pretty bug>

>How many wives does Johnny have?
>
>
>Caric and The Coat Check Girl
>
2 and a half...:)

He wqas married to Xuxa (the enchater) and Becky (A rat shaman turned
Mantis) and for a brief while had Adrienne living with him as well... It's
a very open marriage... They all lived together... It gets weird
sometimes, and Tinner has too much time on his hands...



############################################
# -Bull, aka Chaos, aka Rak, aka Steven Ratkovich #
# chaos@*****.com
#
# Order is Illusion! Chaos is Bliss! Got any fours? #
############################################

"I say we go back to the ship, and nuke the
site from Orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
-Ripley, "Aliens"
Message no. 8
From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 23:32:06 +0000
On 30 Sep 96 at 11:00, Caric wrote:
[72 lines snipped]
> How many wives does Johnny have?
Learn to use your editor! You quote 72 lines just to append ONE NEW, OWN ONE?


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Message no. 9
From: freak@*****.com (Brian)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:45:18 -0500 (EST)
>> Well, Codis refused, despite Becky's persuasiveness, and she was gonna
>give
>> up. Well, just to be a Prick, I told her that Codis was gay, and that he
>> didn't like women. Well, Becky was determined to change that...

I refused becuse my wife to be may still be alive somewhere...and I wanted
to be faithfull to her....and like I said before IT'S ALL BULLS FAULT

well this has taken a turn for the wierd we where playing yesterday and well
i got knocked out (critical failure on body test rolled all 1's) well i was
out for a while and i started to have dreams and in them i saw my wife to be
she was speaking to me but it was hard to remember and then i saw becky and
the other mantises telling me not to fight the merge cuz i dont' want a bad
merge...what ever that means then i get to thinking what else may they be
able to do other then just talk to me so i think "hey can ya wake me up?"
next thing i know i'm sitting up....well while i was out one of the
munchkins raided my stuff :( took my new panther assault cannon and my radio
detonator for some c-12 (20 1/2 kil) that i put on another munchkin that was
just being annoying i wasn't going to blow him up but well when munchkin 1
got the detonator well he decided to hit the button and BOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
munchkin 1 and 2 dead by stupidity. well i then look for my backup
gun...berret 121 snip rifle that i modifyed so i can take it apart and store
in my vest...well it's gone i find it on another player and manage to get it
back from him (story behind that but ask tinner) I now have my weapon of
choice so i think again "any other ways you can help me?" next thing i know
i'm seeing astral...messed up vision tho due to my cyber eyes...all in all
tinner is going way out of his way to screw with my char



AND IT'S ALL BULLS FAULT



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Message no. 10
From: chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:11:43 -0500 (EST)
<snipped Codis rambling>

Ok, Brian, first of all, Use spacing and break your comments into
paragraphs... Much easier to read...:)

Ok, here's the translated version of what happened Sunday. Remember the
Jurrassic Park stuff and the Dino's we were talking about a few weeks ago?
Well, Tinner went ahead and worked out a run for it.

I played Bull, and we had a very varied group of munchkins and whatsit's.
Some of the players were tag alongs that we didn't want to play, but on
Sundaay's we play in the cafeteria of a local college that the college's
gaming club has the use of. Plus we have an open gaing policy... Anyone
who wants iun on these Sunday games can play, but idiots tend to die...

Well, we got hired to go to Isle Nubla and retrieve some specimens (the DNA
specimens) and the computer data, which was in an isolated system. So we
all parachuted in (lovely) and made our way toward the compound, having to
fight off a T-rex, Compys, and a Flock of Velociraptors...:)

At one point, when we were fighting the Compy's, wwhich have a paralytic
bite, Codis (brian) rolled a critical failure on his Body Test to resist the
paralyzing effect of the bite. We killed the compy's, picked Codis up, and
headed toward the compund.

Well, we had two real idiots playing with us, and earlier, Codis had asked
the Moron-Munchkin Mage to hold his "decking equipment" which was really a
bag with 20 some kilos of c-12. Well, later on, after Codis was out cold
and I was decking, another Munchkin decided to steal all Codis's Stuff. He
found the remote detonator to teh C-12 (the bag was rigged to explode if
things got nasty. the plan had been to throw that at a T-rex or something
and hope it ate it, then BOOM!) and decided to press the button, never
bothering to ask what it did, and no, he did not know what it was...
Fortunately, they had been assigned to rear guard and were some distance
back when the explosion went off, nuking both the munchkin sammy and the
munchkin mage...

And Codis, as far as you know, I had nothing to do with you and Becky
sleeping together...:)



############################################
# -Bull, aka Chaos, aka Rak, aka Steven Ratkovich #
# chaos@*****.com
#
# Order is Illusion! Chaos is Bliss! Got any fours? #
############################################

"I say we go back to the ship, and nuke the
site from Orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
-Ripley, "Aliens"
Message no. 11
From: "Caric" <caric@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 16:21:26 -0700
>
> He wqas married to Xuxa (the enchater) and Becky (A rat shaman turned
> Mantis) and for a brief while had Adrienne living with him as well...
It's
> a very open marriage... They all lived together... It gets weird
> sometimes, and Tinner has too much time on his hands...


Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

:)


Caric-the-ooo-baby-shaman
Message no. 12
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 02:19:51 -0500 (EST)
>I refused becuse my wife to be may still be alive somewhere...and I wanted
>to be faithfull to her....and like I said before IT'S ALL BULLS FAULT

Hard to believe you still care about her, when you never RP anything like
that. :-P
I know your history says your'e still in mourning and all, but you really
need to act on that fact more.
Yer learnin' chump. :-)

<snip Codis' rambling about explosives and new powers>

This one is going to be fun!
He has no idea what this "merge" entails, but he has an idea . . . probably
the wrong idea, but hey, it'll be more fun that way! :-)



FAMOUS LAST WORDS
"C'mon, let's give 'em two more turns to live."
Message no. 13
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 02:24:00 -0500 (EST)
>Well, we had two real idiots playing with us, and earlier, Codis had asked
>the Moron-Munchkin Mage to hold his "decking equipment" which was really a
>bag with 20 some kilos of c-12. Well, later on, after Codis was out cold
>and I was decking, another Munchkin decided to steal all Codis's Stuff. He
>found the remote detonator to teh C-12 (the bag was rigged to explode if
>things got nasty. the plan had been to throw that at a T-rex or something
>and hope it ate it, then BOOM!) and decided to press the button, never
>bothering to ask what it did, and no, he did not know what it was...
>Fortunately, they had been assigned to rear guard and were some distance
>back when the explosion went off, nuking both the munchkin sammy and the
>munchkin mage...

This was too funny.
I know a lot of you think that this kind of gratuitous violence is wrong
among PC's but in this case, it just had to happen.
It was a classic case of greed and stupidity completey overpowering common
sense.
The mage should never have volunteered to carry anything with his pitiful
Str score, and even then, he should have wondered about the decking
equipment when Codis DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A VISIBLE DATAJACK!!

The other goofball is always stealing things and using them. No matter what
he plays, he is a kleptomaniac!
He more than richly deserved to die a horrible firey death, and teach the
rest of the players that greed is BAD! :-)



FAMOUS LAST WORDS
"C'mon, let's give 'em two more turns to live."
Message no. 14
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 02:25:42 -0500 (EST)
>Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

Exactly!
Although Johnny (who should be online within the month!) is slowly learning
that this works both ways. :-)
Sure, he has a great open arrangement, but he's discovering that when the
women take advantage of this, it's not quite as fun!



FAMOUS LAST WORDS
"C'mon, let's give 'em two more turns to live."
Message no. 15
From: "Loki" <loki@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:52:57 -0700
<SNIP Comments about Chicago and Johnny's Polygamy> :o)

> Caric and The Coat Check Girl

Better not let Brand know he's getting competition from a dead Dog
Shaman...

:o)

@>-,--'--- Loki

CLARKE'S THIRD LAW:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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http://www.netzone.com/~loki/
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Message no. 16
From: Rookie <rookie@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 11:36:39 -0600
Loki wrote:
>
> <SNIP Comments about Chicago and Johnny's Polygamy> :o)
>
> > Caric and The Coat Check Girl
>
> Better not let Brand know he's getting competition from a dead Dog
> Shaman...
>
> :o)
>
Well Brand has enough competition with Bane as it is. Because Bane is
the youngest with the most energy. Brand couldn't stand up.

-Rookie the who is not scared of the Naked Dog Shaman with an Afro!
Message no. 17
From: dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 12:54:43 -0600 (MDT)
Rookie wrote:
|
|Loki wrote:
|>
|> <SNIP Comments about Chicago and Johnny's Polygamy> :o)
|>
|> > Caric and The Coat Check Girl
|>
|> Better not let Brand know he's getting competition from a dead Dog
|> Shaman...
|>
|> :o)
|>
|Well Brand has enough competition with Bane as it is. Because Bane is
|the youngest with the most energy. Brand couldn't stand up.

Did I subscribe to ShadowTK without knowing it? :)

-David

/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\ dbuehrer@****.org /^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\
"His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking
alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free."
~~~http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm~~~~
Message no. 18
From: "Caric" <caric@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 13:25:33 -0700
> Well Brand has enough competition with Bane as it is. Because Bane is
> the youngest with the most energy. Brand couldn't stand up.
>
> -Rookie the who is not scared of the Naked Dog Shaman with an Afro!


12" 'nuff said


Caric-the-death-pokin'-shaman
Message no. 19
From: "Loki" <loki@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 00:17:12 -0700
> |Loki wrote:
> |>
> |> <SNIP Comments about Chicago and Johnny's Polygamy> :o)
> |>
> |> > Caric and The Coat Check Girl
> |>
> |> Better not let Brand know he's getting competition from a dead Dog
> |> Shaman...
> |>
> |> :o)
> |>
> |Well Brand has enough competition with Bane as it is. Because Bane is
> |the youngest with the most energy. Brand couldn't stand up.
>
> Did I subscribe to ShadowTK without knowing it? :)
>
> -David

ShadowTK is...

Just curious.

@>-,--'--- Loki

CLARKE'S THIRD LAW:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Poisoned Elves
http://www.netzone.com/~loki/
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Message no. 20
From: "Loki" <loki@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 00:21:15 -0700
> > Well Brand has enough competition with Bane as it is. Because Bane is
> > the youngest with the most energy. Brand couldn't stand up.
> >
> > -Rookie the who is not scared of the Naked Dog Shaman with an Afro!
>
>
> 12" 'nuff said
>
>
> Caric-the-death-pokin'-shaman

I don't think I should even have to say why you shouldn't have used that
signature after your message...

@>-,--'--- Loki

CLARKE'S THIRD LAW:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

*********************************************
Poisoned Elves
http://www.netzone.com/~loki/
*********************************************
Message no. 21
From: freak@*****.com (Brian)
Subject: Re: Good Players
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 15:01:49 -0500 (EST)
>Hard to believe you still care about her, when you never RP anything like
>that. :-P
it's hard to rp it when the last few runs have been right away no time to
cheak on anything

>This one is going to be fun!
>He has no idea what this "merge" entails, but he has an idea . . . probably
>the wrong idea, but hey, it'll be more fun that way! :-)
>
oh sh*t ;(



codis



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