From: "James Knevitt" <psipsina@iprimus.com.au>
Date: Mon Aug 11, 2003 08:58:06 AM US/Eastern
To: <ua@lists.uchicago.edu>
Subject: [UA] Tank! Katana!
Reply-To: ua@lists.uchicago.edu
A friend sent me this today. I think he pulled it from one of the ridiculously
long-running "annoying gamer" threads on www.RPG.net. I can't help but think there's a
UA spark in there somewhere.James
" Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that
electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."
- James Thurber, 'My Life and Hard Times'
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[Players discuss how to take out a tank]
Player 1: "Do we have any explosives?"
Player 2: "I don't think so. No heavy ones anyway."
Player 3: "Maybe we could sabotage it."
Katana Boy: "Forget it, guys. I'll use my katana."
Entire group: *stunned silence*
Player 1: "To do what?"
KB: "We don't need the tank for anything, I'll just destroy it."
Entire group: *continued stunned silence*
Me: (hoping against hope there's some ingenious plan that I'm missing) "So, how are you going to destroy the tank with the katana?"
KB: "I'm going to just start cutting parts off of it. Parts that look important, specifically."
Me: "It's a TANK."
KB: *smugly and loudly* "KATANA."
Me: "And that's a tank."
KB: "But it's a katana!"
Me: "Yes, yes it is. Which is exactly why it won't cut a tank."
KB: "You have no clue what you're talking about. Katana's CUT BONE, man. A katana can chop through a gun, I can cut the FUCKING GUN off the tank if I want to. You're insane. This is shit."
At this point the rest of the group just started ignoring him, and eventually the tank was sabotaged, while KB's character stood atop it, slamming his sword into the gun futilely.
On the bright side, it was an otherwise fun session. And maybe next week he'll try to shoot down an airplane. With his katana.
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