The quotes below are samples from the character creation phase of the House of Cards PbEM role-playing game.
Steve, in response to yet another PC
being the child of Julian:
Wow! That must make Julian a pretty popular dad, then.
Nearly a
fertility deity himself.
Brennan has some problems with the
relations to his father. This conversation took place just before
we were allowed to ask questions to the NPCs:
> Cambina smiles, mischievously. She walks over to Jerod and
puts her hand
> on his shoulder. "Sequence and order, time and stress,
Daeon. I'll answer
> you first, but not until you all finish your talk. I'm
learning so much..."
Brennan: "Stop quoting my father."
John Novak, or is it Brennan? is jealous
over Jovian's dragon:
> Brita is just about to burst with excitement. "I
_love_ dragons!"
"Admit it, Jovian-- you keep the dragons around to pick up
women."
All characters are not very nice. Listen
to Lucas:
> Folly has been listening to Lucas's answers with an
attitude of
> curiosity and amusement. Finally she asks:
>
> "Lucas, I will ask you the same thing I asked Lilly,
because I
> suspect your answer will be completely different. What
qualities
> would your ideal mate possess?"
"Submissive and capable of accepting rejection with grace
once I've
grown tired of her. Or him."
Brennan obviously does not think much of
Lucas:
>"Lucas, why should I bother asking you a
question?"
"It would be gauche to do otherwise. Just ask mother."
Folly is not prepared for everything:
Lilly: "...while it is true that I rarely play the part of a
Lady, I can. My foster mother made sure that I had that ability.
They tell me it may become important once I reach Amber, I assume
I shall find out."
Folly laughs, blushing slightly. "Oh, dear -- I may be
in trouble...."
Some people already has a reputation :
Karen: (...and the fertility god hasn't even shown up yet....) ;)
Ginger: We've got Lucas and Paige -- what more do we need?
Paige: "I resent being mentioned in the same post as that
lecherous slut, let alone the same sentence..."
Lucas: "Isn't that my line?"
This soon turned into a discussion on
the definition of the word "slut". Paige finally landed
on a sound theory:
So I say, what the hell, let's use "slut" for
Lucas if that's the exact shade of meaning we're looking for. And
then, maybe someday there won't be any good words to describe
disgustingly loose members of either sex!
Hurrah!
Paige wonders, "I suppose someday in Shadow the term might
just be 'Lucas'. Kinda like asking for a 'Coke' when you'll take
any type of cola they have, or 'Scotch' tape when you're wrapping
presents."
"I can see it now, 'Yeah Lilly and I were cruising around
Heerat looking for a few lucus's for a good time'..." Paige
erupts in laughter.
When Steve offers to write the religion
essay for the GM's, Mark has some (rightful) opinions:
I'd just like to take this moment to make it perfectly clear that
some of us think it's a Bad Idea to have a bloody loony running
around calling himself a god writing the religion essay.
Oh, life is hard when you're a god:
Steve: Without ardent daily worship, Daeon simply is not Daeon.
John: I never would have figured Daeon for the clingy, needy type.
Takes all kinds, I guess.
Steve again: Oh, they're all like that, really. "Thou shalt
have no other God before me!" is found in the holy books
rather more often than "Sacrifice? Er...sure, whenever!"
At least Daeon doesn't mind if you worship others as well as him
- and he's not the type you have to wind up on Sundays.
On the definition of pregaming. When the
evil GM sleeps, the player have their chance:
Ginger: Something like that. Following the fine Amberway
II tradition, it also means we promise not to kill you, or let
you kill each other, until official gaming starts.
James: So if anyone feels like punching Bleys or patting Fiona's
ass now is the time to do it....
Lucas: Sign me up for patting Fiona's ass.
Someone suggested that we should find
songs for all the characters:
John: I've got one for Jovian. Everybody with me, now:
"Puff, the Magic Dragon...."
Jovian: //No, Canareth, you may NOT eat him. Benedict would be
pissed.//
This page was updated 27 apr 2002.