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February 13, 2005

Tectonic Knights Quote Book

In June, 2002, several friends sat down in an apartment in Carrollton, Texas for the start of a grand story. Set in White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade, we had little idea what we were about to discover. Thrust into a situation beyond any of them, a group of diverse characters find common ground trying to Survive in Atlanta, Georgia.

Some "quotes" from the campaign appear below. Out of context they are sometimes not amusing, but for those of us in the game, they make us smile and laugh in rememberance the good times we've had.

At the very end of the quotes is a score-card naming all the players and their characters.

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Matthew: "What's your humanity"
Joanne: "It was a five, but I like to to think of it as 'cheaper to raise.'"

Martin: "You're devouring a soul!"
Delilah: "And apparently it's yummy!"

Gargoyle: "There is an emergency!"
Lara: "What is it?"
Gargoyle: "Afton Kane is dead!"
Delilah: "Yeah, but what's the emergency?"

Slash: (lights a cigar)
Lara: "This is a museum."
Martin: "Yeah, if I can't pray, you can't smoke."

Martin: "I didn't know the Lord's prayer required percussion."

Joanne: "James, can you pull down your shorts?"
James: "Why, are you intimidated?"

Lys: "It's a very physical form of theater. Can we get back to finding the bad guys?"

Delilah: "Martin! The good of the many outweighs the good of the pawn shop!"

Sabbat Malkavinan: (To Slash)"You're an unknown, but I can see clearly now..."
Coterie: (singing) "I can see clearly now, the rain has gone!"

Martin: "Does the bat have riot gear?"

Trevor: "That's okay, I don't believe in hell, I'm Islamic."
Martin: "Yeah, but I do, and I'm right."

Lara: "Is your true faith stronger?"
Joanne: "Probably not, he's only got one point."
James: "That hurts."
Shannon: "But it's true."

Matthew: "The zombies pick up speed."
Coterie: "great..."

Matthew: "But he's putting himself in front of her."
Shannon: "But he's still wearing the flamethrower."
James: "What a dumbass!"

Joanne: "What's wrong with him? Oh wait, he's a zombie."

Matthew: "Who is flying the helicopter is the question."
Coterie: "They don't have a pilot????!!!"

Delilah: "The voices were right. I love it when that happens."

Joanne: "I'm not wasting an action on dodge, are you high??"

Joanne: "Maybe he could jump in and attack."
James: "Nah, angels don't get wet."

Lara: "martin is breaking the masquerade???"
Coterie: "Twitch! twitch! twitch!"

Lara: "We just had breakfast, too but why are you teasing yours?"

Trevor: "Oh, good, it's the abyss."

Coterie: "Trevor's a lamp?"
Lara: "he's bringing light to the world!"

James: "what would Nair do to a garou?"

Group: "What does a rhino sound like?"
Matthew: "Like a triceratops."
James: "How are we supposed to know what that sounds like??"

Coterie: "Operation bitchhunt!"

Sweet Jain: "It is secret, it is safe."
Coterie: "keep it secrect, keep it safe!"

Lara: "Martin, she's not a horse!"
Martin: "I've never kicked her..."

James: "Oh shit, Amy's shoes!"
Shannon: "Oh shit, Matt's pants!"
Matthew: "Oh shit, Joe's jock strap!"

Joanne: "You never think that sort of thing's going to happen twice." (after Slash and Trevor threw TWO motorcycles at Moira)

Lara: "Um, guys, we could use a little help down here!"
Delilah: "little busy fighting an abomination!"
Trevor: "Ah, ah, ah, ah!!"
Slash: (Sighing)"I'm on my fucking way"

Lara: "Could use a little help!"
Delilah: "Abomination!"
Trevor: (whimpers)
Slahs: "Coming!"

Matthew: "Trevor, you take no damage, you're safe in your little ball..."
James: "...of hate"

Shannon: "Well, the explosion would have been smaller if bumblefuck over there hadn't moved my wall."

Martin: "It's not bad, it's the Inquisition!"

Shannon: "Excuse me?? Hello?? Huge inky blackness here, and Cthulu chomping on a head there, and the cute little readhead is a demon??" (Ater a member of the Inquisition called Lara a demon.)

Delilah: "I thought Jesus was warm and fuzzy but it turns out he's really scary!"

Matthew: "Your body rises up in a way you have never seen before..."

The Libyan: "You will have the chance to destroy an enemy utterly..."
Delilah: "In that soulicious way?"

Lara: "Candy has-"
Delilah: "Gone past her expiration date?"
Lara: "Died!"

Telegram Sam: "Oh, yeah, swordfish!" (After forgetting to say the secret phrase warning us about a 'Sunlight Grenade.')

Joanne: "Matthew! Your NPC just jacked us!"

Joanne: "What happens when I lizard limb my head?"

MattC :"I'm trying to be nonlethal, it's got to be a new experience for me!"

Delilah: "There's no nuns in Atlanta!"

Matthew: "You guys always do this to me." (after another of his prized villains is killed off in the first round of combat)

Joanne: "But we're heroes! And I'm obfuscated."

Delilah: "Hey, I don't go crazy, i just hear voices."

Trevor: "You never get too full of soul."
Lara: "Soul food!"

Trevor: "A range rover, how bourgoisie."
Delilah: "Hey, at least his has doors."

Lys: "Drop it, origami boy, it's game time. Your OC side is showing."
Joanne: "Yeah, even James gave it up!"

James: "It's a vampire Jolly Rancher™!"

GM: "The ghosts are all completely silent.."
Joanne: "Except for the voices in my head."
GM: "Right."

Joanne: "Ooh, I said skedaddle, I'm so cool!"

Martin: "I've got to find a better religion!"

Joanne: "I'm dizzy with merriment!" (after Trevor has been dominated.)

Martin: "He'll fuck us all."
Trevor: "No, I just want to fuck you."

Joanne: "I didn't say that in combat, and don't touch me, you bitch!" (to Rae, when it's revealed Rae's character is a villain.)

Rae: "I don't think I'm a member of the coterie anymore." (after we try to convince the powers that be that she's the member of the Coterie who's been prophecied to die.)
Joanne: "Sure you are. He's [Trevor] the snooty one, I'm the ugly one, you're the going-to-die one!"

Moira: "What about me? Aren't I a flower?" (after Martin calls Lara a flower of femininity)
Lara: "No, you're more like a weed!"

GM: "Can I get two more dice?"
Everyone else: "No!" (in unison)

Martin: "Think if we had had these in the crusades, what we could have done!"
Lara: "Slaughtered innocents everywhere?"
Martin: "You ruin all my fun."

Joanne: "Yeah, you're an overachiever, you fucking loon, now play the game and don't kill us!" (To the GM)

Joanne: "It's a draw." (after she lost all of her successes to '1s' on a die-roll)
GM: "So you failed?"
Joanne: "If you want to say it that way."

Delilah: "You guys! The moth just told me he's here!"

Lara: "We don't want to be bugged." (after refusing to allow an insect in the car)

Trevor: "It means I'll have a fuck of a hard time going out in the daytime."
Lara: "You can't even wake up when it's dark!"

GM: "They immediately buzz off." (About the flies leaving)

Delilah: "Tell your lord we want to help him." (to the flies)
Trevor: "We think."
Delilah: "They're flies, don't confuse the issue."

Martin: "I will pray for your soul, but not very hard." (to Trevor)

Lys: "Would you like a puppy chaser?!" (to Shannon after Trevor fed on a 9-year-old boy.)

Delilah: "I don't understand! It's daytime!" (after waking up to find Martin carrying her.)

Lara: "I don't understand! It's daytime! I'm so confused!" - (after waking up to find Martin carrying her.)

Trevor: "Martin, why are you touching me?" (after waking up to find Martin carrying him.)

Corbin: "So he's an ancient Gangrel and real powerful-"
Ryan: "Yeah, I think he can hear us right now."

Martin: "Fight me and despair!" (to a materialized Nexus Crawler)
Shannon: "Brave words for a man who's about to die."
James: "I've just survived 3 rounds in acid, what have you been doing, barko-lounger boy??" (while Trevor was sitting in a Barca-lounger made out of shadow after killing a Black Spiral Dancer in single combat.)

Delilah: "Do you want to be put down?" (to Corbin)
Corbin: "Excuse me??!"

Martin: "I haven't given blood in two months, I'm so full of blood I'm about to pop!" (pretending to be a Wal-Mart employee that Lara is listening to.)

Lara: "You have lowered yourself in our esteem, and that's hard to do!"
Trevor: "I have done nothing!"

MattC: "How do you tell what rank someone is?" (asking Matthew about Garou)
James: "You sniff their butt."

Joe: "Can I dread gaze while I'm driving?"
GM: "Not until it's your turn!!"

Markus: "What are you doing tonight?"
Delilah: "Later I'm going to rip off my hand."

Markus: "Tell him it's a cam-only line!"

Ticket Girl: "I work for the circle-jerks, maybe you've heard of them."
Markus: "Nope, why don't you work a little harder and give me my fucking tickets." (who's sire is the lead singer of the Circle Jerks)

GM: "How are you going to get in the safe?"
Bill, James, and Shannon: "Salad tongs!" (In unison)

Joe: "I have an itchy trigger finger!"
GM: "Then shoot something!"

Delilah: "Heal that shit up, it's hard on the eyes."
GM: "This from you?!"

Joanne: "Thank you for calling the chantry. Your call is important to us. Please hold and a Tremere will be with you shortly."

Shannon: "Thank you for calling the chantry. If you wish to sell your soul to the Tremere, please press one..."

Shannon: "That's your clue to go to Alexander and say 'Let my people go!'"

Matthew: "She's a servant of the Wyrm, of course she's a poor tipper!"

Martin: "This is the car I came in, but unfortunately it's possessed right now." (referring to the talking car alarm)
Dragomir: "But of course..." (while car alarm is going off)

Joanne: "Fuck, fuck, fuck, <hiccup>, fuck!" (with the hiccups after learning that Lara is in torpor and 15 feet up on top of a stack of boxes.)

Lara: "We can put the clean the stuff in Markus's car and the gooey stuff in Trevor's."
Trevor: "Unlikely."

GM: "Roll initiative. What'd you get? Oh, the car goes first."

Joe: "Kiss me on my funky pooper!"

Joanne: "Do you know where your ghouls are?"

GM: "You get slapped by a pseudopod which smells strongly of urine." (to James)
Joe: "Dude, that's no pseudopod."

Trevor: "The blood bank is opening tomorrow."
Markus: "Holy crap! When's it open?"
Trevor: "Tomorrow."

Markus: "I was going to be prince, but I developed a rash..."

Afton: "I was sorry to hear about your house?" (to Trevor, after his house was blown up by an assassin)
Everyone: "Did he just say ass??"

Matthew: "They bred with humans, it was icky."

GM: "She has nice tits." (describing devil woman with animalistic features.)
Joe: "Yeah, for an antelope!"

Trevor: "I have done nothing!" (protesting being called 'vile creature of darkness')
Lara: "Yeah, we've noticed. Time after time after time!"

Joanne: "Scabs are like vampire hard tack."
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• Matthew: A historian who works in a Call Center, he is the GM of the group.
• Lys: Musician and Property Tax researcher. She plays the feisty Lara Kelly an off-the-boat Irish Toreador. Embraced a scant six-months before the start of the campaign.
• James:High School Social Studies teacher by Day, Martin von Silesa,Ventrue, Teutonic Knight and one-time Catholic inqusitor by night.
• Joanne:Professional mother and Counselor. Her character Delilah the Younger is a Nosferatu, and a monster even among her own kind. She came to Atlanta to escape her past, and through a little 'help' from Trevor, has developed a dangerous prediliction for Diablerie.
• Shannon:I.T. Supervisor for a Fortune 500 company. He vents stress via Trevor Syad Lovejoy, a Lasombra antitribu, who is extremely loyal to the Camarilla but still manages to be a black-hearted bastard.

The people above have been the consistent players in the campaign. James came in after the start of the game, replacing someone who's schedule had changed and could no longer participate. Below this point is a list of players and characters who are 'guest stars' - either they came in to help fill a plot-point, or started off as permanent members of the game, but just drifted away.

• Bill: A computer programmer and historian. His character, Sean O'Rourke, is a 'troubleshooter' for the Irish Republican Army and a Caitiff who learned more about the value of life after his own death.
• Joe: Helpdesk Manager for a Fortune 100 company. Audiophile. Markus Rasor is an anomaly among the Brujah. He is fanatically loyal to the Camarilla. The leader of the Punk bank FAC 51, he came to Atlanta to play a gig, and stuck around for far longer than anticipated.
• Rae: a Professional Student played Moira, Toreador Patron of the arts. It was eventually revealed she was a Sabbat spy.
• MattC: is a professional writer (mostly of ad copy) who plays Ryan Fangs of Danaa'd, a Fianna Garou who's taken a liking to the licks in the Coterie and has helped out with some 'common' problems.
• MattY: hopes to make a living as a professional Opera singer. He brought in Slash, Brujah muscle, to help us out with a little Sabbat problem.
• Travis: a customer service rep for one of those giant wireless companies provides a bit of comic relief with Chuckwagon, a Bone Gnawer friend of Ryan Fangs of Danaa'd.

Posted by Shannon on February 13, 2005 9:58 AM

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