From: owner-the-edge-digest@ (The Edge Digested) To: the-edge-digest@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Subject: The Edge Digested V1 #28 Reply-To: the-edge@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Sender: owner-the-edge-digest@ Errors-To: owner-the-edge-digest@ Precedence: bulk The Edge Digested Friday, February 13 1998 Volume 01 : Number 028 Today's subjects from The Edge: [The Edge] Hello Re: [The Edge] Greetings! I come to you with requests for hosing advice! Re: [The Edge] Hello Re: [The Edge] Everyone's FAVORITE family, the D'Aubainne's! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:57:39 -0500 From: "Ross Winn" Subject: [The Edge] Hello Hello, First allow me to introduce myself, my name is Spyke. I have been a great admirer of OTE for years. I am happy to finally find this list as a resource. I have played a lot of other games before I came to this, and I wonder... Have any of you ever considered using the city of Bellona (from Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren) as an alternate setting? Peace, Spyke! [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 02:17:12 -0000 From: maxf Subject: Re: [The Edge] Greetings! I come to you with requests for hosing advice! Or, that is.... little did we know until our GM *posted* it to the mailing lust. Good one, bro! (Sorry everyone...the Cut-ups must have made up taht last part.) Spax >Hi. I just subscribed to the list again. I used to be on this list >around a year ago, but I have since >switched addresses and have not yet subscribed. That is, until now. >Anyway, just last Saturday I started an >Over the Edge series. There is one character who is bothering me in >particular. The premise of the series is >that the characters are all employees of a nation-wide chain of daycares >for handicapped children. The Al >Amarjan tourism board has supposedly invited the daycare center over for a >field trip in The Edge, but >little do the players know that it's actually a plot for the children to >be kidnapped/experimented on, >etc. If you can't tell by now, the sole purpose of this series is to >drive the players to insanity by >making the hideous details as realistic as possible. So, the characters >must be at least somewhat upstanding >citizens to logically hold a job at the daycare center, and also to be >selected as one of the 5 best workers >in the country. This is where my problem comes in. In a moment of >weakness, I let some boring, inane, and >useless characters get into the series. The one that I'm particularly >concerned about is a punk from Los >Angeles, who recently managed to acquire a chainsaw. A chainsaw. Not of >the pistol-grip variety. I'm >talking about a full sized, Doom-esque chainsaw. So, this character is >wandering around the city, with 8 >children under his care, touting about a 5 foot long chainsaw. Oh, and >umm... also, he managed to >single-handedly piss the hell out of the Glorious Lords, all of whom want >him dead. (!) I realize that this >is mainly my fault, but I am still dying to make this player see the error >of his ways. My question is, what >advice do you professional GMs have for me? I need to let this player >know that he's dumb on a cosmic level. >I'm looking for something bizarre, but ultimately painful. Oh, btw, just >so that the people on this list >don't assume that I constantly beat up on A) my players or B) little kids, >I'd like to say that I truly am a >nice guy, and I would never concentrate on making a player feel pain >unless he truly deserved it. Besides, he >owes my five dollars. He has it coming to him. > >-- >Lars > >[O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge >[0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of >[O] (un)subscribe the-edge > [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 02:50:14 -0500 (EST) From: Raoul Duke Subject: Re: [The Edge] Hello On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Ross Winn wrote: > Have any of you ever considered using the city of Bellona (from > Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren) as an alternate setting? No, never even heard of it, but you have piqued my interest. Mind giving a quick description? Joe - ------ Big Brother's watching? Learn to become Invisible. "We prefer our metaphysics with a money-back guarantee."-- Penn & Teller How I waste my time: http://acs1.bu.edu:8001/~arie/rpg.html [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 15:19:47 -0000 From: spax Subject: Re: [The Edge] Everyone's FAVORITE family, the D'Aubainne's! Um...which Monique would they be the children of? Personally, I think they weren't Monique's children at all, but kids the Gov. stole from a daycare operation. Spax >> Ok, We all know Monique is Constance, Cheryl and Jean-Christophe's >> mother, but who the heck is their father? The good Doctor Nusbaum? a >> time travleing Clyde Throckmorton?. Something FAR more sinister? >> Perry Lyons > >How about this: > >The good Doctor, but only in the metaphysical sense. That is, Constance, >Cheryl, and Jean-Christophe are clones of Monique and carried by her. Yes, >all three of them. Synthesis of a "Y" chromosome was beyond even the good >doctor's genius (at the time) so he spliced in his own. As for why the >kids are so weird, please note Monique's own varied natures. Note also >this serves as a handy excuse for why the SACQ has no effect on good old >Furchtegott, as the neurotoxin is unable to affect his genetic makeup as >well. ( or something like that ... aside from the fact that he created it, >of course ... ) > >Pete J > > [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ End of The Edge Digested V1 #28 ******************************* [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge-digest [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge-digest To get off digest, subscribe the-edge [O] To post a message, send it to the-edge@robin.ml.org