Names and Aliases used in this FAQ
| Player:
| Aliases
| Character(s)
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| Martin Sirois
| Horatio
| Horatio Hex, Danny
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| Martin Larouche
| DragonWarrior / Dedob / DW
| Hitoumi, Lain
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| Martin Lagace
| Grizzly Adams/Grizz
| Storyteller / Leon, Yvan MacBeth
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| Martin Page
| SubHuman / Sub
| Reverent Omaha
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| Eric Sauvageau
| Merlin
| Tim Hunter
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| Karl Fournier
| Karl
| Samuelson / Sam
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| Frederic-Alexandre Decelles
| Fred
| Harold, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Kent
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| Remi Letourneau
| Daneel
| William Sky, Emmanuel Goldstein / Backup Storyteller
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1-Introduction
In the many years of game play, many quotes, memorable events and "fetish" come
back regularly in our gaming session here is a list explaining those directly
related our Mage: The Ascension's game... (we will later update it to include
our MERP and AD&D juicy bits)
2-Famous Quotes
--- 2.1: Voodoo
While confronted by an unexplainable event, Harold Cunningham finally decided to
explain it a pretty simple way
"Bah... must be Voodoo."
--- 2.2: "Run away!!! Voodoo's Coming!!! "
Harold Cunningham answering machine...
"Hi, you've reached Harold Cunningham, I'm presently unable to answer the phone
right now, so please leave your name, phone number and a short message."
"BEEEEP!"
(Harold, calling his own phone number to warn his "tenants" (us) that a Big Bad
Black Blob was in town):
"RUN AWAY!!! Voodoo's Coming!!!!!"
--- 2.3: "So... Do we begin to play, so that food may get here?"
Typically, we call for food deliveries for supper at about 18:30. Following
those calls, the players take a break from the game, and wait for those
deliveries to arrive. Once, Restaurant of the neighbourhood being particularly
deficient in the delivery department, as in way-kinda-late,
Karl said
"So, do we begin to play, so that our food may get here?"
2 Mins after we began to play, [DING DONG]...
Delivery happened...
--- 2.4: Force field around windows
[As explained by Grizzly]
This quote goes way back to our days of College, where a Marvel RPG Game was
particularly difficult for me (as GM). M. Sirois, Remi L. and Dedob were
players of that game. In a marvellous moment of stupidity, while they were in a
catastrophic battle against a Cold Mad Scientist named Mr. Burns, who was very
comfortably sitting in his robotized exoskeleton (i.e.: Mech/Gear/Robot...) with
Dedob's character's being right besides/on the robot, I committed an error that
is still following me today. I should've said that with his proximity to the
window, practically licking the glass clean, he could see faintly that a force
field was around the whole robot.
But then, I said that dumb thing "You see there's a force field over the window".
--- 2.5: "Try to imagine a wall."
The players being stuck in yet another dimension, we attempted to explain to
Harold how to use the sphere of Spirit (to make a Gate). Tim's lesson started like this:
"Try to imagine a wall... Then, in the wall, imagine a door... Now, imagine that
you OPEN the door." Which is what Harold attempted to do... to the letter...
and failed, of course.
Since then, any attempt to explain something really complex begins by "Try to
imagine a wall..."
--- 2.6 - "YES... but there *WAS* Bioooooooo Hazaaaaaaaaard!"
A small group, formed by Hitoumi (Werewolf more Nature minded than Green peace)
and some other characters are sailing the Atlantic Ocean on a small rented ship
In the cargo hold, Hitoumi found suspicious crates on which was the "Biohazard"
logo. She decided to question the Captain about that, whom, by not being the
chatty type, enraged Hitoumi to the point that to *make him talk*, she had to rip
open one seamen, kill another and while still not having an answer, played "lets
see how long is your intestine" with the Captain.
He never talked one bit... certainly not after being killed, anyway
When she was arrested by the authorities, she claimed
"Yes, but there WAS BIO HAZZZZZZZAAaaaaaard!!!"
...like it explained everything (well... for a Garou, it did...)
--- 2.7 - Fine Cuisine with Merlin
Sometimes a player has some tendencies to go into some rant that has *Nothing*
to do with the game... When this happens, the game is on Pause (remember it's
NOT only a game... it's a party too) when the game is paused for too long,
Merlin starts discussing Fine Cuisine with his sofa neighbour, or any other that
find that the rant is too long...
"Then, you fry some small onions, add a touch of basil, on medium heat, then add mushrooms, a touch of pepper..."
This was taken from an Asterix1 album, when the Romans invades Britain...
some Britt are commenting about recipes while the Romans prepares to charge...
[1: for information about Asterix, take a look at http://www.asterix.tm.fr/english/]
--- 2.8 - "Ils sont AH-MOU-REUX!" (they are in love) [not easily translated...]
Quote from yet another Asterix album...
It was first used to explain the anger and frustration of Harold when Hitoumi
moved in WITHOUT asking Harold first...
--- 2.9 - How to communicate with Sky. The Hitoumi Method.
Summon Sky:
- Find some paper
- Find a pen
- Write on BIG letters "Sky, I want to talk with you" on the paper
- Put paper facing up, and show it to the clouds... Sky will then contact you shortly
--- 2.10 - Harold and Hitoumi Meets a Journalist...
[as explained by Hitoumi]
"We were being followed by a car. He didn't knew who it was so I managed to
get ahead of the tail, turned around, crashed into it to set things strait in
an alley. The Tail was none other than one of Harold's Groupie (or so I thought).
At this point, Harold tried to calm things down. He shot an Explosive round in
an electrical transformer. following this, I interrogated the woman, that
had wasted time by specializing herself in using MACE. Harold arrived near them and pointed
his gun at my face and said "Let Her GO"
[Note of the traducer: To dissociate himself from Hitoumi]
So I asked him: "What are you doing, Harold?"
[as explained by Sky]
"It was a journalist that followed Harold, but our esteemed Hitoumi decided to
wait for her "after school"
She surprised the journalist by jumping on her hood (while displaying the shape
of a Big Dumb Glabro... you know the type...) and by unsheathing her Wakisashi
with the idea of asking her some questions, in the line of "Why are
you following Harold?"
The woman goes over the Top... goes into Reverse, Pedal to the Metal, right
after defending herself by an expertly pace MACE Spray. Now in the middle of a
MAJOR street, Hitoumi, still on the hood, continue to ask the same questions, in
front of many immobilized drivers
Meanwhile, the Knightly Harold who's just realized that Hitoumi's throwing
truckload of shit at the fan, get out his gun, and shoots in the air, to try to
get the attention of everybody, so they won't notice that Hitoumi *IS NOT*
looking "natural"
BLAM.... KKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Right after running for cover after the explosion, Harold realized that he'd
left some explosive bullets in his gun...
Rumours of Moslem terrorism circulated for some weeks after that..."
--- 2.11 - Lets resume our Characters in a few words...
[By Hitoumi]
| Hitoumi:
| "Unleash her"
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| Swift:
| (everyone together) "Will you get OUT of HERE!!!"
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| Harold:
| "Hitoumi: Watch him"
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| Tim:
| "Can you Fix me??"
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| Sky:
| "He know it already..."
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| Horatio:
| "Can you get that Credit limit higher?"
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| Samuelson:
| "Boom, Zwoof, , Bang!"
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[Addons by Sky]
| Samuelson:
| "Boom, Zwoof, ... Ooups... Griz??? Hurts... Botch..."
"..." [Silence] "... Ouch...."
| Hitoumi:
| "I go in a Stripper's club... with Samuelson..."
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| Swift:
| "I draw 3 Pentagrams, 5 Circles of Protection, asks Azrael, Michael and God for protection, run around in a circle three time while jumping on one leg.Now I can drink my beer in PEACE"
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| Harold:
| "I Intimidate him!!!"
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| Tim:
| "Dammit JIM, I'm a MAGE not a Doctor"
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| Sky:
| "Credits WILL do fine"
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| Horatio:
| "What's new in the NSA Database today, Griz???"
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--- 2.12 - Horatio's Broccoli Principle
Horatio asked Lain if she wanted to come with the (downsized) group to see the Fair Folk
| [Horatio]
| Do you want to come and see Faeries?
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| [Lain ]
| Yes... but I won't...
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| [Horatio]
| Going in Faeryland is like eating broccoli. If you've never tried it, how do you know you won't like it?
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--- 2.13 - Tickets for Amazonia
Tim is speaking over the phone with his contact, arranging transportation
destination Amazonia.
"We need a lift for..."
<counting in his head>
"Three... "
<thinking about Goldstein>
"Four..."
<Thinking about Kent>
"Ffff..."
<Quickly realising it might not be such a good idea, and wondering what to do>
"Ffff...uck."
3-Artifacts
3.1 - The Sausage Popsicle
Harold's apartment was rather empty. Not many furniture, no decorations, empty
wardrobe, refrigerator full of air...Except, for a "Sausage Popsicle" (frozen
sausage on a stick)
When the characters had to move in a warehouse, they took care to bring that
Popsicle with them. Unfortunately, they had to abandon the warehouse in a
rush, leaving the Popsicle behind.
There's a rumour saying that there is a new one in the freezer
3.2 - Japanium
The only *TRUE* Indestructible Element in the Universe, at least according to
some *LAME* Anime Fans.
Used to describe anything "Very Hard/Resistant"
3.3 - The Holy Fork
At the start of each Game, Merlin gets a plastic fork out of his bag, on which
two prongs are bent outward, and shows it to everybody in a very dignified
fashion. This ritual signals the Official Start Of The Game (TM ;), be it of
Mage, MERP, or whatever
This fork dates back to 1994, while some of the group were playing in the
college's role playing game club. Without really thinking about it, Merlin took
a plastic fork that was laying there and began to play with it. Liking the
"Look" of it, he kept it and put it in his pencil case.
Six years later, Merlin still has it... making it probably one of the oldest
disposable plastic fork in the Montreal area ;)
--- 3.4 - Cats Tickets.
In one of the many unsuccessful attempt to get Hitoumi out of his apartment,
Harold decided to buy some tickets for the show "Cats". Unfortunately, they
missed this particular show, being in another plane of existence at the time
After some unimportant events, Hitoumi got really mad at Harold, and asked him "Give
me ONE GOOD reason why I shouldn't rip you open!"
Harold's answer:
"Er.. I got tickets for Cats???"
--- 3.5 - Grizz's World
In fantastic literature, each author conceive his world in a different fashion.
For example, Death Gate Cycle consists of four separate worlds interconnected
thru a fifth. Yet, another is conceived as being Round and Flat, supported by
four elephant themselves resting on a giant turtle
Grizzly's World???
A Giant Onion.
Each weeks, the players discovers "yet another layer of Grizzly's Onion"
4-Blunders and other memorable events
--- 4.1 - Visit at the Chicago branch of Excavation-X
Harold want to enter into the offices of Chicago to look around. To this end,
he asks Hitoumi to accompany him. Explaining to her that she's to do a diversion
by "attacking" the front door, he's going to try the Back Door...
Hitoumi decided to create what she calls a typical diversion by going thru the
front window with her motorcycle, and then got into some problems with somewhat
"unhuman" security guards. In the end, half of the building was destroyed in an
explosion, Hitoumi had literally "Holes" all over her (just next to the
shrapnel), lost her motorcycle and Harold only got back some partially burned
documents
Tim had to do some Overtime, and placed an order for a Jumbo box of plasters at
Costco
--- 4.2 - Sky's Teleportation Portals
Sky have the capability to move from one place to the other in a way that looks
like teleportation. Just so as nobody would catch on to him, he began to use
places where peoples are seen entering and exiting all times of the day:
Washrooms.
After many travel of that nature beginning in Harold's washroom and ending in
the FBI's public ones, the group began to assume that washrooms were special
places for long distance travels
--- 4.3 - Harold Goes Hunting. Part I
Following some new information that he got, Harold attempted to bust a secret
hideout. Thinking that he might need help, he got his guard dog, named Hitoumi
After having practically killed everyone in the place, Harold realized that he's
made a BIG blunder.
Killing the vampire to whom he was... in debt, and a cell of Vampire hunters...
his allies
--- 4.4 - Harold Goes Hunting. Part II
Impressed by Hitoumi's Ginsu Power Cutting, and by his own "invincibility", Harold
took upon himself to Clean Up Chicago's alley, with Hitoumi's help.
Hunting Trophies: Vampires
After having done everything to anger two vampires they encountered, right
before they were ripping thru Harold like a Turboprop rips thru a banana, Hitoumi
gripped Harold by the collar and dragged him out of trouble.
--- 4.5 - Harold Goes Hunting. Part III
A Cargo ship was anchored in Montreal's port, with Lebanese on board (the crew)
and Harold's immediate boss. Harold got on board, demanded that they release
his boss (who was wanted by Interpol for questioning) to him. After their
refusals, he threw them off the ship one after one...
Harold is now wanted in Canada for having helped illegal alien get into the
country
--- 4.6 - Muppets From Space - The Preview
While in the Umbra (The Other dimension) accompanied by a group of magical
prodigies, the group was constantly transported from one universe to the other.
When someone had the stupid idea to mention "The Muppets"... Shortly after that,
the group was surrounded by *Real*, live Muppets, living together on a barren
rock in space
Since he saw Kermit with someone arm in his rear end, Harold has been troubled
ever since
Note: This happened a few weeks before the ads for the "Muppets From Space" movie
--- 4.x - Misc
Miscellaneous, but memorable details
- Harold shooting a kid in the leg
- Hitoumi loosing two motorcycle, the second one being a special techno fetish (she learned about it AFTER the actual loss of it)
- Samuel being locked out his OWN safe house
- Harold, being persuaded that he just HAD to find a group of children that was in safety, the other characters took upon themselves to fake their (the children's) death, so Harold wouldn't continue his futile search. A school bus containing human remains (taken from some morgues) and a tanker truck full of gas had a collision, burning everything to a crisp. Harold still didn't think that the kids weren't safe/dead.
- Samuel wanted to help Harold run a tad faster. He didn't gauge his effect *THAT* well, in the way that Harold nearly broke the Sound Barrier and *Almost* got the part of a insect going Splat in the grand play of Life
- Horatio's laptop casing is made from a former container designed by military engineer to transport small missiles warheads... now THAT's what I call RESISTANT
- After a year, many players still couldn't finally remember that it wasn't Xatana, Xantana or even Santana, that she wasn't the girlfriend, nor the mother or babysitter of Tim, but that her name was Zatana and she was his mentor.
- Two members of the Order of Hermes spends some time with someone that's wanted DEAD or Not-So-Alive by their order, because he's considered to be more evil than Hitler or more dangerous than The Red Button in a shop full of blind carpenters. They didn't do a thing to even try to capture him... Horatio and Samuel were in front of a Tribunal for judgement of their actions for that particular moment
- Harold thought it was "Hermes's Club", not Order of Hermes...
For a while, the FBI has on their payroll:
- A 16 years old kid
- A Japanese Werewolf
- Someone who's on nobody's databank and passes for Death
- An Interpol Special Agent.
--- End of FAQ ---
MAGE: THE FAQ version 0.44 (11.03.2001)
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