>>17975270

As a blind character did you constantly walk up to female NPCs, grab their breasts, and claim that you're just trying to "see" what they look like? "Woops, thought you were a halfling and your face was lower.... hooooonk"

Does you playing handicapped characters make the game less fun for other players?

If the answer is "yes," then you may be your group's THAT GUY.

Remember, the defining feature of a THAT GUY is the fact that he ruins the game for his group, and as such is defined by his group just as much as his behavior. One group's THAT GUY can be considered another's ideal player.

I think a mute character could be fun, as long as you don't use it as an excuse to not communicate at all.

What's the problem with a peg leg?

I like to play handicapped characters because it's daring, and original and add a lot of background.

My group thinks i play "useless" characters on porpouse to make the team weaker.

>>17975365
If your group has an issue with it, and you don't stop doing it, then you're That Guy.

>>17975365
You are not being original by being mute,blind, or with a peg leg. You shouldn't build characters that need other characters to babysit or help do mundane tasks.

Casual...

>>17975414

It's called a roleplaying challenge you twit. Making the strongest character you can isn't original either.

>>I like to play handicapped characters because it's daring

That is a load of bullshit. At least be honest and just say you do it becuase you find it interesting, but don't make shit up.

It is sounding more like you do it to annoy your group though.

>>17975430
Objection! Relevancy.

Please keep to the matter at hand, if your group has an issue with it, and you don't stop doing it, then you're That Guy.

Regardless of any justification you have for doing it personally, if you continue to do it when the group says "stop it" you are That Guy.

>>17975430

HERE'S THE THING, THOUGH: THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CHARACTER-FLAW THAT *YOUR CHARACTER* HAS TO DEAL WITH (LIKE, SAY, BEING ILLITERATE) BUT THAT PROBABLY WON'T AFFECT THE GROUP'S PERFORMANCE AS A WHOLE, AND A CHARACTER-FLAW THAT *EVERYONE* HAS TO DEAL WITH (LIKE, SAY, AN ENEMY PURSUING YOU BECAUSE YOU SLEPT WITH HIS WIFE) IN THE MAJORITY OF CASES.

BLINDNESS DEFINITIVELY FALLS UNDER THE LATTER, UNLESS YOU'VE GOT SOME COMPENSATING ABILITIES (WHICH TAKES THE 'CHALLENGE' BIT OUT OF IT), AND AS SUCH SHOULD ONLY BE TAKEN IF THE REST OF THE GROUP OKAYS IT.

IF IT'S GOING TO BE THE GROUP'S PROBLEM, IT SHOULD BE AT THE GROUP'S AGREEMENT.

>not pk-ing or causing the accidental death of the handicapped guy

>>17975458

Maybe the group is composed of That Guy, because they're stopping me from having fun. The minority can't be the oppressors after all, they can only be the freedom fighters.

"mute" is usually a excuse so you dont have to roleplay

>>17975474

NO, THAT'S DEFINITIONALLY NOT HOW IT WORKS. "THAT GUY" CAN ONLY EVER BE A MINORITY, BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THE GROUP SETS THE BASELINE THAT THE "THAT GUY"S ARE CREATING FRICTION AGAINST.

IF THE GROUP IS STOPPING YOU FROM HAVING FUN, THAT'S BAD, BUT DOESN'T MAKE THEM THAT GUYS. IT'S MORE INDICATIVE THAT YOU'RE PLAYING WITH THE WRONG GROUP, AND SHOULD FIND A NEW ONE, LIKE ALL THAT GUYS.

>>17975474
>I'm not that guy
>I'm a freedom fighter

0/10 man, too obvious.

>>17975469
Best response ever, i'll remember.
Thanks.

>>17975490
Rage, Rage, calm down.
He's officially entering into Troll Territory.

>>17975483
I am going to rape you. Actions speak louder than words.

Those kinds of flaws are a shitty way to say your character is deep OP.

You want a developed character? You want a REAL challenge? Try playing a pedophile character.
And no, it's not supposed to be funny, I mean a serious character that happens to be obsessed with children in a sexual way, but obviously no one knows that.

rolled 4 = 4

>>17975270
Sorta depends what you play.
If it's some "combat all day err' day" dungeon crawl then the complaint makes a bit of sense though That Guy isn't the proper descriptor.

If it's something like WoD though then I'd have deep respect for you, being someone who's tried the same sort of thing and found it very difficult.

Really it all comes down to what you're playing and who you're playing with.

>>17975494

Damn. I can never tell when I'm layering it on too thick.

>>17975387
Some of the best stories /tg/ has ever produced have been about fucking over groups of complete assholes who hate the fa/tg/uy's guts for being too reasonable.

I know this isn't relevant to the issue at hand, but making a Blind, Deaf, Mute, or <Insert Disability Here> character is not edgy nor does it add a lot of background to the character. Its a tired writing fallback to make your character have a disability to make them 'seem' more interesting, when in fact they are just as bland as any character that you would write without a disability.

Sure it makes for a different style of roleplay, but honestly that's about it. The 'daring' or back story of your character is not solely going to come from their disability, but rather the time and effort you put into fleshing out the character and making them as close to a real person as you can.

Take someone like Zatoichi for example, the blind samurai. He wasn't cool just because he was blind, he was also an awesome gambler, honorable even to people that were his enemies, and generally funny. All things that didn't have to do with him being blind at all. (I know his gambling tricks came about because of blindness, but honestly its not something that a non-blind person couldn't have done.)

>>17975514
I've played one with a major hard-on for anything monstrous. Lamia, medusa, naga, harpies, catfolk, nixies, lizardfolk, he pretty much shrugs off most charms from human-looking things because he literally has no sexual attraction to them.

>>17975387
>If your group has an issue with it, and you don't stop doing it, then you're That Guy.
>If you're not completely conforming to the whims of the group, then you're asocial.

>>17975458
My group is a group who enjoys chewing glass. I refuse to and it annoys them, therefore, I am That Guy

>>17975543
Why not just leave the assholes to have fun with each other?

>>17975514
Now I want to roleplay a Sargeant Hatred character, where he's actually attempting to RECOVER from his condition.

The whole "That Guy" trend is silly to begin with.

/tg/: "Valentine's day baww foreveralone women are whores nobody likes me I have no friends basement ho neckbeard 4eva thousands of overpriced little army men why won't anybody hire me personal hygiene is for breeders baw humanity fuk year wars r fun lets make loli fighter planes"

t g: "I put on my robe and my wizard hat, yiff yiff desu"

/tg/: "omg you ruin game lol sick weird creep sad pathetic lololol this is why we can't have nice things amirite lolol he's pretending wrong"

t g: "y u no love me"

/tg/: "you are a sad regressive nerd that's why"

... see a certain pattern?

>>17975588

Because they're mostly made up stories. If nothing happens, it's not a very good story.

>>17975573
0/10

Or, you're That Guy.

Either way, beneath my contempt.

>>17975490
I humbly disagree. "that guy" could represent a lowest common denominator amongst role-players as a whole. And while it is unlikely, a group could consist entirely of "that guys" and "that dm". Calling them "those guys" or "that group" dilutes the meaning of "that guy" even if it is grammatically correct.

>>17975601

Yeah, trolls like an audience.

Mute and/or Wooden leg I can see being fine.

Blind is a bit of a big disability to overcome in an adventure game unless you got some kind of compensation.

I mean, the point is to have exciting adventures and shit, why then create a character who can only really wither in that kind of atmosphere?

Dude is straight up a liability when you are playing a game that's intended to be about punching fucking ogres and shit.

Wooden leg and/or mute can be interesting flaws that let you play in new ways in that environment. Blindness is really kind of insurmountable though unless there is some fantastical means to circumvent it so that it doesn't become a liability to everyone else, hence making every quest into essentially an "escort" quest (I.E. The least fun of quests).

>>17975576
>>17975573

YES, THAT IS ESSENTIALLY "THAT GUY," IF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR IDEA OF FUN AND THE GROUP'S IDEA OF FUN GROWS GREAT ENOUGH THAT IT CAUSES DISSONANCE AND REDUCES OVERALL FUN.

"THAT GUY" IS DEFINED BY HIS ENVIRONMENT AT BEST. THE GUY WHO WANTS TO PLAN OUT EVERY LAST LITTLE SHECKLE AND NAIL OF LOOT IS "THAT GUY" IN A GROUP THAT WANTS TO PLAY FAST AND LOOSE WITH THE JEWGOLDS RULES, AND THE REVERSE IS ALSO TRUE.

>>17975573
>>17975576

Around /tg/ That Guy has shifted in meaning from "that weird guy who just doesn't fit in" to "shitty player/DM." Though it's usually a derogatory term, it doesn't have to be. A normal guy caught up in a shitty group's drow rape simulator is That Guy if he plays a paladin and clashes horribly with the group.

This is /tg/. Unless you play an elf that uses a bow, a dwarf that uses an axe, or a human that uses a sword and shield, you are "that guy".

Since this thread is getting very close to bad thread, time for a storytime!
I once played a 'mute' character who was a riot and horrified the group as a whole.
Our GM started up the game with the description 'like a slightly dark version of firefly, where you're a rag tag group that's ended up in posession of a ship that you're sharing'
Now; I know my GM well.
Slightly dark meant HERPGRIMDARK and he'd ran this setting before, it was a personal favorite of his, so I was prepared and armed on what to expect.
So I decide to make a character that'll at least be fun and entertaining to play while the entire game rolls in the mud like a Pig with special needs.
So, I decided to team up with another guy in my group and we took a shared background. We decided early on that we'd be pretty much space tramps, totally unheroic, only out for ourselves and the cash and doomed to forever wander the space ways with no expectations beyond that; since the GM never looked at backgrounds anyway or incorporated them into the game, so, fuck it; why bother going for some great epic as my friend put it.
We decided to be from a sort of Industrial Hellhole of a World, literally the most fucking Grimdark place we could think up together, run by the Space Mafia, on an inhospitable planet in a bubble dome which was slowly falling apart; outside the dome it was like Lost Planet, only with more Radiation.
The shittiest Shithole to ever be shit; and his character would be from the upper class while mine was from the Hardcore opressed lower class. If our GM wanted Grimdark, we'd do grimdark.
And so I created Artur.

What if /tg/ secretly stands for That Guy?

>>17975653

That would imply /tg/ is being secret about it.

>>17975653
more likely /those guys/

>>17975635
Actually, if you paid a little attention, "That Guy" is a term used to describe someone who someone simply doesn't like anymore. Used to be that this occurred most often when complaining about a fellow member of a game group online behind the others' backs. These days it's the /tg/ equivalent of calling someone a hipster for having differing interests. But to be honest, in the majority of the cases, it's just neckbeard envy or poor impressions of eachother. Reasons can be invented afterwards, since the label's so effective.

>>17975618
One blind character I had was the greatest known craftsman in the entire world. Any magic item you wanted, he would make it. The greatest artificer ever.

Be honest, who makes a dedicated craftsman in D&D?

>>17975643
My elf uses scimitars, I am apparently "That guy".

>>17975643

The thing is, a blind character would be ok in something like WoD or Unknown Armies or something. DnD not so much, where the baseline game assumes your character is somewhat competent at what he is doing.

>who makes a dedicated craftsman in D&D

The DM or someone playing the wrong game.

>>17975683
Sounds like somebody's got an axe or two to grind.

Been accused of being That Guy much?

>>17975647

YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION.

>>17975691
You're also gay. Elves and all that.

>>17975607
Why ruin a good story with the truth?

>>17975697
AND MY SWORD

>>17975688

It's actually much easier to do in Pathfinder after they dropped the experience drain for making magic items. Groups I've been in usually have at least one dedicated items guy.

>>17975693
Well I loved it and the party loved the huge discount on equipment. Sue me.

>>17975692

>a blind character would be ok in something like WoD

Only if they know what they're doing. Most of the time, the people making crippled and blind characters don't. Those are the characters that my Storyteller has my friend and I deal with.

>>17975712
I meant Pathfinder actually, they're pretty much the same thing, Pathfinder is just polished 3.5

>>17975707

Because pissing on someones parade fills me with a certain warmth that can normally only be achieved by eating a case of donuts.

>>17975728

Carry on then.

>>17975719

>Sue me.

No, I don't want to roll up a lawyer.

>>17975688

To be fair. That is a pretty cool idea.

Though you really are just sort of an "extra body" when it comes to anything other than making shit which can be a huge liability when you are in a group and trying to fight something that was intended for one more guy than you have because the DM didn't realize you'd never be able to fight.

There are some times when a man has to stand up for what he believes in. There are times when you just have to go "No, you hear me out for a second". If they don't give you that second, they're THAT GROUP, if they hear you out and don't like the idea, well, maybe your idea was shit, either that or they could be the wrong group for you.

Maybe, if they're awesome and your ideas are awesome, they'll start to see your side of things. Then everyone wins.

>>17975647
Now, the best way to explain Artur is through his background.
He came from the worst areas of the Radioactive-bubble-dome-russia-mafia-serf-ghetto and was the son of a Mechanic; for someone growing up in such an area he was when he was younger a pretty outgoing and charming guy, with lots of natural ability in his job to be as a mechanic.
A nice guy, with a good future, well, by local standards; until the day he met Anya.
Anya was the most beautiful woman he'd ever met, it took all his charm, guile and charm to court her; because Anya was the daughter of a member of the Space Mafia, the Don's daughter infact.
To cut a long backstory short, my friend was a member of the Space Mafia who Artur befriended, or a would be member who had a lot of prospects; Artur got found out after hitting that and was going to be made an example of; in every way possible, Micheal, my friends character, saved him from the execution by breaking him out after 8 long days of inventive and very damaging torture. They hijacked a ship and escaped the planet, never to return.

>>17975696
Just casual observations. I suffer from the fate of being forever the DM, and I've had the misfortune of having to observe neckbeard fad after neckbeard fad to make their way to the table. The whole That Guy row is actually finally dying down, but all it tells is that excuses come and go, but assburgery nerds will never get along. I figure new waves of accusations about weeaboo, plagiarism, hipsterism, pretentiousness, grandstanding, attention whoring and railroading are just around the corner.

>>17975750
Alternately, sometimes it's about doing what they want the utterly wrong way to prove your point. That's something of an art form in my group. Unless the GM calls bullshit on a character, the rest of the party tends to keep our mouths shut about character creation.

Otherwise you get shit like Bruce-3, the droid who punched out jedi (It's it's own plural, right?)

>>17975756
Now, Artur was a wreck of a human being, totally alienated by his trauma and years in space with only Micheal for company, his entire body was one big scar and he never took off his helmet in public or let anyone in; he'd torn his vocal chords screaming during his time with the Mafia and while a tech and mechanical Genius, a fantastic shot with a shotgun and razor sharp; he could not talk to anyone, max points in social flaws and a custom flaw which meant while he wasn't as such mute, he would never talk, unless Micheals life was in danger.
Now, he and Micheal had a very tense relationship, because while Artur would die for Micheal, they were brothers in arms; with Micheal being the charm and grease and Artur being the shipsman; there was always an underlying tension where Artur felt Micheal resented him, which he did, but not as much as Artur thought and it was all very complicated and entertaining.
Micheal would get them the jobs, Artur was happy to spend days locked up on tiny little two man ships, never suffered from the Space Crazies because he was so incredibly Misanthropic and afraid of other people and their judging stares and so they worked together well, Micheal still dreamed of more, while Artur dreamed of nothing because Dreams put him in this shit as it was.

>>17975808
And this was our very strange pair, Micheal was full on charm, buisness and lacking in scruples; Artur was good hearted still under his terrible, mutilated exterior and the reflective helmet, but ruthless in his own way, intelligent as fuck with machines, strong as hell and liscenced to carry a shotgun, he was the only PC who started the game having killed anyone, having blown away would be space pirates in the past for trying to board their ship. He could set up traps, beat a man to death with a monkey wrench, or blow him away; good thing too since I was the only one in the group who took combat skills.
So, that was our duo, Space Hermit Male-Hester-Shaw and The worlds biggest Asshole and Charmer.
We thought we were prepared, we thought we were ready for the Grimderp and the bad GMing and the terrible story, ready to ride it out on an awesome wave of Space-bros, apathy, low expectations of reward and general preparedness for it to be bad; oh boy we were not.
Not for this one.

I once played a mute bard with 18 charisma who communicated and cast Bardsongs through interpretive dance. Everyone seemed to find it hilarious.

>>17975727
Which is why you make a character like when playing with close friends. The player may be unskilled with playing this type of character but each character, and each challenge, makes the player a better more experienced roleplayer. As I mentioned earlier I have respect for anyone willing to take that challenge on themselves. You simply have to do so at the right point in time.

Your GM decides to run a oneshot of an investigative game? This is good time to try out being blind. He decides his next game is goig to be a year long biweekly campaign of Dark Heresy? Probably not when you want to make a paraplegic.

>>17975821
So; rest of the group prepares, we get 3 other members of our jolly ship of fools, a female space Doctor who was the life and soul of the party wherever she went and utterly unprepared for the harsh reality of being a Space jockey, another mechanic who had worked as a miner before and was a decent enough lady; and The Calculator.
You heard me right, that was his name.
To give you his background in short 'an infamous space hacker carrying stolen plans for incredibly advanced prototypes who's able to build robots and crap from scraps; has the paranoia flaw meaning he'll never really trust the party and has no morals or sense of camaraderie'
So someone who really had no reason to be there, would fuck us over and who had a bunch of Special 'awesome' powers while the rest of us were pretty low tone.
We're doing this over IM, so I'm just sitting there, staring at the screen as he describes his incredibly 'bad ass' glorified Space Nerd; and my hand reaches for the bottle of whiskey I keep in my desk, ready to play the entire game drunk to avoid this bullshit, or at least so I can't remember it.
Micheal IM's me and we agree, this is BS. Still, as long as he plays it low tone who cares, we're here to do our job, not pick fights am I right.
So, we prepare for the game to start; it starts 5 minutes later.
In a stripclub, on a space station.

My definition of a That Guy has always been:
A) An individual whose presence and actions makes a portion of the groups other members uncomfortable (read: more than just the one guy who is over-sensitive about everything)
B) An individual whose lack of social graces causes them to clash with the rest of the group for out of game reasons and is unwilling to work towards an acceptable compromise.
C) An individual who purposefully diminishes or detracts from the group's enjoyment of the game

I feel like telling stories so first the story of Bruce-3, the middle finger to group-dynamics who ended up stealing the spotlight, then Gimu, the most accidentally minmaxed monstrosity in the inquisition

Bruce-3 was part of a starwars RPG, and oddly enough, started off with me wanting to play an R2 unit, just to be the plucky mechanic in the right place at the right time. Well, the rest of the group decided we needed more combat skill, which meant we needed more jedi (we had 2 of them already in what was, with me, a 4 man group). I said fine, I'll play a war-droid. They told me that was stupid. Droids don't get force powers at all, they said, you can't do the same shit as our jedi.

So I turned to the GM and asked if I could use block and deflect skills as a droid (strictly speaking, they are force powers but the GM agreed that a sufficiently quick droid could easily match the speeds required to do so) then I spent most of my starting cash on vibro-hands. The party was less than pleased with me, apart from the guy grizzled veteran, who thought this was hilarious and instantly decided to befriend the galaxy's first droid martial artist

>>17975879
Now I know you're thinking that GM for one reason, but he isn't, infact he's the kind of guy who prudes out if people play characters of the opposite gender; go figure.
So GM starts to describe how we're all meeting here because this is where the conman who we 'invested' in the 'company' of was going to meet us here; we have nothing but the clothes on our backs and the things in our pockets, GM tells us to describe what we're doing.
Micheal describes how he's flirting with one or two of the strippers; the others describe what they're doing.
GM looks to me: 'You getting involved in all this'
"Nope, I'm sitting in the corner with a book on the physics of hyperspace travel and a coke"
GM takes 10 seconds to react to that, probably wondering what the fuck.
Anyway, Micheal rolls to seduce and the GM deems that he autofails because apparently strippers are all chaiste as fuck and not interested in men flirting with them, even with ~100 successes because his very words are like melted chocolate dripping into your ears and so forth. So, he gives up on that and goes and talks to the others, I remain in the corner reading and giving no fucks as Artur is uncomfortable as hell since its a wide open area with lots of people; he's got his helmet on very firmly in place and has opened it about an inch so he can put the straw through the gap to drink.
Artur is that one kid at every party who sits in the corner wearing a party hat while everyone else is hammered and making out basically.
Suddenly some random waitress comes over and asks me if I'd like another drink; I hold up a note, which reads 'I am sorry, but I am a mute. I cannot speak.' then tap the half empty glass and nod, signifying I want another one.

>>17975903
>middle finger to group-dynamics
>stealing the spotlight

This is pretty much what That Guy does.

>>17975945
>implying one good character in a morass of bad ones wouldn't also steal the spotlight

>>17975967
That's also the justification That Guy uses.

"I'm doing it right, you're all doing it wrong."

No, That Guy, you're doing it wrong, because you're obviously in the wrong group.

>>17975939
So she gets me another delicious space Cola (TM) and I continue to read my book; because who needs semi-naked women when you have Star ship engines!
She comes back and sits down, what? And asks me what I'm reading...I give her a Rei stare for a moment because I am supposedly mute, good luck talking to me.
Then I take out one of those mechanical voice machines which I bought in my background and start a conversation with her. Definetly not flirting or anything, god no, Artur knows about the dangers of Women.
But weirdly enough she is flirting back, apparently this random waitress has a thing for socially retarded men in Space suits, maybe its her fetish or something, I don't know. Micheal points out this is a bit weird, GM answers with 'well, strippers are used to people flirting with them and cheesy pick up lines, Artur is sitting in the corner not watching and reading, which is definetly out the ordinary so its interesting'
Alright...some...kind of logic there, not good logic but hey.
So Micheal is off with the others doing his Charm thing while I'm trapped by this very forward Waitress who is trying to seduce me, when the Calculator deems to grace us with his presence.

>>17975975
I wasn't speaking after the fact; I meant if you have a group of obviously bad players and one good player, the one good player is going to steal the spotlight at will by being the only good player. It's possible to have That Group.

>>17975903
Anyway, the party has long been under the heel of their main problem solver, an "I do everything jedi" who was basically built to hit all the stuff and solve social situations through jedi mindtrick, every time. Well, me and the veteran decided that that wasn't going to fly. I forget exactly where the plot was going, something to do with Sith infiltrating the planet's government to do something bad.

What I do remember was when the jedi decided that he was interested in picking a fight. He decided to mindtrick us into thinking it was a good idea to attack a major government building outright, planning to sneak in while we were dying.

"I'm a droid, that's not my problem. Also, I go ahead and grab my partner before he can do anything stupid." Whacked him once to snap him out of it and then turned over to the jedi, who'd already drawn his lightsaber. Fire up the vibro-fists and get to work. Our ability to block each other was about equal so the fight went back and forth a good bit. He flung me around the room a bit but being a damn hardy droid I just hopped back up and took another swing at him. Obviously he did more damage than me per hit but that didn't actually matter much for one simple reason. Mandalorian armored plating beats jedi-robes any day of the week.

The fight ended in one dead jedi and a slightly battered combat droid. The player took it surprisingly well and it was then understood that I'd play what I wanted to and the party would balance itself however it worked out.

>>17976008
That Jedi should fall.

>>17975975
wat

>>17975945
I'm aware. But if I stole the spotlight it was really only for two reasons:
1. I picked a fight with the guy who was already doing that
2. Admittedly, I did play a really weird character concept

In the end we only had a couple more sessions because that GM never keeps a game running long but the group dynamic turned out a lot better.

The remaining jedi was made to realize that her partner had pretty much been dark-side as all fuck, the noble got to actually be the face character rather than be overshadowed by LOL MIND TRICK, and me and the vet got to be this hilariously miss matched combo of badasses comprised of a usually drunk womanizer and a droid who finds alcohol to be retarded and the idea of replicating ones design through the exchange of bodily fluids inefficient and distasteful

>>17976001
>a group of obviously bad players and one good player,

Ah, so you believe "Bad" and "Good" are objective, and not subjective?

Pretty That Guy mentality you have.

I don't eroRP, that doesn't make it bad, it's just not to my taste.

If the rest of the group is having fun, despite That Guy thinking they're "doing it wrong" the only bad player is the one member of the group trying to derail their game.

>>17975980
So he grabs a seat in the corner to brood. Micheal comes over and joins us, explaining that we're going to go check on the ship now and get some work because we've been dicked over by our 'boss' who ran off with all our money.
My character instantly makes a series of hand signs which translate as 'Save me from this Woman! Help!' and dodges out the way so Micheal can save me.
And at this point I realize what the GM is trying to do, until this point I hadn't described what Artur looks like under his suit.
So he's trying to get my suit off me.
Well good luck with that bitch, Artur hates the world and that suit is his armour against it. That and his silence.
To cut a long story short, turns out the random waitress was the youngest daughter of the man who runs the station, who is a sort of criminal, Micheal gets brought in for flirting with both his daughters in one night, apparently this all powerful man rolling in all the monies lets his daughters work at strip clubs.

>>17976024
He was close to it anyway

>>17975975
Honestly, it was mostly just the two jedi who were going on about it, the other two were cool with it pretty early on.

If being THAT GUY leads to everyone getting their chance to shine then I'll be THAT GUY for a little while. The trick is knowing when your job is done and it's time to take a step back.

>>17976061
Le sigh. It's one thing to say, "Hey, we're doing a yiff fest, join us!" and you bring a human fighter and say "wtf are you guys doing fagets"

But if everyone knows it's going to be generic dungeon crawling hack and slash and they all bring characters for a yiff fest, you really are the only one doing it right.

>>17976070
it begins.jpg

>>17976070
Lets? Makes, you mean.

>>17976070
Maybe working at a strip club was their dream?
Not everyone has the same goals and ambitions as you do.
LET THEM BE FREE TO HAVE SHITTY JOBS!

I only ever played one "handicapped" character, but he did it voluntarily. Our DM asked us to make 8th level 3.5 characters since he wanted to run some harder stuff. However, he didn't want us to use anything but the PHB, he was used to AD&D and didn't want to look stuff up every 5 minutes.

He was a paladin from the order of blind justice. Their order covers their eyes voluntarily and sees expressly through detect evil, which my DM explained as a more of an extrasensory ability than a vision mode. The end result is a Paladin with a blindfold on at all times.

It was kind of like the miraluca in star wars, but centered around good and evil instead of the force.

I played normally, since he was higher level and had somewhat mastered the art, but had I been lower level I'd still rely on my normal photon receptors. For the most part it just allowed me to see in the dark, see magic doors easily and made it super easy to pick bad guys out of a crowd but I couldn't do things like read or see color.

My DM was watching me play assassin's creed and when he saw me activate eagle vision he said it was something like that at high levels.

I use this order of paladins in my game world now. And that's my only blind guy story.

>>17976084
>Le sigh
What?

>>17976108
So, he was "blind" in the sense that Daredevil is blind. Eg, he's not.

>>17976108
I would do this. I would hug your blind justice, too.

>>17976070
So we end up getting dragged into a favour for him, delivering some totally legit medicine to a planet, while Artur was off getting his own job for us.
And ran into a bunch of Refugees, who are running from a war, or criminals, or something and are trapped on the station because no one local will take them off, at the command of the crook master.
Artur's reaction to that is the non-vocal equivalent of 'fuck that noise! you're coming with us even if you can't pay that much.'
The GM is as aware that I am a moralfag as I am aware he's an asshole it seems.
Now we all actually properly meet for the first time in a cafe having spent some time working alone to find jobs.
The moment we meet, the Calculator decides he doesn't like or trust me and is going to be an asshole to the mute who won't stand up for himself, why? I'll never know, I'm about twice his size, kinda like a skinny fa/tg/uy trying to bully a pro-wrestler but hey, I'm here to do a job not rock the boat, so I won't pick fights.
Micheal does, he tells him to fuck off, get off my case or leave because we have a larger stake between us than he does. The Calculator decides to interprit this as 'you can pick fights with the huge space suit bear-man but you'd better be passive agressive about it'
So we all put our job offers on the table.

I've played a retard with all the sensitivity of an asshole because I had low Int and Wisdom scores.

Wasn't that guy because the people at the table loved Dukes the Dwarf.

>>17976120
Like I said, closest I've ever come.

At lower levels they really are just blinding themselves and are only really able to see blots of evil if there are any. He wanted to give a skip to that part since he wasn't sure how it'd work for gameplay.

For my lore they cover neither eye until level 3, then they cover one eye. At level 6 their passive detect evil is strong enough to alow them to cover both eyes, but there are nasty minuses for everything not involving evil.

The definition of THAT GUY is "a person who doesn't know when he doesn't belong at the gaming table."

>>17976127
From Micheal we have the totally legit drug run from the slightly less legit man.
From the Mechanic we have 'Eh, fuel run'
From me, we have the Mercy run which I point out wouldn't be a mission in and of itself since they don't want to go anywhere specific, just drop them off wherever.
From the Calculator, we have a very dodgy and dangerous sounding 'Mechanical parts' run for the station boss man; which we all know means drugs.
And he's already accepted the pay for it. And he lies about how much he got and says since he got the job, he's getting 45% and we get 15 each, except me, I'm getting 10% as he 'splits it up equally' for us, oh and if it doesn't arrive on time or we try to back out apparently we're going to have consquences on our asses.
Motherfucker.
Oh and he's totally against helping the refugees because they can't pay his exorberant fees, when It was my job and I set the fee, which is about a 10th of what he's decided they're going to pay, since I know how little people have and he thinks we're transporting the Sultan of Brunai or something and because I suggested it.
Double Motherfucker.

>>17976165
So Micheal backs me up, we are taking them with us and after a long argument The Digital Pocket abacus backs down in the face of everyone else going 'No, shut up we're taking them.'
Also Micheal casually mentions we're getting an extra crew member.
The Local Gang bosses daughter who wants to 'see the world' and OOC I instantly know its because the GM is setting the sexual equivalent of a trakcer hound on my character, having obviously not read my back story, the amount of coincident is horrific.
Artur looks at him for about 30 seconds in total silence; as he digests that and runs through all the ways this is a bad idea, how it could result in a repeat of history and how this is a terrible thing.
My character carefully takes out his mechanical writing pad, then writes something...scratches it out...writes something, scratches it out, writes something else; then turns it around.
*Small letters* nope. *Crossed out*
*Larger letters* Nope *Also crossed out*
*Entire page* NOPE! *Underlined Twice*
1 session later we leave with the 'Mechanical parts' the refugees, the medicine and the damn girl; why this very important mafia type person is entrusting his daughter to a group of space hobos who met just yesterday at a strip club, who knows.
But he has him send along two big bulky body guards, who I instantly label Railroad assistant 1 and Voice of the GM 1.

>>17976165
>Oh and he's totally against helping the refugees because they can't pay his exorberant fees
"Well fuck you buddy, guess who owns the fucking ship!"

>>17976187
So we take off; The Doctor and Artur have a chat and she's friendly enough, she finds out quicky he can't talk and he takes off his helmet when we get on the ship, she tactfully asks him about his horrifically damaged face, he claims it was an accident; he hangs out with our aloof female engineer who has a fetish for Hyperspace engines and they get on well; oddly enough Artur seems to get on with almost everyone, despite never talking, being a creepy faceless man in a space suit who never takes off his helmet and never initiating conversation really. After the game ends, it turns out every member of the female crew liked him well enough and several of them were interested in starting up a love side plot with the mysterious, scarred, voiceless man, two of them even agreed to share him and do a love triangle sub plot for a bit of drama and a laugh.
So Artur was some sort of fucked up Harem protagonist through no fault of my own...go figure.
Maybe its sexual charisma or something, I don't know, or he's just the lowest common denominator.
Not much happens for most the trip, Artur disappears into the bowls of the ship to be in his element dicking about with the internals of the ship and having no human contact.

>>17976242
>Asocial strange person with no real interest in women becomes a harem protagonist
It cant be helped.

Seriously though that's pretty much every harem protag ever except you aren't pretty.

>>17976267
>you aren't pretty.

He's wearing a mask which he never removed. He's not ugly, he's Schroedinger's Gorgeous.

Plus he's a brooding and intense loner type. That helps.

>>17976242
So while the others do drama side plots and shit, I sit on the side lines and eat popcorn occasionally rolling dice to repair shit; it was kinda cool being able to sit back like that and just go 'Working on the ship!' and have people unable to find my character.
The Calculator claims pilot seat, despite Micheal being a better pilot, and refuses to give it up because 'Piloting is my thing'; he starts sleeping in the cockpit and shit and keeps it locked off most the time; which should have been a hint of things to come, but I missed it.
So Artur is working the entire ship and keeping it running with the Mechanics help, they get on well because she doesn't insist on them talking and is about as obsessed with the job as he is and they can have conversations where they both know what the other is on about in terms of mechanics; since both have 5 dots (We were using WoD) in Mechanics and Spec in Space Ships, so there was some overlap there, but we agreed OOC we'd both do the regular every day stuff then I'd step down so she could do the cool shit and build ships and cool gadgets while I did more basic stuff since I also had the huge iron man thing going on that I could play with, so we had our niches.

I get called 'that guy' because I like to do crazy things. Not even I RAPE THE TOWNSFOLK, crazy things but more action movie crazy things like swinging off of chandeliers and shooting guns out of people's hands, etc.

It's stupid that I get labled a shitty player because I don't sit there and be boring and stoic

>>17976308
So one day I'm working on the ship, when I hear something going on in the area, now in ship terms I'm in the middle of bumfuck no where in the Cargo area; so its probably rats or something, I don't care.
Then I feel something tap on my leg.
So I turn around and theres this 8 year old girl looking up at me, I look at her for about 2-3 seconds, then kneel, take out my pad and write 'What are you doing here little girl?'
She reads it and I expect her to answer with words, she doesn't, she signs out 'I'm looking for my teddy bear'
Holy shit a little deaf girl, what the fuck are you doing in the engineering?! Oh well; so my character decides to be a bro and asks her where her bear might be, ect.
We go looking for the bear; never find it but we search all day, turns out she's one of the refugees, long story short my character ends up all Big Daddy, tramping about with a little girl sitting on his shoulders looking for the bear, she has a riot of a time and enjoys the 'day' with me as we search the entire ship for this bear.

>>17976267
I was like the opposite of pretty, I was the Phantom of the Opera, Multiplied by a Gargoyle to the power of Electric burns.
Artur was so hideous from chemical, electrical, cigratte burns, bacon-slicer damage, knive marks, damage where bones had broken the skin and all sort of other shit that he could crack Space-safe glass at 50 paces; causing the entire room to vent killing everyone in it. I had a 6 page list of everything that had been done to him and the exact effects of it and where the scars were so I didn't end up just making shit up as I went along.
And this was 10 years after the incident, when Micheal saved him, he was like Griffith from Berserk after a year being tortured.

>>17976340

>>17976340
...god dammit, the nerd is going to space the refugees, isn't he?

>>17976400
I hope he does, and that Artur beats the living shit out of him.

Then spaces him.

>Hittin F5 Does nothing!

DAMN YOU ARTUR BOY TYPE FASTER!

>>17976340
So to cut a long week in game shorter, it was a surprisingly nice balance between drama and kinda slice of life, go figure. Eventually we run into another ship; which hails us and demands to search our hold, claiming to be plain clothes police.
The Calculator is of course against this because he's got a cargo hull full of narcota. We're all discussing it, Artur doesn't give a fuck, Micheal wants to not run because we can't outrun them. When theres a sudden Tweest!
The Refugee Patriarch is watching the communication with us and tells us its the criminals who are after him and his family. They're also a rival to the man who's daughter is with us.
And suddenly the Calculator is all like 'Well that's fine then, who cares if you all get killed' Right to his face.
Infront of this guy, me and the little girl.
So everyone just looks at him, and the Patriarch splutters for about a second and then breaks his weedy ass glass jaw about half a second before I go for him; and I decide the Patriarch has a better reason so I'll let him kick shit out this dirt bag.
It takes the Doctor and Micheal to drag him off him and the Calculator runs, escaping the room with blood running down his face.

>>17976411

>>17976411
Dear sir, I love you, let me game with you, I love you.

This is the best story I've heard in a long time.

>>17976411
Damn, why can't these "hacker on the run" archtypes be more like Benny from Black Lagoon? That's be a cool character to play, especially in a Firefly "tramp spacer in a tramp ship" setting.

But noooo.....they all have to be like that fucktard from Fallout 2.

>>17976411
I bet the GM was giggling on the inside when he got an excuse to sick the friendly NPC on a PC.
At least i think the Refugee Patriarch is meant to be an NPC.

>>17976456
I thought it was other players? huh.

>>17976411
We reassure the guy we're not going to turn them in, we can outrun them...when suddenly the ship starts powering down and redirecting towards the other ship.
We all run for the cockpit, which is locked.
Oh that motherfucker.
Micheal orders him to open the fucking door, I turn and march off to my room and begin preparing by grabbing my shotgun, ready to die in glorious space battle against the CRIMIMNAL SCUM.
He doesn't open the door, screaming about how he knew we couldn't be trusted and how we were going to betray him from the start and so on and so forth.
The Mechanic realizes the door can be over ridden by reseting some of the sub systems and goes to do it, only to find out that all the systems have been rerouted to the Calculators Handheld computer.
So he's taken command of the entire ship, without asking permission or any warning, the crazy fuck.
OOC we're all like 'The fuck you doing?' and the player tries to justify it as his paranoia trait and his character having an episode.
And we're all like 'Dude, not cool'
'It's how he'd act!' he whined; and the GM backs him up.
Micheal is furious at this but we can't do much about it; until the power suddenly goes off and the mechanic returns to the door with an Arch Welder, like the no fucks given, bad ass she is and starts cutting through the door. They cut through the door.
And find a Walkie Talky and that the ship is being controlled by remote, like everything else.
FFFFFFFFFFFF-

>>17976453
If you can talk to him long enough Myron or Melvin or whatever is actually quite a character. He is annoying, spoiled, and is as likely to shoot you as he to help, but unless you are derptarded at computers you need high speech to get anything usefull.

>>17976468
>Player creates a whiny bitch with paranoia
>Gets punched
>Goes insane and thinks they are all his enemies
Actually however annoying it is that he made such a character i can understand why he is doing what he is doing.
It makes sense for the character that he made especially with how you have described him up until now.
Besides its always better to have one of the crew be more of a problem than a villain, its a staple of sci-fi!

>>17976499
You want them to think that....DON'T YOU!?!

>>17976499
I have to say, I like the calculators brand of Paranoia. Among a group of friends, no one would assume that the player was trying to hurt the gaming experience.

>>17976511
What do i want them to think?
He created a psycho whiny bitch nerd who tries to control everything.
As horrible a character as that is at least he is sticking to it.

>>17976468
Micheal takes over and he and the Mechanic reset the controls to default; which erases all our expensive star maps, leaving us stranded unless we have back ups, because its the only way to wrestle the controls back off this Motherfucker and he didn't think we'd dare do it.
So we suddenly turn tails like the road runner when Whyl E. Cyote is bearing down on him with an bottle of little blue pills in one hand and a trobbing purple erection before the criminals ship, who fires on us.
We don't have any defences or weapons by the way; this thing is about twice our size and has huge laser cannons.
At this point the Calculator is ranting over the PA system and trying to kill people with doors and electric shocks and flicking lights on and off; Mafia princess gets a broken leg and almost bleeds to death falling down some stairs, which would have put us even more up shit creek, since her father would have sawn everyones dicks off manually if she'd died.
Micheal makes some Epic rolls and we 'escape' which means outside of their fire range of several thousand Kilometers being chased.
So Artur makes a descision and checks the hull; we do have what he's looking for and he grabs the Mechanic and asks her for help, and we plan in another window behind the GMs back, talk it over and are prepared.

>>17976464
It was an NPC.

>>17976525
Together they start rolling dice and 2 hours later we've managed to build something, while the enemy has closed on us again and is trying to catch us alive; the refugees are safe in the inner holds; the calculator still has almost full control of the ship and is screaming we should surrender and that we can still work together; Artur packs the bathtub semtex we've just made into the modified Escape Pod. the only escape craft we have and launches it at the enemy ship, aiming for the cockpit.
This ship is so close I could probably propel myself over the distance between the two ships by the way. Which was the secondary plan if this failed.
So, we fire it off; and BANG!
Critical hit Motherfucker; blows out the entire cockpit despite the enemy having shields; and we see some very surprised and suddenly decompressed piles of giblettes hurtle out the metal wreckage as we blow the head off the snake at point blank.
Artur and the Mechanic chick fist bump as Micheal slows the ship down and we come to a stop, as Micheal always put it, when oppotunity looks at you across a smoky bar; bad luck turns to good.
We're looting that shit now is the plan.

>>17976499
We told him from the start the character was utterly inapproriate for the game and tried to get him to make something else.
He refused and argued until we gave up.

>>17976542
FUCK YEAH!

>>17976542
Well that is a dick move then. What a faggot.
Still at least he was passionate about it.
I'm sure its just that i like the villanous assholes of sci-fi that makes me praise him though, he must have been a nightmare to actually play with.

Can someone please make these all into one giant story that I can save and share with my group? if not, i'm looking for a cut and copy program to download now.

>>17976542
So as the drama cools off, Artur finally finds the Calculator hiding in the back ass of the ship and lays him out with a spanner when he goes to tazer me screaming how he never trusted me because I'm out to get him, the irony of it totally lost on the player who genuinly thinks this is all justified and he threatens to Space the Refugees...who we moved and he didn't realize, then I drag him to the cockpit so we can do this lynching democratic like.
We all agree that he's a dick and we are getting rid of him.
Except two people.
Railroad and voice of the GM; who totally think this can still work and start going off on one about forgiveness, working together and how this is all Micheal and Arturs faults and we need to appologize to each other because we hijacked the controls from the crazy man.
Remember.
These two are amoral mercinaries, working for the highest bidder, a space gangster; who's only duty is to protect the package.
Who is currently lying in a coma in the med bay because of the actions of this fuckstick that they now turn around and defend, laying blame at our door.
OOC I'm raging, because the GM is trying to force party cohesion when its obvious the only way we're going to get party cohesion is with the death of this fucktard.

>>17976591
What?
Man that's silly.
Any good GM should let him have his fun and then let you have your fun too, mostly beating him to death.
Actions should have consequences.

>>17976591
Sadly though, they're also the only ones on the ship with Automatic weapons.
Large automatic weapons; and they're pretty obviously willing to kill anyone bar the Number Cruncher over this.
Artur is not amused at all by this fucktardery and Micheal points out that The Calculator has been an asshole to me the entire time, Artur is like 'Hey, they have large guns, lets not argue with their large guns; lets go do our job, we can sort this out later' in sign.
So the GM lets him get off Scott Free, for now. I decide not to rock the boat; for now.
So, I, being the only space competent one, suit up and head over to the other ship, leaving the cockpit open so I can return, since I can't call for them to open it. We get some nice shit and everyone appears to be dead, so hey, bonus! No need to waste shotgun shells.
4 hours later, the Calculator is still in the Brig and nothing has happened, but we're only a day or two from planet side.
Artur meanwhile gets hammered as shit on some Vodka that he found on the other ship, along with Micheal, while they bitch about how special Ed our new Crew is and laugh about old times working as a dynamic Duo.
Artur can't drink as well as Micheal, who plans to go for at least another hour or two; when Artur goes to bed.
He locks his room door as always to avoid inquisitive people entering while he's undressed and hits bunk. An hour or so later theres shouting and banging on his door.

>>17976676
Not sure exactly how it happened, but one of the criminals escaped, has Micheal hostage and is now screaming that he wants our escape pod to escape in with a knife against his throat in the kitchen.
Yes, this John McClain of Villians survived total decompression and managed to sneak onto our ship undetected, hide there for 4 hours un noticed and then take a hostage.
However, now he fucked up.
Because no one fucks with Micheal.
The Doctor is currently running hostage negotiation, when one of the Mecernaries appears with the Calculator in tow, saying he's the only one who can help us or think of a plan.
And I realize what this is, an attempt at trial by fire to get us to work together.
And finally I take a shot of that sweet, sweet whiskey OOC because the game has finally reached terminal stupid velocity.
The Calculator comes out with a Plan the GM obviously fed him about pumping the air out the room until the hostage taker faints, its a danger to Micheal too, but not as dangerous as breathing through a hole in his neck, so we prepare, Artur doesn't trust the Calculator, I wonder why, at this point, and disappears to enact his own plan.
The Doctor keeps him talking while the Mechanic keeps an eye on the Calculator without him noticing; watching what he's doing.
Artur meanwhile arms up with his Shotgun, Sasha and goes to do what he does best.
Crawl around in small vents and fix shit.

>>17976701
>wants to use our escape pod

Was this faggot asleep when you blew his ship up? What did he think you used to make that attack?

>>17976701

My body is ready for the rest of this story.

>>17976701
>Yes, this John McClain of Villians survived total decompression and managed to sneak onto our ship undetected, hide there for 4 hours un noticed and then take a hostage.

Artur (for lack of a better name, I'm calling you this), it sounds like your GM tried to take a plot point straight from Sunshine.

>>17976735
Not all ships have the same looking escape pods, maybe he thought it was a garbage container or something.

>>17976758
>SUUUUUUNSHIIIIIIIIIINE

Holy cow, I forgot that movie. Damn, this guy's GM can't come up with anything original, or unscripted.

>>17976701
So I roll and find a vent leading into the Kitchen from above.
The GM points out the vents are much too small for a normal human, I retort with the fact I've taken the mostly useless Tunnel Rat Merit which lets me crawl wherever I fancy pretty much without penalites.
He says my armour is way too bulky, so Artur, knowing Micheal is in mortal danger, does the most logical thing and strips down naked apart from a small oxygen canister and his gun and starts crawling through the vents, because I am not letting the GM railroad us into having the Calculators way be the only way when Micheal is Arturs friend.
He switches back to the other group for a bit and the Calculator is Private messaging the GM in the background and he casually mentions how Micheal might not survive this unless he does it perfectly so don't blame him if it goes wrong; we're down to 75% cabin pressure in the Kitchen which is sealed off and the Hostage taker is starting to slurr.
70% he threatens to kill Micheal unless we get the escape pod in less than 5 minutes.
60%, Micheal faints, due to blood loss from being attacked by a murderous, desperate knife wielding criminal and lack of oxygen.
50%...the Hostage taker drops the knife and is swaying like a bitch.
And it keeps going down, as the Calculator lies about him being down, as, as far as he knows, he's the only one with camera view.
What he doesn't know is that Artur is watching from inside a vent and the the Mechanic is looking over his shoulder from a distance as he says he'll have to drop it even lower; obviously planning to 'acidentally' kill Micheal.

>>17976785
>obviously planning to 'acidentally' kill Micheal.
NIGGA WENT FULL RETARD

>>17976785
>obviously planning to 'acidentally' kill Micheal.
I don't think this guy knows who he is fucking messing with. Goddamn I need the rest of this story.

>>17976785
So Artur Kool-aid mans out the Vent and gives Micheal, his best friend who is currently dying on the floor, the oygen mask while holding his breath as the room explosivly decompresses.
And he grabs the Knife and jabs a hole in the Kitchen door seal, as the Mechanic finally clicks and shouts out what the Calculator is trying to do and grabs the PDA, reversing the decompression, leaving Micheal on heal so low it will take a month in game for him to heal up, health so low that a good kick would end him now.
Artur turns and kneels down on the back of the hostage taker as the door opens and for the first time the others see him without his suit, looking like the Space version of Victor Szasz; knelt on this guy with a knife in his hand.
The Mercinaries go to point their guns at me and get me off him because for some reason this motherfucker must be taken alive.
No.
Not this time. Artur might not stand up for himself but he will pull you limb from limb for hurting Micheal, which this man has done.
So he puts the knife in his throat and pulls it across.

>>17976862
Kill The Calculator next, please for the love of the Emprah, kill The Calculator next..

>>17976878
You forget the mercs are the only ones with fully automatic weapons.

...then again, I seem to have forgotten that the only way this came to pass is because the GM wants to force the party to work together with The Slide Rule, so the chances of them doing dick is slim to none.

>>17976911
Forcing a party together that obviously aren't going to work together, thanks to the player of "The Calculator", is a bad thing. Besides, Artur has a great excuse to kill Mr. Calculator.
>Now, he and Micheal had a very tense relationship, because while Artur would die for Micheal
In character, Artur going after and attempting to kill The Calculator makes perfect sense.

>>17976862
And the GM suddenly decides that this loss of life is a horrific thing and I feel like a monster for it and drama-drama-oohdilladdy and tells me my character will have nightmares later.
And I'm like 'No, you can't tell me how my character feels, he tried to kill Micheal. I have no guilt at all about this. This guy broke the Rules.' Outright and to his face.
GM bitches a bit and the Mercinaries, once again, trained and professional Murderers who work for a fucking Crime Boss and have already mentioned they've broken legs before and crap, look at me as if I'm Norman Bates.
Considering I'm currently the naked patchwork man I can see why the others are shocked, but those guys when the GM has been bringing them across as hard as nails cynical badasses as he brings across all soldier types? The fuck?
Anyway, the Calculator then steps forward and starts to give this long schpiel about how he saved the day and obviously is the only competent one here and should be released and be captain and...
Then the Mechanic girl points out what he tried to do.

>>17976862
Oh I'm loving this

>>17976996
And Artur gets up, using the table as both his knee caps are fucked from being drilled through in the past, the suit isn't just for hiding himself, it also supports all the damaged areas, turns and looks at him balefully, with his one good eye, which is black as hell itself and his milky burned eye which a Mafia torturer put out a cigarette in once; and Micheal saved him from that ignoble fate; which he didn't earn, he fell in love and was nearly killed for it and Micheal gave up his future to save him, he could have turned his back on him and left him, one more corpse on the road to greatness.
But he didn't. He risked his life to defy an entire planet of criminals and scum to save Arturs life.
And has paid for it ever since in every day that he has worked nose to the grindstone in the ass end of space instead of being one of the richest, most powerful people in that section of the Galaxy.
And this motherfucker just tried to kill Micheal.
He makes a 'Move out the way' gesture to the others...who all move back quickly out his way, leaving the Calculator standing alone, shocked that he was found out, he thought he was too clever to be caught, IC and OOC

>>17977066
MOAR! TYPE FASTER AND GIVE ME MOAR!

>>17977066
The GM has the mecerinaries try to stop me and Micheal shouts him down telling him they were just piss terrified of me and I roll intimidate, my one good social skill and get a bonus for being a hideous, mutilated figure with a heart of black ice and a bloodied knife in my hand.
And then, as he goes to slime his way out of it or be clever, I smoothly draw up Sasha and turn his head into a hole in space, the Mercinaries go to arrest me and throw me in the Brig, but the Doctor and the Mechanic stop them, as I carry Micheal out the room silently, taking him to the Nursing station and dragging the Doctor with me. My camaradierie and friendship with this dickass of a man who saved my life over ruling my embaressment about everyone knowing my secret. Limping on the way there on damaged legs.
He might have been clever, but he wasn't smart; and I have yet to meet man who can outsmart bullets.
Only interesting incident after that during that arc was the little girl helping Artur out when something went wrong with the wiring and then wanting to stay with Artur and fly around space with them really when they hit planet side, but she was 8, she couldn't make that choice.
Artur knelt down and shook his head and signed out the following, a message that would stay with her I like to think forever:

>>17977108
I LIEK CHOCOLATE MILK

sorry

>>17977108
> I smoothly draw up Sasha and turn his head into a hole in space
Yes. YES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs&feature=related

>>17977118
Look what your careless hands have wrought.

>>17977108
'You are young little one, you do not know what you want yet; if you joined us today, you would regret it tomorrow, and miss your mother, your father, your family, your friends, for nothing is as important as a friend. You have much growing up to do and I am not a teacher, or a father and If I were, I would not be as good as your own, nor one to be proud of; this place is good and rich and peaceful, grow up here, happy and free.
The Galaxy is large and wide and dark, there are many things in it that are sad, many broken people and many lost dreams.
You are young little one, 10 years younger than I; you have not yet been hardened by it or had to live through its pain. *He removed his helmet at this point and smiled through his damaged face* Go, live with your family, live long, eat, drink, dance, live and love and know not the brutality of life, grow up happy and content with the ground under your feet. And if one day, you still wish to return, to rejoin those of us who live, fight and die amongst the stars then we will be waiting for you, for you are as brave as a bear.
My name is Artur Izvanov, Captain of Engineering of the Star-Rider, Ship serial code #4979220, come and find me; we will be waiting for you, amongst the stars; Лапушка.'

it's ten gnarled hooves cannot support its weight...

>>17977118
you motherfucker

>>17977129
That is incredibly cheesy.
Someone had to say it.

>>17977146
i kind of prefer chocolate milk ending

>>17977129
Лапушка, it means little paw; and with that he removed the bear from his back pocket and handed it to her, then ruffled her blond hair with one huge, calloused, scarred hand, missing the 2 lowest fingers and stood up, turned and climbed back onto the ship; as it took off, standing there in her simple refugee rags on the edge of the Arcadian fields of the planet they had dropped them off on, she watched him all the way until the ramp closed, holding her bear.
I'd like to say the game continued after that and that after a time skip, she joined them or returned, that the message was carved into the stone at the entrance of the village that family started on a statue of him, that Artur overcame his crudeness and hermietic ways and fear of people to become a better man, a hero of the people and made the universe better, that Artur, Micheal, the Doctor, the Mechanic, the Mafiya Princess and Little Paw went on to have grand adventures and that the Calculator was driven forever from the group. But no story ends so happily, the game trailed off after that, the GM deciding that the death of the PC he favoured was enough to kill it, even if we all hated the smug fucker and the Calculator is still in our group, but appears to have learned that just because he's another PC doesn't mean the rest of us will put up with any shit from him, not after that, he's walking a very fine line now.
And that is the end of the tale of Artur as it was, an ignoble ending to a bland game with few redeeming features beyond Micheal, Artur, the Doctor and the Mechanic.

>>17977161
Oh and no one except Micheal ever found out I could actually talk; before anyone asks about that.

>>17977157
I know right?
>>17977161
YAY MORE STUFF oh its still cheesy.
Sucks your game fell apart but perhaps it was for the best with the GM acting like he did. Would you really want to keep playing with him pulling that crap?

>>17977129
>>17977161
I'll be honest, the 'silent scarred badass who suddenly speaks and hams it up like hormel never could' annoys me to no small end

>>17977146
It is, but what else are you supposed to say to an 8 year old who wants to run away from home and join a space ship crew.
Still, it was slightly ruined by the fact that the Calculator sat in until the session ended and kept being a passive-agressive bitch and implying OOC that my character was a pedophile and added to the end of the speech ("And I have I'm not allowed to work with Children anyway.")
Prick.

>>17977243
Eh, it was all in sign and I couldn't think of anything else that would convince her to stay, that was probably my fault out of character. Artur always had a heart of gold though and Micheal and that girl were the only people he really taked to.

>>17977243
Well, he WAS signing it. The girl was deaf.

>>17977264
THEN HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BRIAN BLESSED!

I really hope someone drawfags this guy something cool. Like Artur kneeling infront of the little girl at the bottom of the ramp.
Or him turning the Calculator into a fine red mist.

>>17977259

Well, you're also coming off as a bit of a self-righteous prick here with the HOW DARE HE RUIN MY AWESOME RP WATCH ME HAM IT UP LIKE DAYS OF OUR LIVES stuff.

>>17977392
>Days of Our Lives
The calculator is more like a character out of that show than the hammy lines at the end.
Also he said they thought the calculator guy's character was bad from the start, perhaps that group is all about that kind of roleplay. Merc with a heart of dawwwwww works well for some people, nothing wrong with that.

Either way, thank you for the story Artur. It was enjoyable and had a happy ending.

Its nice when that happens. A happy ending that is, too often things need to end on a cliffhanger, or full of needless drama.

>>17977392
>I'm the dickass thief in every game, calculator is my bro.

Nah, I'm trolling man, but seriously. Stop gobbling cock.

>>17977161

>>17977515

>>17977515
>>17977545
Woohoo!
Another nice story for /tg/ immortalized.

>>17977515
>>17977545
please, please, make a version with chocolate milk ending

>>17977545

>>17977573
already been done

>>17977576

>>17977573
see
>>17977125

Oh, and one last fact I forgot to mention, which makes the entire hostage thing halarious.
One of our players had been out the first few sessions for personal reasons; and he planned to play a convict.
Guess how the GM planned to introduce his character and thought it'd be a great idea to introduce him holding up hostage?

So I murdered 2 other PCs in that room.
The kicker?
The guys character wasn't a guy, he was planning on playing a girl, the GM didn't even bother to read his back story and find that out.
I wish I was kidding. It's the most angry I've ever seen that player, he was furious at the fact he'd been introduced when he wasn't there, the inaccuracy of how his character was played and everything inbetween.

>>17977759
Haha, no wonder the GM wanted "him" alive.

What a derp, man.

I cant help but imagine Artur as a more fucked up version of this guy.

>>17977392
>Plays an asshole and dicks about the entire group, pays for it.
>Another PC is having a nice moment with an NPC
>TIME TO RUIN IT FOR HIM HURR PEDERFURL

Yeah, no. When your character gets attached to a child NPC its not cool for anyone to make Pedo jokes specifically to bring you down, thats just the Calc being an asshole of the highest caliber.

>>17977759
The fuck.

>>17977759
>The guys character wasn't a guy, he was planning on playing a girl, the GM didn't even bother to read his back story and find that out.
This is your GM, right here.

Archived for the glory of Artur.
That was a hell of a story as well, highs, lows and everything.

Bump; because this is epic.

Bumping.
Best thatguy story ever.

>>17977124
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_VheAwZBuQ

An excellent story, pity about The Calculator's player getting to stick around though. People who deliberately create characters that would have a hard time displaying loyalty to their mothers, let alone party members, always piss me off. It's great in a comedic setting like Paranoia, but in a straight-up drama game? No dice.

Also, facepalm at the GM for

1. Not reading backstories (to the point of not even getting gender correct, I seriously don't even)
2. Introducing players when they aren't even present (I somehow doubt the player would have liked to get his start taking a member of the group hostage)
3. Worst of all, not tolerating but outright FAVORING characters that are built to intentionally cause interparty strife.

Waitaminute...this was inspired by Firefly? Did your GM SEE the episodes where hostages were taken? Did he count how many times said hostage-takers joined the crew vs. getting their shit fucking shot, regardless of prior relationship or danger?

The one time there was an intercrew conflict, Mal nearly killed the offending party, and only changed his mind when said offender finally *got it* in what would have been the last seconds of his life.

So, yeah, I don't think your GM really "got" Firefly.

We are tha/tg/uy.