{"id":823,"date":"2016-05-18T22:07:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/?p=823"},"modified":"2016-05-19T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:48:24","slug":"call-of-cthulhu-518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gamequotes\/2016\/05\/18\/call-of-cthulhu-518\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Cthulhu, 5\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re trying to smart with a dwarf.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to smart with a ranger.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Fair point.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did the floor suddenly pitch on you?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No, I got dizzy looking for the tiny lines&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I seem to recall the proper term here was &#8216;shotgun coozy.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I didn&#8217;t set it on fire at all.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And I don&#8217;t know anyone that might have.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I might have&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody&#8217;s got some spleenin&#8217; to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And thus we lost a bellhop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[Discussing the British period-appropriate term for the homeless&#8230;]<br \/>\n&#8220;Tramp.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Hey, you don&#8217;t need to call me names.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m just making polite conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s eight; what do you want?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Death metal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Either I will eventually hit him or he will fall over laughing at my attempt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, I&#8217;m not surprised at all.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Are you disappointed in us?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was at the hospital being treated for a mugging. 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I&#8217;ll call him Bucky.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Careful with him.  One wrong word&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you dual-wielding your half-spear and shovel?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No, I&#8217;ve left the shovel.  Now it&#8217;s half spear and half gun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to point out that previously, people thought MY ideas were bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever, you want carpet, it can be carpet.  You can be wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Bum-Chaser now.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;He comes from a long line of bum-chasers&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure whose turn it is to speak.  Do you want to roll initiative?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t saved anyone yet; why should we start now?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s not true!  We got Bucky, and Runs South, and&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna start handing this shit out on the street out of spite.  Want a priceless statue?  Here you go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We send postcards of the Indian Ocean, with a circle&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No, no, we just start sending him photos of everything that made us lose sanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every single person here is gonna have to make a Sanity check at my body odor when we meet up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mimes?  Why are you burning mimes?&#8221;<br \/>\n(multiple:) &#8220;Why not?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Because no one can hear them scream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technically they can scream.  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