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Re: Steve Jackson's Lego Pirate Game (was "Re: KBKIDS 6441 Deep Reef Refuge for $18!")
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Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:43:20 GMT
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Ha-HA! Dodge! Turn! Parry! Ha!
"Franklin W. Cain" wrote:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > ... (And is he still doing that Pirate game?
> > It sounded like a heck of a lot of fun.)
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> Yup. He is. :-)
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> This past March, in Biloxi, MS, I attended Coast Con,
> where Steve was one of the guests.
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> I, in costume, assisted Steve in running his Pirate Game.
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> (As a member of the SCA, as well as being a regular attendee
> of several sci-fi cons, I've got a supply of costume shirts
> and props, etc. Also, as Biloxi is now "home" to several casinos,
> one of which is called "Tresure Island", and has a gift shop
> with -- you guessed it -- kiddie "pirate" props, one of the players
> brought some "props" -- an eyepatch, pirate captain's hat, and "hook" --
> she got some extra pirate people as a reward for being "in costume".)
That sounds wonderful--is SJ still just "fiddling around" or is he finally
entertaining the idea of making this thing into a set of standard rules? I
really wanted to have a chance at it someday. That's what I get for being in
the Northeast. *sigh*
> In fact, I had set up a truly diabolical "trap"
> for unwary players -- when setting up the game,
> I had dumped _ALL_ of the snakes one just one island.
> To be "fair", I also put some of the juicier treasures
> on "Snake Island" (the "magic scroll" was in the treasure chest,
> and one of the super-valuable silver bricks was on the island
> also, IIRC).
You mean, to be "evil" you added "bait." ;) I almost fell out of my chair
reading the story, and when you got to the refrain I half wanted to sing
along. My life is poorer for not having been in Biloxi. (I never EVER thought
I would have said that. Ever. EVER.)
Isn't Guam covered with snakes, too? I think we have a precedent for
snake-coated islands, although at least yours had something more valuable than
guano on it.
> About midway through this second turn, once I started rolling
> for the snakes' attacks, I started suffering from
> an uncontrollable fit of maniacal laughter, punctuated by the refrain
> "Beware Snake Island!"
Arrr. Arrr. ARRR! I think I've just regressed 15 years. That's marvelous.
> (Why, yes, I am a Game Master for a local group of PRGers...
> How could you guess? :-P :-)
The frothing mouth, the maniacal laughter, the power-mad sadism...brings back
memories (pine!)...
LFB.
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| (...) Yup. He is. :-) This past March, in Biloxi, MS, I attended Coast Con, where Steve was one of the guests. I, in costume, assisted Steve in running his Pirate Game. (As a member of the SCA, as well as being a regular attendee of several sci-fi (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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