Quotes from Anders' Mage Chronicles
By Anders Sandberg Jun. 1994Some quotes from my Mage chronicles.
When a player gave the Storyteller some Coke during a very dangerous game-session, another player said:
Don't give Reality Coca-Cola. It kills us!
When arguing about the similarity between technomancers and the Order of Hermes.
Emma (OoH): Hermetics are not technomancers. Hermetics are better.
When arguing with a technomancer.
Emma: You are truth until Paradox!
Emma: When you are doing vulgar magick anyway, why not make it more spectacular?
Salvatore the Euthanatos gives his own car the Good Death.
Salvatore: This car has lost its possibilities and must be reincarnated.
The Orphan Lizzy tries to explain that she is a nice person, not a cold Euthanatos like Salvatore.
Lizzy: I feel bad about all those I kill. Both the good ones and the evil ones.
Lizzy and Salvatore are arguing.
"You're a psychopath!"
"What is that?"
"Eh... Look it up."
(Looks it up) "Yes... It fits quite well."
Salvatore wants to help
Salvatore: Trust me. I'm a sociopathic knife-murderer.
Can I help you, Doctor?
Could you please hold this rattle a moment?
Please kill my mother. I'm your psychiatrist!
"What did the spirit look like?"
"It looked like you"
"Poor devil!"
Theological discussion between Salvatore and Lizzy.
Salvatore: God is not a turtle. God is a bus.
After some very weird experiences.
"Where have you been?"
"Washing away imaginary blood in an imaginary fountain."
After meeting the Angelic Hosts.
"The Archangel stole my coat!"
After the Euthanatos a bit too nonchalantly eliminated their driver.
Emma: Not that we in Order of Hermes care much about humans, but that was unnecessary!
Janos has maybe a bit too much faith in his friend
Janos: Tessin is a Son of Ether. He knows what he's doing.
The Goetic mage is interrupted in drawing his circle and jumps into a corner to hide (all 119 kilos of him)
Dr. Sallai: Tessin, I'm practicing necromancy!
Tessin: In the corner?
The mage is interrupted again.
Dr. Sallai: Curses! Is one not allowed to practice necromancy in peace?
Discussing the leader of the Chantry.
"He is lying sick and dying. Is that a good qualification for a leader?"
"How did you know?"
"A little demon whispered it in my ear..."
"He can rip my soul into shreds... So what?"
After realizing that their target wasn't the intended victim
"Who the hell have we fried?"
Discussing a Master of the Chantry.
"He is cruel, but unfair."
An upset hermetic
"You just look at the whole, not at the parts!"
"If you lie a bit every day for 600 years, it will become quite a big lie."
"It will become a Tradition."
"He doesn't breathe, so we can be calm."
The Virtual Adept is about to be questioned by the Masters.
"In just this case information probably doesn't want to be free..."
"Everybody makes mistakes. Why should she be blamed because she has made a lot of mistakes in sequence?"
"Hermetic fascists!"
"We are not fascists, they have just learned from us."
The Virtual Adept is held prisoner by vampires.
"I regret I have only one life to lay down for my Chantry!"
"That can be arranged..."
"I have smitten them with the pure flame of God!"
"Why did it smell of brimstone, then?"
"Well, it was almost as pure as the Lamb of God, but I did use a little bit of infernal power..."
"I'll have to rob a bank to pay my rent!"
"Get real! Make a pact with a demon!"
"The technomancers are not hard guys. They are as wimpy as we are."
Desperate and frustrated mages in the forest.
"What should we do?"
"Sacrifice eggs to some bloody god!"
"You brought lunch to a commando raid?!"
"Hooray, we got a drunken Son of Ether... Wait, it sounds catastrophic!"
The Son of Ether tries to make the trolls friendly.
"I brought a few rocks. Lets party!"
"You are going to give them a Nintendo?"
"You can afford some presents for your grandchildren if you know a few demons."
Son of Ether technology
"I can build you a computer if you look away."
Chantry politics in a nutshell.
"Do you have the rules? Can we find any loopholes?"
The Virtual Adept wants to understand the Order of Hermes.
"Do you have the teachings of your Tradition in a pocket edition?"
"I'm crazy, not stupid!"
Finally, the motto of my chronicles:
"You're insane!"
"I'm a mage."
