Campaign Quotes, Session 1
09.28.03


"Anytime you get a bunch of Amberites together, a campaign starts."
--Cort

"Hon! We didn't register out of shadow!!"

--Jen

"We never had a baby. What's that smell...?"

--Cort, on Brand's psychically dominating his wives after Fount accidents gone awry

Dan (describing his character): So, I was raised by a bunch of chicks.
Jen: Gay, gay, gay...

"Random's a recessive gene."

--Andy, on Tanin not looking much like Random

"I will not be a dyke this time."

--Jen, wishful thinking

"I don't care what Amber looks like as long as my portrait is okay."

--Andy, mocking another player

"My goddess is damp."

--Jen

Cort (regarding Kath.s character): Wow. Her Armageddon is tidy.
Andy: She has a British Armageddon.

Kath: I have things to do!
Andy: Water plants and yell at your husband?

"You've had a weird summer? Is that like June Cleaver saying, 'I had a bad hair day?'"

--Andy

"Tell the fish-man off! 'Listen, you dolphin-free fuck!'"

--Andy

"Aw, dad. Not again. I.ve been bleeding all day."

--Andy, on bleeding on the Pattern for daddy

"Ooo. Angry meringue kitty."

--Andy, to Cort


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Campaign Quotes, Session 2
10.12.03


"This is not a Gérard-shaped hole."
-Andy

Andy: You know, this is the first time there’s been a normal trap in an Amber game. You can hear the gears shifting in Kath’s head.
Jeremy F.: In Amber, this is novel.

"Wow, you were conquered by Scooby Doo tactics."

-Cort

"Eric: wounded by book!"

-Andy

Jen: It’s not that I hesitate, it’s that I had a thought.
Cort: And that alone is shocking.

"I’ll be partying. Tell me if you die."

-Cort

Marah: Why didn’t you open it?
Guard: It’s a wall, ma’am.

"Wow. Five seconds into the conversation and she’s already into ‘plaintive whine.’"

-Cort, regarding Kath (the latter of which should know better than to censor the quote list)

Dan: Most of us had breakfast together.
Kath (to Jeremy Z.): Until you spilled the beans.
Andy (as Moon): "Eric’s a pussy, go check it out.

Jeremy F.: She kinda has a little veil.
Cort: It helps cover the pus-filled lesions.

Calla: Is there a name for this group of protectors?
Courtier: Whatever you want.
Cort (helping): Calla’s Clingy Courtiers?

Calla: Imagine this ruffian is trying to attack me.
Courtier (defending her): Piss off!

Simon: Can this affect your physical or monetary health?
Marah: Indirectly yes.
Simon: That’s the wrong answer.

"I’m probably going as a lawn gnome."

-Cort, on his costume for the ball


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Campaign Quotes, Session 3
10.26.03


Marah’s Dead Mom: Look, sweetheart, when you put things in the ground, they grow.
Jen: Ohmygodyouneedtocallanexorcist!

Merchant (to Bart): I’m off to get more kegs.
Jen: Oh, I thought he said pigs.
Andy: It could be both. Kegs and pigs. Pigkegs!
Jeremy Z.: Pigs filled with beer!
Andy: It’s the best of both worlds.

"It sounds like you have something against parties."

-Bart, to Bleys

"Look how cute I am! Come through to me!"
-Jen, on how to lure people through a trump connection.

"Can I rub on your good stuff?"
-Jeremy F.

Jen (on "visits" to her character): You sinned coming in, you’re clean going out.
Andy: Usually it’s the other way around.

"This is the only [Amber] game I’ve been in that requires a Find/Remove Traps skill."

-Andy

" ‘Henri’s dead? Did he have clean underwear on?’ ‘No, but he had a pair tucked into his belt.’ ‘Oh, thank God!’ "

-Jen, on priorities

"Moon is Buddhism gone wrong."

-Jen

"Anything to do with the family is our business."

-Bleys

Tech: We need to get you to the clinic.
Marah: No.
Tech: You have at least second degree burns.
Marah: I’ll be fine.
Tech: Your ass is hanging out!

"You just need a big cotton panty!"

-Jen, on Marah’s chapped ass


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Campaign Quotes, Session 4
11.09.03


"I need to cast that history spell on myself, and maybe send someone flowers."
-Cort, on Simon’s naked amnesia

Jeremy F. (to Cort): There’s a city guard waiting outside.
Jeremy Z.: You’re under arrest!
Jen: She was only 8!
Cort: I was feeling youthful.
Andy: She was a very tall 8-year-old.

Jeremy F. (to Cort): There’s a mason jar of black ick waiting for you.
Andy (as Cort): Oh, my pâté showed up.

"I love gack! Especially during the holidays."

-Andy

"Oh, not more gruesome deaths. This is getting tiresome."

-Cort

"Please stop ignoring us, sir."

-Cort

Authorities: We just have a few routine questions.
Bart: I’m sure I know what your routine is.

"When you’re being anally probed, try not to lose the data."

-Cort, to Andy

"You’re going to wake up thinking you’re the Burger King."

-Cort, to Andy

"The bad guys are fighting over me. I’m popular!"

-Cort, as Andy

Gérard: Of course I don’t want to know. But you should tell me.
Andy: You have a fresh cup of coffee. Throw it!
Cort: You cannot break Gérard, but you can burn him.

"I appreciate anal retention in evil."

-Cort

"Would you like an adjective?"

-Cort


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Campaign Quotes, Session 5
12.04.03


"It’s not a quote log. It’s a Cort log."
-Dan, on the previous session’s quote log

"She’s an equal opportunity hussy."

-Jeremy Z.

Andy: It’s a man naked on a horse. What more do you want?
Jen: Not much.

"The gay gene runs deep. It protects me from unwanted heterosexual advances."

-Cort

Cort (to Jeremy F.): You’re losing it.
Jeremy F.: You can’t lose it if you never had it.

Jen: I said the first session that I will not play a dyke this game. I have five strapping young men!
Cort (sobbing): I’m viciously heterosexual!

Jen: I walk up to them like I belong.
Jeremy Z.: They stop talking and stare at you.
Andy: It’s like when someone not cool walks up to you at a party.

Simon: Are you staying.
Marah: YES, BECAUSE I HAVEN’T HAD A CHANCE TO SAY ANTYING, SIMON!
Cort: Simon looks non-plussed. "Very well."

"I got the camera? I can stop masturbating!"

-Cort

Simon: What is Chaos?
Jen: Julian offers you a red pill and a blue pill.

Jeremy F.: He must like you a lot to let you get away with it.
Cort: I was also right.

Calla: She rests with the Unicorn.
Jeremy Z.: She rests with something.
Jen: Shut up! Stop fucking with my religion!

"You’re like a suburbanite. ‘I’ve never been here before. It’s so… arctic. Do you get cable?’"

-Andy

Dan: Excuse me, professor, what’s a "blowjob?"
Jeremy F.: An "A," sweetheart.

Cort: Simon looks nervous. Really, really nervous.
Andy: And he has no pants on.

Dan: Some were killed bestiality.
Jen: They were fucked to death by dogs?
Dan: Bestially.

Simon: Do you know my name?
Servant: You are Darkness.
Simon: Not at the moment.

"If you can’t eat your id, what good is it?"

-Andy


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Campaign Quotes, Session 6
01.04.04


Cort: Everything I say is in the mode of a six-year-old.
Andy: That should work for this game.

Cort (regarding the CD player): That’s like our game. "Just hit ‘Play,’ we’re already on random."
Jeremy Z.: Everyone looks at Andy.

"In a way, Jeremy, you are a fruit fly."

-Cort, to Jeremy Z.

"It’s gonna be a fun day of tea, Devonshire cream, and talking about Simon!"

-Andy

"Crazy Amber anteater farms?"

-Andy

Jeremy Z.: Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Jen: Eat your own sick?

Jeremy Z.: Am I awake?
Jeremy F.: You’re dreaming.
Jeremy Z.: Oh, fuck.

"I don’t think that would work on the One True Chair."

-Jeremy F., regarding the throne

"Wasn’t she dressed as a tramp at that party?"

-Andy, as a courtier commenting on Calla

"One by one, certain nobles are choking to death."

-Cort, having to deal with stray psychic emanations from flaky nobles

Cort (regarding Marah): Those silly bisexuals.
Kath: Marah’s all about enjoying the day for what it is.
Dan: Or hating it, depending on the mood.
Cort: Or hysterically castigating the day.

"I’m impressed what a good ‘bitchy jilted lesbian’ Jer is."

-Jen, regarding Jeremy F.

"I’m not tampering. I’m examining the fabric of reality."

-Cort, tampering

"No! Pain and angst for you for two weeks! [pause] That was easy."

-Jeremy F.

Jeremy Z.: I’m watching for threats to our physical well-being.
Jeremy F.: Well, Caine’s there.

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Campaign Quotes, Session 7
01.18.04


"Nothing starts the day like a big cup of guilt from your dad."

-Andy

Jen: Men basically suck.
Kath: Yeah, pretty much.

"He would be so much happier if your brain was in Onri, and his brain was in your body."

-Jen, regarding Marah

Andy: It’s a Primal Thermos!
Jen: It’s hot throughout shadow.
Andy: It can have coffee, or soup!

Marah: Eric has managed to piss off the entire younger generation.
Cort: Speak for yourself, drama king.

Jeremy Z. (as Kath): "I have my own horribly dangerous thing to do. I don’t have time for your ‘boy’ things."
Andy: It’s emotional.
Cort: Marah, emotional loose cannon in Amber.

Tannin: It’s a long story.
Bart: I have time.

Cort (to Andy): You’re like the Borg now.
Andy: No. Maybe.

Chevalier: What sort of information are you looking for?
Peanut Gallery: DIRT!

"It’s not just about warding, it’s a theme."

-Andy, on the magical precautions of a courtesan

Andy: Are you doing emotional readings from her boudoir?
Jen: My god, she fakes it every time!

Andy: Am I back to normal?
Jeremy F.: You’re up to 95%.
Jen: Your pee-pee doesn’t work.

"It’s like an episode of Star Trek. ‘There’s too many bozon particles!’"

-Cort

Kath: No one gets testy in Amber?
Cort: Not like you do.

Dan: If mood changes were a power plant, you’d be a hyperdrive.
Kath (pouting): Marah’s not going anywhere now.
Cort: Thus proving our point.

Marah (observing vast displays of power): What are you doing, Bart?
Bart (unhelpful): I don’t know…

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Campaign Quotes, Session 8
02.01.04


"Marah: Pirate on the seas of emotion!"

-Jeremy F.

"Bartholemw: Marginally useful."

-Cort

"Mr. Explorer… Mr. Scout… Mr. Fell-Off-a-Ledge…"

-Cort, regarding Tannin being taken off camera

Cort: I’d spend another hour making a mapping spell, BUT THERE’S A FORWARD ATTACK COMING.
Andy: Fine, "Marah."

"That’s it. I’m turning evil right now."

-Cort

"You’ve enhanced Moon-Jiz?"

-Andy

"So, does that mean we have ‘Moon-Shine?’"

-Andy

Cort: Where are we compared to Tannin?
Andy: Off camera.

"We’re obviously carrying the artifact you desperately want, even if you don’t know it."

-Cort, regarding the Chaosians

"That was a very complicated, Discovery Channel explanation of ‘Fuck you.’"

-Andy

Cort: The music’s not on your side.
Jen: I don’t care. I have faith.
Cort: Most people do right before the end.

Jen: It’s probably dead and gross, and Bart will want to lick it.
Andy: No, no, no, maybe.

Jeremy F.: You don’t want this. It’s just Udon’s scab collection.
Andy: His entire scab collection.

"There’s just her conversation on a sea of subtext."

-Cort

"Listen to the music. It is a scab."

-Jen

Jeremy F.: That’s just gross.
Andy: I do it.

Chevalier: Certainly she has gained--
Andy (helping): -- weight.

"What’s involved in her was a large knife."

-Cort


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Campaign Quotes, Session 9
02.15.04


Dan: The whole thing is run on little-people shit.
Cort: Powered by the magic of elf fudge.

"Simon is like everyone’s worst little brother nightmare."

-Kath

"I learned physics, but I forgot how to chew."

-Andy, on Simon’s ability to tap the global subconscious

Andy: Oh, right. I forgot I learned that language in my spare time.
Cort: I could pick it up, but I’d lose physics.

Kath: They were not nice to our Callah.
Jen: That’s why Marah was wanting to kill them. They were rude.

Andy: That’s how the books end. Corwin in a vat of goo with a girly mag.
Jeremy Z.: Soaking in a vat of his own semen.
Cort: That gets cold.

"Man, your Unicorn bleeds like a bucket."

-Cort

Callah: I’m not going to have you frantically trumping me after getting beat up.
Onri: Once! It happened once!
(Callah holds up two fingers.)
Onri: I recall troubling someone else the first time.

"When a joke fails, continuing on with it is not the best tactic."

-Cort, to Jeremy Z.

"Has that alien been decorating your dog?"

-Jen

Bart: Hey, Simon, don’t you think we should be able to read this before turning this on?
Simon: I can read "On." What more do you need?

Cort (pretending to read a display): "My ass is filled with glory and power!" Andy: Again?
Cort: You need to get some Metamucil for that.

"Can I be initiated into a power that doesn’t lose every confrontation?"

-Cort

"I want to see how many people I can get to bleed from the eyes by the end of the session."

-Andy

"The line you have reached, Marah, is full of ennui. Please try again later."

-Andy, as a trump busy signal

"He’s done being scared. Again."

-Jeremy F.

"The way your dad fucks around, there must be a lot of you out there."

-Jen, talking about Random

"…and then she gets her head blown off by a flower."

-Andy

"I’m here. I’m there. I’m here. I’m there. Where’s my foot?"

-Andy, on the joys of teleportation

Cort: I’m abandoning myself to intuition and symbolism!
Kath (doubtful): Oh, please.
Cort: You’re not there!

"What did they say in your head?"

-Andy, to Cort

Simon: This is not an exact science.
Bart: I’ve gathered that much.

Jeremy F. (to Cort): Okay, you’re back at the party.
Andy: And there’s you clubbing mimes.

Jen: Don’t encourage him!
Andy: I’m not… in character.

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Campaign Quotes, Session 10
02.29.04


"You have just enough imagination to rub the points together."

- Andi, on Calla’s quiz answers

Cort (on creepy subconscious Rebma): Clouds of underwater Angst?
Kath: Sorry, I’m leaking.

"My dreams were packaged for later shipment!"

-Cort

Cort: He’s all into power, even verbal power.
Andi: Oh, one of your friends?

"Bart answers the trump, sees Marah, chuckles, she cries and asphyxiates."

-Cort

"Have you been sticking your dick in my Fount?"

Andi, as Brand to Simon

Cort: Simon’s covered in moving black flame tattoos, but I’m sure he okay…
Andi (as Tanin): "That’s great Simon…" as I wait for the drugs in the wine to kick in.

"I won’t mention this. Marah would have a field day with this."

-Cort

Marah: I look busy?
Jeremy F.: Like Kath’s never used that tone of voice before!

Andi: We’ll go get bigger ships, with much taller and thicker masts.
(Kath nearly chokes on her burrito.)

Marah (to James): …and you can come along.
Cort: … and be able to do nothing and watch.

"Moon is avoiding creepy domestic talk…"

-Jeremy Z.

Andi: Hm, that was completely useless.
Kath: Yeah, I know.
Andi: Well, now you know how James feels.

"My wife’s friends had to come save me, my wife couldn’t be bothered."

Cort, as James

Jer: They have no facial features, webbed ears…
Andi: We’re being attacked by sea monkeys!

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Campaign Quotes, Session 11
03.14.04


"Your actual Warfare is 150, but your morality brings it way down."

-Andy

"If this keeps up, Bart’s going to go to a shadow where vaginas can’t get through."

-Andy

Jeremy Z.: I don’t want to talk to his ass.
Dan: I’d rather talk to his mouth.

Callah: Is there anything else sharp in here?
Carson: Besides your tongue?

"Yay! People are already dying for the cause!"

-Andy

Slave: Your words were true. No man can stop you.
Callah: Just wait till I’ve had a full night’s sleep.
Jen and Andy (suggestively): Then I can take you all.
Jeremy F.: And make a fortune on the video.

"It’s not a bad ship. It’s my ship."

-Andy

Kath: James never goes back to Amber, be becomes a pirate.
Jeremy F.: But it’s Sean Bean as a pirate.
Jen and Kath (torn): Oh…
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Campaign Quotes, Session 12
04.25.04


"I was viciously attacked by Callah’s home movies!"

-Cort

"What’s that wailing of the damned? Oh, Marah’s home."

-Cort

"The courtesans you requested are here."

-Jeremy F., jokingly as the steward

"Who am I to defy the steward?"

-Eric

Marah: We’re done. It was fun.
Simon: That’s an interpretation of it…

Cort: Simon’s not concerned. He has black lines all over his arms, so it’s not like it’s a secret.
Jen: You might consider a long-sleeved shirt.

"Simon’s like, ‘Before you commit me to treason…’"

-Cort

Dan: So if you IPO, will we get a part of your power?
Cort: Sure. I’ll become very wealthy, then the whole thing will crash in two years.

"My parents are going to be Corwin and Sparky the Pattern Dog."

-Cort

Jeremy Z. (as Corwin): "I’ll be a benevolent tyrant…"
Jen: "Suck it, darling."

Tannin: This is a war that will be fought on many fronts.
Jen: We keep telling this to the people in charge, and they keep blowing us off.

"I’m committed only to soup."

-Cort


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Campaign Quotes, Session 13
05.09.04


Jen (regarding the ghost ship): I wonder what that does under the water?
Andy: Sink.

“Marah possessed with an unstoppable verbal hemorrhage? It’ll never happen.”

-Cort

“There are Japanese throwing-Oreos!”

-Cort

Cort: Trying doesn’t hurt.
Andy and Kath: Yes it does!

Bart: So, I heard Eric is pissed.
Fiona: At?
Bart: Us.

Fiona: I’m always open to what you have to say.
Bart: No you’re not.

“You took Fiona to your pyramid? It’s Fiona! She’s smarter than you! Accept it and move on!”

-Cort

Jen (on Simon’s ability to fly the pyramid): You landed it point down.
Cort: I got us on the ground!

“Do you really want to have Simon’s off moments? He got a boyfriend in his off moments.”

-Andy

“Your mom has been reduced to Charo!”

-Andy

Andy (as Fiona): “See! This is what happens when you mess with things!”
Jeremy F.: That’s not what she said.
Andy: But that’s what Bart heard.

“You made the GM tinkle!”

-Jen

“I’m not making a concentration camp. I’m removing the life force of creatures declared technically bad. And maybe some other creatures.”

-Cort
Cort: I never sensed anything in the darkness.
Jeremy Z.: You’ve never attracted attention before.
Cort: Yeah, I did just create a white hole in here.

“You accidentally stumbled across Dworkin’s underwater pot farm.”

-Andy

Cort: Your power didn’t come with evil.
Andy: I’ve got Fiona.

“Sorry, but we both know your fuckhead brother has been attacking Rebma.”

-Jen, as Tannin

“In my mind I visualize the ass chewing I’ll get from Marah if this goes into the city. That will kill any erection.”

-Cort

“That would be embarassing. ‘Fiona, Mistress of the Mind! Trapped in the lavatory!’”

-Cort

“I’ve got a pee erection. Wanna do something about this?”

-Cort, as Bleys

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Campaign Quotes, Session 14
05.23.04


“You may feel tough now, but try ordering pizza!”
-Andy, on Calla’s control of Amber City

“It’s Bleys as portrayed by William Shatner.”

-Jeremy Z.

Marah: You’re a great big effect Simon.
Simon: Everyone needs a hobby.

“They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than death blight…”

-Andy

Jeremy F.: Looking back, you see the water looks milky.
Jen and Andy (in unison): You just need to get those drops…

“Take your cousins. It’s better to die by friendly fire.”

-Jen
Eric: You were not mine to claim.
Calla: No, but I was yours to make unwanted.

“It really sucks when you accidentally crush the psyche of your cameraman.”

-Andy

Kath: Hi Simon, where are you? Can I yell at you?
Cort: I haven’t done anything.
Jen: Are you sure? Think hard.
Cort: Like I’d remember.

Bart: What are you doing?
Fiona: Cleaning up your messes.
Bart: Stop that!
Fiona: If you do first.

“Marah wonders why Simon feels he needs to justify himself. He must feel guilty.”

-Kath

“Your shield of bitchy virginity was hard to break through.”

-Cort

Simon (over a group Trump call): If you bring the chains into view, I can weaken them.
Andy: Was that the narrator?

Cort (on the life sucking darkness): If you use your power, it will be like a buffet to them.
Kath: Oh, you’d know, wouldn’t you?

“Simon did unequivocal good!”

-Jen, amazed

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