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brown@slc8.INS.CWRU.Edu (Dan Brown) writes:

>In article <1991Nov1.212725.18624@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy) writes:
>>
>>Please, read this message quickly, then log off and tell everyone
>> that you know.  DO NOT SEE HIGHLANDER 2.  
>
>That bad... did you ever see the first Highlander?? It was really pretty
>good, though a bit on the hoaky side after about the 35th viewing. 
>
   Only 35?  That's too bad.  Actually, I went with a bunch of people
who, as a group, had once been part of my Psi World game, the basis for
which was the fact that the lead character of the team was an immortal.

   They used to use him (and later, another immortal who joined the
team) as a diversion; he'd drive up in front, take massive amounts of
damage, and while all guns were trained on him the teleporters would
drop little ceramic-explosive charges on the bad guys and make them go
away.  Since one of the teleporters had a sculpture skill, she would
sometimes render the explosives in the shape of little grey bunnies.

   There's a scene like that in the movie (not exactly, not enough for
this to be a spoiler), and as the immortal is getting pegged with
bullets, he shouts "Here it comes!" and we all shouted aloud, "The
Gregor Maneuver!"  Too funny.

   My team was _not_ nice.  They had founded the Immortal Society of
The Sheep, a group of immortals dedicated to preventing The Gathering
(as we knew it before Highlander II (bleah!)), and were going about
killing the "wolves," those that had dedicated themselves to being the
centerpiece of The Gathering.  They had a business card which we made
up on my DTP; it showed a sheep with red, dripping fangs and the motto
"There Need Not Be Only One!"

   The Assassination of The Kurgen was the classic example; the team
found his favorite restaurant in Miami (where he was living at the
time) set up a pair of 20mm breech-action sniper cannon (hand made in
Pakistan... no kidding) in the hotel across the street, laid into him
as he came out; they then riddled his body with as much bullet fire as
the ground team could muster, aiming especially for the knees if they
had points of aim, then they ran him over a few times with a tow truck,
and the final stroke of sword to throat was delivered by the younger of
the two immortals.

   They met Castigere in a shopping mall a few days later.  He
applauded Gregor but told him the "assault team was hardly sporting."

   One point that amused me about movie II was that I've always admired
Michael Ironside; I had an immortal in my game named "Michael
Ironside."  Despite his trying to out-Kurgen the Kurgen and his
overacting, I liked him in this movie.

   And for all the SCA on rec.games.frp- tell me, wouldn't Pennsic be
the perfect place for The Gathering?

            Elf !!!


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