Born to be Kings: The Sessions

   Deborah says "Have you ever ridden a rollercoaster backwards?"
   Deborah says "I was dragged onto one, once."
   Deborah says "I screamed and shouted bloody murder and cursed a blue streak like a sailor - and this was when I didn't say such things; the look on Rob's face was hilarious - and promised death and destruction to anyone who did that to me again."
   Deborah says "Then I happily climbed back into the rollercoaster, eager for more. That was Kings."

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The fat lady has sung. Now we wait for quotes.

Past Sessions

How Do We Get So Many Quotes?

One of the most curious things I've discovered over time with the advent of this game is the rather extended audience we've managed to pick up for our quotes. I am told we have entire sections of some companies reading our quotes as a way to break the humdrum of the workday.

Cool.

That said, I thought it would be worthwhile to make some space to give credit where it's due. Were it not for the constant vigilance and dedicated efforts of Deborah Donoghue, Sybil's player, none of this would be possible.

When Deborah volunteered to take quotes during our first session, I thought she'd write down the occasional pithy remark that caused folks to crack up, that sort of thing. We'd have, what, maybe twelve quotes in a session, and that would be good. I forgot two things when I formed this initial impression. First, my players compose the six wisest asses I know, and generate bon mots like soda factories produce cans. Second, Deborah's maniacal devotion to productivity, efficiency, and detail. I've rarely been more happy about being so off the mark.

Since then, every session has had a constant soundtrack -- under the one that I build and play off my laptop -- of Deborah's machine-gun rapidfire typing on her own laptop. The result is tens of kilobytes of text that is sufficiently complete that maintaining an additional log of session summaries just hasn't seemed necessary. But, it's Deborah. She doesn't stop there.

After each session begins the long and nontrivial process of Deborah converting her quotes-taking shorthand into a thing of entertainment. Deborah's the one who recreates the feel of the moment by annotating each quote, giving it a sense of place and context. Without those, these things would not be the kind of thing that entire departments sit down and read like it's a new issue of a favorite comic book. The truest tribute to her work, I think, is that our quotes get quoted, out of context, and with some frequency. And that's just neat.