Hunter: The Utter Waste of Space

[thessalian]

Hunter: The Reckoning -- the movie.

Oh, there's going to be a reckoning, all right. Given the tendency to make movie characters uber, by the time the film starts, they're not going to be so much hunters as hunted.

And yes, I've heard of tabletop Hunter games where everyone ends up uber; they wind up as half-angels or some such similar bollocks. The sorts of things you can't get unless you've been playing for years. That. Is not. The point! I'm seeing Hunter as a game you run fortnightly for six months maximum before another bunch of hunters comes along and frags your uber arse! If you really want to have a long-running Hunter game, when your characters become uber, roll up new starter level people, hand the old characters over to the GM to NPC, and hunt yourselves. It's not ideal, and you do know your old characters' strengths and weaknesses, and you probably don't want to kill them anyway after twelve or so sessions' worth of play, but at least you're still keeping to the point of the whole thing.

And yet Hollywood will have uber-hunters so they can go after the baddies and look impressive. Feh.

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[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

The ashtray in point was heavy glass and was shattered on its head (Its possible it deactivated enough of the brain or even simply knocked him out - hey its possible) none of the rest of the household objects had much of an effect (up until they became blunt objects that is)

cheers,
Your friendly neighborhood shaun/zombie addict.

[dodgyhoodoo.livejournal.com]

So it's possible to knock out zombies, and possibly get through a survival horror scenario without inflicting unreasonable damage on the living-impaired? Hmm. An ultra-politically-correct, mobile-deceased-respecting scenario / story is already forming in my head :)

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"Oh God, he's got an arm off"
"Dogs *can* look up."

[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

"How's that for a slice of fried gold?"

[dodgyhoodoo.livejournal.com]

*heh*

'scuse me, I'm just off down the Winchester.

[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

"What are we going to do?"
"I don't know... have a sit down?"

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"Kill the Queen!"
"WHAT?!?!"
"The jukebox!"

[dodgyhoodoo.livejournal.com]

Here's something that'll probably amuse you:

Shaun's workplace - Foree Electrics? Just around the corner from our flat, it's actually called Garland but it's a real appliance store. The bar across the road, Autumn House, is one of the better locals. Me, thessalian and weaselbitch go in there from time to time.

Hee. That was all kinds of freaky-arse-funny when I first saw the film, seeing as I passed the place on the way home...

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"You've got red on you"

[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

You know the injoke about the changed name right? That it's named after a cast member in the original Dawn of the Dead.

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"We're coming to get you Barbara!"

[dodgyhoodoo.livejournal.com]

Yup. Thing is, I can't call it anything else these days. Gods help me if I ever shop there and need to write them a cheque.

[Edit:] Ken Foree turned up as the TV preacher in the recent DotD too I think?

[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

Yup dead on. two other original dotd cast members had cameo's as well.

[dodgyhoodoo.livejournal.com]

You know the *really* freaky thing?

Up until 2-3 years ago you used to see groups of Army trucks rumbling by on the Finchley High Road every weekend, along with the Barmy Army guys who keep tanks in residential parking spaces. (NB There are no barracks in Finchley, but there's a logistics depot a couple of miles away in Mill Hill so I assume that's where they go / come from...)

Hasn't happened since SotD came out. Odd.

[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

lmao... guess they don't want the public to know all about their secret zombie testing plot. ;)

[dodgyhoodoo.livejournal.com]

Did I mention that the barracks are less than 1/2 mile from the National Institute for Medical Research (known to certain of us as Mill Hill Asylum)?

[50ftqueenie.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHA It's all starting to come together now isn't it?