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6. "RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety"
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   I played for many, many years in a TTRPG group, with a lot of the same people. My late friend, Mike Satran, was a devotee of Hero System, and for a while was one of the few people writing for it and getting books published in it.

One of my longest-running characters was the madgonzo scientist Dr. EijiEiko Takashima, once called Gomi-no-Sensei, and then after some massive legal shenanigans, the Gadget Queen.

She had some fame in the universe for being quirky (that's when you're rich, weird, and dangerous; eccentric is just rich and weird). She had been known to do things like build devices like the Wedgie-Ray, the Tangle Frisbee, and even more deeply random things. I personally was responsible, in my career playing her, for at least five house rules, for which I am proud.

One of them included a time when she took out an opposing telepath by hitting her in the face with a pie. The pie was lemon merangue. The lemon held a suspension of sodium pentathol in DMSO, as a will deadener so she couldn't use her powers. After doing this, and the telepath falling down, Eiko said,

"Fear my pastry-wielding wrath!"

to her goon/guard squad. This was considered so bad a threat that Professor Mike gave Eiko a minus to her presence attack (kind of a way to represent the way that Batman can stop people just by Being Batman). I was the first person ever to get that. I'm pretty proud of that.

(Years later, at a convention that Mike was at, he was running a con game for people that I sat in on, where he used the team that Eiko was on as his con pregenerated characters. I let everyone else pick first, and the only one left was Eiko. Gods, it was good to slip into her mind again.)

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 Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety [View All] Nova Floresca Feb-09-25 TOP
   RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety DaPatman89 Feb-11-25 1
   RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety mdg1 Feb-13-25 2
      RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety Nova Floresca Feb-13-25 3
          RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety Gryphonadmin Feb-13-25 4
              RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety mdg1 Feb-14-25 5
      RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety Zemyla Feb-28-25 8
          RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety mdg1 Feb-28-25 9
  RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety Mephronmoderator Feb-17-25 6
      RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety SliderDaFeral Jul-18-25 13
   RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety Offsides Feb-18-25 7
   RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety thorr_kan Mar-12-25 10
      RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety TsukaiStarburst Mar-13-25 11
   RE: Shenanigans of the Pen and Paper Variety DaPatman89 Mar-24-25 12


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