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 Here are the quotes from the Ambercon 2004 game. They can also be found online at:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fazzari/Amber/Cons/AC04quotes.html
J.P. Brannan: Ewan Burnett, AKA "The Worst Sailor in the Guard"
Michael Curry: Amir bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin Nasir bin Safwan Al-Majiid
Kris Fazzari: Lorianne, Duchess of Brittany (thanks to Philippe), AKA "The Pirate Queen"
William Gulstad: Cyrano Savinien Hercule de Bergerac, Marquis of ? (anyone remember what title Philippe gave him?)
Jennifer Jackson: Zoe Sabourin
Andy Ransom: Lewis Mercer, AKA "The Spider"
Cal Rea: Philippe, Emperor of France
Liz Trumitch: Jayne Green, AKA "Plain Jayne"
Edwin Voskamp: Lord Dagincourt, Sir Jeffery de Goulon AKA "The Gray Ghost"
Jennifer Woelke: Robyn Sage, medic
"Has (Lorian) turned her ship into a floating hydrogen bomb?" -- J.P. Brannan
"Fuck no!" -- Kris Fazzari
"(Ewan did that to his plane.) That's why (he) needs more aviation points." -- J.P. Brannan
"Bleys has left with my sister?" -- Jayne to GM
"Slept or left?" -- Kris Fazzari
"Both." -- Jennifer Woelke
"137 dead." -- GM, referring to the number of Sharks lost on various missions
"Surviving?" -- Jayne
"14." -- GM
"That'll make a great recruting poster. Join us, our survival rate is up to almost to 10%" -- Edwin Voskamp
"Oh come on people, Sol's worked at least five minutes on this plot, let's give him some time to finish." -- Edwin Voskamp to the group
"It's stormy (inside of the circle), but completely windless." -- GM to the group
"What are your colors?" -- GM
"I'd say black and green." -- Jayne
"Are you sure they aren't black and blue?" -- Kris Fazzari
"I don't believe in Santa Claus." -- Jeffery
"But you do believe in the Spider?" -- GM
"I practice hanging from the dirigible to make sure my (broken) wrists have healed OK." -- Jayne to GM
"I deploy the instruments." -- Philippe, approaching the storm
"Launch the trombone." -- J.P. Brannan
"I assume you deploy more rope?" -- GM to Philippe, as the air ship ascends
"We have plenty of rope to hang ourselves." -- Jennifer Woelke
"In the event of a water landing, Bleys' mistresses may be used as flotation devices." -- William Gulstad to the group
"The Sharks are praying for whatever Lord Bleys wants us to pray for." -- Jayne to GM
"The Sharks are *really* good at praying." -- Edwin Voskamp
"I invent the straightjacket for the mad Arab." -- Robyn to the group
"The laws of bouyancey do not apply to gases but still apply to liquids. Magnifique!" -- Philippe, explaining conditions inside of the circle
"Isn't he cool!" -- Zoe
"Maybe (the approaching dirigible) is here to save us!" -- Jayne to Lorianne
"And Lorianne laughed and jumped into the ocean." -- Cal Rea
"Is there napalm on board the ship?" -- the Spider to the group
"There's *always* napalm on board!" -- Kris Fazzari
"What kind of counter-measures do you use for cannon balls? Giant magnets?" -- Ewan to the group
"That's how the Elite Guard works." -- Cal Rea, after the Guard begins both boarding *and* firing on the dirigible
"Either we'll blow it up or we'll board it, so either way we're guarenteed success." -- Michael Curry
"Your keen mind tells you that if you were going to be putting a reality-altering generator somewhere, it would be that way." -- GM to Philippe
"OK, you're now dragging this burning, rotting man behind you, oozing pus." -- GM to Philippe
"I shoot the rotting flaming man in the ass with an explosive crossbow bolt." -- Ewan to GM
"I didn't put any points into warfare because I invented tech." -- Philippe to the group
"I'm going to yell, 'Sharks to me' and see if I get any dead ones." -- Jayne to the group
"We'll wait to see if (the undead Sharks) are friendly. Cut off their heads. It seems the best plan." -- Jayne to her Sharks
"I can't do this." -- Jayne, facing the zombie sharks
"Why not? You kill Sharks all the time." -- Kris Fazzari
"No, usually she just *gets* them killed." -- Jennifer Jackson
"Is there a mad scientist or an evil genius at the helm?" -- Philippe
"Well, we know there's a mad scientist here, because you brought him with you." -- GM
Player suggestions on how to identify the hooded man in black that Cyrano is fighting:
"Cut his head off, then you can see his face." -- Liz Trumitch
"Set his cloak on fire, then he'll have to take it off." -- Edwin Voskamp
"I don't think I want to be facing a flesh-eating zombie on its knees." -- the Spider to the group
"Especially since they've shown a prediliction for biting." -- Kris Fazzari
"The girl Sharks are not incompetent." -- GM
"No, they know how far to poke somebody." -- Liz Trumitch
"His style is utterly unlike anything you've ever encountered." -- GM to Cyrano
"That's not a sword, that's a codfish!" -- Cal Rea
"All dirigibles explode in this game." -- Cal Rea
"We didn't explode the dirigible in Plotslavia. We shot it down." -- J.P. Brannan
"So you shoot out the zombies' pelvises. Or asses." -- GM
"Because we can take care of the arms and legs later. We just want to take care of the dangerous bits first." -- Cal Rea
"Jayne, you feel the bits of zombie flesh freezing to your skin." -- GM
"You know, I am so immune to nasty stuff that, whatever. I am used to being covered in gore and blood. I have a person to kill." -- Jayne
"I put my foot through the nasty creature's throat." -- Jayne
"It goes right through." -- GM
"OK. Can it talk?" -- Jayne
"I believe it may be time to make our exit." -- Cyrano to Jayne, as the dirigible sinks into the ocean
"We may have to jump, you know." -- Jayne to Cyrano
"Where? You've already crashed!" -- GM
"Can we have a land adventure?" -- Amir to the group, as he's drowning
"Although you seem to be losing the battle (to keep the giant heart beating), it does make an excellent flotation device." -- GM to Philippe
"The scientist who stuck his head in the bucket of water (to see if he could breathe water)? He was trying to get tenure (from Philippe)." -- William Gulstad to the group
"Heaving zombie bossoms!" -- GM to the group
"I'll go sit next to Cyrano and help him keep warm, since Ewan won't take his clothes off and help out." -- Jayne to the group
"Jayne will pick the ice off of (Cyrano) because she needs to warm up too." -- Liz Trumitch to William Gulstad
"I'm going to have official French body warmers to lay up naked against me whenever I get out of the bath." -- Philippe to the group
"Do zombies count as deserters?" -- Jennifer Jackson to the group
"I'm clearly not OK." -- Jayne to the group
"That's been obvious to the rest of us for years." -- Kris Fazzari
"Do the scientists want to earn their tenure or not?" -- Jill Pritts
"I haven't told them to eat the heart yet." -- Cal Rea
"(Philippe) was yelling something about changing the boyancy of air and blah-blah physics blah-blah." -- Zoe to GM
"So after two hours of being fascinatingly disturbed by (Philippe's) disturbing fascination...." -- GM to Zoe
"We're going to lighten the boat by tossing the unconscious scientists overboard." -- Philippe
"What? OK." -- Zoe
"(Ewan's) flying the ship like a wind-powered plane. -- GM to the group
"So if this sword is codfish, and this sword is salmon, what is the third one?" -- Philippe
"It is obviously herring." -- GM
"Is Philippe about to be swallowed up by a white whale? Because if he is, I want nothing to do with it." -- Cyrano to GM
"You fire a broadside of cannons at...?" -- GM
"At the pelvis." -- Philippe
"At the pelvis of the snake!?!" -- Robyn
"(Ewan)'s trying to smack the snake's head with the ship's ass." -- Cal Rea to the group
"I'll make sure all of France knows to avoid (the Black Circle)." -- Philippe to the group
"Suddenly I'm picturing France motoring across the ocean." -- GM
"Don't give him ideas!" -- Liz Trumitch
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