On 18 Sep 95  19:02:00 Mark Rooney said to Chris Mcdermott ->

 MR> Yo Chris.

Yo-yo Mark,  (ermm.. maybe not 

 MR> I haven't been on the boards as much lately, trying to cut down on the
 MR> phone bill.

Me too 

 MR> You see I only have a 2400 built-in modem.

Oh dear   I didn't know you could get 2400 built in ones :-\

 MR> And my computer is an old portable machine with only two double density
 MR> floppy drives.  But it's enough to get me connected.

You an get some bargains in the Telegraph on old 386s - do you not have a
Hard Drive ?

 CM> I'm quite a serious (?) role-player - I'm currently Harax
 CM> Linnormbane, a barbarian warrior

 MR> Well Mr. Linnormbane I hope you get to kill plenty of orcs.

Orcs, HA! We fearless barbarian warriors (tm) don't bother with paltry orcs,
we need a great wyrm or a couple of daemon lords to slake our ever-lasting
thirst for blood (err... I may have got a bit carried away there 

 CM> I was actually at QCON - there was a Star Trek space battle game

 MR> I know the game you're talking about, it's called StarFleet Battles.
 MR> I've played in once but wasn't that keen on it.  But then that might
 MR> just be because I didn't know how to play it properly.  I've never
 MR> really had the chance to play rpg's, so I don't know if I'd actually
 MR> like them.

I think there may be a Star Trek rpg but I'm not sure about this.

 CM> One showed me his pocket calculator/databank which contained several
 CM> dozen selected Klingon phrases! :-o

 MR> I also know the guy you're talking about.  He's a friend of mine
 MR> called Denis but he's not as popular as he thinks he is with members
 MR> of our Star Trek club.  He has burned some bridges.

He's an arsonist then 

 CM> I have actually missed quite a lot of B5 recently so I'm not too up
 CM> to date on what has been happening 

 MR> You missed B5, I couldn't miss an episode, and even if I did then I
 MR> always knew someone else who had taped it, so I seen them all.  This
 MR> is second season I'm talking about.  First season wasn't as good as
 MR> the second and there were a few a missed in that season.

I saw most of the first season but hardly any of the second   I'm out
training when B5 is on and my dad had been taping a series that was on at the
same time every week so i was unable to video the episodes 

 CM> I don't suppose you've been watching War of the Worlds?

 MR> No.  Is it any good?  I heard about it starting but I never made an
 MR> effort to watch it.

It's OK but a bit silly sometimes.  It's about a ecret government team trying
to counter the aliens' plans to take over the world.  It might have been a
bit more credible if the team had consisted of more than 4 people   There's
usually some violence so that keeps me happy   I hope it doesn't end when
things become good just like Alien Nation did.

 CM> btw - are you fixed in to any other echoes?

 MR> through these but I am gonna get more involved  especially in the
 MR> X-files echo.  What about you, what other echoes are you in?

On the Planet I'm in this one, Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Sci-Fi Fantasy and RPG
Discussion, User Chat (NI), Red Chat, Smeg, Role Playing Games and Quiz
Night.

On 42nd Street I take in Friends, X-Files, LORD and Babylon 5.

On Bart I'm on Student Chat, Discussion of Terry Pratchett, Greek Mythology,
UFO and UK/USA Penpals.

Do you use an OLR ?


cya

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