Larry the Tough Guy *Mild spoilers*
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:20 pm
I've recently been playing another game, where the left and right mouse buttons are mapped to weapons in the left and right hand, respectively. As a consequence, when startled in that game, the smart person reflexively goes for the right mouse button.
Well, in VTMB, we all know what the right mouse button does.
This is my first time through in months, so I'm still kind of getting my 'vampire legs' as it were. I got a bit freaked out in the Ocean House, spinning around at little noises and such, until I forced myself to take a breath and remind myself, "This is VTMB. You've done this a hundred times. There's nothing here that can hurt you, just spooky atmosphere! Chill already!"
Still, once in awhile, I reflexively tap that right mouse button. I'm almost done, so I've kind of put myself in the habit of putting my disciplines on something unobtrusive when wandering around in Masquerade areas, just in case. I told you when I accidentally popped the cop once, right (ok, in retrospect, maybe more of a Freudian slip than an accident
)? I don't want to Blood Salvo a whole streetload of people by accident. Talk about a police presence. I don't know what kind of demotion points you get for that, but I think being staked out for the sunrise might be on that list somewhere...
Anahoo. Done at the Hollowbrook, and a fun time was had by all. Well, me:mischief: The other guys kind of had a rough night. So I was off to collect my stipend from Venus, and then off to Fat Larry to sell off a few useless items and pick up some ammo.
One of the things about not playing for a couple of months is that I've kind of lost my routine, so I do some things a bit different than usual. I kacked Andrei with the Flamethrower for a change. So I was buying fuel canisters. Buy one, back off, reload, put it away, and buy a spare, right? Ritual stuff.
Well, I installed the first canister, put the flamethrower away, turned to talk to Fat Larry again and...(yes, you guessed it)...hit the right mouse button. Which, as I'd just been in the Hollowbrook, was set on Purge (which, in that place, is my all-purpose Tremere "Grab me a second to think!" discipline).
So poor Larry yakked his lungs out all over the street. So much for that 2 lb Kobe steak. Well, it had to come out one end or the other sooner or later...
So Larry grabs one of those useless "pray and spray" machine pistols, and goes charging out in front of his van. I'm thinking "Jeez, he's going to start shooting at me!", but I was right in front of him - why run out into the street? So I went up, talked to him, got my canister, and he went back to the truck.
Larry the tough guy, huh? Going to clean out the garage if he hadn't hurt his leg, huh? The guy is a badly dressed teddy bear. Kind of reminds me of the robotic one on Kim Possible, come to think of it...
Now I wonder what would happen if you actually did just punch him in the mouth. Would he fight back? I couldn't do that, though. I felt bad enough about the steak. Poor Larry.
On the upside, though, apparrently Purge isn't a Masquerade violation, which has all kinds of entertaining possibilities. I smell a video coming. Has anybody ever actually tried to kill every person in a part of LA on purpose? I mean aside from combat areas, where that's kind of the whole point?
Well, in VTMB, we all know what the right mouse button does.
This is my first time through in months, so I'm still kind of getting my 'vampire legs' as it were. I got a bit freaked out in the Ocean House, spinning around at little noises and such, until I forced myself to take a breath and remind myself, "This is VTMB. You've done this a hundred times. There's nothing here that can hurt you, just spooky atmosphere! Chill already!"
Still, once in awhile, I reflexively tap that right mouse button. I'm almost done, so I've kind of put myself in the habit of putting my disciplines on something unobtrusive when wandering around in Masquerade areas, just in case. I told you when I accidentally popped the cop once, right (ok, in retrospect, maybe more of a Freudian slip than an accident
)? I don't want to Blood Salvo a whole streetload of people by accident. Talk about a police presence. I don't know what kind of demotion points you get for that, but I think being staked out for the sunrise might be on that list somewhere...Anahoo. Done at the Hollowbrook, and a fun time was had by all. Well, me:mischief: The other guys kind of had a rough night. So I was off to collect my stipend from Venus, and then off to Fat Larry to sell off a few useless items and pick up some ammo.
One of the things about not playing for a couple of months is that I've kind of lost my routine, so I do some things a bit different than usual. I kacked Andrei with the Flamethrower for a change. So I was buying fuel canisters. Buy one, back off, reload, put it away, and buy a spare, right? Ritual stuff.
Well, I installed the first canister, put the flamethrower away, turned to talk to Fat Larry again and...(yes, you guessed it)...hit the right mouse button. Which, as I'd just been in the Hollowbrook, was set on Purge (which, in that place, is my all-purpose Tremere "Grab me a second to think!" discipline).
So poor Larry yakked his lungs out all over the street. So much for that 2 lb Kobe steak. Well, it had to come out one end or the other sooner or later...
So Larry grabs one of those useless "pray and spray" machine pistols, and goes charging out in front of his van. I'm thinking "Jeez, he's going to start shooting at me!", but I was right in front of him - why run out into the street? So I went up, talked to him, got my canister, and he went back to the truck.
Larry the tough guy, huh? Going to clean out the garage if he hadn't hurt his leg, huh? The guy is a badly dressed teddy bear. Kind of reminds me of the robotic one on Kim Possible, come to think of it...
Now I wonder what would happen if you actually did just punch him in the mouth. Would he fight back? I couldn't do that, though. I felt bad enough about the steak. Poor Larry.
On the upside, though, apparrently Purge isn't a Masquerade violation, which has all kinds of entertaining possibilities. I smell a video coming. Has anybody ever actually tried to kill every person in a part of LA on purpose? I mean aside from combat areas, where that's kind of the whole point?