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Title: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on February 24, 2007, 06:13:46 PM
I figure dozens of readers of the books are better than one -- so I'd like to kick off a "book quote scavenger hunt".  In the RPG, we want to excerpt little bits from the books themselves (short stories, too!) in order to help illustrate the various skills and abilities we have in the game as expressed in the stories of the Dresden Files.  So I'm asking you, the fans of the Dresden Files, to lend a hand!

Here are the "rules":

- Quotes provided need to be no longer than 4 sentences -- these need to be tiny excerpts, not large passages.

- I need at least two such quotes per skill (list found below), for starters.  There may be a second scavenger hunt for other pieces later on (the supernatural abilities part of things is almost guaranteed to need some, once I'm ready for 'em).

- You're allowed to ask questions about particular items on the scavenger hunt list if you're stumped.  I definitely have a few ideas as to who or what might be appropriate for at least a few of these things.

- Anyone who participates and submits quotes is eligible for a "thank-you prize" -- a free PDF (electronic download) of my mini-rpg of surreal horror "Don't Rest Your Head" -- if I choose to use one or more of your quotes in the book (first come first serve logic applies if several people offer up the same quotes).

Sound good?  Okay, ready -- set -- go!

Here's the list

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on February 24, 2007, 06:49:06 PM
And just to be clear -- you can submit things piecemeal, or for the entire list, and I'd prefer you make the submissions by replying to this thread.

Thanks!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Kiriath on February 24, 2007, 06:52:08 PM
Fun! Let us begin...

Driving:

"As a rule, when I drive, I drive very carefully and sensibly. Tonight was an exception to the rule." - Grave Peril, Chapter One
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: jtaylor on February 24, 2007, 07:01:32 PM
Alertness:

Molly rubbed at her wrists, wincing. “Um. Sergeant? How did you know I was there?”
“Floorboards creaking when no one was standing on them,” I said.
“Your deodorant,” Murphy said.
“Your tongue stud clicked against your teeth once,” I said.

White Night Chapter 2

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Redwulf25_ci on February 24, 2007, 07:20:32 PM
Two quotes for Driving (although it is a bit of an unconventional vehicle, but Survival doesn't seem quite apropriate either) if anyone has a better idea about what skill would be used to ride a reanimated T-rex through Chicago then you can use these quotes for that skill.

Dead Beat Chapter 39:
I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.


Dead Beat Chapter 39:
Here's something else I bet you didn't know about Tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well. The first time I tried to take a left, Sue swung wide, the enormous momentum of her body simply too much for even her muscles to lightly command. She swung up onto the sidewalk, crushed three parked cars under her feet, knocked over two light poles, kicked a compact car end over end to land on its roof, and broke every window on the first two floors of the building beside us as her tail lashed back and forth in an effort to counterbalance her body.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Kiriath on February 24, 2007, 07:28:04 PM
Stealth, sort of kind of. It also might be too much to use. I have a / where the wit just adds verve to it. :)

"I kept on moving toward my car, and heard footsteps growing closer, behind me. I told myself not get too jumpy. / Maybe it was just some other frightened, endangered, paranoid sleep-deprived consultant who had been called to the morgue in the middle of the night." - Death Masks, Chapter 5
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: bugdog on February 24, 2007, 07:28:44 PM
Conviction- PG (page 155, hardback) - "A lot of the use of magic is tied up with your emotions. With what you believe is real. <large cut here> If I don't believe in it, the spell wont' ever get off the ground."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: loulou on February 24, 2007, 07:34:11 PM
Conviction - SF chapter 9
"I couldn't ward off off a vampire mosquito with my faith in the Almighty - He and I just never seemed to connect. But the pentacle was a symbol of magic itself, and I had plenty of faith in that.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: jtaylor on February 24, 2007, 07:39:08 PM
Intimidation

Two options here, both from the same book and chapter:

Fear can feel like literal ice water. It can be a cold feeling that you swallow, that rolls down your throat and spreads into your chest. It steals your breath and makes your heart labor when it shouldn't, before expanding into your belly and hips, leaving quivers behind. Then it heads for the thighs, the knees (occasionally with an embarrassing stop on the way), stealing the strength from the long muscles that think you should be using them to run the hell away.

OR

"Yes," she murmured. "Wise enough to be afraid. To understand, at least in part. How does it feel, to know what you know, child?"
My voice came out unsteady, and more quiet than I would have liked. "Sort of like Tokyo when Godzilla comes up on the beach."

Summer Knight, Chapter 3
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on February 24, 2007, 08:02:21 PM
These are fantastic.  Keep 'em coming!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: jtaylor on February 24, 2007, 08:16:49 PM
Lore:
 "All right. This is a figure of High magic. Three of them, really, one inside the other, like layered walls. Remember what I told you about magical circles?"

Kim nodded. "That they either hold something out or keep it in. Either magic energies or creatures of the Nevernever, but that mortal creatures can cross the circle and break it."

Fool Moon, Chapter One
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: jtaylor on February 24, 2007, 08:33:46 PM
Rapport:

"I’ve come to Chicago to kill you, Mister Dresden. But I have a proposal for you that I want you to hear, first."
"You really need to work on your opening technique," I said.

Death Masks - Chapter One
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: KreenWarrior on February 24, 2007, 08:37:30 PM
For Performanace (though Rapport or Presence might also work).

"Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces.  They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul.  They have power, and that power is quite real."
Grave Peril: Chapter 35, pages 344-345 in the paperback
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Slife on February 24, 2007, 09:36:27 PM
Discipline/Conviction:
Storm Front paperback page 20
"The way magic works.  Whenever you do something with it, it comes from inside of you.  Wizards have to focus on what they're trying to do, visualize it, believe it, to make it work.  You can't make something happen that isn't part of you, inside."

Not sure exactly what category this quote fits, but it seems like good fluff for the RPG
Dead beat (hardcover) page 75 (beginning of chapter 8)
"Magic comes from life, and especially from emotions.  They're a source of the same intangivle energy that everyone can feel when an autumn moon rises and fills you with a sudden sense of bone-deep excitement, or when the first warm breeze of spring rushes past your face, full of the scents of life, and drowns you in a sudden flood of unreasoning joy... {about half a paragraph more}

More quotes later
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: loulou on February 24, 2007, 10:29:51 PM
Guns or Weapons, SF end of chapter 10.
"Wizardry aside, it's tough to beat a gun for discouraging men with baseball bats."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Foxdorean on February 25, 2007, 12:45:05 AM
Burglary- Long one, but funny as helll...edit as needed.
Proven Guilty pages 282-283
"Hey, Murph," I said, "Look at that Zeppelin."
"Hey," Thomas said, "When did you get those?"
"Butters says it's good fot my hand to do physical therapy involving the use of manual dexterity."
"Thomas snorted, "So you started learning to pick locks? I thought you were playing guitar."
"This is simpler," I said, "and it doesn't make dogs start to howling."
"I might have killed you if I'g heard 'House of the Rising Sun' oe more time," Thomas agreed. "Where'd you get the picks?"
I glanced over my shoulder at Murphy and said, "Little bird."
"One of these days, Dresden," Murphy said, still subbornly faced away.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: SoulCatcher78 on February 25, 2007, 01:02:51 AM
Weapons:
Never be afraid to try unconventional weaponry from Blood Rites Chapter 30
Kincaid reached into the van and presented me with a futuristic-looking weapon, a gun.  It had a round tank the size of a gumball machine attatched to the frame, and for a second I thought I had been handed a pistol sized flame thrower.  Then I recognized it, cleared my throat and said, "This is a paintball gun."

Effects of holy water on Black Court Vampires from Blood Rites Chapter 33
...they splattered into Mavra, sizzling viciously.  Silver fire immediately began chewing at her flesh wherever the paintballs struck and broke.  It ripped into her and happened fast, as if some hyper kinetic gourmet were taking a melon baller to her chest.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Beamer on February 25, 2007, 01:10:51 AM
Here are a few for Scholarship

SK ch10
"Bob, wake up," I said, lighting candles. "I need to pick your brain."

DB ch3
"Bob," I said as I climbed down into the pitch-dark lab. "Warm up the memory banks. I've got work to do."

DB ch 26
"Research," Butters said. "What kind of research?"

SF ch10
Dammit. I was going to have to do that research after all


Beamer

Half my life's in books written pages ,Livin' and learnin' from fools and from sages, (Dream On – Aerosmith)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Simon Hogwood on February 25, 2007, 02:37:04 AM
Lore: "A stuffed animal, man!" I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!" - FM 184

Weapons: "I took out a few wizardly implements: my blasting rod, the replacement for my sheild bracelet, and one other thing that no wizard should be without. A Smith and Wesson .38 Chief's Special." - FM 37

EDIT: Thanks  :-[
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Soulless Mystic5523 on February 25, 2007, 02:40:36 AM
Quote from: Simon Hogwood on February 25, 2007, 02:37:04 AM
Lore: "A stuffed animal, man!" I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!" - FM 184

Weapons: "I took out a few wizardly implements: my blasting rod, the replacement for my sheild bracelet, and one other thing that no wizard should be without. A Smith and Weston .38 Chief's Special." - FM 37

I do hope you mean a Smith & Wesson .38 Cheif's special, and not a really small hotel. ;oP
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: patsully98 on February 25, 2007, 03:59:43 AM
Might:
"MacFinn...will not even notice that the wall got in his way."
Fool Moon
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: silenthill10589 on February 25, 2007, 04:24:41 AM
Heres one from Fool Moon, pg314-15 (Rapport)
"You do know it's right beneath you now, don't you John?" I asked. "Mr. Dresden," Marcone said crossly, "I've asked you not to call me that." "Whatever." I said, but I had to admire the raw courage of a man to banter while dangling up there like a ripe peach.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Bynjaimyn on February 25, 2007, 06:17:03 AM
I think this one could fall under 'Deceit', 'Performance, Creative Communication', or Rapport, Gift of Gab'

"An errand isgetting a tank of gas or picking up a gallon of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!"
~ Thomas, Blood Rites, Chapter 1
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Jon on February 25, 2007, 09:09:12 AM
Weapons- "There was a whooshing sound, a spinning shape, and then an ax--a freaking double-bladed ax--buried itself to the eye in the ghoul's flank."

I'll look for more later when I have access to all the books.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: SoulCatcher78 on February 25, 2007, 04:37:26 PM
Presence:

from Blood Rites, Chapter 12
Thinking back later, I couldn't clearly remember her facial features or her body, beyond a notion that they were superb.  Her looks were almost ertraneous.  They weren't any more important to her appeal than a glass was to wine.  It was at it's best when invisible and showing the spirit contained within.  Beyond mere physical presence, I could sense the nature of the woman-strength of will, intelligence, blended with a sardonic wit and edged with a lazy, sensuous hunger.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: [beatle mania] on February 25, 2007, 04:48:26 PM
Resources:
"Yeah, chocolate. Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment." -BR
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: patsully98 on February 25, 2007, 06:48:14 PM
Fists (or possibly Alertness, if it's used for initiative):
He moved faster than I would have given a man his age credit for. His fist went across my jaw at approximately a million miles an hour, and I spun down to the dirt like a string-cut puppet.

Storm Front
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Slife on February 25, 2007, 07:28:15 PM
Summer knight 371 Paperback
Might:
"I want it understood that I'm going to need thews...  Big, bulging thews, and I don't want to have to think too much."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: SoulCatcher78 on February 25, 2007, 08:17:32 PM
Contacts:

Summer Knight Chapter 13
"I'm wanting some more work done," I said "I need information."
"Are you paying in pizza?" Toot asked, his tone hopeful.
"Yes," I said.
"Wah-hoo" Toot shouted...

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Beamer on February 25, 2007, 10:44:40 PM
A few more


Intimidation
Sf ch2
"You don't get in the car, it isn't going to be good for your legs," the man growled.

Performance
SF ch3
Thank God for wisecracks. I was too rattled to have said anything intelligent.

Endurance
FM ch 17
The monster kept coming. The bullets bothered it no more than a fly ramming the forehead of a professional wrestler.


Beamer
May your days be bright and your contact with stupidity limited (Foamy The Squirrel)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: loulou on February 25, 2007, 10:59:27 PM
Driving, Something Borrowed, page 61.
"Under normal circumstances, the trip to the resort would have taken half an hour. I'm not saying that Murphy's driving was suicidal. Not quite. But after the third near collision, I closed my eyes and fought off the urge to chant "there's no place like home."
Murphy got us there in twenty minutes."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Sir lerks-a-lot on February 26, 2007, 05:47:59 AM
Fists (or alertness)

WN Chapter 2
With no warning whatsoever, Murphy moved, spinning in a blur of motion that swept her leg out in a scything, ankle-height arch behind her. There was a thump of impact, and the sound of something heavy hitting the floor. Murphy—her eyes closed—sprang onto something unseen, and her hands moved in a couple of small, quick circles, fingers grasping. Then Murphy grunted, set her arms, and twisted her shoulders a little.  There was a young woman’s high-pitched gasp of pain, and abruptly, underneath Murphy, there was a girl. Murphy had her pinned on her stomach on the floor, one arm twisted behind her, wrist bent at a painful angle.

(If the whole thing is too long consider just using the part in bold)

Driving
PG Chapter 4
I wrenched at the steering wheel and the brakes, my body responding to things my stunned brain hadn't caught up to yet. I think I kept it from becoming a total disaster, because instead of spinning off into oncoming traffic or hitting the wall at a sharp angle, I managed to slam the Beetle's passenger-side broadside into the building beside the street. Brick grated on steel, until I came to a halt fifty feet later.

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: prime_spirit on February 26, 2007, 06:57:21 AM
Here's an early one from Blood Rites:
Weapons (weaponed combat, swordplay, thrown weaponry, weapon knowledge)

"As I watched, one of them reached down between its crooked legs and . . . Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it gathered up the kind of ammunition primates in zoos traditionally rely upon. The monkey-demon hurled it with a chittering scream, and it combusted on its way to me. I had to duck before the noxious ball of incendiary goop smacked into my nose."

Here's an early one from Proven Guilty:
Driving (driving, flying, boating, car chases, shortcuts, street navigation)

"Stars swarmed over my vision and I tried to swat them away so that I could get a look at the Chrysler's plates--but it was gone in a heartbeat. Or at least I think it was. Truth be told, my head was spinning so much that the car could have been doing interpretive dance in a lilac tutu and I might not have noticed."

EDIT: Ooo... and one from Dead Beat.Handy, if you don't want to say your real name:

Deceit (Falsehood, deception, distraction, misdirection)
"Who," said the man, his accent thick and British, "are you?"
"The Great Pumpkin," I responded. "I've risen from the pumpkin patch a bit early because Butters is just that nifty. And you are?"
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on February 26, 2007, 07:39:11 AM
Great finds so far, guys!  I'll try to do a "tally" soon so we can see what's not getting hit.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: glmagus on February 26, 2007, 05:13:09 PM
Though I'm unsure of the exact page number, for Performance can it be anything other than:

"Polka will never die!"
"D**n right!"
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: King of De Nile on February 26, 2007, 06:11:11 PM
Athletics -
Blood Rites, Chapter 1

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. I ran away.

Investigation -
Dead Beat, Chapter 3

"Because if someone's setting up for big bad juju, they'll have left bodies. If they've done that, then I have a place to start tracking them and finding out what's going on."

"Harry?" Bob called up as I left the lab. "Where are you going?"

I stuck my head back down the trap door and said, "The morgue.'
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Claire on February 26, 2007, 09:00:35 PM
Presence-
"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault."  -Blood Rites


Survival-
"My faith protects me.  My Kevlar helps."  - Death Masks
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: glmagus on February 26, 2007, 09:44:10 PM
Rapport:
"Harry, what you know about women I can juggle." Bob the skull.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: maieo on February 27, 2007, 03:17:03 AM
Contacts:
Proven Guilty, Chapter 1:
"Find out why," he said. "You have contacts within the Courts. Find out what's happening. Find out why the sidhe haven't gone to war."

Rapport:
Storm Front, Chapter 1:
"Oh. Is this, um. Harry Dresden? The, ah, wizard?"
No, I thought. It's Harry Dresden the, ah, lizard. Harry the wizard is one door down.

I don't know why, but I saw this as Scholarship:
Dead Beat, Chapter 2:
Bob wasn't supposed to be a sleeping nightmare waiting to wake up. Bob was supposed to be my wisecracking porta-geek.

Alertness, possibly?:
Blood Rites, Chapter 3:
"Wow," Thomas said. "Talk about your luck."
"Yeah. It's sort of a first for me."

Conviction (maybe I'm biased, but I think this is perfect):
Grave Peril, Chapter 2:
"You have a good heart, Harry Dresden," Michael said, a fierce grin stretching his mouth. "God will smile on this choice."
"Yeah. Tell Him I said hello, and ask Him not to Sodom and Gomorrah my apartment, and we'll be even."

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: elmago79 on February 27, 2007, 09:08:32 AM
Here's another one for Rapport, from Fool Moon:

"Do all wizards," he said, "get the kiddie crowns and wear them
around? Or is that only for special occasions?"
"Do all werewolves," I shot back, snatching the crown from my head,
"wear glasses and too much Old Spice? Or is that only for full moons?"
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: elmago79 on February 27, 2007, 09:11:27 AM
And one for Resources, directly above the last one:

I got out of the van, in the garage, and stared at the Mercedes and the
Suburban also parked in it. "Where are we?" I said.
[...] "It's my parents' place. They're in Italy for another week."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Karevala on February 27, 2007, 03:20:07 PM
Fun, Fun, Fun!

All of the following quotes are from Death Masks (in paperback)

Weapons
Holy water, a couple cloves of garlic, vials of salt, and iron filings filled the basket, intended to be door prizes for anything that showed up in an attempt to suck my blood, carry me off to faerieland, or sell me stale cookies. (DM, Chap 10, Page 105)

Scholarship
I found the box and pawed through it until I had found a vellum scroll tied shut with a white ribbon. I opened it and peered down  at the the handwritten calligraphy. It started off with the word Insomuch, and the syntax got more opaque from there. (DM, Chap 8, Page 84)

Resources
"Do you love money then, Mister Dresden?" … "I used to think I loved it. But now I realize it was just a dependency." (DM, Chap 7, Page 77)

Contacts
I'd come here to meet Mort and get some information from him. He'd come here to meet me, because he refused to be seen with me on the street. (DM, Chap 1, Page 5)

Alertness
I licked my lips and checked all the fire exits, just to be safe. No telling when you might need to make a speedy exit. (DM, Chap 1, Page 1)

Athletics
I did the only thing any reasonable wizard would have done. I turned around and ran like hell. (DM, Chap 5, Page 57)

One other thing I'd learned. Wheezy wizards aren't all that good at running. (DM, Chap 6, Page 58)



I can't wait to look for more...

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on February 27, 2007, 04:27:56 PM
So. Awesome.

I'm very happy with what I'm seeing.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: NightProtector on February 27, 2007, 05:14:41 PM
Under Resources...maybe

I don't have my books near me so I don't know which one...

The priest remembering Harry because he'd never blessed a 55 gallon drum of water before?
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Sway on February 27, 2007, 07:43:13 PM
Burglary
SF, p.64/65
"One of the reasons vampires, as a rule, don't do it - they have enough trouble just holding themselves together, outside the Nevernever. It isn't harmful to a human wizard, like me, but it can really impair anything you try to do with magic. Also, it just isn't polite."

Presence
SK, p. 56
"Still, it was my first Council meeting as a full wizard, and he was the Merlin, after all. And I did look pretty bad. Plus, Ebanezar shot me a warning glance. I swallowed a hot answer and took a stab at diplomacy."

Performance
DM, p.1
"It isn't like I have stage fright or anything, see. Because I don't."

That's what I got so far. Edit if need be :D
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Sway on February 27, 2007, 07:47:08 PM
Quote from: NightProtector on February 27, 2007, 05:14:41 PM
Under Resources...maybe

I don't have my books near me so I don't know which one...

The priest remembering Harry because he'd never blessed a 55 gallon drum of water before?

It's in Grave Peril, p.75 :D
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: vengefulpixie on February 27, 2007, 08:47:24 PM
Alertness
Storm Front
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

Athletics
Death Masks
“Leaping tall buildings in a single bound. I should probably put on some underwear.” - Susan

Burglary
Blood Rites
"So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?"
"Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again."
"For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite."

Contacts
Grave Peril
"Let me tell you something, Morty. When I come into a place and don't say a thing except, 'Let's talk,' and the first thing I hear is 'I didn't do it,' it makes me think that the person I'm talking to must have done something. You know what I'm saying?" – Harry Dresden

Conviction
Death Masks
Sleep is god. Go worship. - Butters

Craftsmanship
Proven Guilty
“This map,” Bob said, “is pretty cool. I’d have thought you would have shown it off to someone by now.”
“Nah,” I said. “Tiny model of the city down here in my basement laboratory. Sort of projects more of that evil, psychotic, Lex Luthor vibe than I’d like.”

Driving
From Summer Knight
Behold the angry wizard puttputt-putting away. – Harry Dresden


Fists
Blood Rites
"Here, if you get the chance, make like Buffy." – Harry Dresden

Guns
Death Masks
I'd hate for someone to drive by and shoot me with a plain old gun. Embarrassing. – Harry Dresden

Intimidation
Storm Front
Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you. – Harry Dresden


Presence 
Death Masks
"Boo-ya, snakeboy," I muttered, letting out a tense breath. "Stick that in your scaly ass and smoke it."
"The action-hero one-liner doesn't count if you mix metaphors," Susan said, panting.
"Looks like no Harry Dresden action figures for me," I answered.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Sway on February 27, 2007, 08:53:23 PM
Quote from: vengefulpixie on February 27, 2007, 08:47:24 PM

Contacts
Storm Front
"Let me tell you something, Morty. When I come into a place and don't say a thing except, 'Let's talk,' and the first thing I hear is 'I didn't do it,' it makes me think that the person I'm talking to must have done something. You know what I'm saying?" – Harry Dresden

Isn't that Grave Peril? Just sayin' ;)

Love your quotes :D
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: vengefulpixie on February 27, 2007, 09:24:47 PM
Sway

You're right! My bad. So many quotes running together :)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Kapitein_Iglø on February 27, 2007, 09:38:47 PM
Preformance

FM page 158

the cops weren't watching me. they were staring at the pool of light beneath the streetlight behind them, weer tera spun gracefully through the steps of some sort of gliding dance, moving to a rhythm and muscic I could not hear.
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Post by: Slife on February 27, 2007, 10:05:25 PM
Burglary
Dead beat 321 hardback

One hand darted in and plucked up an orange box.  Then he looked around and picked up a couple packs of batteries from the rack on the wall.  He hadn't touched a thing but what he had taken with him, and neither had I.  Without security systems, the only way we would get caught would be by fingerprints or direct apprehension.


Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: vengefulpixie on February 28, 2007, 06:06:15 PM
Here are the rest of the list from my end.

Deceit
Summer Knight
"You should know, Mister Dresden, that my kind, from great to small, are bound to speak the truth." - Mab
"That hasn't slowed your ability to deceive." - Harry

Discipline
Proven Guilty
I pushed out every sensation but for the bathing, and without conscious effort my motions took on the steady rhythm of ritual, something commonplace transformed into an act of art and meditation, like a Japanese tea ceremony.

Empathy
Death Masks
Looking on someone's soul is something you never forget. No matter how badly you might want to. – Harry Dresden

Endurance
Blood Rites
Panting, I looked down at the box of whimpering puppies. A bunch of wet black noses and eyes looked back up at me from under a white dusting of extinguishing chemical.
"Hell's bells," I panted at them. "You guys are lucky Brother Wang wants you back so much. If he hadn't paid half up front, I'd be the one in the box and you'd be carrying me."
A bunch of little tails wagged hopefully.
"Stupid dogs," I growled.

Investigation
Summer Knight
"Too good to be true," I repeated. I drew the .44-caliber revolver from the desk drawer, leveled it at her, and thumbed back the hammer. "Call me crazy, but lately I've been thinking that if something's too good to be true, then it probably isn't.” – Harry Dresden

Lore
Death Masks
A cold chill started at the base of my spine and slithered up over my neck. I stopped and looked around me, reaching for my blasting rod. I extended my magical senses as best I could, tasting the air to see what had given me the shivers.

Might  
Fool Moon
I smiled at him and contemplated his shocked expression to my own satisfaction. Then I drew in a breath, and my renewed will with it, lifted the rod in my right hand, murmured a phrase in a language I didn't know, and blew the tires off his f**king truck.

Performance
Grave Peril
"I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire."
"Not just a vampire," I said, "a cheesy vampire. Do you think they got the point?"

Rapport
Blood Rites
"Is that a puppy in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" – Karrin Murphy

Resources
Grave Peril
Mortimer Lindquist had tried to give his house that gothic feel. Greyish gargoyles stood at the corners of his roof. Black iron gates glowered at the front of his house and statuary lined the walk to his front door. Long grass had overgrown his yard. If his house hadn't been a red-roofed, white-walled stucco transplant from somewhere in southern California, it might have worked.

Scholarship
Proven Guilty
“But we’ve been tinkering with that stupid thing every night for six months. You’re growing a cowlick and buck teeth, by the way. You keep this up and you’ll have to retire to a home for magical geeks and nerds.” - Bob

Stealth
Fool Moon
Into the water went the ingredients: plastic wrap for sight; a bit of plain white cotton, for touch; a little deodorant for smell; a rustle of wind for hearing; a leaf of plain old lettuce, for taste; and finally I threw in a blank piece of paper, for the mind, and some elevator music for the spirit. The ingredients were boring. The potion looked and smelled boring. Perfect.

Survival 
Death Masks
It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done. I turned around and ran like hell.

Weapons
Dead Beat
The next morning my brain was throbbing with far too many thoughts and worries to allow for any productive thinking. I couldn't afford that. Until I knew exactly what was going on and how to stop it, the most important weapon in my arsenal was reason.
I needed to clear my head.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on February 28, 2007, 06:20:47 PM
Loving the quotes, folks.  Some of them are more "thematically" about the idea of the name of the skills, rather than examples of the *mundane* skills themselves being used, but they may end up as fodder for the spellcasting chapter...

Keep 'em coming. :)
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Post by: elmago79 on March 02, 2007, 07:14:29 AM
This got Performance written all over:

"She had a captivating singing voice. Literally. She lilted out her song, spun energy into the air that lulled listeners into deeper and deeper sleep." (From Grave Peril)
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Post by: Simon Hogwood on March 02, 2007, 08:30:55 PM
Survival: (FM 5) "The compass needle shuddered, spun wildly and then swung to the bloodstain on the dome like a hound picking up a scent."

Contacts: (FM 11) "The demon straightened its hideous form and said, in a perfect Oxford accent, "Quite. You understand, I must observe the formalities." Then it took a pair of wholly incongruous wire-frame spectacles from beneath a scale and perched them upon the beaklike extremity of its nose. "You have questions?"

Intimidation: (FM 30) "Uh. Hi guys." I said a bit lamely. "I"ve got your boss. Put the guns down, take your belts off, and walk away from them nice and slow, or I kill him."

Yep. Fool Moon is the one book I have near at hand.  ;)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on March 02, 2007, 10:19:03 PM
All right, here's the update and tallies.  We've got a few gaps.  Stuff that still needs some solid quotes are in bold.  This won't line up one for one with the quotes folks posted above because some of the quotes I didn't feel were connected with the right skill, in terms of acting as examples of the skill in use in the books.


Y'all have done a great, great job so far -- but this thing isn't over yet.  Let's see if we can knock those boldfaced ones off the list!
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Post by: glmagus on March 02, 2007, 10:24:07 PM
Unsure of the book but:
Mechanincs: "I called my mechaninc Mike, he's the Jesus Christ of mechanincs, and he said the Beetle was ready."
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Post by: mikeryan on March 02, 2007, 10:56:05 PM
Might - Summer Knight Ch 22

My older brother rolled a tractor and it pinned him, broke his hip, and caught on fire. I picked it up and threw it off him, then dragged him back to the house. More than a mile. I was twelve.

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Post by: Simon Hogwood on March 03, 2007, 04:21:17 AM
Oh! Oh! I've got a good one for Stealth:

"That's where the magic came in. If the potion worked, I would look like background to any casual observers, a part of the scenery they wouldn't glance at twice."

- FM 16
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Post by: Slife on March 03, 2007, 03:58:06 PM
Stealth (or maybe better for alertness)?
PG, beginning of chapter 14
"Who are you watching for?"
"What?" I said. "What do you mean?"
"You rubbernecked so much on the way here, I'm surprised your shoulders aren't bruising your ears"
"Oh, that.  Someone was tailing me tonight."

Might (PG 306)
She was in great shape, but no one's exercise program includes running up several hundred feet of spiral stairs in full mail and helmet carrying a big-ass hammer and a sword.

Presence (PG 380)
I'd gained the moral support of the Council present there tonight, and I'd wielded it against him like a sword, chopping off his options and maneuvering him into bending to my will.

Weapons (PG 326)
The top of his jump was about ten feet off the snow, and when he came down he held the saber in both hands.  The iron weapons sliced cleanly through the ogre's breastbone and filleted the monster, splitting him open like a steaming baked potato.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: elmago79 on March 04, 2007, 02:39:14 AM
Here's Michael swinging his sword, for Weapons, (Grave Peril, Ch. 5):

Michael shouted, and swept Amoracchius at the spirit. The great blade bit into her back with a wooden-sounding thunk and made her arch up, screaming in pain. It was a deathblow.
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Post by: Karevala on March 04, 2007, 06:08:56 PM
Here are some more.  I think these are new, but I didn't check this time to see if they've been posted already.
FYI: For convenience, I have stripped out most of the books' formatting by running the text together and ignoring paragraph boundaries.

I love this image of Murphy that Harry sees when he looks at her through his Sight!
Presence
The door burst open. Murphy came through it, her eyes living flames of azure blue, her hair a golden coronet around her. She held a blazing sword in her hand and she shone so bright and beautiful and terrifying in her anger that it was hard to see.
(Grave Peril, chap 13, page 105)
If you want more of the quote, it continues:
The Sight, I realized dimly. I was seeing her for who she was.


Here are two about the Archive.
Presence
I extended my senses gingerly toward her. The air around her fairly hummed with power, different from what I would expect from another wizard, but strong all the same, a quiet and dangerous buzz like that around high-tension power lines.
(Death Masks, chap 10, page 108)

Presence
The girl had power. She had a hell of a lot of power. ...text omitted... She regarded me with implacable blue eyes I suddenly did not want to take the chance of looking into.
(Death Masks, chap 10, page 109)


Empathy
I looked in Susan's eyes and saw hope there for just a moment. (Death Masks, chap 14, page 145)

Empathy
The insult relieved me a little. If he was able to be a wiseass he'd probably be OK. (Death Masks, chap 9, page 103)

Empathy This could also work for Investigation.
I stared at him for a minute and got a hunch, a solid intuition of which I was completely sure. Denton was hiding something. He knew something and wasn't talking.  Don't ask me how I knew it, but something about him, about the way the veins bulged in his forehead, or the way he held his neck so stiffly, made me think so.
(Fool Moon, chap 2, page 22)


Investigation
"I snuck downstairs so I could listen to Dad tell Mom what had happened. "  ...text omitted... 
"Do you eavesdrop on every private conversation you can?"  ...text omitted...
"No one says anything interesting in a public conversation, do they?"
(Death Masks, chap 15, page 156)

Investigation (The last sentence could be cut; it would fit into Alertness.)
I kept my head down, my hands in my pockets, and walked toward the harbor. I didn't rubberneck around, but I tried to look at everything while moving only my eyes. 
I didn't see anyone but I couldn't shake the impression that I was being observed. 
(Death Masks, chap 12, page 121)


Might
Michael picked me up as though I weighed no more than one of children. (Grave Peril, chap 31, page 287)


Stealth or Burglary It would work for either.
I put my hands on the grate and pushed it as gently as I could. It slid soundlessly from the wall and I set it one side. ...text omitted...
I needed only a few seconds to creep out, and nip the Shroud and get back into the vents. ...text omitted...
I slipped out of the vents, thinking silent thoughts. A long stretch put my fingertips on the tube's carrying strap.
(Death Masks, chap 19, page 211)


That's it for the moment.
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Post by: KreenWarrior on March 04, 2007, 07:13:35 PM
Don't think this has been done before...

Scholarship or Lore: "He leaned his hands on his desk and regarded me, eyes sparkling.  "I know how wizards live forever." Dead Beat, pg. 38
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on March 04, 2007, 09:02:51 PM
Quote from: KreenWarrior on March 04, 2007, 07:13:35 PM
Scholarship or Lore: "He leaned his hands on his desk and regarded me, eyes sparkling.  "I know how wizards live forever." Dead Beat, pg. 38

*Perfect*!

I love the other stuff that's come in so far.  Keep on truckin', folks, this is awesome.
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Post by: Karevala on March 04, 2007, 09:03:39 PM
A few more...

Weapons
Michael stepped over me and Sanya, Amoracchius in hand, and shouted as he lunged forward, both hands driving the weight of the sword at the closed steel door. The sword went through the door, sinking almost to the hilt. [text omitted]
Michael drew the sword back out of the door. Blood gleamed wet and scarlet along the length of the weapon's blade.
(Death Masks, chap 31, page 332)

Here are a couple with Harry using his staff in a non-magical capacity.
Weapons (maybe Fists as well?)
Just as I got to chapel's door, it swung open and two men come out, both of them snapping clips into submachine guns. One of them didn't look up in time to see me, so I checked him in the forehead with a double-handed thrust of my staff, getting my whole weight behind the blow. His head snapped back and he dropped.
(Death Masks, chap 31, page 333)

Weapons
The other gunman started to bring his weapon up, but I batted the weapon away with a sweep of my staff, then snapped the end of it hard against his nose.
(Death Masks, chap 31, page 333)


Karevala


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Post by: Slife on March 04, 2007, 10:57:07 PM
Fists:
Proven Guilty 238

"He had bruises on his face, on one arm, and the knuckles on both his hands were torn and ragged.
     Micheal's son had been throwing punches.  It hadn't done any good, but he'd fought."

Weapons
Proven Guilty 85
"He brought the sickle down on Rawlins.  The cop managed to catch the force of it upon his long flashlight. Sparks flew from the steel case, but the light held. The maniac twisted the sickle, so that the tip plowed a furrow across Rawlins's forearm. The cop snarled.  The flashlight spun to the ground.  The maniac raised his sickle again."
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Post by: theboatman on March 05, 2007, 02:58:31 AM
These are all from Summer Knight. I've edited them to leave just the dialogue.

For either Presence or Rapport (making a good first impression). Both are from chapter 4:

Harry: 'Hey, I'm supposed to wear a robe. we all are.'
Ebenezar: 'Somehow I don't think a plaid flannel bath robe is what they had in mind.'

Also for Presence or Rapport:

Harry: 'My cat used my good robe as a litter box.'

And for Scholarship (languages) from chapter 5:

Harry: 'What?'
Ebenezar: 'Well. First you said, "I am a sorry excuse, Merlin, a sad long day held me. I need me a different laundress.'
Harry: 'What?'
Ebenezar: 'That's what the Merlin said. Then you said "Excuses to you for my being dressed and I also make lately."'
Harry: 'Goddamned correspondence course. Maybe you should translate for me.'
Ebenezar: 'Happy to.'

This could easily be edited down a little more and still give a pretty good impression of Harry's scholarly skills.
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Post by: Wolfhowls on March 05, 2007, 06:04:30 AM
I know this quote isnt from any of the books but its funny as hell...."He's probably on a pass to Middle Earth".....I know I know it doesn't go with the thread but come on its a funny ass quote
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Post by: NightProtector on March 05, 2007, 06:11:04 PM
Weapons:

The door flew open to a distance of five or six whole inches.  I kicked it a few times to open it the rest of the way then tromped in with Mouse and looked up to find the barrel of a chopped-down shotgun six inches from my face.

"Those things are illegal, you know," I said.
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Post by: gknee on March 06, 2007, 09:48:00 PM
I was just reading Grave Peril and these two Bob quotes made me LOL:

Rapport:
"We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville" Chapter 18

Deceit:
"Ding dong, Soul Eater Home Delivery, may I come in?" Chapter 15
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Post by: ponbern on March 07, 2007, 04:19:46 AM
i can only think of two at the moment(mainly becuz my cousin stole them all, stupid cousin in traction >:(), and im suprised no one else said it.

Rapport-
"Are you always a wiseass?"
"No, sometimes I'm asleep."

and

"Who the hell are you?"
"I the hell am harry"
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Post by: iago on March 07, 2007, 07:40:57 AM
Hey guys, if the quotes don't have book titles I can double check 'em in, they'll be a little tough to include...

I'm loving these later additions though.
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Post by: Karevala on March 07, 2007, 02:30:39 PM

Deceit
I kept my duck blind of a smile in place, and mouthed appropriately polite phrases in the right spots.  My cheeks had already started hurting. (Death Masks, chap 19, page 197)

Deceit
(I know this next one is too long; I'm sure parts could be dropped.)
Then I reached into my pocket and dropped a quarter on the floor near him. "There's a pay phone on the other side of the parking lot, past a patch of broken glass. You'd better get yourself an ambulance." I turned and walked out the door without looking back. ...text omitted...
The Russian grinned. "Was that a quarter you gave Cassius?" "Yeah." "For the phone?" "Yeah." 
Michael noted, " Phone calls cost more than that now."
(Death Masks, chap 28, pages 301-302)

Discipline
The lights and the noise made it a little difficult to keep my concentration, and I felt the spell I'd woven around me wobble. I closed my eyes for a second, until I had it stabilized again. (Death Masks, chap 1, page 1)

Discipline?
There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.
(Death Masks, chap 14, page 145)


Endurance
The cold grew more intense, more painful, I couldn't escape it. I panicked, thrashing wildly, dull pain flaring in my bound limbs, and away into numbness under the cold.
(Death Masks, chap 21, page 228)

and a little later.
I didn't have much energy. After a few minutes,  I hung panting and hurting and too tired to struggle any more, the water only getting colder, bound limbs screaming.  I hurt, but figured the pain couldn't get any worse.  A few hours went by and showed me how wrong I was.
(Death Masks, chap 21, page 228)

Fists
Benn didn't give us any warning. She just moved, fast and hard, stepping toward Murphy. There was a quick blur of motion. Murphy's hands got there before the blow landed, and she turned, somehow levering Benn's weight off from her legs and slamming the grey-maned woman into a wall.
(Fool Moon, chap 2, page 20)


Intimidation  I like the childishness in this one.
"Hi, " I said in a loud voice, and stepped up to my door.  I towered over Blandman. And I had a great big gun in my hand, even if I did keep it pointed down at the floor.  "I'm Harry Dresden." (Death Masks, chap 4, page 42)

Intimidation or possibly Contacts
"Ventas servitas," I hissed, nice and dramatic, and threw some will at the door. Sudden wind slammed it shut right in front of his eyes. He squeaked, and backed up several paces, staring at the door, then whirling to face me.
I used the remnants of the same spell to push out a chair opposite me. "Sit down Morty, I've got a few questions." (Grave Peril, chap 10, page 83)

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Post by: Talandar on March 07, 2007, 06:03:12 PM
Might
Michael had gone to his wife and crouched down beside her. He got his arms underneath her and lifted her as though she were a basket of laundry. Like I said before, Michael's buff.

From Grave Peril, Chapter 21
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Karevala on March 08, 2007, 07:09:39 PM
Here are more quotes.  I just can't seem to stop myself.

Alertness  This one is hilarious. I hope it holds up out of context.
Thomas's senses evidently didn't compete with mine, because the Black Court vampire was up to its shoulders in the Beetle before he choked out a startled, "Holy crap!"
(Blood Rites chap 3, page 21)

Investigation?
Think. If I were an arrogant, psychotic demon-collaborating terrorist out to trigger an apocalypse, where would I be?
(Death Masks, chap 31, page 331)

Athletics or even Fists
I made like a ballplayer, slid in feet first, and planted the heel of my boot squarely on the end of the demon's nose. I'm not heavily built, but I'm most of a head taller than six feet, and no one ever thought I was a lightweight. I kicked the demon hard enough to make it screech and veer off.
(Blood Rites chap 1, page 2)

Craftsmanship
I'd done some makeshift repairs with several one-by-sixes, some hanger wire, some cheap padding from the camping section at Wal-Mart, and a lot of duct tape. It gave the car a real postmodern look: By which I meant that it looked like something fashioned from the wreckage of a major nuclear exchange.
(Blood Rites, chap 1, page 11)

Lore
People don't believe in the supernatural these days. Supernatural things are scary. It's much more comfortable to rest secure in the knowledge that no one can reach out with magic and quietly kill you.
(Death Masks, chap 1, page 3)

Might
I was about halfway there when something ripped the steel doors off the school inward, against the swing of the hinges. A loud low bellow erupted from inside the building, and then a Kong-sized version of the chimp-demons came stomping out of the doorway.
(Blood Rites, chap 1, page 4)
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Post by: Simon Hogwood on March 09, 2007, 03:14:51 PM
Here's a couple for Rapport:

"Modern living might suck. And the world we've made can be a dark place. But at least I don't have to be there alone.

I put an arm around Nick's shoulders, and grinned at him. "It's like I keep telling you, man. You've got to have faith."

-Restoration of Faith

"Oh," I said. I rubbed at my jaw. "You think I should have gone four-color?"

Bob stared at me for a second and said, "I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you."

-from "The Vignette"

And one for Deceit:

"I held on to a flash of bad temper. "The point," I told Bob, "is to have an advertisement that looks solid, professional and reliable."

"Yeah. Advertising is all about lying," Bob said.

"Hey!"

-Also from "The Vignette"
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Post by: vengefulpixie on March 09, 2007, 08:12:18 PM
Here's a new one for Conviction:

“Stop making me think,” Murphy said. “I’m believing over here.”

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Post by: waywardclam on March 10, 2007, 06:40:01 PM
I don't think I saw this on the list of suggestions (correct me if I'm wrong):

Research:

"Goddamn Latin correspondence course."

-Summer Knight, but I couldn't find the exact reference

 ;D
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Post by: tootalltipton on March 11, 2007, 07:22:42 AM
Presence, Only one sentence in the series sums all of this up.
From chapter one of Blood Rites.

"Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate."
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Post by: Elorex619 on March 12, 2007, 05:27:31 AM
Might (Summer Knight, Chapter 11, Page 148? Line 7)

"I took another peek at the thug. With one hand, he casually lifted a sofa that had to weigh a couple of hundred pounds and peered under it. I drew back from the door again. Fisticuffs, bad idea. Definitely a bad idea."

Sorry about the page and line my Book might be messed up
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Post by: Karevala on March 15, 2007, 01:54:45 AM
Intimidation
I felt cold stone flow into the features of my face, into the timbre of my voice.
...
The change in tone hit her hard. She blinked at me in surprise for a second, lips parted but empty of sound.
...
She stared at me in utter shock.
...
I leaned closer, staring coldly, and she leaned away, declining to make eye contact. "Now buckle the f*** up." She did.
(Proven Guilty, chap 9, page 59, hardcover)

Investigation
There was a large splotch of [blood] on the floor, and it had been smeared around when it had been making the tile all slippery. There were a couple of different footmarks on the floor, outlined in blood, and more smears of it on one of the sinks, where the victim had apparently tried to pull himself up off the floor. It looked fairly gruesome, which wasn't really a surprise. There wasn't as much blood as there would have been at, say, a murder, but there was plenty all the same.
(Proven Guilty, chap 11, page 77, hardcover)

And another one for Rapport
"Give me a ride home?" I asked.
She already had her keys in her hand. "Do I look like your driver?"
"Thanks, Murph."
(Proven Guilty, chap 13, page 97, hardcover)
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Post by: icarus on March 15, 2007, 07:28:05 PM
I know this may not be what you want, but I couldn't resist. I'll add more when I have the books at hand.

Burglary - Dead Beat pg. 324
"One little burglary and you've gone habitual,"
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Post by: Drali on March 16, 2007, 12:34:53 AM
A suggestion for Intimidation.

Proven Guilty

"I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies.  Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are.  If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick."
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Post by: laurelei23 on March 16, 2007, 08:20:52 AM
Endurance: (I think Harry's ability to see things thru is just as important as his ability to take a head shot.)

Hope twitched somewhere inside me... "Yeah? What did they say?"

His smile widened. "That the White Council's unyielding policy is one of nonnegotiation with terrorists."

Hope's corpse went through some postmortem twitching.


Investigation:

"Hey!" I protested. "Are you selllng me on eBay?"

Crane winked at me. "Ironic, eh? Though I confess a bit of surprise. How do you know what it is?"

"I read." I told him.

--Proven Guilty, ch 26

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Post by: Angel of Murphy on March 17, 2007, 12:45:43 AM
Contacts:
"Because I know something you don't."
"What? What could you possibly know that matters now?"
"The phone number to Pizza Spress."
"Get her, Toot!" SK 362
Conviction:
"In the name of the Pizza Lord! Charge!" SK 362
Deceit:
"Yeah, just like old times, Elaine. You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous..."
"...deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony." SK 311
Empathy:
The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain's brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain. DB 1
Endurance:
"Harry, remind me why we keep hurling ourselves into this kind of insanity." PG 332
Fists:
I don't hit girls. DB 256
Guns:
"Nasty. Anyone who knows their way around a kusari is a tough customer."
"Yeah. So we shoot him."
"Damn right, we shoot him."
Intimidation:
"If anything happens to Murphy and I even think you had a hand in it, f*ck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you. Personally. I'm picking up every weapon I can get. And I'm using them to kill you. Horribly." DB 389
"I gave you a chance."
"Mouse, kill him" DB 338
Might:
The ghoul let out a scream and stared up at Sue in naked terror, covering his head with his arms. Sue ate him. Snap. Gulp. No more ghoul. DB 356
Rapport:
"What was that about?"
"Erlking, big-time bad guy. Wanted to eat me."
"Why?"
"Well. I met him." PG 324
Scholarship:
"What's with that?"
"Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?"
"Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them." DB 356
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: wired_wrong on March 17, 2007, 01:09:29 PM
Fists

"In real life, the chair doesn't break when you slug somebody with it, the way it does in the movies. The person you hit is the one who breaks."

storm front chapter 23 pg 301
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Karevala on March 17, 2007, 07:57:36 PM
Resources I found a whole bunch.

My stomach made an unhappy noise. It was almost as empty as my wallet.
(Fool Moon 1:1)

The walls [of the lab] were lined with wire racks, and I'd filled them with Tupperware, boxes, bags, tubs, bottles, cups, bowls, and urns. Most of the containers had a label listing their contents, ingredients for any number of potions, spells, summonings, and magical devices I had occasion to make from time to time.
(Blood Rites 5:34)

Hot water. Ye gods. There are no words to describe how good a hot shower feels after several years of living with no water heater of your own.
(Blood Rites 20:152)

I guess if [he] could afford a house that size, he could afford a water heater to match it, because I ran the shower as hot as I could stand for almost half an hour and it never got cold.
(Blood Rites 20:153)

The house we finally pulled up to had multiple wings, multiple stories, and couple of faux-castle turrets. It had cost someone eight digits, and could have doubled as the headquarters for the villain in a James Bond movie.
(Blood Rites 18:139)

I had enough to cover [the bill], but only because I managed to find a couple of quarters in the various pockets of my duster. I left the money on the table. There wasn't enough for a tip.
(Blood Rites 23:189)

(Book, Chapter: Page#)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: mickalickahi on March 20, 2007, 12:29:43 PM
I got a couple of quotes.

Investigation
Death Masks pg 123 (paperback)
"I watched as she put the phone down and casually let the nightgown fall to the floor.  I watched a little more.  I wasn't being a peeping Tom.  This was professional.  I noted that she had some intriguing curves.  See?  Professionalism in action."

Intimidation
Proven Guilty pg 150 (paperback)
"I walked into the place looking like I was hoping to kick someone in the neck because it was a hell of a lot easier to discourage potential predators ahead of time than it was to slug it out with them when they followed me out afterward."

I'm doing some rereading I'll probably have more soon.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on March 20, 2007, 04:02:11 PM
I really appreciate the effort folks are putting in, here.  I haven't had the time to tabulate the new stuff, but I think it's looking pretty good.  When I do get the time, I'll do an update.  Keep 'em coming!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Rel Fexive on March 20, 2007, 11:05:28 PM
I wish a friend of mine would give me my Storm Front back, so I can read the books again... while looking out for good quotes ;)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Karevala on March 21, 2007, 05:33:40 AM
Most of these involve firearms finesse or intimidation with guns.

Guns or Athletics?
[She] had the reflexes that were depressingly common in all three vampire types, and she darted out of the way of the flames. She leveled both guns at me as she did, blazing away like those Hong Kong action movies.
(Blood Rites 16:119)

Guns
{I} drew out a great big Dirty Harry Callahan number that weighed about seventy-five thousand pounds.
(Death Masks 4:41)

(I'm not quite sure where this fits, if anywhere, but it does involve a gun.)
"If you like, think of the precautions as a compliment."
 I folded my arms. "Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head."
(Blood Rites 10:76)

Guns or Intimidation (I couldn't believe that no one suggested this one already.)
"So I'd use a rifle at a thousand yards. The bullet outruns its own sonic boom, and you'd never even hear the shot. You'd be dead before you realized what happened."
(Blood Rites 10:78)

Intimidation
Apparently a gun held to the back of my head engenders a sense of fellowship and goodwill in the depths of my soul.
I cooperated.
(Blood Rites 10:74)

Murphy put the mouth of the riot gun against [his] spine and said, "How good is that armor?"
(Blood Rites 31:263)

"If you make any noise or start to get up, I'll probably twitch, and this trigger is pretty sensitive. My gun is pointed at your nose. The ensuing cause-and-effect chain reaction could be inconvenient for you."
(Blood Rites 10:75)

Fists (Ah, philadelphia, maybe this one belongs in Rapport? ;) )
My vision went red with rage and I hit him in the face for the second time in six hours. He fell to the floor, twisted his hips, and swept my legs out from under me.  I hit the ground, and [he] piled on to me; going for an armlock. I got a leg underneath me and sank my teeth into his arm as he tried to get it around my neck. I pushed up and slammed him against a wall with my body, and we both staggered apart.
(Blood Rites 21:163)

Edit: 'cause I forgot some.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: laurelei23 on March 21, 2007, 07:32:03 PM
Lore
Proven Guilty, ch 34
"I have someone who can help. Only she's totally unable to help me."

Murphy scowled at me, then said, "You're enjoying this. You just love to dance around questions, and spring surprises when you know something the rest of us don't."

"It's like heroin for wizards," I confirmed.


Conviction
Storm Front, ch 24
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside  of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.


Re-reading SF made me remember something. Beneath all that armor of snark and cynicism, Harry has a heart like a pile of sleeping kittens -- soft and sweet with sharp little teeth and claws.


Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Rel Fexive on March 21, 2007, 08:00:26 PM
Quote from: laurelei23 on March 21, 2007, 07:32:03 PM
Re-reading SF made me remember something. Beneath all that armor of snark and cynicism, Harry has a heart like a pile of sleeping kittens -- soft and sweet with sharp little teeth and claws.

A fantastically accurate description :)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: gknee on March 22, 2007, 12:12:34 PM
laurelei23 said:

Quote
Beneath all that armor of snark and cynicism, Harry has a heart like a pile of sleeping kittens -- soft and sweet with sharp little teeth and claws.

I agree with von Bek, what a fabulous quote! Can that be in the game?
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: The Doctor on March 22, 2007, 07:27:18 PM
Quote from: Zenitharmon on March 22, 2007, 12:12:34 PM
laurelei23 said:

Quote
Beneath all that armor of snark and cynicism, Harry has a heart like a pile of sleeping kittens -- soft and sweet with sharp little teeth and claws.

I agree with von Bek, what a fabulous quote! Can that be in the game?
I third that suggestion.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: laurelei23 on March 22, 2007, 09:02:25 PM
Quote from: The Doctor on March 22, 2007, 07:27:18 PM
Quote from: Zenitharmon on March 22, 2007, 12:12:34 PM
laurelei23 said:

Quote
Beneath all that armor of snark and cynicism, Harry has a heart like a pile of sleeping kittens -- soft and sweet with sharp little teeth and claws.

I agree with von Bek, what a fabulous quote! Can that be in the game?
I third that suggestion.


oh my  *solemn head bow*

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
  ~O. Wilde
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Redwulf25_ci on March 23, 2007, 06:37:18 AM
Quote from: The Doctor on March 22, 2007, 07:27:18 PM
Quote from: Zenitharmon on March 22, 2007, 12:12:34 PM
laurelei23 said:

Quote
Beneath all that armor of snark and cynicism, Harry has a heart like a pile of sleeping kittens -- soft and sweet with sharp little teeth and claws.

I agree with von Bek, what a fabulous quote! Can that be in the game?
I third that suggestion.

A quote that sums up Dresden better than Mr. Butcher himself.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Karevala on March 23, 2007, 02:53:12 PM
Bit of a grab bag of quotes this time.
(Book, Chapter: Page#)

Investigation (deduction, insight)
And I felt worse, a moment later, when I looked out the car window at the full moon and realized something that I should have put together an hour before -- the real killer or killers were still out there.
(Fool Moon 13:118)

Might
The walls shook around the beast, as though its very presence was enough to make reality shudder. Bloodstained drool spilled from its foaming jaws, and its green eyes blazed with hellish fury. The thing had laughed off bullets fired into its skull at point-blank range.
(Fool Moon 18:177)

Performance or possibly Deceit
I didn't know if I could kill him, but there was no reason to let him think I wasn't confident about it.
(Death Masks 1:13)

(Not really sure what category this one belongs in, if any. My initial thought was performance.)
Thomas's grin had so much life that it was practically sentient.
(Blood Rites 19:145)

Stealth
We started a game of shadow-haunted hide-and-seek in the little garden, Tera and me against the agents behind us. She moved like a wraith, in utter silence, smooth and steady in the black shadows and silver light of the moon overhead.
(Fool Moon 13:122)

Weapons
But even with centuries of experience, I doubted any of [the vampires of the Black Court] had ever been hit with a water balloon.
Or with a holy-water balloon.
(Blood Rites 3:20)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: JennyJingle on March 23, 2007, 04:36:58 PM
I can't believe no one's posted this one yet:

Burglary:
"Wait a minute. Where did you say this thing was stolen from?"
"The Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist."
"In northern Italy."
He nodded.
"In Turin, to be exact."
He nodded again.
"Someone stole the freaking Shroud of Turin?"

Death Masks, pg 27-28
If needed, it could just be pared down to the last line.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Echo on March 24, 2007, 06:31:11 AM
Conviction:

“For the sake of one soul.  For one loved on.  For one life.”  I called power into my blasting rod, an its tip glowed incandescent white.  “The way I see it, there is nothing else worth fighting a war for.”

Grave Peril, p.267

Weapons:

The old man’s sword was not reflecting light.  It was emitting it.  The water-patterned steel of the blade glowed with a steady silver flame that slowly grew brighter.

Death Masks, p. 63

Performance:

Nipple erection on command- now that’s method acting.

Grave Peril, p. 25


Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: gabrion on March 24, 2007, 07:07:26 PM
Burglary
Butters: "No you have to buy the expansion for that...maybe we could go back and get it?"
Harry: "One little burglary and you've gone all habitual." (Dead Beat, 347)

Also, I know someone already posted it, but I just want to second the following suggestion.

Intimidate
"I walked into the place like I was hoping to kick someone in the neck, becease it was a hell of a lot easier to discourage potential predators ahead of time..." (Proven Guilty, 150)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Torvaldr on March 25, 2007, 05:48:28 AM
Conviction - "You do not fight evil by becoming evil. Once you have crossed that line you have joined the darkness."

"Evil is not the greater power. So long as good has the will to resist, evil can never triumph."

Spoken by Tobias Grimm, Wizard of the Napa Valley
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Torvaldr on March 25, 2007, 05:53:41 AM
Then he bent down to move Mister out of his way, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Harry warned.

"Why not?" he asked.

"Does the term furball with razorblades mean anything to you?"

------------------------------------------------------------

"If you are going to do that, you might as well take a cold shower with a live cat."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Torvaldr on March 25, 2007, 05:57:15 AM
Okay I think I misunderstood.  ??? Are we only supposed to offer quotes from the books, or can we also offer original quotes? The quote I listed above are original. Sorry if I broke the rules.  :-[
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: JennyJingle on March 25, 2007, 01:32:52 PM
Pretty sure Iago was looking for quotes from the books to be able to put into the RPG book. Not originals. If you go to the top of the thread, he specifically askes what he wants. And what skill catergories he's looking for.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Shandra on March 27, 2007, 03:09:22 AM
Deceit or Burglary:
I walked in wearing a hat with an FTD logo and carrying a long white flower box under one arm. I nodded to an aging security guard at a desk and went on past him to the stairs, my steps purposeful. You'd be surprised how far a hat, a box, and a confident stride can get you. -Summer Knight, pg 130

Fists:
So I took a calculated risk, used my free hand, and hit him [Morgan] as hard as I could in the mouth.
I think the blow startled him more than anything. He took a step back, letting go of my arm in surprise, and just blinked at me. He put one hand to his mouth, and when he drew his fingers away, there was blood on them.
I planted my feet and faced him, without meeting his eyes. "Don't touch me." -Storm Front, pg 81

[...]I drove my fist at his nose as hard as I could. I don't carry a lot of power on my own when I punch. But when I added in the kinetic energy stored in the ring, my fist became a battering ram of bone and flesh, flattening the man's nose in a gout of blood, and sending him sprawling to the ground six feet away. - Fool Moon, pg 83

Presence::
Marcone was a civilizing influence on crime-and where he operated, it was more of a problem in terms of scale than ever before. An extremely shrewd businessman, he had a battery of lawyers working for him that kept him fenced in from the law behind a barricade of depositions and papers and tape recordings. The cops never said it, but sometimes it seemed like they were almost reluctant to chase him.  -Storm Front, pg 24

Gentleman Johnny Marcone didn't look like the sort of man who would have my legs broken or my jaw wired shut. His salt-and-pepper hair was cut short, and there were lines from sun and smiling etched into the corners of his eyes. His eyes were the green of well-worn dollar bills. He seemed more like a college football coach: good-looking, tanned, athletic, and enthusiastic. The impression was reinforced by the men he kept with him. Cujo Hendricks hulked like an all-pro player who had been ousted for extreme unnecessary roughness. -Storm Front, pg 31

Resources:
I tried not to look over her shoulder at the calendar I had hanging on the wall, and the red circle around the fifteenth of last month. Late rent. Need money. Even with the fee from today and what I would make in the future, it would take the city forever to pay up. -Storm Front, pg 43

Cha-ching. Five hundred dollars would take care of last month's rent and a good bit of this month's, too. I could get into this bit with nervous clients wanting to preserve the anonymity of their checking accounts from my supposed sorcerous might. Cash always spends.
"That will be fine, yes," I told her. I tried not to fondle the envelope. At least I wasn't crass enough to dump the money on my desk and count it out. -Storm Front, pg 46

First, the money. It was all in fifties, which always look new even when they're years old because they get so little circulation. There were ten of them. I put them in my wallet, and trashed the envelope. -Storm Front, pg 47

He [Bob] was rocking back and forth on his jawbones in excitement. "Now, just a teaspoon of powdered diamond, and we're done."
I rubbed at my eyes. "Diamond. I don't have any diamonds, Bob."
"I figured. You're cheap, that's why women don't like you. Look, just tear up a fifty into real little pieces and put that in there."
"A fifty-dollar bill?" I demanded.
"Money," Bob opined, "Very sexy."
I muttered and got the remaining fifty out of my pocket, shredding it and tossing it in to complete the potion. -Storm Front, pg 97

I went to one of the cafes inside, sat down, and ordered myself a cup of coffee. I had to pay for it with change. Most of my money had gone into paying off last month's rent and into the love potion I'd let Bob talk me into making. Money. [...] I didn't want to get out of hot water with the White Council only to lose my office and apartment because I couldn't pay the bills. -Storm Front, pg 131

Marcone was on the up and up. He was offering me a dream job, with virtually no commitment, and as much money as I could want. There was even a clause that specified that I would not be asked or expected to perform any unlawful acts.
With that kind of money, I could live the life I wanted. I could stop scraping for every dollar, running my legs off working for every paranoid looney who wanted to hire me to investigate his great-aunt's possessed cow. I could catch up on reading, finally, do the magical research I'd been itching to do for the past few years. -Fool Moon, pg 90

Resources or Driving: On the other hand, I didn't have much choice. I didn't have any money for a cab, even if I could get one this far from the city. I didn't have a car. I was in no shape to walk anywhere.  -Fool Moon, pg 152

That's it for the moment....  Will do more searching, and will post more in a bit.

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Slife on March 28, 2007, 12:58:24 AM
Just to point out to people, you need the page numbers as well.  You can use amazon once you have a quote to "search inside" and find it.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on March 28, 2007, 04:48:24 AM
Quote from: JennyJingle on March 25, 2007, 01:32:52 PM
Pretty sure Iago was looking for quotes from the books to be able to put into the RPG book. Not originals. If you go to the top of the thread, he specifically askes what he wants. And what skill catergories he's looking for.

Correct.

(Sorry I haven't poked my head in recently, this has been a busy two weeks.)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: mickalickahi on March 28, 2007, 02:58:52 PM
I've got a fw quotes for you...


Conviction:
Grave Peril Pg 278 (Paperback)
“Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!” Michael shouted, a fierce joy on his face, his eyes alight with a passion and a vengeance I had never seen in him. He kept forcing Mavra back before the paralyzing fire of the cross, until with a scream she fell from the dais. “Let come the forces of night! We will stand!”

Intimidation:
Proven Guilty Pg150 (Paperback)
“I walked into the place like I was hoping to kick someone in the neck, because it was a hell of a lot easier to discourage potential predators ahead of time than it was to slug it out with them when they followed me out afterward.”

Investigation:
Death Masks Pg 123 (Paperback)
“I watched as she put the hone down and casually let the nightgown slide to the floor. I watched a little more. I wasn’t being a peeping Ton. This was professional. I noted that she had some intriguing curves. See? Professionalism in action.”

Lore:
Storm Front Pg 103 (Paperback)
“Wizardry is all about thinking ahead, about being prepared. Wizards aren’t superhuman. We just have a leg up on seeing things more clearly than other people, and being able to use the extra information that we have to our benefit. Hell, the word wizard comes from the same root as wise. We know things.”


Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: rma1979 on April 03, 2007, 10:28:22 PM
I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet:
Intimidation (Proven Guilty hardcover, Ch 26, Pg 203):
"You," I said. Glau looked at me without any readable expression. "You killed my dog," I said. "Get your affairs in order."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: jadesymb on April 04, 2007, 03:36:39 AM
lore:
fool moon page chpt 16 pg 162
sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.  i almost stopped hurting for a few seconds, from the sheer enjoyment of the special effects
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: alucard04 on April 05, 2007, 06:21:26 PM
Halfway through re-reading White Night and saw two that would work well for Intimidation or possibly Rapport:

"Bring it on, Darth Bathrobe!"
               and
"Not bad - for a virgin."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: rma1979 on April 05, 2007, 06:57:49 PM
Here's one from the tail end of White Night (Ch 43, p398) , for Investigation:

"I picked up Thomas outside his apartment and tailed him as he crossed town. He took the El over toward the Loop, and hit the sidewalks again. He looked tense, and paler than usual."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: cybrgrl on April 06, 2007, 09:33:43 PM
Intimidation (threats, scaring people, provoking anger, interrogation)
"Don't hurt the little coroner, gentlemen," the man said.  "We'll need him.  For a little while." Dead Beat.

Performance (playing to an audience, artistic composition and appreciation, creative communication)
"I'm, not going to let the Jolly Rogers laugh at me like that.  I mean, come on.  Five guys named Roger.  How much polka can be in their souls?"  Dead Beat.

"Great entrance.  Love the hat." Dead Beat.

Scholarship (mundane research, sciences, languages, using computers
"There was only one file on the jump drive, and it was empty.  The only information on it was the
file name, and it was just a number." Dead Beat

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: cybrgrl on April 07, 2007, 05:42:47 AM
Empathy ("reading" people, maintaining the social graces, spotting lies)
"Let me get this straight," Susan said, quietly, as Bianca's speech went on. "We can't leave now because it would be an insult to the vampires." Grave Peril

"Lady Bianca, I'll be sure to tell my father all about this dizzying display of hospitality."  Grave Peril
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: jadesymb on April 08, 2007, 06:08:22 PM
Quotes from Death Mask

Alertness (This is 'passive' awareness, on-your-toes-ness, the ability to avoid surprise)
"I told myself not to be jumpy" pg 56 chapter 5
or the full quote
""heard footsteps growing closer, behind me.  I told myself not to be too jumpy.  Maybe it was just some other frightened, endangered, paranoid, sleep deprivied consultant"
Athletics (Running, jumping, climbing, dodging)
"I did the only thing a reasonable wizard could have done.  I turned around and ran like hell" Pg 57 chapter 5
or
"Wheezy wizards aren't all that good at running. thats why I'd been practicing." chapter 6 pg 58
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: cybrgrl on April 08, 2007, 08:15:12 PM
Alertness (This is 'passive' awareness, on-your-toes-ness, the ability to avoid surprise)
"I figured you wanted someone along who could notice things more subtle than a flashing neon sign".
"Oh, come on," I said.  "It doesn't have to be flashing." - White Knight

"The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious.  The forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hat to the dry cleaners." - White Knight

Driving (driving, flying, boating, car chases, shortcuts, street navigation)
"Under the circumstances, I'm forced to conclude that you were right.  I am a control freak and you were one hundred percent right to be driving the car." - White Knight

Empathy ("reading" people, maintaining the social graces, spotting lies)
In the investigation business, when someone starts trying to rush you out in order to conceal some kind of information from you, it is what we professionals call a clue. - White Knight

Investigation (examination, eavesdropping, pattern recognition, surveillance)
"I don't normally do stake outs."
"I thought it might be a nice change for you. All that knocking down doors and burning buildings must get tiring." - White Knight
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: jadesymb on April 09, 2007, 07:33:20 PM
Alertness
"I locked up my car and felt a sudden, slithering pressure on my back - my instincts way of screaming that someone was watching me."
Death Masks ch 16 pg 165
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: jadesymb on April 09, 2007, 07:37:29 PM
couls also work for Lore....(vague i've-got-a-bad-feeling-about-this "sixth sense")
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Slife on April 10, 2007, 01:54:03 AM
Are TV show quotes O.K. too?


s1x11 Things that Bump in the night
Scholarship

Harry: I dropped out of High School, remember?
Bob: And you wonder why your life is an unending series of insurmountable intellectual, financial, and emotional hurdles.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 10, 2007, 10:52:25 AM
Quote from: Slife on April 10, 2007, 01:54:03 AM
Are TV show quotes O.K. too?

Nope.  Technically, we don't have a license for the TV show, we have a license for the books. :)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Shandra on April 16, 2007, 06:10:30 AM
Can we get an updated list of what you're still looking for?  Thanks.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 17, 2007, 02:35:18 AM
Quote from: Shandra on April 16, 2007, 06:10:30 AM
Can we get an updated list of what you're still looking for?  Thanks.

I'm trying to claw to that on my to-do list.  If I can get to it before I'm out of town for my 5-year anniversary vacation, I will!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Shandra on April 17, 2007, 04:53:09 AM
Congrats on the anniversary! 
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: The Doctor on April 17, 2007, 03:47:31 PM
Quote from: iago on April 17, 2007, 02:35:18 AM
I'm trying to claw to that on my to-do list.  If I can get to it before I'm out of town for my 5-year anniversary vacation, I will!
Congratulations, Iago!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 17, 2007, 07:31:09 PM
I'm starting my retabulation of the quotes.

And FYI:

Quote from: glmagus on March 02, 2007, 10:24:07 PM
Unsure of the book but:
Mechanincs: "I called my mechaninc Mike, he's the Jesus Christ of mechanincs, and he said the Beetle was ready."

I'm not gonna be able to use that one.  I need exact quotes with book citations.  FYI.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 17, 2007, 07:54:20 PM
I'd really love to get some specific book titles to associate with these two.  Could someone supply?

Quote from: ponbern on March 07, 2007, 04:19:46 AM
Rapport-
"Are you always a wiseass?"
"No, sometimes I'm asleep."

and

"Who the hell are you?"
"I the hell am harry"
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 17, 2007, 08:11:59 PM
Quote from: vengefulpixie on March 09, 2007, 08:12:18 PM
Here's a new one for Conviction:

“Stop making me think,” Murphy said. “I’m believing over here.”

What's the source of this one?
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 17, 2007, 09:01:23 PM
Hey guys!  By and large, y'all have knocked it out of the park (holy crap, the amount of resources quotes were incredible).  There are just a few more things I'd love to see.

SKILLS THAT COULD STILL USE ATTENTION

I would adore getting just a little more effort on this short list:


HANDING OUT THE THANK-YOU REWARDS

I'll be posting shortly with a list of names of people I'll want to contact me for their free Don't Rest Your Head PDF.  If you made it into my quote-file, you'll be on the list.  If you think you submitted something valid and I missed you, speak up, once the list is posted!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Soulless Mystic5523 on April 17, 2007, 09:02:08 PM
Quote from: iago on April 17, 2007, 08:11:59 PM
What's the source of this one?

White Night Chapter 1, not sure of the page number.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Slife on April 17, 2007, 09:09:24 PM
Quote from: iago on April 17, 2007, 07:54:20 PM
I'd really love to get some specific book titles to associate with these two.  Could someone supply?



Both are from Blood Rites, on page 52
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 17, 2007, 09:14:54 PM
Quote from: Mystic5523 on April 17, 2007, 09:02:08 PM
White Night Chapter 1, not sure of the page number.

Thank you!

Quote from: Slife on April 17, 2007, 09:09:24 PM
Both are from Blood Rites, on page 52

And thank you!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Slife on April 17, 2007, 09:18:47 PM
Quote from: iago on April 17, 2007, 07:31:09 PM
I'm starting my retabulation of the quotes.

And FYI:

I'm not gonna be able to use that one.  I need exact quotes with book citations.  FYI.

Well, here's a similar one while I try to track the original down...

Dead Beat, page 140
God bless Mechanic Mike. If I heard a car complaining about its closed doors being open one more time, I would have to disintegrate something.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 17, 2007, 09:21:25 PM
Thank you again to all FORTY SEVEN people who participated in this.  You've definitely made a big chunk of my work easier, and I really appreciate that.  ALL OF YOU get a free PDF of Don't Rest Your Head.

SPECIAL THANKS to Karevala, who knocked it clean out of the park with a truly stunning number of contributions.  Karevala, you are a research MACHINE.  I'd love to give you a free PDF of Spirit of the Century as well as the Don't Rest Your Head one, if you don't already have it.

To claim your reward, drop me an email at evilhat AT gmail DOT com.  Tell me your forum name, and please put 'Quote Contest Reward' as the subject line. 

When I get your mail, I'll add you to the Evil Hat Bookshelf -- you'll get two emails, one giving you your username and password (if you don't already have one on the bookshelf), and another letting you know that your "prize" has been added to your account and is ready for download.

So, if you're on this list -- let me hear from you!

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 17, 2007, 09:22:25 PM
Quote from: Slife on April 17, 2007, 09:18:47 PM
Well, here's a similar one while I try to track the original down...

Dead Beat, page 140
God bless Mechanic Mike. If I heard a car complaining about its closed doors being open one more time, I would have to disintegrate something.

Thanks; I goofed, and forgot to list Craftsmanship as needing a few more.  Anything where Harry references his mechanic is perfect. :)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: SoulCatcher78 on April 17, 2007, 11:03:20 PM
Thanks Iago *big hetero man hugs to you*
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Shandra on April 17, 2007, 11:54:18 PM
Italicized portion is most relevant. 

Discipline:
It took Molly better than twenty minutes to focus her mind for the comparatively simple spell.  Focus of intention, of will, is intreral to any use of magic.  I'd drawn myself up to focus power so often and for so long that I only had to actually make a conscious effort to do it when a spell was particularly complex, dangerous, or when I thought it wise to be slow and cautious.  Most of the time, it took me less tahn a second to gather up my will-- which is critical in any situation where speed is a factor. White Night, pg 24.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: mikeryan on April 18, 2007, 12:39:12 AM
Empathy is my favorite SotC skill, so I feel compelled to take a stab at a quote.

Quote from: iago on April 17, 2007, 09:01:23 PM
[/li][li] Empathy: This is mostly taken care of -- but in Storm Front, when Harry's on the phone with the chauffeur lady, he does a number of Empathy-like things, and that's glaringly missing.  I'd love it if someone could hit this one.

I didn't see anything when he was on the phone with her (she shut him down too quickly), but during their face-to-face there were a bunch.

1. Storm Front (CH 10 page 127)

"She took another drag, and this time I saw a small shake to her fingers, one she quickly hid. Just not quickly enough. She was nervous. Nervous enough to be shaking, and now I could see what she was up to. She was wearing the alley-cat mask, appealing to my glands instead of my brain, and trying to distract me with it, trying to keep me from finding something out."

2. Storm Front (CH 10 page 128)

"I'm not inhuman. I can be distracted by a pretty face, or body, like any other youngish man. Linda Randall was damned good at playing the part. But I do not like to be made the fool.
So, Miss Sex Goddess. What are you hiding?"

3. Storm Front (CH 10 page 128)

"Her eyes were roving about now, nervous, like a cat who has found herself shut into a closed room."

4. Storm Front (CH 10 page 129)

"She pressed her lips together and shook her head. She shook her head and she lied as lied to me as she did it. I was sure of it. She was closing in, tightening up, and if there was nothing she could tell me, she wouldn't be trying to hide it."

And a Discipline one:

Storm Front (page 127)

"Her expression promised to show me things that you don't talk about with other people, if I would give her half a chance. Your job, Harry. Think about your job."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Slife on April 18, 2007, 01:43:20 AM
Got it!  Thanks, Iago.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: theboatman on April 18, 2007, 01:58:29 AM
Just finished downloading my copy of Don't Rest Your Head  ;D

Many thanks Iago
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Douglas on April 20, 2007, 03:33:56 PM
Since no one has given Deceit quote for Thomas here goes:

So let me get this straight.  You want me to help save the girl, overthrow the dark lord, and defend the innocents terrorized by dark magice," I said.  "And you want me to do it because you're my long-lost half brother, who needs somenone noble to stand beside him in a desperate battle for what's right."

He grimaced.  "That phrasing has way more melodrama in it than I would have used."

"You've got to be kidding me.  That's a really lame con."

"Give me some credit, Dresden,"  He sighed.  "I know how to con.  If you were really just another mark, I'd have come up with a better story."

-Blood Rites, Chapter 21, pg. 165-166

Another option:

"The night is young," I said.  "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you like the lying treacherous vampire sleaze you are?"

"Because you can trust me," he said.  I want to help you.

I snorted.  "Why the hell should I believe you?"

"You shouldn't." he said.  "Don't.  I'm a good liar.  One of the best.  I'm not asking ypou to believe me.  Believe the circumstances.  We have a common interest."

...and on the same page...

Michael shook his head.  "He's a liar, Harry.  I can tell just by being this close to him."

"Yes, yes, yes," Thomas said.  I confess to it.  But at the moment , it isn't part of my agenda to lie to anyone.  I just want her back."

-Grave Peril, Chapter 31, pg. 294 (both quotes)
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on April 20, 2007, 04:38:49 PM
Fantastic; thanks for the follow-ups.

I'm thinking I also remember something in Grave Peril -- around the 300's in terms of page position -- with Lea riding a horse?  Could someone track that down for me so I can grab it for the Survival skill?
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: mikeryan on April 20, 2007, 10:55:42 PM
Survival, short and to the point. Rest of the time, she's pretty much just sitting there.

Grave Peril (Ch33)

"Lea laid a hand on her horse's neck, and the savage beast calmed."

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: phoenix avolon on April 24, 2007, 02:28:52 AM
Survival (animal handling)

From Grave Peril chapter 21

“One of her hounds appeared out of the darkness, and crouched beside her, fastening its dark eyes upon me. She laid a fond hand upon its broad head and it shivered in pleasure.”

From Blood Rites (chapter 3)
“It was the insane little notched-eared pup. He ignored me, still growling, and started shaking his head back and forth violently. ‘Good thing we had a stowaway. Vamp might have gotten us both.”

From Grave Peril (chapter 7)
“But it didn’t feel right, to not have Mister run up to me and bowl my shins in greeting. That should have been enough to tip me off.”

To bad dress isn’t under a category, there are some really good quotes for that.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Hary Dresden on April 25, 2007, 11:14:53 PM
Quote from: Redwulf25_ci on February 24, 2007, 07:20:32 PM
Two quotes for Driving (although it is a bit of an unconventional vehicle, but Survival doesn't seem quite apropriate either) if anyone has a better idea about what skill would be used to ride a reanimated T-rex through Chicago then you can use these quotes for that skill.

Dead Beat Chapter 39:
I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.


Dead Beat Chapter 39:
Here's something else I bet you didn't know about Tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well. The first time I tried to take a left, Sue swung wide, the enormous momentum of her body simply too much for even her muscles to lightly command. She swung up onto the sidewalk, crushed three parked cars under her feet, knocked over two light poles, kicked a compact car end over end to land on its roof, and broke every window on the first two floors of the building beside us as her tail lashed back and forth in an effort to counterbalance her body.
I think driving could be an alright suggestion for Sue ??? No, convection sounds a lot better. I hope my suggestions help but, I can't wait for the game. 
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Hary Dresden on April 25, 2007, 11:21:11 PM
Quote from: SoulCatcher78 on February 25, 2007, 01:02:51 AM
Weapons:
Never be afraid to try unconventional weaponry from Blood Rites Chapter 30
Kincaid reached into the van and presented me with a futuristic-looking weapon, a gun.  It had a round tank the size of a gumball machine attatched to the frame, and for a second I thought I had been handed a pistol sized flame thrower.  Then I recognized it, cleared my throat and said, "This is a paintball gun."

Effects of holy water on Black Court Vampires from Blood Rites Chapter 33
...they splattered into Mavra, sizzling viciously.  Silver fire immediately began chewing at her flesh wherever the paintballs struck and broke.  It ripped into her and happened fast, as if some hyper kinetic gourmet were taking a melon baller to her chest.
Yes I agree the paint ball gun is a great wepon but most stores don't sell holy water filled paint balls!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Redwulf25_ci on April 26, 2007, 06:55:49 AM
Quote from: iago on April 17, 2007, 09:21:25 PM
Thank you again to all FORTY SEVEN people who participated in this.  You've definitely made a big chunk of my work easier, and I really appreciate that.  ALL OF YOU get a free PDF of Don't Rest Your Head.

SPECIAL THANKS to Karevala, who knocked it clean out of the park with a truly stunning number of contributions.  Karevala, you are a research MACHINE.  I'd love to give you a free PDF of Spirit of the Century as well as the Don't Rest Your Head one, if you don't already have it.

To claim your reward, drop me an email at evilhat AT gmail DOT com.  Tell me your forum name, and please put 'Quote Contest Reward' as the subject line. 

When I get your mail, I'll add you to the Evil Hat Bookshelf -- you'll get two emails, one giving you your username and password (if you don't already have one on the bookshelf), and another letting you know that your "prize" has been added to your account and is ready for download.

So, if you're on this list -- let me hear from you!

  • Redwulf25_ci


Hey, sent out an e-mail to you as requested several days ago, haven't received an e-mail about my prize yet. Have you just been busy or did my e-mail get eaten by the net monster and need resent?

<edit: Got my copy today. Thank you very much.>
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: iago on May 01, 2007, 12:55:26 AM
Quote from: Redwulf25_ci on April 26, 2007, 06:55:49 AM
Hey, sent out an e-mail to you as requested several days ago, haven't received an e-mail about my prize yet. Have you just been busy or did my e-mail get eaten by the net monster and need resent?

<edit: Got my copy today. Thank you very much.>

I was out of town for a week.  Apologies!
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: phoenix avolon on May 25, 2007, 05:33:22 PM
“The police do not know how game runs, or how to chase it. One grabbed me. I made him let go.”
-Fool Moon, chap 16, p153

“A dual would mean a fair fight, and I hate fair fights. In the words of a murderous Faerie Queen they’re too easy to lose.”
-Death Masks, chap 1, p14

“I could slip in to the archaic at dramatically appropriate moments. So sue me.”
-Grave Peril, chap 23 p202
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Antithesis on May 27, 2007, 07:22:39 PM
Dead Beat

Weapons :
“I’m fresh out of vorpal swords,” my father said. He reached into the pack and tossed me a miniature candy bar. “ The closest I can get is a Snickers snack”(p113)

Survival:  (Animal related)
The Erlking flung himself up onto the black steed’s back and let loose an eerie cry. When he did, all the howling music of the dogs, primitive and fierce, seemed to congeal into flashes of lightning that leapt up from the ground and into the clouds. For a second there was silence, and then the screaming winds warbled and whistled into deeper, more terrifying howls than any dog had ever uttered.(321)

Deceit:
“Why, yes,” Cowl said, and what sounded like a genuine laugh bubbled in his voice. “We smile at one another and play nicely all in the name of Kemmler’s greater glory, of course. But we are all planning on killing one another as soon as it’s convenient.(323)

Blood Rites

Investigation:
“I’ve narrowed it down.” Bob said.
“How narrow?”
“Uh.” the skull said. “It isn’t in any of the strip clubs.”
“Bob!” I demanded. “You were running around strip joints all day?”(176-177)

Survival:
“He’s the dog with no name. Like Clint Eastwood, but fuzzier.”
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: phoenix avolon on June 04, 2007, 10:03:54 PM
White Knight

“No force in the known universe can make a gang of folks naming their organization in Latin do much of anything on time. If they’re all there by four, we’ll know there’s some kind of black magic involved.”
            -p. 41
“You can get more with a kind word and well-applied kinetomancy than with just a kind word.”
            -p. 146
“Torrents of flame, blasts of force, and impenetrable bastions of will were sort of my thing. You will note, however, how seldom words like torrent, blast, and bastion get used in conjunction with terms that denote delicacy and precision.”
            -p. 319
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: NevynK on June 06, 2007, 10:21:13 PM
No idea why someone else hasn't mentioned this one yet but

Weapons: (WN pg.  283)

We got suited up. Swords and guns and grey cloaks and staves and magical gewgawsleft and right, yeehaw.

Might: (WN pg. 335)

Elsewhere, a male vampire picked up an eight-foot-long sofa and slammed it onto a pair of ghouls ripping at the body of a fallen thrall.

might post more later
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: trekbette on June 26, 2007, 04:35:23 AM
Intimidation
from White Nght
I'm not going to kill you. You get to carry word to your kind.... Tell them this, never again. Tell them that. Never again. Or hell itself will not hide you from me.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: steven807 on July 09, 2007, 11:59:41 PM
Craftsmanship, specifically, quotes involving Mike the mechanic:
 
From Blood Rites, p. 360:
  Monday afternoon I got the Blue Beetle back from my mechanic, Mike, who is the automative repair equivalent of Jesus Christ himself. Either that or Dr. Frankenstein.

From Storm Front, p. 62:
  Mike is a super mechanic.  He never asked questions about the burns that slagged a hole in the front latch or the claw marks that ruined both the doors. You can't pay for service like that.

From Fool Moon, p. 11:
  Mike has declared that the VW bug is the easiest car in the world to repair, and so that's what I drive.  He keeps it running eight or nine days in ten.  That's phenomenal.

From Grave Peril, p. 124:
  My mechanic, Mike, who can keep the Beetle running most days, hadn't asked any questions.  He'd just replaced the parts with pieces of other Volkswagens, so that the Blue Beetle  was technically blue, red, white, and green.  But my appellation stuck.


Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Thanaeon on October 12, 2007, 01:37:58 PM
I'm not sure it fits perfectly, but I don't remember it being mentioned before;

Performance
'Okay, then. Someone get a pizza and a Coke and some dice, but I want it understood that I'm going to need thews.'
Billy blinked at me. 'What?'
'Thews,' I said. 'I want big, bulging thews, and I don't want to have to think too much.'
-Summer Knight, second-to-last page

I just find the idea of such a quote in an RPG amusing.  ;D
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Joren Motley on November 03, 2007, 04:31:26 AM
Well, if things are still being looked at for acceptance, I wonder why no one has offered this for Stealth:

Stealth:
"Do you have any suggestions of where we should start looking?"

Marcone ignored the sarcasm, flicked a switch on the sight on his rifle, and pointed it negligently at the tree line. "Over there ought to do."

The red dot of the laser sight settled onto a leaf six inches to the left of my head, and the thready pulse of fear in my chest turned into an icy white streak of terror.
Fool Moon: Chapter 29

Not needed apparently, but this "weapon" quote stuck with me as the previous situation.

Weapons:
Murphy snarled, crawling on her hands and knees, dragging the chain saw with her. She lifted it again and drove it at the creature's head, engine racing, blade singing through the air. The chlorofiend screamed in protest and frustration, lifting the stumps (hah hah, get it, stumps?) of its arms in feeble defense. Murphy tore through them with the chain saw, snicker-snack, and then drove the blade directly between the chlorofiend's glowing green eyes.

Summer Knight: Chapter 21
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Quantus on December 29, 2007, 09:09:22 PM
Dont know if this is still going but:

Resources:

DB Ch 13
"My wallet was getting even more anorexic than usual.  At this rate I wouldn't be able to afford to protect mankind from teh perils of black magic.  Hell's bells, that would be really embarrassing.

DB Ch 16
"Heroism doesn't pay very well.  I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up"

Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: LogicMouse on April 16, 2008, 01:44:26 AM
You may very well be past publication time by now, and I did notice that there hasn't been a comment to this thread since December, but I figured what the hey. 

All of the following are from Small Favor, so I used the spoilery thing just in case, even though I don't think most of them give anything major away. 

For Investigation:
   p.323 
             
(click to show/hide)

or: p.67
             
(click to show/hide)


For Survival:  (Something other than animals--I'm assuming you use this skill for matters of wilderness survival as well.  :)
   p.346
             
(click to show/hide)
 

or: 
   p.300
           This one is Actually pretty spoilery! 
(click to show/hide)
 

For Whatever skill you use for cooking: Possibly Craftsmanship?
   p.288
             
(click to show/hide)


For Whatever skill you'd use for reassuring someone:
   p.296
              Harry's letter to Ivy (the whole thing isn't that long.)

Hope there's still time...
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Lanodantheon on April 25, 2008, 07:19:30 AM
I'm surprised nobody's posted these.

The first is pure unadulterated
Craftsmanship:

"She [Charity] put the hammer over her shoulder, balancing its weight with one arm, and turned to me. She looked ferocious, so armed and armored, and the heavy black stain around her eyes didn't do anything to soften the image. Ferocious, hell. She looked competent-and dangerous.
Everyone just stared at her.
She arched a golden eyebrow,'I make all of my husband's armor,' she said calmly, 'as well as his spare weaponry. By hand.' -PG, 326

Discipline:

"I opened my eyes and everything came into a brilliantly sharp focus that discounted the existence of anything except myself, my magic and the ritual awaiting me. It had been a long, wearying preparation, and I hadn't even started with the magic yet, but if the spell could help me nail the bad guys quicker, the hours of effort would be well worth it.
Silence and focus ruled.
I was ready.
And then the F**king phone rang about a foot from my ear." -PG, 53 (paperback)

Another:

"Stupid phone. Stupid car crash. I tried to think positive, because I read somewhere that it's important to do that at times of stress and frustration. Whoever wrote that was probably selling something.
I picked up the phone and growled, 'Screw thinking positive,' into the headset.
'Um,' said a woman's voice. 'What did you say?'
'Screw thinking positive!...'" PG, 54

This one's from Small Favor, So I put it in spoiler tags.

(click to show/hide)
-Small Favor, pg.52


Empathy:

"'Morgan,' I said, 'Stars and stones man. Please don't do this. She's a child. We should be helping her.'
My words slowed him, and he froze in place for a terrible heartbeat. Then he closed his eyes and swallowed, his face twisting with nausea. He opened his eyes again and whispered, 'Step aside, Dresden. Please.'" - PG, 444-445 (Paperback)

Resources:

"'Wizarding doesn't pay much,' I said, 'You'd be surprised how much stuff I get from Wal-Mart.'" -PG, 182

Another non-Spoiler from Small Favor and it might also work for Discipline:
(click to show/hide)
-Small Favor, pg. 102

-edit: put Small Favor quotes in spoiler tags
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: MacEanruig on July 12, 2008, 02:35:13 AM
Rapport:

Grave Peril

"Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds."
"Harry," Michael said sternly, "You know I hate it when you swear."
"You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed. "Heckhounds."

Sorry if someone already said it. 16 pages is a lot of reading for posting a simple quote;)

Hope this helps! Its been a few months since the last post...
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: MacEanruig on July 15, 2008, 09:50:16 PM
Might and Rapport, I think:

p. 354 of the softcover of Summer Knight:


I stretched out my hand, adrenaline and pain giving me plenty of fuel for the magic, and called "Ventas servitas!" Wind leapt out in a sudden spurt, seizing the Unraveling and tearing it from Aurora's fingers, sending it spinning through the air towards me. I caught it, stuck my tongue out at Aurora, yelled, "Meep meep!" and ran like hell.
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: thausgt on March 03, 2009, 12:14:35 AM
Quote from: Lanodantheon on April 25, 2008, 07:19:30 AM
I'm surprised nobody's posted these.

The first is pure unadulterated
Craftsmanship:

"She [Charity] put the hammer over her shoulder, balancing its weight with one arm, and turned to me. She looked ferocious, so armed and armored, and the heavy black stain around her eyes didn't do anything to soften the image. Ferocious, hell. She looked competent-and dangerous.
Everyone just stared at her.
She arched a golden eyebrow,'I make all of my husband's armor,' she said calmly, 'as well as his spare weaponry. By hand.' -PG, 326

Great quote! I'd be more inclined to use it for Intimidation, but your mileage may vary...
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: thausgt on March 03, 2009, 12:37:30 AM
For Investigation, from "Death Masks":

Butters cleared his throat and said, "The germs are gone."
"Germs?" I asked.
"In the samples I took from that body. I ran all the checks again just to make sure, and better than half of them turned up negative."

For Fists, from "Blood Rites":

"Hey, Stallings," she said, loudly enough to be heard by the whole gym. "What just happened here?"
The older opponent grinned and said, "O'Toole just got beat up by a girl, Lieutenant."

For Burglary, from "Summer Knight":

You'd be surprised at how far a hat, a box and a confident stride can get you.

For Might, from "Summer Knight":

With one hand, he casually lifted a sofa that had to weigh a couple of hundred pounds and peered under it. I drew back from the door again. Fisticuffs, bad idea. Definitely a bad idea.

Doubtless more to come...
 
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: mrshwiggy on July 19, 2009, 06:15:56 PM
THis could be Intimidation or Presence, depending on how you look at it

"Predators respond to body language. I walked like I was on my way to rip someone's face off."

Dead Beat Ch.7

Investigation

"They might have been Heaven-on-wheels when it came to taking on bad guys in a fight, but they weren't investigators. They couldn't run these thieves down the way i could"

Death Masks Ch. 9
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Omega XII on August 01, 2009, 06:29:53 PM
Endurance(kind of)

"I answered it and Morgan, half his face covered in blood, gasped 'The Wardens are coming. Hide me. Please.' His eyes rolled back into his skull and he collapsed.
Oh.
Super."-Turn Coat, page 1

Maybe a little long, but the best book beginning of all time.

Rapport and kind of Fists

"An intercom on the wall near the camera clicked and buzzed. "He's got a point," said Rawlins' voice. "I can't see it all from here. Move him a couple of feet to the left and give me about thirty more seconds before you start on his nads. I'm making popcorn."-Turn coat, p.229
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Tsunami on August 09, 2009, 08:22:56 AM
Ok, i know Running is not listed as one of the skills that still need quotes, but i just love this one for running, so i had to drop it here.

Small Favor, Chapter 44

"Now, I’m not as strong as those really big guys, like Michael and Sanya. I don’t do swordplay as well as folks like Nicodemus or Shiro. I don’t yet have the magical experience and know-how to outfinesse the really experienced wizards and sorcerers who have been hanging around for centuries, like the Gatekeeper or Thorned Namshiel.

But I’ll take any of those guys in a footrace."
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Chuck Chuck Razool on August 24, 2009, 10:51:25 PM
Lore: From Last Call:
She muttered to herself. She poured some of the beer out into the beaker and held it up to the light from a specially prepared candle. She scrawled power calculations on a notebook.

And twenty minutes later, she said, “Hah. Tricky, but not tricky enough.”
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Rougarou on September 12, 2009, 02:51:34 AM
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, and I know I'm late to the party, but here goes...

Rapport:
"Ungh." - MacAnally
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Taran on December 05, 2018, 05:07:58 PM
I'm resurrecting this thread because I accidentally fell across it and think it's pretty cool and that people would have fun reading it.  So it's more of a bump than an addition to the thread.   In fact, it might even help new players use skills for their games.

Besides, there's been several more books published since this thread was last updated.  So it might be fun if people wanted to keep adding to it...obviously, there's no prize any more.  :P
Title: Re: The Dresden Files RPG Book Quote Scavenger Hunt
Post by: Sanctaphrax on December 06, 2018, 07:29:04 AM
Intimidation, from Skin Game

“For a second, I wanted very badly to know a spell that would let me melt through the floor in a quivering puddle of please-don't-kill-me.”