Gore Vidal and Orson Welles Play Warhammer
ORSON: I have only had one real enemy in life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. [Rolling unsuccessfully for charge on The Great Unclean One] Now I have two: John Houseman and the Great Horned Rat.
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ORSON: I have only had one real enemy in life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. [Rolling unsuccessfully for charge on The Great Unclean One] Now I have two: John Houseman and the Great Horned Rat.
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GORE: As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. That’s five VPs to me for defeating the Poxbringer, Herald of Nurgle—
ORSON: Don’t be ridiculous. Sloppity Bilepiper still controls the objective. The Victory Points are mine.
GORE: According to the Victory Objectives, yes. But with the Clash of Titans auxiliary roll, I gain five points for killing a hero or monster.
GORE: According to the Victory Objectives, yes. But with the Clash of Titans auxiliary roll, I gain five points for killing a hero or monster.
ORSON: A hysterical and illiterate claim. Poxbringer is neither a monster nor a hero.
GORE: A named character, with specific abilities wielded at the start of hero phase, and a wizard to boot, not a hero? You’d better check your warscroll, Orson.
ORSON: Impossible — meaningless
GORE: A named character, with specific abilities wielded at the start of hero phase, and a wizard to boot, not a hero? You’d better check your warscroll, Orson.
ORSON: Impossible — meaningless
ORSON: — get me a jury and show me how you can claim a herald can simultaneously inhabit the category of hero. Does the Herald in Othello follow his announcement of the general’s wedding-feast by taking over the action of the play? Is it Othello, The Herald of Venice?
GORE: It’s in the list of keywords. Your attachment to sentiment is getting in the way of your talents, just as it did on The Other Side of the Wind. See, right there: Chaos, Daemon, Plaguebearer, Nurgle, Hero, Poxbringer, Herald of Nurgle. Five points.
ORSON: I’m right about Othello, and I’m right about life. Spiritually, morally, meta-morally, and so on.
GORE: Five points, Orson.
ORSON: You’ve misread the Auxiliary Objectives as badly as you’ve misread Apuleius.
GORE: Five points, Orson.
ORSON: You’ve misread the Auxiliary Objectives as badly as you’ve misread Apuleius.
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