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Marie's NERO Page. I had to make a backup of it for myself because these are
all just so priceless! Thanks Lisa Marie! Lee 8-23-03]
You Might Be A N.E.R.O. Geek If ...
Contributed by True N.E.R.O. Geeks
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Two, the second page of NERO Geeking!.
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Wow! This site is now the recommended site for LARPers! That's just grand!
And we now return you to your reguarly scheduled Geekiness ....
- You don't even own a white headband.
- You come to an event without hair make-up on and no one recognises you.
Contributed by Will Hahn
A song has had its lyrics altered to be about NERO and you like it better
that way.
You gamble more frequently with in-game money than with real money.
You log onto NERO message boards every day at work.
You have ever said "Activate Denny's"
Contributed by Ragnar Arneson, Squire of the Babble
Court
Someone calls your character's name and you answer.
Contributed by L.M. Milby
You buy an old school bus and paint it with the NERO logo so you can get
goblin stamps for driving it around as advertising and giving rides to events.
You rogue an NPC role and PLOT decides it's okay because your idea is
better.
Contributed by Gerry Poirir
When you come home for an event and are stuck in a gypsy accent for 2 days.
Contributed by Norville Getty
Someone offers you a piece of gum at work and you start to check it for
poison.
You're on your way to class, spot someone wearing a green shirt and your
hand immediantely goes for spell packets that aren't there.
You try to drag your friends along so you'll have extra backup.
You yell at your best friend for getting himself captured with the ONLY
ward key - AFTER the event is over.
You're packing up to go home and wait five minutes before realising you
don't need the ward key to get in anymore.
You used more candy than spell packets to get past monsters.
Contributed by Mark Manafo
You get someone to got to work in the same department as you so that you'll
be able to be in game all week long.
You throw spell packets at the computer screen at work practicing your
incants.
Everyone in your department understands WHY you throw spell packets at your
computer (besides that it's annoying computer that needs things thrown at it)
;)
Your boss adjusts 12 other people's schedules just so that you can make the
next event because you've just recently been promoted to Captain of the Town
Guard.
Contributed by Toby Burgess
Every time you see your friends, you open the conversation with "this
is all in game ...."
You skip out on vacations to kill a Greater Vampire.
You make phys reps for school projects.
You wonder what Dilbert would play in NERO.
You watch Highlander to research new fighting styles.
While watching Highlander, you comment "Oh, that doesn't work!
Eww! There's your proof!"
Contributed by Jeff Wetzel
You marry a NERO Geek.
You plan your wedding around events.
Ed. Note: True stories for me on both counts! My wedding promted him to
come up with them *grin*
Contributed by Duby
During events, you stay up later than the Dark Elves, even in winter.
You have ever experienced "NERO Withdrawal" after an event or
after having not gone to an event for over a month.
You buy your first car with the sole purpose of having a guarenteed ride
to NERO events.
Contributed by Jennifer German
You get hit by a car, get up off the ground with only a couple scrapes and
say "Dodge!" and keep running.
You go into work and your computer is down and you say "Craftsman
Computer Lore"
You get into an accident in your car and your airbag saves you and ahte
only thing you have to say is "Parry!"
You beg a shooting range to let you cast at clay pidgeons
Contributed by Jim Powers
When people ask you how you met your fiance, you say "I was trying to
save his team from Lizard Men and got cut down. He saved my life." Ed.
Note: Apparently, this is a true story :)
Your mother plays NERO
Your mother buys you birthday and Christmas gifts that she things your
character would like
You imagine what all your co-workers would play if you dragged the entire
department to NERO
Contributed by Michelle Cook
Your father gave you a toolbox for Christmas and you ended up using it to
carry your racial make-up
Contributed by John Mangio
You're at a sporting event or concert and instead of cheering with the
rest of the crowd, you find yourself yelling "Hu-zah!"
Contributed by Jeckelethe
You find yoruself sprarring with a co-worker in the parking lot at 2am
when both of you have been out of work since midnight.
All the names on your AOL Intant Messenger list are from NERO characters.
Contributed by Sean Pulrang
You are in a hurry walking somewhere and you are grateful combat is not
going on (IE: Walk three feet, "HOLD!" Wait. Walk five feet,
"HOLD! ....)
You keep track of your sneaky friends (NERO and non-NERO) just in case you
need their help to roll someone.
You speculate on giving your boss "The Beat Down."
Contributed by Logan Horsford
When you went to see Army of Darkness in the movie
theatres, you yelled out "SLAY!" when Evil Ashe was trying to kill
Good Ashe with the longsword ... and the rest of the row laughed with you
(Imagine 40 NERO geeks in a theatre watching it on opening night ....)
Contributed by Jay Finch
You come up with a tag-line for the IRS: "30-audit! 30-audit!
30-audit! ...."
You tell NERO jokes at school to your friends and they actually get them.
You find it funny when someone tells you a NERO joke.
You write 30 or 40 posts to the membrs of your in game team desperately
trying to come up with a name that just fits the period, the players, and
doesn't sound hokie.
You dream of oddly prophetic things about characters and wonder if you
should post them on the in game board.
You actually write a character diary every day, but you have never kept a
journal before.Ed. Note: Just be careful, right, Amaris? ;)
You desperately try to recreate every friend you have because your team
needs the manpower.
You talk on the phone in game.
You desperately search for the email address for the new person on your
team and when you don't find it using their OOP name, you use their IP name
on the net.
You run a personality test on your character and get different results
than for yourself.
People constantly ask you what OOG and you wonder why they don't know.
Contributed by Andrew Block
You wake up to someone saying "Shield Magic!" because you threw
a lightning storm at them when they walked into your room.Ed. Note: True
Story!
You have PLOT permission to throw spells ramdomly while asleep because
they know you do this normally.
Contributed by Frog
You have to make a conscious effort not to bake poison tags inot muffins
and cookies.
You spend more than half your paycheck on costumes and phys. reps.
You see no problem with going out to the Chinese restaurant in full
costume for that dinner break Saturday night ... Elf ears and all.
You try to get the D.M.V. to let you have "NERO" on your license
plate and get mad when they tell you it's been taken.
Your friends refer to you OOG by your primary character's name because
they don't know your real first name.
You have birdseed in your carpet and packets under your couch (or in your
mini-blinds).
You sign your OOG emails with your real name AND your IG name.
You use terms like "OOG" and "IG" freely because you
assume that people will understand.
Contributed by Kate J.
Your first thought when looking to buy a car is "Where do I put the
polearm?"
Contributed by Johanna Lisle
You have NERO costumes for all your pets and you take your pets to NERO
events.
Contributed by Julie Jones
You go to see The Man in the Iron Mask. During the shooting scence,
when the smoke clears and the Musketeers walk out barely harmed, and you
think "Got it!"
You have complex in-game dreams, and you've only been to one event.
Contributed by Kim Howard
You pull into a gas station after an event to get $10 in gas and you say
"10 Normal".
You answer the phone at work on Monday after an event using your Gypsy
accent. Ed. Note: Gotta try this one!
Contributed by Bob Dunn
Your mother does a 3-count for EVERYTHING even thought she's never even been
to NERO. (I SWEAR my mother does this! We have witnesses!)
For your computer graphics class project, you use NERO pictures
If you have a NERO Webpage for you or your barony.
If a there's a tornado warning at an event and you say, "I can take
it! Bring it on!"Ed. Note: True story; just ask the people at the
very first WLS event!
Contributed by L.M. Milby
You go into a resturant and those little bottles they serve syrup in are
PERFECT to use as poison bottle phys reps, so you ask the waitress if you can
have some of them.
Contributed by Hillary Ferris
You know which movies make up the "Gamers Holy Trinity". (for
the record, they're The Secret of Roan Inish, Braveheart, and Rob Roy)
You have a hard time carrying your books to class because of a bad case of
"shield shoulder".
You're in-game picture from the NERO Homepage has been set as wallpaper on
all of Bellsouth.net's office computers by one of Big Three so he can give
the guys he works with an idea of what the characters look like.
You see a Sutherlin Honda commercial...and your first thought is, I
thought we managed to quash the problem in the Sutherlands!
If your parents have begun referring to your character as if they were
another child in the family.
If someone walks into the room at your NERO-player predominate party and
shouts "HOLD!" and half the room drops to one knee and the others
put down their drinks and stop talking.
If you have spell packets in your purse.
If you have spell packets in your underwear drawer.
If you have spell packets in other people's underwear drawer (ie:
mother's, brother's, english teacher's ...)
Your email address relates to your character's name, race, or IS your
character.
Contributed by Morgan Eller
Two years ago, you were telling gamers they would burn in hell and now
you're playing a seventh level fighter.Ed. Note: Just had to comment that
while I reserve the right to delete and edit, I found this one highly
appropriate and it is not really after anyone in particular
Penelope is your psychic advisor.
On Halloween, when a little girl comes to your door dressed as a princess,
you tell her she can have more candy if she gives you the pattern to her
dress.
You've ever used "With mystic force I Charm you" as a pick-up
line.
Someone sitting next to you complains of a stomach ache, and you nearly
grab them and say, "Healing Arts!"
While all of your friends are oohing and aahing over DiCaprio in his
latest film, all you can drool over is the heroine's costuming.ed. note:
GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY! *grin*
You can successfully unlock a suitcase with a staple.
You sneer at the RennFest nobles and their trivial difficulties.
You get nostalgic whenever you watch "Army of Darkness".
Contributed by Tracy Woodard
When a friend you met at a NERO event who you haven't seen in months calls
you up on the phone and promptly says, "Cast through phone, ARCANE
DEATH!"
You're driving in the car for more than five hours and you decide to
change the words to all the songs on "Abbey Road" so that you and
your fellow traveller are now singing, "I'd like to be, under a tree,
with a bunch of mystic wood elves in the shade," and "Ooooh,
Darling! Please come life me!"
You look at your family's calendar of events and realise that you can hit
an event SOMEWHERE to get out of going to cousin "whatshernams"
marriage.
Your friends have learned that the best way to keep you from raiding their
dorm rooms at midnight is to put up duct tape W's.
You respond when they attempt to storm your room by stating that the
christmas lights your roomie put up are actually a circle of power.
You R.A. always has her hand over her head when she knocks on the door.
This does not take her 'out of RA regrettably'.
Your cat responds to the command "Hold!"
Contributed by Dan Burke
You carry your best spell packet in your hand to your classes on Fridays
before an event in anticipation.
You bring a spell packet to one of your lectures with the intent to
silence the professor, and after the class starts you realize that a silence
spell doesn't exist, so instead you consider paralizing him to get at least
those ten minutes of quiet.
You wear part of your character's outfit or one of your character's
jewelry items for good luck on a test.Ed. Note: My sister, Emily, wants to
try this one!
You dress up as your character for Halloween, weapons and all.
In order to spend more time with your sibling, the two of you play twin
charcters in a campain.
You get your TF to give you an extension on a paper due Monday after a
NERO event (for whatever reasons you tell the TF) because you know you can't
go to the event and still manage get the paper done by Monday morning.
Contributed by Jennifer German
Your hip is dislocated in a car accident and you show up to the next event
on crutches.Ed. Note: She actually did this, too!
Contributed by Becca Ryerson
When you wake up after breaking your head open at an event and being
rushed to the hospital by helicopter,barely living through this and the first
thing you ask is, "Did I max out?"ed. note: apparently, this is
a true story from Ashbury!
Contributed by Anthony Jackson
More that 75% of your "Sent Mail" file on your email account is
signed by your character instead of your own name.
Said email account has your character's name incorporated in it.
You're bored at work daydreams begin to appear more like a plotline.
Two people, pvc, and foam, automatically translate into a sparring match,
no mater where you are.
You start planning your work schedule around Nero.
You practice throwing spell packets at your cats.
You can't go anywhere with Duby without talking about Nero in under 30
seconds from when the conversation starts....*grin*Ed. Note: Or with
anyone who plays NERO!
Contributed by Kathy York
You miss important events in a loved one's life to go to an event out of
town and THEY UNDERSTAND!
You keep at least one packet on you at ALL times.
You shout verbals for appropriate spell incants while table top gaming. (ie,
I call forth a magic missile! AD&D)
You scream out "(number) slay!" when ANYONE on TV says,
"Prepare to die!"
You keep your weaponry, packets, sleeping gear, and costume in your car's
trunk at all times, just in case you decide to go away for the weekend, and
you, know, bash some heads...
You study the mass, shape, sixe, dimensions, etc. of a packet to get the
optimum mass, shape, size, dimensions, etc...
You steal anything from a dumpster because it looks like a good phys rep.
You stop and stare at anything shiny on the ground that even RESEMBLES a
NERO coin, and then get bummed when it's just a gum wrapper...
You slip into your persona when you least expect it...
You practice shield breakers and lesser verbals, followed by your more
powerful stuff at the end, and be able to say it in one steady stream as you
chuck pebbles at trees.
You've ever hold your hand on your head as you talk as a player in
tabletop gaming.
You've ever adapted a popular song from radio to a NERO equivalent by
changing the words...
Contributed by Jordan Brun
When you see a shambling figure coming out of a dark alley and moving
twards you, you reach for a spell packet and begin the incant for
"Destroy Undead" before you realize that the figure is a wino not a
zombie.
You break a bone in your left hand and your friends console you by saying
things like "Well, at least it was your shield arm and not your sword
arm." Then they make helpful suggestions such as "Maybe you could
strap your shield on somehow. Then you could still fight." You have
reached the true hights when you promptly call up your chapter and ask if you
can Marshall rather than NPC for the next event.
When you break both bones in your left wrist, are glad that it isn't your
casting hand, and plan on carrying spell packets in your sling.
When you are Directing a Weekend, fall and hurt your back and ask to be
carried onto the field on a backboard so that you can continue directing
while waiting for the ambulance. Ed. Note: We have EMT witnesses on THIS
one!
When one of your NERO friends gets engaged and shows you the ring and you
reply "What a cool phys rep. What does it do?"
Contributed by: Florence Pyne
(for males)You go into a Victoria Secret's store because
you heard a rumor that they had a shirt on sale that would supplement your
costume. You're hopeless if you leave disapointed because they didn't have
what you were looking for!
Contributed by Norman Frese
You know exactly how many Waffle Houses are between Home
and NERO (23 from 285 to Crawfordville, but we gave up between Atlanta and
Tennessee)
Contributed by Lorie DeButy
You practice "speed verbals" during morning rush hour traffic
("Cut me off will you? I-grant-you-the-gift-of-DEATH!!!")
Contributed by Matthew Shocke
You keep spell packets on the dash for the above purpose.
You have a bumper sticker that says, "NERO or Bust".
You own a NERO hat -Ed. Note: Yes, he DOES own one!
You are having a dream about NERO, then wake up and realise you are at
NERO.
You have a web page about being a NERO Geek. ed. note: Is this a
comment on my creativity skills? ;)
Someone offers you a beer and you ask for the intoxicant tag.
You find 1.4 gold in the dryer.
You are at a party and getting ready to spike the punch, but can't find
a marshall.
You try to rob a gas station by throwing an orange packet at them and
yelling "Sleep Gas Poison!" ed. note: I know you didn't do
this, Duby, but who actually did it?
You start saying "Geeba!" at odd times for absolutely no
reason.
You are assigned to read Beowulf and school and can't understand why
they didn't tell the story of Tanaka. ed. note: Thanks, Marie! It makes
MUCH more sence when you SPELL IT RIGHT! ;)
You are playing football and between downs you say, "Activate Magic
Armor!"
You convert your dart board into a target for spell packets.
A dog growls at you and you charm him.
You gypsy curse people who you dislike. ed. note: As a gypsy, I must
admitt guilt ....
A rash of robberies are going through your neighborhood so you put up a
ward.
Your nose starts to bleed so you hold it for a minute saying,
"First aid, first aid, first aid ...."
You sleep at home with your NERO weapon beside you.
You practice throwing spell packets at your dog.
Your goldfish dies and you scream, "LIFE SPELL!!"
You see a shadowy figure in a dark alley and ask, "What do I
see?"
Whenever someone utters "Chaos" you scream
"Necromancer!" ed. note: Not possibly guilty, just look at my
personal webpage!
You stay at least five feet away from mouse traps at all times.
You can make a shadow puppet of Fang, Red Baker, and the Count.
Contributed by Deepak Deean
If when you are mugged at 2am, you automatically give chase because,
well at 2am, you're used to chasing brood, undead .....
Ed. Note: This is a true story! Don't try this at home!
The story goes that while getting out of her car, a guy grabbed her purse.
Not thinking, she gave chase, raising enough noise to rouse ALL of AH
Stephens and actually managed to get the guy caught. Scarily, he was
already wanted on several other charges and VERY dangerous! A VERY lucky
lady!
Contributed by Cynthia
You see a couch on the side of the road and grab it just for the
cushions.
You see a 1-900-psychic number on TV and think, "That's not how
you get in touch with Penelope ...."
You grab the wrong bag and take your NERO weapons to fencing practice
and decide to spar anyway.
Contributed by Patrick Gearman
Your Season's Pass to Six Flags has a character's name on it. Ed.
Note: True story, she really did it!
You reach into your pocket and pull out two silver to pay for a coke,
mistakening them for quarters.
Contributed by Simone Meadows
If the plumber comes to your house and you beg him for extra pipe
foam.
Contributed by Lionel Vogt
If you wake up your partner by talking in your sleep ... and you
have your hand on top of your head.
Contributed by Lori
You go to a firing range and every time you shoot, you scream,
"Twenty Normal!"
Contributed by Tony Scott
You watch cartoons/movies and thing, "Gee! That would make a
nifty plot line!"
Contributed by Melissa Michler
You walk into Home Depot and everything looks like
potiential armor.
You have Jay Finch's home phone number or pager number on your speed
dial
You find yourself frantically searching for birdseed and rubber
bands at three a.m.
You can calculate the damage of someone's slay in twenty seconds.
You sit around [insert name of 24-hr resturant] and dicuss armor
construction.
You fix everything with duct tape.
Contributed by Marie Jackson
If the guy that called "Prepare to Die!" 20+ times in
"Princess Bride" made you think he was such a man.
Contributed by Marc Johnson
You're cleaning your appartment, see something shiney, pounce on it,
then say "Oh, @$@%#^@&*#&*!! It's just a quarter!"
You see a person out jogging and wearing a white headband and
realise you're looking right through him.
You reach into your wallet and pull out a five, two ones, and a tag
for a silver longsword.
Contributed by Amy Marie Puckett
To get a friend's attention, you call their in-play name.
Instead of saying "Watch out!", you scream,
"Hold!"
Contributed by Scott Hartung
You call someone at work and can only remember their in-game
name
You look at a person and envision what she/he would look like as a
1)Sarr, 2)Dark Elf, 3)Stone Elf, 4)Mystic Wood Elf, 5)Wolvine ....
Someone forgets the keys to the filing cabinet and you break out
your lock picks and say "I'll get it!"
You see a whoopie cushion and exclaim "OOO! A gas trap phys
rep!"
You actually consider getting a foam mfg company to press out
perfectly round, 2" long open cell foam squishy tips.
You listen to a story or song and immediantly write a module or
monster concept.
You plan business trips around dates and locations of other chapter
events.
The air conditioning guy comes over to fix your system and asks if
you have any duct tape and you reply, "What color?"
Contributed by Doug Toth
The reading material in your bathroom is the Tyrangel Times. The
older the copy, the worse the geek.
Contributed by David Harmer
You've been sitting in Waffle House for ten hours and the Hindu
family that just walked in reminds you of the astrologer's guild ... so
you clutch your wallet as a natural response.
Contributed by Sean Nolan
If you've ever eaten bark to avoid a spell packet ...
If you start taking kendo (Japanese sword fighting), just because
...
If the neighborhood children keep bugging you because they
"want to play with your COOL toys" (don't laugh, this is
actually becoming a problem!)
If you practice "speed verbals" during morning rush hour
traffic ("Cut me off will you?
I-grant-you-the-gift-of-DEATH!!!")ed. note: Well, I've
gypsy-cursed people on the road like that before ... does that count?
;)
If your friends want to go to an arcade and you end up in the corner
playing skee-ball for phys-reps.
Contributed by Matthew Schocke
You're riding in the car home from an event, your friends ask for
gas money, you rifle through your purse and say, "I have ten gold,
is that enough?" .... and you really think it might be.
Contributed by Deva Woodly
Think you're a N.E.R.O. Geek? Or do you just have something to add to
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