"There is nothing like a dame" (Roleplaying version)

[davywavy]

Act 2, Scene 1: An idyllic seaside resort, out of season. The curtain opens on a large conference hall, where twenty or thirty GEEKS in goatees, faded black T shirts and XXXL jeans are discovered engaged in various gaming recreations – shaking twenty-sided dice, laying out Magic cards, hitting one another with rubber swords, etc.

[To the tune of “There is nothing like a Dame” from South Pacific]

Geek 1: We got sunlight on the sand
We got moonlight on the pier
Geek 2: We got coffee! We got doughnuts!
Geek 3: We got Pringles!
Geek 4: We got beer!
Geek 1: We got Traveller and Runequest
We got David running games!
Geek 2: What ain’t we got?
Geek Chorus: We ain’t got dames!

Geek 2: We got artefacts and relics
We got magic! We got gold!
Geek 3: We got unconvincing yarns
Of natural twenties that we rolled!
Geek 1: I got a plus 5 Vorpal Blade!
Geek 2: I got a fortieth level thief!
Geek 3: What do we need?
Geek Chorus: We need relief!

Geek 1: We got nothing to keep our best suits clean for
Geek 2: Or in some cases, observe the most basic fundamentals of personal hygiene for

Geek Chorus: There is nothin' like a dame,
Nothin' in the world,
There is nothin' like a dame
Who’ll come anywhere near a game!

Geek 3: We know what they’re meant to look like
From the cheats on Lara Croft
Geek 1: And I’ve got a life-size model
Geek 2: Though it’s started going soft
Geek 3: And we’ve often tried to fathom
Where the gamer chicks all go
Where are they all?
Geek Chorus: We sure don’t know!

Geek 1: We got nothing to start going to the gym for
Geek 2: Go on a diet, wear firm-control underwear, or make the slightest effort to appear marginally more slim for

Geek 2: We got a first edition DMG
By Gary Gygax, signed !
Geek 3: I got a dark elf realdoll
Which has stopped me going blind!
Geek 1: I got a new Star Fury!
Geek 2: I got a telepath!
Geek 3: What do we need?
Geek Chorus: We need a bath!


Geek Chorus: There is nothin' like a dame,
Nothin' in the world,
There is nothin' like a dame
Who’ll come anywhere near a game!

Comments

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO :)

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

In the gamer tradition of monosyllabism: heh.

I thought you'd abandoned LJ?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Curtailed, not fully abandoned.

[taimatsu]

Woo, and indeed yay!

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

Hysterical!

[hiromasaki.livejournal.com]

Brava, Mr. Dave. Brava.

Sending link to my gaming group. :)

[slyfoot.livejournal.com]

Haha, that was great. :)

[neminem.livejournal.com]

www.amiright.com

Go. Now.

[maragtas.livejournal.com]

Salut!

[lucybond.livejournal.com]

Hahaha!

(come here from reddragdiva's LJ)

There's me, but I'm married to a games-writer...

...who is laughing his arse off after having just heard me singing this...

[ashbet]

And me, but I'm married to a programming geek, who teases me about the fact that I occasionally will get into enthusiastic conversations about White Wolf and Call of Cthulhu with random passers-by ;>

-- Andi (the answer is: the good geek-dames are taken, having been snapped up by lucky and observant geek-boys early in the game!!)

[arkady.livejournal.com]

There's me as well - however, I divorced a gaming geek!

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

Indeedy!

It also explains why, in online RPGs, everyone is convinced that I (and all other females) are actually men trying to mess with people's minds. ;)

[firebirdgrrl.livejournal.com]

*gigglefit*

I came here from Cavalorn's LJ and oh, it was worth it...:)

[cavalorn.livejournal.com]

Lo, I bring the chixx0rs.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

So you do. You can stay :)

[ifimust.livejournal.com]

Hmm - as one who met her husband at a game we were both playing and knows various geeks rather well... hmmmm :)

There is nothing like ... a game

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I think most of us are doing German strategy games ... God only knows the boys I know are so involved in their campaigns they can't even make room for someone new.

[morningstar-lj.livejournal.com]

*chortle*

[cheekyweebisom.livejournal.com]

You... are awesome. (I'm a pretty new gamer girl, but I've been a musical theatre fanatic since age 3.)

[born-from-dream.livejournal.com]

[chuckle] Deadly, mate.

[thewingedone.livejournal.com]

That was love.
I want to see it performed. :O

[scarletdemon.livejournal.com]

Brilliant, I LOVED it. You are SO added. ;)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Actually, you're pretty bloody funny yourself.

Added Back.

I don't post much, mind.

*Deeply falttered*

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'm touched you linked to me!

You can find other songs what I'm proud of here, here, here, and here

Not that I'm showing off, or anything :)

Re: *Deeply falttered*

[scarletdemon.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA! Blimey, you're a clever lad aren't you? My parodies are strictly in English and mostly set to pop songs. ;)

[my-red-dream.livejournal.com]

I love you.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I love me too :)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Superb!

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

*chortle* here via Scarlet ;)

[bentpole.livejournal.com]

Nice one heheh

[bentpole.livejournal.com]

oh, I came here via Scarletdemon, I'm adding you if that's ok. Hello.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Charmed!

[joemorf.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

(Here via Scarlet's link.)

Nice work indeed.

~j

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Geek 3: I got a dark elf realdoll
Which has stopped me going blind!

I was doing okay until this line.

*snork giggle bwahahahaha*

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

This was my favorite line as well. :)

(Here via Scarlet.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/rudd-/]

HAHA!

LOL!

[rgljr69.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! And I loved Gamer Boi, as well!

I'm visiting via scarletdemon. Would you mind if I added you?

Re: LOL!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Not at all

[zombiegoat.livejournal.com]

I too found you through Scarlet. Being a gaming geek myself, I love this,. Mind if I add you?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'd be charmed.

[zombiegoat.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself charmed, then, and try on this jacket to see if it fits.

[wibby.livejournal.com]

Grins unbounded. Thank you!

Another here through Scarletdemon.
I have thespian friends, one of whom has been our local panto Dame for years uncounted and this is his seminal piece. I am tempted to bring him up-to-date by substituting your words in his sheet music!
All I must now learn is how to age paper.