The Obies 2006!

Rules: Nominations are made from Amber games actually played during one of the Slots during the relevant year of ACNW. (Golf games, drinking games, head games etc. are not eligible.) Each Ambercon Northwest member may submit as many nominations per category as they wish. Please do not submit the same nominee more than once in a single category. You may, however, submit the same nominee in a different category. Nomination forms, ballot boxes and rules are available at registration and in the Winery Wing near the games posting. Presentation and Awards: The Awards Ceremony is held during the post-convention party on Sunday. Winners are presented with a Trump bearing the image of Oberon as the Black Rabbit - an "Obie." Winners are also posted on the ACNW web site. Small Print: This "contest" (meant to be a helpful descriptor, not a legal definition) is open to all ACNW members regardless of age, rank or Shadow of origin. House Lightfoot and the "Obies" competition are not affiliated with Ambercon Northwest. ACNW organizers, volunteers, and staff of the McMenamins Edgefield are in no way responsible for its content or competence. Nominations, like courtesans, are judged by frequency and quality of their submission. All entries become lost property and are tabulated non-scientifically by the Amber Northwest Academy of Skills & Silliness (A.N. A.S.S.) Decisions of A.N. A.S.S. are arbitrary and may not be appealed to any higher authority including the Unicorn, the Serpent or the Simone. All awards have no cash value and may be declared to be non-existent. Special thanks to - Cort Oderkirk and Chris Lightfoot for Obie Art, Simone Cooper for hosting ACNW, and the staff of the McMenamins Edgefield.

Our mission is to recognize and possibly ridicule excellence in role-playing at Ambercon NW.

Past Cons: [ 2005 ]

This year's winners:

Most Gratuitous Use of Trump

Winner - Louisa McGuiness (and Chris Lightfoot) as Tamara and Jason

Game: Revenge of the Babysat
Description: Using Turmp to hold a half-hour conversation with eight different people - while separated by one closed door.

Runners-Up

Game: Unknown
Nominee: Denise Thiessens as Alexia
Description: Alexia opened a door to the infirmary and said "We'll be having a private conversation." Then she closed the door and had Random Trump everyone out because, in her case, one closed door wasn't privacy enough.

Game: Murmurs of the True Earth
Nominee: Nathan Beardsley as Malcolm
Description: While refusing to Trump his mother Fiona in the middle of the universe dissolving, he Trumps Benedict. The GM still isn't sure why.

Best Original Dialogue or Quote

Game: Karm vs Osric
Description:

Runners-Up

Game: Afraid of No Ghost
Nominee: John Worsley as Zach
Description: In response to an attempt to describe a gooey, oozing mass, Zach said "As long as it's mucilaginous, I don't care."

Game: Big Damn Heroes
Nominee: Richard Johnson as Jack Chen
Description: "Can't we just shoot everybody who isn't us?"

Most Heinous Betrayal or Offense

Game: Karm vs Osric
Description: Killed his best friend/ally, Lir, by crushing his head underneath his boot twelve seconds after Lir became King of Rebma, for sleeping with his wife .

Runners-Up

Game: Auellis
Nominee: Tim Hart - GM as NPC General Mayer
Description: A GM with a British accent doing a character with a Southern accent making it sound like the perfect Mid-Western accent.

Game: Afraid of No Ghost
Nominee: Lee Bynum as Skid "Row"
Description: "Where did the trains go!?" Skid could handle the demonic crowd, the flying corvette, the bleeding tree, the attacking fur coats but just trump somewhere and lose the trains? That's disharmonic, dude!

Most Creative Interpretation of a Canon Character or Concept

Game: Dr. Who: Like Flies in Amber
Description: Faced with the question of how to retrieve the TARDIS from the middle of the Pattern, Trish said, "I put on the full Captain Jack charm and try to seduce the Pattern."

Runners-Up

Game: Whose Logrus is it Anyway?
Nominee: Cort Oderkirk as Deela the Descatrix
Description: As a contestant in the improv game, "Let's make a Treaty" - "My people were raped, killed and their civilization destroyed. Ambassador #2, what do you like to do in your spare time?"

Game: Random's Regular Game
Nominee: Casey de Groef as Julian
Description: There's nothing like hearing Julian call someone else a "pussy."

Best Improvised Storyline Based Upon an Unexpected Plot Twist

Game: Karm vs Osric
Description: Placing baby Prince Eric (age 1) in a centrifuge to spin a Jewel out of his bowels.

Runners-Up

Game: Primetime Adventures
Nominee: Pol Jackson - GM
Description: Pol reworked the whole game after the 1st hour.

Game: Karm vs Osric
Nominee: Debra Donoghue as Lady Cynthia Rosewood
Description: Great accolades must be paid as she handled the unpredictable fey Queen Faiella with aplomb, diplomacy and repeated interventions to keep people clothed.

Outstanding Performance by an Item/Creatue/Shadow in a Supporting Role

Game: Brave New Krypton
Description: Baytor, a small Fire Demon that's pretty much all mouth, knew only one phrase: "I am Baytor." So other players had to determine it's response by facial expression.

Runners-Up

Game: Julian Morley as Bad Penny
Nominee: Amber's Home for Imaginary Friends
Description: Because someone once said "That child is a bad penny," Fiona's imaginary friend was Bad Penny - a short, misshapen version of Oberon from the image of him on a penny that had taken the blame for all the bad thing Fiona did as a child.

Game: Plainfields Manor
Nominee: 1995 Woodward Canyon Chardonnay as an Appetizer / Mingletime Wine
Description: "I fully intend to pay the points to make this wine ubiquitous through Shadow."

Honorable Mentions

Game: Slot Zero
Nominee: Pol Jackson as Pete McGrinsky
Description: Exploding a flamethrower while trying to burn a possessed Jack of Diamonds.

Best Original Dialogue or Quote

Game: The 4400
Nominee: John Randall as Felix Aguilar, the ex-DEA agent
Description: NPC Lisa - "How can you trust 'them'? 'They sent back mass murders and serial killers!"
Felix (in a bad Columbian accent) - "AND pyschopathic veterinarians. Now put down the acid!"

Game: Afraid of No Ghost
Nominee: Kingsley Lintz
Description: "You were mainlining CREAMED CORN!?"

Game: Aurellis
Nominee: Tim Hart and Don Ide as NPCs
Description: Tim - "We don't know what happens when you fuck with it. So don't fuck with it."
Don - "What! No experimentation?!"

Game: Comfy Night's Stay
Nominee: Casey de Groef as Harpest
Description: GM - "Where's #11 (Fiona)?"
Casey - "She went to the potty."

Game: Comfy Night's Stay 2
Nominee: Cort Oderkirk - GM
Description: "Zombie Conga Line!"

Game: Comfy Night's Stay 2
Nominee: Cort Oderkirk - GM
Description: Clarifying the use of a spell - "No, it can only be used for malice, not ham sandwiches."

Game: Comfy Night's Stay 2
Nominee: Leslie Lightfoot and Guilia Slack as Florimel and Snow White
Description: Florimel - "That's "Highness" to you."
Snow White - "Heinous?"

Game: Doctor Who: Like Flies in Amber
Nominee: Eric Florentz as Joe Biodome
Description: The Doctor hands another female character his sonic screwdriver. OOC, Eric says to Rose (who, along with Mickey, has expressed jealousy) - "He hasn't given YOU his screwdriver yet."

Game: The Florimels
Nominee: Lee Bynum as Warrior Princess Florimel
Description: "It's meant for glitter... but it works for blood."

Game: The Florimels
Nominee: Sara Mueller as Crunchy Granola Florimel
Description: After Fairie Princess Flora turned 'Sparklie-puff' into one of her special glittery friends, "You may have to have the cat shaved and varnished."

Game: Gargoyles & Grails in the Dreaming City
Nominee: John Randall as Crunch the Troll
Description: Wielding a lamp post, "I play whack-a-mole with the Knights Templar."

Game: House on the Hill
Nominee: Jennifer Zimmerman
Description: "Pretty princes smash! Pretty princes not gay!'

Game: Karm vs Osric
Nominee: Glenn Seymour as Baron Selgas Karm
Description: "I will speak with you more, but for now, I am an old man and must excuse myself." Leaves for the bathroom.

Game: Karm vs Osric
Nominee: Todd Worrell & Rob Donoghue as Lir of Rebma
Description: "I'm wearing my formal speedo."
Later, when confronting Oberon: "I'm unarmed... well, there's only one weapon in this speedo."

Game: Karm vs Osric
Nominee: Rob Donoghue - GM
Description: To King Lir of Rebma, "What they call 'weather," you call 'litter."

Game: Karm vs Osric
Nominee: Julian Morley as Benedict
Description: To Finndo, "Perhaps I should just pull down my trousers and bare my buttocks so that he can take me more fully."

Game: Kingship & Tears
Nominee: Mike Sullivan as Cassius
Description: GM - "You can see the wheels of history are turning."
Cassius - "Do you throw yourself under them?"

Game: Knights of the Silver Rose
Nominee: Trish Hart as Kim Clark, Litterature Detective
Description: "There's no way to stop them from dying, but at least we can provide them with a good after-care program."

Game: Knights of the Silver Rose
Nominee: Jenn Zimmerman - GM as Coriwn
Description: To Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, "You lose a tit and you get all bitter."

Game: Morpheus Calling
Nominee: Jeremy Zimmerman as Ash from the Evil Dead
Description: To the cackling in the background of 'Dead by dawn. Dead by dawn.' Ash replies, "Same story. Different week."

Game: The Morrigan
Nominee: Yi-mei Ching as Trey
Description: Meris - "Yeah, but all we know is war."
Trey - "I could get to know pineapple..." (Trey, as a gang leader in a shitty post-apocalyptic world, decides to settle down in Tahiti.)

Game: Nine Princes at Hogwarts
Nominee: John Randall as Medea Moondark
Description: "Now class, wat we know about vampires is... (demonstinsh appearing) ...they do not look like this."

Game: Nine Princesses in Rebma
Nominee: Rob Donoghue as Corwin
Description: "Caps coming through space and time to hurt me? Sound serious! What's next? Forks?"

Game: Prime Time Adventures
Nominee: Thaddeus Rice - GM
Description: In response to "How was the game"? "We fucking levelled! We ALL fucking levelled!"

Game: Primetime Adventures
Nominee: Pol Jackson as Crying Man
Description: "It's like a truck full of cream hit a truck full of steak."

Game: Pulp Chaos: The Stuff that Dreams are Made of
Nominee: Karrin Jackson as Vinnie
Description: Referring to stashing the unidentified hugely powerful magic item in Vinnie's freezer, "That's where I store my meat... It's got to be explosion-proof."

Game: Revenge of the Babysat
Nominee: Carla Arnoldi as Maida, daughter of Florimel
Description: "Mom, I'm really tired of having to save you all the time."

Game: Revenge of the Babysat
Nominee: Pol Jackson as Reuben, son of Caine
Description: "I'm going to do the stupid thing and attack Zombie Benedict."

Game: The Seven Deadlies
Nominee: Guy as Mordred
Description: "Majordomo! Take my son to the X-ray room. If there is anything interesting inside him, it will be time for surgery."

Game: The Seven Deadlies
Nominee: Don Ide and Joyce Hatcher as Wrath and Lust
Description: Wrath - "Let's saddle some people up."
Lust - "You! Oil up and get saddled."

Game: Spontaneous RP Fun
Nominee: Katie Nyborg as Chitters, the Spider Alien
Description: "Screw you! I'm going home and be all emo in my room. Where the hell are my emo legs?"

Game: Spontaneous RP Fun
Nominee: Stephanie McMechan and Karin Jackson as Ellipses, "The Quiet One" and GM
Description: Ellipses - "What's the planet like?"
GM - "It's a beautiful place; the sun is shining, the sky is blue - "
Ellipses - "I go back to my room and load up on guns."

Game: Spontaneous RP Fun
Nominee: Karrin Jackson - GM
Description: "What can you recommend in a breakfast wine?" & "We had a moment... Now we have a restraining order."

Game: Strawberry Jam of the 100 Acre Wood
Nominee: Jeremy Zimmerman - GM as the Poohlander
Description: "There can be only one."
"I ate all your honey."
"Oh, bother."
"I can feel everything. I think I'll lay down."

Game: Under Endless Starlight
Nominee: Emma Sansome as Connie
Description: After ripping up a tree - "There is subtle and sorcerous."

Game: What's Under YOUR Bed?
Nominee: Leslie Lightfoot as Delphinae, daugher of Dierdre
Description: Protesting a complaint - "I used my fists. I WAS being polite!"

Game: ?
Nominee: Glenn Seymour as Abundiantus
Description: To the faceless Tir Queen, "Random offers his solicitations and greetings." "Felications."
"That too."

Most Heinous Betrayal or Offense

Game: The End of the World
Nominee: Lee Bynum as Gwyn
Description: Convinced the Serpent to convince his High Priest to walk a Pattern supposedly to destroy it but actually to drain his life energy.

Game: The Floramelles
Nominee: Deboarh as Cat Fancy Flora
Description: Upon defeating the other players and stealing the true Flora's power, she had the rest of the characters killed off-camera via a note because she couldn't fit gloating into her busy schedule.

Game: Halloween Hustle
Nominee: Karrin Jackson as the Goblin Queen / Elf Spy
Description: At the moment of truth, with her dying act, the Goblin Queen / Elf Spy programmed the candy making machines to rain down on Halloweentown, candies whose messages read;
"Vampires hate candy!"
"Merry Christmas suckers!"
"This candy was made with Christmas Cheer!"
The machine exploded. Candy rained down. Santa was avenged.

Game: Karm vs Osric
Nominee: Joyce Hatcher as Alyra Dorr
Description: Alyra betraying, well, everyone.

Game: Murmurs of the True Earth
Nominee: Leslie Lightfoot as Fathom
Description: Her terrific description of how Jaustin, son of Finndo, had just (accidentally) killed hundreds of innocent Shadowfolk. ("But we've all done that... at least once.")

Game: NINF: Horror Rise
Nominee: Sara Mueller as Patrick, son of Dierder
Description: After trying to help his cousin, infected by a disease similar to airborne ebola, by pulling out his lungs, Patrick takes his own infected self to his girlfriend's house, infecting her and most of Amber city. Then Logrus-infected undead Dierdre shows up and chops off his head.

Game: One Spikard to Rule Them All
Nominee: Jeremy Franklin as Mirella (Merry)
Description: Merry hits Pippin (Pippandam) with Sam's (Lukewise Gamgee's) shiny frying pan on the precipe of Mt. Doom.

Game: Primetime Adventures
Nominee: Deborah Donoghue as Llewella
Description: "It's green, so it must be mine."

Game: Random's Regular Game
Nominee: Amy Edwards as Dara
Description: She slept with Coriwn - how much more heinous does it get?!?

Game: The Seven Deadlies
Nominee: ? as Glorfindel Dijon
Description: When asked if he knew about a red stone (the Jewel of Judgement), sets the Serpent in the form of a psycho killer onto the inoffensive Reg simply because he dislikes him.

Game: Upon a Sea of Green
Nominee: GM Drew as Benedict
Description: One of his troops - "Do not insult my family!"
Benedict - "I do that every day."

Most Creative Interpretation of a Canon Character or Concept

Game: Primetime Adventures
Nominee: Pol Jackson as the Producer
Description: Edward James Olmos as Oberon

Best Improvised Storyline Based Upon an Unexpected Plot Twist

Game: A Symphony of Memory and Motion
Nominee: Louisa Djerbib and Sean McGuiness - GMs
Description: Beautifully dealt with an unexpected twist whereby Marius *did not* kill Peter and thus fractured reality.

Outstanding Performance by an Item/Creatue/Shadow in a Supporting Role

Game: Amber's Home for Imaginary Friends
Nominee: Julian Morley as Bad Penny
Description: Bad Penny, who looks like a super-deformed dwarven Oberon, drags a frying pan from Amber to the PFW, and foils Brand's trip into the Abyss with a well-placed whack.

Game: The Floramelles
Nominee: Cort Oderkirk - GM as the Magically Enchanted Cookie Counter
Description: "The continued sniper war between the cookie counter and the police..." GM trails off, having done a dance and a ratatatat noise.

Game: Karm vs Osric
Nominee: Todd Worsel as Lir
Description: Attempted to woo Lady Rosewood and Queen Faiella after his death and absorption into the Rebman Jewel with "Look! I vibrate!"

Game: Random's Regular Game
Nominee: Don Ide as Man-Dor.com
Description: Several of the rather raunchy descriptions were assumed to be on Mandor's pay-per-view website, Man-Dor.com

Game: Separate War
Nominee: Glenn Seymour as Draathal, Chaosian Sorceror
Description: Draathal wolfed down fallen soldiers by skeletonizing them in mass-of-locust-form, then used the energy to create portions of the Black Road.

Game: Strawberry Jam in the 100 Acre Wood
Nominee: Roy Gretchfield as Timmy's Postal Mailbag
Description: Timmy's mailbag was transformed inside, so it included several bedrooms, offices and an unfinished pool with an Abyss at the deep end, so that the PCs could travel in style as the mailed themselves around Shadow.