YOU MIGHT BE A NERO GEEK IF.........

[jinx811]

You Might Be a NERO GEEK If.............

•You don’t even own a white headband.
•You come to an event without hair make-up on and no one recognises you.
•You gamble more frequently with in-game money than with real money.
•You log onto NERO message boards every day at work.
•Someone calls your character’s name and you answer.
•When you come home for an event and are stuck in a gypsy accent for 2 days.
•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.
•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 watch Highlander to research new fighting styles.
•While watching Highlander, you comment “Oh, that doesn’t work! Eww! There’s your proof!”
•You plan your wedding around events.
•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.
•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 pigeons
•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
•Your father gave you a toolbox for Christmas and you ended up using it to carry your racial make-up
•You’re at a sporting event or concert and instead of cheering with the rest of the crowd, you find yourself yelling “Hu-zah!”
•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.
•You desperately search for the email address for the new person on your team and when you don’t find it using their OOG name, you use their IG name on the net.
•You have an IG phone conversation
•You actually write a character diary every day, but you have never kept a journal before
•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 have PLOT permission to throw spells ramdomly while asleep because they know you do this normally.
•You spend more than half your paycheck on costumes and phys. reps.
•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.
•You see no problem with going out to the Chinese restaurant in full costume for that dinner break Saturday night … Elf ears and all.
•Your first thought when looking to buy a car is “Where do I put the polearm?”
•You answer the phone at work on Monday after an event using your Gypsy accent
•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.
•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 …)
•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!”
•You can successfully unlock a suitcase with a staple.
•Your cat responds to the command “Hold!”
•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 friends attempt to storm your room by stating that the christmas lights your roomie put up are actually a circle of power.
•You dress up as your character for Halloween, weapons and all.
•More that 75% of your “Sent Mail” file on your email account is signed by your character instead of your own name.
•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 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 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.
•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?”
•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.”
•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!”
•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!
•If you wake up your partner by talking in your sleep … and you have your hand on top of your head.
•You watch cartoons/movies and thing, “Gee! That would make a nifty plot line!”
•You go to a firing range and every time you shoot, you scream, “Twenty Normal!”
•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.
•You walk into Home Depot and everything looks like potiential armor.
•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.
•You see a whoopie cushion and exclaim “OOO! A gas trap phys rep!”
•The air conditioning guy comes over to fix your system and asks if you have any duct tape and you reply, “What color?”
•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.
•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!)
•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?”

[Arvil Boulderbreaker]

Well a "few" of those applied to me.

[Kouga Lunic]

dude jinx this is funny haha it made my day

[Zara]

(shrugs... in a gypsy accent...)

How did you know?

[klayshen]

Ive only been playing for a short time and i do half of these on a daily basis but another on you could add is

You may be a Nero geek if .... you carry a spell packet around with you at all times

[Micha_Amasai]

Ive only been playing for a short time and i do half of these on a daily basis but another on you could add is

You may be a Nero geek if .... you carry a spell packet around with you at all times

NO NO! ... You just better prepared then the rest of the population! .... lol

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