"I will not tell you the ending."

[Hon'ya-chan]

SC: Do you know what happens at the end of Harry Potter 7?
Me: It ends in a Period.

SC: So have you gotten to the end of the book yet?
Co-worker: Voldermort becomes the President of the United States.

SC: Did you.....?
Co-worker: Gag order from Scholastic.

SC: So anyone get to the ending of the Harry Potter Book?
Co-Worker: Caravan Accident. All the characters were in it, chip pan fire, everyone dies.

Of course, we couldn't stop this one customer from revealing who dies first XX chapters in.

[Fera Festiva]

"Rocks fall. Everyone dies."

[Bloodsoul]

^ Where does that come from, anyway? My DnD DM keeps using that on us...

Bah, is it really that difficult for people to just crack open the book and see for themselves? Oddly enough I did that for Queen of the Damned and wasn't really spoiled at all (more dissapointed than anything, as finally getting to the ending naturally revealed it to be rather anticlimatic).

[DragonRose]

LOL....I don't even work in a bookstore, and everyone keeps asking me about the ending!!

[digilight]

I piss my wife off with that crap. Everytime she's reading a book with a murder type thing in it I have to tell her that the Butler did it. Hey isn't it usually the butler anyways.

[ShinyGreenApple]

They all die, except one person who's identity is never revealed.

That'll get 'em.

[lordlundar]

^ Where does that come from, anyway? My DnD DM keeps using that on us...

I recall it coming from an inktank comic called Sorry, We're open. I'm pretty sure that came from somewhere else as well.

My group used the potted plant of doom. Unavoidable, and when it hit you, you lost 1d6 to a random stat.

[Becks]

I piss my wife off with that crap. Everytime she's reading a book with a murder type thing in it I have to tell her that the Butler did it. Hey isn't it usually the butler anyways.

I would be annoyed, only because I enjoy reading and don't like being bothered by people thinking they're "funny". Just ask the man of the household sometime.

[JustaCashier]

"Rosebud"

Mike

[LostMyMind]

^ Where does that come from, anyway? My DnD DM keeps using that on us...

I seem to recall that in one of the original Gary Gygax's giant adventures. Gary is quite fond of death traps.

My DM was fond of the traps that kill you when you leave a room with a item. So you'll think everything is ok, until you try to leave.

[reformedwaitress]

I don't know where the "Rocks fall. Everyone dies." came from, but I love it and have used it when running games. When groups really piss me off.

But in our group we used to have the "random flying cow". We called it a fly by mooing, cause when ever you'd get way off track or follow some red herring too long and just lengthen the game, the GM would have something moo at you. It was a rule that you weren't allowed to use the mooing to throw us off a correct path.

We had some weird traditions and in jokes in my D&D group. We were all actors / improvers and we had some HORRIBLE puns. And it all happened in Vain, which was one of the GMs favorite things. I sent them to "El Bisivni" once (look at it backwards) or, actually, it was really Never Neverland. We were all horrible horrible monsters. And we prayed for death. Or hair. Or shiney things that got you awesome extra stats and killed things on...I mean, death.

[OfficeSlug]

"If you refuse, you die; she dies; everybody dies!"

- Heavy Metal, 1981


A very oft-used gaming line!!!

[aqutalion]

I would have been evil and gave them an ending like St. Elsewhere, where it all happened in the mind of one of the characters. Then I'd either refuse to reveal which character, or make one up and try to pass him off as a minor character that was just introduced in the last book.

[Tria]

*Twitch* I got a rather annoying IM from someone I know and he gave it away after asking if I'd read the book yet.... I'm just glad that (spoiler eaten by me) lived and didn't end up with (Not a chance in Hell unless he LIKES gitting punched by girls)

[Broomjockey]

Heh, the rocks fall, everyone dies reminds me of something that happened in my gaming group.

"Night falls, take damage."
Basically, every time camp was set up, we'd get 'ambushed' by a random encounter, we'd kill it handily, and carry on. The DM wasn't exactly the swiftest, but even he eventually realized how slow we were progressing, and eventually truncated it to the above.