I live to serve.
Sidebars are the delicious sprinkles on the cookie of main text goodness. Anyone who has played or run
Nobilis or
Living Steel has learned to love sidebars.
Living Steel sidebar quotes:
"My friends, I foresee the dawn of a new age. I foresee a time when Vissertown will stand united, and be a shining example for the rest of the world. And, I foresee only the greatest of prosperity in the years ahead."
-Excerpt from Manuel Puerto's Acceptance Speech, upon his election to the post of President for Life of Vissertown
"I foresee you needing some more bodyguards. Soon."
-Commentary by Jonathan Sunshine, during his Election Analysis broadcast."
""Hand me my mallet, I must anesthetize him." -Dr. Oscar Schneiderbunk, Visser M.D.
"Hand me my mallet. The swelling will stop the bleeding." -Dr. Oscar Schneiderbunk, Visser M.D.
"Hand me my mallet. I must tenderize the area before the first incision." -Dr. Oscar Schneiderbunk, Visser M.D.
"Hand me my grenade. Pre-Op is getting crowded." -Dr. Oscar Schneiderbunk, Visser M.D.
"Yes, you have lost a lot of blood, but with all the pieces you're missing, you shouldn't need as much." -Dr. Oscar Schneiderbunk, Visser M.D.
"Just because it's my gun doesn't mean I'm the one who fired it."
"OK, I fired it, but I didn't think I'd hit any civilians."
"Well, yes, it did occur to me that I might hit one or two civilians. But I really never thought I would hit all of them."
-Axly
Blam. Blam. "Stop." Blam. Blam. "Police."
-Officer Axly
"We could have at least have had a cease-fire long enough to loot the dead and wounded."
-Gil the Treacherous
"As far as I'm concerned, anyone slower than me is the rearguard."
-Gil the Treacherous
from
http://www.oocities.org/totalsystemtechnologies/livsteel.htm
Nobilis sidebars - thought records - are great short stories I won't quote here because even more off topic.
I think you'd really like Nobilis, Dragon. It has a certain grace. Check it out.