It's been a while since I've posted. But I thought yourselves would appreciate this, and it's brightened up the workplace a bit.
The Darth Vader/Ukraine thing:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26882664Has spawned not just my favourite moment of the last superhero RPG session I played (the journalistic scoop of the year: "Your critics describe you as 'more machine now than man, twisted and evil'. Mr Vader, what is your response to these allegations?").
But also a running joke at work. When we were talking about the crisis in Crimea to one of the youngsters at work who didn't really understand what was going on, I used the example of me annexing 1/3 of the desk of the chap who sits next to me.
After seeing the Darth Vader thing, he was joking about me invading it with stormtroopers.
So yesterday, I hid a Star Wars Miniatures rebel trooper behind his monitor and put a scout trooper on my desk. He finally noticed the scout trooper just before lunchtime. But he hasn't found the rebel yet.
I took "security photos" using my phone of the rebel trooper, and of a Princess Leia miniature on his desk.
Today, I replaced the scout trooper with a normal stormtrooper (and, yes, both him and our MD - who noticed it when he came over to talk about a report - were geeky enough to spot the difference). Gradually, throughout the day, the number of stormtroopers has increased. Every time he's left his desk for a while, I've added another stormtrooper to the squad. There are 6 of them there now.
Tomorrow, they're going to capture a "notorious rebel spy" for interrogation.
And on Thursday, when he gets to work, he'll find that part of his desk has been occupied by a dozen stormtroopers supported by an AT-ST. It's the only way they can keep the galaxy safe against these rebel spies and terrorists which he has been (as he will find when I show him the "security footage" and he looks behind his monitor) harbouring on his desk.
It's the only course of action that makes any sense.
