A Descent into Dullness

So the ex-roommate managed to badger me into leaving the house and going to the Friday Board Game night. Played a game of Lost Civilizations, Princes of Florence and some Ra to finish up the night. Won the first, lost the others. But fun was had. Of course now I'm expected to leave the house MORE often. Socialize. Interact with others. Not slowly turn into a crazy shut-in...

Spent just over three hours playing Arkham Horror this week, with the Egypt expansion cards. We didn't actually finish, but we were in such a strong position there really wasn't anyway for the Horror to win. I don't think anyone is going to want play AH again for a couple months. Also played out some Bohnanza (where it was again shown that not going for the 3rd Field is non-starter of strategy) and then finished up with a quick game of Liar's Dice, made all the more interesting because of everyone having seen PoTCII...

I still wish we could have got in a game of Ra or M...

Sadly I didn't manage to win at anything last night. I had a terrible run at Formula De, a disastrous final scoring at M and was drawing dead during Munchkin. I did better at Liar's Dice, up until one truly stupid move put me out from the lead...

My side did win at Betrayal at the House on the Hill, managing to destroy the Ourobous the Two-Headed Snake, but my guy had little to do with it, beyond pre-Haunt exploration...

Still I had fun playing and hanging out with other people, which for me is the whole point...

Well we only had about 1/2 the normal crowd this week. And the half-dozen of us there mostly ended up playing the stuff I brought this week. The copy of Betrayal at the House on the Hill I bought at the store and a some Show Me the Brain and Lord of the Fries. So a very zombie filled night ('cause the Haunt was the Zombie Family one). Also some Ninja Burger...

First off, managed to spend a couple hours over at Dan/Jane's playing a little HackMaster. Mostly I stopped by to see how Jane is recovering from surgery...

Later on, I did board games with Brendan and Spoony and Miles. Broke out some Scrabble, as well as Catan, Rubis (a tough stacking puzzle game)and a couple games of Apples to Apples...

Picked up an '86 2nd edition printing of AvalonHill's Diplomacy game. Only 20 bucks. Now to find out if this game can truly end friendships and marriages and create everlasting blood feuds...

This time around we played some more Spycraft. I didn't have much to do beyond the planning stuff, as I am VERY much avoiding gunfights and what not from now on. So we start to clean up (or cover up depending on how you look at it) the evidence from Russian Tea Room Battle, when we find out that the bad guys have taken over a subway train, taken close to 200 people hostage and are threatening to release nerve gas into the subway tunnels if their demands aren't met. Which are for the release of various prisoners from all over the map and the bad guy spectrum. The demand seems like bullshit but the threat is real...

So we come up with a plan. We know what section of track the train is looping around, so Miles and Brendan decide that their agents will drop down onto it, Tom Cruise in the harness style. Then they can use those snakey camera things to better scope the situation. They load up with some body armor and guns and stuff and hit the train. Where everything for Brendan goes wrong. He botches the check for the landing and so he's hanging from the side of the train and his SMG goes flying. Then he botches the roll to climb back up the train and goes flying off. Then he BOTCHES FOR A THIRD TIME on his tumble check to reduce the damage, DOUBLING it instead. His fixer/wheelman becomes a bloody smear on the tracks, until the train loops around again to run over his corpse...

After that things went better with Miles managing to sneak aboard and fuse the nerve gas cannisters shut. He plants an explosive near the leader after we figure out the exact stopping point of the train if we cut its power. So NYPD sets up some snipers to be ready when it rolls to a stop. Miles then takes out one terrorist, rappeling down the side of the train and blasting him commando style. Before the second guy can figure out whats going on Miles hits him with a flash bang, leaving him blind, stunned and quickly dead. And that leaves just the leader. Who's heavily armored in a modified space suit (since hes a crazy ex-cosmonaut) and packing a grenade launcher. Miles dodges and keeps enough cover to survive until the crazed Russian runs out of ammo. He even tags him in the face with his pistol after the dude takes a hostage to use as a human shield...

And then the whack-job uses a freaking JET PACK to escape. The snipers try to take him down, but roll crap for damage. So he evades the NYPD choppers and gets away. Still we saved the hostages and prevented a nerve gas attack on the city...

Then we decided to break out a new board game Noah had bough, Betrayal at House on the Hill. Buy this game. Go and buy it now. This game was freaking AWESOME! The first game I ended up as an evil 9 year old girl with a .38 pistol! Then Brendan was a spooky drowned boy trying to kill us all. And in the last game Noah was a servant of Death himself, who we had to play chess against. Totally freaking awesome. Go get it...

Spent the afternoon hanging out at Imperial Outpost and playing games. Ninja Burger and Formula De mostly...

Also discussed regular RPG stuff. Looks like I'll be running a modern horror game. Probably using GURPS. Though non-d20 Call of Chtulu is still out there. But probably GURPS. This will be as an alternate to my Sunday HackMaster game...