A Descent into Dullness

Went on the roommate's extra guest membership again this year, the I only managed one of the days.  On Sunday I was just exhausted and fell back asleep in the morning.  A small pity, as I'd signed up for a session of Kobolds Ate My Baby! and to try out the board game Abyss.  But Saturday was good.  Played in the GURPS: Trollhunters ongoing again.  This time I was chipper, fanatical priestess of the God of Resurections.  I kind of picture her in a Mormon suit, biking around from dungeon to dungeon, knocking on doors.  Anyway, our group went to the ruins and encountered a band of orcs, led by a troll.  A sizable portion of the orcs were downed by the groups specialized archer, until she got knocked out by a more heavily armored orc.  In preparing for the approaching troll I attempted to boost the health of the dwarf barbarian only to suffer a critical miscast.  Which turned them into a giant naked dwarf.  They gamely tried to wrestle the troll but ended up at -66 hit points.  Still alive and walking at the end of the battle, but yeesh.  Despite several near deaths (including my priestess) the group was victorious and the characters will advance to whoever runs them next.

Later in the evening I got to play the Red Dragon Inn card game.  In that the players are adventurers relaxing at a tavern, spending their loot on booze.  Each player has an adventurer deck, i was Zot the Wizard.  Another player picked Pooky the Bunny, my familiar.  The goal is to force the other players out, either by making them pass out from a combination of damage and drunkeness or by losing all your money.  I managed to help push out the enchantress, the drunken monk, the time wizard, the fighter AND my familiar.  But the shaman managed to block several turns of my attacks on him while right on the edge and come from behind to win.

Not really a full session, more of a wrap up.  I was a little surprised the group didn't try to ever discover What was the girl?  And Why (beyond the apparant summoned a sea monster once) the various people wanted her.  But they do have Father Joseph captured.  And they did accomplish their original goal of delivering the girl to their not-Germany contact for the Daughters.  So story goals were accomplished by Byron (delivery mission for the Daughters) and Frazer (Yule gets money & renown to court home town noblewoman).  Not by the roommates soldier though (find Gribbleflotz and recover family treasure) so I let him expand it to a 5-point Story if we play again.  And gave him a 1-point Fame trait.

After that was mostly prep for the next game, and for Bryon's turn he's going with 7th edition Call of Cthulhu 1920s, using the Orient Express sourcebook.  The roommate & Frazer are going with CoC versions of Wooster & Jeeves.  Alyce will be giving tabletop another try, brining in an a archeologist.  I'm still not sure.  I rolled up a few different possiblities.  Maybe a Quebecois goon or punk kid crook.

And we finished up the night with a game of En Garde.  Which came down to me and Frazer.  And he managed to eventually overwhelm me, though I came close, whittling him down from a 4 point Poise lead to just 1.

The roommate gifted me with a membership to this year's con again so I took the weekend off to attend.  Saturday got to try out En Garde, a fencing simulation card game.  Fun, though I can see how in a big multi-player game it can turn into a Pile on Player X situation.  Then after that I took part in Brendan's Twillight Imperium game.  Six player game and we managed something like 4 or 5 rounds from noon to 8PM (with a lunch break when I went home to feed the cat).  I ended up "winning" by being ahead by 2 victory points when we called it.

Sunday I was in a Call of Cthulhu rpg, "Proof of Life".  Small town politics in the 1920s over whether to allow in a lumber company.  Which leads to murder, brains in jars and a final confrontation with flying alien funguses.  Though my pre-gen character ducked out of the climax with the mi-go to run off and file her story of small town madness (with pictures!) and win herself a Pullitzer.  Which apparantly was established in 1917 and so is totally what happened.

ETA: On Sunday I (The Roommate) was supposed to play OGRE, but that got cancelled, so I had a game of Heroes Incorporated, a really fun strategy Heroes ggame which I lost by a hair, and Blood Rage, a Vikings in Ragnarok boardgame with a draft system, which I got absolutely trashed in. Heroes Inc. is out of print, so good luck finding it, and Blood Rage is a Kickstarter game that sells for around $75-$100.

The roommate sent out various texts and managed to get a few people to stop by for a night of board gaming. Friends Kevin and Josh and Josh's new fiance. First off we played a two-lap game of Forumula De, which I managed to win thanks to some aggresive use of the 5th and 6th gear in the second lap...

After that was couple hours of Cards Against Humanity, the mean spirited if darkly funny cousin to Apples to Apples. We gave up on really tracking scoring and just played until it got late...

So in the Sunday TW game I lost my fighter. Tempus Thales snuck up behind him and cut his fucking throat. And by cut his throat, I mean critted and damn near sawed his head off. So I decided to go with a Nisibisi Barbarian. 3.x Barbarians are supposed to be pretty cool as tanks, so I figured I'd give it a go. We ended just as we reached the island home of the Purple Mage and killed some of his evil monkeys...

After that me and Brendan stopped off at the crappy CopperCon to visit some people who were volunteering. Talked for awhile while I caught up on some of what my old circle of friends has been up to and then played some Chez Geek...