Isn't this how everyone spends their honeymoon?
So the year of big scary change should be slowing down now. The wedding's done, honeymoon over, and the new house is looking better and better every day. It's been a struggle just to maintain my book club reading (I had a month and a half and still only started reading a week before the hangout). But I'm feeling back on track now. I've even pulled out Knightsbridge to dabble away at - NaNoWriMo is on it's way and I can't have two works on the go this year!
And as things get back to normal, we christened the new MattCave with a good ol' game of Arkham Horror. It was the most chill game we'd ever had. The elder wasn't even close to waking up and we somehow started with really good event cards so we weren't on the verge of death while ill-equipped. Luck of the draw. All five players had sealed at least one gate of their own - yes, sealed, not just closed. We were probably helped by a strange mix of a tough Nightgaunt and some great weather. Our Mythos card made sealing gates cost only 3 clue tokens, then a Nightgaunt kicked the ass of two of our guys so they got sucked through a gate, different gates since there were two of equal distance away. No one was devoured, and even after we had officially won, G. was feeling antsy at not having fought anything, at least not fought and won (silly Nightgaunt), and so we let him have one last turn to kill the ghost. It nearly drove him to insanity, but she's dead.
I'm not at all disappointed about the quiet Arkham streets we had. For having two newbies playing, I think it was a good intro, though we warned them that it has happened that one of our characters has been devoured within ten minutes of playing. We started at about 8:00pm, had it all wrapped up by 11:00pm. A night well spent!
I'm not at all disappointed about the quiet Arkham streets we had. For having two newbies playing, I think it was a good intro, though we warned them that it has happened that one of our characters has been devoured within ten minutes of playing. We started at about 8:00pm, had it all wrapped up by 11:00pm. A night well spent!
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