games day down in tacoma
Whee, today was pretty good. I watched half a round of the Cnossos blockade, then picked up ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tenshiemi and headed down to Tacoma. We went to wooko and damienroc's apartment... Wooko headed out before we did, and Jeff and Emi and I ended up getting Mexican food for dinner. It was really good. Then we went to islandergirlro's apartment for games night. When we got there, Wooko was teaching Ro and Brien and (oh crap, I'm not sure I caught his name, was it Travis?) to play Spree, which is a Cheapass game I hadn't seen before. So Jeff and Emi and I decided to play too. It was actually, like, fun. (I don't generally like Cheapass games - a lot of the recent batch suffered from lack of playtesting.) Emi won, mostly by Jeff shooting himself, and her scooting over and stealing all his cards.
After that,theonlymegumegu and Eric showed up, and Alan, so we played a pretty big game of Apples to Apples, which Wooko won, mostly because he (correctly) surmised that I actually play the game straight as a judge, and so he got two cards off me judging. I got lousy cards the entire time and thus only won like one card. I really do dislike A2A as a game, but I will play it... though I think the expansions are a bit too much. They dilute the interesting and fun card supply.
A girl whose name I only caught as "Stuff" showed up after that, and we all split into two games. Jeff and Emi and Alan and I played Citadels, and most of the rest of the gang played Risk: New World Domination. Which is just Risk with special cards. Wooko swears it makes the game better, but I swear, I walked up to the table and saw Eric lose a battle that was heavily weighted in his favor, due to stupid d6 rolls. So. It's still Risk... just Risk with Stuff. An' I don't mean the person.
Anyway, Citadels was fun. Jeff and I tied EXACTLY, down to the wire -- 30 points each, no remaining gold. Heh. We played Buried Treasure after that, which I lost terribly, and I can't even remember who won.
At that point it was almost midnight and I still had to drive Emi home, so we left. Whee. Drove home. Concluding yet another trip to Tacoma that did not involve going to Narrows. Dammit!
There is a huge storm going on, so even though I want to be asleep, I'm not, because it's too loud, and my sleep schedule is too wrecked. Sigh.
(I haven't written much about the last two days either, I guess. Not much to say, really. Thursday was D&D, and Megan made lasagna, and our group beat up some drow, and Friday I didn't do much of anything. I got tax forms and stopped by Half Price, and talked to a job recruiter and some other random stuff. I got to pretend to be a member of Orange Revolution for their crew portrait in PP. That was fun.)
tenshiemi and headed down to Tacoma. We went to wooko and damienroc's apartment... Wooko headed out before we did, and Jeff and Emi and I ended up getting Mexican food for dinner. It was really good. Then we went to islandergirlro's apartment for games night. When we got there, Wooko was teaching Ro and Brien and (oh crap, I'm not sure I caught his name, was it Travis?) to play Spree, which is a Cheapass game I hadn't seen before. So Jeff and Emi and I decided to play too. It was actually, like, fun. (I don't generally like Cheapass games - a lot of the recent batch suffered from lack of playtesting.) Emi won, mostly by Jeff shooting himself, and her scooting over and stealing all his cards.After that,
theonlymegumegu and Eric showed up, and Alan, so we played a pretty big game of Apples to Apples, which Wooko won, mostly because he (correctly) surmised that I actually play the game straight as a judge, and so he got two cards off me judging. I got lousy cards the entire time and thus only won like one card. I really do dislike A2A as a game, but I will play it... though I think the expansions are a bit too much. They dilute the interesting and fun card supply. A girl whose name I only caught as "Stuff" showed up after that, and we all split into two games. Jeff and Emi and Alan and I played Citadels, and most of the rest of the gang played Risk: New World Domination. Which is just Risk with special cards. Wooko swears it makes the game better, but I swear, I walked up to the table and saw Eric lose a battle that was heavily weighted in his favor, due to stupid d6 rolls. So. It's still Risk... just Risk with Stuff. An' I don't mean the person.
Anyway, Citadels was fun. Jeff and I tied EXACTLY, down to the wire -- 30 points each, no remaining gold. Heh. We played Buried Treasure after that, which I lost terribly, and I can't even remember who won.
At that point it was almost midnight and I still had to drive Emi home, so we left. Whee. Drove home. Concluding yet another trip to Tacoma that did not involve going to Narrows. Dammit!
There is a huge storm going on, so even though I want to be asleep, I'm not, because it's too loud, and my sleep schedule is too wrecked. Sigh.
(I haven't written much about the last two days either, I guess. Not much to say, really. Thursday was D&D, and Megan made lasagna, and our group beat up some drow, and Friday I didn't do much of anything. I got tax forms and stopped by Half Price, and talked to a job recruiter and some other random stuff. I got to pretend to be a member of Orange Revolution for their crew portrait in PP. That was fun.)