Game weekend! Game weekend!
Jan. 22nd, 2006 03:02 amWhoa, weekend. I didn't update yesterday because I got home too late and was almost thinking of the same for today.
So yeah. Yesterday at the last minute I got invited to come out to Redmond and play board games. Jason and Drew and I played a game of Runebound. It took bloody forever since we hadn't played before, and I eventually left at 1:30am (after about 4-5 hours of game) because it seemed like I wasn't going to get a third rune (I was seriously one turn away from getting it and winning the game when Drew sniped it out of the city I was heading for.) and I just started throwing my character against really hard quests, at which point I lost my second rune when I died. Doh.
Today,
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theonlymegumegu had invited me to come to a games party at this guy Leon's house in Tacoma. I was a little bit chicken about going, but when Jeff reminded me that it was sort of like the first time I ever met him, when I invited him to a games party at my house and he didn't know anyone either, I figured, what the heck. So I drove down to Tacoma and hung out there for several hours, and it actually went pretty well, plus I did know about half of the people there.
The first game I got in on was Duel of the Ages or something -- and we just made a board and dealt out some items to people and had characters go kill each other. It started off REALLY boring -- as in, I'd go away for 15 minutes and it wouldn't be anywhere near my turn -- but when we got to the end of the game and it was basically these two guys fighting each other and Wooko and I fighting each other on the other side of the board, that was a lot more fun. I lucked out and killed off Wooko's two characters, only losing one of mine in the process, and then I went across the map to try to kill off the other guys -- except that in the meantime they'd killed each other off. One of them had a "sentinel" item that kept attacking me even though the character was dead, so the sentinel thingy actually killed me -- but technically, 1) I was last man standing so I won, 2) I had a device to teleport me away from it, and it couldn't follow, so I should have won. Oops.
After that I played Tsuro with Rochelle and Brien and Chris (and later Jeff and Fuzzy too), and I won my first game of it, but in the second game, Chris pretty much killed three of us off in one tile, so Jeff won. I liked it, I would like to play again, I think, so I can get my head around the way it works more.
We had a big game of The Big Idea after that, with 8 players. The last time I had played The Big Idea, seriously, was before Ralph had moved off of Beechwood, meaning 1999 or 2000... and Laura Tweedy and I were going to draw extra cards for it, I remember, for the "suffixes" like "On a stick" and "In a Box" and all. Really, I wasn't that big a fan of the game, but with 8 people it was actually a bit more fun, even if I'm pretty sure I came in near the bottom if not dead last in ranking.
Jeff and Wooko and Chris and I played a quick game of San Juan after that. I won it, with my chapel. Apparently Wooko really hates chapels. Apparently I shouldn't make fun of Wooko about hating chapels, or steal his Skittles for that matter. Arr.
Anyway, by that point it was like 1am so I figured I should probably drive home. So I did.
I had a pretty good time. I'm glad Jeff convinced me to come down there. I wish Tacoma wasn't so damn far. I think it's awesome that I've had two big weekends of board games in a row, though. Plus Leon's house is way cool, his basement is a really good gaming setup.
Also, a funny thing that happened on the way down was that when I went past the Tacoma Dome they had a big sign for "TOBY KEITH -- TONIGHT!!" up on the blinky thing, and at the time, I was listening to a cover of a Toby Keith song, realizing I've never actually heard the real guy sing it. Weird. (I don't know what's gotten into me lately about country music -- I even borrowed a Tim McGraw CD from Drew yesterday, and I actually sort of like it.)
So yeah. Yesterday at the last minute I got invited to come out to Redmond and play board games. Jason and Drew and I played a game of Runebound. It took bloody forever since we hadn't played before, and I eventually left at 1:30am (after about 4-5 hours of game) because it seemed like I wasn't going to get a third rune (I was seriously one turn away from getting it and winning the game when Drew sniped it out of the city I was heading for.) and I just started throwing my character against really hard quests, at which point I lost my second rune when I died. Doh.
Today,
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The first game I got in on was Duel of the Ages or something -- and we just made a board and dealt out some items to people and had characters go kill each other. It started off REALLY boring -- as in, I'd go away for 15 minutes and it wouldn't be anywhere near my turn -- but when we got to the end of the game and it was basically these two guys fighting each other and Wooko and I fighting each other on the other side of the board, that was a lot more fun. I lucked out and killed off Wooko's two characters, only losing one of mine in the process, and then I went across the map to try to kill off the other guys -- except that in the meantime they'd killed each other off. One of them had a "sentinel" item that kept attacking me even though the character was dead, so the sentinel thingy actually killed me -- but technically, 1) I was last man standing so I won, 2) I had a device to teleport me away from it, and it couldn't follow, so I should have won. Oops.
After that I played Tsuro with Rochelle and Brien and Chris (and later Jeff and Fuzzy too), and I won my first game of it, but in the second game, Chris pretty much killed three of us off in one tile, so Jeff won. I liked it, I would like to play again, I think, so I can get my head around the way it works more.
We had a big game of The Big Idea after that, with 8 players. The last time I had played The Big Idea, seriously, was before Ralph had moved off of Beechwood, meaning 1999 or 2000... and Laura Tweedy and I were going to draw extra cards for it, I remember, for the "suffixes" like "On a stick" and "In a Box" and all. Really, I wasn't that big a fan of the game, but with 8 people it was actually a bit more fun, even if I'm pretty sure I came in near the bottom if not dead last in ranking.
Jeff and Wooko and Chris and I played a quick game of San Juan after that. I won it, with my chapel. Apparently Wooko really hates chapels. Apparently I shouldn't make fun of Wooko about hating chapels, or steal his Skittles for that matter. Arr.
Anyway, by that point it was like 1am so I figured I should probably drive home. So I did.
I had a pretty good time. I'm glad Jeff convinced me to come down there. I wish Tacoma wasn't so damn far. I think it's awesome that I've had two big weekends of board games in a row, though. Plus Leon's house is way cool, his basement is a really good gaming setup.
Also, a funny thing that happened on the way down was that when I went past the Tacoma Dome they had a big sign for "TOBY KEITH -- TONIGHT!!" up on the blinky thing, and at the time, I was listening to a cover of a Toby Keith song, realizing I've never actually heard the real guy sing it. Weird. (I don't know what's gotten into me lately about country music -- I even borrowed a Tim McGraw CD from Drew yesterday, and I actually sort of like it.)