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Who's the more foolish? The fool or fool that plays after the fool?
United States
DURHAM
North Carolina
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So gather round, come one, come all
And hear 'bout my Saturday
When my beloved and I did sit
To spend it all in play.
Now I can say without regret
That while gaming I will thrive
But I must allow that by the end
That my score showed oh and five
We opened up with a newish game
They call it Hansa Teutonica
I set up while she did play
A tune 'pon her harmonica.
Now this one game has me a-vexed
And I don't seem able to amend it
For by the time I got things down
The lady works to end it.
We got our actions boosted up
And things were fairly level
But she book-ended the action route
While I just looked disheveled.
I took the chance to spread on out
And build a network clever
While she built up to 5 actions
Scoring Prestige points forever.
With that first loss I made a plan
I would initiate it
But she had in mind an answer too
And I soon would learn to hate it.
I wanted to push up my tracks
For offices and merchants
Then score some points from Coellen's route
Perhaps I'll win this trade dance?
But what I'd planned it took a spell
And my opponent was not waiting
Racking up her prestige points
Then got on with celebrating.
After that what could I do
To find a winning tonic?
Perhaps a spin with something in
The games that are economic?
So I proposed and she OK'd
You really must respect her
I set up and then we played
To claim Zavandor's Scepter
I was one that was new to me
I was the mighty Kobold
All I knew from D&D days
They weren't much good for mo' gold.
She was the Witch and so I knew
Her gems would be bargain buying
I wasn't sure how to begin
I'd see what came by trying
I nabbed some gems and boosted up
In the Knowledge of 9 Sages
It gave a boost but it didn't last
I needed more regular wages.
I got the spell book for the chance
Emeralds would help me win this
My board looked like the Emerald Isle
I could almost smell the Guinness.
While you know who had gems of blue
She shifted into diamonds.
And though behind, her income grew
Like a fern growing its higher fronds.
And ahead of me she bought into
A ruby inspired maneuver.
I thought she'd stall by changing it
And I was really in the groove here.
The first Sentinel the Toad I bought
With plans in hand for Beetle
Just behind she got the Fox
She was charging up the street-le.
And it was I found short to get the one
So I'd end the game ahead
So we both got 3 and her gems many
Meant she jumped in front instead.
To round it off, we played Parade
Which is becoming the tradition
And at this rate I will soon need
A brand new sleeved edition
Well luck was here the same as there
Which meant I was without it
A mass of cards before me sat
The result was never doubted.
"Only ones or twos" I would take
That plan worked for a short while
A three slipped in and then I begin
To build up my usual huge pile.
And opposite in front of her
An almost empty space
So if I can't win I'll have to learn
Just how to lose with grace.
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