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Spooky Games Night @ the Fresno Gamers - 10/29/07
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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Well, the weather certainly was a bit spooky... and the gaming was a lot of fun. Some not-so-spooky games crept in, but that's OK. It's just fun to hang out & play games, right?
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Posted Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:19 pm
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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Dave, Braeden & I played a quick game of this card-capturing game - the art is cute but since I have a first edition copy, it's very hard to remember which cards are Concoctions and which cards are Powers. Sigh.
Mark 8
Dave 6 (most Concoctions)
Braeden 4
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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Cross "Don't Wake Daddy" with a take-that combat game & a bit of bluffing, and you have In Teufel's Kuche (In the Devil's Kitchen), where small demons run about fetching food for their Master & earning his displeasure when they get in a fight.
Braeden, John & Dave all lost demons to the curse of Milk (seriously) and I just lost demons because I kept losing fights. At the end, Braeden was able to sneak through for the win.
Braeden 12
Dave 8
John 7
Mark 6
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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I have a French copy of the game (Du Balai) but it's exactly the same. This is a speed/memory game, which John excelled at. Dave made clear that he NEVER wanted to play the game again.
John 27 (1st to finish)
Dave 27
Mark 25
Braeden 23
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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While the early games were going on, Richard & Steve taught Matt & Greg how to play PBF (Greg having jumped into our FpbFL league without ever having played.)
I don't know all the details of their game, but there were blocked kicks, Matt running up incredible yardage (but not scoring), and a "to the wire" finish.
Greg (Pittsburgh) 14
Matt (Seattle) 13
BTW, here's the team list for FpbFL - I'll update that website later today with the schedules:
DIVISION ONE
Indy (Brian)
Pittsburgh (Greg)
Seattle (Steve)
DIVISON TWO
Kansas City (John)
Denver (Richard)
Carolina (Mark)
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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I was Dracula - and I managed to stay safely hidden in England for the entire first round of turns. That allowed me to sire a vampire (despite John's best efforts to kill it), which was good, since Steve managed to get the Hunter event that lets them fight my VP track back a space.
When I headed to the Continent, I landed in Spain, got caught in Lisbon, yet managed to Wolf Form & Unnatural Speed my way out of the trap. They found me in Central Europe, where they used both of their resolve to "paratroop" in on top of me - and while I took some serious damage (I was down to 5 blood points), I managed to escape from all of them while killing Mina Harker.
At 5 VPs, I got the Evasion event, which allowed me to hide for two turns & win the game on the change of day.
Mark (Dracula) victorious
Steve (Goldaming)
Dave (Seward)
John (Van Helsing)
Richard (Harker)
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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OK, not spooky - but still fun.
Matt 85,000 (no shame)
Steve 85,000 (one shame)
Richard 75,000
John 65,000
Greg 45,000
Mark 30,000
Why is it that I -always- lose at this game?!
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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This is a great partnership game - but you couldn't tell that from the way Will & I sucked wind. Sigh. The worst mess was having one hand thrown out (scoring-wise) because we went through the deck twice without anyone going out... it would have been a great hand for our duo.)
Richard/Steve 123
Will/Mark 67
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Mark Jackson
United States
Fresno
California
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A quick 2-player round to end the night... both of us ended up with 9 dice. Will is the one who grabbed the King first, but then I managed to set nine 6's as the bar, and he wasn't able to reach it. (Whew.)
Mark - nine 6's
Will - eight 6's & a 4
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Posted Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:01 pm
Visalia
California
Fresno
California
Visalia
California