We skipped a week (I think Amanda was doing something) and moved our game night to Tuesdays as we weren't playing Soulbound on Tuesdays anymore and Amanda has a singing lesson now on Wednesdays, which means she won't be home until 7:30 or so...
Despite that change, she STILL wasn't home until 7:30, because she decided to stay at work and finish some stuff up...
This week we played a second Purge Journey - meant to destabilize Lady Annika, the Thirsting Blade's power. One three such Purge Journey's are successful, they can attempt a Decapitation Journey to try and destroy Lady Annika... except that the vampires don't actually die for good in the Decapitation Journey (as some of the Hostile Characters did in the first campaign) and will all have to be faced again in the FINAL BATTLE... But that's a ways off...
Finnegan decided to swap out Brutogg Corpse-Eater for Octren Glimscry - something he's NEVER done before!! He's Always brought along Brutogg and decided between Octren Glimscry and Dagnai Holdenstock... This week it was Dagnai and Octren!
Amanda was, as ever, playing with Glaruio Ven Alten III and Qulathis the Exile.
I finally finished painting Radukar the Beast and the Fell Bats, so they were available and their encounter cards were shuffled into the Encounter Deck!
I also recently finished up all the Deathrattle Skeletons which can be used as extra reinforcements should they encounter more than one group (as some of the groups get rather large at Fifth Level!) I should try and finish up the extra Deadwalker Zombies I picked up for the same purpose!
Glaurio was the first to exit the landing zone - he found a Mysterious Object and left it for Dagnai to search...
... and pressed on to encounter some Deadwalker Zombies... and promptly shot one and damaged another..
Octren joined Gluario. He used a special ability that used an action... and dealt himself one damage... boosted his Hollow Stare attack, so that it dealt 3 damage (enough to take out a zombie with one hit...) and then promptly missed with one of the two remaining activations..
When the Zombies surged forward, one of them damaged him and he was down to two spots for activation dice!? (And he was Trapped!)
Qulathis swung by on her first activation, shot two zombies dead with her bow and then trotted off, figuring Octren and Glaurio could handle the rest on their own...
Dagnai searched one mysterious object and then revealed another...
Octren and Glaruio dealing with the last Zombie... As the last in a hostile group with 1/3 or less of it's original number, it would just flee on it's last activation, after attacking any heroes in an adjacent space. It attacked Glaurio... and Glaurio successfully used one of his newer special abilities - parry - which, when rolling a critical success on a defence die, he was allowed to attack back, and killed the Zombie.. which, in some ways didn't matter (because it was leaving anyway), BUT Glaruio's thing that gives him extra inspiration is when he takes out the last member of a hostile group! So this gained him an extra point of inspriation! Yay!
Qualthis revealed ANOTHER group of Deadwalker Zombies and shot three of them down..
Then ran off to help Dagnai deal with some Ulfenwatch that he'd found skulking in one of the rooms.
Another group of Ulfenwatch came marching in from the other direction.
Glaurio joined in the destruction of the first group of Ulfenwatch.
Then turned to fight the next group approaching.
And then the first Vargskyr showed up!
Everyone kind of ganged up on it and it wasn't too much trouble to take down..
Qualathis destroying MORE Zombies...
Some Fell Bats were discovered lurking in one of the rooms - presumably hanging from the ceiling.
Before they could attack, Dagnai charged in and chopped two of them apart with his axe and the third one fled without a fight!
Dagnai pressed on to find the last of the Mysterious Ojbects!
And then Lady Annika showed up... this time with an undead Ogor of the Kosargi Nighguard. The Ogor bodyguard was much slower than her, so she zipped across the board and left it in the dust...
Glaurio, Qulathis and Glimscry all made ranged attacks at her... and NOTHING hit her... she is CRAZY good at dodging (5+ on a d12 - so 2/3 of the time, she just ignores all damage...)
and then the next Vargskyr showed up!?
Everyone started trying to make a fighting retreat out of the room and throwing everything at the Vargskyr, who was tough, but not as dodgy as Lady Annika!
Octren had moved up and threw a curse on Lady Annika.
Glaurio fell back and helped Dagnai with some Corpse Rats he'd encountered, and encouraged Dagnai to go fight the vampire - as he is the one with the anti-vampire enhancements... (deals damage that cannot be ignored!)
Of course, Qulathis also has some anti-vampire abilities - three Oaken Arrows that she has for each adventure. They can only be used with a 6+ activation... But she happened to roll one six for her activation this round AND there was a destiny die that was a six... So she put two oaken arrows into Lady Annika and just about killed her - dealing EIGHT damage!
Then Dagnai rushed in and chopped her with his encanted axe and finished her off!!
Teh Ogor finally lumbered up and took a swing at Glaurio - and MISSED - we figure he slipped on all the blood that spilled out of Lady Annika, as he was standing in teh same space she'd been destroyed in!
And then everyone was into the Extraction Zone and whisked away to safety in Haven!
Afterwards everyone went for drinks at the Tawny Owl and gained bonus inspiration points for the next game.
One of the treasures Dagnai had recovered allowed him to PICK the Extraction Event rather than roll for it! So they picked on where each character rolled the Destiny Die (d12) and on a 7+ got to go through the Discovery deck and pick out a magic item or realmstone card!? So everyone is all tooled up for the next game!!
One more Victory up on the Night Wars chart... assuming the next one is a success as well, the following game they'll be able to take a run at Lady Annika in the first Decapitation Journey of this Campaign!
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That went better than I thought it was going to at one point, thought they might regret not taking the ogre but all good stuff, looks lovely!
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Amanda said that game caused her more stress than any so far.. and Radukar didn't even show up!
DeleteI think that's the sign of a solidly designed game! To create that much tension! I mean, they succeed at most games. Out of 32 games played, all but four were successful. That's an 87.5% success rate! From that alone, one might think they're all cake walks... But they rarely FEEL like cake walks! It so often feels like everything could just go south at any moment.