by clarbri85
(Note: Due to the nature of the game, there may be spoilers for your game, even if you ARE in this month. You have been warned)"Be not afeard.
The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not." - Caliban, The Tempest, William Shakespeare
Our Cast:
Pretty Boy Floyd - Administrator - Brockway, Age 32
Duke Cletus - Farmer - Brockway, Age 17
Joe Dirt - Laborer - Ogdenville, Age 24
W0FU - Radio Operator - Ogdenville, Age 33
Axe Smasher - Instructor - North Haverbrook, Age 21
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Husbando - Immunologist - Buenos Aires, Age 37
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Yolandi Visser - Scientist - Johannesburg - Age 35
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Morgan - Captain - Kali Center, Age 27
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"Scruffy" - Sanitation Officer - Doomhaven, Age 70
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Game 1
Characters Played
Pretty Boy Floyd - Administrator
Joe Dirt - Laborer
W0FU - Radio Operator
[o]Yolandi Visser - Scientist[/o]
From the Journal of Pretty Boy Floyd, Brockway Administrator, September 14th, AF 71
(WARNING: Journal entry contains spoilers for everything up to this month and possibly into the next month or so)
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The danger now, I am afraid, is overconfidence. This easy road for the past few months could all be some duplicity, some plan by the Hollow Men to get our guard down. We'll have to endeavour to remain vigilant even in the face of our joyous victories.
And there are many of them. We've made contact with Topaz, on an island without plague. Without plague! Deciding they'd like to keep it that way, they quarantined us and sent us on our way, but not before one brave soul, Victor Rogers, decided to lend us a hand. He's an expert in vector control - so we should be able to minimize the impact of the plague rats the Hollow Men release. We've made headway into Asia, building a sturdy supply center in Hong Kong to bolster our attempt at reaching Utopia once we have a plan. The Hollow Men did penetrate a few cities, but we were largely able to shelter the inhabitants against the worst of it. I will write more once we have a plan to face our former leaders.
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Well, the initial board state didn't do us a ton of favors:
After the initial infection
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We had planned to do the recon out of [o]Jakarta[/o] by using Joe Dirt to grab Hong Kong and then passing it off to W0FU. The Hollow Men made sure that our plans changed.
Luckily, the player deck was a lot more kind to us, giving us two red cards (one with Infrastructure on it) and a black card - so we had what we needed to do our plan, it was all just a matter of getting there. We shuffle cards around, and burn two Monitor uses (although we do breeze past a back-to-back epidemic draw, so that was helpful).
We eventually do the recon:
Recon Spoilers
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...only to discover an empty haven and another recon (not pictured below, but the same 2 red cards as the one in Jakarta. We go through another few turns and get W0FU the card he needs, and then we reveal...
More Recon Spoilers!
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The Best, Funniest Card in the Game
Topaz!
The text on the recon card sent us off into a gale of laughter that lasted for a long time. It's nice to know that there's one completely safe city in the world (Wellington came with no cards for it whatsoever).
Additionally, one of the crew of Topaz decided to join us. Meet Victor!
Victor is Awesome
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After all of that excitement, we basically stalled until we could build supply centers.
At the end of the game, we make the center in Hong Kong permanent, raise Chicago's population (after a run-in with Hollow Men), and throw Investigator on Pretty Boy, allowing him to recycle useful cards. We're all still waiting for the shoe to drop, but it hasn't yet, and we continue to rack up victories.
From the Journal of Pretty Boy Floyd, Brockway Administrator, September 19th, AF 71
Our plan is the dumbest plan, but unfortunately, it's also the only viable one we have. More next month, if we survive this lunacy