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sniffnoyFriday and Saturday composed an almost completely wasted weekend. Well, assuming you consider playing games all day a waste. Otherwise, certainly not.
After lecture Friday, we almost immediately started a game of Gnostica, me vs Dan vs Chris vs Steve. Steve dropped out, but he wasn't going to win anyway. As the game ended, Chris had a 8 points and a *very* defensible position. But I pulled off a surprise move with the Chariot, taking 9 points for myself and pushing the only really nearby piece out of the way, and declaring that I would win, despite my ridiculously weak position. It worked, though. I was simply too inaccessible. Especially with nearly all the trump in the trash.
A funny incident: I had the Devil, next to a sword (also controlled by me), next to the High Priestess, on which there sat an enemy. For quite some time I had been deviling indirectly the reorient anyone who took the High Priestess, but in this case I couldn't: my only piece on the sword was already pointing the right way!
On Saturday, Steve went to a game store and bought Scotland Yard, a really great game. One person is Mr. X, and the others are detectives. You move around on this map of part of London, trying to catch Mr. X. But he only reveals his location every 5 moves, and other than that you only have his mode of transport to go on. With his unlimited tickets and mystery tickets and double move tickets, you'd think Mr. X would have the advantage, but he doesn't. In the 6 times we've played, Mr. X has only won once (Mung was Mr. X). Or maybe we're all just sucky Mr. Xs.
Friday was also the Animation Festival (that Friday's Mandatory Fun), in which we would watch bizarre old animations, some actually good. The Animation Festival was held in the basement, using a real movie projector. I arrived late, so I missed the beginning of the first one - about some dwarf trying to make himself taller. Then came Bambi Meets Godzilla (reshown later). It had been shown so many times over the years that the film was getting worn down, unfortunately. There were some other actually entertaining ones, but there was also Dialectical Materialism Interpreted and even Regular Homotopies in the Plane, Part I (contradicting the statement that Mandatory Fun shall be Not Math). There was a Part II as well, but by that time I had left to play Illuminati. We had 8 people, so we split into 2 games of 4 people each. Final power structures to be posted later. Genya, who was Discordia, pulled off a completely surprise win when he played Unmasked and became the UFOs imitating Zurich (Zurich itself was already playing.).
For whatever reason, I started another game, also with 4 players. I should have just left to play Mafia, then, I suppose, but I didn't. Daniel dropped out after a bit, leaving 3 players. I was SubGenius, and finally won in the only way SubGenius can. I had 9 groups, requiring 2 more, and lots of money. And were they to successfully attack me, I would get 10 MB for each one they got rid of. Simply put, strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can ever imagine. They never struck me down, so I won anyway.
And then there was Mafia. Immediately after that game finished, I joined the big Mafia games in the East Lounge. [Editor's note: it was not until after I wrote this that I realized I was conflating Friday night with Saturday night. The giant Mafia games were Saturday, but I did go and play Mafia immediately after the 2 Illuminati games on Friday. I'm too lazy to change it now, though; I'd rather write this instead.] These went until pretty late at night, and then they went even later. In two games, there were so many players that we had separate and competing Italian Mafia and Russian Mafia, and in the second of these games, 2 inspectors. Unfortunately I missed the first of these, as I was playing Scotland Yard at the time. After this, we moved back to Franklin and continued playing. By the time we had finished, dawn had already broken. (This was true on both days.) After the giant games, the number of players was considerably reduced - ie, to 8. The games were still long, though, especially because they stalled so much. A single round with 5 people tends to take a while when nobody has any ideas and everybody is just trying to get the inspector to speak up. In once case, even the first round (random kill) took much too long because Matt repeatedly accused me and made it not so random after all. It's quite possible that at least one of those games took longer than the giant one.
Charles has come up with a neat idea for an Illuminati group: Undead. Special goal is to get enough resistance. Special ability, and this is the really neat part, is the ability to attack to control destroyed groups. Certainly someone you would want to bargain with...
Games of Diplomacy have started, but I haven't had the chance to join any.
-Sniffnoy, who is not the Mafia. Fnord.
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After lecture Friday, we almost immediately started a game of Gnostica, me vs Dan vs Chris vs Steve. Steve dropped out, but he wasn't going to win anyway. As the game ended, Chris had a 8 points and a *very* defensible position. But I pulled off a surprise move with the Chariot, taking 9 points for myself and pushing the only really nearby piece out of the way, and declaring that I would win, despite my ridiculously weak position. It worked, though. I was simply too inaccessible. Especially with nearly all the trump in the trash.
A funny incident: I had the Devil, next to a sword (also controlled by me), next to the High Priestess, on which there sat an enemy. For quite some time I had been deviling indirectly the reorient anyone who took the High Priestess, but in this case I couldn't: my only piece on the sword was already pointing the right way!
On Saturday, Steve went to a game store and bought Scotland Yard, a really great game. One person is Mr. X, and the others are detectives. You move around on this map of part of London, trying to catch Mr. X. But he only reveals his location every 5 moves, and other than that you only have his mode of transport to go on. With his unlimited tickets and mystery tickets and double move tickets, you'd think Mr. X would have the advantage, but he doesn't. In the 6 times we've played, Mr. X has only won once (Mung was Mr. X). Or maybe we're all just sucky Mr. Xs.
Friday was also the Animation Festival (that Friday's Mandatory Fun), in which we would watch bizarre old animations, some actually good. The Animation Festival was held in the basement, using a real movie projector. I arrived late, so I missed the beginning of the first one - about some dwarf trying to make himself taller. Then came Bambi Meets Godzilla (reshown later). It had been shown so many times over the years that the film was getting worn down, unfortunately. There were some other actually entertaining ones, but there was also Dialectical Materialism Interpreted and even Regular Homotopies in the Plane, Part I (contradicting the statement that Mandatory Fun shall be Not Math). There was a Part II as well, but by that time I had left to play Illuminati. We had 8 people, so we split into 2 games of 4 people each. Final power structures to be posted later. Genya, who was Discordia, pulled off a completely surprise win when he played Unmasked and became the UFOs imitating Zurich (Zurich itself was already playing.).
For whatever reason, I started another game, also with 4 players. I should have just left to play Mafia, then, I suppose, but I didn't. Daniel dropped out after a bit, leaving 3 players. I was SubGenius, and finally won in the only way SubGenius can. I had 9 groups, requiring 2 more, and lots of money. And were they to successfully attack me, I would get 10 MB for each one they got rid of. Simply put, strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can ever imagine. They never struck me down, so I won anyway.
And then there was Mafia. Immediately after that game finished, I joined the big Mafia games in the East Lounge. [Editor's note: it was not until after I wrote this that I realized I was conflating Friday night with Saturday night. The giant Mafia games were Saturday, but I did go and play Mafia immediately after the 2 Illuminati games on Friday. I'm too lazy to change it now, though; I'd rather write this instead.] These went until pretty late at night, and then they went even later. In two games, there were so many players that we had separate and competing Italian Mafia and Russian Mafia, and in the second of these games, 2 inspectors. Unfortunately I missed the first of these, as I was playing Scotland Yard at the time. After this, we moved back to Franklin and continued playing. By the time we had finished, dawn had already broken. (This was true on both days.) After the giant games, the number of players was considerably reduced - ie, to 8. The games were still long, though, especially because they stalled so much. A single round with 5 people tends to take a while when nobody has any ideas and everybody is just trying to get the inspector to speak up. In once case, even the first round (random kill) took much too long because Matt repeatedly accused me and made it not so random after all. It's quite possible that at least one of those games took longer than the giant one.
Charles has come up with a neat idea for an Illuminati group: Undead. Special goal is to get enough resistance. Special ability, and this is the really neat part, is the ability to attack to control destroyed groups. Certainly someone you would want to bargain with...
Games of Diplomacy have started, but I haven't had the chance to join any.
-Sniffnoy, who is not the Mafia. Fnord.
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