Ack! Every day I go without internet access, I forget more things I intend to blog...
So yesterday was the picnic. They announced it during lecture, but they didn't do the "Something not math" skit, until Xiao stood up and shouted "We demand the skit!" At which point they tried it and totally screwed it up.
Before the picnic, though, was Mafia! And before that was a game of So Long, Sucker, me vs Eric (Stansifer, the first year, not Frackleton; from now on I'll mean him whenever I say "Eric" unless I specify otherwise) vs Chris vs Steve. At first there's something of an alliance between me and Eric and between Chris and Steve. This dissolves quickly. Eventually Steve is reduced to 2 chips and there is talk of eliminating him. I'm weak compared to Chris or Eric, so I figure it is better to help Steve and have an ally. However, there's not much I can do. Eventually Steve is eliminated. Now it's Chris and me against Eric, as Eric is clearly the most powerful.
Then! Eric makes a stupid and suicidal move, reducing himself to 2 chips. I'm nearly out, and I make a deal with Chris - he'll use one of his red chips to capture a pile for me, and I'll give him some of the prisoners. This was the sort of deal we'd been making all game, and always, the person who took the chips followed through. But I took the chips, looked at Eric's 2 chips, looked at Chris's 2 chips, and, at the urging of Etienne, decided it would be to my definite advantage to just keep all of them.
Not long after, I win.
Then mafia. Including one of the craziest defenses I'd ever seen. The inspector reveals himself and tells us that Ian is mafia and that (everyone else except Lucas and Svetlana) is innocent. So we kill Ian, he's mafia, the inspector dies during the night. Now to kill Lucas or Clara. Lucas keeps saying we should kill Svetlana first. Suspicious, but we do it, as we know we're going to win anyway. Now it's down to Xiao, Clara, and Lucas - and immediately Lucas accuses Xiao! What he's saying is a bit unclear; he's certainly saying the inspector was lying, though. Amazingly, Clara does not immediately finger out Lucas; she stalls. We're shocked, and wonder what she could possibly be thinking. Eventually she says Lucas is mafia, townspeople win, and Clara tells us she just wanted to see more of Lucas's crazy defense.
My razor came yesterday, too, but that wasn't the only thing in the box...
That's right, packing peanuts! You can guess what I did with those.
So of course at the picnic people started trying to steal them, and finally Josh did so. Then Rebbecca stole them from him. And then I never got them back, though I tried a few times. :(
During one of my attempts to get them back, Avi came up and stuffed a sandwich down the back of my shirt.
After a lot of confusion, it was decided that anything Avi put down my shirt, he would then have to eat. The sandwich was still in its wrapper and thus theoretically clean, but it wasn't kosher. So we decided anything *else* Avi stuffed down my shirt, he would have to eat.
Strangely, he later put a spoon down my shirt. He didn't eat it.
Also at the picnic, Dustin and Amanda climbed a tree and stayed up there for a long time. Then they started playing catch with people on the ground. It was pretty strange.
So that night we played Illuminati - me, Josh, Rebbecca, Mung, Eric, and Chris. The game started about 19:00 and went till 1:30. 6½ hours. We played with the income bonus for Cthulhu, but without Knights Templar. Rebbecca was Zurich, and everybody kept trying to arrange a trade to win with her. At one point Josh, Rebecca, and Chris all tried (or rather, succeeded) to win together, at which point we got into a fierce argument over whether it's half the players can't win together, or a majority can't win together. As this is not an actual rule, the rulebook didn't help. Eventually it was decided that since a bunch of people thought it was half, it was half, and the win was invalid. And so the game continued. After that everyone kept trying to win with Rebbecca, or, rather, everyone was close to doing so (except me, because I had very little money), and was trying to stop everyone else from doing so. It ended when an incredibly complicated set of deals resulted in Chris being stopped, Mung being Stopped, and Josh being stopped - so of course *Eric* went and won with Rebbecca.
At one point Josh guessed that Chris had Unmasked, and Chris admitted that he did. He was Bermuda and had no transferable power save his initial 8, so we forced him to change to the Network.
Now for today.
Today started with breakfast, as days normally do, except today I had a hamburger for breakfast, seeing how officially that was lunch.
After that was a game of Gnostica, me vs Chris vs Dan Rubin. This was the first time I have ever seen anyone win by elimination in a game of Gnostica with more than 2 players; Dan made a very stupid attempt at victory, and then, well, so did I. Well, not so stupid as Dan's. Dan's was really stupid. He didn't even have 9 points at the time. Yes, he could get 9 points on his next turn, but not if we were both trying to stop him! As for mine, well, my normally thorough checks to make sure I must win (barring the possibility of anyone using the Fool; I don't really bother to account for that)... well, I wasn't quite thorough enough, and I was eliminated, and Chris won.
Then Munchkin - me vs Chris vs Eric vs Steve vs ... bleh, who *was* the fifth player? I don't really remember much about it, except of course the Enraged Brood of Mr. Boneses. At the end, everyone was at level 9. Eric drew a monster and would probably have beaten it and won, but Steve insisted that he be allowed to help. (Steve was an Elf.) And he could do this, because if Eric didn't let Steve help, he would use his transferal potion and fight the monster himself. Why he didn't do this anyway, I don't know; he had the raincoat, so nobody could use potions against him, and really, most other things had been used up in earlier attacks anyway. Still, Steve helped, and won with Eric.
During the game, Dan, who wasn't playing, kept insisting we stop and go eat dinner. We told him to go eat dinner, nothing's stopping him. He finally did, but it took him a long time. ODan was also there, but he was actually watching.
I've managed to get Xiao to act scared whenever someone points at him and shouts "PROBABILITY!".
After dinner (which we missed), several people started a game of Illuminati. I wanted to play Crimelords; I managed to get Chris, and Steve but we needed a fourh. I managed to get Etienne to play.
The game was over before it even started. See, in Crimelords, the game starts with an auction, to see who starts with what.
At first Etienne wasn't taking anything. But we were bidding too much, and soon were reduced to very little money - at which point Etienne started taking *everything*.
Way more rackets than crooks were drawn; bad shuffling, perhaps? Regardless, with us helpless, Etienne got 10 rackets, enough to win, before the actual game started. Had it started, he would have probably crushed us anyway.
And that about catches me up to the present. Aren't weekends great?
-Sniffnoy
--
"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle
class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."
-George W. Bush
So yesterday was the picnic. They announced it during lecture, but they didn't do the "Something not math" skit, until Xiao stood up and shouted "We demand the skit!" At which point they tried it and totally screwed it up.
Before the picnic, though, was Mafia! And before that was a game of So Long, Sucker, me vs Eric (Stansifer, the first year, not Frackleton; from now on I'll mean him whenever I say "Eric" unless I specify otherwise) vs Chris vs Steve. At first there's something of an alliance between me and Eric and between Chris and Steve. This dissolves quickly. Eventually Steve is reduced to 2 chips and there is talk of eliminating him. I'm weak compared to Chris or Eric, so I figure it is better to help Steve and have an ally. However, there's not much I can do. Eventually Steve is eliminated. Now it's Chris and me against Eric, as Eric is clearly the most powerful.
Then! Eric makes a stupid and suicidal move, reducing himself to 2 chips. I'm nearly out, and I make a deal with Chris - he'll use one of his red chips to capture a pile for me, and I'll give him some of the prisoners. This was the sort of deal we'd been making all game, and always, the person who took the chips followed through. But I took the chips, looked at Eric's 2 chips, looked at Chris's 2 chips, and, at the urging of Etienne, decided it would be to my definite advantage to just keep all of them.
Not long after, I win.
Then mafia. Including one of the craziest defenses I'd ever seen. The inspector reveals himself and tells us that Ian is mafia and that (everyone else except Lucas and Svetlana) is innocent. So we kill Ian, he's mafia, the inspector dies during the night. Now to kill Lucas or Clara. Lucas keeps saying we should kill Svetlana first. Suspicious, but we do it, as we know we're going to win anyway. Now it's down to Xiao, Clara, and Lucas - and immediately Lucas accuses Xiao! What he's saying is a bit unclear; he's certainly saying the inspector was lying, though. Amazingly, Clara does not immediately finger out Lucas; she stalls. We're shocked, and wonder what she could possibly be thinking. Eventually she says Lucas is mafia, townspeople win, and Clara tells us she just wanted to see more of Lucas's crazy defense.
My razor came yesterday, too, but that wasn't the only thing in the box...
That's right, packing peanuts! You can guess what I did with those.
So of course at the picnic people started trying to steal them, and finally Josh did so. Then Rebbecca stole them from him. And then I never got them back, though I tried a few times. :(
During one of my attempts to get them back, Avi came up and stuffed a sandwich down the back of my shirt.
After a lot of confusion, it was decided that anything Avi put down my shirt, he would then have to eat. The sandwich was still in its wrapper and thus theoretically clean, but it wasn't kosher. So we decided anything *else* Avi stuffed down my shirt, he would have to eat.
Strangely, he later put a spoon down my shirt. He didn't eat it.
Also at the picnic, Dustin and Amanda climbed a tree and stayed up there for a long time. Then they started playing catch with people on the ground. It was pretty strange.
So that night we played Illuminati - me, Josh, Rebbecca, Mung, Eric, and Chris. The game started about 19:00 and went till 1:30. 6½ hours. We played with the income bonus for Cthulhu, but without Knights Templar. Rebbecca was Zurich, and everybody kept trying to arrange a trade to win with her. At one point Josh, Rebecca, and Chris all tried (or rather, succeeded) to win together, at which point we got into a fierce argument over whether it's half the players can't win together, or a majority can't win together. As this is not an actual rule, the rulebook didn't help. Eventually it was decided that since a bunch of people thought it was half, it was half, and the win was invalid. And so the game continued. After that everyone kept trying to win with Rebbecca, or, rather, everyone was close to doing so (except me, because I had very little money), and was trying to stop everyone else from doing so. It ended when an incredibly complicated set of deals resulted in Chris being stopped, Mung being Stopped, and Josh being stopped - so of course *Eric* went and won with Rebbecca.
At one point Josh guessed that Chris had Unmasked, and Chris admitted that he did. He was Bermuda and had no transferable power save his initial 8, so we forced him to change to the Network.
Now for today.
Today started with breakfast, as days normally do, except today I had a hamburger for breakfast, seeing how officially that was lunch.
After that was a game of Gnostica, me vs Chris vs Dan Rubin. This was the first time I have ever seen anyone win by elimination in a game of Gnostica with more than 2 players; Dan made a very stupid attempt at victory, and then, well, so did I. Well, not so stupid as Dan's. Dan's was really stupid. He didn't even have 9 points at the time. Yes, he could get 9 points on his next turn, but not if we were both trying to stop him! As for mine, well, my normally thorough checks to make sure I must win (barring the possibility of anyone using the Fool; I don't really bother to account for that)... well, I wasn't quite thorough enough, and I was eliminated, and Chris won.
Then Munchkin - me vs Chris vs Eric vs Steve vs ... bleh, who *was* the fifth player? I don't really remember much about it, except of course the Enraged Brood of Mr. Boneses. At the end, everyone was at level 9. Eric drew a monster and would probably have beaten it and won, but Steve insisted that he be allowed to help. (Steve was an Elf.) And he could do this, because if Eric didn't let Steve help, he would use his transferal potion and fight the monster himself. Why he didn't do this anyway, I don't know; he had the raincoat, so nobody could use potions against him, and really, most other things had been used up in earlier attacks anyway. Still, Steve helped, and won with Eric.
During the game, Dan, who wasn't playing, kept insisting we stop and go eat dinner. We told him to go eat dinner, nothing's stopping him. He finally did, but it took him a long time. ODan was also there, but he was actually watching.
I've managed to get Xiao to act scared whenever someone points at him and shouts "PROBABILITY!".
After dinner (which we missed), several people started a game of Illuminati. I wanted to play Crimelords; I managed to get Chris, and Steve but we needed a fourh. I managed to get Etienne to play.
The game was over before it even started. See, in Crimelords, the game starts with an auction, to see who starts with what.
At first Etienne wasn't taking anything. But we were bidding too much, and soon were reduced to very little money - at which point Etienne started taking *everything*.
Way more rackets than crooks were drawn; bad shuffling, perhaps? Regardless, with us helpless, Etienne got 10 rackets, enough to win, before the actual game started. Had it started, he would have probably crushed us anyway.
And that about catches me up to the present. Aren't weekends great?
-Sniffnoy
--
"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle
class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."
-George W. Bush
