Have You Got It In You?

Good evening my friend. I've been spending the day playing board games. Earlier my brother and his wife were here and we played a game of Robinson Crusoe. This was excellent and fun - I loved it! After they left I opened up Pandemic (which I bought for myself) and played a game. I narrowly won but had discovered after the game that I had sort of cheated. Oh well, haha. I played it a bit more like how you play another game by Matt Leacock called Forbidden Island.

After that I pulled out Betrayal at House on the Hill. Oh man, was this a fun thematic game. I started the game with a high school football player and two kids going into this creepy house alone. I had set it up in my mind that it was some horrible babysitting gig and that the football player had gotten lost - or maybe he had loured these poor kids here to play a sinister prank on them, maybe worse? Only time would tell.

You see, in Betrayal at House on the Hill play begins as a cooperative game so all of the players work together. Near the middle of the game something called The Haunt happens and one of the other players betrays the others and the game usually ends in someone's horrific death. It's a great representation of B horror movies.

At any rate, in the beginning my unsuspecting characters explored this mysterious mansion, uncovering rooms and gaining items. A lot of terrible things happened before The Haunt even started. The house shook, the wind howled, and my characters were starting to lose their sanity and physical powers. Then about midway through the game, my football playing creep of an investigator found a creepy book that gave instructions on how to summon a demon lord.

He made his way swiftly through the house using an enchanted elevator to the chapel where he summoned the demon lord. He should have been wary, though, because the demon lord immediately slayed him and started to hunt down the poor children. Peter, the boy, was nearby and took the enchanted elevator across the house to where the girl was exploring. They rallied together and found some weapons, then took the elevator around the house, running from the demon lord until they could sneak in the chapel where the evil book lay.

The girl (whose name I can't remember) grabbed the book and ran back to the elevator before the demon lord could get back to it. In a hurry, the two children took the elevator throughout the house until they managed to find the furnace room, where they threw the book into the flames, silencing away the demon forever.

I was absolutely shocked that the children ended up getting out alive. As soon as the football player turned traitor, his stats maxed out practically, making him remarkably stronger than either. The demon lord was also incredibly strong, though not as fast as the two children.

After that I played a quick game of Elder Sign with the Unseen Forces expansion. I played in anticipation of the Gates of Arkham expansion coming out in the next few months. Who's excited? This guy.

I wanted to play a game of Arkham Horror with the new King in Yellow expansion that I got for Christmas, but it's getting late and I don't know if that would be a good idea.... but I could at least set it up.

I hope you have a great night, my friend. I'm off to game some more!

Thank You For Finding Me, and Thank You For the Care

Hey there, friend.

Well, National Novel Writing Month is over with now and I can get on with other parts of my life. I did relatively well, finishing two thirds of the goal in the alotted time.

Aside from that, life goes on. Work goes well. I haven't been sleeping all that well, but that's a whole seperate blog topic.

I've really been liking what I've been seeing from the new Into the Woods movie. It's been one of my favorite broadway shows for many years now, and I'm thrilled about the attention that it's getting. I had been worried several months ago, as details started to emerge about it. Certain scenes that I am rather fond of in the musical were deemed too inappropriate for a Disney movie. I can understand that, I just wish it wasn't necessary. If it's done the way it often is on stage, children probably wouldn't get that it's inappropriate in the first place.

Who knows, though? I don't make movies, I just comment on them.

In other news, I still haven't gotten my Christmas decorations up. It's very unusual for me, usually I start to go crazy around the first of November, packing away my Halloween things and getting my Christmas decorations out. I'll have to get on that as Christmas is creeping closer. I think I have most of my presents picked out, but I haven't bought very many of them.

Well, friend, I think I'm going to sign off here. Have a great night and stay warm until I talk with you again.