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Lake Monster
Jan. 29th, 2006 11:30 pmToday's highlight was playing Betrayal at House on the Hill, a newish Avalon Hill board game. It's not very convoluted, for an Avalon Hill game, but then it could use a lot more testing or at least editing. The game has 40 different "betrayals," and some of them make sense, and some don't. Today's did.
The game always starts with (3 - 6) friends exploring a haunted house and becoming more or less speedy, mighty, knowledgeable and sane as a result of their experiences there. Then one of the friends betrays the others.
I didn't really betray my friends. It's just that the lake monster was so big. And the more I fed it, the bigger it grew. I wanted to see how big it could get! But they didn't like that I wanted to feed a girl to the lake monster. Ox felt she was his girl, but anyone could see she was just a red shirt.
Fortunately, I, a mere boy at the start of the exploration, reached puberty during the game (or at least reached a might of 6 after starting with a might of 4), so beat up on Ox quite effectively, although it was quite a bruising experience for me as well. The sea monster ate Jenny, and then the girl I'd thrown into the lake for the lake monster finally drowned, thus ending the game. (The "heroes" were unable to save the girl, which means they lost, which means I won.)
In other news, I returned my expensive books to Fry's Electronics, where Robin spent five times as much on a CPU, so I didn't feel too bad. Then I bought the books more cheaply online for a savings of about $30 or 60%. Of course then I spent way, way more than $30 shopping at Whole Foods. I washed dishes and read. I also got to eat way too much delicious food today. It started off fairly well with a salad of mixed field greens and goat cheese plus a cheesy corn muffin. Then some frozen batter-fried fish with ketchup. Then a bunch of tortilla chips, a vanilla-honey soda, most of a giant cheeseburger cooked on the grill, a tiny finger potato, a bite of asparagus, and a bowl of dark chocolate ice cream.
The game always starts with (3 - 6) friends exploring a haunted house and becoming more or less speedy, mighty, knowledgeable and sane as a result of their experiences there. Then one of the friends betrays the others.
I didn't really betray my friends. It's just that the lake monster was so big. And the more I fed it, the bigger it grew. I wanted to see how big it could get! But they didn't like that I wanted to feed a girl to the lake monster. Ox felt she was his girl, but anyone could see she was just a red shirt.
Fortunately, I, a mere boy at the start of the exploration, reached puberty during the game (or at least reached a might of 6 after starting with a might of 4), so beat up on Ox quite effectively, although it was quite a bruising experience for me as well. The sea monster ate Jenny, and then the girl I'd thrown into the lake for the lake monster finally drowned, thus ending the game. (The "heroes" were unable to save the girl, which means they lost, which means I won.)
In other news, I returned my expensive books to Fry's Electronics, where Robin spent five times as much on a CPU, so I didn't feel too bad. Then I bought the books more cheaply online for a savings of about $30 or 60%. Of course then I spent way, way more than $30 shopping at Whole Foods. I washed dishes and read. I also got to eat way too much delicious food today. It started off fairly well with a salad of mixed field greens and goat cheese plus a cheesy corn muffin. Then some frozen batter-fried fish with ketchup. Then a bunch of tortilla chips, a vanilla-honey soda, most of a giant cheeseburger cooked on the grill, a tiny finger potato, a bite of asparagus, and a bowl of dark chocolate ice cream.