numbers declared Friday night to be a drunk night. We played Fake Artist Goes to New York and Codenames. The most memorable Codenames moment: HGR was spymaster for the opposing team and gave them the clue “ground.” They were like, maybe a pool? You can have a pool in the ground? But they eventually ended up picking something else. Next round, HGR gave them the clue “desiccated.” They considered ice (??) and pool (???) (literally the two least desiccated items on the board) and eventually picked pool. POOL WAS THE ASSASSIN. HGR had a fit and retired from being spymaster forever.
In the final game of the night, numbers and I were the spymasters. numbers had two words left: “tin” and “mole.” I had “cone” (which I had previously hinted at with “spray”), “King Arthur,” “forest,” and “boot.” So I needed a three-word clue for the latter three. After much thought, I went with “Gawain.” (King Arthur is basically free. Gawain and the Green Knight = forest. Also, Gawain wears boots—this is garbage but I could not come up with anything better.) My operatives were newbie and Silver. They got King Arthur + forest, but did not get the boots, so I figured it was over.
numbers, for his clue, wrote “Excadrill.” Tin mole. Such a good clue. I knew it was over.
However, his operatives were Dante and HGR, who know barely anything about pokemon. They got “mole” near-instantly, but spent quite a while debating the properties of Excadrill. He presumably has drills, right? Drills are cone-shaped, right? Despite my squad debating the merits of spray/cone for the past three rounds, they eventually picked “cone.”
So then I was like “foot” and we won. Sheer highway robbery.
On Saturday, we got through reclears surprisingly fast considering how many people were hung over. Then we were back to Athena. Thankfully, the first Trinity of Souls is (mostly) going smoothly. (Wings are fine 90+% of the time. The highest failure point is when the angels are south, and the north squad [that’s us] gets clipped by the initial laser. Gotta stand back a bit.) We’ve figured out Superchain Theory I, and can sometimes execute it sort of cleanly, and are currently puzzling through the “pleasing parallelogram” mechanic.
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