demigod double

Last week, we made it to Hesperos 2 again—another down-to-the-wire finish. “Imagine being a sexy vampire and you turn into this,” said newbie.

“Is it really so sexy?” Dante said.

“It's a treatise on what people will do for power,” said numbers.

Then newbie and numbers got into a debate about whether Hesperos 2 qualified as a werewolf (“I refuse to believe it,” said numbers. “There's not one bit of fur on him”). Somehow this discussion did not wipe us. We're just so good at this game.

We’re gradually getting the hang of Akanthai: Act II. Our theory seems completely sound; we just need practice. As for the mechanic afterwards, we still haven’t figured out what’s going on. He jumps to a player and kicks them? And then does a quake that causes massive damage? Sometimes people get hit by two quakes? Also there are eight towers?

It’s going to be a puzzle for another week. We couldn’t meet this weekend because newbie is in Uganda for his sister’s wedding. (It’s just the year where siblings get married. Dante’s sister got married earlier this year. My brother’s getting married in September.) I’m not sure if newbie will back by next weekend, but I’ll be out of town visiting my parents. HGR is annoyed. “I want to play Gloomhaven,” he says.