Happy Saturnalia On December 25, 13:00 eight of us started playing Kagematsu. The samurai was played by my wife, Claudia – most people did not know what to expect and there was some gasping and yelping when the game rules and objective were revealed. Good fun was had by all, even when Kagematsu suffered a terrible defeat at the end, mostly because my character decided to flee, leaving six dies of Fear behind…
We hat some Döner, Pizza and whatever else could be had in the vicinity (since cookies, M&Ms, Stollen, chips don’t make a good dinner) and started playing the Mountain Witch. We used super-hero like ronins: One could turn into a dragon and breathe fire, one could fly and turn into stone, one could turn invisible, one had Amaterasu’s sun sword on him, etc. The beginning of the game was slow and boring, but apparently mostly because I was slow on the uptake. When I started pushing for dark fates, at least half the players claimed to clearly know what was going on. Ok, I soldiered on. As we reached the castle, a sudden flurry of violence errupted. There was fighting, there was backstabbing, the was a killing innocents, vengeful help from dead player characters and a final showdown of one player character and the witch king vs. the two remaining player characters (three other player characters having been killed before). The two remaining player characters won – he who was afraid of sleep and she who had entered a sinister allegiance…
By now it was near midnight and two players had to leave. The five of us decided to play one more thing and a few minutes after midnight we started two hour delve into *The Spire of Iron and Crystal* using Swords & Wizardry. It was good fun, they made it out alive of the first level, the dwarf had reached the second level via teleportation for a few moments, they had looted the gems of the crystal tree and collected the coins lying around in the slitherrats’ lair – total points awarded: 1300 for two hours of play.
There was some cleaning up to do and I think it I head the 4:00 bells before falling asleep at last. 😄
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Happy Saturnalia to you too!
– Harald 2011-12-26 14:32 UTC
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I had a great time! Thanks for hosting. And special thanks to Claudia for gracefully handling Takemasu, without notice and despite suboptimal health! I seriously underestimated the amount of work neccessary. Sorry for that
– Lior 2011-12-27 14:22 UTC
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That sounds like a blast, I am jealous 😄
– Adrian 2011-12-27 17:49 UTC
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I missed you! :D
– Alex Schroeder 2011-12-28 09:59 UTC
