The wife and I played a game of Mansions of Madness: the Yellow Matter scenario from Forbidden Alchemy with me as the Keeper and her playing as two investigators. All the negatives that have been thrown against this game are absolutely true, but I still love it for giving me moments like this:
Jenny Barnes finally made her way past the alien vegetation blocking her entrance to the greenhouse. Inside, she finds Dr. Faust and his fellow cultist, both seeming to suffer from some sort of mutation, performing dark rituals with pieces from a corpse lying beside a blood-stained altar. Jenny tried to kill the cultist but, in her panic, fumbled her handguns to the floor before she could fire a shot. The cultist touched her shoulder, thus passing on his strange mutation. Her skin instantly split and stretched where he touched her. She looked down in horror as she saw a head breach the split in her shoulder. Her horror became blinding terror when she realized that the face on this head was her own. Within a matter of moments, an exact duplicate of Jenny had emerged from her own body -- an exact duplicate apart from an evil yellow glint in her twin's eye. And the axe. Where'd she get that axe?
Dr. Faust, in a panicked stupor, watched Jenny's wounds heal as rapidly as they emerged following this most unnatural birth. Panicked because he was as much a victim as Jenny, having been forced into these abonimable experiments by the Ones in the Yellow Masks. He now began to realize the full scope of what they were heralding into this world... and what they would do to him if he allowed this woman to thwart their plans.
Dr. Faust screamed out an incantation! A fireball appeared in his palm and he hurled it towards Jenny. However, she had somehow regained her wits enough to dive out of its path. The fireball burst against the wall of the greenhouse behind her, and quickly spread into an inferno.
And now I'm tired of writing out the narrative, but the errant fireball lit the greenhouse on fire, destroying the corpse used for the ritual, killing the mutated cultist and Jenny's evil twin, and injuring Dr. Faust before he was able to exit the room. Jenny was able to exit the room unharmed, but two turns later she succumbed to her mutation and died. A victory for the Keeper. We set up another scenario but didn't end up playing again, so it'll sit on the dining room table until we have time. Hopefully the cat doesn't decide to play Godzilla on it.
I also played a few more solo games of Mage Knight. I'm now going through the rulebooks to make myself a personal FAQ of rules that I seem to have a hard time remembering, but I now feel comfortable playing the game with relatively few glances at the rulebook. And four more solo games of Pandemic, this time with variants from the expansion.
Jenny Barnes finally made her way past the alien vegetation blocking her entrance to the greenhouse. Inside, she finds Dr. Faust and his fellow cultist, both seeming to suffer from some sort of mutation, performing dark rituals with pieces from a corpse lying beside a blood-stained altar. Jenny tried to kill the cultist but, in her panic, fumbled her handguns to the floor before she could fire a shot. The cultist touched her shoulder, thus passing on his strange mutation. Her skin instantly split and stretched where he touched her. She looked down in horror as she saw a head breach the split in her shoulder. Her horror became blinding terror when she realized that the face on this head was her own. Within a matter of moments, an exact duplicate of Jenny had emerged from her own body -- an exact duplicate apart from an evil yellow glint in her twin's eye. And the axe. Where'd she get that axe?
Dr. Faust, in a panicked stupor, watched Jenny's wounds heal as rapidly as they emerged following this most unnatural birth. Panicked because he was as much a victim as Jenny, having been forced into these abonimable experiments by the Ones in the Yellow Masks. He now began to realize the full scope of what they were heralding into this world... and what they would do to him if he allowed this woman to thwart their plans.
Dr. Faust screamed out an incantation! A fireball appeared in his palm and he hurled it towards Jenny. However, she had somehow regained her wits enough to dive out of its path. The fireball burst against the wall of the greenhouse behind her, and quickly spread into an inferno.
And now I'm tired of writing out the narrative, but the errant fireball lit the greenhouse on fire, destroying the corpse used for the ritual, killing the mutated cultist and Jenny's evil twin, and injuring Dr. Faust before he was able to exit the room. Jenny was able to exit the room unharmed, but two turns later she succumbed to her mutation and died. A victory for the Keeper. We set up another scenario but didn't end up playing again, so it'll sit on the dining room table until we have time. Hopefully the cat doesn't decide to play Godzilla on it.
I also played a few more solo games of Mage Knight. I'm now going through the rulebooks to make myself a personal FAQ of rules that I seem to have a hard time remembering, but I now feel comfortable playing the game with relatively few glances at the rulebook. And four more solo games of Pandemic, this time with variants from the expansion.
before heading home for much needed sleep.