Today there
was no day game. It was going to be close since Donald and Fulton could
not make the first game. Then Shannon cancelled late last night and
that was it. This game me a chance to go to the movies and see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Mostly I went because I wasn't in the mood to go grocery shopping, so
this was a way to get me to the strip mall. Bought groceries
afterwards, mostly food for the night game.
Apparently Woo didn't get the message that the day game was cancelled
so he showed up at my place. I left my door open in case this happened
but after waiting an hour he went back home. Unfortunately I had
forgotten to take my cell phone to the movie. Probably if I had come
back after the movie he'd have still been there. But the grocery
shopping took a bit too long.
Anyways, I came home. Took a nap. Then I started setting up the big
battle of the day. Takes me an hour or two to set up: getting the right
maps, setting up the buildings, arranging the unit sheets. Donald
arrived just before 19:00. Woo and Fulton at about 19:40. Fulton had
missed the day game because he finally got his new windows installed.
Sweet showed up at 19:45.
Had some food for the guys. Did a little bit of roleplaying before the
battle. Then started the battle. Lots of talking as the characters try
to convince the neutral units to come to their side. Maneuvering as the
two sides close in. A few shots fired but no damage yet. By the end of
the night everybody was close enough that the real fighting will begin
next turn.
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Afterwards
Fulton, Woo and I talked a bit about Diablo. They convinced me to start
putting together Griswold's Legacy. The easiest way is to create the
items you need via upgrading base items, making them magical, then
turning them into set items. But it does take a lot of money. They
suggested I save money by buying a cheaper item to use in a cube
recipe. But the recipe says to use a more expensive item. I'm thinking
the cheaper item substitution is an error.
I tried to run the Gauntlet. Got killed over and over again. The
problem is that there are these narrow corridors where you're bound to
get hit. Getting hit stuns you. While you're trying to come out of stun
you get again and again. You never have a chance to open a portal or
even move. I'm not too sure how you do the Gauntlet. Woo says it's much
easier if you have Teleport. Fulton agrees and says it's too easy with
Teleport. I'll have to see if I can find something that gives me
Teleport, like a ring. Woo also said it takes like half an hour to run
through the Gauntlet. I'm not too sure if I'm ever going to be able to
do it with this character.
Right now I'm running through the Cow Level. Got lucky and opened up
enough of a space so I have room to retreat. My rogue is also fairly
good now, doing enough freezing arrows to slow down the cows so they
can be taken out. Unfortunately, now the rogue is dead and I don't any
money to resurrect her. So I'm just running up to a group of cows then
run away a bit. Let them get close then I hit the lead and run back a
bit and repeat. Use my big hammer so it only takes a couple of hits to
kill a cow. It's a lot of work but it is working. It's going to take me
a long time to finish the level at this rate.
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