Skirmishes in the Dark : 19-01-2010

19th January, of the year 2010, Paradigm Infinitum.

Too much work (watching Full Metal Alchemist 6 times (8 now...) can be a little tiring), plus quite a bit of iPhoning leads to be arriving at the store late. By the time I got there the game had started. But the night was still young and soon many more players streamed in to the store and I actually got to have 3 games and still had no need to take a cab home~

Game 1

Randomized seating as below -

My Art of Shadows deck, bleeding

Ben Chia's Cock Robin deck, bleeding

Jeff's Malkavian Guns, bleeding

Keith's Asylum deck.

This is a most sad day for my Lasombras, evidenced in the extreme bad hand that I've drawn (7 stealth cards...). On the other hand, every discard phase brought me a really good replacement. I soon had Antonio Delgardo and Ignatio on the table, since I drawn a Zillah's Valley after I discarded my first Shadow Play, and managed to draw into a DOM master card to make Ignation my Deflector.

The game turned down stream from that point onward.

Keith soon got his deck set up, with 5 Vampires, of which 2, or 3, had superior NEC, and then he slapped 2 Mental Patience on the table, plus a Gregory Winters. I had zero combat cards. I made a very complicated deal with Ben to allow me to recruit Mylan Horseed, whom presence protected my vampires for about 1 round before he was sent to oblivion via a Chair of Hades (now this IS rare).

I did hurt Ben quite a bit with my KRC, and my final 5 point bleed got bounced around until it hit Keith... but all 3 of my vampires fell prey to repeated Compel-ed Mental Patients' aggravated attacks, and I was the first to be ousted.

Meanwhile, Ben was having a great time fighting with Jeff's Malkavians, whom had quite a bit of issue with the Mental Patients too. Zoe and Dana, though supplemented with guns, somehow didn't have enough firepower to punch through Keith's mad defenses. Even Lucian's presence in his entourage did not deal much damage to Keith. In return, Dana was sent into torpor by Ben's POT attacks, and Lucian eventually fell prey to the patients.

Ben eventually ousted Jeff, but I couldn't remember much after that, I think I went around to get the several new Black Library books at that point~ I did had 3 vampires burnt by Gregory Winters and a Mylan Horseed disposed by Chair of Hades... it was quite a sad day for the Lasombras~

Game 2

Randomized seating as below -

My (again) Art of Pain deck, bleeding

G1's Nosferatu vote, bleeding

Shermen (welcome!)'s vote deck, bleeding

Ben Sum's !Toreador Vote, bleeding

YY's Kiasyd bleed.

My deck didn't have a chance against a dedicated bleeder like YY. Bringing out Greta Kircher, I struggle to keep myself alive. Didn't draw into Telepathic Misdirection, but instead have a whole hand of combat and bleed, my life was pretty short in this game too... I relied on Telepathic Counter and Greta's ability to reduce the bleeds, but YY bounced many of Ben's Aired bleeds to me. Having only one single vampire, I soon succumbed to the consistent attacks.

G1 did Deep Song YY's Quincy to keep me alive for a lot longer than I otherwise could, but my defense and G1's attack, plus Ben's occasional KRC damaged YY enough that he was the second one to be ousted after I was gone. G1 then obviously was in a really good position, and he eventually gotten rid of Shermen and Ben.

Final VP count -

G1 - 3 VP plus GW

YY - 1 VP

Ben - 1 VP

Game 3

To be continued...