26th March, in the year 2010, Paradigm Infinitum.
Popping by to play some Vtes, and we were lucky that we had a table free for it, despite heavy playing going on for Warhammer Fantasy and Warmachine, no to mention the release of Blood Angel Codex. Still, enough players were interested to play Vtes, and I managed to be involved in 2 games.
Randomized seating for Game 1
Jeff's Unnamed Baali, bleeding
Ben's Shattering Daughters, bleeding
My Beautiful Eyes, bleeding
Bann's Aabbt Kindreds, bleeding
Patrick's !Ventrue vote/bleed.
Sitting beneath Ben's Shattering Daughters is never a good thing, and very stressful. You never know when the Daughters are going to release their voice at you and send all your vampires back to the basement to recuperate their hearing. Because of that, I was careful in the early game, bringing out only Monique Kim and slowly preparing my uncontrolled region with the Wider View, making sure that I have fat vampires rather than my small ones, since I know the small ones will attract attention right from the beginning.
And it worked! Jeff's Unnamed attacked Ben vigorously, and a 5-point bleed signed her own death sentence, especially after she was Villeined down to 5 blood. Ben influenced Hillanvale and Scout Youngwood, eventually supported by Janet Langer. And their combined voice, stored in 3 Storage Annex, sent both the Unnamed and the newly influenced Abdelsobek into torpor.
Meanwhile, my prey was busy influencing up to 4 Aabtts, Nefertiti was brought out somewhere between the appearance of 3rd or 4th Snake. After that the snakes did a lot of Temptation on themselves, and had a intercept location to make my life difficult (I forgot which one, but it was not Channel 10).
Buying time I sent Monique to rescue the Unnamed, and then finally brought out Ondine Sinclair. Her +1 Strength a deterrent to the Aabbts. I started blocking the Daughter's attacks and was blessed with good intercept cards. Despite Scout's help the Daughters couldn't generate anything more than 3 to overcome my Quicken Sights and other Intercept cards. With that I sent 2 of the 3 Daughters into torpor.
Meanwhile, Patrick, in order to call forth a KRC, made a deal with Ben not to oust him before he gets his VP - namely, ousting me. With that, the !Ventrue's bleeds and votes finally ousted Jeff. Meanwhile, I was lucky to stealth through my Social Charm in a Palla Grande to Bann's final 3 pool with a Earth Control, and successfully ousted him. With the pool that I've gained from the ousting and the Wider Views, I proceeded to bring out Redbone.
With my intercepts in place Ben couldn't do much against me except sending Monique into torpor with a Shattering that got through. Meanwhile I sent all 3 of his Daughters into torpor with successful blocks with Claws of the Dead or combat. Taking the Rack from Patrick and slapped a Homunculus and a Sports Bike on him, I relied on him to handle most of the enemy actions.
Patrick honored the deal to the final hours, even though Ben released his obligation from it, and did not oust Ben despite him having no defenders and only 1 pool. I eventually go through Patrick and gain the table.
Final VP Count
Me - 4 VPs plus GW
Patrick - 1 VP
Randomized seating for Game 2
Ben's Baali Bleed, bleeding
Bann's Rabbat, bleeding
Kenneth's Nosferatu, bleeding
Jeff's Unnamed Baali, bleeding
My Army of Shadows.
Baali on top and Baali below. Mmm. With the help of a Zillah's Valley I brought out Gratiano on turn 1, and after that dominated the vote scene throughout the game. An aggressive early bleed plus speedy influence of both Ramiro and Ignacio, plus a DOM-enabled Creation Rites, I was able to put a lot of pressure on Ben's Baali.
Meanwhile, Jeff's Baali encountered a lot of issue from the Nosferatu stealth bleeder, who also did a lot of combat damage with Crows and Bats. With not a lot of pressure from my predator I managed to both vote and bleed my prey to death in no time.
But Bann put forth a Constant Revolution. And nobody actually thought of getting rid of it. Soon everybody was dropping cards. Jeff was ousted by Kenneth very soon, and I got into a lot of trouble fighting with the Nosferatu's stealth bleeds.
With most of the blood on my vampires gone, thanks to powering up to go through Ben, I was pretty defenseless. It took a long time and everybody's deck was depleted. Bann decided that he couldn't handle me and would let Kenneth do it instead. With 1 pool left, Kenneth was left with 2 cards in his library and I had 5 pool. He needed 2 Deep Songs in order to kill me. Bann decided to take the risk and let Kenneth had his turn.
Kenneth drew 2 Deep Songs...
Final VP Count
Bann - 2 VPs
Kenneth - 2 VPs
Me - 1 VP
(o.o)
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