Greetings and salutations and other redundancies. Time to talk about things in blog format. Let’s begin.
I have the feeling that there was something kinda, sorta nifty I wanted to talk about today, but for the life of me, I can’t remember what it is. Weird.
La Crique ö jeux has made it so I no longer loathe Tuesdays. I may even look forward to them a little bit. For now. I’m sure I’ll go back to hating Tuesdays when the group lets out in April. Until then, I’ll just enjoy the ride. I got to try a new game last time called Abyss. It’s a gorgeous game with an underwater fantasy setting. Each turn, a player performs one of three actions: Explore the depths, collect allies or recruit a lord. Exploring the depths will allow players to acquire one ally. Collecting allies will allow a player to take all the allies of one type that were not acquired in previous attempts to explore the depths. Players will use the allies they’ve collected to recruit the lords which are the central focus of the game. Each lord is worth victory points at the end of the game but also give players access to special powers. Lords can also help unlock locations which will affect the scoring at the end of the game. There’s more to it of course, but I don’t mean to write a full review so I’ll stop there and go straight to my thoughts.
As I said, the game is really, really pretty. The artwork had me wanting to play without having any idea of what the game was about. After playing I can say that I enjoyed it, but I don’t know that I’ll add it to my collection. If I could score a cheap copy of it, then maybe I’d consider it, but I’d rather keep my gaming dollars for a game I’m more passionate about, like Star Wars Rebellion. That game has me drooling even though I doubt I’d ever be able to get it to the table. It really has the feel of the computer game of the same name, which I loved.
I finished the last of the Force Awakens mash-ups over the weekend. I think the set will close on a good note. Now I have to come up with a theme for the next set of mash-ups. Maybe I could do a D&D theme. Hmmmm…the ideas are percolating. That’s definitely a keeper but maybe you all have some other ideas? Share them in the comments.
Speaking of The Force Awakens, the movie finally left Biermans, so it looks like my theatre run will end at four viewings unless I go crazy and run up to Trois-Rivieres to see it again.
I’ve begun drawing the final arc of the Bandit Baby story. It’ll start going up in March. After that comes the epilogue I’ve had in mind since the beginning. I estimate that unless this arc takes an unexpected twist that causes me to extend it, the story will conclude sometime in May.
I’m also drawing nearer to the conclusion of the Love Letter story in the main story. Barnaby is due some love so I’ll probably start the story I’ve had planned for him soon after Love Letter is done.
Okay, I’m blogged out. Time to eat some type of food stuff. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.