Good Night, Sweet Burk

Year 8 hunt for Boneyard's Burk-cult was

Survivors had terrible luck at scoring hits or wounds. Sure, most of us needed to roll at least five to wound. The one survivor that was wounding on 2+ was continuously outrun by Screaming Antelope.

And was that devil fast. Cards like Gore and Run Down had the Antelope move three times per turn. That's just too much. More often than not every survivor managed to stay out of Diabolical path, but usually the Antelope was facing in such direction that it just ran out of reach.

There was a Dead Monster on the board, though, so survivors got to start the showdown. Tactics card drawn was Lance Formation, so that rather useless tactic saw use in this showdown. I don't expect to see another Lance Formation use any time soon.

Anyway, Samuel with Counterweighted Axe started in the lance position.

"Burk would be proud" moment was when within the three hits there was already trap.

Such tragicomedy seemed to permeate the beginning of the fight at every turn. Just as survivors had - it was perhaps turn five or six - scored a few wounds in to the beast, it healed back to full with Chow Down. Chow demoralizing.

But Burgette, Samuel, Mal-Mal and Elmoak put up a good fight, though. There was a point where it looked like survivors were slowly but not steadily gaining the upper hand.

And maybe they could have won, but last two cards were Run Down and Stomp. That's a terrifying combination, as Stomp draws additional AI card if it deals damage. So if it did, it was almost guaranteed knock down. Then it would draw Run Down that has +3 speed vs knocked down targets.

Mal-Mal was the last survivor to exist. She had Tough fighting art and Screaming Skirt waist armor. Now, if she only would've had Last Man Standing fighting art to secure victory. But she didn't.

We didn't play the showdown entirely through, because Mal-Mal received Disemboweled injury, so no matter the outcome survivors would lose. On the other hand there were so many horrendous puns throughout the game that maybe... just maybe we deserved to lose.

Settlement event was Haunted.

We had two survivors in the camp. Jessie with broken back and deaf Candice with intracranial hemorrhage. King's Man fight next.

So Jessie was banished from the settlement into the wilderness.

Candice ate Lonely Fruit and died.

Burkyard ended up in ruins in a true Shakespearean style.

But hey, it was fifth lost settlement. First milestone triggered there.