Monday, July 12, 2021

This will look good on my portfolio

 One four player game of Arkham Horror, third edition.

Investigators were Diana Stanley, the redeemed cultist and Tommy Muldoon the rookie cop, plus Father Mateo and Charlie Kane, the politician.

Scenario was Tyrants of Ruin (the one with Father Dagon and Mother Hydra)

I played the politician, and what an absurd ride it was.

First he becomes the hotel portier, and soon enough was raising four dollars per gather materials action. This allowed for an entire legion of task force members.

Then, he finds a harpoon and derringer. Then he enters police station in hopes of attracting a shotgun for his campaign, but is instead blessed after finding the bunny of a little kid. And he just sat there in the police station, never getting the shotgun but yanking various horrendous monsters from the streets with his harpoon.

But this martial prowess did not end here, oh no. Charlie was after bigger game. 

Father Dagon spawns after investigators find all the required relics.

And Charlie Kane is there to greet the monster.

With his harpoon, dragging the monstrosity from Devil Reef to Falcon Point. 

Thanks to newspapers running out, Mother Hydra spawned right after. Before even finishing Father Dagon, the harpoon was put to good use again when Charlie piled the ancient, massive monsters on top of each other. Then a lightning struck both. The redeemed cultist had tossed lightnings left and right throughout the game, and with the relic book that let her focus lore at the start of each of her turns, those lightnings were a killer.

Father Dagon lay dead, and pursuing Mother Hydra went after the cultist.

The hulking monstrosity laid terror on the ferry landing beyond a body of water, and Charlie Kane brandished his harpoon and threw it to the Hydra from the other shore. And pulled her all the way from Arkham back to Innsmouth. There, he slays Mother Hydra.

If this isn't going to affect next elections, I don't know what will.

Now, Charlie Kane even wasn't the biggest star of the game. Without Father Mateo we would have lost ages ago, as we had plenty of effects that happened with Reckoning. He also prayed off plenty of wanted warrants and tainted conditions.

Diana also removed her fair share of monsters from the board, and what wasn't killed by Diana was mopped up by Tommy Muldoon.

All in all, it was a hilarious game and I don't know if Cthulhu mythos game is supposed to be hilarious. 

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