Episode 14: Bezaliel the Apostate

General GTG Events
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Apostate was Throat Jabbed, which is why he didn't do damage

 

Wraith

HP: 12

Hand:  Suture Selfx2,  Inventory Barrage, Combat Stance, Grappling Hook, Infared Eyepiece, Throat Jab, Smoke Bombs

In play: Infared Eyepiece, Utility Belt, Razor Ordinance, Throwing Knives, Micro Targeting Computer

Trash: Grappling Hook, Trust Fund, Mega Computerx2, Inventory Barrage, Impromptu Invetionx2, Stun Bolt, Throat Jab, MicroTargeting Computer

Additional effects:

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Start of hero turn:

Play a card: Throat Jab Apostate for 2 (11)

Use a power: Razor Ordinance Gauntelet of Perdition (dead).  Throwing Knives Relic Spirit (6), Apostate (8), and Ethereal Bonds (6)

Draw a card: Stun Bolt

End of hero turn:

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HP: 12

Hand:  Suture Selfx2,  Inventory Barrage, Combat Stance, Grappling Hook, Infared Eyepiece, Throat Jab, Smoke Bombs, Stun Bolt

In play: Infared Eyepiece, Utility Belt, Razor Ordinance, Throwing Knives, Micro Targeting Computer

Trash: Grappling Hook, Trust Fund, Mega Computerx2, Inventory Barrage, Impromptu Invetionx2, Stun Bolt, Throat Jabx2, MicroTargeting Computer

Additional effects: All Projectile Damage dealt by Wraith is +2.  Apostate cannot deal damage until the start of Wraith's next turn

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"No more toys.  No more sword.  Just you, me, and my crowbars."

Mister Fixer

HP: 9

Hand:   Riveting Crane; Riveting Crane; Pipe Wrench; Harmony

In play:  Dual Crowbars, Grease Monkey Fist; 

Trash:  Bloody Knuckles; Overdrive; Salvage Yard; Meditation; Grease Monkey Fist

Additional effects:

 

Start of hero turn: 

Play a card:  Harmony.

Use a power: Strike--deals net 4 radiant damage to Apostate [4] and net 4 radiant damage to Ethereal Bonds [2]

Draw a card: Overdrive

End of hero turn:

 

HP: 9

Hand: Riveting Crane, Driving Mantis; Pipe Wrench; Overdrive

In play: Grease Monkey Fist, Dual Crowbars, Harmony

Trash: Bloody Knuckles; Overdrive; Salvage Yard; Meditation; Grease Monkey Fist

Additional effects:  

 

At the risk of dictating final turns:  if Scholar double-draws and Fanatic plays Final Dive, we win.  Shall we call the game there?

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Perhaps, but then Silverleaf was reeaally looking forward to that Final Dive :P

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Carry on, then.  Final Dive away! ;)

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"Hit him hard! I'll deal with this miscreant."

HP: 18

Hand: Flesh to Iron, Solid to Liquid, Keep Moving, Know When to Turn Loose, Don't Dismiss Anything

In play: Mortal Form to Energy, Flesh to Iron

Trash: Grace Under Fire, Keep Moving (2), Flesh to Iron, Alchemical Redirection, Expect the Worst, Transmutive Recovery

Additional effects:  Whenever The Scholar regains HP, The Scholar also deals 1 target that much energy damage. Reduce damage dealt to the Scholar by 2.

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Start of hero turn: Discard Know When to Turn Loose and Don't Dismiss Anything to maintain Mortal Form to Energy and Flesh to Iron

Play a card:

  • Keep Moving - take Solid to Liquid from the deck and put it into play
  • Play Solid to Liquid

Use a power: Better Living - heal 3 HP [21]; deal 3 energy damage to Ethereal Bonds[disintegrated]

Draw a card: Keep Moving

End of hero turn:

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HP: 21

Hand: Flesh to Iron, Keep Moving

In play: Mortal Form to Energy, Flesh to Iron, Solid to Liquid (2)

Trash: Grace Under Fire, Keep Moving (3), Flesh to Iron, Alchemical Redirection, Expect the Worst, Transmutive Recovery, Know When to Turn Loose, Don't Dismiss Anything

Additional effects:  Whenever The Scholar regains HP, increase the amount regained by 2 and also deal 1 target that much energy damage. Reduce damage dealt to the Scholar by 2.

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Oh yes!

Excuse me from copy-pasting everything, but you know what's going to happen.

Final Dive + Periapt of Woe + Apostate = WIN!

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Final Dive recieves:

10.10.10

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VICTORY! :D

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Huzzah! Nice game everyone. Thanks for running it BlueHairedMeerkat (I thought about acronymizing that BHM, but am avoiding unnecessary abbreviations).

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Wow, that dive even got a ten from the German judge.

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I love reading these things.  Thank you all for playing, and allowing us to share.

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Sure thing, Grey Squirrel. :wink:

Completely irrelevant, but I once mispronounced "squirrel" as "squiggle" and have been calling them squiggles ever since. To the point where when I saw your name I was trying to work out why you'd put an R in squiggle and leave out the G.

Thanks for the game, everone! It was fun. And thanks for putting up with my idiocy. :wink:

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You are assuming, of course, that it isn't Gary the Squirrel (it isn't).

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I honestly have made a great effort to be nice inspite of the whole squirrel thing.  I have no problem with other squirrels, but a grey squirrel once chewed a hole through our apartment screen and ate my entire plate of peanut butter cookies that my wife made me for my birthday.

Broke them all to pieces and was dragging the pieces out through the screen when we got home.  Our landlord didn't believe the story and we had to pay for the screen.

One day I'll find that squirrel, and this time I won't just freak out and scream a lot.  Next time I'll call it names.

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Call it Gary. They hate that!

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I like squirrels.  That is all.

I originally thought this poster was "Grisqyrle" or some such, and that the last part at least was a compressed and metamorphized variant of "{something}'s Girl" (there being generally no way to know a poster's gender unless they self-identify).  I can no longer fully reconstruct my first impressions of the name, but I assure you they were hilarious.  (The lazy comic's ideal strategy: assure everyone that you're usually much funnier than this and hope they buy it.  I can only presume Dane Cook and Daniel tosh employ this method routinely.)

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Is it bad that I hadn't made the connection between the name grysqrl and the picture of a grey squirrel?

(Also, I do that too. Squiggle is a much cooler word than squirrel :D)

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I've got to say:  this specific game was a lot of fun for me. 

Back at the beginning, I was utterly astounded at Apostate's first turn and I was ready to write off our chances very quickly.  But, great play is great play--it makes a hard-fought victory all the more awesome!