Wouldn't Impale be more useful? It's not like we're in any shortage of ways to kill off Citizens when we want to…
“I just hope we don’t run into those damn Swinging Blades now,” Ra mutters to himself as they round another corner.
Ra
HP: 10
Hand: Flame Barrier, Drawn to the Flame, Solar Flare
In play:
Trash: Flame Spike (x2), The Staff of Ra, Scorched Earth, Wrathful Gaze, Imbued Fire
Additional effects:
[hr]
Start of hero turn:
Play a card: Flame Barrier
Use a power: Pyre against Citizen Dawn in frustration.
Draw a card: Scorched Earth
End of hero turn:
[hr]
HP: 10
Hand: Drawn to the Flame, Solar Flare, Scorched Earth
In play: Flame Barrier
Trash: Flame Spike (x2), The Staff of Ra, Scorched Earth, Wrathful Gaze, Imbued Fire
Additional effects:
"Where did I put that tennis racket?" John wondered as he ran down the hallway...
The Scholar
HP: 13
Hand: Get Out of the Way, Offensive Transmutation, Mortal Form to Energyx2, Bring What You Need, Know When to Turn Loose
In Play: Mortal Form to Energy
Trash: Proverbs and Axioms, Flesh to Iron, Expect the Worst, Transmutive Recoveryx2, Truth Seeker
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Start of hero turn: Discard Mortal Form for Mortal Form
Play a card: Bring What You Need
Use a power: Bring What You Need -Proverbs and Axioms and Dont Dismiss Anything to hand, Keep Moving to bottom of deck
Draw a card: Expect the Worst
End of hero turn:
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HP: 13
Hand: Get Out of the Way, Offensive Transmutation, Mortal Form to Energy, Know When to Turn Loose, Expect the Worst, Dont Dismiss Anything, Proverbs and Axioms
In Play: Mortal Form to Energy, Don't Dismiss Anything
Trash: Proverbs and Axioms, Flesh to Iron, Expect the Worst, Transmutive Recoveryx2, Truth Seeker, Mortal Form to Energy
Additional effects:
"Okay, enough of this. Time to break out the big guns...Momma, I'm comin' home..."
Expatriette
HP: 12
Hand: Arsenal Access; Quick Draw (x2);
In play: Assault Rifle; Hairtrigger Reflexes
Trash: Reload, Assault Rifle; Flak Jacket (x2)
Additional effects:
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Start of hero turn:
Play a card: Arsenal Access: Reveals Submachine Gun (shuffled back into deck) and Tactical Shotgun (put into play).
Use a power: Assault Rifle: deals net 1 projectile damage to Citizen Anvil [2]; Citizen Winter [3] and Citizen Hammer [2]
Draw a card: Reload
End of hero turn:
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HP: 12
Hand: Quick Draw (x2);Reload
In Play: Assault Rifle; Hairtrigger Reflexes; Tactical Shotgun
Trash: Assault Rifle; Reload; Flak Jacket (x2); Arsenal Access
Additional effects: When a non-hero target enters play, Expatriette deals 1 projectile damage to that target.
Editted: I made a mistake so I redid this turn, the game goes one more turn.
Anvil had 1 more HP, he's at 3hp.
"We made it," Ra touched the seals in the right order and the stone door moved, allowing access to the Chamber of Treasure. They quickly stepped inside, right as Dawn and her Citizens caught up. The Scholar could see the Rod, but that wasn't the only thing, the lines here were intersecting in a far corner, where he could just make out a withered figure and a pool of something.
"It's a trap!" The Scholar yelled, far too late to do anyone any good.
WELCOME, THE TIME OF JUDGEMENT HAS COMMENCED.
I looked for a ruling as to whether or not Shamise could pull Rod if it was a revealed card, didn't find one and got no response to asking about it so I'm going with the Rod gets put in play.
THE TOMB OF ANUBIS
In Play: Cast into the Underworld
Trash: The Challege of Fire, Judgement of Anubis, Anubis, Spike Trap
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Start of Turn: less than 5 environment targets in play(0), Cast into the Underworld is not destroyed.
Play a Card: Urshe [6]
End of Turn: Reveal Swinging Blades(t), Akana(t), Mdjai, Rod of Anubis, Shamise(t) Swinging Blades, Akana [8], Shamise [7] enter play, Shamise pulls Rod of Anubis and puts it into play. Swinging Blades deals each target 3 melee damage, Hammer is destroyed, Akana plays Swarm of Scarabs [5] Shamise deals the non-Environment target with the 2nd lowest HP 3 infernal damage, (either Anvil or Autumn is destroyed) Akana plays Judgement of Anubis. Judgement of Anubis puts Anubis [20] into play. Anubis deals each Target 3 infernal damage (the last three citizens are destroyed, Urshe is destroyed, Anubis deals each non-E target 2 infernal damage, Akana plays Idol of Anput, Nomti [9], and MdJai [10] Anubis deals Scholar 3 infernal [5], Judgement of Anubis is destroyed, Anubis deals eacn non-E target 2 infernali, Nomti deals 5 melee damage to Expat, she is Incapped, MdJai deals 2 melee damage to each non-E target, Fanatic is incapped.
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In Play: Cast into the Underworld, Swinging Blades, Akana [2], Shamise [1], Rod of Anubis, Swarm of Scarabs [2], Anubis [17], Idol of Anput, Nomti [9], Mdjai [10]
Trash: The Challenge of Fire, Judgement of Anubis, Spike Trap, Urshe
Effects: Too many.
Sorry about the premature demise everyone, you get to live to the villain turn.
Maybe because I've never played this environment with 5 people, but I've never seen it throw down that hard with Urshe before, If I had known it could do that I would have made the scenario rules a little different.
Um, wow.
I vote back to the tomb
Villain Turn
Start of turn Dawn plays blinding blast, incaps remaining heroes.
+2 bonus points to whoever can tell me Dawn's HP at the end of the match.
Devra heard the booming voice, although she couldn't make out the words, and heard screaming. "Come on guys, Come on." she called, "Make it out of there."
A few minutes later she saw someone moving, crawling towards her with the Rod. It was Dawn. Devra ran, blade bot smashed the support beam and the entrance collapsed, a loud rumble spread through the ground and the entire tomb sank and fell apart into a heap of rubble and sand.
. . .
Devra choked back the tears in her eyes. She cleared her mind and focused on the only thing that mattered, spinning. The truck had ran out of gas ages ago, and there was no way she could stay out in this desert.
“Keep it going girl,” she told herself, her head starting to pound from the spinning. Frustrated and tired she pushed too fast, and lost control.
The sun was going down now, the air was starting to cool, and while that felt good, Unity knew very well how cold it was going to get soon. Still she sat. She had to clear her mind, had to think. She ran out of the tomb so fast, drove out into the desert without paying attention to where she was going. “Stupid girl,” she muttered angrily to herself, “you know better.” She looked at the truck, the engine was shot, but she didn’t need that, she could put the right side back together but that flat tire wouldn’t run in the sand, and besides spinning the axles was exhausting. Then it hit her, it was so obvious. In less than a minute Unity was moving again, leaning back in her seat while Truckbot ran through the desert. “That Scholar guy was right, just gotta learn to keep a cool head,” but that only reminded her of of what had just happened, and how she had left her friends.
Truck Bot stopped. Devra didn't know which way to go, she had friends buried under that rubble, were they dead, alive? Could she help them? Devra was scared, and she wished Slim was here, he always gave the best advice, he'd know what to do, but he was in Rook City. The others were there too, maybe they could mount a real rescue, but it would be some time before she could get back.
The Decision for this episode's players:
Does Unity return to the tomb site to look for her friends?
Does Unity return to Rook City to regroup with allies?
Thanks for playing.
I don't know if I get a vote, but I'd kinda like to go to Rook City.
I'd vote for going back to the Tomb.
Unity loves her friends–back into the tomb!
OK, that is three. I'll get #4 posted soon:
John Rhodes pulled himself back together, flushed the sand out and reverted to his normal body. flowing through sand and rock to the surface was easy, lugging a big old rock with him wasn’t. The truck was gone. He had hoped as much, the girl had done her job, and from the looks of it had gotten away alive. He hadn’t planned on the cave-in, but it worked, Dawn was buried. The night was cold, but that didn’t bother him. He laid down and cleared his mind, he’d need all his mental faculties when he went back down to fetch the Rod.
John awoke to sounds of metal grinding and clanging, he looked around and found the source. Unity had returned, and was shaping a large rodent looking thing out of what appeared to be the truck they had driven here.
While he was glad to see she was alive, he was not happy she had returned.
“What are you doing back here?” He asked.
“Good morning to you too.” she replied, “I thought I might help look for survivors.”
“You need to get out of here,” Scholar interrupted, “before someone comes to investigate.”
“I’m not leaving until we search for survivors.”
Scholar could tell she meant it. He sighed, “Alright, let’s get digging.”
. . .
It was easy directing Unity to the Rod of Anubis and the survivors, the Lines pointed it all out, and he had to admit that Mole Bot contraption made the work short. Dawn was alive, but unconscious. They had decided to leave her, Absolute Zero’s suit had protected him from the collapse, but he wasn’t in good shape. They found Ra, he had been lucky, but both his legs were broken and he was feverish, he needed medical help. Expatriette was dead, as were most of Dawn’s citizens, and Fanatic was gone, she wasn’t in the lines at all, and there was no trace of the other artifacts of Anubis. Like Fanatic and the spirit of Anubis had vanished from this plane of existence.
They were digging Ra out when the sirens and lights came. The Scholar had figured on them having another hour, but this wasn’t a local response, this was serious. He evaluated the situation quickly, and then turned to the girl.
“I’m sorry Unity, I have to go.” he said, as his body turned to liquid and he bagan to sink into the sand with the Rod.
“I understand, and call me Devra.”