Knights game report 24-Dec-2011

[Stephen]

Just a quick write-up of last week's game.

Five knights arrived for Saturday's Joust (thanks to Neon for arranging this). We set up the same quest that was so popular last week: retrieve 3 gems and escape via entry point, small dungeon size, zombies turned up to maximum, and a five minute time limit. This was a lot of fun so we ended up basically just playing variations of that quest for about an hour and a half :)

At one point we also set vampire bats to "defcon 5" (as well as zombies). This required a small increase in the time limit, from five minutes to ten minutes :D

There was only one slight "glitch", which happened later on, when we changed the exit point type to guarded. Despite searching the dungeon for ten minutes we only found 2 out of the 3 gems. Now I don't know whether this was a bug (perhaps one of the gems was destroyed somehow?), or whether we simply didn't find the gem, but it seems a little strange. For now I'm just going to make a note of it here, and if it happens again we can start investigating whether there is some sort of bug.

[K9]

Stephen, my apologies for misuse of defcon terminology during game chat, I remember saying something like that in jest about the time limit vs difficulty, without actually remembering the real scale.. As it turns out defcon 5 means the most peaceful state of defense readiness, but at the time I was laughing so hard about the concept that fact escaped me, been a long time since I watched Wargames in the 80's, one of my favs.

:-\

Ditto on thanks for game Neon, glad this Saturday connection worked out before the Holiday, my niece (although she only had time for couple games) had a great time, I loved the whole stretch.

Happy Holidays and New Year to you all.  This weekend is already packed, unfortunately no game time for me.

[Stephen]

Stephen, my apologies for misuse of defcon terminology during game chat, I remember saying something like that in jest about the time limit vs difficulty, without actually remembering the real scale.. As it turns out defcon 5 means the most peaceful state of defense readiness, but at the time I was laughing so hard about the concept that fact escaped me, been a long time since I watched Wargames in the 80's, one of my favs.

Ah well, I still think it was quite funny :)

Looking forward to seeing you and your niece again for the next game, whenever that may be...