Adam got a new game, which is incredibly complicated. Caverna is the big, more complicated brother of Agricola. This is especially the case since all the upgrades were available at all times. There were so many options, and it was hard to make any decisions. On top of that there was a battle mechanic that lets the player choose from a list of options, making more decision points. This is a good game, but way too complicated.
I played a game of Mage Knight with Adam, Tina, Iliya, and Chris. I was the green dragon character, and was able to build up lots of crystals. The map was a little small for five players. We had a great time playing. Tina got upset a good bit with the way things turned out. At the end of the game I tried to leave some of the final areas to her, but Adam ended upcoming in and taking many of them. That made it a very close game, but I came out on top a little bit.
We met up with people at a house in San Jose. It was a really amazing house and the owners were cooking dinner for us. They made some amazing food, and the conversation was great. This was the first time I felt really awkward for not drinking. I had a great time and Stephanie was funny at the end of the dinner.
I had a great time drafting conspiracy with Adam, Andrew, and Kevin. The first round I got a really good mana engine of a free 1/1 defender that gave mana of any color. This allowed me to ramp very quickly, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to follow through due to a bad card draw. I had a lot of things based on forests, but mostly my plains came out. The second round I took a 5 color deck with a little bit of mana fixing and made it really work. The deck had a ton of great heavy hitting cards and was able to hold its own against some pretty strong attacks from the other players at times.
We went to the city to have a few drinks with Lisa before she leaves. The event was at an interesting bar, that was newspaper publication themed. There were a lot of people I didn’t know, and we talked to a few of them. We then went out to eat at a place called Asha, which had some amazing Thai food.
For games night I played Agricola with Adam, Nick, Erik, and Erik’s guest. I ended up winning, but wasn’t able to use most of the advantages I had for most of the game. The best thing I got was that every time I took a wheat I got to plow a field. I used this five times, but didn’t get to sow until round 10 or so. I was still able to get a lot of points off of the crops, and at the last minute got a fence around the empty land to stay off the major negative from having open land. I really enjoyed it, but would prefer to have 3 people, for speed and placement’s sake.
Lana and Archer have been so cute lately. They have been really good, and I’m getting them a running water bowl. They have been cuddling and sleeping curled up together. Lana also was having a dream that I caught on video.
Tina, Amit, Steph, Iliya, and I played some poker last night. With no money on the line I played it extremely risky, and not much of that payed off. I really wanted to get into “Fantasy Land,” but that didn’t turn out as hoped. Iliya was getting incredibly lucky and playing it safe, so he turned out way on top. I really like the game, and might make it into an app.
On Tuesday Steph and I went over to Jeremy’s to play some Rock Band. Brian and Chris also joined us. It was a fun evening, and I was able to do some expert mode for the first time. I am still really bad at it, but it is to the point where I can have fun doing it. Jeremy had his dip out, and as usual we ate way too much of it. It is hard to resist.
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