March 9

We started at about 3 P.M.. Bob, Dan K, Kimberly and Rachel S played Settlers of Catan, while Carol, Eric and Rachel J played two games of Aquarius. Rachel J won the first game of Aquarius and Eric won the second. Royal and Stephanie arrived at this point, while the Settlers game continued on. Carol, Eric, Rachel J, Royal and Stephanie then played a game of Wiz War, which Royal won pretty quickly. As the Settlers game looked like it was finally winding down, Carol, Eric Rachel J, Royal and Stephanie decided to play a quick game of Fluxx, which was won by Rachel J. The Settlers game finally ended with Rachel S winning and, Bob and Dan at 9 points each.

At this point, it was about 6 P.M. so, we decided to break for dinner. Some ordered from Old Shanghai and others from Pizza Hut.

After dinner, Rachel S left. The remainder played two games of Werewolf. With this small number of people, we figured one werewolf would work better than two. Bob acted as narrator for both games. In the first game, Rachel J accidentally revealed herself as the Seer and, of course, was immediately killed by the Werewolf. The Werewolf won, and turned out to be Dan K. In the second game, Stephanie as the Seer, was able to determine fairly quickly that the Werewolf was Rachel J and, was able to convince the other villagers to vote to lynch her. The Villagers won.

For the last game of the evening, we decided to play Robo-Rally. We used our homebrew team, capture the flag variant. Bob, Carol, Rachel J and Dan K were on the red team, while Royal, Stephanie, Kimberly and Eric were on the green team. There was some initial concern that the board layout was not completely fair as most of the conveyer belts ran from the red side to the green side but, it was decided that since both teams had to traverse the boards in both directions that this would even out over the course of the game. The green team got off to a poor start, with Stephanie getting hit by one of her own proximity mines and Royal shooting himself in the back with one of his own missiles. However, they quickly made up lost ground and Stephanie grabbed the red flag. Meanwhile, the red team’s offensive ground to a halt. So, Bob who had held back on defense, switched to offense. Dan K was the first person to lose all three of his lives and was out of the game. As Stephanie was heading back for the green home square, Bob simultaneously pushed Royal off the board and grabbed the green flag. It was Royal’s last life and now, both teams were down to three players. By the time Bob made it one quarter of the way back towards the red home square, he was heavily damaged and elected to power down. At this point, dissension broke out on the red team; several members felt Bob should drop the flag and allow Carol to carry it back to the red home square. Bob elected to keep the flag as Kimberly was close and he felt there was no good way to get it to his team mates. While Bob was powered down, Stephanie made excellent progress towards the green home square. In the meantime, Eric dropped goo at points near the red home square, just in case Stephanie couldn’t get back to the green home square. With Stephanie only a few squares from the green home, Bob tried to catch her and use a self-destruct option to stop her but, he was too late. Stephanie made it to the green home square and won the game for the green team.

At the end of Robo-Rally, it was about 1:30 A.M. and, we decided to call it a night.