I had always heard about the game and always see the books and kits at Barnes and Nobles but had never had the chance to play. This was mostly do to the fact that no one I knew ever wanted to play :(. Well it turns out my friends husband is a huge geek just like the fiancee and I and he decided he wanted to host a game. We gathered up a nice group of six and got together to play. The plan was to play from 6:30-9:30. Yeah about that...we ended up playing until midnight!!!! We only stopped because I was getting a headache because I was exhausted from crossfit but the game was sooo amazing!!!
I think the experience was incredible due to how much work my friend's husband put into the game. See typically you lay out a piece of paper, which is your map, and you simply imagine everything and act out. Well, he actually made mini scaled versions of the objects and made a 3D map! I will show you in a bit.
We each picked characters, I was a high elf nicknamed Nim because my name was super long lol. Our adventure began in a tavern where we were joined by dwarves and by a noble man who was out for the night with his son and daughter. The night quickly took a sharp turn when the nobeman and his daughter were slain in front of us. We decided to set out and avenge this young boy's family and find the creatures responsible for this.
Here we all are in the tavern before setting off:
How cool is this, right?!?! We later set off to find the cave where the dark elf creatures lived...
Upon entering the cave we found two creatures playing cards as the guarded the entrance. One of my companions entered the room dressed as one of them to distract them and make them look in one direction. My character Nim and my other companion entered from behind and began fighting our opponents. You can see two companions stayed outside of the cave keeping watch.
Once we took them down we raided the rooms and set up a blockade at the cave entrance to warn us of intruders from the outside as we made our way deeper in the cave.
We were lucky one of our elves had summoned a spider that acted as a spy for us. The creatures worshiped spiders so respected it very much and let it wander the halls. It found another set of stairs that lead to a lower level...off we went...
We came into a room that was divided by an endless pit. Our team had to work together and throw a rope across to make it through. I was the last to jump and almost fell. I was able to stay holding on though and made it aafely to the other side.
The hallway had three options for us to pick where to continue exploring. Our spider let us know that there were evil elves sleeping in the corridor to the right of us. In we went and found 5 creatures sound alseep in their beds.
This is where the fun began...see across the hall from us where more creatures that were wide awake chatting away. We needed to get rid of these elves without making any noise. We each took our positions and tried to kill our opponents. This did not go as smoothly as planned. 2 were killed immediately but 3 were left, 2 of which were injured 1 unharmed. That was my fault for missing! They eventuallu let out a scream and alerted their companions across the hall. Meanwhile, the cast a spell that left half the room in total darkness. We were surrounded at the front door an still had 3 opponents inside with us. We managed to kill 2 out of the 3 inside the room with our weapons. Our dragonborn sent a ball of flame out the front door and was able to scorch 2 out of the 4 that were waiting at the door. I then followed up with a thunderwave which killed off 4 out of the give opponents. The last one ran and we chased him down the corridor. My companions were able to take him down!
That was close! But with my thunderwave I sent a rumble through the entire cave that could be heard 300 ft away! Oops! We continued further in...we hit a trap and set off a sculpture that was spewing acid but the team managed to clog it up and we used the dead corpses to make our way over the acid. We eventually made it to a very heavy duty door. We knew nothing good could be waiting behind it. There was a lonely creature sitting at a table that guarded a door behind it. But somethig was off about him. See when our spider went in he swiped it away killing it. This was idd because they worshipped spiders!
We tried drawing him out by having our companion desguided as one of them draw him out. He would not budge. As she ran away and another companion cast a spell to make the floor rumble, the creature stood and turned towards the door. One of my companions used one if his poisonous arrows and aimed it at his back. He got it!!!! BUT down came its exterior and revealed the creatures true form. That is what you see below.
We have no idea what he is and what is behind him! But we are all gearing up for the next encounter to find out!!!
As you can see, we had a blast! It was so funny fighting together and make strategic attacks! I recommend this game to anyone! I will share with you all how this adventure ends!
Will we avenge Martin, the little boy? Can't wait to find out!
XOXO,
Lina
