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This week, I will be addressing two topics, the first is the topic of the
Warlords CCG tournament that has gotten started at our friendly local
gaming store, and the second will be the infestation of ghostly gamers
from the past that has infested both my personal life, and this blog in
recent days.

First however, the Warlords stuff...

AEG apparently has decided to offload its attempt to make a CCG as
popular as Magic the Gathering...something that is so out in the realm
of things that won't happen that I can't come up with a pithy way to
describe it...it just ain't happening.

However, because AEG is going bye-bye, and because our group has signed
up in the forums of the new company who will be taking over sometime soon,
we should now have somewhat ergular prize support, and other neato things,
such as the fact that the person who runs our games each Sunday is now, or
will soon be considered to be OFFICIAL!

YAY!

Now, perhaps in celebration of this, Rhett has put together a "campaign" of
tournaments, where each player earns points for their performance in
varying tournaments. Last week's tournament was a "mutant" multiplayer
one, where each deck played with an Overlord and a Warlord in the third
rank, three characters in the second rank, and four in the front rank. Alicia
came with Qor-Teth, Rhett came with the Seigemaster, Adrian came with
Xaxxon, and I used Deima.

The Outcome was as follows: both Rhett and Alicia spent the first half of the
game reducing Adrian and I to dirt, so to speak, although I took the
opportunity to kill Rhett's Warlord (Taoth) the first chance I got. It turned out
that I ended up being the last person to have both the Warlord and the Overlord
in play, but that turned out to be little help.

As it tends to happen, if you let a deck build up, it tends to turn and wipe the
floor with you. This was the case as Rhett eliminated Adrian, who then was
himself eliminated by Alicia, who ended up winning the tournament, with me
finishing in second. The big prize was a chess set that Rhett made from a
collection of miniatures. I passed on it because I was more interested in a
few of the cards that were being given for prize support, and Alicia didn't want
it, so Adrian now has a new chess set.

Next week is an Emperor Tournament, and I should have standings information
for ya by then, as well as some other news from around the gaming scene here
in SE Wyoming.

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GHOSTS EVERYWHERE!

You can see some evidence of this blog being haunted if you check out the
comments, which got posted to my email address. For those not familiar with all
of the inside info revealed in that comment, here it is...

When I was back in Pennsylvania, so many moons ago, a relative of mine and some
of my friends combined together to form this really cool gaming group that played
everything from Rolemaster to Marvel Superheroes, Gurps, AD&D, and other things.
We made trades of game materials that were worth hundreds of dollars in exchange
for other stuff that was worth $20, we had weekenders at a friend's aunt's house
out in the country where some of the best gaming EVER happened, and we had
drunken parties where we watched Monty Python and I pretended to be the Majestic
Moose.

SO, now I have a response to DSN's first podcast, and I have a pertty good idea who
it's from, because for the most part, my cool relatives and my cool gamer friends were
the SAME PEOPLE, or part of the same group. Just check out the listing of Nexus
episodes...the first four seasons of Nexus were played with this group in Pennsylvania.

Now, as to the FUTURE JOHN, and the SHIELD in the PS, that was something that for
some reason, just ticked the Hell out of me, perhaps because I had other people
picking on me at school and such and didn't want to deal with it while hanging out with
the friends. However, in THIS case, it telegraphs to me that someone from the old
group has found me. The reference to Episode #28 also harkens back to a time when the
GM allowed the players to kinda lose it, and they kinda went nuts, and after they were
done, the entire campaign looked like Hello Kitty exploded all over it...

But whoever you are out there, in your haste to be really brilliant and show me that you
know me, you left no real means for me to get a hold of you!

So, in the meantime, I am going to hope that our ghosts out there will read this, and
reply again...this time with a phone number, or an email address...or both!

BTW, if you play World of Warcraft, I play on the Deathwing server...just contact
Ferborg, Arisa, Tiine, or Gishanti.

Or you can email me at lunahq7@gmail.com

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Anyways, until next time, which I will try to make a bit sooner than once a month,

FOR THE HORDE!

John B.