SO ORIENT EXPRESS NEXT TIME FOR SURE YEP FOR SURE

YUP

MY SHOGUN RACE! MY FIRST PLACE! DENIED! DENIIIIIIIEEED!! :argh:

I was like BOOST! BOOST! and then I was like first place wah? Oh boy wow this is the happiest moment of my life! and then FISH

and then sadness

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So I realized we've got a little more variety in the Game Night crew then we did last time we used Roll20. So, quick primer!

If you wanna play some Orient Express with us tonight, go to https://app.roll20.net/join/34000/yQhjDQ . Don't go there until game time because until I launch the campaign the link might not do anything. WHO CAN SAY.

This should take you right to the campaign page. You probably need to have a Roll20 account (I think). Takes like 30 seconds. Don't be a baby about it, it's a lot easier than fighting Maptool, and it lets me play appropriate music.

Once you get in there, go to the My Settings tab (the little gear), and turn the Video and Voice broadcast/receive to Nothing, otherwise we all get trapped in The Hell Of Continuous Echoes.

Okay! Good luck solving the mystery before Acer tricks you into leaving the train and leaves you stranded in Budapest!

Thanks for the update, Pang!

Not sure if I'll be able to make this one. I have a midterm to study for. That being said, are you guys still gonna stream? If so, I'll probably tune in while I review my accounting notes.

I think Acer would stream even if he was playing Solitaire, alone, in another room, so no worries on that account.

I am a sad lonely existence. Sometimes there are spectators. Sometimes.

Acer why aren't you streaming solitaire right now

I know you have a camera because you used it for Ocarina of Time 3D, don't give me excuses.

No just stream a still image of your desktop.

If we crank the volume all the way up we can hear faint sounds of shuffling, as though from a great distance.

And then Acer comes back to the microphone

To read out loud

Every card that he draws

"SIX OF CLUBS!"

I'm okay with this, but only if he records in a castle or dubs in some footstep sound effects. I want to hear highly reverberated shoes on stone as he approaches the mic.

The six of clubs should carry the same import as the sacking of a border fort.

IT WAS THE SHOGUN RACE ALL OVER AGAIN! HAWKEYE, DO YOUR SNIPES KNOW NO BOUNDS?!

Your victory is never secure until the game (or Pang) says it is, Acer. You should know this by now.

Man oh man watching people desperately try to roll a 6 over and over and over to be rewarded with "I'm staying in berth 2" will never stop being amazing. Shame the game takes so long but you can only do so much to compel people to knuckle down and pay attention.

NEXT WEEK: ALPHA PRIME RACE

Ok somebody must have an idea

I'd actually be up for another night of Wizard Poker, because sealed + planechase is hilarious.

Monaco can be great or tough, depending on whether your team all has the same mindset. Four thoughtful, careful, plotting schemers works great. Four run and gun just-run-past-the-guards-they're-fat-and-slow blitzers also works great. Two of each variety trying to play together is where we ran into some troubles.

The only other thing i've got on my steam list that might be an option would be Sanctum, but i'm not sure everyone has that and i think it caps at 4 as well.

Cards Against Humanity.

http://pyz.socialgamer.net/game.jsp

Sanctum also has the WORST SCALING OF ALL TIME

Garr's WHodunnit idea is pretty grand, to be honest.

Yeah, Sanctum co-op gets pretty miserable.

Whodunit sounds a lot like Trouble In Terrorist Town, which is also a thing we should do sometime (and which probably has a bigger playerbase, to be fair). We can definitely try it, though, maybe fall back on CAH if it doesn't work out due to the map sizes or whatever. I do love some object permanence.

I enjoyed Monaco despite playing it stupidly. I wanna say Skills had played prior to our session and destroyed a couple missions with shortcuts but I don't know if that really killed it or anything. Pang was having really bad Internet issues that night so I'm not sure he got the best experience out of it and we constantly had to go rescue him because of it. It wasn't his fault though. Anyway, if folks want to give it another go then I'm down.

I'd probably sit out DOTA2 or LOL or any kind of game like that. It falls fairly close to my desire not to play RTS games. I don't enjoy balancing spreadsheets or worrying about buffing my troops or making just the right clicks on the map for desired quickest movement or holding some teammate back because of being a newb or some other WELP GUESS I CAN'T ENJOY ANYTHING sort of thing to get into a game. I just don't see the appeal. I'm not entirely against RTS but it has to have a really interesting hook to lure me in or be combined with a cheap Steam sale to do it.

I watched you guys play Wizard Poker last time and honestly I was confused by it but I liked that you all had a fun time and shit talked each other. I'd probably sit it out but feel free to play if that's what you want to do.

Yeah, so besides my little comments those all seem like great suggestions. I can assure you I'd be shit at all of them but you already know that. <3

Garr, of that list you named, I have Star Conflict, Alpha Prime (thanks Pang!), and Dota 2. I think out of everyone here, I am probably the one who has played Dota the most. I used to play back in the Warcraft 3 days. There's a couple things I can say about it. I can also see why the game has garnered so much ire from the gaming community.

The game has a extremely high learning curve and the community is pretty terrible. That being said, if you play with people you know, its a lot more tolerable. Personally, I think the game is really fun and has a tremendous amount of depth, but games last really long and it can be tedious, too. It's free to play and I have a free invite if anyone wants.

I'm pretty down for whatever although my internet has been super spotty recently. That being said, let me know what you guys decide on. I got a raise and looking to blow my money on video games.

Have we made up our minds?

Because the newest Indie Royale features Retrovirus, a 6DF shooter kinda like the old Descents or Forsaken or something. Gives you a steam key and shit. Current asking price is 5 bucks or something (IR has a price that changes as time goes on).

Not sure if people are down for such a thing.

I am down to bump my dumb little ship into all the walls if Doom Time does not come to pass.

Edit: On some other night, on which I am not compelled to spend hours getting the runaround from Corrections functionaries and tow yard goons. Y'all are on your own recognizance.

I bought Retrovirus. So i guess i'm voting for that.

Also LOOK AT ME, I'M POSTING IN THE THREAD... finally

EDIT: Although, wouldn't you know it, it looks like we're playing Whodunit. I'll see if i can get that running in time.