My third annual Halloween Heroscape Event went great! We had a few last minute cancellations, but it all worked out fine in the end. We still had a 10-player, 2 team game going on. It was great!
It started with my wife, Michelle, making some great snacks. As there was a significant Zombie theme to this year's game, we decided to make some Finger Sandwiches as snacks for the game.
Don't they look delicious?
You take bread slices, cut the crusts off, then spread peanut butter or cream cheese on them. Then you roll them up, take a fork or something to put creases in where the knuckles should be. Put a dab of peanut butter or cream cheese (whichever you're using) on the end to attach to almond slice for the fingernail. Then, to top it off, you dip the other end in strawberry jelly giving the Finger Sandwich as nice, bloody, severed look. Top that off with some bloody punch (orange juice, gingerale, and some kind of frozen cranberry juice ice cubes with cherries in them with a red glaze around the rim of the cup), and you've got the makings of a good Halloween snack.
One of the players also brought a veggie tray, complete with a puking pumpkin that spewed out veggie dip onto the plate. Yumm...
The game began with a fair amount of chaos, but what do you expect when you have ten people from an 8-year-old boy to a recently retired woman, playing 5, one-on-one Heroscape games simultaneously in close quarters around a 4'x8' table. It was a beautifully chaotic start!
As the Mortal army, led by Solomon Rayne sought out the Deathly Hallow, they released many unpleasant and formidable enemies. Jason, for instance, after revealing a glyph, unleashed the great undead Valkrill bone dragon Rotscale on his small band of Eladrin and Eltahale.
In the end, Solomon Rayne, his brother Alastor, and all the Warriors of Annwyn were killed, but a brave Tandros Kreel, with the help of a single, fully experienced, Tagawa Samurai, who had come to Rayne's aid too late, discovered the Deathly Hallow. Faced with Sorrowsworn the Kyrie Warrior and the Shadowfell Overlord, Nerull, Kreel, too, was killed before he could escape the graveyard.
His companion Samurai, however, was able to overcome the two Heroes of the Shadowfell, and clear the path for another Hero, Erioliende (a new custom Eladrin darkmage, and one of my personal favorites), after fending off a horde of Zombies of Morindan with high ground and her superior melee fighting skills, to retreive the Hallow and escape the graveyard of Grim's Hollow alive (though she was half dead with a life of 6 on her army card and 3 wound markers) along with another teammate's Morgrimm Forgehammer (who was also half dead) - the only two figures to survive the battle.
Congratulations to all on a game, well-played, and another successful Halloween Heroscape event!!
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