A Belated Games Night

On Wednesday we had our first board games night for the year at my boss' house. It had been a while since our last one because everyone was either super busy with school (me) or everyone was addicted to World of Warcraft (everyone else).

In either case, we started off with the game Flea Circus which is a quick and easy game, perfect for starting or ending a games night. It's also a good starter game because people can easily join-in the action as they arrive.

Once the last of the people arrived, we had 7 people. We decided to break out Shadows Over Camelot which is a co-operative 7 player game. You assume the role as one of the Knights of The Round Table, and you move throughout the land fighting evil and finishing quests. The twist to the game is, one person plays as the traitor and their goal is to screw over the knights. This adds an interesting dimension to the game because you end up second guessing everyone's motives, and you accuse others of being the traitor. Everytime you accuse someone as the traitor, and they turn out to be loyal, bad things happen. If you don't find the traitor by the end of the game, bad stuff happens. So, the traitor and loyalty cards are dealt out at random at the beginning of the game; there is the potential that there's no traitor at all, so you have to be careful who you accuse. Anyway, this is a fairly epic game which takes a few hours to finish.

Then at 10:30pm, we hear a knock on the door. Graeme goes and answers it and goes, uh Chan, there's a bunch of girls at the door for you. I thought, haha, that's pretty funny stuff. And then, I heard Sarah's voice. It was Sarah, Bethany, Laura, and Alicia at the door, and they were just 3 hours late for games night .

The girls originally said they couldn't come because they had wedding stuff to plan, but here they were. So, they broke out Cranium while we were still in the heat of battle in Camelot. That's quite the contrast of games. On one side, we have careful sober strategizing, and on the other, you have the a bunch of gleeful giggles.

In either case, Patrick turned out to be the traitor (shakes fist at him), but he didn't do a very good job of getting us killed in the game. His "evil action" that he did against us actually caused us to win the game.

So yeah, biggest turn out on games night so far this year. Good times. See you all at the next games night.... on time .