Let's Play Arkham Horror Already!

Epic Battle Turn 5: Refresh
Bullwhip, Sword, Shriveling are refreshed. Monterey gets the first player token, and then passes his Alien Device and Bullwhip to Diamond, because, let's face it, at this point Diamond is going to kill Shubby or nobody is. He gives the cane back to Amanda, because she's more likely to live another turn, having an actual die to defend with.

Epic Battle Turn 5: Investigator Attack

Monterey has no attack dice, but he does have 3 clue tokens, and he blows them on a last-ditch attack.

And comes up with nothing. Ick.

Amanda wields her Enchanted Cane, giving her but 2 dice, but she tries her best...

And comes up with nothing at well...

But here's Diamond, stepping up to the plate, having 10 dice thanks to the Alien Device, and he slices...

and takes off another Doom Token, with a little help from the Bullwhip! It might be too little too late, though.

Epic Battle Turn 5: God Attack

The many mouths of Shub-Niggurath reach out, and tear Monterey apart, devouring him!

Poor Monterey... you had a device from Aliens and were an obvious parody of Indiana Jones, but now you're gone. Rest well, noble investigator.

Well, the difficulty is -3 now... Amanda does her best to hide...

But fails. The evil presence finds her, and swallows her without a second thought. She's devoured...

Poor Amanda... you were always the investigator I thought most useless, but you did so well during the course of this game that I had grown to like you... and now you're devoured, soul and all. Rest well, in the horrible empty void of devourdom... or my bed. Whichever it is.

And then there was one.

Diamond isn't going down without a fight, though, and hides this one last time. He'll be losing a Trophy each turn from now on, though.

Epic Battle Turn 6: Refresh
The Sword and Bullwhip refresh.

Epic Battle Turn 6: Investigator Attack
Diamond lets out a loud cry of sorrow for his fallen comrades, and rushes back to battle to avenge them!

Another doom token down. However, Diamond has 2 turns left and Shubby has 4 tokens left. Not good...

Epic Battle Turn 6 : God Attack

Diamond can no longer hide with the difficulty being -4, and he loses a Monster Trophy, leaving him with 2 left.

Epic Battle Turn 7: Refresh
Bullwhip, sword, yadda yadda, radda radda.

Epic Battle Turn 7: Investigator Attack
Diamond slashes again, and again, in a frenzy, desperate to kill the Ancient One!

Another Doom token down, but that's it. It is now mathematically impossible for Diamond to finish Shub-Niggurath off.

Epic Battle Turn 7: God Attack
The mouths bite hard at Diamond as he thrashes against him, removing another Monster Trophy...

Epic Battle Final Turn: Refresh
Diamond futility refreshes his sword and bullwhip.

Epic Battle Final Turn: Investigator Attack
With all his might, Diamond slashes and flails at the darkness, but to no avail... there's nothing he can do...

Epic Battle Final Turn: God Attack
Shub-Niggurath opens its many mouths, and swallows Joe Diamond, monster slayer... he is devoured.

Poor Joe Diamond... you kicked so much monster ass it was almost criminal, but you couldn't kick the ass of the worst monster of all... the Ancient One... rest in peace...

Shub-Niggurath is summoned, and nobody is left to stop it. Arkham is plunged into darkness...

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And that's how you play Arkham Horror! A shame we didn't win, though... I hope you all have had as much fun and learned as much as I did. It was an interesting experience, but I must admit I look forward to having every surface in my bedroom back as well as having more time to play Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, which I started and then had this immediately eat up my free time. Heh. Thanks for following along, though, I really appreciate it! Any other comments? Etc? Go for it. Love to hear them.

I'll be pouring one out for our homies that got eaten by the vagina monster.

You've pretty much convinced me that I need to own this game, so, uh... job well done?

I'm really, really bummed we didn't win. =(

Welp, it's the end of the world so we might as well get crazy.

I can't wait to con my friends into playing this!

Huzzah! Well done *applauds*

Poor bastards, though. I knew we should have taken Cleavage Lady.

*moment of silence for the fallen investigators*

*applause*

Nicely done poetfox! I'm totally going to let you kill me in Halo 3 this week in return for all the entertainment.

Excellent story, poetfox!

play again!
play again!

So close!

So...close!

This has been a really great thread. Definitely the most intense Let's Play we've had, which is amazing considering that it was about a board game. I've been on the edge of my seat while reading more than a few of these posts.

The story bits were nicely written as well, and added an extra touch of creativity to the whole thing. Very nice.

I give this Let's Play five out of five Parish Heads.



And now I have to buy this game and force my friends to play it.

Thanks for the thread, poetfox!

Awesome work, poetfox! Thanks.

So close. So freakin' close.

Great Jarb though Ms. Fox. You entertained me, even though I didn't quite follow all the rules.

I hope you get another game going. An online game, perhaps?

And as a goof, which Great Old One are you?

I scored as Nodens.

I'm Yog-Sothoth! An infinite mass of glowing bubbles! Accoring to Wikipedia:

Yay?

As am I.

Yay! We can be Bubble-Pals!

I'm Nyarlethotep.
Now I have to wear yellow contacts and pink eye shadow.

I'm giving this thread the highest 8.5 ever! Now I want to buy this damn thing and, more importantly, bring the gang back together. I really am serious about making a Triumph of Chaos LP because of this if I can get somebody else to play it with me because that game is NUTS.

Thank you for expanding the realm of LET'S PLAY into non-TV entertainment mediums.

Well, this and the Lone Wolf one.

I'm... Azathoth?

I'm not sure what to make of this one...

Inspired by this thread, my gaming group took a break from D&D to play Arkham Horror tonight. We picked Abhoth as our opponent since, for reasons unknown, we have the worst win/loss record against him.

Our Team:
Marie Lambeau
Wilson Richards - me
Rita Young
Diana Stanley

At a critical point, we drew an environment that prevented gates from being sealed, only closed. This thwarted any ability to slow down Abhoth's short Doom track, and we had to prepare for its awakening.

In the final battle, I was the first devoured, and Rita was the last one standing, desperating trying to burn away Abhoth with a Flamethrower. In the end, we were 1 success short of victory.

Most frustrating sequence of events for me:
A gate to Yuggoth opened on me, and after exploring it, I failed to close the gate. A Nightgaunt ends up pulling me through the gate again, and the first encounter says the monsters at my location follow me. I voluntarily fail the fight check to get pulled back to Arkham again. Then, I again fail to close the gate, and the Nightgaunt manages to pull me into Yuggoth a 3rd time. I was still trying to close that damn gate when Abhoth woke up.

Oh how I wish I could have been there to see that... Right up there with the cycle of devouring game.

I'm pretty sure I read specific errata that said the closest gate was the gate back to Arkham, but I could be crazy.
And yep, just checked the FAQ/Errata PDF on the website, and I'm right.

I realize I have been woefully derelict in not bringing this up before, but Arkham Horror lends itself to the best method for determining what player goes first in any given game.

Quite Simply, each player draws a monster from the Monster Bag, and whichever player gets the most dangerous or powerful monster goes first. Often, it is pretty clear: e.g. Shoggoth > Elder Thing > Byakhee > Zombie. Other times, we have to debate relative strength, such as with a Hound of Tindalos vs a Gug.

We use this method for every game we play, even Uno or Fluxx.

Thank you so much Poetfox! This thread has been a blast!

I just finished playing a game of Arkham Horror with mostly the base set but with all the expansion investigators, including Kingsport. I ended up using the new girl, Wendy - a street urchin who starts with the Elder Sign her mommy left her before being committed. Even though I had very few items throughout the game, I felt like a freaking Mary Sue. She can auto-evade on the streets, has very high movement/sneak, and if she has an elder sign can't even be cursed or arrested! Other people by the end of the game had huge piles of items in front of them but there I was... six dollars and three gate trophies.

I haven't played Arkham Horror in so long that it hurts. Man, I wish there were more nerds in my area who were into Cthulu AND boardgames.

I haven't played Arkham Horror in so long that it hurts. Man, I wish there were more nerds in my area who were into Cthulu AND boardgames.