PANDEMIC
I gotcha now. That makes sense.
It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.
Buffy ,'Empty Places'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Gudanov - Aug 26, 2020 6:00:57 am PDT #25831 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
billytea - Aug 26, 2020 6:06:31 am PDT #25832 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I gotcha now. That makes sense.
I swear by my puissant bottle of hand sanitiser!
megan walker - Aug 26, 2020 8:02:11 am PDT #25833 of 26133
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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But we had an earlier epidemic before this one. It would've been shuffled back on top of the deck at that point. We haven't drawn it since, which means we'll need to go through all the cards we drew between the first epidemic and the second epidemic before we can hit Tokyo again.
OMG, am I going to have to start tracking cards again like in BSG?
In any case, I'm fine with waiting to use it. I've been playing far too much with the new computer version I bought and I still don't have a handle on when the best time for event cards is.
chrismg - Aug 27, 2020 5:35:59 am PDT #25834 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
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Oh, It's me, sorry. I continue to hold on to the night.
Gudanov - Aug 27, 2020 6:00:50 am PDT #25835 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
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Recap
The Researcher passes over a binder of info about the yellow plague's progression in Khartoum, then catches a Mi-6 helicopter to Baghdad. Then the Researcher takes a station to station flight to Shanghai and puts out a bunch of hand sanitizer around the city before meeting up with the Medic at a clinic. The Medic just remarks, "Oh you put out some hand sanitizer, that's cute."
The Researcher then draws St. Petersburg (Blue) and Bangkok (Red!)
It's time for infection, but we must decide whether to use One Quiet Night or not, and we elect to hold on to it. The blue plague spreads in both Atlanta and New York, putting both cities on the brink.
The Situation:
Gudanov - Aug 27, 2020 6:04:05 am PDT #25836 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
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The blue plague is starting to look like it may be COVID. Anyhow, after I go on my great tour of curing red death, I can move right into North America and go after COVID. Of course, that's quite awhile in the future, but all of those COVID bombs are cities in the current infection discard pile.
megan walker - Aug 27, 2020 1:19:39 pm PDT #25837 of 26133
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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So, per the plan the Researcher proposed, I head to Baghdad (1st action) to shuttle to Shanghai (2nd action), discard a yellow card to share knowledge with the Researcher on red (3rd action), and cure red (4th action) on this turn. Then, on the Researcher's next turn, they would share knowledge with me on yellow before proceeding with the rest of their turn, and when my turn comes around again, I would cure yellow. Is that right? It does seem to make sense from a yellow-not-being-a-threat-right-now standpoint.
billytea - Aug 27, 2020 2:15:35 pm PDT #25838 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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I'm down with this plan.
Gudanov - Aug 27, 2020 4:53:39 pm PDT #25839 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
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I like it. Looking forward to doing some massive red death curing.
billytea - Aug 27, 2020 5:07:17 pm PDT #25840 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
PANDEMIC
Curing of Massive Red Death is so in this year.
By the way, on your turn, what do you think would be best - empty out the Beijing-Seoul-Tokyo nexus, or leave Beijing to its own devices in favour of clearing San Francisco?