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I endorse this plan.
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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chrismg - Aug 27, 2020 6:37:31 pm PDT #25843 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
billytea - Aug 27, 2020 7:35:13 pm PDT #25844 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 like clearing out all of Beijing-Seoul-Tokyo since SF is in the infected discard pile and we're not too far from the last epidemic.
It will be pretty awesome to no longer be at war with Eastasia.
We've had two epidemics so far, correct?
Gudanov - Aug 27, 2020 7:57:38 pm PDT #25845 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
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That is correct!
billytea - Aug 27, 2020 8:18:06 pm PDT #25846 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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Ok! Give me an 'A', would you?
megan walker - Aug 27, 2020 8:42:38 pm PDT #25847 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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Let's do this!
Take the midnight train to Baghdad
Catch the last shuttle to Shanghai
Insist the Researcher tell me all they know about Bangkok (discarding all plans to visit Kinshasa),
and then bing bang boom,
Cure the red death!
Fred Pete - Aug 28, 2020 3:06:43 am PDT #25848 of 26133
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm thoroughly enjoying the game. Does that midnight train go through Georgia?
Gudanov - Aug 28, 2020 4:01:51 am PDT #25849 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
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The Scientist catches a flight on a Fokker 100 out of Cairo to Aleppo and then boards a midnight train to Baghdad. From there she takes an Iraqi Airways Airbus A320-200 to Shanghai. Rushing to the research station, she leaves her binder on disease spread in Kinshasa on a bench in the Shanghai airport. Working on a hunch, she insists that the Researcher tells her everything about the spread of red death in Bangkok.
Then the Scientist stares silently at the distance and runs to the lab without saying a word. Thirty minutes later, she emerges with a cure to the red death.
The Scientist then discovers information about Algiers (Black) and Jakarta (Red).
Meanwhile, ominously following the Scientist's path, the Zombie outbreak worsens in Cairo, putting it on the brink, and Baghdad.
The situation:
Gudanov - Aug 28, 2020 4:03:16 am PDT #25850 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
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I don't think anything has changed enough for me to go ahead with the death of the red death plan, but I'll still wait to see what folks think.
billytea - Aug 28, 2020 5:29:43 am PDT #25851 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 think Red Death is still the way to go.
Taking quick stock of the situation: We've just passed the halfway point in the deck, correct? So we'll get the next epidemic sometime in the next, what, seven turns or so?
There are six cards in the discard pile. Looking at the map, there are seven cities on the brink, and I'm pretty sure we've drawn five of them since the San Fran epidemic. (Everything except Beijing and Tokyo.)
If that's right, then the discards contain San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, Cairo and Seoul. And Baghdad, but that's not a danger. So before the next epidemic, we want to try and clear those five cities. (And possibly a few others, we have cities on two cubes as well.)
Easy! Any ideas?
chrismg - Aug 28, 2020 5:36:09 am PDT #25852 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
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So clearing all red cubes is now a free action for the Medic, right? So you can clear 2 red cities, reach SF and treat it, or clear 3 red cities and reach SF but not treat it. Hm.
Well, I can zap the Researcher and myself to Atlanta, pass her the card, and she can cure Blue next turn. How does that sound?