Storyline results: Eden's Legacy. Canberra, Australia
Salem
Canberra, Australia
Number of players: 9
Winner: Chris Wall
Winning clan: Guruhi
Motivated by: Secrecy (motivation not used at all in final round)
Key minion: Eze the Demon Prince
Date (of final round): 2nd December 2009
[Note: event was played on 4 games nights spread over 5 weeks, as a 3+F
tournament.]
Multi judge used: Yes
Head Judge: Chris Kellahan (me)
Final standings:
1st: Chris Wall, 2vps
2nd: Mark G, 2vps
2nd: Chris Kellahan, 1vp
2nd: Jahn Barfoed, 0vps
2nd: Bela Farkas, 0vps
Players and their rankings/clans/motivations prior to the final round:
Player VPs GWs Clan Motivated by
Jahn B 9 2 Guruhi Knowledge
Chris W 2 1 Guruhi Secrecy
Mark G 3 0 Setites Gehenna
Bela F 3 0 Lasombra Knowledge
Chris K 2 0 Tzimisce Knowledge
Player VPs GWs Clan Motivated by
Eric T 2 0 Akunanse Secrecy
Kurt H 1 0 Tremere Secrecy
Andrew B 0 0 Nosferatu Knowledge
Michael H 0 0 Osebo Gehenna
In the final round, the play order was:
Mark - Bupe Typhonic Beast
Bela - Lasombra bleed
Chris K - Demdemeh toolbox
Jahn - Lucian the Perfect mega bleed
Chris W - Guruhi vote and bloat
Chris W knew what Jahn was playing, and deftly contested Lucian. This
should have left me (Chris K) open to tear through Jahn, except a) I was
defending against Bela's stealth bleeds and b) I forgot about the
table-centre copy of the Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers, despite
laughing at someone in a prior round for forgetting the same thing. I
only noticed it when I moved some chocolate wrappers out of the way
later on.
After Droschter One-Eye got the Codex I was able to oust Jahn on the
same turn around the table that Mark ousted Bela (thanks to torporing
most of his vampires with Bupe). Chris Wall, free of contestion, was
then able to minion tap a lot off pool back off his minions and put
himself in a nice solid position.
Things then got messy.
Zhenga hit Demdemeh's wolf companion with Set's Curse, and then Bupe
attacked and torpored Demdemeh. Yuri Krenyenko was trying to get another
Wolf, but was blocked by Bupe. That didn't go so well for Bupe, who was
torpored by Yuri's Carrion Crows. Belle Equitone diablerised Demdemeh.
Lucian diablerise Bupe. Zhenga got the Eye of Hazimel, and torpored
Eze. I couldn't get through Chris Wall's pool fast enough, and when
it was Lucian's turn to act, he smote both the other remaining methuselahs
(myself and Mark) with a single Kine Resources Contested thanks to a
Charming Lobby from the previous turn.
Bela and I both used our motivations a few times in the final round, to
no avail. Mark used his to attack with Bupe and the Eye'd Zhenga
successfully a few times. Chris Wall's motivation never even looked like
needing to be used. Jahn never got to play a card. Being able to
search after bring out a liabon was quite influential in all of the
games that Chris Wall played in, including drawing Minion Taps to
kick-start his bloat.
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