Here I am, finally online...though I won't be on Skype tonight, or tomorrow, as I'm not at home right now. I won't be on Skype till I get home on Sunday evening.
But here's what happened in that game I played with Mezike last night...
It was about half ten when we decuded to play, though it took us a while to actually start playing, and we didn't finish till about 1am. Yeah, long game but very fun ;). So, we decided to go up against the MAtriarch, as Mezike hadn't played against her yet. He decided he'd play two heroes, so there'd be three heroes in total, and went with Expatriette and Tempest. I chose Mr Fixer, in the hopes of getting out Driving Mantis style in order to redirect any Fowl-destruction damage that I might be dealt. Finally, we decided on the environment, choosing the Tomb of Anubis with the theory that the traps would help us get rid of the Matriarch's stuff.
So, Tempest was able to reliably clear birdies with Squall on more than one occasion. Expatriette achieved the same with her Sub-Machine Gun a few times to. We had both cohorts out at one point, which was annoying, but managed to get rid of them eventually. I'd started with a Harmony carde in-hand but never actually played it. I also started with Grease Monkey Fist style, and played it (more to just get a style into play than because I wanted that particular style), only to lose it to a Horrid Cacophony on the Matriarch's next turn :P. That was the only style card I saw during the whole game but that was okay. I actually didn't do very much damage, but was able to be effective nevertheless. We never took any damage from Fowl directly, but we did from destroying them. Also, one or two environmental traps hit us on a couple of occasions. However, after losing quite a lot of hp over a couple of turns, we finally stopped at around the 10hp mark. Because I'd drawn a Grease Gun. I played this, to stop all the bad guys doing damage (except the traps, which aren't targets so are unaffected by the Grease Gun), which meant Expatriette (whose turn was after mine) could gun down all the birdies with no repercussions. On the following turn, of course, my Grease Gun was destroyed, so I just played the Salvage Yard card I had in my hand and got it back again, playing it again the following turn. I also then drew a second Grease Gun, so played that on the turn after. On Tempest's next turn, he got one of my Grease Guns out of the trash with a Reclaim from the Deep, so I drew that on my next turn. The turn after that, however, I didn't bother playing it because by this time Tempest and Expatriette had whittled down the Matriarch to 5hp so I used Strike to do her two damage (I had a Pipe Wrench out). Expatriette finished things off - she already had Pride in play (and had done for most of the game), so on the final turn she played a Quick Draw to locate Prejudice as well, and unleashed both guns into the Matriarch's face. BOOM.
Who says Mr Fixer and Expatriette aren't much good? ;) Expatriette probably did the most damage, while Mr Fixer, I'm certain, saved everyone from dying with the multiple Grease Gun uses :). We ended the game with Mr Fixer on 10hp, Tempest on 9hp, and Expatriette on 8hp. And we had a good time, even if we were both half asleep by the end :D. Things looked rather worrying quite early on, when there were about a million birds out and we had no protection, but we managed to deal with it and ended up kicking some feathery arse :D.
Text-based games over Skype are a bit slow, yes, but that doesn't make them any less fun :D.
