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More gaming with nearby friends.

First game of the evening was Horrified, which is very much in the Pandemic mould: you have a set of actions, you use them as best you can, then the opposition activates in some way. In this case you have a fixed number of monsters (a bit of a monster mash, with Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Invisible Man, why yes this is licenced from Universal) which will rampage about the place; random townsfolk pop up to be monster chow if they aren't escorted to their destinations; and each monster is defeated by a minigame involving equipment tokens, collecting them and discarding them in specific places, though which tokens and which places and in what order is different for each one.

But you only have a limited number of total defeats (automatic when a monster attacks townsfolk, preventable by discarding items when it attacks players, though a defeated character reappears next turn at the hospital) and we ran out all too soon..

Interesting. I'm not sure whether it has the legs that Flash Point does for me, but I did enjoy it.

Then on to NMBR 9, at which I did as badly as ever, but still had a good time. Really need to get on with designing an inlay so that I can store both my sets of this into a single box, though.