Veg Out IV: Day 4

We decided to stay with the flow of things and not wake up in time for breakfast like the past couple of days. After a bit of Rock Band in the morning, we decided on lunch at the local Chick-fil-A since Catnipped hadn't had Chick-fil-A since the college days.

Sadly, we had to send Grapes off to go home afterwards, but it was certainly nice to finally have him show up at one of these events. After wishing Grapes a fond farewell, the rest of us headed back to the apartment for some gaming.

First up was Settlers of Catan. Except for Kira, none of us had played this game before but after a brief explanation of the rules with consult from the manual, we were able to get a good game going. I started off doing well with my sheep monopoly, but several unlucky rolls and untimely sacrifices to the gods in favor of developments left me pretty much in last place the entire game. Dragonfruits had a great run and was on the edge of victory for several rounds, but the rest of us banded together to wrestle the largest army achievement from him and into Lemon's hands, depriving Dragonfruits of a victory. Catnipped however stole the show with her seemingly innocent and harmless playing style. While the rest of us were preoccupied with Dragonfruits, she swooped in during one turn to upgrade 2 cities AND snatch the longest road achievement away from Lemon to claim victory.

Catnipped would not savor this victory for long however, as the next game up was Heroscape. This was basically a table top strategy game where players used plastic figures and different cards to battle each other. The setup of the game took an incredibly long time which detracted a bit from the fun factor. We just decided to have a quick 1v1 with my army of lizardmen (matching lizardmen warriors boosted by a lizard hero, with frenzying elven archers who all synergized together-handpicked by Kira) pitted against Catnipped's merry band of misfits consisting of a rhinestone cowboy, some WWII paratroopers, and several dwarves. Needless to say, my band of lizardmen totally dominated despite Catnipped's imba luck with the dice.

We ordered Papa John's deep dish pizza for dinner and watched Astropia with the food. Although the production values for this movie weren't exactly the best, the plot was quite funny and I think because of our overall geekiness, we related with a lot of the things going on in the movie. I highly recommend this movie to any geek out there. A bit of Rock Band followed to round out the evening.