The Gamers: Hands of Fate Page #2

wonder of wonders!

I'm just a chiseled gamer guy who saw a gorgeous gamer girl

and was willing to risk total humiliation for a chance to talk to her

after this is all over what do you say you teach me how to play over a cup of coffee?

I know this great waffle place it's open all night

ok

let me break it down for you

you're cute, sure

you speak in complete sentences

and I'm reasonably certain that you bathed in the last 24

yep

the thing is I'm here to game I have this tournament to win

and a whole army of the undead to thwart

I can do 20 pull-ups

not in a row or anything...

Tazer Ok! yeah sure

you just do your thing

and I

will just eh...

wanna see how the whole shebang turns out

play it off and back away and...

she totally franced ya, didn't she?

ah, course she did

ah how does utter defeat taste? bitter I hope

this is not sarcasm by the way

the night is young, and as you said victory conditions vary

you got a... little.. here, come here

Skafla

oh no hey look I'm sorry

but you know it's like I've always said men are bad at relationships

and women are bad at things

ladies and gentlemen

our winner and regional champion

Chris Hunter boo...

congratulations you've won a birth in the national championship

and the storyline prize

so...

what's it gonna be?

war or diplomacy?

war of course! boo...

hey hey hey if you don't like the way the game is going

all you gotta do is beat the legacy at Gencon

come on! hate me more!

your pulp rage gives me strength

great game Natalie

way to give the legacy another win

hey, you kicked some serious ass in there

I lost

now I gotta play my way through the Swiss

f***ing legacy

right, you don't play

they're this... cabal of elite dickbags

who like f***ing with the player base and making unpopular story decisions

they created the starvation deck that all denial thing you saw in there

and they just sit behind an undead army

that doesn't have to eat while they wipe out all food production on the board

so you can't even bring your heroes into play without them starving to death

and they just whittle you away

while you sit there watching your deck burn

and they're gonna ride that pony all the way to the championship

and flush questing down the toilet

Them's the stakes

Ixhasa wins

questing's gone as a victory condition

I never thought I'd leave this game

but I can't take this sh*t anymore

and without any ability to affect anything

wow, I've really ranted all over you

it's ok I didn't understand most of it anyway

so... waffles?

tell you what thunder jaw

win Gencon for Holden

put my queen on the throne

and sure, I'll go out with you

challenge accepted

no it wouldn't and I'm telling you it would!

There is zero evidence to support your claim

the evidence is rather clear!

Let's ask Cas. Cas!

Say that you were to chop off the hydra's dick

do you think... Shut up

Ready for this?

We're going to Gencon!

The best four days in gaming!

Expecting a bigger reaction!

well, Joe and I were already going

Yeah and now someone from the group

actually has a chance of getting laid

Hey!

So I'm winning a tournament for this card flopper chick

She's totally into me

Will he be there?

yes, Gary, of course he'll be there.

He's always there

You're gonna have to deal with him sooner or later

I don't think I'm ready yet

Now all I have to do is learn how to play the nine kingdoms

Empires

yea tomato tomaaa I don't care

Allright! Which one of you guys

wants to lose to a guy who's touched boob?

Buxtehude, you are summoned to the queen!

It is as I feared war has come to Holden

The cult of shad Hujem marches against us

Meet them in battle, Myriad

Save our kingdom

The god king shall return

I'm warmed up now rematch

and use a real deck this time

Buxtehude, you are summoned to the queen!

It is as I feared war has come to Holden

The ord of the floating isles march against us

Meet them in battle, Myriad

Save our kingdom

I said real deck

Rematch

I'm bored

I'll play! I'll play

Buxtehude, you are summoned to the queen!

It is as I feared war has come to Holden

this... feels so familiar

Something unlike anything I have ever seen marches against us

Meet them in battle, Myriad

Are we even playing the same game?

I'm playing chibi dance number one, hurray

I don't know what you're playing

Man you are like an anti montage

come on let's leave that sad man alone

You just keep getting worse!

Please, from the bottom of my heart

and I do mean this sincerely

Keep trying

You're flailing at mediocrity is

Marvelous entertainment

Might I have a look at your deck

It's not like you're going to be able to help

Those kids were obviously cheating

Now he's blaming kids!

This is like Christmas

And my birthday all at the same time

Let's do a test draw see if we can find the problem

Buxtehude

Am I summoned

to the queen?

Yes

We must face... Is it war?

Has war come to Holden?

War?! Heavens no!

I merely wished to assess our defenses

Have you been sleeping? You look troubled

I've been having the strangest dreams

at least that's what I think they are

dreams

Majesty

our defenses are woefully inadequate

not a kingdom in the world can stand against the dread army

and with famine rampant we have neither the troops nor the wealth to prevail

If we are too weak to stand on our own

then, what we clearly need are allies

A political marriage would strengthen our position

I'm of more use to us here

What do you suggest?

How shall we defend ourselves?

No

let me quest, majesty

the way my father did, the way that made Holden great

the days of epic questing are over, Myriad

They died with your father

majesty

Assess our defenses

I would know how inadequate they are

before I take marriage off the table

There's your problem

Your gold to food ratio is off

you've got too few quests

and a metric butt load of heroes

if you're questing...

you need to focus around these two

Myriad, and Dundereal

We have only these few men

Do they look strangely similar to you?

We can't supply a larger army and our weapons selection is...

embarrassingly out of date

we cannot defend ourselves with this

my father could have

I wonder

crafty as he was I doubt even old Simm could have

made a go at this with these paltry resources.

sly old fox

I miss him

There has to be something we haven't considered

Something we haven't thought of

There is

Retreat

Leave the castle

lead your people back into the marches

This

Holden

It has been a wonderful experiment

and a welcoming refuge

but Simm made may enemies when he carved it from the wilderness

enemies with long memories

I've been through the fall of a dynasty Myriad

Life goes on

Life goes on if you allow it

Byron, could you please go count the bulk dice again?

Sort them by color.

Generation

Holder won't last a generation

Crushed

or annexed

it's only a matter of time

Dundereal won't say what the whole court knows the queen will have to do

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