Game Report: Gaming at the Conversatory
On Friday night we-3 went over to the Conversatory (where tiguh_tiguh and artistic_alex live) for a little gaming party being held as a send off for speedlime, who's leaving town tonight for a month of travel in Europe. Games we played:

Slapticus (officially known as Perpetual Commotion): This is popular with many in the group but I hadn't played it much... after a couple of rounds, I was with John in deciding that it's not my kind of game.

Taboo: This is another one I haven't played much myself but which my friends have played a lot, so much so that in this session we were using a bunch of homebrew cards which Alison, anigma_i, and Alex had been creating earlier in the evening. I enjoyed this game and did pretty well as the clue-giver, but kept forgetting and trying to help the other team guess when it was our turn to sit out. (I hate sitting out.)

Hold'em: Since 4 people in the group are Poker-holics, we couldn't resist playing a little $1 tournament. I was slowly dying for want of a decent hand when I finally got pocket aces on the big blind and re-raised all-in before the flop. TV Tom called me with pocket twos and of course he caught another two, knocking me out.

Foosball: By this time it was too late to start another major game, but everyone else was playing Guillotine so the poker players (me, John, Alex, and TV Tom) played a game of Foosball. It turned out to be a very exciting match, as TV Tom and I turned a near crushing defeat into a turnaround victory. Alex and John were at 9 points (game is 10) while Tom and I had just 3, then we hit goal after goal until we too had 9 points -- and a captivated audience! And then we won! Yay!