Catch A Few Waves-Lurkers of the Deep Style

Date- Wednesday 16th November 

Place-Some Garvaldian Rocky Outcrop.

            Tonight’s adventure was a continuation of the Lurkers of the Deep scenarios that we have been ploughing through and was to feature the arrival of General Jumbo and his band of Rangers(and I don’t mean the Follow Follow kind)with a mission to either relight the light in the lighthouse or destroy it in order to ward off the navy destroyer who for some reason was going to torpedo the reef/rocks underneath the lighthouse.The locals had put the light out in order to draw the destroyer on to the rocks.Who makes up these scenarios and hopefully they are now in locks and chains?

My Eldritch horror showing how armless he was to prove.

The Rangers getting all tucked in.

The Lighthouse in question.

           Anyhoo enough of my ranting.El Presidente had placed his Rangers around the lighthouse and their task was to defend it and occasionally delegate some poor soul to go and collect explosives from a nearby shed in order to barbecue the lighthouse.All myself  and the fishy type locals had to do was turn the Rangers into shark bait-easy I thought until the random rules were mentioned and this came in the form of randomly dice generated weather rules and believe me it was four seasons in one hour ranging from Tsunamis to Tsunamis.These were diced for after the random event card was drawn usually adding insult to injury.

The first tidal wave hits.

General Jumbo doing his fair share.

“We’ll try that again!”

           El Presidente dug in and awaited my onslaught and my figures being wet and slithery things with not very many plot points it was going to be a long night especially getting periodically hit by a tidal wave and thrown back into the ocean.We played the first act with El Presidente’s Rangers cowering behind a wall giving cover to the poor squaddies delegated to bringing the explosives from the shed.I’ll give General Jumbo his due he done his fair share of humphing the barrels.

Fighting a lost cause.

Sniper in the tower.

Once again boys!

        My Eldritch demon led the way up the cliff paths hoping to get up close and personal with the Rangers but half way up the path he lost his big stick and not finding any superglue to stick it back on he just had a kiddy-on one which didn’t do him much good for as usual my dice rolls were c**p and he ended up being my first casualty as the Rangers were spot on with their rifle fire helped by a sniper who had been placed conveniently on the top of the lighthouse.Luckily steak pie and ale break had arrived so I could wail in my ale about the demise of my fishy hero.Luckily I wasn’t having him with chips.

Finally climbing the cliff.

The Eldritch not so horror goes down.

A wee bit revenge.

       The Second Act of the game saw the arrival of the other Garvaldian yokel-sorry local!Young Andrew had arrived after forsaking the company of the family Spaniel pup and was given charge of the Rangers although it seemed to be a joint effort between himself and El Presidente.Since the demise of my not so demonic Eldritch horror the plot points were few and far between so I had to ration them and just as I had slithered to the top of the cliff paths another tidal wave would come and throw my fishy folk back into the sea.My only saving grace were the pistol armed humanoid fishy folk armed with revolvers who had originally been armed with sub machine guns had made it by hook and crook to the top of the cliffs and started to fire willy nilly at the Rangers causing a few scratches and eventually a casualty of one of the barrel fetchers.That was to be my only success of the evening.

One of my fish devils plays peek a boo with the Rangers.

“And you are?”

“Sergeant Rock is coming to get you!”

               The gunfire from the Rangers was beginning to take effect and my poor fishy folk were beginning to be filleted out.One of my fish devils did get into fisticuffs with one of the Rangers but he was ganged up on by some more of the bullying Rangers and was turned into pot bait.Finally the random card was drawn to signify the lighthouse blowing up but alas the only damage done to the Rangers was the sniper falling on his butt from a high height but not incurring any damage except to his pride.Alas the  destroyer was saved and everybody went home happy except the fishy folk but they will be back for a last hurrah when I am told it will be a cast of thousands.See You Then.

General Jumbo peruses the opposition.

Boom!Up goes the Lighthouse.

          All figs and scenery provided from El Presidente’s vast collection.

          See You All When I See You-hopefully with a stack of seasonal games.

          

          This has been a Garvald Film Studios Production.