Happy Sunday all! Another great show.

On horror movie techniques, another great one is the “weird thing in the background of a mundane scene”. I can’t think what the proper name might be! I think it’s exorcist 3 again that has a scene like that, where it’s a normal day-room for patients. Everything starts out normal, and you follow the characters into the room, and at first glance, it just seems normal. Then you realise there is a possessed woman crawling across the ceiling, but basically, everyone ignores her, because no one is looking up and the actual scene is playing out as normal. It’s not a jump-scare, so much as just uber-creepy.

Another good one is in a Japanese horror movie about an apartment where a child was drowned. This woman and her daughter move in and are haunted throughout the film by the ghost of this drowned child. Then there is this scene where the mother has been bathing her daughter and gets attacked. She is wrestling with the ghost and tries to force it under the water in the bath, and runs off with her daughter held over her shoulder. She gets to the elevator and is slamming the button to get the doors closed. She then see’s her daughter stumble out of the open door of the apartment, covered in water and looking for her. She, and the viewer, at this point, realises she is holding the monster child that has been haunting them the whole time.

Who goes there looks awesome, I would indeed love to see a live stream of that, or a proper let’s play. Looks like it would be super-tense.

Played quite a bit of AoS:Champions this week, played a couple of games earlier today. The mulligan discussions has come up, but it seems the standard starter set are more vulnerable to the problem. I am not sure at this stage (given how a lot of the quests work for getting your blessings) if it makes sense to really have a mix of 3+ unit types in a single deck, as it seems the starter sets typically have. The ones we have been playing with as well also start with <20pt maximum hero allowance, which might be influencing things a lot. Since some good Heroic Acts that you have available at all times might well also mitigate that dodgy initial card-draw. Justin has a point as well, that the lack of insta-death cards, means you might not be on the back-foot for that long. Still, I think as a house-rule it's not going to hurt. We are planning on picking up a full box of boosters and running a deck construction and game-day with a few friends in a couple of weeks time. We are blocked at the minute as it looks like most places have run out of the full boxes of boosters. Apparently, they've sold 10,000,000 cards in 6 days, or something crazy like that. They are currently printing the 2nd run now.

I actually quite like the idea of Weird Biblical Wars, sticking to the core concept of there being nothing supernatural, but a lot of apparently supernatural biblical events are actually the result of "mad ancient science", and making those key unit might be quite cool. I actually loved "Too Human" lore, the video-game that basically posited that all the Norse myths are to-do with a super-advanced alien war (not entirely unlike Marvel universe, but really does it as high sci-fi, not sci-fi that looks like magic). I also enjoyed (guilty pleasure) the God's of Egypt movie, which in some places made it like the Gods were really just individuals gifted with super-tech, almost anime-style mecha-suits for fighting and super abilities.