One more delve. One more torch left.
It seems that I have left this blog by the wayside, which is a shame. The commitments of work have endowed me with a dearth of time over the past few years and the endless the lack of compulsion to write anything here has compounded this. However, it seems that given the circumstances of The Plague and the extra time it has given me that I should like to post some more things here, which have always been little more than a random assemblage of my interests without much forethought or care.
Clement Atlee once said of the final volume of Churchill’s A History of the English Speaking Peoples that it should have been entitled ‘Things From History that I find Interesting’ due it’s random and unfocused content. He had a point, but so did Churchill and his animus infests this sort of blog like the wriggling necromantic magic in your common garden variety zombie. Though ‘Things About Tabletop Gaming that I Find Interesting’ might be better for me.
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that the chaos taint was spread in the water. This causes him to then begin tracking the river back to its source. The story then becomes and episodic adventure with Gault moving from place to place overcoming enemies using his rapier, pistol and sheer Sigmarite faith. He meets two companions along the way. The first Franz Vogel, an imperial Greatsword of the Averland province. The second is Vargni Valnirsson, a dwarf. While I really enjoyed watching Vogel and Gault beat up various enemies together, I feel that Vargni was introduced too late in the book for me to feel any significant attachment to him. The plot is reasonably predictable as is to be expected of anything to do with Warhammer. It does however, allow itself a few twists and turns, including who is behind the taint in the river (hint: it isn’t followers of chaos!) and some various details pertaining to specific characters.
Every character has hunger, thirst and temperature, all of which have to be regulated or you will die. Early game this has meant scavenging through buildings, with the pack at our heels, looking for tins of soup and dog food. Killing zombies can also be quite fruitful once you get the hang of it. Though by far the best way we found of getting food was farming. We set up shop in a small fishing hut next to a lake. The choice was obvious for us when we came across it. An easy supply of water, a building made of metal. It also has the added bonus of an easy escape; zombies can’t swim you see, but we can. Usually in the game, zombies walk during the day and run at night. We didn’t really like this feature, though I can see why some people would. So instead the options menu allowed us to make them walk all the time. To counteract this obvious plummet in difficulty, we increased the amount of zombies that spawn at all times by fifty-percent. Hordes became much more horde-like.
Vault of the Geek 