Faith 1: Loot Goblin Punishment pick

Faith pondered her ‘lose, lose’ options. She was already way behind on movement, so “Slow Your Roll” isn’t happening. “Double Trouble” also doesn’t sound good at all. “Loot Goblin” could be something where she gets her items stolen by a little robber guy, but she didn’t have anything to be stolen so she knew exactly what to take!

Faith pulled the card out and the others SCHWOOPed back into the board.

Faith began reading aloud. “Loot Goblin. Punishment. If presented with the opportunity, you can’t keep your hands off of any nearby booty… Sweet! So I’ll be **** to take cursed treasure or something? That sounds like it’ll barely even come up. I’m gonna be grabbing all the loot anyways.” Faith was chattering quite a bit, a coping mechanism she has for when she’s in stressful situations.

“I don’t know guys, I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” Mia said with a concerned look.

Faith could see that Sophie was starting to be convinced, but there was NO WAY Faith was going to let them stop after one bad turn of hers. Sophie wouldn’t let her hear the end of it. Faith imagined Sophie chanting all the way back, “Your first turn was so bad that we quit the entire game!” Faith couldn’t let that happen. Plus, she wanted to come back from this bad start and create the ultimate underdog story, of course. Faith knew that was the funnest way to win games. Making Board Game McGee eat her words would be oh so sweet.

“No way! It’s just a coincidence, Mia. I fell on the floor and that bumped a mechanism and then the turn ended or something,” Faith reassured Mia. Then she turned to Sophie and said, “There’s gotta be an explanation, and if we quit now we’ll never know how the game even works. Aren’t you curious if every round has a time limit? What’re you gonna tell all your boy toys at the game store if they ask you how this game works?” Faith asked Sophie while holding out the pair of dice.

Both the other girls loosened up a bit. They knew Faith was right, and there was a lot more game to play.

“What are we even worried about? It’s just a game,” said Sophie. She took the dice, shook them, and rolled.

Sophie looked at the result. A two and a four. She watched as her laundry basket slid forward to the sixth space.

“Well, it’s not a microphone, for rolls at least,” said Sophie. The others nodded, acknowledging that she hadn’t read her roll aloud.

P’TIING!

All three of them jumped at the loud noise. It always came at just the right time to surprise you and cut through the silence of the room and get the heart racing.

“Of course you get twice as far…” grumbled Faith, clearly exaggerating the two extra spaces Sophie went past her.

Three more orange CHALLENGE cards peeked out from the board.

Sophie’s three options were “Lunar Landing”, “Seam Stress”, and “Knock Knock, Who’s Bare?”.

Sophie contemplated the options, putting a lot of thought and strategy into each title’s implied difficulties.