Ariel: Okay! Um ... look at what? You got all the Heroscape out again?
Sasha: No -- this is all new Heroscape.
Ariel: It is? OMG, you're RIGHT! Where did all of that come from???
Sasha: I'm gonna say our boyfriend ordered it and then hid it from us when it showed up.
Ariel: What! That's not very like him at all! Why would he do that? Are you sure?
Sasha: Well, you know, remember -- we did hide the first batch of Heroscape stuff from him when they delivered it. And by "we," I mean, "you."
Ariel: Oh yeah.
Sasha: Do you wanna get it all out of these boxes?
Ariel: Sure!
Sasha and Ariel: (open, open, unbox, extract, extract ...)
Sasha: Whew, they sure do make it a lot of work getting these things out of the packaging.
Ariel: No kidding! But wow, look at them all!
Sasha: That's gotta be more figures than in the first two whole sets that we played with.
Ariel: Do you think?
Sasha: Let's count them and find out!
Ariel: Ehh ... I'll just trust you on that. It sounds like a lot of work and plus I want to start playing asap.
Sasha: Which guys do you think you want to be?
Ariel: I don't know! Sheesh, I only just barely saw them this very minute!
Sasha: Okay, then --
Ariel: OOH! This horsey guy with horns on his head.
Sasha: Centaur.
Ariel: No, they're totally on the sides of his head. If he had a horn in the center, he'd be a unicorn. Even I know that.
Sasha: No, a centaur is half man and half horse.
Ariel: But he's got to be half something else too, or why would he have these horns?
Sasha: Maybe they're part of a helmet or headdress? Anyway, what's his card say about him?
Ariel: Let's see ... his name is "Halushia, Scion of the Wild." I guess that answers that. A scion must be a guy who's half man and half horse and half horns.
Sasha: I think a scion is just an offspring or a descendent, actually.
Ariel: Okay, only I don't care anymore because he has that same "Command Familiar" power as your octopus chick from the other time we played! So I could totally use him with Owl-Shoe and that kitty-dog you used to wipe the floor with me.
Sasha: Sure, go for it. Is that all he does?
Ariel: He also has "Ride-by Special Attack!" So somebody gets to ride him, I guess ... except he doesn't have a saddle ...
Sasha: Maybe they ride him bareback.
Ariel: No way. It would be so dumb to call it "Ride-by Special Attack" when you could call it "Bareback Special Attack."
Sasha: Read the rules on the card, then. How do they ride him?
Ariel: Er ... that's weird, it doesn't say anything about anybody riding him. That makes the name even dumber, then, because he's still bareback even if no one's riding him, so they could still call it "Bareback Special Attack," only they didn't.
Sasha: I guess you don't have to play him, then, if he's that dumb.
Ariel: No, it's a cool power! It's just a dumb name. I'll have to call it something else, like ... "Hoof-by Stab-You-In-The-Eye." Or maybe "Gallup-by, something something."
Sasha: "Gallup-by, Wallop-a-Guy."
Ariel: Hot dang, yes!
Sasha: Is that all you're going to play, then? Halushia and Owly and Kita?
Ariel: I don't know. I guess that doesn't seem like very many guys. What about those wing dudes and that squirrel with a jet-pack?
Sasha: Let's see, the cards say they're the "Vorid Strike Gliders" and "Wing Commander Tuck Harrigan."
Ariel: Did he already tuck his hair once?
Sasha: No, "Harrigan." It's a name, see?
Ariel: I'm going to call him Tuck Hair Again anyway. It sounds more fun.
Sasha: It sounds exactly the same.
Ariel: We'll both know what I'm saying.
Sasha: So. Those cards all together add up to ... 325 points. I guess I'd better find 325 points worth of guys from all these other ones.
Ariel: Don't play that one there, ick!
Sasha: Why not?
Ariel: It looks like a pile of spiders.
Sasha: Yaassss, that's awesome!
Ariel: No, it's totally ick!
Sasha: I'm playing it. And it looks like it goes with these individual spidery guys too. "Oathbound Phalanx" and "Oathbound Legionnaires."
Ariel: More spiders? No way.
Sasha: They're only a hundred thirty points together, so I still need, what, 195 more? Hmm. What the heck, these two Kyrie Warriors are 100 and 95 points, so if I take them I'm done. Their names are Kilkorax and Mielki.
Ariel: I'm glad none of my characters is named "Korax." And I'm definitely not scared of somebody named Milky. So I guess that makes up for you taking a bunch of horrible spiders.
Sasha: Okay, so ... now we --
Ariel: Omg, look what time it is.
Sasha: Uh ... 8:30? Is there a show coming on or something?
Ariel: No, I just think that's too late to start putting together a battlefield map and then playing.
Sasha: Pretty sure we could put a map together in 10 minutes and play in less than an hour.
Ariel: Yeah, but then it'll be my bedtime, and if your Pile-o-Spiders kills my guys really bad, it might give me nightmares.
Sasha: Seriously?
Ariel: I mean, it might. Why risk it? We can just play tomorrow.
Sasha: All right. I guess that's okay. That's it for this post, then?
Ariel: It better be, 'cause if I start looking closer at all those other new figures, I might change my mind and want to play some of them instead.
Sasha: I guess we can pack it in, then.
Ariel and Sasha: Goodnight, everybody!
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