Back… to the FUTURE
I have a new acquaintance, a colleague in the department who plays games. Last Monday I enjoyed a brisk round of Carcasonne, a map-making and building game vaguely reminiscent of that dork classic, Settlers of Catan.
Last night, this same learned colleague brought over Chrononauts, a card game of paradoxes and shifting timelines. In the course of one game in which the outcome of World War II was hotly contested, Hitler was assassinated, then brought back to life, then re-assassinated before I accidently destroyed the universe.
I always consider an evening well-seized if I manage to annihilate the space-time continuum.
September 5th, 2005 at 2:50 pm
Wow, that sounds ridiculously awesome.
September 5th, 2005 at 6:34 pm
I assure you, it is as awesome as it sounds. You have cards which you can play which change the course of so-called “lynchpin” events, which causes paradoxes to ripple forward in time—paradoxes which you must patch in order to fulfull whatever mission you were dealt.