Third part (out of 5) of the Threat from the Deep personal quest that we’re doing for the Metal Mosaic character.

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 5, a crab that goes stab stab stab
• Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 7, loves the pain, shares the pain
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 7, the pressure is rising!

We have a clue for an artifact we’ve been seeking for a while but the path going there is narrow and flooded.

In this scenario water tiles aren’t just difficult terrain as usual but full-on obstacles. We have the option of « killing » trees, felling them in order to get over the water.

Closing Comments:

• As I understand it, the scenario changed (slightly) to adapt to a previous choice we made, whether we’d accepted the deal offered by the Fish King or not.
• With all the options of getting invisible I have with the Deepwraith, I still managed to open a room and get plain visible in the middle of it and then lost a card to not die. Bad play this one.
• Guillaume and his Metal Mosaic really pushed the pace and was, once more I felt , really reckless. He explained to me afterward that he hasn’t much choice with this character, with its pressure mechanics, it must be played accordingly. He did a lot to win the scenario mind you but one tiny bit of bad luck and he’d would lost his character (permadeath on) it seemed to me.
• I’ve looted everything I could in this one, both because of a battle goal but also because we’re short on resources to further build in town. It felt underwhelming, less impactful than killing enemies let’s say, but it is a part of the game.

This is the unlocked sequel to Ruins of Solstice (104).

In Ruins of Solstice there was a gimmick with the Earth and Ice elements, now is the turn of Wind and Fire.

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 5, a crab that goes stab stab stab
• Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 6, loves the pain, shares the pain
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 6, the pressure is rising!

First area is a long corridor with gusts of wind pushing us backward (in one line at a time). More importantly there’s 2 Savvas Lavaflows, dangerous summoners, and 4 (!) Wind Demons. Not an easy crowd. Furthermore, to complicate things one of our town challenge will add 3 Hounds at the start of the third turn.

We’ve cleared the place!

Closing Comments:

• Tense fight in the corridor, with the Pain Conduit in particular getting low in hps and pretty much surrounded.
• A very possible outcome to this scenario is the Wind Demons disarming the player characters with one of their cards and Lavaflows summoning early, probably leading to defeat.
• Not mentionned above but the Metal Mosaic opened the door and got immediately jumped by Rending Drakes and fired upon by Flame Demons and took heavy, heavy damage.
• The Deepwraith then teleported in and had lot of options of crowd control and damage-dealing and things went well.
• Another scenario that the Pain Conduit did heavy damage initially but couldn’t keep up with his low mobility and got very late in the second area,

We’re back in the Lurkers‘ sub-campaign, this scenario following Frozen Fjord (13). We get to see more of these dangerous Shrike Fiends, monsters made of swarms of ravens.

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 4, a crab that goes stab stab stab
• Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 6, loves the pain, shares the pain
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 6, the pressure is rising!

This is a 2-rooms scenario with an objective to destroy (inflict hp loss) in second room.

Closing Comments:

• Harrowe Infesters and Shrike Fiends together, we thought we were in for rough one but it went pretty smoothly (still tight though).
• I was sure that more transforming Frozen Corpses would wait for us in the other side. getting us to splitting our efforts in dealing damages on the figuress and on the objective but no, the scenario was simpler than that.
• The objective had an impactful retaliate ability, that cost us a lot of hps.
• While the Pain Conduit and Metal Mosaic inflicted heavy damage on the roost, I went back to crowd control (and kill) the dangerous Harrowers as I had no more hps to spare anyway.

Third scenario in a row where we’re on a boat! Could it be a coincidence? I think n.. err, yes, yes it was.

This time we have to get some crates out of a ghost ship. I think we agreed to this some time earlier (from an event). Did we? Anyway, this is the kind of stuff we do, boarding a ghost ship to strip it bare!

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 4, a crab that goes stab stab stab
• Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 6, loves the pain, shares the pain
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 6, the pressure is rising!

We have to Loot crates/objectives (the more the better) and then get out (get back to starting tiles).

Closing Comments:

• Went mostly well, was kind of a push-your-luck scenario with the numbers of crates picked-up being optional. We took them all.
• I’ve picked up 3 with my Deepwraith, with invisibility helping a lot.
• Guillaume’s Metal Mosaic going for the farthest/deepest crate was the real gutsy move of the session as going down 3 sets of stairs meant spending a lot of movement, just to be cornered by 3 enemies, all alone as it happened.
• I found annoying that the scenario rules were nerfing my teleports actions, that limited my movement a lot and meant that I could hardly go further than midway.

Third scenario of Pearce’s personal quest (Threat from the Deep), after:

Invasion of the docks (71) and A Giant block of Ice (72).

It seems like we’ve been sailing on the wrong waters, our boat has been sunk!

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 4, a crabman assassin
• Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 5, loves the pain, shares the pain
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 5, the pressure is rising!

All tiles are water (movement penalty) but we can embark on flotsam and bravely paddle forward…

Closing Comments:

• Fun scenario with the special rule of the flotsam movements. My Deepwraith’s many teleports were very useful and offered me freedom of movement on an otherwise difficult to navigate map, only fitting for a Lurker in a water environment.
• We had the leisure to loot almost all we wanted this time so, easier scenario than the previous ones.
• The Metal Mosaic was hit by several big attacks and was almost down but as soon as he got a little respite he managed to heal himself back quite nicely. He’s hard to kill for sure.
• The Pain Conduit put many, many curses on the monster deck and they did come in handy at the end of the scenario.
• We also had many curses on our decks because of the town challenge that we picked (one every rest) so we had to be careful on not being overconfident.

We take a break from the Lurker sub-campaign to help the Metal Mosaic further his personal quest. There’s an artefact trapped in the eponymous giant block of ice. Can’t get it out on the spot so we have to push the block itself out of the damn place WHILE fighting baddies…

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 3, a crabman assassin
• Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 4, loves the pain, shares the pain
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 5, the pressure is rising!

We have to bring to the block to the exit and kill one specific elite Steel Automaton in the last area in order to win the scenario.

Closing Comments:

• Interesting scenario, could have been easier with characters that have more push-pull options. The Metal Mosaic had one excellent card to do this, this helped a lot.
• The Pain Conduit did a LOT of damage to foes but trailed behind due to to depleted hps and lack of mobility.

We did The Jagged Shoals (14) scenario prior to this one and won but unfortunately I’ve messed up with the pictures and won’t be able to post it. As for now, we’re doing the alternative path that ultimately link at the same place as Jagged Shoals. We’re not very efficient travellers it seems. Oh, and I’ve got a new character, a Lurker!

Characters

• Schlurkt the Deepwraith (David) lvl 3, a crabman assassin
• Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 3, loves the pain, shares the pain
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 4, the pressure is rising!

This is a Kill’em all! scenario featuring hitherto not seen monsters: Shrike Fiends.

Closing Comments:

• Okay the Shrike Fiends are now officially our Frosthaven’s most hated monster, dethroning the Icy Wraiths.
• Very hard scenario. This first room was crippling, particularly for me, having to lose SEVERAL cards just to survive.
• The fact that we’re now playing with TWO town challenges at the same time can be… well. challenging.
• I see great potential in my new character but it’ll take a while to get there I think. A few level ups, a better cards deck and he’ll be great.

Back to back characters retirement for Mathieu who’ll now be playing the Pain Conduit, an unusual character who benefits from having multiple negative conditions on itself. For this scenario we’re back on Algox territory as we have an objective to complete from a town event. So no seafood buffet this time!

Characters

• Thousand Teeth the Trapper (David) lvl 5, brings innumerable lethal or helpful contraptions
• Pantherius Octadine the Pain Conduit (Mathieu) lvl 3, loves the pain, shares the pain
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 4, the pressure is rising!

We arrive at an Icespeakers Algox camp to see a dreadful scene: the poor survivors (remember how we massacred this Algox faction) are now beset by evil as Frozen Corpses and Black Imps are attacking them from all sides. In order to win this scenario we must open all 4 doors (each with its own timer) and kill every enemies (not the living Algox this time) including the slain Algox who’ll rise up as Frozen Corpses…

A Kill All Enemies with a Timer scenario.

Closing Comments:

• Well that was an hard one! Took every bit of stamina out of us to win it. The Pain Conduit was even exhausted at the end (we’ve permadeath on, he could have died with a couple of hits).
• It was a slog too with 4 hours of combat! A victory nonetheless but very demanding.
• Did the fact that we chose the « bad ending » of the Algox sub-campaign led to a tougher, unrewarding scenario maybe?
• Of course our allies were mostly useless, as usual, getting cards that did nothing good every frikkin time.
• Mobility was important to open the doors fast enough for the timer. This we could do with our team.
• However, we felt that the ability to move allies around (like the BannerSpear could do) would have been really helpful.
• The Snowdancer would also have been a great asset now that I think of it.
• Reminds me what we said me and Math that the Haven games would greatly be enhanced with a Troupe or Jazz Band style of play, whereas each scenario you can choose to bring whomever you want as a character. Would add a great strategy element. Just a thought.

We’re now an impressive tech-heavy team with the newly addition of the Unfettered Hive character among us. And we’re finally starting the Lurkers sub-campaign, with a more aquatic theming throughout.

Characters

• Thousand Teeth the Trapper (David) lvl 5, brings innumerable lethal or helpful contraptions
• 4h the Hive (Mathieu) lvl 3, has multiple robotic bodies, « jumps » from one to the other
• Pearce DeWalt the Metal Mosaic (Guillaume) lvl 3, the pressure is rising!

Straightforward, linear scenario, dotted with many traps (hooray!). We must find the Coral Corpse mini-boss and kill it.

Closing Comments:

• Cool array of gadgets (and mashed-up star wars minis) from the Hive’s character. Unfortunately, we won’t see him for a while as he’s retiring already! His personal quest, with a stroke of luck, has been quite easy to achieve.
• The Trapper and Metal Mosaic have a very good synergy between the two characters with the latter being able to spring traps into enemies.
• Traps are great against shielded enemies as they go right through.
• An effective use of traps and pushes trivialized the mini-boss but it was fun.