the black plague
Written by Aron Strong on June 10, 2008 – 4:53 pm -In days gone by, I lived in Sacramento where a few of my best friends and I would gather on Friday nights for games of strategy and brilliance. Penny ante poker was the subject of many an evening. The other evenings were dedicated to a game called Risk.
Risk is a turn based strategy game where you try to take over the world. Each player’s armies have a color and you gain additional armies based on the size of the countries you controlled. I was always black.
What made this game so fun, was the strategies we would employ to prevent certain players from growing too strong and wiping out the others. Then it was all about negotiations. If you could convince the others you meant them no harm, you could gain a precious foothold toward global domination.
Of course, my friends always called me the black plague. My negotiation skills were supreme, and despite the warnings of others, I often lured my prey into a false sense of confidence. This comic brought back all the warm memories of those Friday nights. Just substitute “black” for “blue” and it was like it was written from our living room over a decade ago.
Ah, good times.
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By Robert Bline on Jun 12, 2008 | Reply
Those were great days, however I seem to recall the “Black Plague” having been eradicated.
By Aron Strong on Jun 19, 2008 | Reply
Yeah, you guys learned my tricks and turned deaf ears to my machinations. Miss those days, we had good times.