Aeon Trespass Odyssey

In this session I not only gained enough progress tokens to trigger the next part of the main story line (I know now where the final boss fight will be), but I also gained enough doom tokens to trigger the next negative story progression. This turned out to be a full blown market crash in the economy. I think the authors of this game cycle were heavily influenced by 2008!

This culminated in my fifth battle with the “main boss” primordial. As it was the fifth battle, in order to win I essentially had to do so much damage that I’d almost certainly do 12 damage and kill it outright. It was a tough fight, and I managed to get a couple of my Titans on to the vantage points which allow me to actually wound the level three body locations. By this point I’d done nine wounds. Each level three body locations counts as two wounds when they’re taken out. So if I could wound once more I could call it a victory, but if I held out for a second I’d win and also kill the primordial.

The problem was that by doing so many wounds the Primordial was now doing level three AI cards each time, which are very severe attacks. One of my Titans went from unharmed to dead twice over in a single hit. But then the awakening mechanic (on death there’s a one or two in ten chance of being possessed by a god) which I’ve previously complained kicks in so rarely that it might as well not exist – happened. My titan turned into the embodiment of Hephaestus. This interrupted the Primordial’s attack, then gave the Titan a bonus attack with which I wounded my first level three body part. Then it was immediately my next turn and I wounded another level three body part.

Awakening may trigger very rarely, but it does feel awesome when it does!