The story continues with us going to Champps to eat with a very large group that was scattered. We order some drinks and I try to order a Mile-High Ice Cream Pie during the drink order, but I get denied. The waiter comes back for the appetizer orders and I try again and this time i succeed! Has your curiosity been piqued as to what exactly that entails? Well you are in luck, because I have a picture for fear that i might have been told to GTFO (showing my meme age).

I really should carry around a banana for scale, but once again, my silverware will have to do the job. They brought me 3 spoons because they expected me to share, but you don’t get to be my size by just being lazy. The waiter didn’t think I could eat the entire thing and attempted to bet me. I did struggle a bit, but that was primarily due to the brownie portion being hard after a while and suffering through it. It reminded me of my childhood and Carvel’s Ice Cream Cake’s of which I now want to purchase one, but fear not, i don’t plan to eat it in one sitting.The Arrow Brook Gaming guys joined the table around this time and I got past my issues with the entree prices and purchased a double burger with a fried egg. Serdapi wanted to bet someone whether I’d finish that and all of my fries too or not and I couldn’t get the stakes to be high enough, but I did it any ways. All of the betting started because Drew owed Paul drinks for not making top cut. The waiter and I never came to an agreement on the bet, but he ended up paying for my dessert anyways so I made sure to over tip him. The waited told me that some one said I’d be paying for the whole dinner of which I pointed to BobbySapphire and said “He’s the only guy who might try to say that” and the waited ratted him out as the culprit; I applaud the attempt at trying to get me to okay us paying for the whole tables meal with some peer pressure, but I wasn’t drinking so that didn’t work out.

Day 2

BobbySapphire leaves early with Outrun to meet Reflex and make sure the stream table is set up. I eventually wake up Serdapi and NJCuenca because NJCuenca has to play in the event and we get there a bit before he needed to be there. This is the most accurate gif I could find, but all the little runners are cars. We arrived safely… i was queasy as all hell, but safe.

The Trilogy event doesn’t start until Noon and I made some adjustments to Satine Droids instead of building an entirely different deck. I checked in with the rest of the team for any needed talks but they all seemed to be fine. I talked with some of the Day 2 Loopers that wanted my take on the plan of attack in their matches, but overall I feel that I didn’t do much.

Trilogy

Trilogy started and Round 1 I played a very nice lady from across the pond (Ireland if not mistaken) who was also on Satine Droids, but unfortunately she wasn’t very accustomed to the deck and things didn’t bode too well for her in the match as I super ramped out a bunch of dice and started jamming unblockable damage via Electro Sword under the shields she had put on Satine after I killed one of the droids. Rounds 2 through 4 were a bit of a blur, but I know that I played against Biggy – Satine Droids, Alvis Satine Droids, and Kroozin – e4Lom, Sentinel, General Grievous in some order. I think Biggy was in an okay spot, but I had Entourage and he didn’t and at one point I had stolen and kept his Fickle I think. He quickly murdered one of my droids but he didn’t focus on ramping after that to equalize board state and kept trying to push damage but he couldn’t match up to what I was throwing out. Against Alvis, he dealt 4 damage Round 1 and i advanced my board state a little further than him, then after Round 3, I had still dealt 0 damage and he still had only dealt that 4. We were disrupting and mitigating the ever living shit out of each other and I think at the end of Round 3 I had 1 Entourage and his Fickle and he had Entourage and a Hired Muscle. Round 4 we just started trading haymakers and things were dying but we were also nearing time being called. At the end of the game I think my Entourage specials were doing 5 damage and I had stolen both of his Fickles, but that might have been vs biggy, I just know that I won in time by 1-2 damage. Kroozin came out the gates spitting hot fire for damage and brought R2 down to 1-3 health remaining, but only put a single hired muscle on the table where as I did my usual of hand over a character’s life to build up a massive board state. R2 ended up having 3 bounties on him but I kept mitigating the direct damage dice or healing and shielding while disrupting him to prevent him from doing too much. The game might have ended with him never getting to kill my R2 through my mitigation, even after seeing my hand with a Counterintelligence but the hand was stacked with mitigation and healing.

Round 5 vs Luke Mag on ePalp3 eWat

I had a really slow start and he got to go pretty wide with the upgrades on Palp. I felt pretty far behind at one point, but was clawing back with shields and removal. I chirpa hutted an Ewok Warrior out and the game ended with the Warrior holding a Grievance Striker and lethal to kill palp showing on the table, but Luke hit a Fatal Blow to kill my Ewok Warrior. My meme dreams were almost turned into real life if Ewok Warrior finished off Palpatine. I had removal in hand for his die, but I felt that a single reroll was likely to end the game so I had to push for lethal damage and got it, little did the fur ball know that a hidden blade was already to his throat, ready to end his short life. He was just born from the hut and sent out to battle against the Galactic Emperor. He won’t have a movie written about him, nor will he be encased in plastic like his great great grandfather was before.

Above is Great Great Grand Papi Ewok Warrior, Slayer of a Thousand Mini’s, Crit Hitter of Dice, Assassin of Named Characters, and the Unkillable Hero of his generation. The Ewok Swarm never knew a greater warrior.

Round 6 – Serdapi – Satine Droids

This isn’t a story the Jedi would tell you. We sit down to the table and people are already giving Serdapi their condolences for his impending loss to me in the mirror. He keeps saying “I’ve beat him before!”. I can’t remember much of anything from this game except me regretting that I built his list with 2 Electro Swords in it because we couldn’t find another A-300 blaster. I took many an unblockable damage to the face under shields and got wrecked by my own Canto Casino which had been ruining my life all day as I tried to gamble for profits and failed. I had gotten destroyed (I’m actually not sure, but i know i lost) and if there was any lesson to take away from it, don’t gamble the money (resources) that you can’t afford, otherwise you’ll find yourself not being able to pay the rent (entourage) because you thought you’d win when betting on RED on the roulette table. I never knew that I could give someone so much joy with a single loss of mine. I know that I won’t be able to live this down… mainly because he won’t let me. Don’t lose, it sucks!

Top Cut (From the Stands)

I was checking in on the team in top cut in between rounds to see if they needed anything (we had a lunch break at one point and i had some granola bars on me). Every one seemed fine or if they needed something, one of the others had taken care of it already. There were a lot of ups and downs and I honestly didn’t get to see the entire resolution of any single game, but I know that there was a point where it was the Semi-Finals and both Tacster and BobbySapphire had lost the first games of the set to JMag and Rothermal respectively. I thought we were going to be looking at the darkest timeline with a Destiny Council Final table like we had done during Year 1 (2017 NA Champs). How was i ever supposed to heckle JMag for missing Top Cuts if they pulled it off. We ended up not being the universe with the darkest time line so whilst I can no longer heckle him for 17th place at Worlds, I’ll have to find solace in that the Hyperloops Team started the NA Champs Dynasty by completing the 3 Peat. At 1:52:30 you can hear the “Yub Nub” chants / screams.

Can you guess where we went out to celebrate after??? If you guessed Steak and Shake, you’d be absolutely WRONG! I lobbied for Tacqueria Restaurant Vargas again and ordered some Beef and Bean Nachos for the table as well as got myself a Virgin Daiquiri (i thought I had a picture, but can’t find it). Everyone seemed pretty pleased with the decision and this time I got the Nacho plate that was pictured back from Day 1 with the Shrimp, Chicken, and Beef. Mended got a horchata (sweet rice drink) and was in utter bliss. I’m 100% sure that it will become our new spot for celebrating. Oddly enough, the other side of the duplex AirBnB was rented out by a Final Fantasy team that also won their tournament but it might have been Worlds for them, so that place is the spot for champions!

Day 3 and 4

I ended up playing eYoda eLeia2 mill for Infinite and was all the way to 5-0 before playing my finals opponents (Vontzr who is new team member of Entourage Gaming, Kroozin who i mentioned earlier is from there as well). Vontzr was made some adjustments to Satine Droids in an effort to hate out Mill decks. We offered a prize split of the tickets and we both already had worlds seats, so I inquired to the judge if we could just roll for the 1 prize ticket differential and call it a day, but he wanted to play it out. I had only been 5 games in with the deck and I don’t play mill so having a good idea of when to shield or to push the extra mill was hard for me. I tended to lean on the side of being alive means i’ll mill more anyways but I ended up losing Yoda to an action cheat and lost the game with 2 cards left total for the opponent. Having to mill Inflict Pain twice was pretty annoying and I’ll never know if there was something better that I could have done in order to win that match. Repetitions matter a lot.

I continued the grind into Sunday with the Draft and the French Canadian guys wanted me to draft in their pod because they wanted to try to get a cutthroat draft with a bunch of strong players so I obliged. We ended up with 9 players total though which threw a wrench into the bracketing and I volunteered to amend the bracket. One kid ended up with R2, 3PO, and fateful, but he opted to run Yoda2 over the fateful which i felt was a rather large mistake when he could have fit yellow in the deck and went bananas. I ended up going 2-1 with one of the wins being a bye. I had a shot to win the game i lost, but I forgot to trigger 4 Loms ability to return a Bounty to hand when I killed off a guy and then got discarded for my last card in hand. The next “lets see what would have happened roll out” showed my pulse cannon ending the game and him having no mitigation for it, but there is no reason to put emphasis in that because I had messed up and deserved to lose.

Cuenca and I had the same flights back and joined BobbySapphire in an uber to the aiport (his plane was 20 minutes before ours). I got owned by the Spirit Airlines machines not printing out my bag tag and me having not flown them before so I went from 1st in line to the back of the line which got resolved 20 minutes later when the machine still wouldn’t print my tag and the lady told me that she’ll handle it. Cuenca and i toured the Myrtle Beach airport then decided to stop at one of the restaurants we passed to get food because we had a steep layover and everything else was closed. Unfortunately for us, the 20 minutes we spent walking around made us 4 minutes late to order food because the kitchen had just closed. We got WRECKED and had taken 7pm flights that after the layover got us to the home airport at 1am, just in time for me to take the express shuttle home instead of crashing at Cuenca’s. BobbySapphire got super wrecked when his layover had a delay and that poor guy didn’t get to Logan until like 2 something and finally got home at like 330am. Monday didn’t exist for any of the 3 of us as we tried to correct out sleep patterns as well as get some semblance of shut eye. Cuenca got sick though and you might hear his story later this week or early next week.

Overall

I always super enjoy this trips and hanging out with the rest of the guys. Most people don’t know that the 3 of us are all from Massachusetts and those that do, don’t know that we really only see each other offline at events. Sharing accommodations with NJCuenca is always a trip and I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s so good that it could be it’s own Patreon tier. I ended up skimping on some of the interesting details and forgetting to mention some people so let’s see if I can throw down a list of thanks and stuff that went down that I have no intention of explaining and will let your minds run rampant.

Drawde is the best dressed man every time i see him and I will one day lose weight so I can only wear suits and be fly like him.

Dinner at St Elmo’s is the bees knees and the Shrimp Cocktail is the craziest addiction. I feel like I’m snorting a line as my eyes water during the “hit” (horseradish hit) and I go “WOOOOO” like i’m Ric Flair after.

JMag might be a Kleptomaniac as he somehow stole my R2D2 and Chewbacca blaster die as well as my battlefield. It was an elaborate ruse to take my crazy OP dice and I never won another standard game that day when he returned them. Accident or Destiny Council plot?!?!?!

ABG Drew walked into an AirBnB and thought we were all hiding like it was an episode of The Leftovers and we Sudden Departured.

Don’t ever play Outer Rim with a bunch of people under the influence (Post Win Celebration with the alcohol flowing) when half of them have never played before. I dodged that bullet but that’s why we got this gem of a quote “I love playing a game where you realize after the 3rd turn you messed up and you’ll never win the game but get to play for 2 more hours”

Serdapi would be the wheel man in all of my future dreams where I’m part of a bank robbery.

I buy a lot of GQ tickets and people who thought they could match up with me realized the error of their ways. I’m looking at you Lanza and Kopacz *insert squinty eyes here*

You know you’ve let yourself go when you get on an airplane and feel that you took up more than your allocated space. Motivation to work out acquired or I’ll start paying for Comfort seats and I’m too cheap for that.

I love the destiny community (for the most part) and they are great groups of people.

X-Wing is awful because you get to go to time with 90 minute rounds. I think it’d be a sweet online game though so you can’t mess up spacing or have people bump shit. Destiny is amazing because we have 35 minute rounds.

My condolences to the wallets of all the Spot Gloss collectors when all of these new spots popped up at the same time.

Marvel LCG demo guy had the game end before he got to do the villain turn because we had 4 CCG players sit at the table and we beat the crap out of that 30 hp Rhino to end the demo. Why we didn’t get extra prizes for it??

Boku no hero / Hero Academia looked pretty random and i never got the starter things for demoing because it closed at 6 and we ended up 4 short 🙁

Time to grind for Nova to reclaim my pride.

Ewoks is going to mess up a lot of people that don’t learn to cope with it.

I’m proud of all the Loopers who made Day 2. All 22 people from Day 2 are members of the Loops Discord, ABG Discord, are members of the Destiny Council, and / or are named Tacster. It’s not surprising that the people who spend the time to get better are the ones making Day 2 at events.

The Hyperloops Team is going to be public enemy #1 at Gen Con 2020!

We had almost 500 viewers at one time on the stream and I didn’t ever believe that could happen in this game. I thought it was supposed to be #Deadstiny

I take too long to write and touch up things and release stuff hours late.

~HonestlySarcastc