A "Game" and Some More Terrain.....

 On Friday evening we had a game of "Green Horde" at Julians place - which is basically Zombicide but with Orcs etc at the Zombies.

The main reason for playing this rather than V&F was the return from England of Julians younger daughter, Charlie (Charlotte) - and she wanted to play a game with the old men but isn't particularly interested in historics - she does play the odd D&D game back home in Oxford, though - so this game seemed a good match up.

Our group of adventurers

The "enemy"

Zombies' sir, fousands of 'em!

Charlie's character confronts an Orc "abomination"

Julian v's 4 "runners"

Julian and John in a bit of a tight spot! In the end, we failed to complete the mission. I reckon we would have got there eventually but it was pretty much 11pm and I think we had all played long enough - to complete the game might have taken another hour or two!

My character - she has pretty good-looking abs, for an elf! - her bio below:

Survivors found an unconscious Seli among corpses, after a fierce battle against a zombie horde. At first, everyone thought the elf warrior had a bad blow land upon her head and lost her memory. It proved to be worse: for some reason, Seli is unable to remember most things past a few days. So far, no one knows if it is a curse, a permanent injury, or otherwise. The elf warrior keeps her outstanding martial abilities, though, and proves to be a breathtaking athlete coupled with a skilled assassin. Her joyful temper and sense of humor can be a sad thing to behold, though: every other day, Seli awakes amidst strangers, without any hint of her past, and in a ravaged world. Who is she?

And because people have been commenting about AI on their blogs recently, here are a couple of images created by a free AI program with the instruction "create an image of Sel, a red-haired elf character in the Green Horde board game"

I then enhanced the instruction to this "create an image of Seli, a red-haired female elf character from Green Horde board game using a Norse sword and shield to fight a green skinned zombie Orc"

Quite impressive really!

On returning home after the game, I found my dear wife had been busy with a productive Friday!

Today (Sunday) found as at the Auckland Rose Gardens in the upmarket suburb of Parnell

A couple of New Zealand magpies - I have never seen them this close up before - they were basically begging for food, like seagulls - obviously they are accustomed to visitors to the rose garden obliging them!

Parnell Basin (I think!)

A view back into the Auckland CBD

Looking across the gulf to Devonport on the North Shore and beyond that, Rangitoto Island, a dormant volcano

Wherever we go, I manage to find something with a military connection - drives Ruth mad, sometimes!

A few hours later, around 430pm, a couple of G&T in the spring sunshine

We were joined by a friend

That's a nice short post today - next up will likely be the completed Temu 3d church and some more pics from our S Island trip.