The Curtain Jerker Post

Yes, we are all siblings. 3 Brothers, 2 Sisters. Same Dad. Same Mom. Hard to believe? Not to us. You'll understand quickly as more posts get written that it's a relative insanity. Still can't believe it? Just remember, you can pick your friends, you're stuck with family.

Since I'm posting on Monday, it means that I'm the oldest of the 5 siblings. How old? Right now, all gonna say is I'm under 20 months to 30 years. Liz, who is the youngest is about 15 years younger than me. I grew up with He-man, Gi-Joe, and Thundercats. Liz had Pokemon. Though admittedly, I'd used to watch it with her and I'm the one who ended up buying Red Pokemon to play with her. I live at my own place in New Hampshire. (Read: I'm the good son) I'm also working to finishing up my Masters as I work. Liz is still at home and in High school. The other 3 siblings are a mix between us two. The point I'm trying to make is that there's 5 of us. So expect a diversity of topics and views. Some things are going to matter to certain siblings, where as they won't to someone else. This is what is going to make this project interesting. Well for me at least, and hopefully for those of you who are going to read this. Oh, while I've got your attention, I'm a Obama Supporter.

As a group, we are highly competitive. Right now the game of Choice among us is Munchkin. Over the weekend we had two highly cutthroat games of Munchkin with all 5 of us and one guest. There's also a rumor that there was a cutthroat King's Blood game this weekend as well. Our Munchkin games start off in nearly the same way every time. We start to help each other out to get treasure and levels. [Defcon 5] This quickly becomes a bidding war for the best help. [Defcon 4] Then the Curses start getting played. [Defcon 3]. As this goes on, we're making deals to keep other siblings from interfering.[Defcon 2] Which quickly degrades into combat modifier cards being thrown about in mass. [Defcon 1] By the end of the game, there's an argument on who actually won [Nuclear winter].

Liz claimed the win in the first game, but its disputed. Liz, tried to run away, failed, got rid of a monster one of the two monsters, and then claimed the win saying she beat other one. Since it's her game, she got to make the ruling to end the game. Amazingly, she's too young to remember the 2000 election. In our second game this weekend, Frank took a co-win with a guest playing for the first time. There was a situation where an experienced player would have jettisoned Frank for a solo win. Had that happened, I wouldn't just let it happen and not have used the nuclear thief option. That is... thieving all of Frank's Items in an attempt to stop him. I was stealing items just to steal other items. I had Anne, Bill and Liz throwing items at me to keep this shock and awe attack on the roll. If you want to know what that this might had been like, one of my ytmnd sites has a good feel for it. Just replace "Clowns" with "All of Frank's item cards".

See you in the comments - Greg

3/26 edit: We Interrupt This Program
Since all the cool kids are doing it, gave my post an actual title now than a Brotherhood 2.0-esque one (It was Greg: March 24th, 2008) Oh well... It's our first week. go Figure.