Tuesday: Coda
I planned to leave work around 4:15, in order to make it back to SLC by 5:00 for the HeroClix tournament at Far West Comics. That didn’t quite work out the way I had planned. I got out of the office at 4:34. I didn’t fly up to Salt Lake, but I did get to the comic shop a few minutes after 5:00. I got in, put my things down and decided on my team – I went with the Legion of Super-Heroes. Of course. The rules called for four-hundred point teams, so I tried to give myself a good mix of characters:

Three of the choices – Dawny, Dream Girl and Saturn Girl – were no-brainers: Dawnstar has an ability called “Quarry,” which allows her (and friendly characters) to have a +1 to my attack rolls; Dream Girl, through “Precognition” (Probability Control), which lets me roll dice or force my opponent to reroll; and Saturn Girl has Mind Control (control an opposing figure), Outwit and “Telepathic Coordination,” which allows me to modify one friendly figure’s attack or defense stats by +2. The guys and Vi were there for ranged attacks, strength and to round out the points for the team. I clocked in at an even 400.

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The tournament was three rounds. There were seven players, so one person got a first round bye. As the luck of the draw would have it, I had to play Chris the first round. Yay. His team consisted of:

Suffice if to say that he not only cleaned my clock, but he picked my team apart. Systematically. If I hadn’t been playing against him, it would have been a thing of beauty to watch. But, as I was his opponent, it was just painful.

I drew the bye in the second round, so I got an “automatic win.”

Third round, I played a guy named Shane. He is a Superman fan, and apparently he’s a BIG fan. His team was comprised of:

I made Superman the Legion’s quarry. (Given the LSH’s ties to Superman, this was amusing, in many ways.) Then it was game on. I had a lot of good rolls; Shane had some bad ones… or at least Probability Control helped him to have to reroll a few really good rolls. Between Dawny, Saturn Girl and Ultra Boy, I took Superman off the table. He was followed shortly by the Superman Robot. Next on the menu was Thunderstrike. I was working on taking down Superman Blue when time ran out. Shane had managed to do some serious damage to Cosmic Boy and had taken a couple of clicks off of Saturn Girl, Vi and Ultra Boy… but he didn’t KO any of my team. And, I won my Round Three game.

So, my final tally for the night:

  • 1 Win
  • 1 Bye (automatic win)
  • 1 Loss

I’m pretty happy with that for my first real ‘Clix outing against other players than Chris.

I headed over to and ‘s place for Scion, but we didn’t play. Instead, we and sat around and chatted a few hours away. It was a nice way to cap off the day.

And, for my next amazing feat: Sleep! (It’s been a long day).