The undead Necropolis Tombraiders and the lizards Silverado Snakeskins squared off on a rainy afternoon. The undeads had assistance from an inept wizard, a drunk igor and two rejects from the bloodwiser babe academy. To match this the apothecary dr. Merkwurdiglieben from Silverado left his surgical equipment at home and just brought his shotgun...
Necropolis Tombraiders won the toss, and elected to receive. picked up the ball, got out of range and protected the ball carrier. When Wayward Son tried to get close to the ball carrier Nekhef gave him a hiding and badly hurt him. Merkwurdiglieben decided to remain indifferent and just kept loading his shotgun. The ball was moved slightly further forward but the lizards had closed off pretty well, so the undeads had to bash their way through. 3 KO's later, Nehekhara decided to blitz The Morning Star and blocked him so hard he needed medical attention. Dr. Merkwurdiglieben calmly grabbed his shotgun, quickly reviewed the injuries and decided the best medical course of action was to empty both barrels into the little guys head. He now rests easy in is grave, 6 inches shorter tha when he was alive...
The undeads slowly moved the ball into scoring position and scored a turn 8 TD to give them the halftime lead.
The coach of Silverado Snakeskins whined slightly about the three double skulls (two after a re-roll), the bad apoth, the four first turns of the game where Kimpelflękker decided to remain stupid, and the general disposition of nuffle, but also decided to stop drinking beer...
Second half: The lizzies hit the ground running. One skink was left to pick up the ball, Kimpelflękker double blocked two guys and injured and ko'ed them respectively. and the rest of the team went downfield. Necropolis Tombraiders decided to aim their wizard at the solitary skink in the backfield and the wizard chanted his chant, lightning formed around his hands and WHAMMO... nothing but a pair of smoking wizard boots remained. The skink was completely unharmed and in turn two he handed off the ball for a quick td.
As the undeads received the rainy clouds disappeared, but the kicking skink had placed the ball in the endzone, so the ghouls had a long way to go. a little blocking, a long pass and tackle zone catch allowed the undeads to stroll in for a turn 4 TD. The score was now 2-1.
The skinks received again, and everyone save one skink went upfield. The undeads tried to pressure the skink, but som fancy skink-like dodging allowed the hand-off and yet another two-turn td. 2-2.
The undeads now had three turns to win the game, and the lizards had two turns to try and counter them. Once again the kickoff landed in the endzone, and the undeads sent two guys back for the ball, and the rest up the sideline for a pressure wedge to victory.
The lizards tried to pressure the ghouls, sending a diving tackler and a tackler to try and make sure they couldn't get away. he ghouls tried to get their guys out, but had to pass into a TZ, and the catch was muffed. it was now the lizards final turn. Luggage tried to get Nehekhara out of the way, of the ball, but a double both-down forced him to re-roll... This was when the lizards decided to start succeeding at everything. Nehekhara went down, armour was broken and death insued. Regeneration didn't work, and the igor was brought on the field. The drunk igor-in-training decided that while he COULD help, it would be much more amusing to use the whight ribcage as xylophone, and the hapless st4/guard whight was no more. A skink then dodged, dodged, picked up, dodged, dodged and dodged some more, handed off to Fallen Angel who dodged even more and trotted over the goalline for a turn 16 gamewinner.
In the final turn of the game, Mentuhoteph bashed in The Fifth Elephant's skull, and left the centerpiece of the snakeskin defence in the injury box for the semi. Payback is sweet as they say...
The game ended 3-2 and was a nervewrecker of a game, where both coaches had played their hearts out and the pulse of either coach had never gone below 200. It was a fantastic game to be a part of! if only all blood bowl games could be like this...
