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In place of a regular roleplaying game session last night, I brought up a couple of my more bizarre board games and let those that were there choose which one to play. The choices were The Hills Rise Wild, which is a great game based on elements of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos that pits players against each other in a brutal fight to be the first to find the Necronomicon and summon the Elder Gods, and Zombies!!!, a survival-horror game where the players are people in a city plagued with zombies and the first one to get to the helipad and escape wins.

We ended up going with Zombies (I'm dropping the exclamation points). We chatted for awhile before getting started, and so we actually didn't finish the game until about 10:20. While I've played Hills a few times before, this was the first time I played Zombies. And y'know what? It was damn fun. We had a couple of issues, such as the fact that the one hundred zombies that come with the game aren't really quite enough, but overall, Zombies was a blast. I think everyone enjoyed themselves ... even Jacquie, who I figured would be the one who would like the game least.

Now that the trial game is over and it's clearly a good game, I'm thinking of looking into getting a bag o' zombies from Twilight Creations (the company that makes the game) and maybe picking up some of the expansion packs.