Aeon Trespass Odyssey

Spoiler warning: this post covers some secret content from the end of cycle 1.

I’d been holding off playing the Pursuit’s End battle (the final boss fight against the Hermesian Pursuer) until I’d painted the model. In my last session I successfully “killed” the monster (not just defeated it) which allowed me to unlock this final showdown battle.

One of the special rules for the battle is that the Hermesian Pursuer isn’t toying with us anymore so it can destroy equipment and does more damage. The thing is I’d been playing it like that since after its first fight as I’d either misread or forgotten the rule from one game session to another.

The battle started off very badly. One of my titans was disembowelled turn one. Turn two a titan got so badly beaten up its danger went to about 25 (10 is enough to have a 50:50 chance of killing you). This actually triggered a special rule where there was a chance my death was legendary. It turns out it was, and it triggered a secret event where my titan was possessed by the power of Hades. I have to admit this was awesome. My titan proceeded to half kill the Hermesian Pursuer with her free bonus attack, which triggered a critical that gave yet another bonus attack. She only had two turns before the possession ended and her death was guaranteed, but it was epic.

Then my third titan was disembowelled. I couldn’t believe I was being this unlucky so after the game I counted the deck and there are three disembowelled cards out of 16. I had thought there was just one.

By this point I just had to do one more wound. In truly cinematic fashion my one remaining titan hit the Pursuer’s most vulnerable spot, criticalled it, and then rolled enough damage to confirm the blow.