Let's Play SKULL II

## ★ ADAM'S CHALKBOARD ★

**Let's Play SKULL II** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*That's what happens when you invite someone you didn't know was a poker player to a fucking bluffing game, I suppose...*"
―Adam
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "if you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out".
* Who's going to *keep their head* and who is *a numbskull*?
* Backstabbing and bluffing and beautiful NRB nonsense.
* Tilly is the youngest at the table and so needs to be punished by the 30-somethings, of course.
* Ken may have slightly misinterpreted the rules, but turns out to be a professional poker player who takes no prisoners. Good first game choice for him, then, team.
* Tilly: "I'm the youngest and they're all mad because they're all old, sad, bitter men."
* Adam: "Sully, get your own personality!"
* Laurie has a tiny skull covered with rage.
* Adam's note of desperation arrives slightly earlier than usual.
* Dom: "I wouldn't be joining you, I'd be superseding you and falling into your trap, Hubris Blampied!"
* Tilly thinks Adam really needs this - everyone agrees, it's a little bleak. The spectre of the Chalkboard looms large over Board Game Club.
* Dom gets a progress tracker all of his own. Thanks, James! He's muttering absolute nonsense to himself.
* Dom to Sullivan: "Stop letting people boss you around your whole life, you worm! Stand up for yourself! Grow a spine! It's all very well having a skull, what are you going to put it on?" As it's *let's all pick on Sullivan* day, they bully him into bidding. And we've gone.
* Adam: "Come on! We're never going to finish filming this - Tilly's going to be 30 by the time this game ends!"
* There's no way Sullivan can intimidate Tilly after the bashing she just saw him take.
* Tilly gets the tracker this time. Laurie says James doesn't get paid enough for the fancy graphics.
* Adam gets a victory tracker. It's not pretty. He's being massacred.
* Laurie is trying a novel approach - playing the skull every time and killing it.
* Dom: "No need to get snappy at the people who love you." Adam: "NONE OF THEM ARE HERE."
* Dom: "You can do this! I believe in you!" Adam: "I'll kick you to death."
* We can't have Adam winning.
* Follow your dreams! Chase the rainbow! Slap the dragon! Eat the moon! Flog the dolphin! Kiss the icecap! Lick the sky! Marry the sun!
* Ken: "It could be glorious... I pass!"
* Tilly to Laurie: "You have no interest in winning this game - or *playing* this game like a normal human being."
* Laurie: "I'm just waiting till you're all dead. Then I'll be the winner." He's playing in a very very particular way.
* Adam's so very sad in defeat this time. And now he's eliminated, which is his least favourite game thing. He's trying to hurry them up now.
* Laurie is smart and ruthless and sociopathic, apparently. It takes him a very long time to lose a card.
* Laurie to Tilly: "You're *also* a sociopath."
* We get a brief nameybobs.
* Dom is, for some reason, not in Laurie's big book of grudges.
* Laurie and Adam are dancing again. Adam may have lost, but he is holding on to the idea that Laurie might not win. Ah, never mind.
* Adam on Sullivan: "It really hurts ... when you're stabbed in the back by a care-bear. Because he is cuddles and rainbows and sunshine and you know that the day he accidentally kills you, he'll stand over your grave and giggle like a stupid little wood-elf."
* Even when Laurie shuffles his cards and plays randomly, he's still on evil mode. That *is* very funny - but Adam doesn't think so.
* Time, and the chalkboard marks, are passing too quickly for Adam's liking.
* Dom: "My life advice to Sullivan is - quit" because Dom hates Sullivan.
* Ken: "I'm quite patient... Skull does revolve around letting other people, 'fools' if you will, bid as much as they want and then lose all their discs".
* Again, it takes Laurie a long time to lose a card. But it's Sullivan who kills Adam this time.
* This might be Laurie's best game ever.

## Talking Heads

Talking heads are available this episode.

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* This is Ken's Board Game Club debut.
* This is the first in-person repeat of a game that we played in the Zoom era.
* Chalkboard is updated with two losses.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.