Gloomhaven Inox Encampment Inox Guard

Morally dubious cold-calling at the Inox Encampment: Gloomhaven scenario 3

Gloomhaven’s third encounter, the Inox Encampment, lies before us. On the map, at least: our heroes have buggered off back to town with their ill-gotten gains.

Three encounters in already! We can’t believe how fast we’re ploughing through this! At this rate we’ll have completed the game by [checks scenario booklet]… oh. Maybe by 2040.

Oh well, on we go!

Beer pairing: Ninkasi by Wild Beer Co.

Gloomhaven Inox Encampment Ninkasi it's delicious
Non-sequential but delicious beer picture and caption alert!

Cheese sandwiches don’t pay the bills

Back in town, it’s time to splash the cash.

Apparently the Cragheart’s playstyle of lumbering around like someone trying to make a cheese sandwich in an unfamiliar kitchen after a day of heavy drinking isn’t conducive to picking up much money. Accordingly, all he can do is watch as the Spellweaver goes on a shopping spree.

First up is a trip to the temple to donate, and hope that those Bless cards are actually going to appear this time out. Next is the long-overdue purchase of an Invisibility Cloak, which goes some way to making up for not levelling up yet.

Before they get on the road, our heroes, never ones to pass up an opportunity, jump straight into a… pie eating competition? Brilliant. The Cragheart wins out, earning some cash and a tidy little reputation boost for the party.

Once all that pie settles (and it’s a lot of pie), we head out of town and on to the Inox Encampment.

On the road again

The trip out to the Inox Encampment is also surprisingly uneventful thanks to the Cragheart coming to the fore again. His affinity for all things stony gets us out of a travel encounter with ease, and we crack on.

When we arrive (it’s surprisingly hard to find), the encampment looks peaceful. It’s all very domestic for a bunch of hard-bitten caravan raiders. We could be suspicious, but in the name of XP, decide to press on. Surely that slightly dodgy quest-giver back in town couldn’t have steered us wrong? We check our weapons and leap in.

The mission is simple. Murder everything! Luckily, we’re confronted by a handful of willing victims who are unsurprisingly, Inox. What did you expect? The scenario is literally called ‘Inox Encampment’.

Gloomhaven Inox Encampment meet the guards
Ummm, I can’t help noticing that those ‘victims’ are rather large… and quite close

You can almost hear the groan as the Cragheart throws caution to the wind, searching his deck for a card that will let him go first. Somehow, he manages it, stepping forward to throwing a Massive Boulder at the assembled enemies.

The Spellweaver wastes no time to bring her summons into the fray so it can stand between her and impending violence.

In return, the Inox… stand there and don’t attack. Ah.

Taking that as an invitation, both the Spellweaver and the Cragheart start trying to do some actual damage. A volley of Mana Bolts from the Spellweaver softens one guard up enough for the Cragheart to get in close and finish the job with his Crushing Grasp. It’s on!

Gloomhaven Inox Encampment getting into a fight
No, Spellweaver. You’re supposed to go PAST the large smashy people who want to batter you

The Cragheart trades blows with the Inox Guards, tying up the melee fighters as the Spellweaver moves up to tackle the pesky archer and Inox Shaman at the back of the room, flinging Fire Bolts around with abandon.

Fresh Inox slip in through the door at the back of the room as the battle rages, and that’s fine. To our heroes, cackling wildy with battle madness, they are just more grist to the mill.

It’s actually going surprisingly smoothly, so the Cragheart decides to find out what’s lurking behind that door…

Oh.

Gloomhaven Inox Encampment Cragheart enters last room
The Cragheart, buoyed by the courage of fighting the good fight, brings the pain to those despicable… families? Oh. Oh dear. (Families no pictured, but they’re there)

Things take a darker turn as we read from the book to discover crying Inox children hiding from the people attacking their village…. Hold on. Are we the bad guys here?

There’s not a lot of time to process the repercussions of this as we’re running out of cards and there’s an elite archer taking aim. There’s also a chest so we temporarily shy away from murder to check it out. Proving that every morally-dubious cloud has a silver lining, we pull out an item! Item 107, to be precise – the Horned Helm. (We’re actually too excited to dig the card out of the box at this point so we just carry on.)

The archer looks like he’s going to pose a problem as the next turn rolls around but the Spellweaver has other ideas, pulling out Impaling Eruption for a big finish…

Gloomhaven Inox Encampment bless card
Would you credit it? Those Bless cards DID end up in the deck after all!

Victorious but feeling decidedly sheepish, we book it out of there as fast as we can. Apparently that Inox Encampment full of vicious raiders was more of a town… and we’re trying to be nice mercenaries here!

We’re now pretty sure that the person who sent us on this quest might be evil. So we have a choice now: we can carry on helping her machinations, or help the City Guard investigate further.

Failing that., we could dodge the decision entirely and go find more skeletons to kill…

 

2 Thoughts on “Let’s play Gloomhaven: Scenario 3 | Inox Encampment”

  • Hey guys!

    Absolutely love your blog!

    I’m trying to put together my first Gloomhaven blog … and it isn’t nearly as polished as yours – but now I have something at aspire to. Congrats on the great writing, great photos, great content!

    Here’s the link to my first three basic posts.
    https://bit.ly/2ryFFWB

    Cheers,
    Neal

    • Thanks Neal, glad you’re enjoying our work! Great work on your blog too, by the way – love the character combo and looking forward to following your adventure!

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