OFFICIAL VEKN GANGREL-ANTITRIBU NEWLSETTER VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2005 In this cold-noses-pressed-to-the-toy-shop-window issue …… ************* FICTION: Love in a Cold Climate DECK: Tournament-winning deck Tlaxcala, Mexico FICTION: Love in a Cold Climate February in the far North …. A time of returning sunshine after the biting cold of winter. Against the great white expanse of the Arctic Nanook is prowling, but not for prey. He breathes easily and steadily, black eyes scanning the horizon. There! Disciplining himself not to lope TOO eagerly, he approaches. Nanooka watches, silently. "Hey babe! Long time, no see!" "11 months and 28 days, to be precise." "Lovely weather for the time of year!" "Marvellous." "How's the, erm, family?" "Since you've eaten most of them, perhaps you're in a better position to answer that than I am!" "Well! I was hungry, and they were slow." In the awkward silence the huge male scratches at an invisible imperfection in the ice. "So, erm, do you fancy a shag?" "OK, but you gotta chase me a bit first." The chase leads them over snow-dunes and past some humans on a heavy sleigh who are driving a dog-team. When the chase and its sequel are over, the two Polar Bears relax in the lee of a drift, enjoying each other's body-heat. "I must admit, they worry me a bit." "Who? The Humans?" "Yeah, all that scratching at the old places and heating stuff up. What if they, you know, melt all the ice and stuff?" "Gee, that WOULD be awful – no more spending six months of the year starving to death and freezing one's butt off in a hole in the ice. We're MAMMALS for Cripe's sake – top of the fuckin' food chain, biggest and best land predator since the flippin' Cretaceous. Guess we'll just have to eat more, sleep less and take a few cold baths, eh?" "Alright, point taken. Still don't think much of them digging just there." Nanooka snorts with derision, but privately she agrees. Not just to keep them out of the big male's way, she there and then resolves to raise this particular litter a hundred miles or so away. [Prologue to another Vampirish Call of Cthulhu adventure …. To Be Continued] ************ DECK: Tournament-winning deck Tlaxcala, Mexico It's a pleasure to draw the group's attention to yet another tournament-winning !Gangrel deck, the victor of a 14-player event in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Here is a marginally-rearranged version of the original post: Posted to Newsgroup by: Dr. Enrique Monta o Torres V:EKN Brujah Prince of Tlaxcala Deck Name : Bugs Bunny Author : Hiramm Sanchez Gomez Description : The trick of this deck is the Bugs Bunny maneuver; do you remember when Bugs go throw the earth to kick the ass of Sam or Daffy duck [no -Ed.], in this deck is the same; bleed bleed bleed, and if some one try to stop you or comes to hit you; you have the protean to protect you, with "flesh of marble" you can defeat against immortal grapple, or simple the excellent Bugs maneuver of the "earth meld". Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min :5 max :8 average : 7.42 3x Sebastian Goulet 8 DOM OBF cel pre pro Gangrel antitribu (group 3) 2x Sebastian Goulet Advanced 8 DOM OBF cel pre pro Gangrel antitribu (group 3) 2x Ian Forestal 8 AUS DOM THA Tremere antitribu (group 2) 2x Greger Anderssen 7 AUS OBF dom pro prince Malkavian (group 2) 2x Soldat 7 POT PRO cel dom obf Gangrel antitribu (group 3) 1x Badr al-Budur 5 OBF cel dom qui Assamite (group 2) Library [90 cards] Action[9] 9x Govern the Unaligned Action Modifier[33] 3x Cloak the Gathering 1x Command of the Beast 10x Conditioning 3x Earth Control 3x Elder Impersonation 3x Faceless Night 2x Foreshadowing Destruction 4x Lost in Crowds 4x Spying Mission Action Modifier/Combat[6] 3x Rapid Change 3x Swallowed by the Night Combat[12] 8x Earth Meld 4x Flesh of Marble Master[13] 3x Blood Doll 2x Campground Hunting Ground 2x Dominate 3x Obfuscate 3x Protean Reaction[14] 7x Deflection 7x Wake with Evening's Freshness Retainer[3] 1x J. S. Simmons, Esq. 1x Robert Carter 1x Tasha Morgan Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Mon Feb 21 09:08:41 2005] That's all folks. **** And that's nearly all from this month's newsletter! JUST in time to qualify as February's offering, and by the time we meet again I will have SCADS of new deck ideas based around !Gangrel from the KMW expansion. Rumour has it that Enkidu, the Noah is THE tastiest thing since a Very Tasty Thing, so see you in March for some Epic-of-Gilgamesh butt-kicking fun!