I call the above picture "Gandalf Wants Beer". Click on it for a full screen view in which you can better see that, yes, the Gandalf-looking dude does indeed want beer. That's just the sort of thing that can happen in Fall from Heaven.

After the jump, more highlights of my conquest of the world of Erebus.

* On two (2) different occasions, my Wonder spell, which randomly pops off 3-5 magic effects, summoned a Kraken onto dry land. The poor giant squid just sort of flopped around on the ground for a turn before teleporting to the nearest ocean tile. It must be terribly embarrassing for something as mighty as a Kraken to show up at such an inappropriate time in such an inappropriate place. He could probably swap stories with the poor whale in the sky from Douglas Adams' Hitchikers' Guide to the Galaxy.

* My favorite useless Wonder effect was the penguins. Below, you can see Gibbon Goetha's puppet has just cast Wonder, populating a hill with a bunch of adorable flightless fowl that do absolutely nothing. Any game with penguins is all right by me!

* Below is a Wonder spell effect that wasn't particularly funny at the time. Note the text:

* While I'm swallowing up the Svartalfar territory, I notice that the adjacent lands have caught fire. Uh-oh, I think to myself, the Sheaim have gone and kick-started Armageddon, which is going to start ruining the land and burning up my farms (being an Aristocracy, I need those farms for food and money). But as I investigate, I realize it's just a bunch of clumsy old Pyre Zombies shambling around, inadvertently setting things on fire. It's probably not a good idea to let burning zombies wander around.

Tomorrow: We won, we're doing to Disneyland!
(Click here for the previous Fall from Heaven II game diary.)