Junta!

After my cultural Friday at the theatre (we went to see "The last virgin", nice idea), and after not joining a manifestation of university people going crazy in the Bahnhofsviertel (shame on us, we are getting old), on Saturday we decided not to get trashed and to play some games. We ended up playing Junta, a game that Gaborno gave me some months ago and has been staying on my shelf getting full of dust. We managed not to get discouraged by the instruction booklet - a looooot of pages written very small - and eventually started playing. This game is hilarious! It is set in Las Republica De Las Bananas, where the president tries to prevent his own murder by splashing money on the interior minister and all sort of generals. Obviously the money is not valid unless it is put in the appropriate Swiss account: this reminds me of the big queues on the highway that goes from Milan to Como, from where, opla', you end up right in Switzerland... Anyway, all these bribes don't stop the minister and the generals from trying to kill the president, as Gaborno, who volunteered as president assuming that some little money would save him, found out when Oighenio and I bombarded him on all fronts. One of the best parts is that if the president dies, his "son-in-law" will take power until another president is found. Then there are all sorts of killers that you can hire, with the best being the crazy killer that, depending on the result of the dice, either kills the president or kills you or kills himself. And there are the student insurrecting, the labour union guys insurrecting and all sorts of insurrecting human kinds. Only bad thing is that while playing sometimes you think that in some places these game is played in real life... Hasta la victoria!