Final 3 Con 2026 happened this weekend, at the end of April, and I had the privilege to attend and host and play many, many games of Clocktower, and other games, and got to meet friends from all over the world. Started by Habby of CTBOTC as a tradition a few years ago, lots of folks are drafting up their experience of the con all over Discord servers and everywhere else, and I thought that would make a great blog post, so here we go:
THURSDAY
Pickup game in the lobby, Extension Cord
Story-told by Alexis (from Kinky Clocktower), I immediately pulled the only demon on the script, No Dashii, on my very first game of the con. I had a Scarlet Woman and a Poisoner as my minions, right next to me, as we form a mini Typhon-line, extending my poison to the Monk and the Cannibal next to my two minions. This game also had a mini Ryan Typhon-line, as three of them were sitting next to each other, one being my Scarlet Woman, and the other two a Monk and a Dreamer. I managed to Barber-swap the Pixie-confirmed Mathematician out of play early luckily, as they would have detected me killing the poisoned Cannibal who ate a Ravenkeeper and seen my minion’s Oracle bluff correctly. We rode to victory with a final 3 of the Monk Ryan that was told he’s the Marionette by the SW-Ryan, myself, and the SW-Ryan who got executed instead. I bluffed an Empath 0 most of the game as I thought that was quite funny with both minions starting next to me.
Second Extension Cord lobby game, following the first one with more or less the same players
Immediate No Dashii pull again. This time I have my friend Ben the Boomdandy bluffing Investigator, and Dreamer Ryan from the previous game as I think the Poisoner? I bluffed Puzzlemaster in a game that also contained a Recluse, a Mutant and a Damsel, so we ended up with an impossible 4 outsider claim that sucked up most of the air. Luckily for me, my Poisoner had identified the Damsel who was bluffing Cannibal quite early so we ended the game with a Damsel win, probably much later than we should have.
Final game of the Thursday night is Sushi Buffet, Story-told by Nash of Chill Clocktower and creator of Flesh and Bone through his phone via the Grim Bits Draft Buffet app (linked above). If you don’t know what Sushi Buffet is, you get 3 options to pick your own character, and the ones you don’t pick are removed from the draft. We only had base 3 characters as options with Pit-Hag and Philosopher banned. I pulled Oracle, Innkeeper and Minstrel as options, if I remember correctly, and chose Oracle. I got one night of Oracle 0 and then died to a Witch the next day. It became quite obvious that my friend Andrew was the Cerenovus through an Investigator ping on him, from my friend Ben that I mentioned earlier, and we had a Chef 1, promptly double tapping Ser Capelli (formerly TPI stream Sunday host, and from Off Meta), who unbelievably chose Zombuul, and winning the game.
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