The Zen Dragon: Heroscape Memorial

It was a tragic affair. Tanya called and said she found my Heroscape plastered on the road. They had fallen off of the truck the night before and cars had been crushing them all night. "Oh," I said. She told me where it was. "I'll be there."

She apparently came to look for me some time later and didn't see me off in the ditch. She thought I had left and gone off somewhere. Nope, sadly I was picking up little bits of arms, broken heads and half complete torsos. The first trip probably took 2-3 hours, the second another. I collected as many parts, weapons, cards and bases as I could. The destruction was total. I think there were 8 out of 129 pieces that escape crushing. Shouldn't more have bounced to safety or something?

It was Tanya's idea that we go back again. I remembered finding Sergio's sword, but after I spread everything out it wasn't there. The bag I found on the side of the road to collect all the pieces was littered with holes. More had to have fallen out. Tanya said she would go help me look. Turns out it was pretty much the only thing that did escape, but we came back with lots more pieces.

I apologize for the picture placement... the shrunken one didn't really work. It scrolls right too.

During the search two people stopped and asked if I was the one who lost all that stuff. They had seen it strewn everywhere and picked some up the night before. Each had a card for me. Surprisingly I believe I found most of the cards. I won't know till I get back to Fl. I'm keeping track of who I lost by which cards I found, so I'm sure there's some missing. Here's to hoping its not many.

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Feet of the Fallen

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Bases of the dead

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My poor destroyed Heroscape

A few shall yet rise again

I spread all the pieces, sorted them, and began the gluing process. I knew which arm or leg belong to who, but for most of them I also knew the one piece was all I had. Even with all my scraps so much was missing. With the help of crazy glue a few began to live. I still have no idea what to do with all the bases.

The larger pieces worked out well. Mr. Hydra is missing a head, Mrs. Black Dragon a wing, Deathwalker 9000 has only a body. Most will never play again, but at least in some way they will be saved.