A little bit of shitposting never hurt anyone.

Since I've already got my megacity bye in Scotland, I've been using the last few regionals to to hang out with friends, get battered in the pub the night before and jam some terrible janky runner decks before all of the silly FFG cards rotate. Played a bit of PE and Freedom and Esa (not rotating, but Laamb is) to get my last laughs in. I thought I'd switch things up for a little bit for East Anglia and play good old Aginfusion and a little bit of Persephone Mill Hosh. I just wanted to spook a few people, trash some cards and have some laughs.

How did I get here?

Round 1 vs @Germapple on PE- Win

• Very silly game against PE, lots of money made and by my opponent via Prana. I very stupidly ran archives with a 4 counter Fermenter and lost it all to a Mavirus :( Unfortunately, my opponent rezzed a Vampyronassa and was caught out by my use of 2x Simulchip to install a second Persephone and Egret to transform the Vampy into a sentry. 21 Cards hit the bin in 3 clicks.

Round 3 vs @AceEmpress on A Teia - Loss

• Crazy close game with both players nabbing 4 points quite quickly. AceEmpress made the very heads-up play of trashing her rezzed Anansi to prevent me from getting easy mills with Persephone + Hush, and later trashing a remote server of Drafter + Saisentan to further deny mills. The game came down to 6-5 in time and was super fun and interesting the entire time. 17 more cards were milled over the course of the game thanks to Persephone.

Round 6 vs @Bartimeaus on EA Azmari - ID (Win)

• I made a very risky move my ID-ing here, in the hopes that by going into round 7 with an unsafe 13 points, I could nab a win and secure a really good swiss seeding for topcut. We played the game out for fun anyway, even though I was about 99% sure I'd lose - the deck can really struggle to set up quickly given the bloated size and would need a really good draw to keep up. Fortunately, the Azmari draw was really wonky, and the only ice that was rezzed that game was an Unsmiling Tsarevna. I just kept headbutting it with a single Persephone until I had to contest the un-iced scoring remote, in which I found 9 points in archived and scored a very weird win. 11 Cards trashed via a single hard-working killer.

Top Cut Round 2 vs @Harmonbee on "Vegan" Nuvem SA - Win

• The round started late as my decklist had been kidnapped by my Round 1 opponent, and Harmonbee (understandably) wanted to be confident in exactly what my list contained before we began - wouldn't want to be caught out be something surprising after all :) I managed to navigate myself through an early Hortum + Tree Line remote server through Bankhar and a surprise Banner revived off of a Simulchip. After Harmonbee went for an equalising score through Slash and Burn Architecture to score an Offworld Office from 1 credit (very cool Nuvem play), I pecked at R&D and found 4 points (plus the S&B in archives) for a slightly underwhelming win. The game was fun anyway though, and we enjoyed a good chat afterwards. Persephone didn't have the chance to do anything beyond acting as excellent Bankhar fodder :(

Persephone mill counter: 49 cards / 3 games

Notable includes:

• Persephone - duh

• Egret - This is your painting tool, for when people refuse to rez sentries. Superior painter to Pelangi in every way (as it actually works with Persephone.

• Banner - Lets you crash through barriers while letting those subroutines fire, which allows an Egret-ed barrier fire the Persephone mills. Its almost a preferable way of milling a lot in one turn as many barriers don't have pointy subroutines that might discourage allowing subroutines to fire repeatedly.

• Hush - Makes the matchup against Jinteki much safer. Hushing an Anansi makes it a really juicy target for a multi-run mill turn.

Shout-outs

• Kikai, J0N4LD and Not_Yeti for organising the event. The day was super fun, really well organised and only one game loss across the day was a huge achievement. The birthday pass-the-parcel was a really neat addition too!
• Midlands Netrunner Grid for being an awesome community. I couldn't have gotten into Netrunner without such a great group to show me the ropes. Big thanks to @L0velace for inspiring the deck in the first place.
• S.C.R.U.B.S for being a really fun testing group to jam some games and cook some wild and wacky brews. Special thanks to @Baserton and @NotAgain for cooking up the Clearinghouse Skunkvoid Aginfusion list that definitely carried me to victory (6-0 across the day!).
• My lovely partner @theRealLap for everything, as well as this goofy Hosh ID that I will definitely be playing whenever I can :)