Battletech Pods In Seattle

This is a hair off-topic from tabletop gaming, so please bear with me for this week?

So remember a few months ago, when I did my 200th mission in the Tesla pods?

There are pods in Seattle again.

We scoped it out last weekend. The Airlock is small, but the owner is enthusiastic and the game, of course, rocks.

As of this writing, they don't have a phone, but I heartily suggest checking them out.

The Airlock
12093 124th Ave NE
Kirkland, WA 98034

Located just east of I-405 in the Totem Square strip mall between Laughs Comedy Club and the Bead Hut.

I did about a dozen missions last night, and had an absolute blast. I even managed to talk my wife into trying the pods out.

She's a boardgamer and a roleplayer, but not really much of a video gamer. Because of this, I didn't expect her to enjoy the pods. What we did is have her watch one game. She sat right next to me (only outside the pod), and watched the screen and all the buttons I was pushing (I'm running expert level, so there are a lot of buttons to keep track of).

We then bought her into a Basic mission. She did really poorly, but a large part of that was the fact that the average experience of the other pilots in that game had over 300 Missions. And she ... sorta liked it.

So she tried dropping into an expert-level game. She did much better. Better enough that I suspect she has more natural talent for this sort of thing than I, and will be significantly better than I am once she gets some practice. She was still near the bottom of the heap score-wise, but showed significant potential.

Meanwhile, I learned the fun way that I'm not the only Light Mech Pilot around anymore. That's nice. There is one pilot who is scarily good with a Commando, and another pilot and I did the Circle of Death for about two-thirds of a mission.

I had a great time.

Thanks, Uglyman for opening up locally. I look forward to many many entertaining missions and eventual Master Trials.