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The drama of a bored geek (2)
July 02nd, 2021
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The role-playing game I've mentioned a couple of days
ago seems to have gathered only fake enthusiasms from
my wife and her sister, and no enthusiasm at all from
the two girls. This makes me a little sad, but overall
not very surprised. Actually, I would have been more
surprised on the contrary.
I fell for the fake enthusiasm of the grown ups
nonetheless, most likely because I wanted it so hard.
Yesterday afternoon, me and my wife were talking, and
one of our nieces was with us. For some reason the
discussion ended on the Lemmings game (you know, the
one with the crowd of little suicidal individuals
you've got to bring to safety). Of course our niece
didn't know what that is, so we gave her a little
explanation.
My wife suggested me to download the game, so that we
can show it to our nieces. It is probably available
for free these days, to be run on DosBox. Otherwise,
it is possible to use a clone, such as Pingus.
This time I was actually surprised not to see any
enthusiasm in the girls. Come on! It is a video game,
you don't even have to use your imagination!
I am a bit disappointed. I blame the stupid shit the
TV passes on for this. But hey, perhaps I'm just old
and grumpy.
Fuck it. I'll keep working on my project, Crossbow,
(which, by the way, is almost ready for release). I'm
looking forward to wrap this huge refactoring up.
Back on the role-playing, it seems that this project is
dead in the crib, I'll just dump the NPC stats I wrote
here, so I can recycle the papers they're annotated on.
Not that they're useful to anyone... It is just a way
to let it go. Too bad I can't draw the map (...or I
could in ASCII art? With a huge effort!)
(1) - The story was supposed to start in the obligatory
tavern, where one of the characters accidentally
stumbles on a drunk farmer. A brawl breaks out, and
the first kind of adversaries are farmers. The idea
was to have some tutorial here.
(2) - The story goes that a war-lord is raiding the
area, but then it turns out there are skeletal warriors
at his service. A necromancer is involved, which in
turn reports to the dark lord on duty.
