#lotsofwriting

I wanted to get something off my chest while I am working on my “long love list”. Over the past few years I have lived through a few different experiences that I thought I would never have. I have been cheated on, abused, and abandoned. I have been lied to, yelled at, and I have done plenty of crying. I have tried to find love in many different places. They have all been reckless but I have learned to learn from them either. 

If it wasn’t for my ex husband, I wouldn’t have believed that evil can lie dormant inside people. That someone can say they love you and hurt you in the same words. That telling someone you love them and showing them are two different things. That words can sometimes hurt more than hands, but hurting hands is the way you DO NOT take in any relationship. He threw his wedding band into our front yard once. He told me if I wanted to be with him I should go get it -- and I did. 

If it wasn’t for my daughter’s biological father, I would’ve never believed people could so easily abandon their own dreams. He and I talked about having children together and seeing the world. He was the only lover in my life to bring me flowers, call me just to ask how my day was. He was the only man I’ve ever felt comfortable enough to trust with distance in our relationship. We talked about children and traveling for a year before I found out he was cheating on me with a married woman. I found out I was pregnant within the same week. MY daughter is 3 years old and has never met her father and most likely never will. I am 100% for this decision, he does not deserve to know how wonderful she is.

If it wasn’t for my ex lover when my daughter came into the world, I wouldn’t have believed that people will lie to the face of someone they have loved. While believing I had found the father figure my daughter deserved, he was recording his numerous unfaithful actions and sharing them with other women. So he was cheating on top of cheating and I was a fool. We shared a home together. My daughter had a room upstairs. I am terrified to think of any of the times that I was not home with him but she was. How many times did he ignore my child because he was hiding another woman?

[[[Considering the title of this post, I'm already expecting something nice.]]]

[PLAYING...MESSAGE ONE]

["Hey kid, this is Walter. I got your message, and I'd be happy to answer some questions. I'm available only on Saturdays, though, so call me then, and we can talk in-person.]

[END OF...MESSAGE ONE]

[[[Oh. Well lovely. Alright. Uh...I guess expect an update this Saturday, then.]]]

[[[In the meantime, I have some important mechanics to talk about in regards to the sort of...upgrades you can find and purchase in Mind, Soul, and Strength. "What about Heart?", you might ask. I'll get to that later. Alright. Time to do the one lazy thing.]]]

Did it. Okay. First things first. Strength. Again, this game will probably be something similar to a cliche-breaking funfest with the amount of self-aware stuff I'm going to do, but oh well.

Strength has your 'typical' RPG weaponry and armor. Swords, staffs, guns, hammers, wands (that are powered by science, but don't tell them that), flails, and pretty much any typical weapon you could imagine a hero wielding. Armor is similar. Metal plated, leather, chainmail, robes, etc..

The very simple and obvious reason for this rather unremarkable selection of equipment is because that's just what the actors use for battle or interaction. And that's the kind of interactions you'll have, too. Either you're friends or relatively okay with someone, or you beat the crud outta them. No grey area for the most part.

Soul is where things get a little bit different. Everyone there isn't really interested in fighting...Initially. They're more concerned with other things. For instance, looking excellent, and making a good reputation for themselves. And as such, clothes are a very common thing to wear. Who knew, right? The deal with Strength is that people are always wearing their armor and equipment, and it's always a matter of practicality. With Soul, people just want to look the part, and maybe make other people think a bit differently about them, based on their attire.

And that is precisely what the clothes are good for. When you interact with someone, it's going to be a task of trying to make a good impression. Your reputation is everything. The more people you chat up and get to like you, the better your chances are. However, at the same time, you might have to deal with people that seem to hate you right off the bat. Or people that challenge you to an actual fight, and THAT'S when you gotta fight it out Strength-style. But...without the armor, because people think you look stupid if you fight with actual protection. So yeah. Buncha weirdos. Go find a nice tuxedo or dress, roll up your sleeves, and show 'em who the REAL classy person in town is. Hopefully you.

For Mind, this is where...Well first off, Mind doesn't mess around when it comes to fighting. It's an Academy. You start fighting, you're gonna get ganked by the top-grade security they've got there. The only fighting you're going to do is through debates and logic puzzles. And in any proper debate, you gotta have a good retort or a good rhythm of talking and presenting new points. The only trouble is...If you don't know what would make sense, you gotta take a minute to look up information and fact-check yourself. Or maybe you have a good thought or idea of a response going in your head, but the guy you're talking to doesn't have all day. You gotta pump out answers on the fly.

This is where fictional scientific development decides to be all like "Yo, let me help you out a bit. Let me slow down time for you.", and it gives you the chance to buy these little neat gizmos that let you slow down time a little bit for yourself. Or speed it up for you, but it makes it look like more time for the other person? Something? Crap, I'll need to think this one over some more. I don't like time or time travel. There isn't going to be any of that in my game. It's been done very well, and anything I do would be overdoing an overdone story aspect. Anyways, the gadget slows down time for you so you can give a proper and well-thought answer. Makes it easy to sound like you've thought a lot about the topic, when in fact, you just needed 60 seconds to do a quick google search to Wikipedia about what causes mold to grow or something.

*ahem*

[[[So yeah. Also, as promised...Um...Hey, Storyteller!]]]

Yes? =D

[[[Show 'em the stuff we did so far.]]]

a) Drama (interview.. dramatic dialogue)

b) Journalistic Editorial ( about being misunderstood )

c) Review ( The BOOK " The outsider's" )

d) Children's fiction (unsure)

e) Poetry ( About being misunderstood )