I write to you from the nether realms of crappy airport free WiFi. What? Forgot about this blog you say?! Never!
Actually that's totally true, because I found my life to be dull when it came to gaming recently. That and adulthood has thoroughly sucked the joy straight from my eyeballs.
Anywho, I've been on a two week long solo campaign in real life. I like to call it "hopping mad".
You see, interweb pal, I'm trying my damnedest to see my dude Sir Jex. His company was ordered too freaking far away from me this passed September and I've started going through withdrawals. I'm trying to get on a military transport that also takes passengers. We call these flights 'hops'. All if them are short notice, vague, and frankly quite stupid if you aren't active duty.
So I surfed on a cot for two weeks with a friend before I decided to set out and make this damned flight thing happen! I struck out bravely on my own with no one around to laugh at my failures, or get in my way; which was nice. But then I realized that adventuring is no fun when you're solo. There's no one to laugh at your aweful jokes or keep you from half killing yourself while carrying a mountain of laundry or killing the people giving you contradictory information just to make everything more vague and indeciferable. And I don't care what you animal lovers claim, my dog is not very good company. She's freaking cute, but seh's a poor substitute for a real companion.
I just drove 8 hours, in the dark, alone, on a single sleep cycle (1.5 hours). There were many fun signs, crazy buildings, and interesting (read: horrid) exit ramps that threatened to eat our gimpy car. I got inspired to draw some crazy stuff, got to play my first episode in a fate system RPG, hell I designed my own bloody planet. Somehow it didn't mean squat without Jex around.
I need my freaking partner in crime.
Being stranded in an airport in the Capital of the U.S. just isn't as thrilling if there's no one to share it with.
Solo Adventures are Dumb, and nowhere near as adventuresome when the rest of your party is on the other side of the contenant, or the other side of the world.... Where's good teleportation scroll when you need it, eh?
