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Friday, August 12. 2005Macon Craig
Yes, I know. I'm weak. After my "heroic" rescue, I spent quite a bit of time thinking about the time I was spending in the environments. I swore to myself that I'd never go back. Truth be told, I was more than a little bit scared to go back. I've never felt anything like the pain that knocked me down when that little piece of static hit me. What might happen if somehow, I got hit by a big piece.
But like they say, time heals all wounds. It took a while, but eventually, I'd come home from school after a bad day, and while I brooded about it, I'd find myself running fingers over the rough surface of the HESII on the back of my head, and thinking about going back in. I entertained myself by creating some incredible environments. I enlarged the forest environment, making it nearly as large and detailed as the city environment. I even got around to teaching myself how to make AI entities. Night_Watcher wrote me a paper on how to create AI entities from my body models quite a while ago, but I never bothered to actually do anything with it. I made a bunch of entities, all kinds of exotic animals that I could stalk in the forests, new soldiers for the cityscapes, and some that were just supposed to be regular people. But I never uploaded any of them. I kept swearing to myself that I'd never go back. I'm weak. What can I say? I was walking down the hall at school, and I saw Lauren making out with Jeff Francis. Now, don't get me wrong. I know what I look like. I know that I'm fat. I know that I don't have many friends. I know that when people make their list of who they want to invite to their parties, I'm not usually on the list. I know that the only way I'll ever end up with a girl like Lauren is if I win the lottery and learn to walk on water in the same day. But that doesn't keep me from dreaming, and hoping that someday she'll notice that I exist. One of the things that gave me more hope than anything else was the fact that she seemed really aloof from the whole dating scene. I told myself that she was waiting for some guy to really prove that he was something special before she would go out with him. I told myself that someday, I'd do something spectacular, and she'd finally come down out of her tower. I guess that was just another one of my delusions. All Jeff had to do was look at her, flash his flawless smile, and she was his. SPECTACULAR! I didn't even think about it. I walked out of school, the first time I'd done that in weeks, and went straight home. My parents were both gone. They usually are. I uploaded all of my new stuff, checked the files twice, and disappeared into a world where I was king. I noticed immediately that something was different. I couldn't tell what it was at first, but then I looked down at the ground, and I knew. I had a shadow. Night_Watcher was developing again! I almost got out of the environment to tell him about all of the cool levels and AI entities that I made, but just as I was about to, one of the tigers I made glided by, and the hunt was on.
Hours later, I collapsed to the ground, spent. I had stalked the tiger for hours, staying close enough that I could catch a glimpse of it every now and then, but not so close that I scared it. We had ranged all over the board, swimming in the river, hunting feral pigs, and lazing about. For the first time in a long time, I fell asleep in one of the environments. I woke up with a start. It took me a minute to realize what woke me. It was a smell. A smell I recognized. The smell of perfume. I jumped to my feet. Small footprints in the soft earth surrounded the place where I had been asleep. And the smell of her on the air . . . Trackbacks
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