Ohhhh.. oohhhh woooaaaahhh oooohhhh... Scotty doesn't know!
Without googling it, guess what this is from:
"Flowers surround me, alone with my drink,
I pour for myself, no companion to join me.
I raise my glass and toast the full moon,
who shall with my shadow shall make us three."
I spent like 2 days fucking around with FireTuner... but I still can't edit tiles in-game... so I said fuck it and decided my next game will be on a worldbuilder map I design myself... then I just sat there for like 4 hours contemplating how to design my city and then I just said "fuck it" and went back to where I was before. I do like how in Civ6 the rivers/bays/oceans/lakes/volcanoes and shit are all named though. About a decade ago... and two laptops ago... (I really need to rip that drive out and salvage this shit) I was writing a book and I used Civ4 as map so I could kinda visualize army movements and battles and shit... the ability to use the worldbuilder to do that but custom name all that shit!? Hell yeah. Again.. I really need to salvage that shit. It was going to be a 10 book series, each book from a different character's POV... I had the entire story fleshed out, all 5,000 pages. I burned that laptop up on accident. I can't start the thing without it trying to melt the cord
When I mean the whole thing was fleshed out, I mean I had it down to the days of specific characters' actions; in like a rough point draft and how I was going to construct each chapter of each character's journey... each book was going to be from a different character's POV; Canterbury Tale style... I had a hunchback, a martyr priest, a nihilist court jester (the king he was making fun used to be his best bud growing up, but got butthurt and burned the jester's family alive because of a joke that "crossed the line").
Okay I can't help myself because I haven't talked about this for awhile and the dam broke... The joke was about the King that is best friends with the jester; he make a joke about the second twin (the queen births a son and daughter, the daughter first) murdering the queen, but also questions the validity of the second queen the king marries. The hunchback becomes obsessed with that princess while the martyr priest, who's blessed all these unions, hides the hunchback (yes, I know, Quasimodo) because... he's a hunchback and.. durr.. The princess is due to be wed to a prince from a very mercantile empire, but since she's been young she's known she's had a silent guardian (the hunchback). On a fateful night she finally sees him and freaks the fuck out, leading to a cascade of fucked up events that eventually make the priest a martyr; that path isn't really difficult to figure out. Meanwhile, the King's right hand man is trying to keep the peace while the king's son...
whom the king places the death of his wife upon, and is trying to be "worthy" but also take the position as the right hand man, leading to treachery, obviously. There is a third kingdom, which is basically ripped off from feudal Japan, that can see if the other two kingdoms unite, they're fucking screwed... so there is the story of that king and his son, who was also vying for the princess's hand. Anyway... pretty much everybody winds up killing everybody and then a supervolcano goes off and makes the entire story ultimately pointless... until the story is pulled up and deciphered by an archaeologist in the present day.
Obviously the Jester is my favorite character in my story.
Shit you didn't fry it lol... that was on me. Hopefully it'll be... about within the next decade. If so, know that as much as I love my jester, I'm not actually a nihilist. If I were a nihilist the super-volcano would bury the story as well. The.. nugget of the story is to enjoy what is around you while you can and do your best to put aside petty foolishness.
Know what's really funny? My laptop became the metaphorical super-volcano. I have a USB drive with a lot of it that I salvaged, but that whole James Cameron idea was built in WAY before I started writing it down.
That's some life-long shit I can't really ever be mad about.
Port-aux-francis has been my best "irl" potential location so far... as instead of horses for cavalry I want flightless large birds and set monitor lizard traps >_ > It also lets me build a triangle between Madagascar, Australia, and Antarctica. BIG ASS PANGWANS YO. WE FUCKIN ATE EM', s'why there's no bones.
That sounds pretty sick. I feel you though- even if you don’t get to share it in that way, you got to see it and experience it. It sounds like a good story so I can’t see being upset about having got to go on that trip. I still know that it’s a setback to lose all that work. I hope your drive is good. I had an old Computer die on me but most of my projects were backed up on disc- then years later I ran the discs and they were corrupt. Uhg.
Port-aux-francis is a place I've never been... if that was confusing; seems it was. Google it... lol.. who the fuck would go there? That's part of the point; it holds mystery.
Yeah this debacle was what taught me about backing up all my shit; 3x over. Fool me once...
Oh, this story is supposed to be set around 8,000 BC... lost civilizations on par with the idea of Atlantis. It makes way more sense when you google map it. Funny thing... there's a Notre Dame Cathedral on the island. I didn't do that.. I had no idea that was there. I zoomed in 2 minutes ago because I wanted to make sure just googling it without caps would point you in the right fucking direction. I feel shiny.
Also: MOTHERFUCKING TRIANGLE \>____________>/
Without googling it, guess what this is from:
"Flowers surround me, alone with my drink,
I pour for myself, no companion to join me.
I raise my glass and toast the full moon,
who shall with my shadow shall make us three."
Obviously the Jester is my favorite character in my story.
That's some life-long shit I can't really ever be mad about.
Yeah this debacle was what taught me about backing up all my shit; 3x over. Fool me once...
Also: MOTHERFUCKING TRIANGLE \>____________>/