One game to rule them all!

Over the weekend my friends and me got together to play Paridine. And drama broke out. As soon as Nick started narrating the game, everyone else (Ren and Billy) started giving him a hard time about his quest. Which frustrated Nick, and then in turn frustrated me. I was trying to help him with some stuff. It all broke apart when nick made the comment as we were walking through some thick woods; “you smell burning meat.” Well of course Billy asked, “Is it meat we smell burning or flesh?” Of course I found this to be a silly question cause meat and flesh are the exact same thing. Again I perceived this as giving Nick a hard time, with the tone and stuff. Just let the man tell the story of what we see. Not question everything that comes out of his mouth. So I stated, “Meat and Flesh are the same thing.” And then they were trying to decipher if it was burning humans they smelled or burning animal. They thought I guess flesh = human, meat = animal. Same thing on both cases. Smelling a human burning could smell just like an animal. Most carbon-based life forms that consist of 99% of the same chemical makeup in their flesh/meat will smell the same when burned (carbonized). At which point Ren got up, all pissed off for one reason or another and withdrew from the game. Left us with just Nick, Rena, Tyler, Heidi, Billy, and Me.

As we played a bit further, skeletons attacked us, and we were being lead by 2 knights at the time. After the skeletons were killed, Rena wanted to go home cause she was tired and cranky, and Tyler decided he wanted to continue fighting, and attacked out escort knights for experience. Rena was pissed that this was happening cause it would take another 5-15 minutes on that battle. It was already 4:30 AM and she wanted to leave by 2 am. She gave Tyler the cold shoulder for this and Tyler was upset at her reaction and not letting him play the way he wanted too. So he said, “Fuck it” and stormed out of the apartment.

So with that said the game was over. Rena and Nick left and Heidi and Billy still wanted to play. I was like; “Ok” I will narrate. And then changed my mine after realizing that I would have to get up around 11 am to head to Scottsdale. Billy took off home. And Heidi was going to leave immediately, tried to ask her to go get food with me, and she was until she found out she wasn’t playing. So she said she needed to be home that it was late. I made a comment that all she wanted was “Paridine” and when she knew she wasn’t playing, she didn’t want to hang around. She blew up at me, and stormed out of the apartment slamming the door in my face. Well. Very interesting weekend indeed. As a comment my friend made a couple days later. He said, “The problem is that we all got unhealthily attached to Paridine. It is the one ring that has consumed and poisoned our minds. We must break free. We have to destroy it in the fires that created it. Like the creature gollum, it has made as all ugly people. If it is ever released, I will form a picket line and seek for its ultimate destruction. Ok maybe not all that, but we all need a very long break.”