shanmonster | Sex With Satan

About twelve or thirteen years ago, I began my gamer geek odyssey. It all started in the Blue Lounge of the Student Union Building on the UNB campus. Until that point, I'd been raised to believe that any sort of role playing game was akin to having sex with Satan. It was a horrible, horrible thing, and God would hate me for doing it.

Luckily for me, I realized this was a load of horse shit, and my very first role playing adventure was playing the part of Dick Delong, the one-eyed snaking penisaurus from Flesh Gordon as part of a Susan Silly System. Nice beginning, hmm?

Since then, my gaming has branched out to include all sorts of games, whether roleplaying or otherwise. At the high point of my career as a gamer, I was the manager of a comic and game shop. I was a Queen Geek.

Last night was a bit of a revisitation to my old Blue Lounge days. I got together with much of the elder gamer legend crowd, including Andrew, SuperBrad, Aaron, Bloobert, Nicole, Julian, f00, and Byron, who's been living in Ottawa for quite a few years, now. Nicole is the only new face, appearing on my gaming scene only within the last four years. The rest I've known for over a decade.

A lot of the old crowd is gone. They've dispersed to other cities (or even countries), or have been divided due to the feuds and personality clashes which always eventually erupt amongst large groups of friends. Us remnant types got together to get some serious gaming done, though. We started with half of a game of Carcassonne, and then, when more people arrived, we played a capture the flag variant of Roborally. Afterwards, I got to try my hand at Halo--the first video game shoot-'em-up I've played in years (and to think I was once a shit-hot Quake player!).

Due to a late start, the evening ended far too quickly.

Byron's off for Ottawa again, until his next super-fast visit to town. Who knows when my next gaming get-together will be? I seem to be on an opposite schedule from Vess, and haven't played in his game in about two months. However, it looks like Mokey will be starting a game of Cyberpunk 2020 soon, and I've got my character halfway done. Hoorah! Let the Satan-banging begin!