My mother just phoned me up . . .

[xiphias]

. . . to ask why I haven't posted in my LJ in a couple days.

This is one of the wonderful things about my family: I don't get "you never phone" complaints from my parents, and I'm now free of "you never email" complaints. Now all I have to do is maintain my LJ, and I'm okay.

Seriously, though, I was sick, and slept for 27 hours, and am better now.

In other news: I've started playing a free online game called Kingdom of Loathing. In it, you take one of six character classes (Turtle Tamer, Seal Clubber, Pastamancer, Sauceror, Disco Bandit, or Accordion Thief), and then you go around adventuring. It's basically text-based, and the graphics are all static stick-figure drawings. It's got a wonderful sick sense of humor.

Like, for instance: a week or so ago was Columbus day in the United States. A user, Christobal Kolon, user ID# 1492, had a new item for sale in his store: Comfy Blankets. If you "rest"ed with one of the blankets equipped, you recovered extra hit points.

You also got The Grey Plague, which spreads from player to player in the in-game chatroom, and appends the word -cough- to the ends of things you write. . .

It's probably going to be a whole-game sort of quest thing to get rid of the disease. But it's just funny.

Comments

[darkmattr.livejournal.com]

What's your characters name in it? And about time.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Xippy, level 8-nearly-9 Accordian Bandit. I've been mainly avoiding chat, to avoid Grey Plague. . . I'm a member of clan Charley's Horse.

Who are you?

[darkmattr.livejournal.com]

You totally don't read my LJ do you.

LOL

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I do! It's just, I didn't pay any attention to the Kingdom of Loathing stuff until I started playing. . .

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

And I WASN'T on it when you posted about doing tequila shots with Jick, but once I got on it, I seriously considered going back to that entry, and suggesting that you would have gotten more adventures if you'd shaken the tequila with a lemon first.

[basmati.livejournal.com]

I was wondering what that Plague thing was about. I haven't been playing every day and I don't usually hang out in the chat. (I'm Basomatic.)

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

:dies:

[darkrosetiger.livejournal.com]

Hee! Welcome to the wonderful world of KoH!

I was playing regularly for a while, but I got bored, and when I came back, my characters had been deleted. I'm still working on leveling up my new ones.

[deerdancer22.livejournal.com]

Wow - this is a whole different world! Anyway I was also a little worried that you hadn't posted, but I shouldn't talk, I haven't either and I wasn't sick.
Hugs!