Short Story Part 2

I suppose piggy notices the story. It’s not a very well concealed allegory. Since I am not very creative the story is obviously based on a true incident. But somehow I’ve wanted to write this story for a long time and now that I finally have got down to it, the sentences and words seem to be too difficult. Since Piggy is in on this we might as well put him in as well.


K:”Hi Piggy”
Piggy: “Hi K. What’s up? Are you going to be here for Moat?”
K:”Yeah I am in the organizing committee. I am working for some of the events. What about you. Most people seem to wandering of to the hills during Moat. I wonder. What’s the point of Moat, if most of us beggars aren’t here for it? I mean why we should pay for a bunch of MBA’s to come and party for five days.”
Piggy:” I don’t care. Its five days off and I am going to Madikeri to cool off.”
K: “Wow. That’s a great place. I wish I could join you there. Okay anyway I've got to leave now I’ve got work to do. Moat is only a week away.”
Piggy: “I suppose the King will be opening the festival as usual.”
K:” Yeah and he will give his usual speech”. K draws himself up to his full height and begins to imitate the king, in a particularly high pitched voice.
“Freeends, Welcome to Moat. It’s always amazing. I look out of my tower and notice the poor beggars in the moat preparing for the oncoming festival. How the turn the flat land into this wonderful carnival. I must congratulate the Grounds men committee of Moat for their splendid job. “
Piggy:” That’s an awful imitation. And you could get jailed for that. He is the King you know.”
K: “Okay I really must be going. Bye .Have fun in Madikeri”

K then turned around and began walking quickly towards the largest structure in the moat. This was the central tent of the Moat festival. It was from here that the entire preparation for Moat would be coordinated. And during the festival it housed the main stage where some of the more popular shows and events of the festival were held. As he walked he began thinking of excuses for why he was late. As he walked towards the tent, he noticed that there seemed to be a lot of noise coming from it. He then remembered that it was a Tuesday and the weekly movie was being screened in the tent. The beggars knew how to take care of themselves. Though they could go into city theatres and watch movies, none of them could afford it, and even the few successful ones who could, would never be allowed into the city. Hence they had their own screening methods and they usually screened movies in the main tent on Tuesdays. K decided to walk in and watch whatever was left of the movie. K had always liked movie endings.

This story is going nowehere. I'd better stop for now, and come up with some clear ideas on where its going next and how I'm going to finish it. I think i should be done in a few more parts

Short Story Part 1

I am too lazy to finish my story here’s what I've written so far. I have a general idea as to how it will go on and how it will end, but no enthu to write it now. Just hope that putting it up here will force me to complete it.

There once lived a beggar called K in City of M. He used to beg, eat, sleep, drink, shit and piss just outside the palace walls. It might seem like his life was miserable but he was satisfied with it. He was reasonably good at what he did. He wasn’t a great beggar. His wretched face and mangled hair and beard gave him a pretty sorry appearance. With this he managed to convince some of the rich officials who visited the king to spare him a little change. The new king was also quite religious and so the there was a lot of free food available at the temple. This meant that K could manage a “comfortable” life by just begging.
The beggars were a very organized lot. They had a committee which regulated all the begging around the palace. They collected daily taxes from all the beggars used this to hold their annual beggar festival. Their festival was well known throughout the kingdom as one of the most fabulous beggar festivals. For five days in the area allotted for the festivals there were no rules.

Frostmourne Hungers

Its been a long time since I blogged. There are two main reasons for this. Warcraft III and Rome: Total War. Now I am pretty much done with these games though I am still too scared to get into multiplayer warcraft, as I am sure it would end up like aoe and ruin the rest of my time here. Not that I know of anyone here, who wants to play multiplayer warcraft.

This is the customary globe para so you can skip if you want to head straight to the better stuff. Its placement time here and soon a million companies will descend on this place to recruit the hell out of everyone. I have the usual doubts. Did it really matter, did MBA really matter. I definitely have a huge set of options now, much more that I imagined possible, but have I really learnt anything in these two years. Of course I have no regrets, the first paragraph will probably tell you why, but still this is just like undergrad. You had fun for 4 years and the end you weren't too badly off. Not that you learnt anything.

Anyways moving on to the topic of this blog. Dhaaji left his comp here sometime back, and i started using it. I made the mistake of downloading warcraft III. As i started playing it i got sucked in more and more. For those days/hours all I was doing was warcraft. I only took breaks for meals. I was playing so much warcraft that I started having warcraft nightmares. And these were lucid dreams. Curse the day I ever discovered the art of lucid dreaming. Well as a result I resolved to quit warcraft and move on to Rome. Rome is a much slower and lower involvement game. Its turn based so that helps. All this gaming has given some new ideas of how to handle life.

Why not think of life as just one of the best RPG's I ever played. I mean what RPG could be more realistic. And its so fascinating, the same thing never happens. Graphics and sound are simply out of this world. The game continuously creates the new characters and old characters always seem to react differently. I already have the basic hardware requirements. Recommended requirements are hard to come by, but I am happy with basic, and hardware upgrades are part of the game. A good diet and exercise and in six months you have upgraded hardware. Network play is also simply awesome. In fact its almost impossible to play single player. This attitude to Life that I am trying to consciously adopt has paid rich dividends. I have been much happier. Must remember ask the developers to include a happiness bonus in the expansion pack. However there are two problems with Life the RPG.
1. No savepoints: This means that if you get shot by baddies it really is game over. Or if you accumulate too much damage you actually have to limp around for three weeks with a torn ligament. This can be quite tough for a new player to handle. However this is kind of fun in its own way. Its like a hardware downgrade. Now you have continue the game with lower quality hardware.
2. There's no objective: No princess to save. No empire to destroy. No villain to kill. This can be looked upon in a different way. There is almost infinite choice in the victory condition. Not only that you can even change the victory conditions as the game evolves. This may or may not be intentional by the developers, but even if it is unintentional its pretty cool. In fact finding the victory condition could be a recursive victory condition.

That said Life the RPG and the gaming experience is dependent entirely how one wishes to play it. I think(hope) ill be playing Life for some time to come.

that's my game review done. Happy gaming.
Game Rating: Life The RPG 10.0/10.0