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08/18/11(Thu)08:49 No.106986715When
I was a little kid in primary school, I had one really close bro friend
named Ajax. At the school we went to, there was these trees that had
weird brown pods growing from the branches, and Iinside each of the pods
was a single yellow seed. We collected the "golden seeds" and tried to
do two things with them: Firstly, we tried to introduce them as legal
tender among the school students. We got a few people in on it, but it
never really worked out.
After that failed, we used them to
create our own real life strategy game. We amassed dozens, then
hundreds, of these seeds and made our own personal stashes. Then, every
lunch break and every afternoon after school, we would find a patch of
land to set up on, and start playing. There was no real rules to the
game. Each seed represented one man, and our goal was to gather
resources to further increase our populations and materials at our
disposal. We would use leaves and sticks to make towns for our seeds,
and expand from grass to the large rock nearby or to the trunk of a
tree, all across whatever we had at our disposal.
Before each
game, we would establish who we were: Hermits, imperial soldiers,
dragonkin, whatever we felt like at the time. We imformed each other of
everything we did so as to keep it fair. For instance, if I decided that
while mining I find a large iron vein, I would announce that to him and
he would have to agree whether that was acceptable. We generally
accepted whatever we threw out there, so long as it wasn't too stupid.
We
usually ran campaigns against each other, but we rarely fought. Instead
we would just spend two or three hours amassing our armies, then just
stop and go home and start again the next day. |
