A21.
This is part of the #Dungeon23 challenge in which you make one room to a dungeon every day for a year. In an effort to link my memories to the creation, I am also writing a personal journal entry with each room that may or may not be related.
You don’t have to read that part.
A21.
SECRET ROOM!
When you emerge from the secret crawlspace from A20, you see a mural of a roaring panda bear breaking the chains of captivity.
Your torchlight is reflected by dozens of gold bars hanging over head.
The ends of six heavy chains are bolted into the ceiling overhead creating six hanging loops.
Attached to each chain are 13 gold bars. They are thin, flat and rectangular with a hole through each end for the chain to fit through.
The gold bars have been embossed with a date, and image of a battle that was fought and won at Kik’ina Kir.
That’s 78 total gold bars. They’re heavy as fuck.
And this presents some logic problems.
First is removing the gold from the chain. The rattling of all this gold may make noise, which would alert the other inhabitants of the fortress.
Second is carrying the shit out of here. I prefer a more low fantasy game, where characters don’t walk around with 400 lbs of stuff on the reg. So you will probably move this product a little at a time. Which means that in between exploration of the mega dungeon - someone else might come in and find this.
Thirdly, these gold bars are marked, and historically significant. Selling them will absolutely call attention.
Ain’t no free lunch, son. More money more problems.
Panda. Panda. Panda Panda Panda Panda Panda.
1/21/23
Was I listening to Panda by Desiigner when I wrote this?
Yes.
Black X6, Phantom
White X6, Panda
Pockets swole- Danny
Sellin’ bar - candy
Man I’m the macho like Randy
….
Date night was last night.
Gail picked the movies, and cheated. Sort of. A little bit. She wanted to watch the first episode of Last of Us, which was like 80 minutes.
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are pretty much perfect.
The opening scene simultaneously touchstone-ing global warming and pandemics was a little too cute for me. I felt like whoever wrote it was really pleased with themselves for pulling it off.
I don’t have a problem with the topics being a part of the show. I just would’ve liked it better if it was information discovered as opposed to an info dump meant to signal why this show is “important.”
And that’s really only a minor quibble. Everything else was great.
I’ve played the games, so it was cool to see the moments they made happen, and the ones they altered to surprise us.
But I will say, having put in a lot of hours playing the story, I’m not that interested in watching it play out in a TV format.
Like I kinda virtually lived it, and it was such an emotionally visceral experience, I’m not super pumped to passively watch it play out again. Maybe I’m weird.
No maybe about it.
I know. I know.
The first season of Barry was kind of like that for me, too. It’s depiction of actors and acting classes was too perfect, which made it tough to watch.
Anyway. The Last of Us looks great, and if they hit the end of the first game with any type of accuracy I think this show is going to be really really big.
After we finished that, Gail pulled off a neat trick by playing Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon, which is about a guy reluctantly put in charge of taking a young girl on a road trip.
What a great movie.
Bogdanovich has this way of filming rural America that makes the people feel both isolated and the most important human beings on the planet. It’s hard to explain. But because you can see the long stretches of earth with nothing in sight, the human subjects become absolutely vital because they’re all there is around. He did it in The Last Picture Show too.
He’s honest about the boredom and the desire for something more that comes with rural life, but he still treats the characters with love and compassion, instead of pity or disdain. It’s lovely humanitarian film making.
Check it out.
So even though she hit me with an episode of a TV show, which is totally against the unwritten rules, she managed a great double feature.
Hope you killas understand me.
See you tomorrow.
-Jae
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