How I’m Doing Dungeon23
Ben Milton, of Questing Beast fame, made a video talking about this Dungeon23 Challenge that Sean McCoy, of Mothership fame, started (on accident? I don’t know the details).
The idea is that every day you write a room for a mega-dungeon map. Every month you start a new level so by the end of the year you’ll have 12 levels, each with 30-ish rooms for 365 areas total.
Is it a leap year next year?
I don’t know. I’m not looking it up.
I’ve decided I’m going to attempt this challenge… starting tomorrow (The rallying cry of procrastinators everywhere, I know).
But that’s not all.
Sure I could just write out the room description and be done, but I, the fool that I am, wanted to do a little extra. A little plus ultra, for my fans representing UA.
For a long time now, I’ve really wanted to journal more. Like “Dear Diary…” kind of journalling. I’m concerned about my brain, you see.
Why?
Well, sometimes I get the impression that I’ve lost so many memories.
Like, I’ll get asked how my week has been and I can’t answer, because I can’t remember. And someone says, “Well no news is good news, right?” And I just nod, but inside I’m like “Wait, what the fuck did I just do last week?”
And that makes me feel like I’m a hollow human.
I’m not saying I need my day to day life to be memorable, but I am saying I want to be better about acknowledging and processing my life. I don’t want to be a ghost who doesn’t remember how long they’ve been haunting the same house.
I mean…if I don’t remember what happened the week before, did it ever happen?
If a tree falls in the woods but doesn’t know it’s falling does it even matter that it was ever standing?
I don’t even know what that means, bro. But maybe we’ll sort it out over the next year, because I’m also going to make this #Dungeon23 journal my “personal23” journal too.
Think of it as a fun experiment to connect a mega-dungeon to a year of my life, with each room having the power to evoke a memory of my life. The Barbarian and The Wizard are arguing in a torture chamber, and I’m remembering how I made this room on a snowy day in February.
It’s just something for me.
And you.
Because this is public.
But I’m trying not to put any pressure on it. I’m trying to cast a spell and one has to be delicate with such things. I’m basically making a horcrux out of a Mega-dungeon here.
See you tomorrow.
-Jae
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