OT: WAY OT, computer game and cat rant

[Guest guest]

I have been playing Diablo since it was the first Diablo, then Diablo II, the

expansion pack, battle chest, etc. I've bought a total of 6 battle packs over

the years as disks were turned into frisbies by the felines, rolled over by my

wheelchair or taken by aliens (at least the grandsons swear aliens took my

beloved games, and it wasn't them).

 

So last night, playing the game, running the Median hack of it (Brother Lazarus

is a genius), Hell level, about a nanosecond from killing Bael and one of the

cats walked across the keyboard and somehow turned the game off without saving.

 

ARGGH!! Screaming words I didn't know I used, tossed the cat out of the living

room and reopened the game. Oh beans. I had forgotten to trigger the Worldstone

Keep portal, so would have to go back and kill the Ancient Ones again. Oh hell.

I didn't trigger the portal in the frosty place.

 

Oh big snarkl.

 

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo, went back through the frozen tundra, killed the

Nephalem (the Ancient Ones), got back into the Worldstone Keep, found a bunch of

really, really good loot so took it back to sort and sell. Oh yummies, lots of

goodies and Mystic Orbs (You've really, really got to get Brother Laz's hack,

especially if you've played DII so many times you think, " Oh yeah, there's a

bunch of baddies around the corner... " ). Soooooooo I was sitting here sorting my

loot and didn't have enough room anywhere to store the stuff in the Horadric

Cube so I could use the Mystic Orbs and upgrade gems and stuff, so I did

something STUPID. I put my stuff on the ground. I've done it for years, and know

that if I don't walk away or close the game, it's pretty much safe.

 

Sooooooooooooo I put my really awesome, tricked out unique uber armor on the

ground so I could put the crappy armor on because the crappy armor has good

crafting points needed to turn garbage into uber awesome. The armor was so

tricked out that I didn't even need healing potions on players 8 on Hell level.

Know what I'm saying, fellow gamers?

 

Somehow Pookie the Evil had gotten back into the living room and she jumped up

onto the keyboard and closed the game.

 

With all my loot, including the highest level runes you can make or get on the

ground...

 

And my uber awesome armor...

 

Aaaand I had forgotten to save an extra copy of the game in another file so when

a new game was opened it wouldn't be discarded...

 

I am totally hosed.

 

ARGH!

 

Thank you for letting me rant. I know non-gamers will (if you got this far) read

it and go " Huh? The old broad's lost her last block of tofu. " but gamers will

wince and think " That cat's gotta go. "

 

Snarl. So where's Pookie the Evil right now? Sleeping curled around my neck with

some of her killer claws from hell sticking into my shirt just enough to let me

know that at any minute, if I cheese her off, my shirt and skin are going to get

shredded.

 

I'd write more, but it's almost 11 AM and I haven't gamed yet today.

 

Love and hugs - game on - Jeanne in GA