Bon mot
Things are going great guns over at the Grand Ellipse blog. I’ve gotten Shirley all the way to Alexandria and his dinner with Margaret.
If you know nothing about this game but are still curious to read the logs, you should take a look at Li’s Ellipse pages first, to get a sense of the game goals and setup. I’m not being very good about linking to the Times, so you may want to have the Times archive open while you read.
For a sane reading experience, I recommend the category archives, starting with Chapter 1; after some futzing yesterday, I figured out how to get them to appear oldest-post-first.
Some veteran gamers always know the right thing to say at a momentous occasion. I am not one of those gamers. Every once in a while, though, I do manage to make exactly the right words come out of a character’s mouth. So with Shirley, who on leaving Margaret after their fateful dinner together said, “Thank you, Margaret dear, and G-d bless you! You are such an extraordinary woman that I rather regret that I am only an ordinary man.”
Which is just, I am telling you, completely bloody perfect. If you read Chapter 2 you’ll see why.
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