::A Geek in Korea::

My arranged game of Brawl at my house finally came about today. I invited over a couple of guys for a chance to play Wii, and I had three takers. Since Brawl is a four player game, this worked out splendidly. We warmed up with a few games of Wii Sports so they got the feel of a split controller, then put in Brawl. There were several hours of Free for All Matches to be enjoyed by all

My encyclopedic, and somewhat embassingly thorough knowledge of Nintendo lore thanks to the trophies I earned playing the Smash Brothers series was in full effect. Since the rest of the players were coming in new, I had to explain WHY there was a 2-D LCD character fighting a giant penguin with a hammer. If one of the stage elements, or an item with a particular effect needed to be explained, I was telling them what game it came from, or how you could avoid it.

The madness of four players flying around the screen being blasted off by everything is something you just have to experience. We played for a few hours until eye strain caught up with us, then we put it on “Spectator” mode. We had this on in the background

A week back, I had ordered a deck of Magic the Gathering Cards from a Korean import company. I didn’t go out and order this on my own. I went in to save on shipping with a few others. They had bought specific cards for a deck they were making, while I ordered a theme deck that allowed me to play right away with my own cards. This way I didn’t always have to borrow cards when I went to meet them for a game. The person I ordered the cards came here, so I got my deck for the first time today.

We split three games between the three decks we had. One player won a game. My own new deck was very different than the decks the other players were using, and they liked a number of the cards they had never seen before. It had good synergy working off the cards included. I’m happy with my purchase.

Furthermore, there is some sort of Dungeons & Dragons meeting that I’m officially invited to now. I’m not sure when this goes down, but I’m supposed to “roll” a character and join the party sometime in the next month or so. Considering I haven’t touched Dungeons & Dragons stuff since 8th grade, all of this is will take time. I’m thinking of a “Warforged Fighter”, but since I don’t know anything its subject to change.

Honestly, I think I’m as far down the geek rabbit hole as this is going to go. I will never do LARP, and I won’t go to games conventions, would never cosplay. I’m branching out. I’ve solidly earned my cred as “video game geek” in the group, but now I get to see some of the other flavors of geekdom. I’m not against any of the stuff the group has introduced me into so far, so I might as well enjoy anything new I get out of the experiences anyway.