Are you an Uber Twilight Geek?

[Turboswede]

Ok I hate to admit it but back in the 80’s when I started playing the game I couldn’t help but think “wow in 2000 I will be 28…that could be me”. Lo and behold now I am a 30’ something who can’t believe 2000 was 9 years ago.

Anyway, in my tween years I created a character of myself and what I would be in 2000 as part of the Red Diamond. My T2K Avatar (so to speak) was a Captain from the Sustainment Bde of the 5th Division, somehow nominally in charge of a bunch of combat hardened bad-asses.

Any of you play the same mind game? If so I would be interested to know how you pictured yourself in Poland during the Twilight War.

[Raellus]

Whoa. It's like you travelled back in time to the mid-late '80s and ripped the thoughts right out of my teenage brain.

I was worried about what my "cool" friends would think if I told them about T2K so I kept it to myself, working up "avatars" and daydreaming adventure scenarios. I must have read the narrative character bits and Escape from Kalisz material a hundred times.

Now, my 35th birthday is creeping up on me. Like many on this board, I just couldn't get T2K all the way out of my head and, a couple of years ago, curiosity led me to this place (or its direct predecessor). Now, I GM a T2K PbP and play in a couple of others.

[pmulcahy11b]

When I bought my first boxed set of T2K v1, I was a sophomore ROTC cadet in college, and we really thought that World War 3 was something that we stood a good chance of being in in the near future. It was sort of weird playing T2K in that environment.

[kato13]

I have probably thought about the T2k world 95% of days since I bought the game. I rarely focused on myself as a character in the game though. I focused on the world. For example while out walking or driving I will look at all kinds of items and imagine what would have happened to them in T2k.

As I travel down the street. I see cars with their windows shattered and trunks and fueling caps pried open. Most trees have been chopped down for fuel. Fences have been torn down to be used for someone's improvised defenses. Occasionally I see a building I expect would be fortified and try to imagine who would be controlling it. For me it is actually, as a creative exercise, a very good stress reliever.

Also when I travel I use the game as an excuse to research the areas I will be traveling though. I try to figure what forces would have passed through and area and how they would have traveled.

For the most part the game is completely an intellectual pursuit now as my gaming group continues to drift apart. We have not even discussed playing in well over a year. It still is a good way to direct my creative energy though. That is why I keep this forum going.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by kato13

It still is a good way to direct my creative energy though. That is why I keep this forum going.

Part of what this group is for me and coming up with all the T2K stuff is is therapy. For those who are new around here and don't know, I have a pretty severe mental illness only partially controlled by medication (enough to make me more or less functional, though), but I'm also largely a shut-in as I'm also a caregiver to my elderly mother and a slave to five dogs. So it helps to have an outlet. If I've never said it, thanks for being here, guys.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

If I've never said it, thanks for being here, guys.

Paul the thanks goes right back at you. Your site was the first T2k site I found on the internet and it knocked my socks off. It led me to look online for even more inspiration to keep the T2k fire alive in me. Your dedication to the game is appreciated.

[Adam F]

Originally Posted by Turboswede

Ok I hate to admit it but back in the 80’s when I started playing the game I couldn’t help but think “wow in 2000 I will be 28…that could be me”. Lo and behold now I am a 30’ something who can’t believe 2000 was 9 years ago.

Anyway, in my tween years I created a character of myself and what I would be in 2000 as part of the Red Diamond. My T2K Avatar (so to speak) was a Captain from the Sustainment Bde of the 5th Division, somehow nominally in charge of a bunch of combat hardened bad-asses.

Any of you play the same mind game? If so I would be interested to know how you pictured yourself in Poland during the Twilight War.

Heh ... brings to mind a wierd moment I experienced when I first saw an Indiana Jones 4 poster on the side of a bus walking down a street in London ... seeing a really old looking Harrison Ford in a new Indy movie poster just felt like I was suddenly in a Back to the Future 'future scene' to me. It genuinely knocked me for six for a moment, and made me think; 'whoa ... I'm in the future'.

I guess my consciousness remains defaulted to thinking we still live in 1989.