Rough around the edges

These days in Fort River are kinda rough. So rough that at least one player has sorta complained we've lost our sense of Tribe-ness because of it.

I wondered about that. So I strolled back through my Tribe ep-collection again. (Handy to have ... and fun on snowy days when tv's boring as hell ... )

Today our game has a bar & rooming house, a gambling den, fights in the street & people getting drunk 'n hooking up. Casual conversations, casual sex, casual deaths ... but life for our characters isn't really all that casual.

I'm gettin' ahead of myself. Back to The Tribe. Where Ruby had a bar and rented rooms. Lex spent a good part of a season doing nothing but getting drunk 'n getting into trouble. Everything about the Technos was fights (both real & virtual). The casino was a popular place on and off for several seasons. There were rebels, resistance, tribal wars, raids, personal grudges, stealing, one or two versions of prostitution or threats of rape ... it's all right there in glorious living color.

I guess everyone has their own version or "vision" of what tribal means. It's hard for one game to live up to everyone's expectations ... especially since KTDARPG has gone beyond the Tribe. Our survivors have lasted far longer than we saw in the tv show. And like Tribe-world, game-world is a rough place. Our survivors are mostly hardened to the realities of this world. They do what they have to do, to make it through another day. They may be rough around the edges, but they're doing the best they can.

My best advice to anyone who's complaining is to actually get in there and PLAY the game!

After all ... how can you complain if you stay on the sidelines & let the game pass you by? Hardly seems fair to the rest of us who are there day to day, doing the best we can.

If you want the story to go in a new or different direction -- play it!

-Chyna

Photo source: copyright Cloud-9 "The Tribe"