Liam’s Quest Part 2: inspiration

[aunt_zelda]

I kinda wanna play as myself as a kid now in an RPG. (Just like, not as personally intense and upsetting as last night’s was, or as gory and horrific.)

I realized that my stats woulda been really weird compared to who I am now. 

Like, in middle school:

• I lived in the deep woods (ranger/druid)
• I regularly went hiking up mountains for classes (ranger/druid, athletics bonus)
• I was fresh off several years of summer camps where I learned all kinds of outdoor skills (survival bonus)
• I routinely harvested and planted in big gardens for farmstands (nature bonus, identify plants)
• I was a massive nerd who read all the time, had a giant stack of books by my bed always, and lugged books with me everywhere (intelligence)
• I was pretty shy, and didn’t have many close friends (low charisma)
• I had an amazing memory and remembered like, dozens and dozens of elaborate camp songs, and Shakespeare text, no fear in performing (bard/high intelligence)
• I carried wooden stakes in my backpack (wooden stakes, 1d4 piercing)
• All my classmates carried knives (simple weapons proficiency)
• I climbed trees and ate my lunch up there, with a bunch of other kids at my school, this was normal (druid/ranger, athletics bonus)

I’d have been a Druid or a Ranger if we’re using D&D terms, or maybe a Bard if I’d followed that performative streak. I was a mostly shy nerd who wanted to stay the fuck inside and read but kept getting dragged out up mountains and into the woods by my teachers, who learned I would complain, a lot, about this whole process.