Jack of Harts

My dad had the patience of a saint. He never once yelled at me over that grand plan to pull several characters out of a zombie apocalypse at once. He did say that he really wished I’d run the idea by him before trying it out. He totally agreed that I’d done a good job planning it all out. But he could have brought up an issue or two if he’d been made aware of it. Things I hadn’t thought of. And he said it was my responsibility to make amends. I agreed with him. I had failed to fully appreciate the ramifications of my actions and other people paid the price. Or people that might be people at least. Sometime. Either way, I fully recognized my responsibility and promised to make things as right as possible.

I enacted my grand plan to save several characters from a game at once. I followed the script. I killed a LOT of zombies. Chain guns. Rocket launchers. Pistols. Knives. You name it. I was a whirling dervish of destruction. If the zombies could have felt fear, I would have sent them screaming in panic. I saved one character after another from mortal peril, we killed the bosses from about ten different games and movies, and we all got back to the chopper. We flew out of trash panda city in time to see the bomb go off from a safe distance. And through the magic of holofields and hardlight I flew off to land the chopper on my front lawn in front of my lake where everybody was totally safe. Mission accomplished. I was a big damn hero.

Common sense should tell you that a zombie horror franchise may not be the best source material if you want stable, well-adjusted, calm, fully-functional people. I was a teenage young man who did not always have the best relationship with my common sense. So I enacted my grand plan to pull several characters out of a game at once. Now I had been careful. I had done my due diligence. I had long since picked the characters I was taking out, and me and Red had spent weeks modeling their character AIs in and out of the game. We had rock solid characters with full life experiences and good heads on their shoulders. We fully tested them both in all environments. We had this. Yeah. Not so much as we thought.