Ah yes, the ( mis ) fortunes of war!

ValkoorTheVictorio... on Aug 29, 2016 wrote:

Oh yes indeed....care to share any of your more memorable misfortunes?

I just recently had another one that was along the lines of another boneheaded Valkoor move.

I had taken out the 2 Armada Marines and the Queen, and all was looking well. I hadn't even used my Blood Flames yet and I was positioning myself to get a far enough distance from the remaining court members (Bishop, Deacon, Rooke and Kane were all still left) so that I could drop them.

After creating enough space I dropped the 5 Flames where they wouldn't be interfered with. The round ended and one enemy was adjacent to the center Flame and both the Flame and Deacon expired. I sent Quint after Bishop to hopefully finish him off before he could target my crew and the Flames with his AoE-- so that I could lure Rooke and Kane into the Flames. I had some Strength buffs up and just knew that good ol' Quint and his Relentless/Blade Storms would finish off the somewhat low-health Bishop. I then used Scratch's skeletal summons and placed it in the center of the flames (where the 1 Flame had been extinguished..knowing Rooke/Kane would go after it.

Quint hit Bishop pretty decent and started whittling down his health a good bit and all seemed good. He scored a successful attack, then a Critical Relentless but his ensuing Blade Storm got blocked. Then Bishop decided to block the 1st Second Chance second Relentless, the 2nd Second Chance and the last Relentless didn't kick in. Bishop was left with a sliver of health and the next turn he targeted the skeletal summons in the center of the Blood Flames with his AoE, thus removing all 4 remaining Flames from the board.

And all because I was so confident that Quint would finish off Bishop and the skeletal summons would be left to lure in the 2 battle buddies. Just goes to show how sometimes things are beyond our control...and that's a great thing!!!

Well, I don't obsess over my misfortunes. If I suffer a nasty defeat, I dust myself off and go back in. And after I've won, I forget about it all - it's behind me.
Although, I could tell you about all my W101 battles that come down to the last round with me at a low health and the enemy at low health; then I have that wonderful, game-finishing power card - and it happens - I fizzle and the enemy crushes me!

ValkoorTheVictorio... on Aug 31, 2016 wrote:

I hear you, Esperanza.

Yeah I don't dwell on my defeats or misfortunes either-- I make light of them, laugh at them, write jokes about them and then press on.

But sometimes I find it fun and enlightening to let others know that they aren't alone in their misfortunes. We all have experienced those "What went wrong" kind of moments...sometimes it's just nice to share them in a more upbeat & humorous way to assure others that they aren't the only ones that experience them. Just as I have experienced all of the above...I have also soloed Kane 40+ plus times. So it serves as a testament that you may run into misfortune but you surely can overcome it if you try again and stay positive.

Some players think the Spiral is conspiring against them and they are surely the only ones that suffer from unlucky moments. Well this thread is here to tell them that we all have those moments, but we all keep on chuggin' and that laughing at those "Why me???" moments can help them see that the game isn't singling them out...when things do go wrong.

Sometimes just reading that it happens to other people as well, can make it less disheartening when you experience it yourself.

In some ways, I think many of tend to forget this little anecdote as we tend to go about our days (in the spiral or out) without so much of a thought behind many things... what is, what was, and what is to come... Look at all the social experiments that are being run on gaming in general... We create the spiral in a mirror image of what we expect our world to be outside of it. We shape it and mold our experiences and carve friendships that we otherwise perhaps lack outside of (fill in that blank). I think that no matter what age we were, and will be; the precipice between what our expectations are and the true realities ( no matter how cruel) are always going to be the same.

Words are like fleeting images; they take shape only to leave the tongue or keyboard and become jaded and lose their original purpose. Like everything in life; intention and meaning are a paradox that rule the existence of everything we know and the only limitation to its rule is that one must imagine in order to truly take hold of the beauty that is around us. Defeat as you said is only temporary; but if we look further... Defeat = Loss = Missing moment. Success is innate as we had to succeed in being born, in growing up and achieving the intelligence we have and sharing that success with others.

If we drew a line between success and defeat; in the middle humanity is the subterfuge variable in which the outcome is as unique as what we bring into creation through our thoughts. I like to look at a few points that may shed even more light into the subject..

If we look into humanity and its history; we have seen many facets of the spectrum we call "the human experience" but all creations (digital, inanimate, or flesh and blood) share a common thread; they were brought into existence through thought and intent. I think in the scope of this discussion this subject can extend to the reaches of heaven and sky and beyond; but it is a discussion well worth writing about ( to be continued)