Thursday, May 11, 2017

Ad Corp Game Takes a Turn For The Weird

There is a threesome that has been playing mostly via skype for about 10 months or so. Their current game was about corporatocracy and the nature of freedom. The game was set up for the characters to conjecture about the ultimate nature of their world, and to explore some of the stranger parts of my multiverse. There has been a lot about self-sacrifice and its connection to freedom, and today one of the players gave up their characters so the character could spend eternity united with the 'ultimate song'. The game has gotten very strange. But that's not surprising, given this group's desire to kind of dig deep psychologically and spiritually while exploring the game. A lot of symbolism and grand cosmic schemes. I see this game as kind of in the vein of the Book of Daniel or the Book of Revelation. These grand concepts are incarnated in living symbols that take on a life of their own. Of course Daniel and John were pulling from the imagery that dominated in their day: dragons, winged angels, beasts and more. I pull from modern media alongside those more classical images. But the result is the same. This game may be the most revelatory we have going. I know everyone involved has had some strange spiritual experiences connected to the game. But it's weird. Kind of like God. Kind of like life.

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