A colleague showed this to me yesterday. I now have a mad urge to misuse my office printer and supplies (graphic designer, remember? There is plenty of nice, thick paper stock sitting in my office, just waiting to be used…muahahahahaha) and mass print these out and place them all over my office cubicle, not to mention my desk at home.
At work today a colleague asked me what cooties were. I told him to look it up, so he typed it into the dictionary widget that comes with the Mac . Then he laughed. When I went over to find out why, he pointed to his screen, and I laughed.
Who knew that a word like that might have such origins?
For quite a while now I had been getting invites to the Elven Blood app on Facebook. Just another game, I had thought at that time, I’m probably not going to play it for long, and I don’t need to add yet another game to my already long list of apps. Then a friend sent me an invite pleading with me to join his party, so I finally relented and added it. Since I added the game, I decided that maybe I should just give it a chance and try it out. My colleague at work was also raving about the game, so I thought why not.
Big mistake.
When I first tried the game out, I thought it was ok. Something for me to just play on a casual basis, and nothing more. Less than two weeks later I have been reduced to a quivering mass that adds strangers into my Facebook just so I can advance into the deeper levels which require a bigger party size. You see, the evil, evil thing about Elven Blood is that the deeper, more advanced areas require a bigger party, comprising your friends, or some NPCs here and there that gives you a +1 member to your party. To get to the end of the game, you will require fifty. Just how on earth was I supposed to stuff my party full of fifty friends who play Elven Blood? No wonder everyone was sending me those invites.
At first I thought I could do with just sending out invites to my friends and getting some fairies for the exchange (fairies give you a +1 to party size). But a few days later, I saw how unviable it was, and finally caved in.
I swear, whoever created this game (and those of its ilk) are spawns of Satan. Damn youuuuuuuu~!
UPDATE: Since I have now progressed further in-game, I have realized that what I wrote about needing fifty party members to proceed to the end of the game is not true. It seems that the walkthrough I consulted was incomplete, as I now have areas requiring sixty-five party members and the end of the game still seems nowhere in sight.
Oh well, at least I am consoled by the fact that if I ever do get bored on Facebook, I have a lot of strangers’ profiles to browse through :p