A close friend died recently. he was one of our gaming group, the reason we were all still gaming together. We burried him last Friday and many of were together yesterday for the first of a new game with out him.
I write up the Adventure logs. Some with more description than others. I’m writing up one now for Sunday as the characters go on, also without their friend. This friend had an unusual weapon, a urgrosh. A heavy axe and spear in one, it was a powerful tool for our adventuring party. But, I can never remember how to spell it.
When he was still alive I asked him over Discord to give me the spelling and a smal description of what the thing looked like. I went trolling through our old Discord conversations and found what I was looking for,
“Hi, What is the name of Shale’s amazing axe/spear weapon? Is it one handed or two?”
“Urgrosh, double bladed so can be either I think.”
Happy to have found the spelling once more I clicked away from the thread without closing it down.
Imagine my shock and I write the death sceen for his character that the tab for Discord, with his gamer tag clearly displayed, had a one next to it. He’d sent a message?
Of course I wonder how that could be. Could some one be on his login? Maybe, the family had his computer.
I clicked to Discord…of course it was another friend asking a question, I’d just left the old thread up.
We had another incident at the gaming table yesterday. One of our party is looking around the group, count, checking names and checking again. He was sure we were missing someone and couldn’t start until they arrived.
“Yes, there is someone missing.” I said with meaning and he got what I meant instantly.
I don’t know if I will ever remember how to spell urgrosh or get over not seeing him around our games, but I know that I am going to be haunted by little moments like thing for a long while.
Blug... 