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Escapist – Quest For Glory

by on Feb.04, 2006, under The Rest

There are conventions in media we become perfectly used to, despite their having no place in reality. If we watch a movie, and someone is given CPR in the street, on the beach or dangling on a rope from a hot air balloon, we know they’ll come back to life. Nevermind that CPR merely sustains things until proper medical equipment arrives – we know, and accept, that with a couple of compressions and a few puffs in the mouth, they’ll be up and about and back to shooting zombies in a couple of minutes.

I was thinking about how weird it is that in every RPG, strangers come up to your character in the street and ask you to do their personal chores. So I decided to find out what would happen if I did that to people. And the Escapist were willing to publish it.


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