Murder in Morrowind
I was probably the happiest teenager that ever lived when I finally got "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" to work on my computer. It had taken hours to find a safe torrent, and then another hour to get it installed. I opened the game, and as soon as I started playing, I fell in love. It was the best game I had played in a long time.
All up until that happened.
I had beaten the game twice, and I was still playing. I spent hours a day on it. Every time I played, I got submerged in the fantasy world and almost forgot who I really was. One day, in Balmora, something strange happened to me. A man walked up to me and said, without me pressing space bar, "There has been a horrible murder somewhere in Morrowind. Will you help us investigate it? If you do, we will give you the greatest gift someone like you can have." I was intrigued, and accepted. "The one problem," he explained, "is that we don't know where the murder occurred. We need you to search all the land. Disregard any other things you need to do."
Suddenly, the man disappeared. So I went searching. Every day, I played more, trying to find where this murder happened. And the more I played, the more I forgot what my true identity was. My Identity was becoming Lodu Sashizaki, the master thief. Finally I was playing from when I got up in the morning until I went to sleep at night. I didn't eat. I lost 20 pounds because I was always to busy to do so. Too busy searching for the site of the murder.
One day I felt like giving up. I had been working for weeks trying to find this murder, and I hadn't found anything. I supposed it was time to find that man and give up. But suddenly, he appeared right in front of me. He said, "Good job! You found the site!!" "No I didn't!" I said to myself. But even though I was talking to myself, the man replied. "You have murdered yourself. Your true self." And I've never left Morrowind since.
THE MORAL OF THE STORY: NEVER play too many video games. Otherwise, like in my story, you will lose some of your real life to the game and get more and more addicted until you can't stop and you stop living your own life.
Credited to Guitarpwnage
Originally uploaded on February 19, 2012
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