Those 'oh so early' days...
So how many people I wonder, when asked, could recall their very first hours on Calypso. What did you think? Who did you see? Where did you even go when you made your first strides out of Port Atlantis and into the Eudorian Countryside? What did you find there? and, most importantly, what was the first thing that ever killed you?
I'm betting for the majority of people they havn't got a clue to any of these questions and probably a whole lot more would ask me why the hell they should care to remember anyway?
Well I don't know what it was like for others on Calypso or why I did it, but for some reason something triggered in my head that this wasn't just "any other game" this wasn't just some static made up place that would exist to become well documented and then forgotten about when the next game came out and gfx improved. Something here was special, something had been carved out with love and devotion and I knew I was in for something amazing. So I documented my travels in the early days, I went to EP, printed out a basic map and started scribbling!
Today, I reached into my draw and pulled out a torn, ragged, stained and well loved map from those early early days and thought "hmm its time to make a new one"! While doing this, thanks to those annotations, I had a chance to once again read through and, to a certain extent, relive those early days. I hadn't written much, a note here, a silly description there, and a few route lines but it certainly served to give me a good laugh at my past naivity ("Killed by big blue hopping thing!
") and take me back to those heedy days of innocence.
I remember once, in those early days, I met a lady out travelling who told me to savour my early days of exploring for they were times that I would never have back again. How right she was and I am thankful to her for those words of wisdom and the fact that, to this day, I STILL havn't been everywhere.
Much of Calypso is still a mystery to me which is good cause I know that, while ever this remains the case, there will always be another adventure just waiting to be had.
