༺ Beginning ༻
Feeding the body was a matter of food, but satisfying the hunger of the soul was a matter of hobby.
Just as our bodies required three meals a day to stay healthy, if we didn’t enjoy our hobbies, our souls could fall ill at any time.
Some people were passionate about video games, others were deeply into sports like soccer or basketball. There were countless hobbies on this planet. As such, hobbies could come upon you unexpectedly, like fate.
Even if you avoided something your entire life thinking it wasn’t for you, you might end up becoming completely engrossed in it after trying it out by chance. It was like being chosen by a hobby.
My hobby was TRPG1Tabletop Role Playing Games -are a video game genre that combines core elements of role-playing video games with those of tactical (turn-based or real-time) strategy video games. The most known TRPG is Dungeons & Dragons.
Tabletop Role Playing Game.
To explain for those who didn’t know, it was the advanced form of the RPGs we played as kids and drew in our notebooks.
During my college years, I started playing TRPG reluctantly after being persuaded by my girlfriend.
I still remembered it clearly. My first session was ‘The Lost Mine of Phandelver2https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/lmop,’ and my first character was a barbarian named ‘Barian’ who referred to himself in the third person. His concept was using leftover mammoth bones as weapons.
Barbarian Barian’s fantasy world adventure ended up being a spectacular failure after many twists and turns.
Just as a masterpiece retained its essence even when summarized, a disastrously failed story still retained its pungent aroma even in its summary.
Barbarian Barian was suddenly captivated by a Northern Great Duke (male/16/beautiful boy/Swordsman/level 20) and died in a cesspool.
I broke up with my girlfriend as soon as the session ended.
The pain of the breakup was short, as I fell in love with the new hobby called TRPG.
Infinite freedom and the potential to spread the wings of imagination as far as one desired, the unity and fulfillment of creating stories through interacting with others… There were occasionally, well rather often, villains who would take advantage of that infinite freedom to mess up my mind, but it was a small risk compared to the rewards.
TRPG, my love, my light, my life, my haven, my soul…
My one and only salvation that healed my tired soul from the harsh life!
Even though there had been heart-wrenching and painful events, the joy of TRPG was a part of my life.
Even as I was dying, struck by a car, wasn’t TRPG the first thing I thought of?
If there was a next life…
And if I could choose the hobby of my next life.
I would choose TRPG all over again…
TRPG…
No, rather, it would have just been better if my lifelong hobby was working out.
How did I end up so obsessed with this kind of hobby?
Fuck.
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“So, you’re saying that you’re going to play, TRPG… or something, by using Illusion Magic to create a world?”
“Yes.”
Even after reincarnating, I just couldn’t quit.
