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Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Today's #flashfiction #DestinysGame

“It's hammer time!”
Bob the Builder* #quote


        Tomorrow my friend Jessica should be coming over to hang out. Normally we just hang out at the card game thing, but we managed to schedule something during the week. I'm thinking we may be able to do that more often so yay!



Destiny's Game

         Destiny held her joystick in hand as her game booted and the screen flickered. Whatever strange, ethereal realm the goddess called home let her rest comfortably on a cloud-like floor. However the floor wiggled and bobbled under here like a slightly stuff waterbed. The floor matched the traditional white god robes that were a gift from Athena, a neighboring pantheon that sometimes held parties with Destiny's family.
        Destiny flicked back her black bangs so that it wouldn't be in her eyes as she played. A single missed move would be costly in her game. She grasped the joystick tightly yet relaxed. A natural state for gaming to allow tight control without getting sore.
        The game started and the magic of the machine caused rumbles like thunder. The game screen consisted of multi-colored spheres coming from all sides cluttering together into the middle like a planet taking form. When a sphere landed it stuck and Destiny could move the joystick to rotate the forming planetoid to control how the incoming spheres formed together.
        And spin the forming planet she did. The incoming multi-colored spheres would look like simple marbles to human eyes, but the eyes of a goddess like Destiny could see all the data contained within. Each forming planetoid was a level in the game. Each level a fated event. Each multi-colored sphere elements in that event. People, places, things, specific happenings within that event. As she spun the planetoid how the many, many spheres fell onto it would control how they interacted like how pouring paints onto each other could control the mixture but much more complicated.
        She wiggled the joystick and the sphere spun and spun and spun. The elements of the fated event came in. Cars. Fire. A family. Alcohol. Sirens. A road. The day, the time. The wreckage. The emotions. The hospital. The doctors. All the people who interacted that night and that happening.
         A fateful event where a single drunk driver nearly killed an entire family. Had she spun it the wrong way the doctors may have failed to save the injured family members, or the collision would have been harder. The traffic could have been thicker preventing the ambulances from getting there.  But Destiny completed the level and let the family live and the driver see the horribly injured family.  He quit drinking and talked to others hoping they would never make his fatal mistake.
The levels Destiny completes don't always result in survival and lessons learned. However we create the levels that Destiny must finish.

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