The Two Daves

I've been in the Online Gaming realm for nearly four years now and I've been through a lot of things - both thick and thin. Through sickness and in health, through the joys and the woes of each online game I've seriously delved into, I've nearly seen and been through them all. But never - never did this coming tale happen to me before that got me so seriously - as the great Montoya of pROSE and HOL says - SABAW.

As everyone well knew, I'm currently engaged to the realm of Perfect World, where I am living a life anew as my Fa Shih, DaveTNova, after suffering a most saddening demise of my characters in pROSE. As it is, I was determined to rebuild from the dregs and remains of my shattered online life and resolved to finally - get this to the max level (something I have never accomplished yet).

So there. My character's name is DaveTNova, patterned after my character in the novel "Terra Nova", a fantasy story I wrote myself. My clanmates in HOL frequently call me Dave, which has incidentally stuck to me as my online nickname, and even sometimes IRL.

As it turns out, there was this character (a Yao Shou) from the clan Zodiac that has the name dave, and it is between the two of us that a most hilarious series of events has passed. This started as early as my lowbie days in Dragon City. Whenever I go to a certain portion of the city, most often I come across this guy. Call it weird, call it coincidental, but hey my eyes can't deceive me. I definitely see him!

What's even more weird than this is that wherever I teleport (most commonly at Dragon City and Beast City), I come across him at the teleporter's location as well! I started to wonder if we're somehow bound in thought or something!

The amusingly hilarious part came during my later points in the game, when I'm already in faraway Dream Village. By a sheer stroke of luck (or maybe lady luck's really just fond of playing tricks at us), I came across him again at the monster fields there, although we were a bit separate. Out of the blue a character that I knew as a friend suddenly shouts in common chat the following:

[Player:] dave

Naturally the first instinct was to respond, but due to my occupation with the enemy I had to postpone replying lest I die, and lucky I did! Seconds after that, the other dave answered her and it turned out that it was actually him that the player was talking to!

This unnaturally queer event did not pass once, for it happened again after a few days, and this time (unknowing as I was that dave was in the area), I slipped out a response to a call to my name, and it turned out that I wasn't the one called!

I'll tell you all this: If character's online can blush in embarrassment, then I'd definitely be as red as my You Xia Outfit!

Lessons learned here: Make sure that you are the one being addressed to before you answer!

That wraps it up for GM Tristan's Group Writing Activity for the third week. I hope you all enjoyed reading!