Waiting to Exhale

Game(s) played:

GTAV

Starting Stats:

Rank: 85

$1299380

Goals: make enough $ to upgrade nightclub

Ending Stats:

Rank: 85 and a half

$1349075

Deaths - none!

Purchases: none

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Starting stats:

Rank: 12

Drachmae 9084

Ending stats:

Rank: 13

Drachmae 10726

Warframe - logged in for daily reward, collected and redeployed extractors. 

Total hours played: 8.5

I woke with two things on my mind today: my tenth mensivesary with Rin and what I needed to do to upgrade my GTAV nightclub staff. After breakfast and some time with my guy, I'd planned to get online and assess the situation but a necessary phone call ate up that time.

At work, my thoughts strayed to Alexios so often I feel as though I should apologize to Rin. I came home to a home cooked meal and Rin's smiling face. After we ate and spent some quality time together he turned to me and said:

"Go on, get on the game. You know you want to."

At first I sincerely I objected. I love spending time with him.

"Foxx, I'm a gamer. Trust me I get it."

Well, if you insist baby 😊

Sitting in front of a glowing monitor, gaming headset on, Post Malone in my ear, Smash Mallow bag by my side, energy drink at the ready, and controller in my hands, a sigh of satisfaction escaped me as I cruised the streets of Los Santos. It felt as though I'd been holding my breath all day and I could finally exhale. My apologies to Toni Morrison but no metaphor describes the feeling better.

The session started with me just messing around with promo missions and such on GTAV. I dropped on on KM and LL and watched them play tag. Then it was time to lobby-hop until I found a quiet one my scrub ass could propser in. It took several tries but I found one with just one other soul in it. A level 51. Sweet.

He was in a mission and I let him be which I thought would let him know I wasn't there to troll or cause him grief and hoped he'd do the same for me. But no. He had to start effin' with me. I managed to outdrive him and get to my clubhouse which means he's a total freaking scrub if I can out maneauver him.

He waited outside my MC until I finally said eff it and went in passive mode. I know K/D ratio and generally dealing with mayhem is part of the game, but that doesn't mean I have to roll over and take it. That being said, I lack the skills to defend myself very well yet. Not a problem. I enlisted a pro.

As soon as KM was done with her heist set up, she joined me in my lobby and rained down a world of hurt on this player. And as childish as it sounds I enjoyed every minute of watching her and LL defend me. Balance of power restored, I went about my resupply missions in peace.

Later Rin taught me how to drift properly. Seems I was missing some important button-play which I then practiced for another hour or so.

I rounded out the night with Alexios ending Elpenor and finding his sister, Kassandra or Deimos as she is know for now. The plot thickens! And once again I stayed up too late, but real life offers nothing as touching as my friends coming to my rescue or as intriguing as Shakespearean drama.

As I write this, work looms large on the horizon and once again, I'm back holding my breath until I can finally breathe freely again.