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Stone Trolls and Orcs

I love playing... or should I say... I loved playing

I remember that when I was young, I was crazy for video games. My spoiled friends all got a Super Nintendo, my grandma was spoiling me with gameboys, but it was not the same thing. You could share a super nintendo and it was colorful. the gameboy was nice (Metroid on Gameboy was awesome), but I always got the envy of not having a stupid super nintendo.

With the advent of computers, video gaming on them, and suddenly realizing that its graphics were better than the N64, I was finally dreaming the dream: I remember playing Doom, Heretic, and a game about some space ships fighting each other (don't remember the name), but everything was in glorious 3-D (and in shinny colors)

Everything was pixelated, but it was fantastic...

Of course, my parents didn't like me and my brothers spending tons of time playing games, we often would indulge in playing these late at night. A complicated issue, because the computer was not in our room. You needed to be very silent, and my dad did have a keen ear. Every time he got up to make a night patrol (why?) you needed to be very silent, turn off the computer monitor, and even hide the little lights from the computer, if you could fool this old fox of my dad, you would be playing some more time. If not, you were busted, and to bed you go.

Anyway... I was reminiscing of all this stuff because, part of my novel has the Saurians, and Stone Trolls. These form part of another video game (battle for Wesnoth, free on Steam), that is from a few years ago, but it emulates those pixelated 2D games; besides... I needed something else to put on my blog, and why not? some nostalgic events which are going to trigger you guys, my incognito friends on the internet, to buy my novels ^.^
This is a Stone Troll, and its commanding Orc. Orcs and Trolls come together in Battle for Wesnoth. In my novel, they are dumber and more aggressive, still they can be trained for war, and Orcs love them.

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