{"id":2851,"date":"2015-04-13T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2015-04-13T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:23:09","slug":"in-which-we-do-something-we-havent-done-in-far-too-long-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2015\/04\/in-which-we-do-something-we-havent-done-in-far-too-long-a-time.html","title":{"rendered":"In which we do something we haven&#8217;t done in far too long a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2853\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Torchlight21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2853\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Torchlight21-300x169.png\" alt=\"Not our Torchlight 2 game, but you get the idea.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Torchlight21-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Torchlight21-650x366.png 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Torchlight21.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not our Torchlight 2 game, but you get the idea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Margie and Kay and I actually played an online game together. \u00a0Granted, it was &#8220;only &#8221; <em>Torchlight II<\/em>, and it was played on our local LAN, but we haven&#8217;t done something like that in quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on quite a Torchlight kick of late &#8212; probably a stress thing &#8212; and it occurred to me that we could actually do some playing all together on Sunday. So after we&#8217;d gotten it reinstalled on Margie&#8217;s machine, and Kay&#8217;s computer was through with its patches, we had at.<\/p>\n<p>And it was <em>fun<\/em>. We were regular little murder hoboes, sweeping the countryside for anything with a label and cutting down anything our weapons and spells could attack. We swapped gear, watched each others&#8217; backs, and had a blast. We ran through about 85% of the first batch of missions (through the Temple Steppes), and had to quit only when dinner arrived.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to do it again some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margie and Kay and I actually played an online game together. \u00a0Granted, it was &#8220;only &#8221; Torchlight II, and it was played on our local LAN, but we haven&#8217;t done something like that in quite a while. I&#8217;ve been on quite a Torchlight kick of late &#8212; probably a stress thing &#8212; and it occurred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2015\/04\/in-which-we-do-something-we-havent-done-in-far-too-long-a-time.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which we do something we haven&#8217;t done in far too long a time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}