Fond memories

Light blogging over the weekend and into next week as I get a memo written, my family and I move to new digs, and I try to complete Soul Calibur II's Weapon Master mode with Kilik (the man).

I remember the first time I played Kilik. I was at the Hollywood Connection in Salt Lake City, with a boyfriend (now ex-) of one of Reeta's sisters. While we weren't that close (at the time), he was the only person I could find who actually wanted to go see "The Mummy". (Reeta was not yet into Steven Sondheim films). We played laser tag (I always get creamed at laser tag, but it's still fun), we saw the movie, and I found a game called "Soul Calibur" in the arcade. That I played once. With one quarter. And won. The whole game. That experience firmly planted in my mind the superiority of Kilik over all other combatants in that game. Now, I know that's not true, and that it was a measure of luck and button mashing that brought me victory that day, but he's still my favorite character in the game.



In fact, his picture is the portrait of my favorite Neverwinter Nights character, Kalkin of the Hand (currently a level 20+ monk working his way through Hordes of the Underdark).