Prior to leaving Helena, I had to get rid of cards for a
game I played back in High School. It was an old TCG based on Highlander. You
may notice as I continue to post that I have a thing for Highlander. I own all
of the seasons of the TV show in one format or another. And I have a Director’s
Cut of the original film. Anyways, when the card game came out, I spent much of
my free money (which was a bit at the time) on cards. I had a huge collection
including hard-to-get promo cards. The company that produced it went out of
business some time ago, so there hasn’t been anything new released in a while.
After a while, the group that I played with ultimately stopped playing and
changed back to Magic. A dear friend said that he was willing to take the
collection as he was trying to keep the game alive with a few of his friends. I
let them go as they were just taking up space in my little apartment.
When I got to Missoula, I again had to make peace with
getting rid of some books. For the angst-y part of my teenage years, I became
quite fond of World of Darkness (old school not the new stuff). Primarily I
played Vampire: the Masquerade but also had most of the Werewolf: the
Apolcalypse and Mage: the Ascension books. Thankfully, Andy at Gallant games
understood what it meant to be in dire need of cash. I moved here with enough
money to pay for gas in the vehicles it took to haul my stuff from Helena. What
I could make from my books had to go to feeding me until I got a job and became
a bit more stable. He bought them all.
So a year or so ago, a friend on the MisCon Committee said
that he needed to get rid of some old World of Darkness books. He was no longer
using them and they were just taking up space. At the time, I had gotten a
jones-ing to play the games of my youth again and was trying to put together a
workable library. While I could easily have reacquired the entire library in
digital form via various torrent sites, I would rather have the hard copies
while I work on game bits. So he brought them to a meeting and the moment I
laid eyes on them I beamed. I was looking at my old friends. Not all of them.
But many of the books he had brought were the ones I had parted with several
years before. He confirmed my suspicion that he had acquired them as used books
from Gallant Games. A couple of months later, a friend from Helena said that he
had lost his storage space and asked if I knew anyone who was interested in a
bunch of World of Darkness books. I said that I would be glad to take them off
of his hands. I know have all of the books that I had before moving here plus
several more.
Just a few minutes ago, I returned from reacquiring my old
Highlander cards. It turns out that the friend that I had turned them over to
had given them to a mutual friend. I had posted a couple times on Facebook how
much I missed playing the game and the new owner said that he had them. After
talking to him for a bit he agreed to part ways with them. In addition to the
cards I had, I have acquired hundreds more. I now have enough to make several
good decks to play with friends and reminisce about times long past.
I suppose this is like geek karma. Put good things out into
the geek world and the geek world will return three fold. My suggestions for
all geeks, keep putting out good karma and it will return.
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