MiltVala
Plantera
I'm getting sick of having to explain why I'm so down about Acelynn's corruption
Before I begin, if you have no sentiment in fictional characters and "lines of code and data" so to speak, you may stop reading. I don't expect you to understand if you feel this way. Move along, just please give me the space I need.
Many of you may not have known, but I've been having many issues with my father. Lack of respect, school, stress, you get the idea. Either way it had a high impact on me. I was not functioning, creatively and academically. To add insult to injury, my PC was showing signs that it needed a reset, in the form of Kernel Security Check Failures. This is when I got my Surface Pro 4. I didn't have the keyboard mind you, but this helped brighten my day. I had the idea of downloading Terraria on to it, it being a mostly single player game that I could always pause. And that I did. On January third, through the use of a wireless keyboard-mouse combo (necessary as the Surface only has a single usb port), I created Acelynn and began playing Terraria again, something I hadn't done in a long time.
She was nothing special, embodied little, and was (let's face it) kind of generic. But all of that didn't matter, I was finally having fun again. I was enjoying the game that had legitimately changed my life in ways many might not be able to realize. Unlike a standard pc, the Surface tends to stay in a "stand by" like a tablet, making it quick to turn on and off, set up and store. Whenever I wanted to relieve stress, I could play Terraria for a bit. It helped me cope to say the least. My newly realized appreciation for this wonderful game was an added benefit.
February 2nd, I had finally received my Surface keyboard attachment. For a week, I had been playing less and less, with my wireless mouse dying day after day. this marked the day I could finally use a wired mouse. However, I was working on my papercraft at the time, and only really tested it 2 days later. February forth was the day I had finally decided to test out my new keyboard and wired mouse's capabilities. After all, I had finished the thread I had been hoping to post since October. If all went well, this would have also been the time I backed her up finally, but I never got the chance.
A few minutes after starting up Terraria and loading the world, my father called on me for a task. I didn't expect to take long, so I left without shutting down anything. My silly naivetés was all that needed to happen. My surface crashed while I was out, and with the crash I lost both the world and Acelynn. I was frantic, testing the bak files, but alas, it was of no use. Acelynn and her world was gone, and there was nothing I could do about it.
I then realized that of all my characters in terraria, she was one of two that had any kind of impact on me (the other being Helena as would be expected). worse of all,I could only blame myself. Sure, I could blame my dad, Relogic, or Microsoft, but what would that have done? In the end, it was my little error that led to her corruption. If I had just backed her up, or closed the game, or decided against playing at that moment she would still be there, and hell, I'd probably be playing at this very moment instead of typing all of this. Maybe I'm just filling myself with self pity, maybe I'm just childish, maybe I'm being dramatic, maybe I'm a dainty butterfly living in fantasy land. This is why I am in my current condition.
I hope this answers any questions you might have.
( thanks for doing this btw)
Before I begin, if you have no sentiment in fictional characters and "lines of code and data" so to speak, you may stop reading. I don't expect you to understand if you feel this way. Move along, just please give me the space I need.
Many of you may not have known, but I've been having many issues with my father. Lack of respect, school, stress, you get the idea. Either way it had a high impact on me. I was not functioning, creatively and academically. To add insult to injury, my PC was showing signs that it needed a reset, in the form of Kernel Security Check Failures. This is when I got my Surface Pro 4. I didn't have the keyboard mind you, but this helped brighten my day. I had the idea of downloading Terraria on to it, it being a mostly single player game that I could always pause. And that I did. On January third, through the use of a wireless keyboard-mouse combo (necessary as the Surface only has a single usb port), I created Acelynn and began playing Terraria again, something I hadn't done in a long time.
She was nothing special, embodied little, and was (let's face it) kind of generic. But all of that didn't matter, I was finally having fun again. I was enjoying the game that had legitimately changed my life in ways many might not be able to realize. Unlike a standard pc, the Surface tends to stay in a "stand by" like a tablet, making it quick to turn on and off, set up and store. Whenever I wanted to relieve stress, I could play Terraria for a bit. It helped me cope to say the least. My newly realized appreciation for this wonderful game was an added benefit.
February 2nd, I had finally received my Surface keyboard attachment. For a week, I had been playing less and less, with my wireless mouse dying day after day. this marked the day I could finally use a wired mouse. However, I was working on my papercraft at the time, and only really tested it 2 days later. February forth was the day I had finally decided to test out my new keyboard and wired mouse's capabilities. After all, I had finished the thread I had been hoping to post since October. If all went well, this would have also been the time I backed her up finally, but I never got the chance.
A few minutes after starting up Terraria and loading the world, my father called on me for a task. I didn't expect to take long, so I left without shutting down anything. My silly naivetés was all that needed to happen. My surface crashed while I was out, and with the crash I lost both the world and Acelynn. I was frantic, testing the bak files, but alas, it was of no use. Acelynn and her world was gone, and there was nothing I could do about it.
I then realized that of all my characters in terraria, she was one of two that had any kind of impact on me (the other being Helena as would be expected). worse of all,I could only blame myself. Sure, I could blame my dad, Relogic, or Microsoft, but what would that have done? In the end, it was my little error that led to her corruption. If I had just backed her up, or closed the game, or decided against playing at that moment she would still be there, and hell, I'd probably be playing at this very moment instead of typing all of this. Maybe I'm just filling myself with self pity, maybe I'm just childish, maybe I'm being dramatic, maybe I'm a dainty butterfly living in fantasy land. This is why I am in my current condition.
I hope this answers any questions you might have.
Other terraria monsters, bosses possibly, gear, etc
( thanks for doing this btw)
happens, but it certainly can't scar you forever
