You Can Be One of Them

I have been known to enjoy crafting a good premise from time to time.

But what if I showed you how I do it? Let’s use one of my favorite digital artifacts.

That is the story for Soldat. A 2D action game.

It is indeed like Quake except 2D and it does allow you to be one of them. I’ve played the game quite a bit, but I’ve read this line dozens of times now through the years.

https://www.soldat.pl/en/

There is so much to unpack in this story.

• Why was the decision made?
• Did they calmly meet about this beforehand and reach consensus?
• What might happen if only one of them is left? Do they win, or is that a loss?

Poems are falling out of this idea already.

Of all these angles, the most interesting seems to be the meeting where they decided to kill each other. Digging into it:

• Someone makes a slide deck
• Someone raises a concern about parking
• All in favor of killing each other, say “aye”
• I think maybe the dirt lot behind the abandoned Cub Foods might be a good place to kill each other, what do you think?
• Does Saturday work for everyone?
• Is there a Facebook event?