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Escapism?

  • 23-05-2010 10:00pm
    #1
    Ginja Ninja
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    this came up in a zombie RPG I'm in.It's set in dublin,with a virus style zombie outbreak.

    Every now and then the GM throws a random one-off scenario at us,the latest being we all had a psychosis where our imagination visualised stuff for the entire party[ My one was a class of zombie I had designed] a friends was seeing zombies as people.

    After a while he said we could see and feel old memories as real as day.

    My question[if any of that makes sense] is what sort of escape would you have? If you could mentally switch off and say, watch tv shows in your head.Would you use it to get away from it all every now and then? Or do you think it'd become addictive prefering fantasy to the deadly harsh reality of everyone being dead.


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  • #2
    DakotaYoda
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    Interesting question...

    I think you'd head down the road of Psychological Addiction. Same general idea as drug/alcohol use really but just substituting a different "drug".

    In a Z-uprising world everyone would be pretty fried to begin with - I think you'd see a whole lot of battle fatigue/post tramatic stress disorder/whatever. There is a fine line between letting the reality of the situation get to you vs. needing an escape to temporarily find some peace, even if it's just in your head.

    That being said - if you don't have a 'happy place' to go to during times of stress yer pretty much headed down the road to burnout.

    So there ya go. :) Absolutely no answer whatsoever... heh


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