Yes, I do have gladiators. I did, at any rate, but now they’ve probably dispersed into ones and zeros.
This was all some time between 2001 and 2005, but part of a larger theme. Back to the beginning. Every day, for a period, I had an email arrive with the subject “Your gladiators are waiting for you!”. It was an online (browser based) game, where I would train gladiators, and set them to fight others. The training was by assigning points, and I’ve a feeling the points were a result of a successful battle. It wasn’t just gladiators though, but I don’t recall the other fighting type. Perhaps Vikings?
I drifted away from this game in the end, and I either just ignored the emails or put them in spam. The gladiators were still there though, waiting, ever waiting.
The gladiators, and the Vikings.
Oh, and the character in Meridian59 that I played with at Cafenet, the pirate aliens in some bizarre tower defence game I liked on iPad, towns of monkeys wanting to pop bloons, hordes of armies and heroes in fantasy and futuristic worlds, and, and, and…
Obviously I’ve played many many games over the years. With some of these I’ve left my character(s) out there, on the internet, waiting for me. What has become of them? have they aged and died, have they been starved of electricity and vanished? Perhaps they realised I’m not returning, and they found a better employer – could it be that some of those gladiators have retrained and moved on to popping bloons with darts?