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winchestersimagines · 7 years

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Through the time

Characters: Dean x reader, Sam x Reader,John Winchester, sister!reader, child!Sam, child!Reader, winchester!sister

Summary: Dean travels through the time to prevent somthing bad.

Warnings: angst, language (like just one), bad memories, characters dead

A/N: Sorry for being so unaktiv. I had alot to do the last few weeks. But I´m gonna change that. I hope you will like this one shot. It alittle bis like the episode where dean traveld back in time so maybe he can save his Mother. And yeah what can I say more? Have fun reading this and maybe let a little feedback here this would be great :) @winchesters-favorite-girl I wanted to tag you. I don't know why I wanted to do it. But I wasn't sure. I am shy but you discription said we can tag you in everything, so I thought why not? You are my favorite acount on tumblr your writings are so good, I love them*-* So maybe you will read this little story I made up. I hope you like it :)1

“SAM HAVE YOU SEEN MY GUN?” I yelled through the bunker. I stood in my room already packing my stuff for the hunt we where heading to. “I don’t know.” He yelled back. “Do you remember the last time you saw or used it?” He questions, walking into my room. “I shoot the witch, and thats it.” I answered. I walked through the bunker searching everywhere. I ended up at the garage, I looked inside baby and found it directly. “GOT IT!” I yelled so sammy would know.

7 hours later

We where on our way to the next hunt and It was already dark outside. Sam was asleep. I tried my best to stay awake but it was hard so a drove to the nearest motel and booked a room for the tow of us. I immediately got to bed.

I was blinded when I opend my eyes the first time. The second time it was easier to open my eyes. How long did I sleeped? We should be at the hunt and already be interviewing the victims. When I wanted to wake Sam I realized I wasn’t in my bed. I sat up and looked around me. I was at a park, laying behinde some trees.

What am I doing here? It was very bright outside today. The sun was shining really bright today and it was pretty warm today. I walked around the park until I walked into a small street. I got my phone out and dialed Sam´s number. But his number wasn´t actual. I hand up and at that moment I walked by a little shop and walked in. I walked staight to the new paper and read the date. 22. July 1995. What?! That couldn´t be true. Where is the hidden camera? I stormed out of the shop. I am stuck in the 90´s? This can´t be true.

“Winchester!” Yelled someone. I turned aorund. “What?” Yelled someone. I turned back around just to see, Dad? I tried to walk as nothing happend. When dad here is is Sam not far away. I followed Dad until I landed at a crappy motel. I waited a whole night until Dad was gone again.

I slowly walked to the motel room and knocked quetly on the door. A few minutes later a 12 year old Sam opend the door. “Who are you?” “Hey Sammy.” i said smiling. “Dean?” He said a little bit shooked. “W-what are you doing here and why are you older?” He asked confused. “Long story.” Is what I answered. I walked in and sat down on the couch. “What are you doing?” “Sammy who is this?” Asked a little girl that hid behinde the bathroom door. “Y/N come here!” Y/N? My little sister? I haven´t seen here since she.. died. “Y/N?” I asked her. Sam picked her up and she hid her face in his neck. “Of course it´s her. Why are you suprised?”

Of course. I know why I´m here. I can prevent Y/N dead. “Sam, I just traveld throuh time. I didn´t know why. But know I now why!” I told him and stood up to grab some guns. “Whoa what? Why? How?” He asked following me with his eyes. “Sam something bad is going to happen and I need ypour help!” I said. “And what do you thing I am going to do with Y/N? I can`t let her alone!” I what he said and put her into bed and kissed her forhead. “You don`t get it. It´s about Y/N.” “What do you mean?” He aksed. “The thing you are hunting is a Vampir and is going to kill Y/N tonight.I know it I was here before. I am from a future where she died as a child and I can`t let it happen again. When I have the chance now I´m gonna take it! So are you in or not?” I asked and looked him in the eyeys dead serious. “You mean we going to kill a son of a bitch that is going to kill my babysister? Of course I´m in.” He said start packing. “But wait what are going to do with her as long we are gone?” He asked. To be serious I don`t know. I thrifed away in to old memories.

It was a pretty cold night and I was in a crappy montel with my little brother and sister. Dad was out for a hunt and I had to take care of my younger siblings. I am so angry at Dad. I wanted to help to kill this damn Vampir. But of course I had to take care of my younger siblings. “Sam I am out to grab some food!” I yelled back to Sam, so he would know I´m out. “Yeah but don`t need that long we are starving.” He yelled back but still giggeling. He said in front of the Tv with out youngest family mamber watching catoons and playing with Y/N. I smiled into me and walked out. I just needed 40 minutes. But when I was back, the motel door was wide open. I let the food fall and stormed in. All I saw was Sam crying in the conor of the room. I turned my head and saw Dad with Y/N in his arms. Just that she hung in his arms lifeless. I couldn´t move. Dad looked up to me with such disapointment and saddnes I have ever seen. “Dean I told you to take care of your siblings. I can never forgive you for that.” Is all he said before turning his attation back to Y/N.

“Dean?” Was what I heard until I realised it was Sam. “Oh yeah sorry.” I shaked my head to get this bad memorie out of my head. “Are you ready?” asked Sammy. “Of course.” I said throuwing my bag over the shoulders.

1 Hour later

We walked for like an hour out into the woods. “What if anything happens to her?” Sam asked. “We are going to get this monster and kill it before any thing can happen to her.” I made him sure. We got to a old house far into the forrest. I got my machete out and Sam did the same. I quietly opend the door and walked in, Sam right behinde me. We searched any connor of this hous but all we found was dead bodys and a lot of blood and empty beer bottlers. “Why aren´t they her`” I asked quietly to myself. At exact moment Sam´s phone rang. We loocked at each other until he answered the call. “Hello?” He asked. I watched curious. “Wait Y/N who is inside the room?” He paused. “Hide somewhere. Where I told you to hide when someone iin your room. We are there just wait a little bit. Don`t make a sound ok? We are there any minute.” He hang up and we run all the way back to the motel. I regred that we had no car. It took us good 10 minutes. We stormed into the room with our machetes up, ready to kill anybody.

The Vampires where supriesed to see us. “Winchesters! I didn`t tought to see you here this early.” Said a man with long blond hair and brown eyes. “My name is Arron by the way. And I think we have simething that belongs to you.” Was all he said and brought Y/N in. “SAMMY! DEAN!” She cried. “Let her go.” I said really angry. “Oh Dean, you hunters need to learn a lesson. If you keep trying to kill us, then we are going to hunt you and your hunter friends until they are all dead. And we are starting with this cute little childe.” He laughed. I looked to Sam. He nooded back and that was the signal that we aree going to attack them. I cut someones head of. Arron saw it and attacked with his leads back. Sam cutted some heads off before he was pushed down to the ground. He could break free from this monsters grib. And cut his head off. I felt a grib on my leg and was draged back and fall down. I landed on my head, and saw stars but I shaked my head. But someone sat down on me and pushed me down. Shit he was very strong. Someone else came up to me and held my head. “Let`s make him one of us.” Laughed the one sitting on me. “Good Idea.” The other one laughed. He ribbed my mouth open and the other one already wanted to cut his arm to let the blood drip into my mouth, but his head was choped of exact this moment. Sam looked down at me. I cut the other one the head of since my arms where free and took my machete back. Sam was long gone when I stood back up.

Just Arron the leader was up. But he still had Y/N in his crib. “Go away or she is dead!” Was all he yelled before Dad apperad behinde him and chopped his head off. Y/N ran up to us and Sam and me kneeled down and huged her tightly.

Someone splashed water at me. “Wake up you loser.” Said someone to me but it was a females voice. I ripped open my eyes and sat up. I saw a young woman starring at me. “Oh look who is awake, Sam. After I tried everything,” She laughed. “Y/N?” I asked. “Yeah that´s me.” She said. I stood up and hugged her tightly. “Wow you are acting like we haven´t see us in years.” She laughed a little suprised, because of my hug. “You have no idea.” I laughed with tears in my eyes. She finally hugged back, and I gave her a kiss onto her hair. “I love you.” I told her, tears of joys rolling down my face. “Of course I love you too.” She said smiling.

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Game 316: Caverns of Mordia (1980)

Caverns of Mordia

Australia

Lothlorien Farming (developer and publisher)

Date Started: 4 January 2019

Date Ended: 13 January 2019

Total Hours: 8

Difficulty: Moderate-Hard (3.5/5)

Final Rating: (to come later)

Ranking at Time of Posting: (to come later)

Caverns of Mordia is a recently-rediscovered entry in what we might call the “establishing age” of CRPGs–that brief period between 1975 and 1983 (even briefer, between 1978 and 1983, for the microcomputer), when developers repeatedly asked themselves how best to adapt the qualities of tabletop role-playing to the computer. By 1983, it was clear that the approaches taken by Ultima and Wizardry had answered the question to almost everyone’s satisfaction. But during that establishing age, we saw a lot of variance in approaches, most unsuccessful, and while RPGs may have improved in the following decade, rarely again do we see so much diversity. My summary of the early era has links to a number of titles with fun ideas that went nowhere. In the case of Mordia, its unique contribution is to map every potential action that a player might take–subject, verb, and object–into a single numeric command. Where most games might offer a command for “attack” and then let you specify that you want to target the orc, Mordia puts that all together as command 22: Attack the Orcs. It’s almost like the game was developed by a police officer, used to describing every potential action or situation in a 10-code. Some of the many commands include:

30: Eat Lymphas [a type of bread]

33: Draw the double-handed sword

40: Use the net to trap dragons

50: Climb up one level

63: Remove the gas mask

66: Put on the gas mask

89: Open the chest

90: Attack the balrog

One of three pages of game commands.

As I read and annotated the various commands, I couldn’t help but imagine all kinds of intriguing possibilities with this system. One problem is that all of the commands are manifestly useful in at least one room. It would have been fun if the author had sprinkled patently absurd commands throughout the list

32: Feed Lymphas to the orc

64: Put the gas mask on the dragon

I also imagined such a list extending to the complexity of a modern RPG:

10318: Stab the necromancer in the back, then run away and hide until he forgets about you, then enter sneak mode and stab him in the back again.

15906: Lead the deathclaw to the raider camp and watch the result from behind a nearby rock.

29055: Position the bodies of Ulfric Stormcloak and Galmar Stone-Fist in an obscene manner.

30117: Lasso and hog-tie the Skinner, heave him onto the back of your horse, ride 90 minutes to the swamps of Lemoyne, feed him to an alligator

Of course, such complexity is why the system was doomed to fail in the long run. You can’t have a unique command for drawing each weapon or attacking each monster unless you only have a few potential weapons and monsters. Still, it works for this game better than I thought it would when I first read the description.

At this moment, I can: (-1) descend the “dropoff”; (3-16) flee to any of the listed rooms; (20) use my Charm Ring on the demons; (21) try to take an emergency tunnel to Room 1 of this level; (22) attack the orc; (30) at some Lymphas Bread; (33) draw my double-handed sword in anticipation of attacking the dragon; (37) try to blind the monsters with an elven flare; (40) try to trap the dragon in a net; (44) attack the dragon; (55) try to make a passage upward with my magic wand; (70) go invisible by putting on the One Ring; (80) try to blast all the monsters with the Magic Staff.

Caverns of Mordia was written by Hans Coster, with assistance and manual artwork by Tony D’Assumpcao, and published in 1980 by Sydney-based Lothlorien Farming. It is the earliest known Australian CRPG, pre-dating the next known title (Citadel of Vras) by 9 years. It was marketed via direct magazine sales, and by the author’s account it did well domestically, but Lothlorien soon shifted to educational software rather than game software. Mordia languished in obscurity for decades–not appearing on any of the lists I used to compile my master list–until 2016, when Neville Ridley-Smith of OldComputerStuff.com happened to buy an original disk as part of a lot, then made contact with Dr. Coster, now a professor and department director at the University of Sydney (Neville’s account begins here). Neville’s efforts not only produced a meeting and interview with Dr. Coster, but also a new set of disk and manual images to distribute on the Internet. This disk has some upgrades that were not available in the original version, but it’s hard to tell exactly what’s new because the original versions floating around the Internet are bugged to the point of unplayability. I’ve annotated the things that I think are new, based on changes to the manual and command list. It’s worth nothing that even the “new” stuff isn’t 2016 material; rather, Coster programmed it in the few years after the original 1980 release but simply never released the second version.

The subtitle screen from the revised edition.

The backstory has you play an agent of the wizard Pallandoin. Your mission is to deliver an Orb of Power to Lady Elleda of Locklorien, whose land is besieged by the forces of the evil spirit Sharnoscet. (In case it’s not obvious, almost all proper names in the game are slight alterations of characters and places in the Tolkienverse. “Sharnoscet” is an anagram for “Hans Coster.”) To get to Locklorien, you have decided to travel through the Caverns of Mordia, full of horrid creatures and encounters, because it is the route the enemy will least suspect.

The game suffers from a few originality issues.

Character creation involves answering a few simple but unusual questions. After your name, you’re given the option to start at the surface with a basic kit or jump right into a lower level of the dungeon with a full set of equipment–in effect a shortcut for players who have already been through the opening a bunch of times. The normal exit to the game is on Level 25, but at the outset you can also specify that you’d like a second exit on Level 35, in case you fall down a pit or just want to amass a higher score before winning. I’m not sure that there are any drawbacks to saying “yes” to that question.

A few questions during character creation.

You begin at a dwarven market, where you don’t have enough gold to buy anything, but can later return. Your opening resources are a dagger, a dragon net, a magic staff, a wand, a lamp, the Orb of Power, 400 agility, and 400 strength. Strength serves as both literal strength and a health reserve.

The game begins in an empty room.

Upon entering the caves, gameplay proceeds something like a roguelike with a concept map instead of an actual map. The dungeon consists of at least 35 levels. The manual is unclear, but it’s possible that levels are generated indefinitely (I made it to Level 44 before I died). Each level can consist of up to 16 rooms, with the contents of the room and the connections between them randomly established every time you change levels. They can even be reconfigured while you’re still on a level if you encounter “tremors.”

A text simulation of an earthquake.

Room 1 on each level is a special room in which you can do a couple of useful things. First, you can (Command 0) use the Orb of Power to return to the dwarven market and buy a gas mask (500 gold), a magic two-handed sword (3000 gold) or extra Lymphas Bread. Second, you can (Command 27) exchange your accumulated experience for extra agility or strength. You don’t always want to exchange all of it, however, because your unspent experience is used in some of the formulas for hitting and damaging monsters.

Spending some of my hard-won experience.

Other rooms can contain all kinds of perils depending on the dungeon level, including:

Poisonous gas, which depletes your two characteristics unless you quickly put on a gas mask, and then the gas mask itself causes a 5% attribute loss per turn.

The game warns you about poisonous gas at the beginning, but you won’t be able to afford that gas mask for a while.

Drop-offs, including ones that you can see and hidden ones that dump you unceremoniously to the next level.

Gusts of wind that blow out the lamp and make it impossible to see what’s in the room until you make a movement for a turn and the lamp re-ignites.

Webs spun by the giant spider Araneida, which immobilize you for one or more turns.

Orcs. You can kill them in regular combat.

Dragons. You can also kill them in regular combat or try to trap them with a net first.

A dragon and an orc guard this room with a chest. Because I have a Dragon Occular, I can see the dragon’s health.

Trolls. They always appear to guard the Mithril Armor. I believe they’re new to the second edition.

Balrogs.

Giant vampire bats.

Demons, which can’t be killed through normal combat, only charmed.

Araneida, the giant spider.

Goblins, who can’t be attacked and simply steal one of your potential inventory items (the Dragon Occular) and flee.

Mithril armor is guarded by orcs, demons, vampire bats, and trolls.

The same rooms can also contain useful equipment and assets, including:

Gold. You can’t directly pick it up. Instead, every time you make a move, there’s a chance of grabbing a certain percentage of it.

Chests with gold, elven flares, or Lymphas Bread. Chests can be trapped with serpents that bite you.

The Charm Ring, which stuns demons.

Finding the Charm Ring is a key moment in early gameplay.

The Dragon Occular, which lets you see the relative strength of dragons

Mithril Armor. I believe it is new to the second edition.

The One Ring, which works pretty much as in the book. It renders you invisible while you wear it, but the “evil one” can sense its presence, and every turn you wear it carries an increasing chance of a debilitating spell. I also think this is new to the second edition.

Rooms with various assets and dangers are a staple of games in The Wizard’s Castle variety, but what keeps Caverns of Mordia unique is that any combination of these things can exist together in the same room. You might wander into a room with poison gas, an orc, 500 gold pieces, and 6 vampire bats, and then immediately have your torch blown out. You might descend into a room with an orc, and a dragon, have your Dragon Occular stolen by goblins, and then immediately fall through a hidden hole in the floor. You might be in the middle of a battle against four trolls for some Mithril Armor only to have a tremor reconfigure the dungeon level before you can defeat them.

A fairly simple room with demons, a few room connections, and a way up.

You have a surprising number of options for dealing with these threats, all with potential risks. You can run away to another room, or climb up or down if those passages are open, but running carries a risk of getting swatted by enemies as you leave. You can simply attack with your dagger, or spend an extra round pulling out your two-handed sword (after you’ve bought it), but the sword sucks your strength every turn and only improves your chances against some monsters. You can light an elven flare to blind monsters and improve your chances of hitting them. You can use the staff, which will obliterate orcs, demons, bats, and poison gas and create a tunnel down, but only if it doesn’t backfire and damage you instead. You can try to reach Room 1 in a hurry by taking one of Araneida’s tunnels, but it carries a risk that she’ll bite you on the way. You can point a wand at the ceiling and try to create an escape hole upward.

A more deadly room on Level 6 has an orc, a dragon, and demons.

In short, every room has a lot of tactical possibilities depending on who and what you find there, your current attributes, and what equipment you carry. Upon arrival in a room, you have to decide what takes priority, and whether it makes most sense to fight or flee. You get experience for every successful action, and it adds up fast. Your fortunes wax and wane with astounding swiftness. At times, I’d be down to a few thousand strength, reach Room 1 exhausted, and then find I had 600,000 accumulated experience points to pump into the attribute. Other times, I’d be wandering around confidently with over 100,000 in each attribute, fall through a few holes, meet a balrog, and get the “game over” screen.

Every nine moves, the game has you camp for the night–sometimes, this happens right in the middle of combat. (The manual hand-waves this by saying that you’re magically transported to a pocket dimension for the duration of your rest.) The sleep has a chance of adding 20% to each attribute, and it shows you a currently inventory and mission log when you awaken. You can call this report at any time with a numeric command.

The “cave report” is a simultaneous inventory screen, status report, and rest break.

Overall, the strategy is to build agility and strength slowly on lower levels by killing orcs and charming demons. Rooms get more complex and events more chaotic the further you descend. Once you start killing dragons, and particularly once you start killing balrogs, your experience can increase by hundreds of thousands per level, but your strength and agility can also decrease with equal rapidity, and after Level 15, I was constantly searching for Room 1, often risking Araneida’s tunnel to get there. Such gameplay provided an exciting, nerve-racking experience, mitigated only by the fact that you can save every time you find Room 1 and teleport back to the dwarven market.

Although mostly text-based (and without any sound at all), the game occasionally offers some ASCII animation of your character fleeing battles or descending dungeons. ��

Running from monsters sends a little ASCII guy scurrying across the screen.

The same guy transitions between levels.

If you die, the game gives you a summary of your character’s actions and an estimation of how close he was to winning the game.

This guy didn’t do so well.

Winning involves exiting the dungeon successfully on Level 25 or 35, which you do as soon as you wander into the room with the exit. You get a satisfying text narrative and a summary screen of your activities. It took me about six total hours and four characters to win. To do so, I did take advantage of occasional saving. Winning without saving, as in a roguelike, would be a hardcore way to do it.

The final text wraps things up nicely.

My final stats for my winning character.

I recorded about 10 minutes of video to include the opening, exploration, combat, and the ending. The character dies a couple of times, and the encounters leading to his death give you some idea of the “oh, #$@*” nature of gameplay, as you careen from room to room trying to get a break from the relentless onslaught of demons and dragons.

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I don’t like to stress the GIMLET rating for early exploratory titles like this. I gave it a 20, scoring it best in “gameplay” (5) for a certain replayability and a difficulty and duration commensurate with its content. It doesn’t check all the RPG boxes, but that’s not quite as important as the spirit of innovation that the game represents. On the cusp of an era where 80% of their titles will receive their DNA from Ultima or Wizardry, it’s nice to see a few games that imagined computer role-playing in different ways.

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