“Save Me Plz” from Escape Pod episode 124
“Save Me Plz” is interesting, that’s for sure. It follows a character named Meg who goes on a quest to find her lover Devon. It sounds very medieval adventure game like, but this quest takes place in real life. Apparently. In an effort to find Devon, Meg buys a game that Devon had obsessively played towards the end of their relationship. It’s the type of game that my parents would respond to with such words as: “waste of time”, and “waste of energy” and “waste of brain power” and “don’t you care about us anymore” and “you still haven’t eaten anything!! When are you going to eat!!” But I digress. In the game, Meg finds Devon, who tells her to save him, in real life. And to get started, she need to find the gnome. In real life. Which is weird, I guess, if you ignore the giant spiders and the giant bats, among other things.
The story’s sweet. There are defiantly things that aren’t true in “reality”, our reality anyhow. But that’s really not a big deal to me. Because it works. It doesn’t at first, until you get to the end of the quest. And I won’t spoil it for you, because you should take a listen to the episode.
The only thing is, I’m not sure that I agree with Meg’s decision to go through with Devon’s plan. How can you have a relationship with someone where you are missing several days, months, years (the story wasn’t specific on how long the quest took) and they are not? How do you not have the same conversation with them when you do meet up with them again? How are you even supposed to trust someone who says, “this has happened before, many times”? Does it not become tedious explaining the missing memories again and again and again? Maybe it’s because I’ve never actually been in love. Or maybe it’s because I have less patience than I thought I had.
And finally, I’m not really sure if I could live in a world with out a computer with internet, iPod, and Podcasts. Materialize, anyhow. Oh, and everything Joss related. But I digress, again. If this story was true, which thank God it isn’t, I would never get my weekly dose of podcasts, like Escape Pod
, Psuedopod, and Decoder Ring Theatre. If I’ve tickled your curiosity bone, visit www.escapepod.org and listen to “Save Me Plz”. It’s read by Mur Lafferty. And if you don’t know who she is, then you should find out who she is. And listen to her podcasts. They are awesome. And so is she.
