"Your game arrived!" Cindy called from the living room to her roommate. Looking at the box, she smirked, wondering just what her friend saw in these games. When they had met freshmen year and shared each other's geeky hobbies, Cindy spoke excitedly about her comic boomk collection and then listened politely as her new friend showed off her computer games, particularly this one series that had been going since the 90s: Doubloons.<br/><br/>The game was part pirate simulator and part rpg. You sailed around, boarding ships, fencing with other captains, digging up gold, sneaking into fortified island towns, and so on but you could also design your captain, choose who to have on your crew, make all sorts of dialogue options, and even seduce governor's daughters and get married.<br/><br/>Cindy had been hearing about this new installment of the game for months. For the first time, they were allowing players to pick a woman as captain and introducing a bunch of supernatural elements which sounded a little cool to Cindy. Still, she preferred her comics.<br/><br/>Setting it on their kitchen counter, she left the room and didn't notice thr box glow menacingly.