I was going through a rough period a while ago.
I had it bad, really plunged the depths of depression and loss. I didn't really know who I was. It was like I'd woken up one day and just forgotten everything I took for granted. I don't know exactly which event in my life precipitated it all, but I do know how lost and lonely I was. There was a woman involved of course, and the games she played with me were a large part of it. I wandered through the confusing mess of life hopeless and nameless and lost. I dabbled in extreme forms of self harm in an effort to figure myself out.

You know what saves you when you're this tormented? Your friends. Your true friends. Right from the start, my oldest mate 'M' was there to help me work through it - I'd pulled him out of his own mess a while back and he must have felt obligated to return the favour when he saw me like this.

It was a real slog to get better after my life fell apart - all the bad things I'd done came back to haunt me, and the more I learned the more I wondered if I'd ever truly be free - but more and more of my friends chipped in to help me, even though I'd been a right bastard to them because of all my issues. Maybe I even helped a few of them learn a bit about themselves.
Finally, with my friends by my side, I felt strong enough to confront the evil witch who'd put me through all this. I freed my friends from their responsibilities to me. I was even able to face up to my own mortality, and finally take responsibility for the greatest sin of my past, and now that I was able to die I was rightly sent to Baator to confront my eternal punishment. I may have died, but I think overall I won.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 13:31, 7 replies)

Very subtle *click*

(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 16:38, closed)

Thank God; someone got it.
You get the official 'awesom3st b3tan' award.

I could have gone on much longer of course. Possibly for the best I didn't.

Rat on a stick, mR aRROW?
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 17:08, closed)

Thank you Sir
that was devilishly fiendish, a one word clue almost :)
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 17:17, closed)

Thankyou. I tried hard not to overdo it.
I am rather good at these, though I say so myself. The fact that it's my favourite game ever bar none and I know it inside and out helps. Now if only it'd run properly on Vista so I can go back to it...
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 17:23, closed)

I
never bothered upgrading my O/S for exactly that reason, still XP and proud :D
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 9:16, closed)

I miss XP... :(

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 10:25, closed)

If you're having trouble running it on Vista...
www.gog.com/en/gamecard/planescape_torment

Totally worth buying twice!
(Milo Minderbinder, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 23:34, closed)