CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

After two years of writing flash fiction surrounding Joss Cutter (the first-person narrator) and Mack, I finally found the story of how they first met. What I didn't expect was to find that Odyssey also featured in the way Joss started out... or that they had a much darker side. The novel was supposed to be the development of a different novel idea, but became its own beast, pushing the original novel in the position of Book 2, and I knew I had a trilogy on my hands. At the end, though, I found a fourth book, and a short story. Plans are to now complete the other three books in the series, and try for an anthology of the short stories and flash before year's end, with all of them coming in around 90k... nothing like aiming high, right?

A couple of weeks ago, I was able to do a 12-mission series set in Gold Creek Village, in Nichols, in the north of Canberra. Time to Complete: It is possible to do this series in an hour at a brisk walk, however, if you glyph hack, capture, fully deploy and link it can take twice that time - and, if you are playing PokemonGo and spinning every stop, capturing each of the four or five gyms, and chasing down the wide variety of pokemon that you can find there, it can easily take you the three-and-a-half hours it took me. Complexity: This is a very straight-forward mission series with easily accessible portals, and hacking all that is required. It is a good way to get to know Gold Creek Village and become familiar with the wide variety of cafes, sculptures, and tourist locations to which it is home. Terrain and Location Notes:  Location Accessibility: Gold Creek Village can be reached by bus, or by car, and has ample free parking. Traversing the Mission Series: If you park a