Hagentarot, the Ultimate vision

I’ve performed some thought experiments in preparation for the new hagenart website, developing a vision for the future site - not the new site, but the ultimate hagenart site. I should make it clear that the new site and the future, ultimate site, are not the same. The new site is a rapidly approaching reality, whereas the future site, the ultimate site, exists only in my mind and now, for one page on the new website, hagentarot, in spine tingling verbal form on this blog.  Hagentarot is a virtual tarot card reading that uses the hagenart value card deck

Ultimate vision for hagentarot intro: 

The game begins as first person: you begin in the middle of a foresty, looking into a glade, or a glen, or a fen. A nondescript hoofed animal wanders across your field of view. It stops to gambol. Suddenly crosshairs appear over the animal’s head. You see the words “target acquired” flash on the screen in the red scoreboard font. If you press any button, a white flash appears on the animal’s head where the crosshairs were, and blood spurts from the wound. The animal drops to the grass, while horrible jangly music plays. It turns into bad 80s guitar riffs. You find yourself able to move around, and if you move toward the animal, at a certain point a silver proboscus extrudes from the bottom of the screen, as if it’s your nose or your tongue, and stabs the animal’s corpse. The corpse changes colors, to silvery colors, and then the animal reanimates and gets back up. It makes a horrible screeching sound and then bounds off into the shrubbery with disquieting speed. 

You move through crashing, snapping bushes and undergrowth. There doesn’t seem to be a path, when you suddenly come across a pavilion in the middle of the wilderness. There is a shadowy figure sitting at one of the tables. If you approach the figure, it makes a movement and deals a card onto the small tablecloth spread on the filthy metal park table. There are numerous old and overlapping stains, of disturbing colors, covering the table. 

If you don’t approach the dark figure at the table, you can wander around the pavilion and the other tables, or go crashing through the shrubbery. Nothing more happens until you approach the figure and take the card. 

Wow. Yes, no question, the implementation could never live up to that verbal description. What a testament to the power of words, that even the author of the paragraph gives up on the reality!