After... other stuff (I took a diversion back to my parents' house during a canal trip, which has several problems not worth describing)... I apparently have a journey of a different kind. Travel, then encounter, then troublesome journey then intellectual encounter, then difficult journey then an ultimate battle encounter. Which made sense once it was revealed to be a procedural RPG storyline.
But then, I explain to my father, now observing my computer screen, it would have been much worse had it been the ultimate battle, the intellectual encounter, the plain encounter, then the difficult, troublesome and regular journeys. (Apparently that could have happened.)
Further, upon reviewing the stats screen, it seems that my rank was impressively high. At various levels of assessment, I was not far off the top ranking. One of the lower-level strata had me within spitting distance of being Beowulf (tbe ability to become the ultimate warband leader) whilst for the simultaneous-and-unrelated top rank I am 3<lotsofzeros> away from King! (Practically there. I need 12<LOZs> for King, and I'm on 9<LOZs> at the moment!) This, as it shouldn't, doesn't impress my father much. But I've obviously worked at it. Ah well.