The Best Night Ever
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Now that's what gaming night should
be like. I'm talking dinner, followed by several solid hours of
4 on 4 CounterStrike. Sure there were a few problems along the way
this week, but Saturday had new call signs, some great 3 on 5 play,
and lots of laughs.
The week started out not so great. SeattleJoe invited
any of us California Diablo 2 players to join his Monday night group.
KrazyKarl and I told him that we were interested and we would play.
Well, start time rolls around, and KK and I cannot connect to his
ip address. We look for him on Aim, nothing. We look for him on
Yahoo messenger, nothing. We send him lots and lots of email, nothing.
The next day we find out he gave us the wrong ip address. Screwed!
Then on Tuesday, at hockey, we play a good team,
we play a good game, but we still lose. Maybe that's because Bunny'sFan
wasn't there. Or maybe it's because KrazyKarl took a penalty early
in the game that led to one of their goals. And even though your's
truly scored, it was our only goal of the game, and we lost 1-4.
And then there was Saturday. BadKitty apparently
has other friends and we knew she was going to miss part of the
gaming because she was going out to dinner with them. We weren't
sure if KrazyKarl was invited because for some reason, he wasn't
invited last week. And we never know if Poison or Clinton (he has
no nickname yet) are going to show up. But guess what? Everyone
and more were there. The lineup included me, Bunny'sFan, BadKitty,
KrazyKarl, Pisser, Poison, HamHawk, Clinton, and SometimesBunny.
Of course it was not always easy to figure out who
was on your team. The game within the game featured new call signs:
BlvdBrknDrms, 90_percent_luck, mycomputerhatesme and my personal
favorite Awesomo4000. Adding to the confusion at times HamHawk was
Pisser, and after Bunny started kicking ass, we discovered that
she was really BadKitty.
At some points during the evening what should have
been even teams of 4 on 4 turned out to be teams of 3 on 5. Most
of the time the odds are just too tough for the 3, but every once
in a while the 3 gets the right mix. One map had a 3 mix that was
me, KrazyKarl, and Bunny'sFan. We actually performed just fine and
we won a majority of the rounds. Well, someone boasted that on the
next map, if we kept the same teams, then the 5 would dominate.
Bunny'sFan accepted the challenge. The next map did involve a domination,
but it was the 3 that dominated. The 5 did not win a single round.
One humorous moment was on the building high-rise
map. The Terrorists spent one entire round trying to climb up an
unreachable ladder at the insistence of their leader. The CounterTerrorists
caught them in the ladder dead end and it was all over.
The funniest moment of the night occurred on a bomb
defuse map. It was 4 on 4. I was a Counter Terrorist. My teammates
went to protect the closer bomb site. As I was running to the farther
bomb site, I encountered 3 of the Terrorists. There was an exchange
of gunfire. I hurt them a little; they hurt me a lot. So I disengaged
and kept running to the far bomb site. As I was almost there, I
ran into the fourth member of the Terrorists, Clinton. We shot at
each other and he killed me. After my death he kept running to where
I had come from. As he turned a corner, he ran into his teammates
who were chasing me. They thought Clinton was me and so they shot
at him and killed him. Sure, people accidentally shoot at their
own teammates all the time, but this time his whole team was trying
to kill them, and they did.
All in a nights work.
--Mischief
p.s. The icing missing on this cake was the stats.
Bunny'sFan really outdid himself when he setup the program that
could track stats during an evening of CounterStrike. I submit for
review the idea that since Pisser's computer ends up being the server
more often than not, that we also install the stat program on it. |
