For those of you unfortunate enough not to make it, let me break it down for you. It was hot tits. The war was aptly named "March Meltdown" because quite literally there was still lots of snow on the ground at Mill Creek and it was all fucking melting as we played throughout the day. Beautiful.
As others have mentioned, this war was successful for numerous reasons, but first and foremost was the fact that we had no asshattery, dickheads, or rules lawyers. I think we partially owe thanks to Talio for this and his method of hosting and partially due to everyone in attendance, thank you to everyone for making this an enjoyable war.
This war was a big turning point for me, personally. It was the first time in about 6 years that I did not have a Crossbow to wield. That was pretty big for me. I used a +bow for the entire day, and thankfully Slug swapped out a Rev. 1 grip for a new, shiny, solid updated grip somewhere mid-day. My hands were near the point of bleeding, so that was good. Anyways, all things considered, I did okay. It was more or less a learning exercise for me, as I have been using a Rawraw7 style breech and coupler for the past 6 years and a slide breech was something new and exciting.
Anyways, highlights:
- Zombie rounds, with revised rules were a blast. It was challenging and hectic.
- No rules lawyering or disputes over hits. Everyone was really cool.
- Reaching the perfect attendance number for Mill Creek to sustain.
- Seeing some familiar faces and some new ones thrown in to the mix.
- Selling some of the last remaining NERFSTRONG wristbands to people.
- Not slipping and breaking anything the entire day. I thought for sure I was going to.
- Having my own darts made that worked well in my barrel material and didn't suck.
- Only losing a few of said darts throughout the entire day.
- The dart-eating swamp behind the staging area was fun to trap people in.
- Luring Splitlip into the woods behind us, only to have him be eaten by zombies.
- "The diddle train has no brakes."
I'm sore as shit, have cuts and bruises all over my body, spent 7 hours in the car each way and still had a blast. Thanks again for everyone for attending, and many thanks to Talio for making this a great war. See you all at the next one, hopefully with the Mk. III completed.
-Groove