Well what can I say about APOC!
Other than the fact that it was fucking awesome!
The day started out pretty rough. I figured coming from Canada was going to be enough to make a grand entrance onto the field with Mask/ Top hat and all. Before I even got out of the van I saw Evil and Shindig look over at my masked face with such a weird look on their faces. Those two came over and told me to take the mask off because I might scare the children. They were not being demanding or anything but were asking nicely and I am generally a peaceful guy so I did. However I was not pleased about it at all. I hadn't even left the parking lot and I was already pissed off.
Rambo, myself, Schik and Dk all trekked over to the destination point.
Upon walking over to the base site I noticed a lot of people and modded Nerf guns.
I started seeing familiar faces I had seen online. It was all so strange to me at first.
Introductions had begun and I started putting names to faces.
Doing this whole Nerf thing for the longest time made me feel like a certain little
Bumble bee.Approaching the base site made me feel like the middle of this music video.
Of course I was much more contained.
Favorite Memories:
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Shooting Hersh in the shoulder and leaving a big dirty welt.
Then later that day, shooting Groove in the neck with the same Pump action shotgun and leaving a no mark at all?
Walking out to the field talking to Skitzo I think, and a young-ling asked him when Forsaken is getting here.
Staring out at this tiny 6 year old kid with crazy hair. He looked like something I couldn't remember. It was driving me nuts until now. He looked like a Sun tot. Anyone who doesn't know what a sun tot is should check out this link.
Smoggies and Sun tots.At first I was very against playing with even teenagers let alone 6 year olds but everyone proved me wrong in the sense that they can be very mature when it comes to our crazy sport. That Sun tot impressed me though.
He ran like the dickens and was very sneaky. I saw someone shoot him with a nitefinder and the kid squeeked!
I couldnt stop laughing. He then turned around and raised his arms saying "I'm hit I'm hit" It was too cute.
later that day when I saw Dark Shrimp run up to the sun tot and shoot him when he was alone was the weirdest greatest thing I ever saw. Shrimp shot the sun tot and then raised his arms and cheered like he just won the lottery.
Getting 10 kills in my first team vs team round. My last kill being Vacc. (so proud)
Shooting Evil reaper from my pump action shotgun in the head from at least 80 feet away. His hair flicked up it was great.
Shooting countless people with my pump action shotgun. I seriously love this thing for its merciless range accuracy and velocity. I told you guys this thing would dethrone the crossbow. Now that you got to see it in action you know what I am talking about.
I can't believe how many arched shots I landed. I would range aim at a person who wasn't even on guard or aware I was aiming at them. All of a sudden they noticed they got hit and I am laughing from a distance. I doubt I would be able to follow the darts like I did with my eyes had my foam not been red.
Getting shot in the balls twice in one round.
Feeling my heart pumping strangely in the very last round thinking I was going to die. Telling my team to go on without me.
Hitting Badger in the head with two black cherries.
Hitting Hersh in the head with a black cherry who ultimately ended up blaming it on Rambo and hilarity ensued.
Getting shot by Schiks Rapid fire. After he stormed out of a bush to ambush me.
Going through a poison ivy ridden forest to flank the other team and run up behind them only to miss my shot fall on my ass and get shot. It was such an Effeminate opportunity.
Scraping my leg to shit dodging a shot from Vacc in the first team round.
Dodging shot after shot yelling "Olay"
Smoking one of Badgers cigars at the end of the day staring upwards at the tree line while laying down in the grass surrounded by tired and exhausted comrades.
Seeing peoples reactions when I would actually take aim at them with the Pump action after it had earned a name for itself.
Being approached by several nerfers young and old asking me what gun I am using periodically throughout the day.
While aiming at Captain Slug I was going to pick up a dart and my gun misfired and actually hit him.
Shooting a dart through a tree line and getting it stuck in someones stomach after they keeled over.
Hearing about how Rambo smashed a Maxshot.
Meeting Captain Slug, Vacc, OMC, Groove, Evil, Shindig and everyone else who has been doing this for years.
Running around and flanking people and realizing the intimidating factor that running and yelling has.
Hearing Groove yell "Your all banned" when we decided to team up on their group.
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Things I didn't like about the war.
The God Forsaken heat.
What seemed like desert crossing hikes across the park.
Not being able to scare the children.
The combined 14 hours it took to get there.
Seeing Evil get shot in the shoulder by Dk's AT3K and then calling it a skim even though I saw it change direction by at least 30 degrees. Schik and Dk also saw it go down but Evil refused the hit and kept on playing. This discouraged Dk so much he just sat down and quit playing. He does tend to completely give up over little things though.
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So all in all I would say the Positive greatly out weighs the negative.
Because of this I am definitely going to be coming to another large war.
Thanks again to Rambo for being more than hospitable and dealing with my clan and myself for two nights.
I think I am just going to fly next time.
I have a few pics that are related to the war that should also be up in the next few weeks.
This has inspired me to try and organize a Canadian War. Myself, Schik and some others on the boards have already started talking.
Edited by Forsaken_angel24, 07 August 2007 - 11:29 PM.