Griffin 3542
12-14-2006, 07:43 AM
I've noticed that there's no short stories here; I looked everywhere, even in the cobwebs, and still couldn't find anything. Just damned good poems. :(
Well, I guess it's my sworn duty to correct that sad fact. :)
I'm in the process of writing a novel, a science-fiction/action/wartime/romance story. I'm half way through it; 111 pages and counting. :D
So, without further ado...
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You Wanna Fight?!
All was well in the PMS camp. The forums were buzzing, consoles were overheating, and in tournaments everywhere people were rubbing their collective hides.
For a couple of years, a small group of guys had been collecting into three 4-strong teams. Team WhoopAss had been playing for close to five years with each other, and were known to be ferocious competitors, be it on Halo, Project Gotham or Rainbow Six. Their overall quality was undeniable; good, solid individual and team play on any game.
That is not to say, however, that they were generally good guys.
7 of the 12-man clan were sons of excessively rich tycoons; two were actual millionaires. When Team WhoopAss registered for MLG, a lot of rules were broken in exchange for some hard cash; many teams who beat them ended up having "good encouragement" to pursue other avenues of employement.
The end of MLG Gaming was slow, but coming. Slowly but surely, many of the old classic teams were being annhilated; Team 3D, Team Carbon, everyone, as the millionaire heirs used their inheritance. Despite desperate action and an incredibly bad reputation, Team WhoopAss grew to completely dominate the gaming communities.
Time:October, 2008.
Location:xbox.com Forums.
Flame War between:XerxDeej of the TTL Gunslingers, PMS Iris of PMS, and Louis Wu of the Halo fansite halo.bungie.org against xxxxM3T8L P8WN4G3 235xxxx of Team Whoopass.
The topic would become infamous in the world of gaming. In the space of three intense hours, three noble warriors verbally battled it out against the infamous gamer. The topic reached up to 84 pages, with five moderators working hard to keep up with Metal Pwnage's swearing and comments. It ended, as anyone would expect in the world of gaming, with all four finally agreeing: a five games long battle between the combined forces of the gaming community and Team WhoopAss.
The rush was huge. Old retired MLG greats flocked to the battle, while hundreds of people hurried to support Team Noble Knights. The five games quickly became Gears of War, Burnout Revenge, Grand Theft Auto IV, Halo 2 and the five-week old Halo 3. It was held in New York the following month, and it gained huge attention from the media.
The first game, GoW, was incredibly tense; Team WhoopAss's contingent placed it cautiously against the furious passion of the Noble Knights. The Noble Knights rushed across the open spaces in organised charges, often confusing WhoopAss's defenders, but WhoopAss persevered in a flurry of last-minute chainsaw baiting.
The second game, Burnout Revenge, is sometimes ranked alongside real life races as one of the best of all time. Four representatives from each team were pitted against each other on a simple 5 lap course; 10 miles of pure racing heaven where the eight would battle along the tarmaced streets of Paris.
The two teams had two very different and very typical strategies. Feeling good from their salvaged victory, Team WhoopAss decided to simply go for speed and speed alone; don't waste time attempting to bump, just outrun them in the speediest cars they could get. The Noble Knights however, were now sobered up from their loss and also decided; they would get xxTaggIt8xx's car first no matter what. The first team car to cross the line won it, so the three other Noble Knights fought a good fight against WhoopAss's slower drivers. Their speedier more resiliant cars told; before the race's end, three of WhoopAss's cars were too far behind to get there.
Half way on the last lap, it was a clear 2v1 in favour of the Knights, and they were happy to team up on WhoopAss's last driver. In a brilliant show of teamwork, Knight Alpha edged ahead of WhoopAss 3 and simply stopped right in front of it, giving Knight Gamma all she needed to force him into a tailspin.
Knights:1-1:WhoopAss
The third game of GTA IV was short and sweet. The general idea was that four gangsters from each team would be set loose onto the city, and the last man standing won; it turned into a runner-and-gunner, with the Knights completely and utterly slaughtered in a hail of machine gun fire.
Knights:1-2:WhoopAss
Then, the fourth game: Halo 2. WhoopAss were especially infamous for their exploits in this legendary game; exploits, glitching, plus plenty of RXR. The rules however, were too stringent for WhoopAss who suddenly found themselves at the mercy of the not so merciful Knights.
It turned out to be a simple game of Multi Flag CTF on Coagulation, normal weapons, and a Scorpian tank each. The Knights immediately set up their well-practised strategy, putting their tank in a firing position where it could annihilate anything that touched the Knight's Base, with a sniper enjoying the sunshine in the rocks. The other two Knights, who quickly grabbed rockets/shotgun/battle rifles, raced forth in their 'Hog and in a co-ordinated strike had only one person to deal with thanks to the efforts of their sniper and tank. Now, with their score in mind and 10 minutes left, the Knights set up camp and waited for the oncoming storm.
Having now respawned without a Scorpian Tank, either warthog or their sniper rifle, WhoopAss were undeniably pissed. They sent a battle rifle/shotgun team to either side, and successfuly assassinated the Knight sniper, but the tank blew their assualt team right back to where they'd started. Now however, with three minutes remaining, the rockets respawned and despite the Knight's best efforts, at 2:04 left they lost their tank. Sensing success, WhoopAss raced in their respawned warthogs and tank and bombarbed the Knight's position, but none died. WhoopAss charged in, killing one man to each man before eventually being forced into a showdown betweem Knight Delta and WhoopAss 4. In a furious exchange of grenades and whacks, Knight D crouched...and in a single, well-aimed burst from his rifle put the WhoopAss assualt man to the ground at 00:04.
Knights:2-2:WhoopAss.
And now before an expectant audience, the last game...Halo 3. For this last game, the most successful team so far at Halo 3, consisting of xxR1fl3 g0dSxx, djshep, Rocker398 and DarthSnyperKid would represent the Knight's last chance. WhoopAss threw their very best into the battle too, with their primary team being called up.
The stage was set;last man standing, normal weapons, AR start, 1 life only. The map was Snowbound, and as the two teams spawned on opposite sides, they simply paused for a moment to look at each other...and charged.
Eight assualt rifles released their fury into the open space, with plasma, frag and spike grenades going off everywhere. Slowly but surely however, the Knights slowly but surely fell...leaving only xxR1fl3 g0dSxx and DarthSnyperKid against the four-man strong WhoopAss team. Both grabbing grenades, the two brothers in arms threw, equalling out the playing field and shot for all they were worth. It turned into a last-minute fight between xxR1fl3 g0dSxx and WhoopAss's great leader, xxxxM3T8L P8WN4G3 235xxxx. The experienced veterans jumped and crouched respectively, and in a single, solid, final exchange of fire, with the baiting breath of the Knights and Team WhoopAss, with he very future of gaming itself hinging on it...xxR1fl3 g0dSxx, with fury and passion driving his weapon, let loose that single, tiny, extra bullet that flew into xxxxM3T8L P8WN4G3 235xxxx's head...and came right back out the other side.
His body fell like a deadweight onto the ground.
A single temor of silence held the entire stadium...and then it erupted.
Two weeks later, all 16 of Team WhoopAss were banned from all tournaments, games and live. The Knights victory had united the gaming community in a historic show of gamesmanship, and now they plunged forward into the world they had nearly lost.
PMS Alpha won the next MLG World Championships. :)
Well, I guess it's my sworn duty to correct that sad fact. :)
I'm in the process of writing a novel, a science-fiction/action/wartime/romance story. I'm half way through it; 111 pages and counting. :D
So, without further ado...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You Wanna Fight?!
All was well in the PMS camp. The forums were buzzing, consoles were overheating, and in tournaments everywhere people were rubbing their collective hides.
For a couple of years, a small group of guys had been collecting into three 4-strong teams. Team WhoopAss had been playing for close to five years with each other, and were known to be ferocious competitors, be it on Halo, Project Gotham or Rainbow Six. Their overall quality was undeniable; good, solid individual and team play on any game.
That is not to say, however, that they were generally good guys.
7 of the 12-man clan were sons of excessively rich tycoons; two were actual millionaires. When Team WhoopAss registered for MLG, a lot of rules were broken in exchange for some hard cash; many teams who beat them ended up having "good encouragement" to pursue other avenues of employement.
The end of MLG Gaming was slow, but coming. Slowly but surely, many of the old classic teams were being annhilated; Team 3D, Team Carbon, everyone, as the millionaire heirs used their inheritance. Despite desperate action and an incredibly bad reputation, Team WhoopAss grew to completely dominate the gaming communities.
Time:October, 2008.
Location:xbox.com Forums.
Flame War between:XerxDeej of the TTL Gunslingers, PMS Iris of PMS, and Louis Wu of the Halo fansite halo.bungie.org against xxxxM3T8L P8WN4G3 235xxxx of Team Whoopass.
The topic would become infamous in the world of gaming. In the space of three intense hours, three noble warriors verbally battled it out against the infamous gamer. The topic reached up to 84 pages, with five moderators working hard to keep up with Metal Pwnage's swearing and comments. It ended, as anyone would expect in the world of gaming, with all four finally agreeing: a five games long battle between the combined forces of the gaming community and Team WhoopAss.
The rush was huge. Old retired MLG greats flocked to the battle, while hundreds of people hurried to support Team Noble Knights. The five games quickly became Gears of War, Burnout Revenge, Grand Theft Auto IV, Halo 2 and the five-week old Halo 3. It was held in New York the following month, and it gained huge attention from the media.
The first game, GoW, was incredibly tense; Team WhoopAss's contingent placed it cautiously against the furious passion of the Noble Knights. The Noble Knights rushed across the open spaces in organised charges, often confusing WhoopAss's defenders, but WhoopAss persevered in a flurry of last-minute chainsaw baiting.
The second game, Burnout Revenge, is sometimes ranked alongside real life races as one of the best of all time. Four representatives from each team were pitted against each other on a simple 5 lap course; 10 miles of pure racing heaven where the eight would battle along the tarmaced streets of Paris.
The two teams had two very different and very typical strategies. Feeling good from their salvaged victory, Team WhoopAss decided to simply go for speed and speed alone; don't waste time attempting to bump, just outrun them in the speediest cars they could get. The Noble Knights however, were now sobered up from their loss and also decided; they would get xxTaggIt8xx's car first no matter what. The first team car to cross the line won it, so the three other Noble Knights fought a good fight against WhoopAss's slower drivers. Their speedier more resiliant cars told; before the race's end, three of WhoopAss's cars were too far behind to get there.
Half way on the last lap, it was a clear 2v1 in favour of the Knights, and they were happy to team up on WhoopAss's last driver. In a brilliant show of teamwork, Knight Alpha edged ahead of WhoopAss 3 and simply stopped right in front of it, giving Knight Gamma all she needed to force him into a tailspin.
Knights:1-1:WhoopAss
The third game of GTA IV was short and sweet. The general idea was that four gangsters from each team would be set loose onto the city, and the last man standing won; it turned into a runner-and-gunner, with the Knights completely and utterly slaughtered in a hail of machine gun fire.
Knights:1-2:WhoopAss
Then, the fourth game: Halo 2. WhoopAss were especially infamous for their exploits in this legendary game; exploits, glitching, plus plenty of RXR. The rules however, were too stringent for WhoopAss who suddenly found themselves at the mercy of the not so merciful Knights.
It turned out to be a simple game of Multi Flag CTF on Coagulation, normal weapons, and a Scorpian tank each. The Knights immediately set up their well-practised strategy, putting their tank in a firing position where it could annihilate anything that touched the Knight's Base, with a sniper enjoying the sunshine in the rocks. The other two Knights, who quickly grabbed rockets/shotgun/battle rifles, raced forth in their 'Hog and in a co-ordinated strike had only one person to deal with thanks to the efforts of their sniper and tank. Now, with their score in mind and 10 minutes left, the Knights set up camp and waited for the oncoming storm.
Having now respawned without a Scorpian Tank, either warthog or their sniper rifle, WhoopAss were undeniably pissed. They sent a battle rifle/shotgun team to either side, and successfuly assassinated the Knight sniper, but the tank blew their assualt team right back to where they'd started. Now however, with three minutes remaining, the rockets respawned and despite the Knight's best efforts, at 2:04 left they lost their tank. Sensing success, WhoopAss raced in their respawned warthogs and tank and bombarbed the Knight's position, but none died. WhoopAss charged in, killing one man to each man before eventually being forced into a showdown betweem Knight Delta and WhoopAss 4. In a furious exchange of grenades and whacks, Knight D crouched...and in a single, well-aimed burst from his rifle put the WhoopAss assualt man to the ground at 00:04.
Knights:2-2:WhoopAss.
And now before an expectant audience, the last game...Halo 3. For this last game, the most successful team so far at Halo 3, consisting of xxR1fl3 g0dSxx, djshep, Rocker398 and DarthSnyperKid would represent the Knight's last chance. WhoopAss threw their very best into the battle too, with their primary team being called up.
The stage was set;last man standing, normal weapons, AR start, 1 life only. The map was Snowbound, and as the two teams spawned on opposite sides, they simply paused for a moment to look at each other...and charged.
Eight assualt rifles released their fury into the open space, with plasma, frag and spike grenades going off everywhere. Slowly but surely however, the Knights slowly but surely fell...leaving only xxR1fl3 g0dSxx and DarthSnyperKid against the four-man strong WhoopAss team. Both grabbing grenades, the two brothers in arms threw, equalling out the playing field and shot for all they were worth. It turned into a last-minute fight between xxR1fl3 g0dSxx and WhoopAss's great leader, xxxxM3T8L P8WN4G3 235xxxx. The experienced veterans jumped and crouched respectively, and in a single, solid, final exchange of fire, with the baiting breath of the Knights and Team WhoopAss, with he very future of gaming itself hinging on it...xxR1fl3 g0dSxx, with fury and passion driving his weapon, let loose that single, tiny, extra bullet that flew into xxxxM3T8L P8WN4G3 235xxxx's head...and came right back out the other side.
His body fell like a deadweight onto the ground.
A single temor of silence held the entire stadium...and then it erupted.
Two weeks later, all 16 of Team WhoopAss were banned from all tournaments, games and live. The Knights victory had united the gaming community in a historic show of gamesmanship, and now they plunged forward into the world they had nearly lost.
PMS Alpha won the next MLG World Championships. :)