- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I played H2 on Live since November of '04, and I had a nice fat friends list filled with people I didn't know and rarely played with. Eventually I ran across a group of players all around 15 years older than me, who welcomed me into their group as the "screaming preteen". I turned out one of the members, Morpheous Mike, had a little brother "ghost 01" or somesuch. I turned out that they lived in Joliet, not too far from where I am now, so we ended up meeting and having some fun times.
Ghost, two years younger than me, told me about this girl Molly who lived near him that I should check out. So I did, and about a month later we were dating, and all was really well if you know what I mean. It ended eventually of course, but about a year later she called me and lo and behold we were together again, albeit for only a month or so.
I was on my way to her house that fateful day, and when I arrived it turned out deserted. I called her and found out that she was at her friends house, playing paintball or somesuch, and that I should come over. Slightly upset by this, I went to the house. It turned out her friends were a group of guys my age all sitting there playing Halo 1.
One of these kids was over 6 feet tall, 230 pounds. Compare that to my puny 5-foot-nothing 120 pound 13 year old body. It turned out he and Molly were so close they were like brother and sister. Of course I didn't mind, I knew they weren't going behind my back. And they weren't. This kid was violent. He loved just coming up behind me and popping me in the back of the head with a paintball sniper rifle, and thats painful. Oh but it gets better.
It turns out that he is a wrestler who "loves to wail on kids like me" furthermore he had a swatstica tatoo on his freaking neck and openly hated Jews. I opted not to reveal that I was Jewish to him.
This guy motions for me to go outside and tells me that he's only being a jerk because he doesn't want me to hurt Molly. I must have given him a helluva WTF face because he took that moment to light a cigarette and throw it at me, it missed wildly because of the wind. "We cool man?" Didn't know exactly how to respond to this, I mean he just point blanked me in the head with a paintball sniper rifle several times and tried to crack my head open with a "new move he made up"
And all this time Molly is just sitting there laughing at it like a female dog...so I commented. I said something like "have YOU ever been shot point blank" or somesuch, of course Mr. -blam!- took this as a personal insult for whatever reason and chose to full auto me with the thing until I rushed out the door yelling curses and throwing whatever I could find. I would have killed the kid if I could have.
A year later or so I had gotten into Airsofting, and I often visited an arena in that area. One day that kid showed up, but I had a mask on so he didn't recognize me. We were playing a team vs match and I saw my chance, I didn't even have to see the look on his face I could just sense it as he busted through a door and I put twelve or so shots under his mask in his neck, he dropped, and as I ran out I "accidentaly" dropped a live airsoft grenade next to crotch area, and those really send BB's flying fast and hard.
So all in all, a strange chain of events linked my playing Halo 2 to me dropping an Airsoft grenade next to a 6 foot 230 pound pro wrestler neo--(what hitler was it begins with an "N") jerk.
Hope that counts...
[Edited on 01.03.2008 12:29 PM PST]