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Subject: Tips, Suggestions for school-wide Halo LAN Parties? HELP!
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Jee-zus. Haven't been here in a while. (Working @ a Cub Scout Camp in the middle of nowhere can leave you with a little nostalgia comin' back here.......HOLY CRABCAKES, THERE'S GONNA BE A SECOND HALO?!!!)

OK, here's the deal:

I'm a senior @ Shead High School in Eastport, Maine - the eastern-most city in the US, ah-thank-YOO - with about 200 students - max. 40 in my class alone. Point is, as very, VERY few may remember, i posted a thread WAY back earlier this year about a club i started at my school - the Shead Entertainment Media Club.

I fed the same old bull-blam!- to the Principal and school board - "I want to root out the different morals, values, and aspects of video games today that make them so addicting, so controversial, and so commonly ridiculed and dismissed as a waste of time. I want to open up the world below these games to students, to let them see that there's a lot more to video games than button-mashing and melting our brains to ooey-gooey-toey-gummies. Such first-person-shooters like Half-Life and Halo FORCE us to use our heads and develop strategies for defeating wave after wave of scummy alien hordes; RPGs that teach us the values of patience and tact; Adventure games that teach us that...plumbers can be heroes, too....."

And so on. She ate it up like chocolate-frosted sugar bombs (a la Calvin 'n Hobbes) and we held match after match of Halo goodness for the better part of the last half of the school year.

We'd pool our money before meets (held immediately after school until about 5 - some later) and send someone to the local IGA supermarket to get the munchies, and we'd always split teams up in order of...skill proficiency.

Our first match EVER was CTF in Blood Gulch - One hour and a half later, Our team won - My friend Dan had 127 kills - but 70 deaths. I sniped practically the whole match, and only ended up with 63 kills - but only 28 deaths. I made a nice play, too - sniping up on the sunny canyon ridge, i rained death upon the unsuspecting Red team for 2 minutes before i saw a Warthog come screaming across the map from my base - i lob a plasma grenade, spook the driver, and he jumps out - with a big blue banner waving at his head.

He's on my side of the map - and starts running towards the base. I leap from the ledge - deliver a nice one-two with my rifle and i hear a very satisfying curse from the adjacent room. Another teammate bolts for the flag, not 30 feet from the base - i put a nice hot slug through his faceplate while running for it myself, and throw a grenade at another, also heading for the flag. The screaming and cursing from the next room brings a vast grin to my face. I deliver another shot to the poor sap who got my grenade up the arse, reload, and have enough time to get my flag back and cap one more Red until I succumb to a hail of assault rifle fire.

"Sunuva--blam!-!" Dan peeks around the corner and flips me off.

I give him a nice toothy smile and bellow "COUNT IT, SCUZZBAGS!"

It was glorious.

Well, enough about that. Snacks, equipment, and ocassionally some good music - KoRn, Metallica, System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Mudvayne, and the occassional bit of Queen - "WEEEEEEEE are dah CHAMP-ions, mah friiieennnd........................I see a little silhouette-oh of a man <gada-BOOSH, gada-BOOSH, can yah do the Fan-dang-go?>" OK, i have no clue what they say, but ok.

Anything that might make my club a little...better? anything you guys can dig up from personal experience that i've left out?

Anyone got any Pocky? man, am i starving....

  • 09.04.2004 5:00 PM PDT