- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Here's me, after whatching that video from Jenkins' helmit: "Holy crap, those things are freaky!" Then I'm playing again. Silence. "Oh boy..." Pound! Pound! Pound! *whimpers* They come out by the thousands. "OH -blam!-!!!" I run like hell, then when I have some distance, I take fire a couple rounds at one. POP POP POP...! I'm still not letting them touch me, and I clear most of them out. There is pounding on the door I came in. "Help...!" I expect more balloons, but to my horror, a human sized, frickin' screwed up monstrosity launches itself across the room at me! "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Assault rifle doesn't do a damn thing. I pull out my shotgun: BANG! dead. "One shot?! Whew!" I realize that the balloons are just popping on my armor. "d'oh!" Still a bit freaky until aways into Library. They get a little repetitive there.
After learning Halo's secret, though, the Halo theme chant struck me with ten times the awe, especially while watching Halo spin.