| This is another paintball story. Sorry, as I believe I've | | | | to the furthermost left wall, and quickly picked off one |
| stated, I don't play airsoft, but paintball is close enough, | | | | of the enemies (my second hit of the day, my first had |
| and it's still quite exciting. Anyways, I went to a paintball | | | | been in the second game; sad, huh?) Then I saw an |
| park with my friend; in fact, it was an event set up by | | | | opponent run to the inflatable wall right in front of me, |
| his friend, and I was just "tagging along". This was the | | | | not more than eight feet. I hit him in the hopper, which |
| second time this person had organized the event, and | | | | counts as an out, and I kept yelling, "I hit your hopper!" |
| it was the second time I'd come, so I'd been there | | | | but he couldn't hear, and we kept exchanging hits. He |
| before. We played seven games, but to shorten this (if | | | | hit me on the top of the head, which hurt incredibly, yet |
| you recall, the last paintball story I told was incredibly | | | | we still kept pop-shooting, and I kept yelling, "Your |
| long), I'll just tell you the first, third, fifth, sixth, and seven. | | | | hopper!" and eventually he realized it, and went out. |
| The first is short, as were the fifth and sixth, so don't | | | | The referee came over and mentioned I'd been hit, but |
| worry about length. | | | | I said it was after the other guy had gotten out, so I |
| The first game we played in a standard woods field, | | | | kept playing. Unfortunately, by now, all my teammates |
| with these strategically placed shacks, a few trees (it | | | | were out, and somebody quickly came from the side |
| was not a dense forest, one might not even consider it | | | | and hit me. |
| a forest at all), and this large hill in the back. And that | | | | The sixth game was on the same field, except we |
| was where me and another fellow went. We met two | | | | switched sides. I hit somebody early on, and then spent |
| opponents there, and spent five minutes exchanging | | | | the rest of the game shooting at two people who |
| fire until backup (two more people) arrived (in this area, | | | | were almost perpendicular. After two minutes of that, |
| the forest was a bit dense, so no balls were getting | | | | one of them hit me in the head, the other side (I'd been |
| through. I wasn't firing at all because I knew I couldn't hit; | | | | hit once before in the head, remember?), and that hurt |
| in fact, I only fired four balls that game). Then, we | | | | a lot as well. After leaving the game, and asking |
| advanced and someone took out one of the | | | | somebody to check out my hair, I was told that half of |
| opponents, but there was still the last one left. Knowing | | | | my head was orange, and half was pink, and when I |
| he couldn't take all of us, we just charged, but when | | | | checked a mirror, I saw it was almost in perfect |
| we got to the top, we saw he was surrendering, as | | | | symmetry. That work of art almost made up for the |
| another of our teammates had come up through the | | | | two instances of brief pain. |
| back of the hill. Apparently he had taken out four other | | | | The final game was the best of them all. Once again, |
| enemies before getting to the hill and forcing the last | | | | the enemies had taken the castle. We all rushed on |
| remaining opponent to surrender. I didn't exactly do | | | | different sides, but like the original castle battle, we |
| much, but I thought it was a cool match. | | | | were held back. There were two opponents outside |
| In the third game, we moved to another field, and we | | | | of the castle who were preventing us from moving as |
| were put into the castle, which is a, well, castle shaped | | | | far as we could. I moved to a shack in the middle of |
| infrastructure, which towers a massive thirty feet | | | | the field, and through the window (no glass, just blank |
| (maybe even twenty five; it wasn't that big) over the | | | | spaces), I saw a guy, opponent, standing behind a |
| field. So, we were all positioned there, and then the | | | | shack in what he thought was perfect cover. I fired |
| enemy team came rushing in from the other end. We | | | | five or six shots and took him out, and almost |
| had to wait about thirty seconds before they were in | | | | simultaneously, another teammate took out the other |
| range at all, and then everyone opened fire (on both | | | | guy preventing our advance. After I found out the |
| teams). Surprisingly, hardly any of our enemies got hit, | | | | other guy was out, I immediately ran forward, very far. |
| and unlike the match where they were in the castle | | | | I saw an enemy at a shack very close to the castle, |
| (too pitiful to describe), they were winning. I spent a lot | | | | and I snuck up on him, pointed my gun, and said, "If |
| of time in the right tower, shooting at two people, but | | | | you're not on my team, surrender!" Not exactly the |
| they were both in shacks and the odds of hitting them | | | | most dramatic of surrender statements, but it worked |
| were little. Knowing I had no chance over there, I | | | | (I thought he might've been on my team, but luckily he |
| decided to go to the left tower, where there was no | | | | wasn't). I then started running, and one or two people |
| action (at the time). I constantly moved through the | | | | were shooting at me, and I had to run very fast |
| different towers (there were actually four), and saw I | | | | through thick mud, but I made it to a shack in the back. |
| had no chance in any of them. I ended up staying in | | | | I then ran up the back entrance of the castle, and by |
| the left tower, exchanging shots with one of the last of | | | | then many of my teammates were there as well (but I |
| the enemies (many of them had by now been taken | | | | was first there!) I came up to the top, carefully |
| out). I almost hit him, he almost hit me, but nobody got | | | | checking around corners, and saw one guy hiding in |
| hit, until some people actually left the castle and corned | | | | the left tower. I advanced and said, "Surrender!" and he |
| him. Once again, I'd done nothing… for now. | | | | surrendered. Then everyone else came up to the |
| The fifth game was on a speed ball field; it was the | | | | castle and started firing their guns carelessly into the |
| first time I'd ever played speed ball. Instead of in a | | | | air in triumph. Thankfully, none of the balls hit anyone on |
| forest, it was in a flat field with lots of inflatable, slightly | | | | the way down. |
| oval walls to hide behind. Once the game began, I ran | | | | |