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