| This is another paintball story. Sorry, as I believe | | | | (my second hit of the day, my first had been in |
| I've stated, I don't play airsoft, but paintball is | | | | the second game; sad, huh?) Then I saw an |
| close enough, and it's still quite exciting. Anyways, | | | | opponent run to the inflatable wall right in front of |
| I went to a paintball park with my friend; in fact, | | | | me, not more than eight feet. I hit him in the |
| it was an event set up by his friend, and I was | | | | hopper, which counts as an out, and I kept yelling, |
| just "tagging along". This was the second time this | | | | "I hit your hopper!" but he couldn't hear, and we |
| person had organized the event, and it was the | | | | kept exchanging hits. He hit me on the top of the |
| second time I'd come, so I'd been there before. | | | | head, which hurt incredibly, yet we still kept |
| We played seven games, but to shorten this (if | | | | pop-shooting, and I kept yelling, "Your hopper!" and |
| you recall, the last paintball story I told was | | | | eventually he realized it, and went out. The |
| incredibly long), I'll just tell you the first, third, fifth, | | | | referee came over and mentioned I'd been hit, |
| sixth, and seven. The first is short, as were the | | | | but I said it was after the other guy had gotten |
| fifth and sixth, so don't worry about length. | | | | out, so I kept playing. Unfortunately, by now, all |
| The first game we played in a standard woods | | | | my teammates were out, and somebody quickly |
| field, with these strategically placed shacks, a few | | | | came from the side and hit me. |
| trees (it was not a dense forest, one might not | | | | The sixth game was on the same field, except |
| even consider it a forest at all), and this large hill in | | | | we switched sides. I hit somebody early on, and |
| the back. And that was where me and another | | | | then spent the rest of the game shooting at two |
| fellow went. We met two opponents there, and | | | | people who were almost perpendicular. After two |
| spent five minutes exchanging fire until backup | | | | minutes of that, one of them hit me in the head, |
| (two more people) arrived (in this area, the forest | | | | the other side (I'd been hit once before in the |
| was a bit dense, so no balls were getting through. | | | | head, remember?), and that hurt a lot as well. |
| I wasn't firing at all because I knew I couldn't hit; | | | | After leaving the game, and asking somebody to |
| in fact, I only fired four balls that game). Then, | | | | check out my hair, I was told that half of my |
| we advanced and someone took out one of the | | | | head was orange, and half was pink, and when I |
| opponents, but there was still the last one left. | | | | checked a mirror, I saw it was almost in perfect |
| Knowing he couldn't take all of us, we just | | | | symmetry. That work of art almost made up for |
| charged, but when we got to the top, we saw he | | | | the two instances of brief pain. |
| was surrendering, as another of our teammates | | | | The final game was the best of them all. Once |
| had come up through the back of the hill. | | | | again, the enemies had taken the castle. We all |
| Apparently he had taken out four other enemies | | | | rushed on different sides, but like the original |
| before getting to the hill and forcing the last | | | | castle battle, we were held back. There were two |
| remaining opponent to surrender. I didn't exactly | | | | opponents outside of the castle who were |
| do much, but I thought it was a cool match. | | | | preventing us from moving as far as we could. I |
| In the third game, we moved to another field, | | | | moved to a shack in the middle of the field, and |
| and we were put into the castle, which is a, well, | | | | through the window (no glass, just blank spaces), |
| castle shaped infrastructure, which towers a | | | | I saw a guy, opponent, standing behind a shack in |
| massive thirty feet (maybe even twenty five; it | | | | what he thought was perfect cover. I fired five |
| wasn't that big) over the field. So, we were all | | | | or six shots and took him out, and almost |
| positioned there, and then the enemy team came | | | | simultaneously, another teammate took out the |
| rushing in from the other end. We had to wait | | | | other guy preventing our advance. After I found |
| about thirty seconds before they were in range | | | | out the other guy was out, I immediately ran |
| at all, and then everyone opened fire (on both | | | | forward, very far. I saw an enemy at a shack |
| teams). Surprisingly, hardly any of our enemies | | | | very close to the castle, and I snuck up on him, |
| got hit, and unlike the match where they were in | | | | pointed my gun, and said, "If you're not on my |
| the castle (too pitiful to describe), they were | | | | team, surrender!" Not exactly the most dramatic |
| winning. I spent a lot of time in the right tower, | | | | of surrender statements, but it worked (I thought |
| shooting at two people, but they were both in | | | | he might've been on my team, but luckily he |
| shacks and the odds of hitting them were little. | | | | wasn't). I then started running, and one or two |
| Knowing I had no chance over there, I decided to | | | | people were shooting at me, and I had to run |
| go to the left tower, where there was no action | | | | very fast through thick mud, but I made it to a |
| (at the time). I constantly moved through the | | | | shack in the back. I then ran up the back |
| different towers (there were actually four), and | | | | entrance of the castle, and by then many of my |
| saw I had no chance in any of them. I ended up | | | | teammates were there as well (but I was first |
| staying in the left tower, exchanging shots with | | | | there!) I came up to the top, carefully checking |
| one of the last of the enemies (many of them | | | | around corners, and saw one guy hiding in the left |
| had by now been taken out). I almost hit him, he | | | | tower. I advanced and said, "Surrender!" and he |
| almost hit me, but nobody got hit, until some | | | | surrendered. Then everyone else came up to the |
| people actually left the castle and corned him. | | | | castle and started firing their guns carelessly into |
| Once again, I'd done nothing... for now. | | | | the air in triumph. Thankfully, none of the balls hit |
| The fifth game was on a speed ball field; it was | | | | anyone on the way down. |
| the first time I'd ever played speed ball. Instead | | | | All in all, it was a good day; I had about six |
| of in a forest, it was in a flat field with lots of | | | | confirmed hits (that includes surrenders), and |
| inflatable, slightly oval walls to hide behind. Once | | | | perhaps another I didn't know about. So much for |
| the game began, I ran to the furthermost left | | | | this article not being long, heh (it's 1200 words). |
| wall, and quickly picked off one of the enemies | | | | |