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Ichabod!

2001-06-29 12:05 a.m.

so, speaking of organized religion, we have a new character in the laser tag drama. we have a weapons dealer supplying us with lots of different weapons, laser cannons and sniper rifles with scopes and ridiculous range. new guns, demand new rules. and new roles. enter: GOD.

God is omnipotent, sometimes omniscient, and rarely omnibenevolent. god is invincible, but not mobile. god is someone with laser cannon and no laser pack (therefore cannot die) usually standing in the center tower. tonight we had five or six people, depending on who felt like playing, so it was usually one god in the middle and everyone else played every man for himself. i kinda liked having the god in the middle because it kept everyone kinda focused around a central point. the best part thought, is sneaking up while god isnt looking until you can hide right under gods tower. i think i was shot by god a few times tonight, but god never killed me. when we did play on teams, richard and i worked together really well and even got god on our side, with the assurance that god (michael) would not shoot at either of us. another time, we werent playing on teams, but i made a quick alliance with michael, so i knew i was safe from behind. got a few shots on richard, then when he died teamed up with michael to kill jason. once michael killed jason, i think he got taken out by god (ryan). by then, the only people left were me, hassell, and god. and hassell is a bitch to kill because hell sit in one place for the longest time, his shooting is questionable (youre supposed to expose your pack when you shoot to make it fair), and he kept resetting himself. definitely not fair. if you reset you should at least give yourself some penalty shots for a handicap of sorts. thats what i do when i reset, to get myself back to where i started. so i wanted to go get hassell, but i had the fear of god in me. so what do i do? crawl up to gods tower and offer to make a pact with him. since he cant move from his tower, i offered to go over to hassells hiding spot and flush him out for god to shoot, with the assurance that god wouldnt shoot me. getting hassell out of his hiding spot was the hard part. he just stands behind a pole, covering his pack, sticking out his arm and head to shoot. i was crouched behind a bench, no more than ten yards from him, just taunting him to come out. that must have gone on for ten to fifteen minutes, because eventually we were both down to one shot left on our packs. one more shot and one of us would be dead. finally, he jumped out towards me shooting, and i jumped up and shot him, killing him just seconds before my pack went off. all that waiting paid off, even after richard shouted, come on back elizabeth, youve already won in my book. and all those alliances and pacts...definitely the work of a girl. a very satisfying night of laser tag.

the first game we played, i died pretty early, and finally when hassell was left, i offered to play the role of the angel of death for god, especially since i had my death tshirt on (the same shirt that new erin is getting, naturally). so i walked around randomly shooting at anything that hassell might be hiding in. hassell has argued that when dan hid in one spot the whole game, we cheered for him, but when he does it we yell at him. im still thinking about that one. he might be right.

overall, a very very satisfying night of laser tag.