Post by Experiment187 on Feb 9, 2012 22:39:16 GMT -5
So here we were this small fellowship striking out against that which quelled us for so long... ok so it was for like 3 weeks but regardless... I had seen random clan names in WHITE COUNCIL profiles and thought... Hmmm why not rip that off too ! ;D
So I proceeded to anoint the group with their representative titles...
A premier Archer like myself... THE SPHINKTER had the unerring ability to focus on and attack EVERYTHING in sight. And if we were ever in the same match together he would abuse said ability to snag a precious MANY of my kills that I would be mercilessly pelting from mid range.
It wasn't just me so I didn't take it personal. It won matches pure and simple. He did it to everybody and in doing so he was able to put numbers up comparable to mine in every match we were ever in... Hence he was dubbed BLACK COUNCILS - KILLSWIPE.
Sounded more like a Transformer but cool nonetheless...
My only 1 on 1 Match vs SPHINKTER was spurned on by mutual friends AIRWOLF and DARTH JIMMY. It took place at Minas Morgul and was a dead heat back and forth... a perfect fight, literally a Dream Match in scope... Many had regarded us as possibly the two Best Archers in the game at the time. JIMMY and AIRWOLF wanted to be there to see it and although it was VERY against my better judgement I accepted.
All along I was thinking somehow this would create a problem, but they were like " We'll be scouts and cloak so we don't interfere... " And well, inevitably... it happened. After a 2nd time of wasting a fire arrow shooting at THEIR blips on the radar and exposing myself to SPHINKTERS deft precision, I was immediately vocal about it picked up the headset and was like " Dude this sucks this is what I was worried about I'm firing at random red blips "
We were tied 9 - 9 when it happened... playing a game to 15 I believe... but a few kills later I conceded the match because I was too rattled to continue. I didn't want it to go into the books like that... I wanted a straight up match with this kid... BAD.
So we said we'd have another match without any possible interruption later that week, but for some reason... it kinda just never happened. I chose instead to focus more on our friendship versus getting wrapped up in a battle of egos.
I still regard SPHINKTER as one of the most dangerous Archers I've ever seen play this game... and unfortunately the world will never know what would've happened had we come face to face again...
JAMES ROYALWOOD... BLACK COUNCILS - SHINIGAMI ( Japanese for GOD OF DEATH ).
My right hand man and online partner in Ultimate crime and deceit. Were you to see either of us on Myspace at the time you probably wouldn't peg either of us as hardcore gamers... he had the nerve to ask me if I was a GUIDO once. Having never seen a single episode of Jersey Shore at the time I had no idea what he was even talking about. Looking back now I guess I kind of am so there's your answer you ass !
No not necessarily the gamer stereotype but we definitely put in the overtime in our often 6 - 8 hour plus sessions on LOTR.
Whereas I was always in character 24 / 7... Obnoxious - Scheming - Calculating... ROYALWOOD was just... normal. Chilled... laid back. Even if you couldn't stand the BC for some reason you liked this guy. He served as THE BLACK COUNCILS Ambassador so to speak on multiple occasions... especially in the turbulent filled months leading up through the major clan wars towards the end.
He would jump party chats in between rival clans in order to play referee and get the rules across to everyone... Mainly due to the fact that people on these rival teams respectively HATED EACH OTHERS GUTS for one reason or another. Like I said everyone liked JAMES... except for the few times it got out what his REAL opinion was of someone.
Make no mistake though... He bled BLACK COUNCIL through and through, and would Stab you in the back the instant you left chat if he didn't like you... MY kinda guy ;D
When in the Zone ROYALWOOD would also put up numbers on par with mine as an Archer... his only notable weakness perhaps if you can even call that a weakness... a Work schedule which would put him on in a slot when he'd sometimes be almost falling asleep at the wheel.
He also became a recruiter in the latter months for several BC alumni. Mind you I was VERY STRICT about who I hung with... But I trusted my little bros judgement. He was the ONLY one I entrusted to do so... and he did in fact bring certain people to my attention and subsequently a lot of great talent into the fold.
Course I had to shoot them all in the face leaving them bruised and humbled in their Entrance exams VS Me to get into THE BLACK COUNCIL... but they were the better for it.
Proof of James ability ? He was in FACT one of only TWO people alive... who actually went above and beyond the test and actually DEFEATED me in his Match...
Back in the days when I still was unaware of the ability to zoom the camera to see through the cornfield where he was in the Shire...
JAMES ROYALWOOD steadily picked me off bringing me to my knees with a final score of 15 - 12... becoming the first person to EVER take me down in a 1 on 1 affair...
Of my friend I can only say this...
When the F#@! are we goin Bowling !?
So I proceeded to anoint the group with their representative titles...
A premier Archer like myself... THE SPHINKTER had the unerring ability to focus on and attack EVERYTHING in sight. And if we were ever in the same match together he would abuse said ability to snag a precious MANY of my kills that I would be mercilessly pelting from mid range.
It wasn't just me so I didn't take it personal. It won matches pure and simple. He did it to everybody and in doing so he was able to put numbers up comparable to mine in every match we were ever in... Hence he was dubbed BLACK COUNCILS - KILLSWIPE.
Sounded more like a Transformer but cool nonetheless...
My only 1 on 1 Match vs SPHINKTER was spurned on by mutual friends AIRWOLF and DARTH JIMMY. It took place at Minas Morgul and was a dead heat back and forth... a perfect fight, literally a Dream Match in scope... Many had regarded us as possibly the two Best Archers in the game at the time. JIMMY and AIRWOLF wanted to be there to see it and although it was VERY against my better judgement I accepted.
All along I was thinking somehow this would create a problem, but they were like " We'll be scouts and cloak so we don't interfere... " And well, inevitably... it happened. After a 2nd time of wasting a fire arrow shooting at THEIR blips on the radar and exposing myself to SPHINKTERS deft precision, I was immediately vocal about it picked up the headset and was like " Dude this sucks this is what I was worried about I'm firing at random red blips "
We were tied 9 - 9 when it happened... playing a game to 15 I believe... but a few kills later I conceded the match because I was too rattled to continue. I didn't want it to go into the books like that... I wanted a straight up match with this kid... BAD.
So we said we'd have another match without any possible interruption later that week, but for some reason... it kinda just never happened. I chose instead to focus more on our friendship versus getting wrapped up in a battle of egos.
I still regard SPHINKTER as one of the most dangerous Archers I've ever seen play this game... and unfortunately the world will never know what would've happened had we come face to face again...
JAMES ROYALWOOD... BLACK COUNCILS - SHINIGAMI ( Japanese for GOD OF DEATH ).
My right hand man and online partner in Ultimate crime and deceit. Were you to see either of us on Myspace at the time you probably wouldn't peg either of us as hardcore gamers... he had the nerve to ask me if I was a GUIDO once. Having never seen a single episode of Jersey Shore at the time I had no idea what he was even talking about. Looking back now I guess I kind of am so there's your answer you ass !
No not necessarily the gamer stereotype but we definitely put in the overtime in our often 6 - 8 hour plus sessions on LOTR.
Whereas I was always in character 24 / 7... Obnoxious - Scheming - Calculating... ROYALWOOD was just... normal. Chilled... laid back. Even if you couldn't stand the BC for some reason you liked this guy. He served as THE BLACK COUNCILS Ambassador so to speak on multiple occasions... especially in the turbulent filled months leading up through the major clan wars towards the end.
He would jump party chats in between rival clans in order to play referee and get the rules across to everyone... Mainly due to the fact that people on these rival teams respectively HATED EACH OTHERS GUTS for one reason or another. Like I said everyone liked JAMES... except for the few times it got out what his REAL opinion was of someone.
Make no mistake though... He bled BLACK COUNCIL through and through, and would Stab you in the back the instant you left chat if he didn't like you... MY kinda guy ;D
When in the Zone ROYALWOOD would also put up numbers on par with mine as an Archer... his only notable weakness perhaps if you can even call that a weakness... a Work schedule which would put him on in a slot when he'd sometimes be almost falling asleep at the wheel.
He also became a recruiter in the latter months for several BC alumni. Mind you I was VERY STRICT about who I hung with... But I trusted my little bros judgement. He was the ONLY one I entrusted to do so... and he did in fact bring certain people to my attention and subsequently a lot of great talent into the fold.
Course I had to shoot them all in the face leaving them bruised and humbled in their Entrance exams VS Me to get into THE BLACK COUNCIL... but they were the better for it.
Proof of James ability ? He was in FACT one of only TWO people alive... who actually went above and beyond the test and actually DEFEATED me in his Match...
Back in the days when I still was unaware of the ability to zoom the camera to see through the cornfield where he was in the Shire...
JAMES ROYALWOOD steadily picked me off bringing me to my knees with a final score of 15 - 12... becoming the first person to EVER take me down in a 1 on 1 affair...
Of my friend I can only say this...
When the F#@! are we goin Bowling !?