Post by Experiment187 on Mar 5, 2012 14:59:31 GMT -5
One of the original members of THE BLACK COUNCIL and the youngest of the group... 3 of us were primarily archers, while CAINREAKER was our multiclassman army. In the early days he would run espionage as a scout, or often selflessly sacrifice acquiring kills for himself in order to support mage his buds.
Most notably though as I think back on his career, he was the only
player I'd personally ever seen get 25 kills solely via the use of a
scout...
The first time I attempted to go scout the camera was so disorienting I went headfirst into the river... True story
Cain more so than any of us was very much a socialite. He had friends within every faction of the LOTR Universe at one point. He was frequently involved in 1 on 1 matchups with members of other factions constantly trying to hone his skills with all classes.
He spent a lot of time around the MITHRIL KNIGHTS near the end... He would also often be seen in the company of RON JONS, who " ironically " was an enemy of THE BLACK COUNCIL, and though I wouldn't consider him to be MY arch rival or anything of that sort... EVERY match I was ever in his man was like my shadow. Not the one over your shoulder but the one constantly stalking you swinging his ridiculous freaking axe at my face.
Cainreaker would get the biggest kick out of this... I did not.
In his BC trial... Cain would have gone down as one of only to
ever have surpassed and DEFEATED me except for the unfortunate side note that I wasn't hosting the match so it wasn't technically " The Test ".
He came out of it a solid 15 - 8 albeit with Gandalf vs Lurtz... Go
figure.
He was known for quite a bit of mischief in his day... He seemed to
like watching his own team mates have to contend with an array of
situations a little too much at times... At one point others in the
group were complaining about him actually Not playing ( or at least it seemed ) just hanging out in matches not contributing or taking things as serious of the rest of us.
Finally one night ROYALWOOD came to me and said " Yeah man this is not working out, CAINREAKER man... "
And so... in so many words I gave JAMES the authorization to " Wish Cainreaker well in his future endeavors " ... I explained to him myself also that it wasn't anything personal, but rather that it was simply because he didn't take things at the level the rest of the group was at the time.
For the record it took about 6 other complaints from BC members before I finally let him go... And we were still cool after that, even though he joined Darth Jimmys reorganized ORDER OF THE EVENFLOW BREAST PUMP CONGLOMERATE.... or something of that nature.
Unfortunately this made him fair game and quite the constant target of BC who was already upset with his previous lack of support... I must admit myself included.
Now I found myself being stalked by CAINREAKER and RON JONS in tandem and vice versa... And truthfully I would be a hypocrite to bear RON JONS any ill will considering ROME CAESAR was my own personal punching bag every time I hit the field... Then again he was everyones personal punching bag poor lad...
I dunno I guess I just automatically assumed that every time he yelled AHHHCHERS TAKE YOOUR MARK... that the entire COUNCIL was supposed to focus all firepower on him sending him into oblivion... My Bad ROME... All in all even I'll admit you were the BEST........ Color commentator in the business. ;D
To his credit as part of THE BLACK COUNCIL Cainreaker served up
countless hundreds of Assassinations to even our most slippery of
enemies... He could scout anyone including other cloaked scouts almost at will.
MORE interesting for me however... was his ability to go under the
radar concerning another matter entirely...
Enter TYPHOID OF SYRI...
In the final months of conquest, a presence made itself very abruptly known... It could be seen from time to time sparring with BUK and BORED at 1st... Quietly finding their niche within middle earth... And then suddenly, it got very LOUD.
I had noticed TYPHOIDS work in a couple of matches that BUK and I were in, and when I saw the final kill count with TYPHOID sitting one kill under BUK it was kind of a WTF moment.
Couple matches later that week, kill ratio bounced a little back n
forth but still stood out amongst the other players out there who had been around FOREVER... Now here we are a couple days later and I find myself invited to Party Chat by BUK n BORED as usual, except this time... I proceed to hear what sounds like a young English female ?? Miss TYPHOID was in the room.
Now girls were nothing new to the game mind you. The BLACK COUNCIL at this point had already acquired the overwhelming talents of HANNAH... WITCHBLADE... and MAYA NEBULA. But this... this girl who couldn't have been more than 16 at the time had been around what... 2 weeks and was throwing BUKNASTY style stats up on the board !?
In one brilliant flash I had an epiphany... It was a no brainer that
she was destined to be one of us. But the factor that she was a
relative unknown made for some interesting creative options.
Later that week I wrote her a couple of times and we ended up in a very extended party chat discussing her ability and what she needed to do with it... I took her around some of the maps and showed her a few dirty tricks that day. But more importantly and MOST importantly... That Night I shared with her My Dark Gift...
ONCE UPON A TIME... at The Black Gate far off in the distance, I saw a man standing above a prone lifeless body. And as they rose to their feet trying to get their bearings attempting to beg for mercy... In a blinding flash these white streaks of light came from out of nowhere and violently decapitated the poor soul. They never even had a chance to react.
I continued to watch the assailant hoping to get just a glimpse of this miraculous act once again. But alas it must have have been an accident because though he had many an opportunity to do so... I watched in vain as nothing of the sort transpired again.
Later that night... obsessed with the disturbing image of what I'd seen I began to " Experiment " I was already a very proficient Archer... more than confident in my abilities. But if I could figure out how to manipulate and reproduce what I'd seen on a regular basis... I'd... I'd become..... A GOD.
And then... my obsession finally gave way to clarity. It was as if a
Swami Chuckled somewhere and granted me my wish.
Most peer far off into the distance with Blazing Eagle Eyes... but
what if you could gaze right into someones soul and whisk it right out of their body with Oneshot...
That day... I laid many hapless victims to rest with this newly forged technique I had come to refer to as the Experimental tri shot... Not realizing when I used LURTZ it actually was firing off 5 different vectors... This technique ultimately came to be known as the SHOTGUN spread shot.
Was it " Invented " by me ? Legend writes that to be so... Though I'm sure there are others who found it along the way or after hearing about it in passing... or who simply stumbled upon it by accident like the mysterious man at the gate.
What I did however..... was PERFECT it.
Occasionally I noticed it would miss... not registering the kill even
though it was at point blank incapacitating range. So... after a
little trial and error I discovered something... If I made an ever so
slight adjustment on the way I utilized the camera and fired the
shot... There was simply NO escape.
As word " Spread " you would see people using the technique which would serve them well at about an 80 % effectiveness ( 90 % with BUK ) However if I was to explode a fire arrow at your feet... You were Dead On Arrival.
My Mystical Shotgun had a staggering 99.5 % chance of eradicating
you... Any Class... Any Player... Any Time.
The rest is history... except the part I left out about " The Dark
Gift "...
You..... didn't think I would be selfish enough to keep it all to
myself... did you ? TYPHOID OF SYRI was very talented... a very fast learner... That night in question that I showed her around teaching her some of the diverse strengths of an Archer....
Just like BEATRIX KIDDO was the only one PAI MEI was willing to teach the 5 point palm exploding heart technique to... TYPHOID became the only other entity in Middle Earth... in possession of a Mystical Shotgun.
TYPHOID OF SYRI went from Relative unknown... to Known RELATIVE. She was now BLACK COUNCILS - DARK ANGEL.... A.K.A. EXPERIMENT 187's Twisted little sister.
We played for hours that day... concocting and further fabricating a
story that even our own could not know the truth about. It would
only make appropriate sense that anyone whose Shotgun was as fierce as mine had to be " Related ".
We coordinated parent names... places of Birth... We had the same Father but different Mothers. She was born in England 20 some years after I was in America... All in all it was very elaborate and well thought out.
When the story leaked everybody started questioning me and well... we lied to Cainreaker... We lied to Royalwood... we lied to Buknasty. We essentially lied to the entire community... Mainly because we wanted it to be believed no matter what, and there could be no shred of doubt. So even our own people had to think it was so.
And HELL... if Buk could fake his own death on here why the hell not ?!
Now as I said earlier about Cainreakers ability to go under the
radar... I noticed one week him and Typhoid following each other
around. And as it turns out he was also teaching her some of the
subtle nuances of the game... different character classes and what
not... And then one day out of nowhere... he refers to me by my 1st name.
And I thought to myself hmm... the only one who really knows my 1st name around here is my... Fake little sis.
And so it unfolds that in fact Cainreaker and Typhoid had become quite familiar and were spending hours on end in chats together.
LOTR online dating anyone ? Had EA actually put some stock into that concept maybe the thing wouldn't have folded in the first place.
Anyway... through the course of this I end up in more and more enlightening conversations with Cain on a nightly basis. And the part that really gets to me because the casual onlooker may have only known or heard that Cain was booted from THE BLACK COUNCIL and what a bunch of Assholes we were...
Well... Cain and I would actually sit and talk for hours long after that meaningless occurrence by comparison. I remember most notably him telling me a story of the girl from his past. A childhood friend he had just lost in a tragic car accident.
Kind of hard to comfort someone over an x box headset... But what I came to learn about Cain from these conversations is that he's a very passionate person when it comes to what he cares about and what he believes in... much like myself.
And if I did in fact have a " Real " little sister... he would've easily had my blessing to date her. Most everyone out there knew him as Cainreaker. My friends name is Joe...
Most notably though as I think back on his career, he was the only
player I'd personally ever seen get 25 kills solely via the use of a
scout...
The first time I attempted to go scout the camera was so disorienting I went headfirst into the river... True story
Cain more so than any of us was very much a socialite. He had friends within every faction of the LOTR Universe at one point. He was frequently involved in 1 on 1 matchups with members of other factions constantly trying to hone his skills with all classes.
He spent a lot of time around the MITHRIL KNIGHTS near the end... He would also often be seen in the company of RON JONS, who " ironically " was an enemy of THE BLACK COUNCIL, and though I wouldn't consider him to be MY arch rival or anything of that sort... EVERY match I was ever in his man was like my shadow. Not the one over your shoulder but the one constantly stalking you swinging his ridiculous freaking axe at my face.
Cainreaker would get the biggest kick out of this... I did not.
In his BC trial... Cain would have gone down as one of only to
ever have surpassed and DEFEATED me except for the unfortunate side note that I wasn't hosting the match so it wasn't technically " The Test ".
He came out of it a solid 15 - 8 albeit with Gandalf vs Lurtz... Go
figure.
He was known for quite a bit of mischief in his day... He seemed to
like watching his own team mates have to contend with an array of
situations a little too much at times... At one point others in the
group were complaining about him actually Not playing ( or at least it seemed ) just hanging out in matches not contributing or taking things as serious of the rest of us.
Finally one night ROYALWOOD came to me and said " Yeah man this is not working out, CAINREAKER man... "
And so... in so many words I gave JAMES the authorization to " Wish Cainreaker well in his future endeavors " ... I explained to him myself also that it wasn't anything personal, but rather that it was simply because he didn't take things at the level the rest of the group was at the time.
For the record it took about 6 other complaints from BC members before I finally let him go... And we were still cool after that, even though he joined Darth Jimmys reorganized ORDER OF THE EVENFLOW BREAST PUMP CONGLOMERATE.... or something of that nature.
Unfortunately this made him fair game and quite the constant target of BC who was already upset with his previous lack of support... I must admit myself included.
Now I found myself being stalked by CAINREAKER and RON JONS in tandem and vice versa... And truthfully I would be a hypocrite to bear RON JONS any ill will considering ROME CAESAR was my own personal punching bag every time I hit the field... Then again he was everyones personal punching bag poor lad...
I dunno I guess I just automatically assumed that every time he yelled AHHHCHERS TAKE YOOUR MARK... that the entire COUNCIL was supposed to focus all firepower on him sending him into oblivion... My Bad ROME... All in all even I'll admit you were the BEST........ Color commentator in the business. ;D
To his credit as part of THE BLACK COUNCIL Cainreaker served up
countless hundreds of Assassinations to even our most slippery of
enemies... He could scout anyone including other cloaked scouts almost at will.
MORE interesting for me however... was his ability to go under the
radar concerning another matter entirely...
Enter TYPHOID OF SYRI...
In the final months of conquest, a presence made itself very abruptly known... It could be seen from time to time sparring with BUK and BORED at 1st... Quietly finding their niche within middle earth... And then suddenly, it got very LOUD.
I had noticed TYPHOIDS work in a couple of matches that BUK and I were in, and when I saw the final kill count with TYPHOID sitting one kill under BUK it was kind of a WTF moment.
Couple matches later that week, kill ratio bounced a little back n
forth but still stood out amongst the other players out there who had been around FOREVER... Now here we are a couple days later and I find myself invited to Party Chat by BUK n BORED as usual, except this time... I proceed to hear what sounds like a young English female ?? Miss TYPHOID was in the room.
Now girls were nothing new to the game mind you. The BLACK COUNCIL at this point had already acquired the overwhelming talents of HANNAH... WITCHBLADE... and MAYA NEBULA. But this... this girl who couldn't have been more than 16 at the time had been around what... 2 weeks and was throwing BUKNASTY style stats up on the board !?
In one brilliant flash I had an epiphany... It was a no brainer that
she was destined to be one of us. But the factor that she was a
relative unknown made for some interesting creative options.
Later that week I wrote her a couple of times and we ended up in a very extended party chat discussing her ability and what she needed to do with it... I took her around some of the maps and showed her a few dirty tricks that day. But more importantly and MOST importantly... That Night I shared with her My Dark Gift...
ONCE UPON A TIME... at The Black Gate far off in the distance, I saw a man standing above a prone lifeless body. And as they rose to their feet trying to get their bearings attempting to beg for mercy... In a blinding flash these white streaks of light came from out of nowhere and violently decapitated the poor soul. They never even had a chance to react.
I continued to watch the assailant hoping to get just a glimpse of this miraculous act once again. But alas it must have have been an accident because though he had many an opportunity to do so... I watched in vain as nothing of the sort transpired again.
Later that night... obsessed with the disturbing image of what I'd seen I began to " Experiment " I was already a very proficient Archer... more than confident in my abilities. But if I could figure out how to manipulate and reproduce what I'd seen on a regular basis... I'd... I'd become..... A GOD.
And then... my obsession finally gave way to clarity. It was as if a
Swami Chuckled somewhere and granted me my wish.
Most peer far off into the distance with Blazing Eagle Eyes... but
what if you could gaze right into someones soul and whisk it right out of their body with Oneshot...
That day... I laid many hapless victims to rest with this newly forged technique I had come to refer to as the Experimental tri shot... Not realizing when I used LURTZ it actually was firing off 5 different vectors... This technique ultimately came to be known as the SHOTGUN spread shot.
Was it " Invented " by me ? Legend writes that to be so... Though I'm sure there are others who found it along the way or after hearing about it in passing... or who simply stumbled upon it by accident like the mysterious man at the gate.
What I did however..... was PERFECT it.
Occasionally I noticed it would miss... not registering the kill even
though it was at point blank incapacitating range. So... after a
little trial and error I discovered something... If I made an ever so
slight adjustment on the way I utilized the camera and fired the
shot... There was simply NO escape.
As word " Spread " you would see people using the technique which would serve them well at about an 80 % effectiveness ( 90 % with BUK ) However if I was to explode a fire arrow at your feet... You were Dead On Arrival.
My Mystical Shotgun had a staggering 99.5 % chance of eradicating
you... Any Class... Any Player... Any Time.
The rest is history... except the part I left out about " The Dark
Gift "...
You..... didn't think I would be selfish enough to keep it all to
myself... did you ? TYPHOID OF SYRI was very talented... a very fast learner... That night in question that I showed her around teaching her some of the diverse strengths of an Archer....
Just like BEATRIX KIDDO was the only one PAI MEI was willing to teach the 5 point palm exploding heart technique to... TYPHOID became the only other entity in Middle Earth... in possession of a Mystical Shotgun.
TYPHOID OF SYRI went from Relative unknown... to Known RELATIVE. She was now BLACK COUNCILS - DARK ANGEL.... A.K.A. EXPERIMENT 187's Twisted little sister.
We played for hours that day... concocting and further fabricating a
story that even our own could not know the truth about. It would
only make appropriate sense that anyone whose Shotgun was as fierce as mine had to be " Related ".
We coordinated parent names... places of Birth... We had the same Father but different Mothers. She was born in England 20 some years after I was in America... All in all it was very elaborate and well thought out.
When the story leaked everybody started questioning me and well... we lied to Cainreaker... We lied to Royalwood... we lied to Buknasty. We essentially lied to the entire community... Mainly because we wanted it to be believed no matter what, and there could be no shred of doubt. So even our own people had to think it was so.
And HELL... if Buk could fake his own death on here why the hell not ?!
Now as I said earlier about Cainreakers ability to go under the
radar... I noticed one week him and Typhoid following each other
around. And as it turns out he was also teaching her some of the
subtle nuances of the game... different character classes and what
not... And then one day out of nowhere... he refers to me by my 1st name.
And I thought to myself hmm... the only one who really knows my 1st name around here is my... Fake little sis.
And so it unfolds that in fact Cainreaker and Typhoid had become quite familiar and were spending hours on end in chats together.
LOTR online dating anyone ? Had EA actually put some stock into that concept maybe the thing wouldn't have folded in the first place.
Anyway... through the course of this I end up in more and more enlightening conversations with Cain on a nightly basis. And the part that really gets to me because the casual onlooker may have only known or heard that Cain was booted from THE BLACK COUNCIL and what a bunch of Assholes we were...
Well... Cain and I would actually sit and talk for hours long after that meaningless occurrence by comparison. I remember most notably him telling me a story of the girl from his past. A childhood friend he had just lost in a tragic car accident.
Kind of hard to comfort someone over an x box headset... But what I came to learn about Cain from these conversations is that he's a very passionate person when it comes to what he cares about and what he believes in... much like myself.
And if I did in fact have a " Real " little sister... he would've easily had my blessing to date her. Most everyone out there knew him as Cainreaker. My friends name is Joe...
if i was ever holding up a shield and not dancing with ace, ambyr, or slayer it was because there was a massive book in my lap and a rubber band on the trigger (which worked beautifully until it moved, walked me off a tower, and everybody died).