The other day, something came over me, something so horrid it only happens once in a blue moon...
For those who don't know me that well, I'm a calm, easy going guy, but sometimes something in me snaps, and Zooma comes out. Okay, sure Zooma is my nickname, but Zooma is also a different side of my personality, its my competitive side. The side of me that will never back down, will never stop fighting, the side will will destroy everything, until I'm dead myself.
Sure playing at Tetsu is all good fun, but its not like the good ole' days. The days at Al Lopez...
Jared, Jared, Jared. The single most flawed, but helpful thing he had taught us at Red Dawn, was 'Our job is not to live, our job is to die'. There are many things wrong with this statement, but a few things right. Yah, we want to stay alive in combat, but what shouldn't happen is that we pussy out of fights in order to stay alive. We're not all assassins, we shouldn't run away from fights. (Not saying assassins are gay, but...)
At Red Dawn, we always faught to our greatest ability, we never backed down, and we always prevailed. All because we had the stigma of death in our heads, we realized it didn't matter if we died, there will always be other games, what really mattered was the fact that we died knowing we did everything we could of for the better of our team.
I don't see this at Tetsu, I see allot of standing, and waiting, letting the thirty archers do all of the work. All because we don't have a Jared telling us its okay to die. Not saying we Jared himself, just saying we need someone to reassure us that it is okay to go all out.
So it happened, and everything died...
So there I am, doing nothing on the bridge, my team doing nothing behind me, and the other team doing nothing in front of me. And I snapped. That wasn't the way it was suppose to happen, when did Amtgard become an archer game? So Zooma came out. I killed people, I broke shields, I destroyed. Just like the good ole' days...
Lopez, I miss you...
But soon we shall return...
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It wasn't that we all just ran out and all had epic deaths either.
Sometimes we ran out and got backshot immediately.
Sometimes we ran out and didn't score a single kill.
But after a while we realized our weaknesses. That was the single most important think Al Lopez taught, the basics.
Can't do anything fancy on a flat field.
you definitely dont need jared to inspire people to trough themselves into battle! you just need a few individuals who believe in giving their all and dieing if necessary to fulfill their mission and to protect their teammates!! thanks for the invite to the blog, btw. i will try to check it every so often to keep up on things and maybe comment if im feeling frisky. :)
p.s. who is this person that has my name on here? im not mad, just curious. it now looks like i commented on here back in march as well as now, when i just stated this today. hmmm... weird. :/
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