Sunday, April 15, 2007

You're It!


strange, but this weekend the world doesn't seem to be working so hard to spite me. something bad must be on the way.

anyway this weekend we went lazer tagging with some friends, for ethan's birthday party which was in january. and so after rescheduling several times due to colds, flues, weather and ethan going through detox we finaly got around to it. it started at the chinese buffet where i made my arteries hate me for ever more (mmm...bacon wrapped weiners...) and we made sun of the rather dumb goldfish.

we finnished that up and got to the main part of the afternoon: lazer tag. have any of you ever been lazer tagging ? Not back-yard style, i mean in an arena, such as Ultrazone or Lazerquest, Lazer Park etc. it was very crowded and hot when we got there, but in a fun way. off to the side was a video arcade with a sniper game (overpriced, but enjoyable) which we messed around with until they called our names for the "breifing." we all filed into a room where the very bored employee told us the rules and then informed us that there was to be "noshoving,puching,unspotsmanlikeconduct,climbing,crawlingorrunning" in the arena. we then had about ten minutes to talk and goof off while the game before us ended. we then chose teams (red, yellow or blue) and went into the vesting room, which looked something like the picture above, only cooler. the place had a very military feel to it (duh, we're shooting at each other...) but more than the rest the vesting room felt like we were about to go storm a compound. the vests were heavy but it felt right, i don't think it would be as much fun if we didn't have what felt like body armor on. they looked like SWAT team vests only with colored lights. when the employees gave the word the three teams flooded the rooms, sticking together or going solo. soon red lazers filled the air and the sound of running feet and shooting were everywhere. it was built like a maze, with colored walls and blacklights everywhere. fog was pumped into the rooms and there was kettle-drum filled music over the loudspeakers, all of which combined to make a long, 15 minute adrenoline rush. i did quite well that game, mainly due to the fact that a) i shoot and so could aim better than some and b) i am a tactics nerd and i know weird things (ie how to entera close-quarters room, where to watch for enemies, crap like that). firends and i stayed generaly together, splitting off and coming back sometimes. there was one time i remember in particular about this game. a kid was running down a long hall, i had no idea what he hpoed to accomplish by doing this, but he was on the enemy team so i fired once and him him square in the chest. his vest turned off (which is what happens when you are hit) and he ran away. very fun.
the second game was much the same, blacklights, music, bases, tactices, shooting, smoke, except that this game a group of 6 or 7 girls had begun playing, and being 10-year-old girls (no offense, girls) they had no idea how to fight (yes, i've decided to drop all the pretenses and call it fighting, because that realy is what we were doing) or where to go. i found them, at one point on the stairs between the two levels, where with a few quick flicks of the trigger i got each of them.
boy, for such little girls they didn't have mouths made of sugar and spice.
the hub of activity in this place is the Blue Base, which provides excelent firefighting places. so friend and i stormed it with another person on our team, and somehow got through more or less intact. that was very fun.
on the last game we got into the breifing room and after the employee had gone through her whole thing about the rules we had a few minutes to sit and wait. ethan and friend 1, who were on an opposite team from me and friend 2, started clapping, playing mob mindgames, and it worked. everyone was soon clapping, faster and faster until it just erupted into applause. that reminded them, of course, or "we will rock you" and the whole room erupted into it, banging on the bleachers and hands until it slowly faded away. you know, that song is basicly a tribal war chant. only instead of psycing the berzerkers up to go fight the Danish they we were psycing ourselves of to og after the other teams, or in the case of a sports game, when one is doing that one is psycing the players up to play harder against the other team, but either way it is basicly the same as in the dark ages.
that round went fine, and by the end i was tired and (even more than usual) wanted to go join a SWAT team.

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'M BACK!!!!!!!!!! hooray, i had the most INTERESTING weekend ever. it was very exhausting, and since i got home later than expected by a long shot and i still needed to shower and wash the gloop out of my hair...... i didn't read or respond to this post last night. this keyboard STINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the spacebar won't work unless you hit it really hard. well, if i am to tell you anything at all about my weekend, i will have to tell you the whole thing, and i cannot possibly do that over the internet, and besides which i want to go see if Ethan emailed me now. so bye, i will tell you about it some time in the future.

Šørën Kïêrkêgåårð said...

Ah lazer tag. I miss it.
My little bro and I had the outside backyard kind. He got it for a birthday of his a number of years ago.
We lived in a condo so we would run around the complex shooting at each other.

I've been to the arena's to play, too. I went for my little brothers friends birthday. I don't even know why I was invited, but I was.

I wasn't that bad at lazer tag either. For a girl. ;)

Anonymous said...

yay! nice to have ya back.

Smelly and i have an old lazer tag set, but it constantly needs new batteries and he likes to restart his vest so when i die (after 10 hits) it says that he got like 2.

the best thing for arena play is if you have a small group of friends who all know each other realy well. that way it's small enough so people don't get lost and everyone can work together realy well. it's especaily fun with Bob and Bob's friends as most of them are the 15-year-old equivelent of an ex-navy seal.

Anonymous said...

oh, has craziness ever done that? if not i have to take you some time, or you should go somehow, it's extremely fun.

Anonymous said...

no, craziness has never done lazer tag. i've heard it's really fun, though, and not just from people on this blog. maybe you should take me, although there is a 99.99999999999% chance that i would be absolutely horrible at it. but one never knows. anyway, i have to write the stupidest most mind-numbing, soul-sucking, ROTTEN English paper EVER, so i think i will get to it now. it's some stupid research paper and there are no rewrites and if i don't do it, i fail the class, which scares me, because i don't want to fail ANOTHER class (i'm passing geometry by 1%, which is not a whole lot and i don't understand ANYTHING at all, and we have a test, also on Thursday) and i will be in HUGE trouble if i go on your blog again tonight, i might do it anyway, but yeah, bye.

Anonymous said...

i have an evil social studies report. these people find the most obscure facts in the world and then expect you to know them off the top of your head. idiots.

i should take you sometime. you don't have to be good at it and i could teach you some things. two rules: stick close and shoot at everything that moves.

Anonymous said...

okay, sounds like a deal. well, i hate writing stupid papers that i don't want to write. i'm not even a fourth of the way done, and i've got two more nights to do it AND study for two tests, one of which i am almost guaranteed to fail. and if i fail that test, i fail that class. if i don't do the essay, i fail English. and the essay is due on Thursday and both tests are also on Thursday. MAN, i cannot wait until Friday...... it will all be over and i get to go to a friend's party. yay, Friday. okay so bye now \\//

Šørën Kïêrkêgåårð said...

Yay! I'm back!! Woohoo!!

We don't have a lazer tag set anymore. I think it broke or something.
Maybe it got lost in one of our many moves.

Random fact, watching headlines on Jay Leno, and it is very funny.

Anonymous said...

mine is due tomorrow and i've only got about an 1/8 of it done. time for coffee.

i love the headlines. i think my favorite is "woman calls police about man drinking in front of bird." appearently when this guy drinks beer in front of their pet bird it makes their dog very angry, so she calls the police.

HA! i finaly figured out how to kill Harold Crick! i had a short story i've been working on and couldn't end UNTIL NOW! ha! i may link to it if i put it on fictionpress.

Šørën Kïêrkêgåårð said...

I saw the one last night, the gy called the police about a suspicious peanut in his backyard.
It was ver strange.

And the guy who hired the hooker to have sex with him for $10. But he only had a 20 so she said she'd go break the 20 and then never came back. So he stayed in the hotel room naked and when she didn't come back he called the police.

People are really stupid.

I saw the one about the bird. That was strange.

Anonymous said...

i love that one...

realy, a suspicious peanut? that's pretty awesome.

Bob son of Bob said...

wee! MP3 player!
i thought about an ipod but it's too expensive and i realy don't need much more than a couple hundred tracks.

Šørën Kïêrkêgåårð said...

Yeah, a peanut.
I was just a little shocked.

I'm thinking about buying an MP3 player soon.
Hopefully if I get this job (see blog post that will be posted later today complete with pictured of my new hair that I am going to get done soon), I will be able to go buy one.

I still love the hooker one.

Oh! My other favourite was umm...
this newspaper asked kids to write in and tell their x-mas morning routines.
Well, one kid wrote in and said:
"We get up, eat breakfast and open stockings, then wait for my dad to poop..."

I laughed so hard because it reminds me of my family!! Ha ha!!
I'm still laughing.

Anonymous said...

sounds like mine too.

one thing about the hooker one is wouldn't it be fun to be the responding officer to that one? "*psshhht* we have a 357, man shorted my hooker, naked in hotel, please advise."

oh boy! new hair! *dances gaily*
i hate my hair. it all comes out the top of my head so it just looks like a mop. seriously, scalp me and put my hair on a broom handle and it would make a very nice mop. another annoying thing about it is that it looks claifornia surferish and i can't stand california surfers or their hair, and it's so useless that i can't realy do anything with it. i hate my hair.

Šørën Kïêrkêgåårð said...

YES! New hair!!!

It took a very long time, and a lot of bleach. But! I look so cool!!!

Also, the link to listen to Rohan is in the links list on BYSK.
He is amazing and I love his music.

Anonymous said...

oh boy! hair!
i like the music, not bad.

Šørën Kïêrkêgåårð said...

You can download and burn all of Rohan's music for free.
Check out the BYSK myspace. I think I put two of his songs up.
I might not have, I don't know anymore.

I posted pictures!! I'm gonna post a better one soon. I hate the ones I have up.

Anonymous said...

wee! pictures!