Paintball
Posted by erin at April 29, 2003 11:50 AMSo on Sunday N. and I went with a group of N.'s friends to play paintball at Skirmish USA, located somewhere in Pennsylvania. To tell the truth, I wasn't looking forward to it, seeing as how I'm usually a huge wuss when it comes to guns and such. However, it went really well. Click the link below for more:
N. was looking forward to it, mistakenly thinking that the Paintball crowd would definitely crossover with the Cyberpunk crowd. As we were suiting up with rented coveralls, N. quickly realized his mistake - it turns out that jocks and military fanatics are paintballers, and the only dorks there drove in with us. Later in the day, N. got over his initial foible and managed to peg a professional paintball ninja, and thus, earned congratulations from our group.
Our first few matches were against some teachers from Philadelphia, mostly girls. In the very first game I stuck with a guy on our team who knew what he was doing. We ran in and captured the other team's flag, and I successfully brought the flag back to our side! Hooray! I got to keep the flags.
Then we played a bunch of other scenarios that I won't go into detail here, so that I might yack about them at length in public. I will mention that N. played the President in one game, our group's favorite, and I had to be a bodyguard and take a bullet for him (or, more accurately, N. threw me into the line of fire to save himself). It turns out paintballs don't really hurt to get hit with, they just sting a little.
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April 29, 2003 01:30 PM, N. said:
I was simply helping Erin do her job a little better.
Besides, she (along with half my security detail) left me behind when my shoe got stuck in the mud. I could've been eaten by swamp rats! Not that it mattered anyway. Despite Erin's forcibly valiant sacrifice, I was taken out by a depressingly clean head shot about 20 yards from the safe zone.
April 29, 2003 02:21 PM, Erin said:
The bullet took a sharp right turn in mid-air and left multiple exit wounds.
Word has it that the shooter was behind a grassy knoll. (Or in the case of that particulary field, a swampy outcropping, but whatever).
April 29, 2003 02:43 PM, thecomicman said:
i want to paintball so bad. i've wanted to do this since i've known what paintball is. and these stories are hilarious.
April 29, 2003 03:24 PM, ET said:
You should kiss up to my friend C. (from Great Adventure) next time you see him. His friend's grandmother has some woodland upstate and a bunch of them periodically drive up there and get all Deliverance. The one time I went I left with a gushing head wound. But don't let that deter you. Copious amounts of anti-bacterial goo will prevent most physical scarring.
April 29, 2003 05:00 PM, Erin said:
Despite ET's horror-story, at Skirmish they had full face-masks that covered the forehead.
Maybe you can go with N's friends next time they go, TCM.
April 29, 2003 05:37 PM, Sam said:
Hey! A friend of mine at work went to this too. His name is Don, he's Filipino...
April 29, 2003 06:41 PM, Erin said:
Did he go on Sunday?
Holy crap!
I don't remember a Don in our group, though.
April 29, 2003 09:22 PM, Jay said:
I love paintball. Those things leave welts that last for about a week though.
April 30, 2003 09:51 AM, Sam said:
No, he went on Saturday :)
May 1, 2003 10:30 AM, ET said:
Well, admittedly since my trip wasn't a paying thing, it was just backwards baseball caps and goggles.
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