Well, this is an account of what may have been, one of the most memorable weekends, i have ever had, ever, a mix of mine, and Fyrestorms accounts (with his permission) fused together into a blog post of what may be, sheer, un-condensed awesome, so hold onto your hats for the . . .
(everything from Fyre's point of view, is in comic sans MS, everything from me, is plain old rawking bold/normal baybe!)
The Answer Is 42
Hehe, I really struggle to find time for this place XD, not that I don't like it, I'm just, busy with a lot of stuff. That said, even if I did have more time, I don't think I'm the type to record stuff going on in my life unless it's somewhat significant, to me at least. That said, here comes something fairly meaningful to me!
OK, so, the weekend just gone, the 17th-18th (although this started on the Friday/16th), I went out of city to visit my friend Craig, or as I call him, Sythe (sic), in Northampton, which was awesome ^^. He's come down to see me once, and, I probably should have written something about that... The fact that I'm not 100% I didn't says something for my recollection 
. Anyway, in short, Sythe's a friend met through common interests online, and all around fun, nice guy, and moderately crazy, but, that goes without saying XD.From my point of view here, Fyre has always been a long term friend, we met through sheer love of a game called Armored Core, a game i no longer "rawk" at, but nevermind.Fyre to me, is one of my long term online, and now rapidly becoming offline, best friends, he has featured in my own damn dreams as a giant orange octopus on one occasion, helped me through a number of rough patches, depression, finding love, on three occasions, and just been, quite simply - awesome, for everything he's done for me, I'd happily try and help him out in the same way, if he ever needed it, and its going to sound just, nerdy and stupid here, but the way we talk online and off, just has an element, of well - cattyness to it! 
theres just a sort of, semi-brother bond there, a hobby that found a friendship that just got, into so much fun, hell - anyone who reads this knows of at least part of our exploits!Hehehe, I used to go into insane trivial detail about these things, like when I visited Simi or Iesha, which, I really need to do again sometime; I think it was just an effect of enthusiasm. Not saying I'm not enthusiastic about this , I think I'm just a bit more aware of how one person's enthusiasm can be another person's nausea XD, so, I'll try to keep this a bit more concise than in the past 
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OK, well, to begin, I have an early start on Friday; I know plenty of people have it worse, but I still think getting up at 7am sucks XD. It didn't help that I only got to bed about 3am the previous night, so I got all of 4 hours sleep, trivial I know, but this time it's worth remembering. Anyway, fought my way through the waking up thing, made it to university, managed to do the work in lesson, which isn't that hard, but still, I was proud . Next was a lecture, and here's where a number game comes in. My first lesson is 9-11am, on a Friday (and Monday, seriously, that's evil), so it was give or take, now 11am. I was supposed to meet my friend at 3pm at the train station in Northampton, and from what I gathered, the journey between cities wouldn't take much more than an hour maybe, plus half an hour perhaps getting to said train on the underground, so, we're looking at an outside maximum of 2 hours. So, the odds were I'd arrive if I set off now, somewhere coming up to 1pm. Now I know what you're thinking, why in the world arrive 2 entire hours early? Well, the fact is I had to kill those 2 hours somewhere (and I hadn't brought my book, I don't know what I was thinking there), and while sitting in a train station for 2 hours with little but my imagination and MP3 to amuse me isn't the most enthralling way to do it, as far as I'm concerned, it beats and rapes the Hell out of spending them in a lecture at university any given day XD.Well, for me - i was in work, bored out of my mind at work, and just rapidly waiting and waiting to get out and have some fun, and just a little annoyed that it'd take me about 2 hours at that point to finally go and grab Fyre, which it actually turned out to be a considerably shorter length of time . . . but moving along . . .
So with some help from my uni buddy Joe, who's a great guy by the way, and like me couldn't be bothered with our next lecture XD, I fast-tracked to Euston station, where a train was all but waiting for me, and I was off! Call me immature, but I still really enjoy just, intercity travel on trains, I could list reasons and speculations on why, but basically the end result is, I really enjoy it ^^, so there XP.
I missed my book on the train, but on the other hand caught up a bit on sleep I missed the night before, although paranoia about missing my stop meant not too much lounging XD. I arrived without incident, or actually sleeping mind, just chilling out, and got a, no, make that like 6 missed calls from Sythe, guess I'm just fun to talk to :3, hehe, but yeah, basically we double-checked things, and I sat down to wait give or take buying snacks, and had an unusually good time listening to my music, was just in the mood .Guh, with me I was still trapped in work, and i eventually managed to leg it out of the building and onto a fast bus onto Northampton, which as he said, got me there a lot quicker than i expected, my only gripe was that if Fyre had picked up his dang-blasted mobile, there wouldn't have been 6 missed calls 
Happily enough, Sythe showed up a whole lot earlier expected, like, 30-45 minutes after I did, not 2 hours, which was neat XD. We talked and caught up and stuff, and headed to this place. Up until now my idea of what was going on was sketchy, at best XD, but I just chilled and had faith. One part I was pretty certain of was, was that we were going to the place we were now, which was like a gamer's haven, basically. Something in the area of 20 PCs, all networked, and juiced up on tasty multiplayer games, hehehe XD. We were early, but we signed up for a year (only £15 and hey, I hope to visit a few more times in that time period), and got in some gaming before the others, who I didn't know, arrived. Or, that was the plan, my computer-jinx, which had been fairly docile for some time, made a grand comeback, and I spent a good half an hour trying to log in, despite repeated interventions by the guy who was in charge. I even managed to disconnect Sythe after he had logged in, just by sitting near him, do not doubt my jinxing powers XD!Ahh, the beginnings of the day, Playtime in Northampton, about 5 hours before we where expected, the pre-gaming jinxes and headaches, but the place was simply, i cant describe the fond memories now, not all of them in one go.From your jinxing of the system, the brain in the ceiling, the owner, Wayne, and Rusty - the kid who seemed to win at everything, the initial games of command and conquer renegade, which i finally had a chance to play!Heheh, got to talk to the guy some though, which was nice. He's like 8th or something in the country at a game that I managed to forget the name of, but it's like, RLY popular, hehehe, that's a good thing about these places, the people who run it are at least as much, if not even more so enthusiasts than their customers . Anyway, so finally I get logged in, and me and Sythe do a bit of this and that for an hour or two while in bits and pieces (figuratively speaking XD) the others arrived, and greetings were exchanged .
The next part is sort of tricky to describe. I finally got a solid idea of the scale of our gaming venture somewhere around here. The plan was, we were going to spend the night in there, and I mean, spend the night, we didn't intend to leave until 8am XD. If I were to explain in precise detail and order what happened next, it would defeat the loose, easy if somewhat unorganized atmosphere of the whole thing, so as a summary, we basically gamed and gamed, sometimes in a pretty large group, sometimes in smaller groups (on the disorganized front, it might have been a bit more fun still if we'd managed to keep playing together more, but who needs perfection XP?). About 10pm we stopped for pizza, which was ordered for us by the staff, they really know their stuff , and that was yummy, then back to gaming, where we played, and played, and played XD. Keep in mind how little sleep I'd last gotten, 4 hours, it's an important detail 
, hehe. I don't know how much this will mean to people, but to list what games I played while there, Battlefield 2 and Call Of Duty 2 were the most popular, with Counter Strike: Source also getting good time, and a little bit of Unreal Tournament 2004 and Quake 4. To the uninitiated, those are all first-person shooter games, which is in a nutshell running around trying to shoot each other, or sometimes blow each other up, and occasionally in Battlefield 2, driving or flying things with intent to shoot and/or run over each other. Diverse, no XD? Hehehe, Dawn Of War also got played a fair amount, an RTS, good one, too .Hehehe, the beginnings of greatness - i think the guy who was there at the start was 8th in the country at battlefield 2 wasn't he?Heck, as i said - i can't remember parts of it! The fixture at playtime was an 8pm till 8am function, which was enough to start with, but me and Fyre here had spent about 5 hours before that simply getting used to the games in question, and although one game me and Ed (gib, or Gibson) wanted to play wasn't on the system quite yet (Supreme Commander - which had only just been released on the day) we did get in our 1v1 games of C&C Renegade, and a fair few games of Dawn Of War : Dark Crusade, which i had never played before, same as you, and by the end of that night, i think we both came out masters.As for the dis-organization? we'll, you did have 5 people, in amongst a group of about 15, each with different taste's - although i think everyone got a chance to each play what they wanted to play, Call of Duty 2, Battlefield 2, even that weird Tron style game! Ahh, the Pizza discussions, i think we managed to scare some of the fellow gamers with our stories there 
but by the gods wasn't it awesome, you where right, for that night, we where king's amongst king's, gamers vs gamers, just something, awesome and fun.Some highlights of the night for me were the fact that every game with the exception of Counter Strike was totally new to me, which meant new pleasures, hehehe XD. I faired differently in each game, Dawn Of War threw me some tricky angles, but at the end of the morning, I was actually holding my own and causing problems for other people . FPS-wise, Battlefield 2 confused me when it came to actual objectives, but in terms of enjoying myself, helping people on my team to do whatever the heck they were trying to at the time, and achieving a bunch of things that might have contributed to a greater scheme like killing people on the other team, and taking back strategic points, I did well XD. Special mention to me for being mental enough to kamikaze a plane I was piloting on more than one occasion, the best being when I headbutted a chopper full of enemy troops out of the air right over the carrier it was taking off from, so our mutual wreckage was littered all over it. The amused cries that I was insane certainly helped me enjoy my martyrdom XD. In Call Of Duty 2 I got owned a fair bit, but still managed to get in my fair share of ass-kicking, out quick-drawing skilled players, grenading people to death and getting some decent final rankings, although I was suffering more than causing it in others XD, COD2 is a slower FPS with more emphasis on tactics, positioning and accuracy, and I'm not as skilled at those as I am at the faster kind where things like reflexes, innovation and evasive moves are more important. Quake 4 is such a game, and in the 15-20 minutes we played, despite joining late, I ended up tied for the lead and had held it on more than one occasion . As for Unreal, um, I spent half of that trying to figure out what was going on, and since I seemed to do better at that more than anyone else, there wasn't anything too noteworthy pulled off, although I had some neat rocket duels, and the tank had a way cool laser XD. Counter Strike was plenty of fun, from team duels where things went similar to COD2, to us verses the AI, where we did everything from getting swarmed by expert bots, to fighting swarms of them when they only had knives, proper Resident Evil, that was, trying to fend off hordes of enemies trying to tear us apart at close range with our firearms XD. Dawn Of War was also pretty fun, at times a pain, but mostly fun, and at the end before we ran out of time, I actually was kicking a fair bit of ass, which felt nice to achieve XD.Sweet sweet memories of gaming, there are just so many funny moments, i don't even think the two of us combined could get them all, but you did forget a few!Ceremonial Green Shit! huzzah!Rusty! and his killing spectacular!BOUNCY WALLS IN COUNTER STRIKE! BOING!Damn you Mr Squirrel!/Gibson/Scott/Rusty!WHO THE HELL IS PHOENIX?! I'm actually laughing out loud (for real, not just the three letter acronym) at the memories there, just there alone, its almost bringing tears to my eyes . . . We left about 8am, at which point I had been up roughly 25 hours. Catching a bus, we went out to one of the guy's houses; Ed was his name, although so was Gibson, and he was affectionately called Gib half the time (trivia: "Gib" is a term for the little pieces that are left when, usually in a shooting game, you not only kill someone, but blow them to bits; fitting, for a skilled gamer like him XD). It took like half an hour to walk to, but once there, where Ed had two dogs, which would during our stay be alternatively cute/fun, or loud/annoying XD, we chilled out . I had been asked to bring my Pokemon movies, which is an endless source of amusement to me XD, and we watched the first one when more people arrived, generally enjoying movies, games and music as more people I, think I didn't know until then, I was kinda out of it, showed up and basically spent the whole day having fun like that. Most of Sythe's friends are into weed, and smoked casually throughout the day, which didn't bother me. Drugs aren't my thing, but it's their choice, and I've no problem with it, nor do I feel the need to look down on t hem for it; like I said to one of them, we're all going to die some day, it's all well and good living healthily, but a life of perfect health lived with no meaningful experiences is wasted, in, my humble opinion that is XD. Later on someone else showed up, and the drug use went up a notch, if anyone knows what a "shotty" is, yeah, it was that, hehe, but they handled it pretty well, they were being silly, but we were all being silly without the aid of drugs, it was like, a party, or something like it, we were there to have fun, not brood XD. Anyways I guess it was down to being experienced at being high, on their part, or perhaps they moderated how much they took. Hehe, I told my dad about my weekend, but I don't think I said anything about the drug-use, I can imagine how he'd react, he'd get all, perturbed and stuff XD, like if I spend enough time around people doing things I'm not, my sense of self will eventually evaporate, and I'll just give in and, try it. I wasn't even offered anything the whole time, I was asked if I did weed but that was it, and even if I was, no offense to anyone who's done this in the past, but... I mean, come on, peer pressure my ass XD. Also, with help from Sythe I organized dinner, and turned scraps into a 5-man feast .Ahh yes, the trip to Gibson's, in which, i was the only one no to fall asleep on the bus, god only knows what the bus driver thought of us! As for the Pokemon movies, you just gotta go old school. As for the the smoking?, thats just a combo of stress and habit for me, luckily I'm not as regular as everyone else, and I'm not much for shotties and drug use (their actual spelt name), there wasn't any at all until Kez turned up, and I'm not up to smoking any more, so i stayed out of that with you - my choice, their choice, it makes no real difference to me. But, after all - fun was had? was it not? So yeah, basically playing games, listening to music, watching some movies, joking around and socializing, eating of course, and smoking weed, although not for me, basically we spent our whole time doing this, and it was really, really fun ^^. It was like, about as much fun as things can get, without just being ridiculously fun, you know that kind of fun where you feel like you just have to do something, or you'll explode XD? It wasn't that good, but it was everything but, and heck, it was the first time, so no complaints .Oh good cripes, the fun wouldn't stop until someone slept would it? and i think we all crashed at the same time didn't we? It was just something about that weekend, something so amazingly, fun Anyway, I finally went to bed somewhere after 1am, and since I had gotten up somewhere after 7am, the question which 42 is the answer to is, how many hours I stayed awake straight, not bad, huh XD? Heheh, and not to brag, but I had only had 4 hour's sleep before that, and I mainly went 'cus, although I was damn beat, I could have lasted longer, but I had to be up sometime that day, the day being Sunday now, to catch a bus on time, to catch a train on time, to get home at some semi-reasonable time XD. Gib let me sleep on his bed, complete with Power Ranger covers (people were smoking weed and watching Pokemon, don't forget XD), and damn that felt good. As it was though I got up like 10 hours later, and everyone but Sythe and Gib had left, so we chilled a bit more, played a little PC, a little Gears Of War on Xbox 360 (pretty fun, if a little annoying at times when the cover system won't obey), and, oh, oh yeah, and shared videos on YouTube, good times XD. About 4 I left with Sythe, and long story short, got home about 10 XD.Guh, sleep deprivation, food and three people left to game and watch videos . . . i don't think the fun ended until we had to move, Yu-Gi-Oh! the Abridged movie! and Kaj . . . By the way - YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS! PYLONS! PYLONS! BALLS!I have since been doing a healthy quantity of sleeping, after that forced-insomnia binge, and reports from Sythe are that they loved me, I am a "legend" (quoted), and they want me back as soon as possible ^^. Heheh, it's a shame I can't use some kind of emote, like a graphical one, cus, that's flattering, I know it's hardly, the biggest deal ever, or anything, but, truthfully, it means a lot to me ^^.After that insomnia binge, i think we all needed to sleep, we had work the day after, and so many quotes and lines where exchanged, everyone wanted to go back to that weekend and just, do it again, and everyone loved you, loved the company, the whole damn thing, it was a weekend that stood out, for everyone, and i think this is gonna stick with us for a damn, long, time buddy!
Hehehe, anyway, to anyone who reads, there you have it. Again, not the biggest deal ever, but, a fairly special event, for me, like . Hehehe, i think this goes for everyone who was there, and we've gotta do it again some day, just set a date - and we'll be there waiting for you buddy
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