			foolish films 7/3

	well, right at the beginning of july, just when it was starting to get nice outside, what could the five of us (and a few other people) think of to do but sit in a dingy computer lab and play marathon? oh well, onward
	something new: i will now list the ranking (who came in first, second, etc.), total kills, total deaths, and time limit (why doesn't bungie give this to you in the post game report?) at the end of each film description i may even list a few high points in the film

The Players
a_fool/a_ool	.............................. Gabe Rosenktter (me)
Iolair ..................................... Jamey Minnis*
XAOS/Xaos .................................. John Green
Genghis Khan ............................... John Shen
Morgan ..................................... Michael ___________

* the nick is pronounced "yul-air", and Jamey said it was Gaelic for eagle; also, Jamey graduated from Thomas Jefferson School this year ('95), and will be attending Harvey Mudd College next year (hey CYBERNATOR - you out dere?)
 i don't know his name - leave me alone

The Films
Xaos/a_ool/Genghis Khan (E=MC)
	a pretty nice game that we played relatively early in the day as i'm in a good mood, i think i'll make a list of stuff to look for, at least in this film (1) maybe about five minutes into the game, i get the Tozt and start tooling on people Genghis decides to fight back, picking up the alien weapon it's quite a scene when i come around a corner from one of the middle aisles, only to find the blue-suited jerk standing out of my range, blasting me with the mind-altering drug (our pet name for it) (2) shortly later, though, i get him back by playing the ol' hide-behind-the-pfhor trick - all Genghis sees coming down the hall at him out of the shadows is a purple pfhor, so he drops it with a couple pistol shots, not checking his motion detector as soon as the corpse drops in front of me, i open up with my MA-75 hee hee hee (3) just in case there was any question about my knowing how to play this game, i run into the teleporter to the SPNKR room, grab it, and, when someone teleports in behind me, run backwards and blow them away, taking no damage myself not once, but twice within a few minutes i also do a similar thing several times with teh fusion pistol (4) another interesting shot comes a bit later, when Genghis goes after the SPNKR-toting Xaos with a Tech-40 although Genghis does, of course, die, the view from Xaos' point of view is nicely touched by the fusion blast (5) we had quite a few teleporter wars (one person would teleport in chased by another, someone would fire off a grenade, and whoever had less health would probably die), however, one of the most impressive is shortly after number 4, when Xaos teleports into the SPNKR room, followed by me i shoot him with a grenade just as Genghis appears and bounces me out in the opposite direction (definately watch it from Xaos' view) (6) finally, a pretty impressive grenade shot by Xaos catches me just as i enter the teleporter, but before the momentary invincibility kicks in ouch
	ranking: a_ool, Genghis Khan, Xaos
	total kills: 81		total deaths: 88		time: 20 minutes

Iolair/Genghis Khan/a_ool (CP)
	hmmm that last summary went on a little long maybe i'll just make a list of the cool stuff and then give you the ending info
 right at the beginning, Genghis and i get into a little pistol duel, from which i run away, grab the MA-75, turn around and shoot him from the SPNKR ledge
 out in the middle, i sight Iolair and begin firing grenades, but then Genghis blows him away from one of the shadowed corriders and drops me as well
 just after i come back, i run around a little while, finally deciding to go get the SPNKR, so i run up the stairs and drop into the pit, only to find that there was a bob bomb there first
 Genghis and i run into each other on the ledge above the large room, and he kills us both with a grenade blast (vaulting me onto the sniper ledge) however, i have my revenge by dropping down behind him on the SPNKR ledge and wasting him with the MA-75
 Iolair ambushes me in the prize closet (what we call the room which contains the invincibility, or demon fuzziness, as we call it)
 not having learned my lesson, i return a moment or two later to the same place, only to be killed in the same way by the same person
 finally, though, i manage to get fuzzy out in the main room, Genghis knocks off Iolair with a well placed grenade and then leaps over me while i shoot numerous grenades in his general direction
 a while later, we all end up sitting in one ambush spot or another, waiting for the others to appear oops
 in the dark passage just off the ledge over the large room, i'm shot by Genghis right under the feet of the charging Iolair
 standing up on the long ledge in the big room, i fire grenades somewhat randomly at a fleeing Genghis and then chase him, only to find that the enforcer i shot landed on top of him i discover this because he tools on me with it as soon as i appear in the hallway
 i decide to take a somewhat safer approach to things, and stand at the back of the SPNKR ledge it's not long before an invisible Genghis Khan runs along, but before i can fire a grenade, he runs into a bob bomb in a rather spectacular shot (at least from my view)
 some time later, i get blasted repeatedly with the alien gun, dying before i realize that my assaulter was Iolair invisible, in the shadows
 all three of us come together off of the large room only to all be killed by Genghis's grenade blast (well, i think it was his)
 right near the end, Genghis kills Iolair with the alien gun at the foot of the stairs to the sniper ledge, but i pelt him with grenades from above for the final kill of the game
	ranking: a_ool, Genghis Kahn, Iolair
	total kills: 50  total deaths: 60  time: 15 minutes

Xaos/a_ool/Genghis Khan (5D)
	well, i'm sick of writing these huge summaries besieds, there's not much one can say about a game in 5D this is probably the slowest game in this weeks set
	ranking: a_ool, Xaos, Genghis Kahn
	total kills: 36  total deaths: 39  time: 10 minutes

Xaos/Genghis Khan/a_ool (WW)
	really, there's not much to say about a Waldo World game there are, of course, the usual corpses flying everywhere and such at one point, i literally burn up every ounce of ammo, and actually end up punchi Genghis once or twice before he drops me with the MA-75 there's also a fun shot when i'm standing on the small sniper ledge firing a pistol (maybe it was a fusion pistol) across at Xaos Genghis teleports up on the same ledge and fires a missile at Xaos, killing him, but Xaos just barely gets off a missile at me, which kills me the reason this is cool is that, from my angle, the two contrails seem to form a right angle
	ranking: Genghis Khan, a_ool, Xaos
	total kills: 63  total deaths: 76  time: 20 minutes

Iolair/a_ool/Morgan/GK (WW)
	well once again, not much to say unfortunately, Iolair's computer got screwed - everyone else was able to keep on playing, but he wasn't where it looked like he was on the screen (i'm sure you know what i me) even more unfortunately, his was the gathering computer, so he had to stay on and just let his unused body get tooled (the film, however, works, because it comes from the view of the saving computer, mine, which worked fine) (p.s., this was Morgan's first and only game - that's why he gets rifled)
	ranking: Genghis Khan, a_ool, Iolair, Morgan
	total kills: 35  total deaths: 39  time: 20 minutes (i take it back, this was the slowest game)

gabe rosenktter																	"i hear your winter/ i hear your rain"
a_ool on irc and net Marathon			i've failed your summer ways,/ and i feel no pain"
acrosenk@artsci.wustl.edu								 						smashing pumpkins, silverfuck
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