July 5, 2009
– 9:15 pm CDT
Le Silve Apartments, Middleton WI
Randy “Ran-san” McCullick took a sip of his tea, and then
glared at the screen in mock annoyance. “Dude. You pumpkining on me already?” He said into
his microphone.
“Sorry!” Said the disembodided voice of his friend, Robert “Baseload”
Laib. “It’s been a big day. And some of us have to WORK
tomorrow, you know. I’ve been on this all day and I have to do some chores before bed.”
Ran mock-snorted. “Well as long as you have an excuse. Talk
to you tomorrow.”
“Good-night, Ran.”
Ran Alt-Tabbed a moment to kill Skype and switched back to
the game. He looked at the mission. “Right. Time for Nam
to kill this AV and finish this storyline.” He smiled as he took another sip of
tea. This was going to be fun.
15 Minutes later
Ran grinned smugly. “Record time.” He’d made it to the final
room. Now to take out the AV and be done with it.
He slammed down some inspirations on Nam
and leaped into battle. He had just started his first attack when –
LAGSPIKE
Ran’s hands jerked back from his controller as he receive a
jolt of some kind from both the controlled and his headset. He leaped to his feet and threw his headset off. “OW! THE HELL, MAN!” He
felt wet by his feet and realized he had spilled his nearly full tea glass on
the floor when he jerked his hand away. “AW, DAMMIT!”
He also realized the lagspike was over, and he was very VERY
dead on screen. “And…that makes it perfect.”
[The Legendary] Atlantea: Night, DS
[The Legendary] Foxboy: LAter DS
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Huh. That's weird.
[The Legendary] Valles: ?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: My graphics look a lot better after that spike. Weird..
[The Legendary] OpMegs: Don't knock it, free gfx upgrades rock.
[The Legendary] Ran-san: Ow! Dammit, my PC just shocked me. I spilled tea all
over the room. I’m going to have to clean it up
now. I think I’ll log and look at my PC tomorrow for shorts.
[The Legendary] Terrence Knight: Ouch. ‘Nite, Ran.
[The Legendary] Ran-san: Hey, the graphics do look better though.
Ran quickly grabbed some towels and mopped up the mess. It
was nearly a full glass and the cleaning took nearly a full half hour. Now he was tired. In fact…the bed looked awfully
good right now. He was usually up a few more hours, but….
Ran’s brain didn’t get much farther before he fell forward
onto the bed, unconscious.
– 9:15 pm CDT
Le Silve Apartments, Middleton WI
Randy “Ran-san” McCullick took a sip of his tea, and then
glared at the screen in mock annoyance. “Dude. You pumpkining on me already?” He said into
his microphone.
“Sorry!” Said the disembodided voice of his friend, Robert “Baseload”
Laib. “It’s been a big day. And some of us have to WORK
tomorrow, you know. I’ve been on this all day and I have to do some chores before bed.”
Ran mock-snorted. “Well as long as you have an excuse. Talk
to you tomorrow.”
“Good-night, Ran.”
Ran Alt-Tabbed a moment to kill Skype and switched back to
the game. He looked at the mission. “Right. Time for Nam
to kill this AV and finish this storyline.” He smiled as he took another sip of
tea. This was going to be fun.
15 Minutes later
Ran grinned smugly. “Record time.” He’d made it to the final
room. Now to take out the AV and be done with it.
He slammed down some inspirations on Nam
and leaped into battle. He had just started his first attack when –
LAGSPIKE
Ran’s hands jerked back from his controller as he receive a
jolt of some kind from both the controlled and his headset. He leaped to his feet and threw his headset off. “OW! THE HELL, MAN!” He
felt wet by his feet and realized he had spilled his nearly full tea glass on
the floor when he jerked his hand away. “AW, DAMMIT!”
He also realized the lagspike was over, and he was very VERY
dead on screen. “And…that makes it perfect.”
[The Legendary] Atlantea: Night, DS
[The Legendary] Foxboy: LAter DS
[The Legendary] Foxboy: Huh. That's weird.
[The Legendary] Valles: ?
[The Legendary] Foxboy: My graphics look a lot better after that spike. Weird..
[The Legendary] OpMegs: Don't knock it, free gfx upgrades rock.
[The Legendary] Ran-san: Ow! Dammit, my PC just shocked me. I spilled tea all
over the room. I’m going to have to clean it up
now. I think I’ll log and look at my PC tomorrow for shorts.
[The Legendary] Terrence Knight: Ouch. ‘Nite, Ran.
[The Legendary] Ran-san: Hey, the graphics do look better though.
Ran quickly grabbed some towels and mopped up the mess. It
was nearly a full glass and the cleaning took nearly a full half hour. Now he was tired. In fact…the bed looked awfully
good right now. He was usually up a few more hours, but….
Ran’s brain didn’t get much farther before he fell forward
onto the bed, unconscious.