Post by Tony Blair on Feb 8, 2007 11:58:28 GMT -5
admin said:
I started playing on August 8th 2005
July 26th, baby! You guys should keep an eye out for Tony Blair, he started on like the second day or something absurd like that. I remember...
I remember DARIS! A friend of mine was in it and he offered me their protection. He went on to leave UD and become an evil bastard. If you know anyone named "Brendan Hickey" you should totally shake his hand.
I remember Ron Burgundy was killed for the first time in October- specifically, in Yagoton. I had gotten tired of the Caiger area (there weren't any zombies there before the first siege) and wandered off.
TB was not my first character. My very first character was created on July 5th and back then you couldn't even attack zombies but both other survivors and zombies could attack you, and barricades didn't even exist. Tony Blair was created about 3 days latter when combat was more of an option and he had nothing to do with the British PM (back then it was still mostly Americans playing). I think that it was about a week latter that we finally got the ability to close doors. If we were smarter back then we would have just used free running to hide in padlocked buildings, but all of those were pretty much destroyed about two days after wire cutters were activated (I am ashamed to say that I cut one or two myself). Oh and until people learned about heavy barricades free running was considered a junk skill. About the only team that had anything to do with it was the Cannonball Crew. It took a while to earn x.p. Back then so there was a period of about a month where the CC was really one of the very top teams and everyone else had to catch up to us.
Also do you remember back in the old days when people would try to trap zombies inside of heavy barricades? We were the ones that got that started. We were on a long distance rescue mission the Club Veal and got trapped in the first documented in-game blizzard. We couldn't move very far and next or EHB safe house (most people didn't know you could go past heavy back then either) was two zombies inside railroad station or something. So for something to do I snuck inside and built an EH barricade around them. Officer Daxx found out about the idea on the CoL forums and he liked the idea so he tried it at Oram Walk and then it became famous. A lot of times it actually worked too because not all zombies realized that you could leave just by clicking on another square. It didn't last long after Oram though. The tactic got to be too famous and then everyone learned about its weakness.