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January 26th
Orange Team v. Red Team @ Lockout, Team Slayer

Recorded by RelentlessRecusant

Introduction
"Ryan! How are we going to win? They have all the power weapons!"

- Relentless70

"We'll kill them four more times."

- Ryanngreenday



"Okayyy..."

- Relentless70

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Orange Team:

Relentless70 (RelentlessRecusant) - Not very relentless King of Swords

Ryanngreenday (Ryanngreenday) - The nonchalant killer

Red Team:

star wars fan94 (Darth Tater) - Sticky masta

birdlane32 (non-Halopedian) - Battle Rifle whore

Overall tone of the game: Relentlessly rocking...

Orange Team takes Sniper Tower
The close quarters action of Lockout inevitably led to the presiding of the Energy Sword as the key factor to dominance. There were also other power chips: plasma grenade (one-stick kills) and the sniper rifle (used to annihilate enemies from the Sniper Tower).

First blood was scored when Ryan secured the sniper rifle, perched on the platform, scoping 'round to find perpetrators. His bane came when Red Team fired a Battle Rifle at him, except not at him: behind him. There was Ryan, hitting the zoom button to find where the report came from when the fuel cells behind him ignited and immolated him in fire. 1-0 Red.

After Relentless took the snipe tower once again and Ryan rejoined him, Red decided to (suicidally) charge the snipe tower, learning pain from Relentless's newly acquired sword. Ryan also redeemed himself from his dismal first death, racking up a Double Kill with a handy-dandy Battle Rifle attained from the lift-tower. A few attack waves occured, in which one Tater charged the snipe tower, somehow uber-pwned Ryan, and as Relentless leapt up with the sword...squarely stuck Relentless.

To quote Tater:

"The Empire strikes back!"

- Darth Tater, alluding to Star Wars Episode V

However, Orange recovered, beating the helluva outta Red at the bloodied, contested grounds of the snipe tower, and Red learned quickly not to continue charging, and withdrew to the BR tower. Relentless and Ryan (hey, they both start with an "R"!) insouciantly trashed Orange, that is, until Birdlane got ahold of the BR...

"The Two Towers"
The game soon became "The Two Towers" (no, not the LOTR film). Birdlane's prodigous skill with the BR and Tater's penchant for grenade bombing from afar drove back Relentless, who was desperately trying to snipe out Red Team from the snipe tower, but was unable to, admist the hail of flying shrapnel from frags and Birdlane's continual salvo of bullets from the BR Tower. This playing around continued for awhile, but eventually, progress was made. Relentless sniped out Birdlane, was in turn somehow killed by Tater, etc...but the War of the Two Towers remained.

However, soon, Relentless's glorious skills (hey, Ryan, stop kicking me! owow!) Okay, I mean, ahem...Relentless's and Ryan's joint skills, broke the back of the Red Team, which osmotically dispersed from the top floor of the BR tower to the labyrinth of subterranean tunnels of Lockout. Relentless advised going Tom Clancy tactical (i.e. sitting on his @$$ and waiting for Red to come to the tower), but Ryan insisted on killing the usurpers, and forced Relentless outta his comfy perch at the snipe tower to play a game of cat-and-mouse.

Bad idea.

Ryan was too relentless (haha), and got Orange Team pinned in the bottom room of the BR Tower. Now, Birdlane and Tater had the upper hand, and from their santcum on the second floor of the BR Tower, only had to chuck down a flurry of 'nades down the stairs and the one-way hole interconnecting the two rooms.

Red Takes the Upper Hand
This became agitating, until Relentless broke out with da sword. Birdlane was impaled, subsequently died, and Relentless rounded the corner into the second floor room to find...a plasma grenade stuck to his helmet! -BHAM!- and Tater claimed the sword. Then, the unopposed wizard of stickies took a walk and slew Ryan in the third floor room with his newfound toy.

It was then that Orange belatedly Red had the sword - a problem for Orange Team. A large problem. A titanic one. A gargantuan one. An immense one. A stupendifying one. A tactically intractable situation for Orange Team, to be precise. Thus began Tater's incredible 7-kill spree. A few minor firefights (or more precisely, swordkills) later, this was exacerbated when Birdlane got his hands on the sniper, while Tater still possessed the sword. While Ryan charged like a zealous dog, intercepting sniper rounds like an amoeboid in the process, eventually, Relentless convinced him to play it tactical. Or just for a moment.

Under Relentless's micromanagement skills, Orange Team slunk out of the bottom floor passageways that had caused so more dolor for both Ryan and Relentless, and then with utmost precision, flanked Red Team, which was holed up in the BR tower, on the top floor... Ryan steadfastly advanced from the left ramp, passing by the superjump location, while Relentless un-relentlessly came from the ramp from the library room.

Ryan sneakily attacked Birdlane, thinking that his mad close-range SMG skillz could own Birdlane's noscoping skills with the sniper, just to find that Birdlane had the sword and Tater had the sniper.

There was a bloody epiphany for Ryan as Birdlane lunged and stabbed him to hell, leaving Relentless sneaking up on an unaware Tater. When Relentless commenced to deluge the hapless sniper with SMG slugs, the Sith Lord swiveled in circles, unable to bring about his sniper's reticule on Relentless, and was unilaterally owned by a sole SMG (UBER-PWNAGE!). However, when Tater respawned and Red Team surged from the second floor of the BR tower, pwning Relentless, his small victory was gone.

Finale
At the end, things got bloody and close-cut. Orange Team held the sniper tower, and pathetically defended it from Tater, who, armed with his sword, slaughtered both Ryan and Relentless. However, Orange Team ascended to glory as Orange respawned, and launched a small guerilla war - SMGs vs. power weapons, eventually crazily and incredibly claiming the lives of Tater and Birdlane in the end. Relentless scored the last kill on the top floor of the BR Tower on Birdlane, concluding the game at 18 minutes and 12 seconds.

50 - 41, Orange Team Wins

January 27th Turf (under construction)
Orange Team v. Red Team @ Turf, 1 Flag CTF Fast

Recorded by RelentlessRecusant

Introduction
"Ryan, if we let them get the flag, that'd be pretty sad..."

- Relentless70

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Orange Team:

Relentless70 (RelentlessRecusant) - Flag boy

Ryanngreenday (Ryanngreenday) - Noscopin' 4 eva

Red Team:

JMRA (Joshua 029) - Killed the flag carrier...once

Quatsecoatl (Dragonclaws) - The dragon's missing its claws

Overall tone of the game: Rather unfairly lopsided...?

Orange Offense No. 1
This was what really set the rather harmonious tone of the game. Ryan laid his hands on the sniper, and Relentless snatched the Brute Shot, ready to pepper the defenders with HE grenades if they dared to venture out from the flag base. After a moment, Relentless was convinced that Red Team was playin' it defensive, or otherwise, going stealth protocols. The assault commenced in full, Ryan believing in his own pious invincibility so much that he boldly waltzed to the BR spot, and began his fusillade of sniper rounds. Relentless chimed in, but failed to realize his own inadeptness with the Brute Shot. Four grenades at a target at close range didn't even flicker the enemy's shields. Ryan, however, saved Relentless, picking them both off with the sniper, and urging Relentless to grab the flag and make good his retreat. 1 - 0 Orange.

Red Offense No. 1
Strangely, Red neglected to even go for the sniper rifle, instead opting to immediately take the Brute Shot path past the warehouse, arming themselves with the plasma rifle there, and then attacking full on. To be candid, Red's attack was more ferocious was anticipated, and Ryan (armed with a BR) and Relentless (armed with a tenacious SMG and Brute Plasma Rifle) were kept hard at work defusing their explosive strikes. In a lull in the combat, Ryan was able to waltz 'round the block, take the sniper, and after that, Orange Team's defensive matrix became impermeable. Even when JMRA got his hands on the shotgun, and shot Relentless, bringing down his shields, Relentless was able to melee JMRA, bring down his shields, and before he could kill Relentless, Ryan squarely noscoped him over Relentless's shoulder. After Relentless acquired the shotgun, shortly afterwards, the round ended. Queerly, Red Team was unable to even pick up the flag. 1 - 0 Orange.

Orange Offense No. 2
Orange's second attack was fast and fierce: Vietnam CTF. What's that? Turning Red Team into a parking lot. Forget about the flag. Or actually, that's Ryan's thoughts. While he came in with the stealth of a Zealot with an Energy Sword, maniacally blasting people with his sniper, Relentless tagged along with a Brute Shot, carefully giving Ryan point-defense as he automatically eliminated Red Team before Orange descended on the flag. Fortunately, right before taking the flag, Relentless had an unexpected sense of uneasiness, and swapped out his Brute Shot for a BR. Why? Because for once, he trusted his instinct.

On the route back home, Relentless screamed at Ryan to give him top cover, Ryan went instead gallivanting off to the medical tent for some queer reason, and therefore, in the noob combo valley in between the Scarab and the warehouse, was confronted with a vengeful JMRA. Relentless's blood pressure peaked as he dropped the flag, and chucked a frag. This was of several purposes:


 * 1) To create a smokescreen
 * 2) To drive away JMRA
 * 3) To drive away JMRA sufficiently far enough that Relentless's Battle Rifle could accurately nail JMRA in the head without being pestered by SMG rounds

Red Offense No. 2
This time, Red Team was much more fierce in their assault on Orange's base. At the beginning, Relentless scored a kill while moving from the Scarab to retrieve the sniper - Dragonclaws was before him, bearing a Brute Shot. Dragonclaws lunged for him with a melee, missed, recieved a recriprocatory blow, and was sprayed with lead all the way down. The rest was not nearly as easy, with Relentless forming an outer perimeter, checking the noob combo alley interposed between the Scarab and the warehouse, and occasionally being gunned down, and also fighting hard in the alley between the warehouse and the Scarab. Ryan took the sniper rifle, gunning down foes advancing from the medical tent sidestreet or the Brute Shot from the BR spawn point, and occasionally being driven back to the Scarab, where he fought fist-to-fist, with his BR, and even with 'nades. At one point near the end, JMRA was desperate enough to take the 'Hog and make a beeline for the flag. Ryan, bewildered, was unable to do anything but stare, petrified at the mechanical hound advancing towards him. JMRA hopped outta the driver's seat, noting Ryan's gaping jaw, but then was immolated as Relentless nonchalantly chucked a frag at the 'Hog, blowing it up and killing JMRA.

However, the next respawn around, JMRA was even able to slip the flag out to halfway between the Scarab and the warehouse before Relentless satisfactorily gunned him down with a magnum/SMG dual combo, returned the flag, and ended the round. A close call, but still 1 - 0 Orange.

3 - 0 Orange Team

January 27th Lockout
Blue Team v. Red Team @ Lockout, Team Slayer

Recorded by RelentlessRecusant

Introduction
"Whoa...all these guys suck..."

- Relentless70

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Blue Team:

Relentless70 (RelentlessRecusant) - Head Honcho, Official Uber-Pwner

star wars fan94 (Darth Tater) - Official Uber-Pwner No. 2

Red Team:

Ryanngreenday (Ryanngreenday) - Da snipin' sniper

JMRA (Joshua 029) - I luv Magnums

Quetsalcoatl (Dragonclaws) - The administrator was administered a beating

Overall tone of the game: WTF? People can suck THAT much?

1...2...3...Ownage!
The match on January 27th was characterized by utter ownage and killing. The blood was so profuse that Blue Team, because of the aerosolized hemoglobin, was nearly painted red. There was one major weapon: as always, the Energy Sword. It was, however, closely followed by the sniper rifle. Surprisingly, plasma grenades didn't factor in too much this game.

The beginning was a shamble of discordant firefights and deaths, favoring Blue Team, of course. The main skirmish occured in the bottom floor of the BR Tower, adjacent to the sword's spawning spot. Relentless Relentless secured the sword, Tater grabbed the every-versatile Battle Rifle...and Red Team began attacking, and so begun a string of proliferous kills. As Dragonclaws attacked from the sword spawn, Relentless sworded him, and then JMRA attacked and was owned by Tater...several waves later, Tater even scored a beautific stick against JMRA. In the end, Relentless scored no less than five kills on hapless Red Team members at close-quarters combat before finally being killed by JMRA. The first tempest led to 7-2 Blue.

Episode II: Attack of the Blue
The fear for Blue Team was that with the sword, JMRA would become Anakin Skywalker with his sword and begin dicing the Blues into incinerated flesh. A couple of grenades and one death later, Relentless's and Tater's opinion of JMRA slunk to nil...a wrong threat assessment, as it later turned out.

Relentless was tagging along the bottom floor of the gravity lift tower, scoring yet another kill on the clueless administrator, when Ryan mobilized the full strength of Red Team, setting up a blistering crossfire from the central platform. Ryan had center stage with the sniper, while covering the diagonals were Quatsecoatl and JMRA with SMG dual combos.

A blockade had been firmly set in place. Relentless tried venturing out a couple of times onto the top floor, but was unable to even scathe Red Team. Ryan's aptitude for the sniper had been underestimated by Relentless, and both Relentless and Tater were slain several times by his unerring accuracy. It earned a well-deserved quote from Relentless:

"What the HELL is going on?"

- Relentless70

However, Blue Team finally realized the top floor was automatic suicide, and developed a tactical cycle. Relentless would jump into the lift, spray a couple of rounds, catch Ryan and his pet sniper off-guard, and when the hornets started buzzin', jumping down, recharging shields, and repeat. Of course, if Relentless had been in Ryan's shoes as Commander of Red Team, he'd have sent down a person to ambush Relentless and Tater while they were resting on the bottom floor, but it was fortunious for Blue Team, so I guess I won't complain.

The blockade was soon to end, however. Relentless and Tater relentlessly assailed the three Red Team soldiers on the center platform, and Ryan's aim faultered, surprisingly. Like Anakin Skywalker in the Battle of Naboo, Relentless owned them with the sword...and uh...of course, with Tater's BR salvos. =D

Episode III:Revenge of the Red
Red Team, demoralized, weary, had been broken.

Therefore, when they had a plummeting defeat at the Battle for the Sniper Tower, it was expected. Relentless, from his overwatch at the top of the BR Tower, where he was skulking the lack of a Battle Rifle atop the tower, spied Dragonclaws innocently passing the central platform to set a rally point for the Reds at the sniper tower. Relentless relentlessly sworded Dragonclaws, and then took the lone sniper tower. Not for long. His loneliness was gonna get might exciting, as JMRA and Ryanngreenday soon came to war. A couple of swordings later, the two realized that jumping from the center platform onto the sniper tower was inadvisable, as plasma would be conjured into their chests immediately afterwards, and therefore, devised a cunning plan. The BR respawned on the BR Tower, and Ryan took it, so when Relentless moved to swap out his inconsequential SMG with the sniper rifle on the top floor of the sniper tower...was unable to draw a bead on Ryan, and forced onto the second floor of the sniper tower to recharge his shields. Then came JMRA (with his signature magnum and SMG combo) and Dragonclaws: JMRA from the central platform, Dragonclaws ascending from the grenade room.

Dragonclaws was still wondering where the right trigger was on his XBOX controller when he died, and JMRA was similarly wondering why his screen turned black. Ryan was so incensed with righteous fury that he abandoned his advantageous position on the BR Tower, coming to kill the insolent whelp at the sniper tower. A little game of cat-'n-mouse was played. When Relentless (who was perched on the stairwell between the second floor and the snipe spawn) saw the red blip on his motion sensor, he tensed, and chucked a plasma grenade where someone jumping from the central platform would land. Ryan would do the same with frags, in case Relentless got adventurous and moved to a position where he could slay Ryan with a bold jump from the sniper tower. Eventually, Ryan ran outta 'nades and attacked...that is, ran into a plasma grenade, was stuck, and subsequently died. The great battle was over. It was during this time that Relentless scored a Killtacular - 4 kills within 3 seconds of each other. Pure ecstacy enraptured Relentless at that him.

However, Ryan revitalized them, pouring eternal fire into their hearts, and they were rejuvenated. The Reds moved quickly to strike, and pinned them in the second floor of the BR Tower...there were five avenues of attack for the Reds...from the library room that was above the sword spawn, grenades from the third floor room into the hatch, advancing along the stairwell that ran on the right side of the building, where perpetrators from the first or third floors could attack the Blues, from the central platform, and the fifth way was from the top of the BR Tower, jumping down, whirling, and advancing into the room.

After a few Reds were slain, a disastrous event occured. JMRA attacked as normal, Tater lanced him with a plasma grenade, the grenade flared brighter as it maliciously adhered to JMRA's chest...and then...BHAM! Tater died. When Relentless realized that it was a sniper round that took out Tater, not the plasma 'nade's splash, he poked his head out, and saw that Ryan had once again obtained the sniper rifle. This little dance happened a couple of times, Relentless popping out and firing several BR bursts, Ryan tenaciously retaliating with the sniper, etc...that is, until Blue Team got its act together and Tater rather deliciously pwned Ryan from behind. Freed of his cramped position, Relentless ran free with his sword and slew enemies until the (nonexistent) rivers ran scarlet.

That is, until JMRA came a callin' after a couple of not-so-fun encounters with the sword and miraculously relieved Relentless of the sword.

The game went downhill from there for Blue Team.

Episode IV: A New Hope
Ryan must have thought after that time after killing Tater and reclaiming his sniper that there was hope for Red Team. There definately was, as Blue Team was now forced to scurry into the bottom passageways of Lockout, such as the sword spawn corridors and such and such. However, Red Team had insidiously scoured, intentionally or unintentionally, the passages for weapons. There were only SMGs to fight with - as if there was a drought of weapons.

Occasionally, on an unheard command, Red Team would surface into the BR Tower...just to be dismally slaughtered by JMRA n' his good 'ole swordie. Problematic...until Tater, by the grace of some unknown sovereign, was able to slay JMRA.

Episode V: Blue Team Strikes Back
This signalled the final victory of Blue Team. Ryan, with the sniper, was unable to hold his turf against the zealously charging forces of Blue Team on the BR Tower. Shortly afterwards, Relentless uber-owned JMRA in the underground of Lockout, and he quit.

Next, a series of other non-invitees joined, therefore accouting for the discrepancy of the totaled scores below - the game was played to 50, but the contributions of the other members have been summarily substracted from the main total and removed from the results tally at the very end.

ALL HAIL RELENTLESS! ALL HAIL...ehe...Blue Team...?

46 - 33, Blue Team Wins