'Shells'
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People make maps in Team Fortress 2 specifically for grinding achievements. Bleak, joyless rooms of endlessly spawning bots and resupply crates, where people don’t play the game, they game it. But in one of these, achievement_all_v4, the author’s added a surprise. A violent, horrific, hilarious surprise of biblical proportions. Here’s a clip.
Sweet! A full cast. Yeah, if y'all want to determine player order and characters while I slave away, I can compile and get the file going Sunday. I think next week I'll take my furlough days, so plenty of time to get this party jumping.
I can make D draw names out of a hat. We have
Laga
Billytea
DeathQuaker
megan walker
Kalshane
...who am I missing?
ND
Aha! I misread his post. OK chitmaking is in progress.
Sweet!
...and now D is taking a nap. I'll draw names myself & I promise I won't peek.
The hat has spoken. (ftr, a Chicago Cubs cap) Player order is as follows...
Billytea
Laga
megan walker
DeathQuaker
Kalshane
NoiseDesign
Hmmm. Well now, in my last few games, I've played a pollie (Baltar), a military leader (Helo) and a support character (Dee - a Pegasus game). I guess I'm about due for a pilot. Apollo is tempting, but after last game I've become fascinated with the notion of playing one Lt Valerii.
I choose Boomer. May the gods have mercy on us all.
A reminder: every player except the first (i.e. everyone except me) will start the game with three cards from their normal skill set. I recommend that, when you choose your character, you also either post your choice of three cards, or send a CO to omnis. (If you send him a CO, you can make it conditional on whether you start the game as a human or a Cylon.)