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Posted by John Falto
on March 17, 2009, 12:13 pm
Message modified by user johnfalto March 17, 2009, 2:46 pm
Recently James Clement (a film instructor at local Full Sail University) reached out to me to play tag. Unfortunately there were no scheduled games for the Central Florida Lazer Tag Group. However I had told James that if by any chance he and his friends were planning to play, I would be honored to attend. The first game date, I was unable to attend but when James set up another game for March 15, 2009, my itchy trigger finger and lack of tagging got the better of me and I got some people together to play some LT.
James picked a local park (Red Bug Lake Park, Casselberry, Florida) to play. Actually it is a nice park to spend with family and friends, but a little limited for a large group to play tag. There is a wooded area but very thick, dense and part is swampy and close to a lake. Only a small narrow path had been blazed for hiking, however there were a few areas to move around in and a boardwalk to move quickly on. As I have often said to people visiting Central Florida; if there is a glass of water outside, there's a good chance there's a gator in it.
We made a plan to meet at the park on Sunday at 3PM and pretty much we all arrived on time. From my side my wife Evelyn and I came with our daughter Jolynn (whom could not play due to a lingering surgery that has not healed completely). She was accompanied by her boyfriend Kris, his friends Thomas and Luis and their girlfriends, as well as my nephew Adam. Another one of Kris's friends showed up later but I am lousy with names (sorry dude!). The tagger of choice for this day was the TMB and the LTX!
James was accompanied by his wife Elizabeth, and his friends Corey and Jen B. Also Amber and Nelson were on hand but left early as Amber had lost her glasses and could not see.
James, looking cool and hot.
His wife Elizabeth.
We split up into two groups Able Company and Baker Company and our first game would be simple team elimination. One team (A) would go into the brush and lay in wait. Baker Company would move in when the game on signal was given and try to eliminate the first team. I was on A Company and we trudged into the thick brush and found places of concealment. When game on was called I noticed a group of B Company players using the boardwalk and pasted our location. I figured that they had splintered their group and would have one part flank us. It was a good idea but the heavy brush was an advantaged to the dug in A Company and B Company was forced to move slowly and was tagged out.
Me taking a shot.
Taking position.
Since I had brought along a large water jug for refreshment, for the second game, we used it as a prop. The premise of the game was that A Company was transporting a "nuclear package" (the water jug) on the boardwalk, towards an evac point. B Company would try to ambush them somewhere on route and would need to tag out A company to take possession of the prize. A Company could not run with the package and had to have two people carrying it at all times. If a carrier was tagged out, another player would need to step in. I took one of the handles, and James wife, Elizabeth is left handed so she took the other end and we started down the boardwalk. Somewhere mid point we started to take hits from both sides of the boardwalk. Our team that started out at six dwindled down to 4 and I noticed that we were not taking hits anymore so I told Elizabeth to quick march to the evac point for a win.
Beginning the gauntlet.
The firefight begins.
The third game was a retrieval game. I made up a quick story that LINUX had come up with a super open ended operating system that was being transported to Seattle. While in transit, the transport was destroyed and the case carrying the master hard drives with the code survived the crash and was located somewhere in the woods. Microsoft and Apple, eager to get their hands on the case send in their own mercenary groups to retrieve that package and eliminate the opposition. Prior to the game I carried my footlocker in to the woods and concealed it behind a tree and covered it with ferns. Since B Company was down some players, I moved over to B Company. Even though I knew the location of the prize, I was not telling nor would I be the person that found it. A Company went to the far end of the trail, while B Company would start from the Dead Zone, when game on was called. From what I was told, James had tagged out a player from B Company that was standing right next to the prize. I don't know who that player was, nor if the player even knew that they had the prize at arm's length. All I really got to see was James running down the boardwalk to their evac zone, to win the game. Good job A Company.
Since it was getting a little late for us, I asked of we could just play one last game that I called "the liberation of Stalag 13". Close to the wooded area the park department had a storage area for their trucks and equipment. The game here was that A Company needed to defend this area. To win, B Company had to enter the area and take a large white PVC pipe to claim the area. I had told James, that although they could physically block an opponent, they could not touch an opponent (no melee encounters). B Company walked up the boardwalk into the wooded area to get ready. When game on was called I advised our fastest runners to use the boardwalk as cover and go back to the beginning and work their way around the back of the building to flank A Company and get the pole. The rest of B Company would hit A Company from the front to distract them. As we approached I saw one of the A Company players under a truck and was able to score some tags on that player and another near by before I was tagged out. However by the time I was tagged out, the B Company runners had gotten their prize and first win of the day. Hoorah!!!
Taking position in the last game.
End game!
All in all a great day of tagging and looking forward to the next game.
"tagging with extreme prejudice"
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