This is another paintball story.
Sorry, as I believe I've stated, I don't play airsoft, but paintball is close enough, and it's still quite exciting.
Anyways, I went to a paintball park with my friend; in fact, it was an event set up by his friend, and I was just "tagging along".
This was the second time this person had organized the event, and it was the second time I'd come, so I'd been there before.
We played seven games, but to shorten this (if you recall, the last paintball story I told was incredibly long), I'll just tell you the first, third, fifth, sixth, and seven.
The first is short, as were the fifth and sixth, so don't worry about length.
The first game we played in a standard woods field, with these strategically placed shacks, a few trees (it was not a dense forest, one might not even consider it a forest at all), and this large hill in the back.
And that was where me and another fellow went.
We met two opponents there, and spent five minutes exchanging fire until backup (two more people) arrived (in this area, the forest was a bit dense, so no balls were getting through.
I wasn't firing at all because I knew I couldn't hit; in fact, I only fired four balls that game).
Then, we advanced and someone took out one of the opponents, but there was still the last one left.
Knowing he couldn't take all of us, we just charged, but when we got to the top, we saw he was surrendering, as another of our teammates had come up through the back of the hill.
Apparently he had taken out four other enemies before getting to the hill and forcing the last remaining opponent to surrender.
I didn't exactly do much, but I thought it was a cool match.
In the third game, we moved to another field, and we were put into the castle, which is a, well, castle shaped infrastructure, which towers a massive thirty feet (maybe even twenty five; it wasn't that big) over the field.
So, we were all positioned there, and then the enemy team came rushing in from the other end.
We had to wait about thirty seconds before they were in range at all, and then everyone opened fire (on both teams).
Surprisingly, hardly any of our enemies got hit, and unlike the match where they were in the castle (too pitiful to describe), they were winning.
I spent a lot of time in the right tower, shooting at two people, but they were both in shacks and the odds of hitting them were little.
Knowing I had no chance over there, I decided to go to the left tower, where there was no action (at the time).
I constantly moved through the different towers (there were actually four), and saw I had no chance in any of them.
I ended up staying in the left tower, exchanging shots with one of the last of the enemies (many of them had by now been taken out).
I almost hit him, he almost hit me, but nobody got hit, until some people actually left the castle and corned him.
Once again, I'd done nothing...
for now.
The fifth game was on a speed ball field; it was the first time I'd ever played speed ball.
Instead of in a forest, it was in a flat field with lots of inflatable, slightly oval walls to hide behind.
Once the game began, I ran to the furthermost left wall, and quickly picked off one of the enemies (my second hit of the day, my first had been in the second game; sad, huh?)Then I saw an opponent run to the inflatable wall right in front of me, not more than eight feet.
I hit him in the hopper, which counts as an out, and I kept yelling, "I hit your hopper!" but he couldn't hear, and we kept exchanging hits.
He hit me on the top of the head, which hurt incredibly, yet we still kept pop-shooting, and I kept yelling, "Your hopper!" and eventually he realized it, and went out.
The referee came over and mentioned I'd been hit, but I said it was after the other guy had gotten out, so I kept playing.
Unfortunately, by now, all my teammates were out, and somebody quickly came from the side and hit me.
The sixth game was on the same field, except we switched sides.
I hit somebody early on, and then spent the rest of the game shooting at two people who were almost perpendicular.
After two minutes of that, one of them hit me in the head, the other side (I'd been hit once before in the head, remember?), and that hurt a lot as well.
After leaving the game, and asking somebody to check out my hair, I was told that half of my head was orange, and half was pink, and when I checked a mirror, I saw it was almost in perfect symmetry.
That work of art almost made up for the two instances of brief pain.
The final game was the best of them all.
Once again, the enemies had taken the castle.
We all rushed on different sides, but like the original castle battle, we were held back.
There were two opponents outside of the castle who were preventing us from moving as far as we could.
I moved to a shack in the middle of the field, and through the window (no glass, just blank spaces), I saw a guy, opponent, standing behind a shack in what he thought was perfect cover.
I fired five or six shots and took him out, and almost simultaneously, another teammate took out the other guy preventing our advance.
After I found out the other guy was out, I immediately ran forward, very far.
I saw an enemy at a shack very close to the castle, and I snuck up on him, pointed my gun, and said, "If you're not on my team, surrender!"Not exactly the most dramatic of surrender statements, but it worked (I thought he might've been on my team, but luckily he wasn't).
I then started running, and one or two people were shooting at me, and I had to run very fast through thick mud, but I made it to a shack in the back.
I then ran up the back entrance of the castle, and by then many of my teammates were there as well (but I was first there!)I came up to the top, carefully checking around corners, and saw one guy hiding in the left tower.
I advanced and said, "Surrender!" and he surrendered.
Then everyone else came up to the castle and started firing their guns carelessly into the air in triumph.
Thankfully, none of the balls hit anyone on the way down.
All in all, it was a good day; I had about six confirmed hits (that includes surrenders), and perhaps another I didn't know about.
So much for this article not being long, heh (it's 1200 words).