Amras and I had pretty much settled into the fact that if we wanted to play COD, we were just going to play with each other; it’s surprisingly difficult to find players onboard sometimes, and Predator has left ships so there’s no way he could end up with us…
However, much to our mutual surprise, one of the new ‘Cats that joined yesterday (whom we both know from a previous contract), is a gamer. A really good gamer. Once he got a hold of the version of the game we played, we officially had a new recruit.
And Mink got dragged out of semi-retirement. Although, it was with conditions; last night after rehearsal there was immediate talk of a game after the welcome aboard party, and just as I took a breath to say something, it was Amras who stepped into save me
Thing is, Shaughnessy has really early mornings and really long days for a crossing…
Oooh?
Yeah, he’s right. I’ve got eleven hour days straight through to Hawai’i; means I’m either dead to the world by 10pm, or I’m in a place where I need to work off some aggression, depends on the day.
Fair enough.
And it’s true, sometimes I really just don’t want to see anyone at the end of the day, not even Amras. Last night though, we figured it would be a decent idea to at least try a test game; which led to the usual exchanges during the game.
What?! But! You dropped, I saw you go down!
Welcome to last stand my friend!
And you? How are YOU still alive?
Juggernaut baby…
Oh yeah, Mink, you have to take Mink down in one shot, otherwise…she’ll probably take you down with her.
Okay, so it deprives me of a bit of sleep, but it’s fair to say I have missed my little tension release.