Post by NumberOneMercury on Sept 24, 2007 12:16:09 GMT -5
Chapter 1
The Legend of Cryptococcus
It was just about a year ago that GOD played its first CCC against long established legends like tommynt, MissLadyLuck, Metallian, ..A..GameTheory and others. And upon this momentous occasion I would like to tell you the tale of Cryptococcus, because tales like these are meant to be told.
GOD's initial roster assembled largely by SirTobey, formerly Audrien of MUD, consisted of a ragtag squad of new players. Okay we had the legendary Dreddcool technically, but he couldn't play, and we had 9iron, but he just comments on forums. So led by Audrien we had Warrant, NumberOneMercury, Cryptococcus, Nemesis666, worker59, and Traoth who were A bunch of unknowns to the ladder who played maybe once a week or so. There were others, more experienced players, who were thinking about joining like Rokkitlauncher and Churchill1, but that wouldn't commit. After all why would they join a bunch of noobs like us when they were established RaY players who struck fear into the hearts of many, including me. I for one had never played in a clan before and thought the whole concept sounded like fun so I joined (Tobey posted up a question on the forums on my membership and no one responded so I was in!).
We didn't have enough players for all the events, but that was fine, we weren't playing to win. I was the ubernoob there so I just volunteered to play whatever they needed space for and I ended up playing the anc with cryptococcus and nemesis. And I made wonders and did whatever crypto told me to do and we won game after game we even took out a RaY team with a shaka who settled copper and had impi out (sorry church) with one warrior! It was my warrior, but i asked cry before I moved off the forest hill onto the impi factory. Cry claims he taught me slavery that game and he's probably right, though he may be understating the case as I just did what he said In the finals we played a long game vs MDR and I thought everything was going fine until our front with about 7 units got hit by around 40-50 mounted units from all of their players at once (i.e., we died like noobs). We won 5 points there and Tobey won us 2 in the Cton. And with that the legend of GOD began. Cry became one of our early leaders based upon his superior skills and with our early success we attracted new members, all better than me then, in our next CCC like Cachola, MLL and DeviousDevil. I remember Tobey asking me not long after what I thought about having Cry run GOD, and while I hoped that Tobey would stay on, I remember saying that I trusted him and that he would be an excellent leader as he had been in our first CCC.
The Legend of Cryptococcus
It was just about a year ago that GOD played its first CCC against long established legends like tommynt, MissLadyLuck, Metallian, ..A..GameTheory and others. And upon this momentous occasion I would like to tell you the tale of Cryptococcus, because tales like these are meant to be told.
GOD's initial roster assembled largely by SirTobey, formerly Audrien of MUD, consisted of a ragtag squad of new players. Okay we had the legendary Dreddcool technically, but he couldn't play, and we had 9iron, but he just comments on forums. So led by Audrien we had Warrant, NumberOneMercury, Cryptococcus, Nemesis666, worker59, and Traoth who were A bunch of unknowns to the ladder who played maybe once a week or so. There were others, more experienced players, who were thinking about joining like Rokkitlauncher and Churchill1, but that wouldn't commit. After all why would they join a bunch of noobs like us when they were established RaY players who struck fear into the hearts of many, including me. I for one had never played in a clan before and thought the whole concept sounded like fun so I joined (Tobey posted up a question on the forums on my membership and no one responded so I was in!).
We didn't have enough players for all the events, but that was fine, we weren't playing to win. I was the ubernoob there so I just volunteered to play whatever they needed space for and I ended up playing the anc with cryptococcus and nemesis. And I made wonders and did whatever crypto told me to do and we won game after game we even took out a RaY team with a shaka who settled copper and had impi out (sorry church) with one warrior! It was my warrior, but i asked cry before I moved off the forest hill onto the impi factory. Cry claims he taught me slavery that game and he's probably right, though he may be understating the case as I just did what he said In the finals we played a long game vs MDR and I thought everything was going fine until our front with about 7 units got hit by around 40-50 mounted units from all of their players at once (i.e., we died like noobs). We won 5 points there and Tobey won us 2 in the Cton. And with that the legend of GOD began. Cry became one of our early leaders based upon his superior skills and with our early success we attracted new members, all better than me then, in our next CCC like Cachola, MLL and DeviousDevil. I remember Tobey asking me not long after what I thought about having Cry run GOD, and while I hoped that Tobey would stay on, I remember saying that I trusted him and that he would be an excellent leader as he had been in our first CCC.