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Survive DC: 2010 by A-Ron Kozlov
June 8th, 2010 11:24 PM
So I'd heard about Survive the year before...which was when I had sprained my ankle and for some reason none of my friends decided to go. This year it would be different...
I gathered a group of 30 people, from DC and the MD suburbs and we assembled ourselves at Dupont waiting in a clump as the bike chaser stared us down...I had a feeling he come after us.
The game was explained and then go!
We ran as a group till we heard jingles coming from the bike chaser. Up ahead there was a wall with a ramp at the top of the wall. We all started by running up the ramp but then we dipped down the stairs/over the wall (most of us could do parkour), and we got away.
Then a while later we saw another chaser and all ran into an alley...Luckily we got away, although on many occasions we did run down dead end alleys.
Then after the 1st checkpoint our group was split into 20 or so other people, and myself and Ebo (he has a lovely mental map of DC). We escaped the chasers and felt safe for a while.
We met up with some kids who were horribly frightened and had no knowledge of the city so they latched onto us. We wandered and wandered towards the 2nd checkpoint till we saw some players running the other way.
We paused and almost kept going but then promptly turned around. I ran up and over the wall, split off from Ebo and the others and dodged and outran 3 chasers, saw 3 more ahead. I tricked the closest so that there were only two in front of me trying to head me off. I almost made it by leaping over a hedge of bushes but I miss-stepped on the low cement wall, and the chaser and I hit the dirt.
I felt alright about being tagged, a lot of not getting tagged is luck, and I used what skill I had. So then I promptly turned the corner and tagged to cross country kids, we traveled for a while, cornered and tagged another guy and after that the players disappeared.
We traveled through Howard and up and around Georgia but all the players seemed to have been tagged by checkpoint 3 or gotten past us....
After that I worked simultaneously trying to get my friend to tag my other friend who was nearing the finish and to get that friend to the finish.
He made it 6th or 7th to the end for which I was glad!
I gathered a group of 30 people, from DC and the MD suburbs and we assembled ourselves at Dupont waiting in a clump as the bike chaser stared us down...I had a feeling he come after us.
The game was explained and then go!
We ran as a group till we heard jingles coming from the bike chaser. Up ahead there was a wall with a ramp at the top of the wall. We all started by running up the ramp but then we dipped down the stairs/over the wall (most of us could do parkour), and we got away.
Then a while later we saw another chaser and all ran into an alley...Luckily we got away, although on many occasions we did run down dead end alleys.
Then after the 1st checkpoint our group was split into 20 or so other people, and myself and Ebo (he has a lovely mental map of DC). We escaped the chasers and felt safe for a while.
We met up with some kids who were horribly frightened and had no knowledge of the city so they latched onto us. We wandered and wandered towards the 2nd checkpoint till we saw some players running the other way.
We paused and almost kept going but then promptly turned around. I ran up and over the wall, split off from Ebo and the others and dodged and outran 3 chasers, saw 3 more ahead. I tricked the closest so that there were only two in front of me trying to head me off. I almost made it by leaping over a hedge of bushes but I miss-stepped on the low cement wall, and the chaser and I hit the dirt.
I felt alright about being tagged, a lot of not getting tagged is luck, and I used what skill I had. So then I promptly turned the corner and tagged to cross country kids, we traveled for a while, cornered and tagged another guy and after that the players disappeared.
We traveled through Howard and up and around Georgia but all the players seemed to have been tagged by checkpoint 3 or gotten past us....
After that I worked simultaneously trying to get my friend to tag my other friend who was nearing the finish and to get that friend to the finish.
He made it 6th or 7th to the end for which I was glad!
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posted by Professor Møbius on June 9th, 2010 8:27 AM
Good Praxis, detailed storytelling is always awesome. Also, bravo for wall-jumping.
Ah, the tension of wanting to capture your friends and also wanting them to survive...
We always need more parkour, too -- sounds like it came in handy!