Survive DC: 2010 by Lisa
May 16th, 2010 7:50 PM / Location: 38.90962,-77.04341Our downfall came when we thought we were free at Union Station, but because of extremely sketchy safe zone boundaries we all got tagged. My friends were tagged by the fastest chick I have ever seen in my life. She tagged one friend then ran after the other through traffic. I was tagged right before then but the catcher had mercy on me as I've been suffering from a concussion (yes, I still decided to play anyway). As I walked away to the escalators in front of Union Station this asshole, who I will never ever forget asked if I had been tagged, smiled, and taunted me as I begged and pleaded for my life.
Needless to say that douche bag tagged me and I laid on the ground, in front of crowds, and screamed at the top of my lungs to any other runners as a warning that the chasers were mobbing the metro entrance. This went on for about 5 minutes.
My friends and I collected ourselves, I calmed down, we put on our orange bands, and went searching for BLOOD. Once we got to Howard we were like goddamn Spartan Warriors. We ambushed a couple who were lost but I convinced my friends to allow them to go away unharmed. Then as we trolled the streets we saw two guys looking around like rodents. They turned and saw us. Let me say that the pure terror in their faces was the most exhilarating moment of the night. The chase was on, we caught one as he tried to slip through an alley, the second got away.
We ended the night by heading to Adam's Morgan. We thought we had tagged almost 5 people at once but apparently there was some rule about "Fairy's" that we didn't know about. It was grimy, but at that point we were too tired to really care.
This is not for the faint hearted. You need a strong survival instinct, an excellent flight or fight response, and an unyielding will to even make it to the second checkpoint. I literally cannot believe that we three slight girls were able to get all the way to the 4th checkpoint. But we worked as a team and DID NOT SURRENDER.
All in all, I had a blast. I was dubbed Close Quarters Combat Specialist and plan to live up to that title even more next year. I'm talking full recon teams, Morse Code, and freaking guerrilla warfare.
Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sly Stallone would be so proud of everyone who had the courage to play and risk everything to Survive DC.
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"Let me say that the pure terror in their faces was the most exhilarating moment of the night."
Powerful feeling, making a bigass crowd of strangers turn and run for their lives. I want to try running one of these, though. I'm starting to give LA serious thought.
Were you part of the group that did such an amazingly subtle capture in Adam's Morgan, infiltrating the group of players then suddenly tagging us all? If so, I felt so terrible for you all when the Good Player Fairy rule was revealed, because you had done such an AMAZING job of tagging the group. That was so well done!
(I also felt bad because when the megaphone wasn't working at the start, not all the rules were made clear to the mass of players -- in particular, the existence of Good Player Fairies who could protect players. Surprise rules are a terrible terrible thing -- as you say, it's pretty grimy to get taken down by a rule that you didn't know about.)
But I'm really glad you had a blast! :) DO NOT SURRENDER!
If it was three girls and one guy, three black people and one mixed person IT WAS US. Three of us tried to dispute the ruling. I just sat there because again I had a concussion.
Were you guys near one of the jumbo slices?
Yeah...I think that was us. Sorry again! (Those jumbo slices are enormous, though!)
No hard feelings. I had a great time regardless.
"we worked as a team and DID NOT SURRENDER." Key, very key.
"next year. I'm talking full recon teams, Morse Code, and freaking guerrilla warfare." Can't wait.
"Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sly Stallone" I wonder if we can get the Governator to play the next SF Run. I hear he's gotten flabby.