Friday, April 06, 2007

JoN - Valhalla

Boop boop boop
Our feet tap impatiently as the timer counts down the seconds to respawn.
..2..1 Give 'em hell!
A teammate leans on the horn of the warthog parked out back. Sure, we'll be his gunner. The engine revs and kicks up mud. We're nearly to the whitewater stream -- a more sheltered route to the enemy's flank -- when a pinprick laser lights up a fender.
Uh oh.. Spartan Laser
The driver dives out just as the pencil-thin beam primes to devastating intensity and send fiery warthog parts flying.
Boop boop boop. Respawn.
Back to the man-cannon and-- whoosh-- it kicks us in an arcing trajectory to the middle of the map. Hey! There's the guy with the spartan laser! Time for a little payb--aaack! Some a-hole in a mongoose runs us down from behind. Abt the lamest way to die in Halo 3..