A return to Der Riese that may have been my fault

And did it ever go late...

I have been in the US visiting Lake George Six Flags Indoor Waterpark with Rolly and Guba for March Break. Our drive home yesterday through Lake Placid was quite pleasant. Our drive there, though, through the storm the US called Vulcan was anything but pleasant. The drive through the Adirondack Mountains (pictured below) turned out to be the least worst part.

Our white knuckle drive to 6 Flags Great Escapes Lodge. Arrived 2 hours
later than planned, but the waterpark is awesome! Photo Credit: Guba

When we got to the interstate we were expecting cleaner roads and better conditions. Dodging two cars and a pedestrian to get on the interstate proved otherwise. Going sixty (kilometres) down the snow covered highway with no lanes marked was nightmarish. It was a long twenty minutes covering only four exits. We did get to the Great Escape Lodge eventually despite almost getting stuck (again) with a last second turn into Six Flags Drive. Which Guba couldn't use four hours later when she was turned away by State Troopers after an emergency grocery run. Everyone discovered that when the water park closes at 9:00 so does room service and all the attached restaurants. Basically any method of getting food at the hotel closes when the water park does.

Is this getting long and away from the point? Are you even surprised? Anyway...

We ended up playing Der Riese until 2:30 in the morning and it was my fault. Despite being willing to do it again (tonight even) that was way too late. Here is how it happened.

I couldn't take out my frustrations over the bad drive to Six Flags on Zombies right away because my Xbox was at home. So as soon as I got home I sent out the following email to our usual Zombie killers:

Subject: Zombies!

Just got back from driving through the states.

Need to kill zombies.

Today's drive wasn't too bad. Getting there on Wednesday was through the blizzard Vulcan. It was bad.

Need to kill zombies.

I received my first and only response within twenty minutes. Graybush with "Okay, I'm in." Anyone else surprised?

So at about 9:30 I started Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and was soon joined by Graybush and DethCon5 (Graybush Jr). We started a Zombie tour with Nacht Der Untoten (Lvl 20?) and Verrückt (Lvl 15?). But the fun didn't start until halfway through our Verrückt round. Pwn Call signed in. He even stated his intent to join us. Then loaded Call of Duty Black Ops 1 (after a ten minute search for it) and immediately went 10-1 in regular multiplayer. It was difficult to convince him to leave regular multiplayer for zombies but eventually he did.

This is the point where Graybush chose to launch Der Riese. There may have been a very sarcastic "this is going to last forever" from an unidentified source. Forever, of course, turned out to be five rounds when the Hell Hounds proved to be more than a match for our Gewehr 43s and Kar98ks. They had their way with us and we were done and moving on to the next map.

At least we were until DethCon5 muttered, "we have to do that again," and Graybush not only heard him but relaunched Der Riese. This time we survived past the first Round of Hell Hounds as we managed to get to the Trench Gun before they appeared.

We discovered a minor generation gap playing with DethCon5:

DethCon5: "Where is the mystery box?"



Everyone else: "We have no idea what you are talking about?"

DethCon5: "The box that gives random weapons?"

Everyone else: "Oh! The tickle trunk!"

It got worse:

DethCon5: "The mystery box is in the Automobile Garage."



Everyone else: "The what is where?"

DethCon5: "The box is in the Automobile Garage."

Everyone else: "Where is the Automobile Garage?"

Graybush: "He means the Furnace Room."

Everyone else: "Why didn't he just say that?"

DethCon5: "What does that sign above the door say?"

Everyone else: "Umm, Automobile Garage. How long has that been there?"

DethCon5: "What does that second sign say?"

Everyone else: "Automobile Garage. I don't recognize that one either."

Blackwalt (after spinning around in the middle of this "Automobile Garage" for thirty seconds): "If this is an Automobile Garage how do they get Automobiles into it. There are no large doors."

DethCon5 (after looking around): "I don't know."

Pwn Call: "Furnace Room."

DethCon5: "But..."

Graybush and Blackwalt: "Yep, Furnace Room."

And for the real generation gap, here is the photo proof that we reached Level 30:

Check out the headshots as Graybush got soundly beaten by DethCon5. So did Pwn Call and I but that is normal. Dethcon5 286, Graybush 258. My own overwhelming number of kills is exaggerated as I had the Wunderwaffe for most of the game.

We reached Level 30 which was good. We ended up playing until 2:30 AM which was not good. I would do it again and hopefully will tonight but as soon as the game ended Pwn Call was talking to dead air as the rest of us shut down our Xbox 360s immediately.