Jonathan "Tempest" Phillips

Monkeys running a LAN. What are you? some kind of primate techie? Oh your not? Your actually a gaming group called Malevolent Monkees that do Lan parties every so often and invite people from the TF2 community. Oh well thats much better. Sure I’ll gladly come along to your LAN party.

This was a conversation I had several months ago. And boy am I glad I did. This led to me having one of the most enjoyable weekends of gaming I’ve had in a long time. I packed up my PC and all of its electronic counterparts, crammed them into my car along with a inflatable mattress, pillow and covers and headed to rugby. What was waiting there for me was a long list of people I have been in need of meeting for some time. Mogs, Alex, Flamecut, to name a few. Not to mention meeting up with Agro and Miss Meow again. yes thats right, it was a KK/VGN celebrity line up. Good times.

What I was expecting to be a simple sit down with your PC session turned out to be so much more. Firstly it was AMAZING weather and so we actually spent time outside. Yes that’s right, a bunch of gamers in the presence of the day star. Thank deity for BBQ’s a meat. I also got to play a bunch of really good games that would have flown straight pass me otherwise. Flatout 2 (I R Curling master), Attitude (SWEEET) and Grid. was great to pic up a game and have everybody suck at it and learn togeather. Really refreshing experience.

When the sign ups happen for MMLAN 12, My name will be down on that list, and so should yours.