One of my Armageddon teammates, Ziggy, lives close to
Sacramento, so when I told him I was making this trip he was enthusiastic to
come out to meet me at Laser Tag of Carmichael, the Laserforce site where some
of my friends from Syracuse had recently played in the Laserforce Nats. I was
really excited to play at this site for that reason and also to see my teammate
again.
I arrived a little ahead of schedule. The manager, Ian,
took my member card from Syracuse and used my number to sign me in so I could
earn achievements during the night including the “play at another site”
achievement…but as you can imagine I already have that one checked off.
Although there was an overnight lock-in scheduled to start at midnight Ziggy
had brought his friend Anne to join us and play for a couple of hours before
that got started (after a full day of travel I decided to skip the overnight
games and just play until 11:00pm instead). Ziggy had not been there since the
place remodeled, so we both got a tour of the facility before joining the games
for the night. The space is perfect for SM5 and Ian showed us some of the best
locations for strategic game play. Of course I also love to see an artistic
arena (which has nothing to do with playability, but I really appreciated
seeing the thought that went into their castle aesthetic.
There were five base targets located throughout the
arena. I did my best to memorize where they were, but to be honest I was only
certain about the location of three of them.
After a couple of standard team games we mixed it up a
bit. One game I had never actually played before was simply called “Tag”. When
one guy asked me if I wanted to play tag my first thought was “um, yeah, that’s
what I’m here for”, but he meant this specific game that makes one person “it”
and their goal is to tag other players to pass along (aka “get rid of”) the
state of being “it”. That was fun and a little different. Then there was the
game of “Colors” which was also new to me. While I thought I had played almost
all the special games at my home sites these two were unfamiliar. Well, this is
a great example of why I love to play at a variety of locations because for as
much tag as I think I have already experienced there are constantly new
variations and different things to try. I had a great time in Carmichael and getting
to hang out with my friend again as we both agree that half the reason we play
tag is meeting great people who enjoy it as much as we do!
Comments or Questions?
Contact: tivia@tiviachickloveslasertag.com
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