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Date:
Thursday, July 5th, 2001
Location: Camp Raven Knob, Mount Airy, NC
Attendance: 8 people (3 vs 5)
Type of Battle: Team Soakfest
Every year our scout troop goes to Camp Raven
Knob. After seeing many people with waterguns there last year I
decided I'd bring one this year. Pyro P is also in my troop, and
he has an SC 500. Thinking he was bringing his 500 I only brought
my sister's CPS 1000, and my NI SS 25.
Not much action happened the first three days of camp. On
Wednesday Pyro P and I went on a scouting mission above the pond at
Raven Knob, we climbed the water trails on the hill, and crept along
its heights. We sited only a few other water warriors; only two
scouts from another team. One with an XP Tripple Play, the other
with an XP 240. They were unaware of our position high above the
path and even higher above the pond. We were in rodedendron
thickets and rocky areas.
The next day war broke out. I soaked this kid named Evan.
He attacked me with a rock, and missed. He charged at me, and I
soaked him. His teamate tried to sneak up on us but my friend
Blake, using the 1000 chased the enemy soldier through the woods and
completely soaked him. Meanwhile, I made my way through the woods
and ambushed him using my SS 25. Though my gun was smaller I had
the element of surprise, and they fled. Later on a Redneck with
two buckets of water attacked me, I dodged his attempts at soaking me
and unleashed a huge 5x blast on him from the 1000 which I had just
traded back for the 25.
There was a troop of enemy snipers heading through the back of our
camp, and Blake needed the CPS 1000. I lent it out to him,
and ran from the redneck with the waterbuckets. I quickly got to
Pyro P who was holding a mountain path to our camp not more than 50
feet from where I was with only my SS 25 and some water buckets.
Blake arived to reinforce the area from the scouts we had seen
yesterday with the XP 240 and Tripple Play, Evan, and our other victim
Jeremy. I took the SS 25 and headed out where I encountered the
enemy artillery who was using buckets of water; but now he had a CPS
1000. The odds were way against me.
He was in boots, and was a good deal over weight. I took this to
my advantage and went on what I thought was a suicide mission. I
dodged his first blast which was way off, while he was pumping I ran in
and got him wet. Direct hit!...but not soaked. I repeated
these steps several times, and only got shot once. I realized I
was low on water. I backed up firing and headed to an adarondack
(cabin) with fire buckets outside of it. I dodged a 5x beam, and
grabbed a fire bucket. He backed up to pump, but was too
slow. I dumped a whole two gallons of water right on top of
him. He retreated and I got to refill.
I headed back over to my two other comrades who were by this time
soaked. Blake informed me that they had driven them back, but had
suffered sufficient wetness. They aproached again up the hill
along the path. they could not travel off it because they would
be going up hill though briars rocks, mountain laurel, and various
other folaige; and they would be easy targets. While this wasn't
a mountain side, it was a steep hill. We decided to charge down
it and use the terain and gravity to our advantage. We charged
downhill firing and yelling the Nexan warcry "TAKE NO PRISONERS!"
They panicked and fled downhill. We pursued them and won the
battle. Red Scorpion again triumphed over a larger force, and we
had less weapons as well.
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