155 & Rising

Old Quake saying: "Um...and exactly why can't I be female if I'm winning? Just cos a girl likes her clubbing doesn't mean she's gotta spread for every greasy haired, checkered shirt prat who gets of her podium. You want some honi, you've gotta work for it." :-) 

Nick Name: 155&Rising
Location: London, United Kingdom
Birthday: December 6

Current Games Focused: Quake III Arena: Threewave mod
Favorite Games of all time: Speedball 2, Hired Guns, Eye of the Beholder, Quake series and Neverwinter Nights (prolly the best fantasy RPG ever written).

Current Clan Status:  Playing for Spooks CCTF clan in Savage UK. Idle this season due to work constraints.
Former Clans:

  • Britannia's Fallen Angels (QW TDM)
  • Clan Unreal (Q2 TDM, q2 CTF)
  • Spooks (Q2 CTF, Q3 CCTF)
  • Rainbow 6 (RA2)
  • FourKings (Q3 TDM, Q3 CTF)

Chat Hangouts: #threewave on quakenet server

Related Articles: Wonderful World of 155 & Rising at CG.net

Former Website Columns: Barrysworld and UkGamer

Quake Memories:

Finding out at the end of our first real Q2CTF 'friendly' that (UNR)Tasan, (Unreal clan leader and AMP defender) having successfully held the McKinley's Revival base for the full forty minutes with little more than a railgun and his rune didn't (and hadn't ever) used a crosshair. Freak unique, or gifted child, the man was capable of 60% rail without anything to line it up. :)

UKCCL season 2 final? [UNR]Spog out fragging {Abfab}'s star player and ultra lpb, Alchy, with little more than a handful of fluky hand grenades. :) Lava Pit, 4v4 with no wep stay...what can I say, he was being inventive ;)

Coming within 10 frags of [D9]Thresh with clan mate and fellow limey modemer [UNR]Yakumo, on the satan. It was on the id servers the night of the 64 player maps release. Then having him immediately bow out at the beginning of the next map mumbling something about 'food.'

Beating Cash and Bear on the same night on base64 and having then sneak off immediately afterwards as well. (id write greats games, but dear god did they all suck at them accept Brandon :p)

My indoctrination into Spooks q2CTF.

"Carla, you like ctf don't you?"
"Um, yeah so so tom"
"Do me a favour, leech this map, then join this server."
"Um..."
"And btw..."
"..join as [Spks]Tealady would you?"

And beating l33t professional hax0r www.kimble.org and his aimbot in ra2, only to have him nuke b0rk.co.uk's irc bouncer afterwards and through dos attacks at Barrysworld for the next week or so in revenge. ph34r the hacker dog ;)

Modification Admiration:

Q1: would have to be PainKeep. Simply because it got so silly. Bear traps and grav wells, yum yum yum ;)

Q2: prolly Ra2, more for the people than the gameplay itself tho. On numerous occasions, playing with ppl like Teardrop, Warforge, Bully, Yakumo, Che, Flex and the other BwRa2 lateniters we'd go 5 or 6 hours straight, rail only on the single arenas just messing around and having a giggle. Honing skills without ppl having paddies and tantrums cos they weren't winning. People like that make the genre worth playing fullstop.

Tournament Attendance:  I tried entering a couple of QuakeWorld ones early on with friends from Bristol, only to find myself being the only female in a room packed with testosterone saturated 14 year old boys and plenty of dirty old men. Not bothered since. :/


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