Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Issue: 26   Editor: HowlingMadMika


We Didn't Start The Fire HowlingMadMika
Good things come to those who wait, or so they say. Smoke and Mirrors may have felt it would be able to do a good shooting if they allowed some time to go by after the initial shooting. And some players may have wished they had waited with posting a “RIP” post, for waiting would have saved their lives. Would that not have been a good thing?

In what seems to be a continued attempt to provide the Bootleggers community with some online entertainment, Smoke and Mirrors thought of something new. Basically their idea meant that they would shoot some accounts and would wait for the RIP topics to appear. Following those topics, players who posted to pay their respect were put on search and killed. All of this for the entertainment of both Smoke and Mirrors, and us.

“There were three shooters. I shot three accounts between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. bl time,” KingCotton, which is the new name of shooter Ratatosk, said. Adding, “I, along with some others from the leadership gathered names of people posting rips, telling me off, etc. Around four hours later, SaltyK9 and Achates shot.” In a thread on the Game Forum, he explained that these shootings were a response from Smoke and Mirrors to the players who had told the crew to “shut up and shoot.”

A total of 240,000 bullets were used to kill the fifteen players that had been selected out of the RIP-topics or through other ways. The aim? “Add oxygen to the fire,” according to Smoke and Mirrors; fueling the fire they love. A fire which is of course hard to put out, seeing the crew is usually underground. Nevertheless it is that fact that allows them to strike time and time again and is what provides players and themselves with entertainment and action. What one can do is decided by how one plays the game, and it is always wise to adopt a style you know you can play well. Strategy can be decisive.