Finally got 20 minutes to do my little write up of the day!
Firstly - Apologies if you came up to me on the day and said "Hi, Lewis yeah? Hi I'm
MEMBERX on the forums" and I didn't get to hang out and chat much.
My friend Pete was with me and as he's a non-forum member I didn't want him to feel like a lost lemon all on his own, so I didn't get to mingle as much.
Going Belt & Pistol only was such a revelation. Absolutely loved it! Much more freedom of movement, peeking round corners was superb, and making dash runs for rooms was much, much easier and infinitely more enjoyable and rewarding.
Gutted it took me this long to try it - just as they're closing the bloody place!
It was great to hang out and do some Room Clearing with my fellow Mod
@Jedi_Master. Taking down Forum members like we're dishing out little 6mm Bans hah!
The downside was, even though we were assigned to protect Luke (
@Armourpiercing) He legged it so fast at the start of the Game that me and Jedi were wandering around going "Errrmm... we've lost our VIP that we're supposed to be protecting".
During the game where
@Albiscuit was one of the Personalities I had some great plays.
Clearing the way up to the soft play area, onto the balcony and into the concrete room I saw Al with his hand up - remembering that the personalities had to remain within a few metres, I knew that Player Marshall Josh was nearby.
Luckily his red flashing bike light gave him away and I charged and fired my gun at the blinky light.
The plan was to head down stairs to the shop next to Candy land.
We go downstairs and through the double doors to the back of Peacocks
(LOVE The redesign of this bit by the way - so many less chokepoints and you can easily charge from the basement stairs into peacocks and create a solid push attack. Shame it's done the month they're closing! 
).
Here, we all got shot. Luckily our respawn was just down the stairs behind us.
Quick as a flash I was back to rescue them both. Shot again.
And again. And again. And again. We just could NOT clear the bastards out of the upstairs lift room.
Finally made a mad charge, grabbed Josh and pulled him into the doorway of Peacocks for a medic. I was so relieved I'd finally got to them and rescued them that I gave him a hug! (Funny place The Mall, makes you do weird things..!)
Next - through peacocks and got shot crossing the concourse into the shops. Never saw Albiscuit or Josh for the remainder of the game. My efforts to save them vanished into nothing! Gutted!
The Knife-Room game was great. Between rushing backwards and forwards with Jedi like military Pinballs with the laptops, repeatedly getting into a knife fight with
North London Knife Expert, Albiscuit and the giant Polish man who insisted on repeatedly trying to knife the mask off my face, I've never laughed so much since the Pain game from the 2017 AFUK game.
I loved the whole day and it goes without saying that I'm going to miss the mall immensely. I've had the absolute
BEST airsoft games of my life in the years I've been playing there. And I've made lots of new friends in my time there too.
Wherever they move to, I'll be there - and hopefully you will be too!
