User blog:Smoke3723/Multiplayer Moments

There are certain moments when you have been priveledged to watch a most supreme kill or escape -- either by a team-mate, by your hunter/target or (hopefully) by your noble self. Here's my collection of Multiplayer Moments.

(Note: while the individual persona names may not be the actual ones used, the events surrounding them are accurate.)

Brilliant Kills

 * The Prowler flees to the rooftops, chased by The Officer. To cement his escape The Prowler runs to perform a Leap Of Faith: yet as he runs the final metres The Officer draws his pistol, achieving lock just as The Prowler leaps.  Yet the angle is such that The Officer fires.  The Prowler's corpse lands in a hay bale, and the Officer achieves a Mid-Air kill.
 * His target fleeing, The Mercenary aims and fires. The kill is achieved -- and one second later The Hellequin shoots The Mercenary.  I don't know if The Hellequin was waiting for me to fire first or if it was just a fluke, but I just want to thank The Hellequin for letting me have my kill!
 * On Fiorli's rooftops The Blacksmith is pursuing The Courtesan, who is pursuing The Harlequin. Yet from another angle comes The Prowler: having spotted the pursuit and his target in the centre, he climbs up to a Ledge Grab position and waits, no-one even knows he's there.  Less than 5 metres seperates the 3 chasers: The Harlequin races past, and then The Prowler reaches up and seizes The Courtesan.  The result is simultaneous Poacher and Saviour bonuses!

Brilliant Escapes

 * The Manhunt is on! Two crowds have been morphed, yet The Doctors aren't amongst either: they're all huddled together amongst the barrels, creaming off points just for standing around talking.  Then The Blacksmiths appear: The Doctors each lock onto different ones, yet they remain talking as though nothing is happening.  A Lure bonus is triggered: still the The Doctors chat about the weather.  Another Lure.  A Blacksmith comes around the corner: Doctor Smoke3723 deploys a Decoy on the only civilian in the group.  The Blacksmith turns his attention to the runner: The Doctors still haven't moved and continue to drink their XP.  2 Blacksmiths are still in the area: one triggers a Lure, the other approaches our position.  My team-mate sets off a Smoke Bomb and starts running; the other team-mate stuns the smoked Blacksmith before himself doing a runner, pursued by another Blacksmith.  And all this time I have been standing around, staring into space.  When the Blacksmith recovers I don't move: he runs in the direction of the other Doctors while I just keep on scoring.  After more than 2 minutes in my perch, another Lure warns me of a nearby Blacksmith: by now another civilian is chatting to me and my Blender perk has turned him into another Doctor.  Finally a Blacksmith approaches my position, only to receive my own Smoke Bomb followed by a Stun.  (To the Blacksmith's credit, they did kill me a couple of times.  After granting me some more Lures and Stuns. :)

Brilliant Chest Captures

 * At the Siena stables, The Thief has found the perfect position: behind one partition, out of visual range of the chest itself, there is a hay bale just inside the chest radius. By diving into the hay, The Thief is in a low-traffic area and indistinguishable from the background.  Except for when a stray hunter comes from the wrong angle and randomly dives his knife into the hay.... (I was actually sorry I hit something!)