I would like to recount a tale for you about kindness. In my last blog I told you about Spar, a member of my clan, 2old2playHalo. His kindness and willingness to help is only to be outdone by the rest of my clan.

 

First to be told is the back story of my clan. As you can tell by the name, we play Halo, probably more than what is healthy. We are a close knit bunch, as of writing this there are 2,345 topics, and over 23,000 posts in our forum. We play Matchmaking, Social, and Customs. We have guys whose sole purpose is to live in Forge and strive to create the perfect game. Our clan is courteous to the other teams and is more apt to be T-bagging each other than the other team.

 

We started as a clan playing Halo 2, and eventually moved on to Halo 3. We weren’t complete while we waited for everyone to get a 360 and a copy. Finally everyone did and we were a happy family again, except for our dear friend, Lathenplaster. Lathen’s Series of Unfortunate Events kept him from getting his hands on one. Being the family and great group of people that my clan is, they took action.

 

Hubristic got the ball rolling and created the Get Lathen A Damn 360 fund. More affectionately know as the GLAD360. This wasn’t an average fund raiser. This one was done 2old2playHalo style. Of course everyone could chip in, but we also had challenges that people put up. If these were done the originator would put in X amount of dollars. Some examples:

 

Hub offered money for the person who did the highest continuous T-bag on an Overlord.

 

Spidey and Mulch offered money to anyone who could double betray them (with extra money being awarded from PBR if you managed to T-bag them both after said betrayal).

 

Flap offered money to anyone who live T-bagged a Timmie which had to be on the opposing team, with extra awarded if you did it while he was walking around.

 

There were a few others, but you get the picture (mostly that we T-bag each other quite often).

 

Two weeks after the GLAD360 started, a shiny new Xbox 360 was shipped off to Lathenplaster, along with a copy of Halo 3 provided by Jonny12Gauge, one of our Overlords. An act of kindness made possible by the actions of an entire clan. That is a story worth telling in my opinion.

 

They fill me with pride. Almost as much as hearing the sweet, innocent voice of Flapjaxx yelling “Double what?!” on unsuspecting Timmies and then seeing her pink Spartan T-bagging their lifeless corpses. That, my friends, is epic.