Freedom: Shadie Hostile-808 Part One

In Freedom, the equipment always fell into the following that needed to be added to a player’s character. First the head was either a helmet, mask or type of accessory and could increase a character’s attributes or skills usually dealing with the intellect attribute. 

 Second, the body usually dealt with an armor, jacket, cloak, etc. helped with reducing damage and could buff the character’s attributes. Third was the legs or lower part of the body, forth are the feet and fifth was the arms in which a player can all customize the appearance and attributes by customizing the equipment. Accessories slots were an added bonus but you would have to unlock or purchase the slots via in game currencies.

After working with Kyon and Big Boi at Green Bookstore, they approached me and asked if I played video games. Once I mentioned that I did they insisted I joined their clan and sold me that it was just for fun, nothing serious. At the time, the clan was small made up of mostly coworkers. 

 After the evening shifts we worked, we met online and logged into Freedom where we waited in the sky lobby as others joined the party. The airships served as your avatar for the lobby but could also be used for certain missions and other game modes. Once a everyone was online, Big Boi would always take us to the PVP team battles lobby where matchmaking would take place selecting another team to challenge us.

Everyone that played in Shadie Hostile-808 all played Pathfinder classes and The Wicked alignment. I was the only player to use the Soldier class in that clan. In most of our matches with Big Boi, he would easily get frustrated once we began to lose points to the other team and started barking orders on what objective to do or which point to capture from the opposing team. Kyon and I would play to clear where we could the opposing players, shortly after Big Boi would rush in but immediately get killed and respawn again.

“What!?! No way that player is hacking! How did I get one shot and I’m dead. You guys gotta rush the points we need to get the points! What are you guys doing?” Big Boi keeps rushing the same point, that is the opposing teams respawn point.

“I got you Big Boi! Let me show you how it’s done.” Shadow another player from the clan begins to rush the same checkpoint. Shortly after he is killed and respawns again. “Eh c’mon where is everyone, let’s go! We need back up you scrubs!”

“Foreals, what are you guys doing we all have to rush that checkpoint.” Big Boi gets the whole team to rush the checkpoint, but it proves to become difficult as they keep rushing the corridor that plays to the opposing team’s defense.

Bacon and Kyon have staged themselves just outside of the corridor providing cover fire so that the others can head in. On the top of our display, we can see three checkpoints and two are different colors, red and blue. The third checkpoint in the middle is grey showing that no one has claimed it. 

 For this PVP team battles ten members from each clan face off to capture checkpoints. At the end of the time limit your team must have two of the three checkpoints captured to win. With this current strategy we will not win. Either the opposing team will capture the neutral checkpoint, or they could capture all three including our respawn point.

“Beats, Brave, Jojo, Wolf let’s go! You guys are with me and Shadow! The rest of you stay put and watch our point. We got this!” Big Boi continues his charge to capture the checkpoint and shortly after all six rush by us again to the checkpoint.

I switch to another channel for the remaining members of the clan, myself, Bacon, Chaotic, and Kyon. We all look at each other and know that the checkpoint being pushed will be guarded until the other team realizes that not all members of the team are rushing, then they will split to capture the other checkpoints.

Kyon reluctantly shakes his head, “This is not going to work. Eventually the other team will decide to split once they realize we’re not all going to the point. They’ll come for the other points. We should go after one.”

Bacon nods in agreement, “I agree but we’ll leave our respawn checkpoint wide open, if we split up, I’m not sure if either two of us maybe able to handle at least half of a team on their own should we engage with them at the checkpoints.”

Chaotic steps forward with confidence, “What about the three of you taking a checkpoint? Can you three, do it?”

“We might, but like Bacon said we leave this checkpoint open.” Kyon looks at both of us to see what we say.

“Leave this check point to me. You guys attack the neutral checkpoint. With my unique skills I can hold off at least five on my own.” Chaotic scrolls through her inventory changing out her weapons loadout.

I nod in agreement, “Are you sure Chaotic?”

“Trust me Crimzon, you’ve seen my unique skill and if I get my super up, it’ll be a cakewalk.” She loads up her grenade launcher and takes position. “Now go before we lose this game.”

We all nod in agreement and begin to head to the neutral checkpoint. “You got it Chaotic.” I look back to see her salute in agreement.

As we make our way Bacon looks at me and asks, “What kind of unique skill does Chaotic have that she’s so confident to at least handle five players at once?”

“Her unique skill is Projection3.” I answer. “Projection enables her to create holographic projections of three and if she activates her super ability, Replica, Chaotic’s holographic projections become autonomous copies that deal damage. Copies created by Replica can last up to forty-five seconds.”

As we comet to the corridor for the checkpoint, Bacon gets ready saying, “Okay, yeah Chaotic can handle that with those skills. Guess we better hurry.”

Just as we’re about to enter the corridor the checkpoint on our display begins to blink blue signaling that the other team have occupied it. The game clock shows the remaining time of three minutes and 18 seconds. The three of us quickly get ready and as we head to the corridor we are welcomed with a hail of gunfire and take cover. We begin to exchange fire positioning ourselves around the entrance.

“Kyon, this is not going to work. We need to create an opening. My super is almost up. How about yours?” I continue spraying the area with my auto rifle trying to keep the other players from charging out of one of the corridors.

“Yea, mine is almost up. But we should have one more come with us to storm that area and try get capture the point. Anyone else?” Kyon positions himself near the corridor on the opposite side from me.

“I got mine up. I’ll be right there.” Bacon makes his way and positions himself in the middle of the entrance to the corridor behind a boulder. “Guys, what’s the plan?”

I position my character closer right outside on the corridor of the enemy checkpoint opposite from Kyon shooting down the corridor path. At the end of it I can see four players holding position shooting at us, waiting for us to come down. I switch to my grenade launcher. “Kyon, you and Bacon should go first and I’ll follow you with my special. There are four players sitting at the end guarding the point. I’m sure once we go down the rest of their team will concentrate their fire on us.”

“Yea, probably. Let me fire a round from my rocket launcher down the corridor to give us some time to head down it. It’ll scatter them for a little bit.” Kyon quickly switches his weapon about to take aim.

“Wait! Kyon, let me use my special ability, Tether. It’ll create an AOE and slow their movement and maybe the rocket will take out one or two of them.” Bacon quickly positions himself in front of Kyon.

“Oh! Yeah, Let’s do that at least we can clear an opening. Ready when you are Bacon!” Kyon reloads his revolver, one of his weapons of choice in Freedom.

“Okay here I go.” Bacon charges down the corridor and initiates his super. His character begins to glow orange and his revolver glows as he points and shoots to where the enemy team is located. As he fires, he begins to slide, changing his weapons and begins to shoot, just missing the opposing team’s line of fire. Bacon’s special attack Tether connects to where the opposing team is, and their characters are slowed down as they try to disperse from Tether.

“Nice! He got a couple of them. Okay, my turn.” Kyon fires his rocket launcher and as the rocket hits the end, we can see two opposing players names pop-up on our screen signaling they were taken out by the rocket and are now respawning.

Bacon gets on the point and immediately the point begins to cycle, showing our team’s takeover of the area. Bacon begins to hold the point and shoot at more of the opposing team’s players headed us. Kyon unleashes his super ability, Ill Will, and his character begins to glow red as his revolver lights up and he fires headshot after headshot taking out two more players. I begin my run behind him shooting off my grenade launcher emptying the revolving magazine and switch back to my auto rifle continuing to spray the area as I get closer. We now see all the opposing players begin to rush to the checkpoint we’re targeting.

“Crimzon, get ready here they come. I see the whole team rushing us.” Says Bacon as he takes cover and switches out his weapons to his SMG (Sub Machine Gun) and begins to fire.

As my character runs toward the end of the corridor, the open area of the checkpoint comes into sight. I began to use Flash Step, rotating as I jump to get higher in the open area of the checkpoint to release Nova. Once I cleared the corridor at my highest point I ‘pop’ my super ability Nova at the area where the opposing players are clustered rushing the checkpoint. In an instant, my character throws the energy-lance and a low *hum* can be heard. Then in a flash, an explosion with a vortex forms, swirling black and purple continuously adding damage as it slows the players from leaving the AOE of Nova Lance. Upon the Nova Lance's initial hit it took out three players instantly, as the remaining four players received an initial damage done to half their character’s health. Stuck trying to escape the vortex of Nova the players health continues to go down as Kyon and Bacon continue to deal damage by picking them off till the checkpoint is clear. The checkpoint flashes red, and then we captured the checkpoint as time runs out and our team wins, capturing two of three points in this PVP team battle.