Star Trek Paintball! - Trekkie vs Trekker

In May we participated in the Trekkie vs Trekker game at The Swamp Paintball Park. This was the first 26 hour paintball game The Swamp had ever held. We decided to camp out and sleep in my car during the course of the game which ran from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon.

The premise of the game is that two students at Starfleet Academy decided to see who really was the better captain, Kirk or Piccard. Unfortunately, several holodeck glitches have made this fight interesting.

I played the clerk role, which was Guinan. Needless to say there was one little problem... I'm a little- light, to play Guinan. So I blamed this on a holodeck glitch which effected my graphical rendering.

I did go in costume, as you can see, and yes, when I went on the field I did wear that (talk about a walking target!).

I was lucky in that my character could simply demand that the generals and their representatives come to me, so for a portion of the game I simply remained off field and entertained myself by building castles and Vulcan embassy out of credits.

 Castles of Credits!

Tom portrayed Sarek, the father of Spock. Due to getting a job, he wasn't able to get a costume in time, but team Wolfenkow, his group of assassins, made him match them by spray painting his hair bright pink.

He and his crew quickly became infamous on the field as they constantly switched sides based on who was currently paying them (more credits).

They bought several special roles so that their almost entire team was outfitted with medics, technicians, pilots, and demo experts. Suddenly what was supposed to be a group of hired guns became a powerful giant.

  

Tom with Wolfenkow, the team of deadly assassins.

Our last adventure as role-players.
I (Dale Arden) wore a red formal gown and robe,
Tom (Dick Tracey) wore a dress shirt, slacks, a tie
a trench coat, and a hat.
Here we are with Spiderman and a gunslinger girl.

It turned out, that aside from the game directors,  I was the only one in costume. Most of the other role-players were just in their gear.

I felt that since I got free admission to the game, I owed the park owners and the people running the game and in the past when I was a role player both Tom and I dressed up (and so did every other role player, but it was at a different park.)

The game was well run, and we had a great time (despite my car being exactly one foot too short for us to sleep comfortably in).

The weekend at The Swamp was full of good firefights, great friends and did I mention that when they serve dinner, for $7 you can have homemade fried chicken, "Gator" burgers, hotdogs, potato salad, baked beans and oh man is it all good (That was one of the best tasting and best priced meals we have ever had at a field. When I asked about it, the field owner said "I feed my players!" I like his style!).

Needless to say we had a great time and The Swamp did a great job putting on their first 26 hour game. 

We can't wait to get back out there for one of the next ones!

Part of Final battle at the park!