Well, it all started in August of '97.. When my brother started telling' me about this mod he found on the net, we had just acquired our cable modem and hungered for downloads. The next day (after cleaning about 3 gigs of bull off the HD) I went into our computer room to see my brother playing quake (which, at the time, wasn't uncommon), but there was something seriously wack about the server, every time he respawned (and he did that A LOT) he still had the rocket launcher.

"WTF is this!? I thought we agreed, we're anti-cheaters!" i said to my brother.

"i'm not cheating, this is TeamFortress." he replied sharply. And so he played for an hour, after about half of that time, he had accumulated -5 frags. I laughed my ass off at him, so he said "O.K. Mr.Jerkoff, lets see how good YOU are." and being my smug self, I replied "Sure gay-boy, no sweat.". I played for an hour, just like he had, i came out worse then he had -7. I was pissed, i had owned in CTF, but this was different, this was TF.

Well, the server we picked didn't help neither, we had wondered onto CTSnet, which was smack full of CE's.. Smooth move eh'? 2 weeks later i was playing, really bad might i add, and i decided that demoman wasn't my forte, so i switched to scout, the running part came almost naturally. In my first pickup-game as a scout, i got 5 caps against a tough D, several CEs had setup shop in the ramp room of 2f32. At this point i took it upon myself to break through and return with the flag, 3 respawns later, i managed to flash/conc the defense men and out with the slow TF 2.5 sentry gun. I ran hard, with an enemy scout on my ass as i ran onto the bridge, i somehow managed to out nail him, it was mine, all mine, i had single handedly brought this flag home. My first cap!

After awhile of playing on CTSnet and "DBTech Country Club" I went out, onto new servers. One such server was Shag/Gorebag1 (now Gorebag's Slayground) and got into a  a few newbie clans, and in fact started my own clan, which evidently fell through. After i had accumulated enough skillz, and been with enough llama clans, i decided to find a good strong clan. After 2 weeks of testing integrity of a few clans, such as CE and WM, i decided on SK. They were strong willed and fairly skilled. I asked SK-PainMaker if SK was recruiting, they were, he and SK-COS gave me a challenge, to get into the enemy base and return with the flag, I did it. But Pain and COS didn't think i communicated enough, but they had confidence i'd change. So now i was an SK, after 2 months of playing TF, i was in a stable clan. I met with several of the members, including SK-BioCyde (now SC-BioCyde I believe), and SK-realistik, the maker of that oh so infamous map, 2fort_sk. It was my finest achievement.

In about a week, I had my first scrim, this scrim was against CE, i played defense. After a long game of continuously burning a few CE soldiers, CE came out on top, i decided that i wasn't a good pyro anymore, so i made a choice. The choice i made would change the whole course of history for Sarek-CE (CEs sniper at the time) I switched to sniper, now sniping along side of BioCyde, we would merrily gib Anthrox-CE in our frequent meetings. However on my own, Anthrox smacked me around like i was his wife.. Since then i have dedicated my whole TF-life to becoming a better HPB, period, I now play ANY class, some with decent skill, others i own with, if i may say so myself. 8^)

There it is! my history, all 16 months of it. Thanks for actually reading this.

 - SK-Astral (The guy everyone wubs to hate)