Party Review for Destiny Communion 93

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                D E S T I N Y   C O M M U N I O N   R E P O R T


                            By Cryton of Apocalypse


"COMPETITIONS!" shouted page one of
the Destiny Communion pamphlet.
"NORMAL COMPETITIONS WITH LARGE
PRIZES",it said,"INCLUDING DEMO COMP,
MUSIC COMP, GRAPHICS COMP, 40K COMP,
DISKTHROWING and TUG OF WAR COMP, AND
'MANY SURPRISE EVENTS'".  "INTERNAL
TELEVISION", declared the next title.
"THROUGHOUT THE EVENT DESTINY WILL BE
RUNNING A LIVE INTERNAL TV CHANNEL"...
"CHEAP PIZZA`S", yelled another title.
This party looked pretty darn good to
me, so Denzil, Sonic and I got up at
5:30am, met at Southampton station,
and each forked out the 30 pounds for
the fare.  After a uneventful, but
knackering journey, we arrived at
Newington station.  After getting off
the train, we found a car of people
wanting to go to the party too.
They`d been there for a while, and
couldn`t find it.  While they zipped
off to try and find it (after all,
they had the car), we walked around
trying to find the party place.  We
didn`t succeed.  It was only when a
phonecall to Tantalus` mother that put
us right.  So much for sign posts to
the place.  The pamphlet also said it
was 150m away from the station.  The
150m turned out to be about 750m.

We trapsed over to the party place,
got in and started to set our Amiga
and SNES up.  The hall already had
about 20 people in, so things looked
quite good already, as it was only
10:30 and the party had been going for
30 minutes.  It was quite a big hall,
with a stage and bar at the top end.
One drawback, was that there weren`t
enough power sockets, and he tables
where a bit wibbley(?).

Since we never knew anyone (This was
APC`s first visit to a party) we sat
by the door, just mucking around with
Octamed, and the SNES.  Gradually, the
hall started to fill.  And by our 30th
game of Mario Cart, its was looking
very promising indeed.

As Denzil had had his head shaved and
most people knew he did this, we soon
started to get visitors.  After
mistaking Tango for Telemach (And
getting beaten up for it), people
started to "visit" us, and we started
mingling.

There was an impressive setup on the
stage.  Some nice big speakers, and a
video projection system.  Music was
pumping through the speakers, and a
porno was been shown on one of the
walls (Not in easy view of everyone,
but that didn`t matter at that point).
After some very amusing announcements
that made most people laugh long and
hard, the porno was stopped.  This
party was looking good.

The bar was open, selling bottles of
beer at 45p-48p which was a good
price, but the beer tasted like crap.
Still, that didn`t stop most people
from drinking 10+ bottles (Denzil!).

Then the inevitable started.  People
started making stupid noises down the
PA system and although these where
annoying and pissed everyone off, they
didn`t really ruin it.

At one point, someone asked Denzil if
he was D-man.  As Denz was out of his
head at the time, he said yup and he
nearly got the shite beaten out of
him.  Luckly, there was someone in the
posse of beater-uperers who knew
Denzil, so he was saved!

The first thing I remember happening
after the "start" of the party was
that someone had lifted a key to an
electrical store.  This was pissing
old Tantalus off some what and
threatening announcements where made,
basically saying that if the key was
not retrieved, then the competitions
would not happen.  After lots of
people getting fed up of the
announcements, Denzil and I went out
side to mingle and met the Fairlight
Posse, who had just arrived.

We went to get some food.  It seems
that all the local shops shut at
6:30pm, but at least there was a
chippy, with a woman who didn`t speak
English very well behind the counter.
After using sigh language and drawings
to communicate to her what we wanted,
we left the shop and found that there
was no difference in the 60p chips,
and the 90p chips! Huh.

Eventually, the Music competition
started.  These where played through
the PA system, and had lots of
crackles and loud hissing noises,
which sometimes stopped, and sometimes
wouldn`t.  Everyone was drunk at this
time, so no one was listening to the
modules properly.  Not that that
mattered, coz Twilight And Hydlide
seemed to think it was funny to play
about with the modules when they where
playing (Not their`s of course).  Oh
haw haw not very haw.  This further
screwed up the music competition.

After it had finished, we voted.
Well, 5 people voted.  5 people out of
about 80. Hmmm.  After this, Tantalus
seemed to give up.  The amusing
announcements stopped, and everyone
was getting restless.

We needed some of these competitions
to start.  Its a shame they didn`t.
Tantalus had not found the key and I
believe that the Fairlight Posse had
just entered, without paying, which
pissed Tantalus off more.

It was starting to go wrong.  All the
competitions where cancelled.  All
these amazing productions where not
released.  Paradroid`s trackmo was not
released.  Neither was Lemons 40K, or
Fairlight`s 40K, or a number of other
promising productions.  Those
productions that where released where
OK, but might not have gotten spread
to every one.  The very act of
"releasing" a production was to boot
it up for 20 minutes and get some
friends to stand behind you.  This
eventually attracted 2 or 3 other
people, who sort of implied that
they`d like a copy of the intro and
you sort of implied that they could.
Then it got spread a bit.
It was at this point that Glitch of
Nerve Axis noticed that someone had
knicked his 11 cans of fosters and his
pack of fags.  He got rather irate,
and got even more drunk.

Late on in the night, a bloody loud
klaxon sounded, accompanied by a
flashing red light.  Some fool had set
off some alarm or other and this
deafened most of the "party" goers.
Just after this, the major disaster
had happened.  Glitch of Nerve Axis
recovered conciseness to be told that
his 52 meg Hard drive had been lifted.
It was no were too be seen.

Basically, he went mad (Can you blame
him).  He demanded that everyone look
for it, and search for it.  Everyone
checked around and didn`t find it.  He
went out side to ask party people out
side if they noticed any one out
there.  They hadn`t.  On returning
into the halls, he realised that his
external drive had been lifted too.
Now he went AWOL.  He demanded that it
be returned and that everyone with
cars should let him search them, and
that every one should let him search
there bags (He was announcing all this
from the stage, so everyone could hear
him.)

After he had searched all the cars, he
came back in and he noticed that his
disk box had been knicked too.  He
really went mad.  Who can blame him?
I`d have done the same.  The Police
turned up during when Glitch was going
mad.  I don`t know if they came coz
someone set off the alarm to the
klaxon, or if coz someone phoned them
about the Hard drive going missing.
They came and went and then all the
lights were turned off and another
porno was shown on the back wall,
which was slightly smaller that cinema
size.  After this they put on Robocop
3, which wasn`t very good as the
speakers the sound came out of where
about as powerful as personal stereo
speakers.

This was then when Lemon (And some.)
dived outside to get their sleeping
bags and dived under a table in the
corner to go to sleep.  Many other
people adopted the under-the-table
approach, but most found that having
your friends crotch shoved in your
face was some what unpleasant.

Not much sleep later, I got up, played
SNES a bit and tried to do something
that would pass the time.  Nothing
would do.  Gemini visited us, threw
up, and went to sleep.  The SNES
players got talking about how the
party had been a disappointment.  The
only thing that stopped it getting too
boring was just all the other people
there.  Meeting contacts, making new
mates, and generally talking passed
the time.  At 4 in the morning, some
NVX members left (Strange time to
leave...) and then at 5ish Fairlight,
and Melon members departed from the
"party".

It seemed that in the morning everyone
had given up.  So much for the second
day of the party.  APC left 7:30 and
went to the station.  At the station,
there was at least a dozen people from
the party.  Lots of people had left
the party earlier than us too.

All the Destiny members seemed to hide
in the bar after things went wrong,
and not even attempt to solve the
problems that they had, which was a
shame, as they party really could have
been something to remember by the good
things, not the bad.

I found the party disappointing.  If
they had done all that they said that
they would do in the pamphlet, then It
would have been the best party in the
world, as it wouldn`t have been
totally computer orientated.  The demo
competition did not happen.  Neither
did the graphics one (And I saw some
impressive pictures too).  Disk-
throwing and tug of was was no where
to be seen.

Internal television?  Noooo.
Organised visits to local pubs/night
clubs?  No sign.  Cheap pizza`s?
Don`t make me laff.  No free beer was
given for bringers of hardware, as was
expected.  The bar didn`t sell normal
drinks either, so for those of us who
where thirsty and needed a soft drink,
there was no hope.

On the plus side, there where lots of
people there. Some "famous" people
turned up too like Nuke/Lemon,
TDK/Melon, Majic Mushroom/Lemon,
Fairlight Posse, Hollywood/Jestset-
Skidrow, Mutant Mango/Quartz,
Data&Dark/LSD and I think someone from
Anthrox and some other dudes who I
forget.

The start of the party was really
kicking, with lots of people chatting,
and doing their "thang" with their
machines.  Lots of "normal" members of
groups turned up too, like Nerve Axis
guys, Fine guys, Eclipse guys,
Delicious guys, Perspex guys, Voodoo
Design guys, Defekt guys, etc.

To sum up, I`ll always be warey of
Destiny events now (If there are any
others).  Coz most of Apocalypse lives
in the very south, we can`t afford the
train fare up north regularly, and if
we do splash out to get up there, I
would like value for money.  If
Destiny can`t deliver what they
advertise, then its a pretty poor
show...
          
end.


                D E S T I N Y   C O M M U N I O N   R E P O R T


                                By Dark of LSD


I arrived at the partyplace at 10am
with my brother and a friend, my first
impression of the party place was that
it looked quite small but it also
looked very clean and tidy (It was
only built one year ago).  I walked in
to see about 10 people sitting around
their Amigas playing games etc.
(Lame!).  I set my Amiga up on a
slightly wobbly desk and then had a
wander around.

As the day progressed, the hall
gradually got more and more full of
people but there still wasn't more
than about 80-100 that I could see, I
kept telling myself not to worry
because was ticket No.120 and there
were a few people with ticket No.'s in
the 160-170 range so I thought that
there would be at least that many
people.  But, no, for some reason,
Destiny had started the tickets off at
No.100 - Good start guys.

Anyway, I was a bit bored so I worked
on a picture I had on my art-disk and
Data and Vinh of LSD obviously spotted
me because they asked if I could do
them a couple of logos for the party
dentro, Data showed me a couple of
routines which were pretty smart so I
started work on the logos.

The Bar was opened shortly after the
beginning of the party, you could get
some cheap beer there, 4 bottles for 2
pounds (I think - The only ones I had
were given to me!) and a few other
things and if you were hungry there
was a fish and chips place and a
Chinese down the road.

The party really got going at around
mid afternoon when most people were
there and we were hurrying to get our
demo finished for the 8pm deadline,
everyone was chatting and having a
good time, the PA system worked (for
once!) and I thought that it would
turn out really well, a load of drunk
guys then got their hands on the PA
system and started being really
annoying so Data/LSD and another guy
decided to unplug the speakers
whenever they tried that shit!

But then a key went missing from the
building and Destiny shit themselves
so they had a whip-round to pay for a
new lock or the party would be
cancelled!  After all this, the guys
announced that the demo/intro
competition was postponed until the
morning but the music competition went
ahead - all the tunes were played and
guess how many people voted?  4
fucking people! (apparently) Anyway,
that was then cancelled.

Almost everyone in the hall was
totally pissed and there was a few
near fights between people especially
when they got hold of the inflatable
hammers!  Later on in the evening
though, out came the projector and
they projected some really sick colour
pornos onto the wall of the hall,I'd
say the screen they got going was at
least as tall as a house if not taller
but anyway, these weren't down well
with the party freaks! also I'm told
that the owner of the hall came down
at about midnight to fit the new lock
to see these porns on his walls!

A few things were stolen and there was
one major incident when one poor guy
had his hard drive, external and disks
nicked!  I don't know if Tantalus gave
him any money but some guys said they
saw him writing him a cheque.

All the good stuff happened throughout
the night, all the porns etc., the
police paid a visit and I laughed
while watching all the lamers hiding
their games!
Meanwhile, Data had been to the pub
and was asleep under our desk
throughout everything that happened!

At about three in the morning, we were
told we had to leave by 10am on
Sunday, a whole day short!  Party
releases were few, there was a nice
40k by Defekt, 3 (l)Amos basic
shitros, the new UK charts and
Destiny's Garfield demo.  Our dentro
was never finished at the party due to
the drunken behaviour of Data!
Paradroid/Lemon. finished his trackmo
and was a bit pissed off to find out
the competitions had been cancelled,
the same goes to Fairlight who had a
cool 40k intro by Virtual Dreams
(Which would have won) but decided not
to release it!  There was a lot of
slaggings to LSD around and outside
the hall put there by DTY members but
then again, what do you expect from
such a jealous group who can't accept
that LSD are superior to them?

Anyway, in the early hours of the
morning everybody started to go,
generally moaning about everything!  I
thought that it was okay but only due
to the dudes present and the fact that
everyone had a good laugh, as Data and
Munchkin said in the dentro, it was a
good party but it wasn't a computer
party!

Things promised in the leaflet-

 - All competitions - cancelled
 - Internal TV - Eh?
 - Pizza service - Eh?
 - Wheelie bin races - Eh?
 - Value for money - Eh?
 - Outstanding value - Eh?
Groups at the party included - LSD,
Destiny, Anthrox, Lemon., Defekt,
Voodoo Design, Fairlight, Melon,
Apocalypse, Iris, Karma?, Delicious,
Eclipse, Flame and some others..
Hi to these party guys I met- Data and
Vinh/LSD, MJM + Paradroid/Lemon.,
Overdose/Iris, Hydlide + Tango +
Aquafresh/Defekt, Yazoo/PC Lamers UK,
Detinator/Eclipse, Munchkin/Nerve
Axis, Chaos/Indy and Splatt/Fairlight.
Fuckings to Scimilame/Extacy for
attempting to steal a source disk from
my box LAMER!

NOTICE - I have just found out that
Destiny FOUND the key, it WASN'T
stolen at all, Tantalus covered this
up and took ca$h off everyone (and I
think he claimed to use the prize
money to pay for a new lock!).
                                end.