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.