Hey everyone, this is Lodsiek with a Laclede's LAN Location Scout update. We've been hearing a lot of rumors around the 'Net that the Science Center is the most coveted LAN location around. Well, we decided to take a little trip down to the Center, with SargentWolf, ACE, Dudsmack, and Dickie. (We decided to let Pierre sit this one out - we didn't feel like paying for anything that he broke.)
Dickie had been carrying around a Flash USB memory stick that apparently had some 30-page research paper he'd been doing for school. So, when we got to the Gravity Well, Dudsmack took the opportunity to play a little prank on him. He kept saying that he would flunk out of college. Whatever.
Most of the rooms at the Science Center that weren't crowded were cramped, and this room was no exception. Dickie kept sliding across the floor, and Dudsmack almost put his head through the ceiling when he won a WarCraft III match.
ACE had a bet going with us that if he gave this cow a World of Warcraft account, it would definitely pick a Tauren character. He was wondering what was so interesting about the main menu screen when Dickie used SCIENCE to determine that the cow was, in fact, plastic.
Next, we tried to harness the power of the Science Center network... only to find out that the computer we tried wasn't fully functional. ACE was inconsolable.
SargentWolf, having found a comfy spot in an elevator shaft, dedicated ten whole minutes to rewriting Dickie's lost term paper. It was thirty pages long (octuple-spaced), but Dickie said it "wasn't as good" as the one he wrote. Whatever.
Sarge hadn't thought about how to get out, though...
...and it turned out to be somewhat harder...
...than he'd anticipated.
Wow. Is he even trying?
Just jump down. Geez.
We decided to move to the roof, where Dudsmack took a minute to survey the scenery from the top of the Science Center. Then he took ten more minutes to wash the bird crap out of his hair.
We at Laclede's LAN like to live dangerously, so we decided that there was no better place at the Science Center to have a LAN than over Highway 40.
So the party started, with Forest Park in the background, the highway below, and ACE perilously close to an untimely death.
This area provided some really great scenery, even if we couldn't really hear much over the highway noise.
As the gaming continued, some interesting trash talking came out:
- SargentWolf made merciless fun of Dickie.
- Dickie told him to shut up.
- SargentWolf told Dickie that his thirty-page paper was terrible.
- Dickie asked SargentWolf if he wanted to find out what it felt like to have his teeth replaced with a laptop.
- Sargent didn't get it.
Well, we'd had enough for one day, so we trudged back to the big dome to find our way back inside.
Unfortunately, the Science Center roof is supposed to be "For Staff Only". Dickie quickly filled out a job application, but he was still getting through the employment history section when this authority figure kicked us out. Dickie said that when he flunked out of college and became a hobo, he'd find us and kill us in our sleep. Whatever.
Review:
Food:
Expensive. And often oddly colored.
Cooling:
Well, it's air conditioned inside, but the roof is not so nice.
Space:
Rooftop - Good. Fatal drops on all sides - Bad.
Atmosphere:
Throngs of kids or highway roar. Take your pick.
Juice:
It's hard to look anywhere without seeing some sort of electricity.
Well, the Science Center was a bit of a bust, probably. Come back next time for another Location Scout!
