From: tj32633@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ronin)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
Subject: Re: Paintball!
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:38:11 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

moon!cyberden!verge@well.sf.ca.us writes:

>A concept:
>    Blast, man, the tech's here so why not UTILIZE? Flash on the scene: 
>bolting through concrete leftovers, hammer, hammer, adrenaline metal 
>mouth, flash--movement? Body warmth through the blitz of hunter. Up it 
>comes, the mean mouth of night camuflage. Kick the slider back, feel the 
>pop and kick of pressure, the spit, the cough at the target. Bang, flash 
>of color, prey spin, tagged, downed, got, had, made--no fatal, this ain't 
>bad real, man . . .
>It's like this:
>    --know of a place to walk into, and places where to order, little 
>gizmos commonly called "Paint-ball guns." Expensive, yeah. But if enough 
>show interest in some urban cyberpunk games, and enough have the creative 
>juices, the technic skills to make it, like, man, a real cyberpunk whizz 
>then wouldn't it be so cool (dude)? 
>    Man, scam on the view: grafitti camuflage and gray fatigues, pitched 
>night battles blending into urban wildness. Tracking pinlights on the end 
>of gunmetal blue barrels trying to nail a target. No holds-barred 
>paintball guerrilla action: radio & sound trackers, motion sensors, 
>scramblers, smoke, IR gear, night-sights, fire crackers, trip lines to 
>paint grenades--get those urban animal emotions out on the painting 
>ground with a technic edge. None of this quasi-military, Vietcong vs Red, 
>White & Blue--I'm buzzing on acid firefights, combat raves, modern 
>primitives pierced up the ya-yas stalking with wild tech more of the 
>same.
>    Please direct inquiries and suggestions to me.


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>   | H E   \ Y B E R |/ E N       [ moon!cyberden!verge@well.sf.ca.us ]

Just about all the things that you have listed on this post is available
for use, if you have the money.  I think that your best bet would be to contact
any indoor Paintball Arenas in your area to see if they have the type of set 
up that you are looking for.  I understand that there are some Paintball arenas
that include buildings in their set up.  And you don't have to buy the basic
equipment at least, you can rent them.  Normally, the rental fee includes a
gun, protective gear and the entrance fee.  Everything else you will need to 
buy yourself.  All the other extras that you have listed: smoke, IR gear,    
night-sights, motion sensors, laser-sights, grenades, trip-lines are available
for use, however the price are extremely high.  For a laser-sight, the price is
normally around $200.00 ( the price of a pump paintball gun), night-sights, I
hear are over $1000.00 and IR gear is around $50 but not very reliable (it is
a toy from Toys R us).
Once you get a group of people together, you might want to rent out the Arena
and then you can have the Cyberpunk motif, but otherwise you will have to 
worry about the other styles of playing that you listed.  I believe that 
Paintball is going the way of the cyberpunk but it will still remain quasi-
military.
Paintball is very big in California so you shouldn't have any problems finding
places that sell the equipment or for playing.

Good Luck in setting this up!!!  I would like to hear if it works out.  Because
in Illinois, Paintball is not very popular yet and most playing fields are
outside so I have to stick with the quasi-military style of playing.

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