“If the sound of 1,600 voices shouting ‘hurrah’,
followed by 1,600 guns firing into the air doesn’t
make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up,
I suggest you check that you still have a pulse!”
By the time it started getting dark and
we headed off for the evening, there
was a large pile of empty magazine
boxes in the van and a whole lot of
players sitting around having a good
read.
046
November 2011
Play was scheduled to start at 10:30 on
Saturday. By 10:00 players had started
moving off to The Landing Zone for
the main briefing, where one of those
moments that make the hairs on the
back of your neck stand up occurred…
Before the Site Manager (known simply
as H) got into his briefing proper,
he made an announcement about
18-year-old William Morris, a member
of Liverpool-based team Bob Marley’s
Ninjas who passed away the previous
week. H asked the crowd to join him
in