I've played around with it for at least an hour, and I'm so unfamiliar with Garry's Mod that I feel obligated to call it Gareth's Mod.
My first foray didn't really amount to much. I just launched a bathtub into orbit and lost 20 HP during a ferocious battle with a helium balloon.
Let's see what fun I can get up to this time in my quest to survive as long as possible with only one life. The possibilites are endless, my friends, and the only limits are those imposed by my own buffoonery. BRING THE ACTION.
I spawn a cardboard box. Welcome back to the high-octane adventure you tune in for every week.
We'll return back to the homemade zeppelin experiment in a bit, but let's kick things up a notch and do something a little different. Having figured out how to make a box, the next logical thing to do is spawn a woman and lynch her with a balloon. Obvious, really.
Er, let me explain. I was trying to spawn an animated Judith Mossman, but a lifeless body ker-flumped onto the grass instead. I figured I'd try animating her myself with the aid of my yellow friends, but... well, we can all see what happened there.
The body raises a good thirty feet off the ground before gently coming back to earth. Mossman is still upright, her feet dragging along the ground.
While she bobs around, I manage to work out how to bring live actors onto my stage. I make a Dr. Breen, who stands around, totally non-plussed. By the time I'm finished with the shotgun, he's very plussed indeed.
Well, that was fun for a moment. What else can I spawn?
I bring in a vortigaunt to chat to but he just stands around, mute. To address my health issues, I spawn a rebel medic into the game who promptly heals me up to 100%... is that cheating? Nah, probably not. I shoot the medic in the face.
If I'm going to give myself the ability to heal up though, it's only fair that I introduce more risk into the proceedings otherwise this blog is going to go on forever. I spawn in a standard zombie, but just as I'm about to open fire, my vortigaunt friend springs into action and zaps him with a lightening bolt:
So one zombie vs. a guy with a colt python and his vortigaunt ally is no match at all. What happens if we bring in 20 zombies? To our advantage we've got a nice, wide, open space to fight in so this should be a case of tactics vs. numbers.
Or it would be if I didn't spawn them all in exactly the same place, thus creating some kind of freakish zombie mutant floating three feet off the ground.
My horrific creation cannot move, except to take a chunk out of the vortigaunt when he accidentally wanders to close, so the fight is over pretty quickly. We both pick them off until they're reduced to a pile of corpses.
I repeat the battle but place the zombies more carefully, allowing them to roam free and happy (or as free and happy as a man can be with a headcrab directly stimulating your frontal lobes). They put up a great fight, and even manage to kill the vortigaunt. This pisses me off so I arm myself with a rocket launcher and wreak terrible vengeance on everyone.
Enough fighting for now. Last time, you'll remember that I drew my name on the floor with balloons but couldn't enjoy my narcissism from ground level. My attempt to float up on a bathtub was met with disappointment, so this time around I'll try it with a mine cart:
Awesome. It weighs less than the bathtub so I start to feel lift after adding only a few balloons. This thing should be way easier to balance on!
OH GOD.
OH GOD OH GODOH GOD.
Just as we reach the height at which I don't want the whole thing to tip over and nearly throw me out, the whole thing tips over and nearly throws me out. Oh god. I don't want to die! We're only on post #2! The only thing preventing an abrupt end to the blog is the thin sliver of rotting would I'm trying to balance on.
But hey, at lease I've got a nice view of the 'Z'.
Okay, this is seven shades of sketchy. I don't know what to do and for every second I spend not knowing what to do, the 'aircraft' rises even higher.
I float past a bathtub. Decisive action is needed.
I arm myself with the 'remover', which... well, you know. What I'm going to do is remove some of the balloons, being careful not to remove the mine cart I'm currently standing on because that would be a whole world of stupid. I'm also hoping and praying that I don't totally up-end the cart in the process.
I remove one balloon. The ascent slows.
I remove a second balloon. The cart becomes stationary.
I remove a third balloon.
I totally up-end the cart in the process and fall out.
Oh, check it out!I can see my name from here!
