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|the BatCave|the Batz|Honouraries|The regularz|WEENIES!!!|

Here are the links to our BatCave site..
although I am not sure which to direct you to, because this one , our ORIGINAL home, has a list of who is in the clan, and while this one, on planetquake, doesn't, it does have a WAAAYY wicked shockwave intro that you just gotta see! Plus, I think it has more current news...
Gotta talk to^^o^^ BatCat and ^^o^^BatMax about that...

The BatCave is the home of the NightHunters mod, and its editing, although we are not the only server running it . Our server runs on Linux, which was at BatMax's home, then Swat[PCI] is hosted it... but it's been rather erratic as of late, so it's not up all the time. Majoon is the original author of the mod, and since he doesn't have the time anymore to do it, he gave it over to us. {His is the voice you'll hear saying "Predator scores one point" and "You are the new Predator"}. We do the frankenstein thingy now..
Our clan is based in the Greater Toronto Area (which is even bigger now, since we have become the Megacity...) and we are fondly acquainted withe the DiG clan (hope I spelt it right!), as well as 3R. We do hold LAN parties, although the last one got cancelled, and is on raincheck (location, location, location!)
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--The Bats--
O.K. So far, there is, let's see (deep breath)... BatCat, BatMax, BaTTy (formerly BaTTerror), SleepyBATstard, Bat007, Dingbat, Meerbat, ComBat, WomBat, OldBat, Crunchy Bat, Psycho^^Bat^^, AeroBat, SpiderBAT, Sn0wBat, ^,^DredBat, BatSplat
(Vampire^^Bat^^ is this red-headed kid who saw me playing NH and is now as badly addicted to the game as I am.)
New bats:- Badbat, Bat8105 (BatBios--used to be Biosinfect), Bloodbat, BatKarma (Azazel), Zerobat
."honorary" bats -- no "bat" alias or the "wings" as yet(on the NH team, shortly) :- Neo-Phyter, ^^o^^ FaTaL, ^^o^^Mercenary, ^^o^^ Blade (He's a new daddy.. aawwww...)
New hohourary bat.. ^^o^^Lorus!
--The 3 Main Bats-- (Or as I like to call them)... the Holy Bat Trinity
|cat|max|ding|

When I first started playing NH, I hung around ^^o^^BatCat, virtually speaking, like a puppy. He is the one who taught me how to play: "Where's BatCat?" "How you do this, that?" So he seems to have now affectionately adopted me as his "babe" (not literally, more like his pet student). He is a remote ADMIN, and owns the cat that got all the "bat" stuff started. Apparently it has a patch that looks like a bat. He's moving, so for the moment I can't put up any pics to show ya..
He's the one you'll definitely run into on the server. He'll give you tips, he answers the messageboard, and if you're lucky enough to be alone with him on the server, he'll show ya how to play. Thank your respective gods if he's the one who taught you to play; read on and you find out exactly why. He's cool. He's fun, and gamewise, on our server, he's GOD. (Yes, F.E.A.R. him, my little ones! :-D) He's the best NH player in our clan and #1 in the world. (Don't believe me? Check CLQ) In fact, he's so good, you'll think he's a BOT.. until you get good enough to kill him. Most consider it a fun challenge to try and outwit him, and bring him down, 'cause if you can kill him at least once,(for some just even hitting him once), it means you're getting good. Some even gang up on him ( AAAHH, you fools!). His enthusiasm for the game will rub off on you. BatCat just lovesto find the quirks in any map... he knows how to get in the wind tunnel without getting smashed, can actually stay in the slime long enough to regain health.. He tries to make the server a friendly and enjoyable experience for everyone (just think of him as your humble host for the evening), and because he is there a LOT, ...
(I think it's ding who once joked, "If BatCat's not on the server, he's either out of town, or dead"...)
...unfortunately he's the one who ends up doing some policing... "(sigh)", as he would say.
If there is one thing that irks BatCat, that drives him nuts, makes him go postal, it's the online behaviour of what he terms as "weenies". Not to be confused with newbies, there is a general agreement from the clan, and the regulars at the server, on who they are and the annoying behaviour.
BatCat, or any of our ADMINs who are present on the server, will deal swift justice with these creatures... and it is probably helpful that I put down some advice. YOU JUST MIGHT BE ONE. I got more details on that below .
Consider yourself warned: BatCat may have taught you how to play; you may have caught on to some of his technique; but this one has some tricks up his sleeve. Two examples:
.One time when he was the predator, Crunchy Bat and I were hot on his tail, in the Sudden Death map, and he ducked into the Quad room. There are two doors going in there, and we each took one. We darted in.. "OOH yeah, got him now.." but he was nowhere to be seen. The door closed. Through the window before us, we could see that BatCat had teleported and landed right on the lava button. The lava filled the room. We screamed to our deaths. "Oooh, I got TWO of them!" (That one was new to me. Normally he confuses ppl hunting in the hallway with his flashlight, and they go running into the Quad room, thinking he's there. He steps on the lava button...) (!!)
.He also likes to anchor right at the Quad spot. You go get quad, he hears it and..
{what is his role in the emergence of the mod, et al, anyway? did he have the idea for the mod?} )
Oh Yeah. And don't whine about the maps just because it ain't yer personal favourite, 'cause you know that he's a remote admin and can change the map. One of BatCat's famous things is to say "You want some cheese with that whine?"

When I first started playing on the BatCave, I "met" ^^o^^Dingbat. See, he's the programmer who edits our mod, along with BatMax, who does the networking thing for us . Out of humour, I addressed him one day as "Hi ding-dong!" He replied with, "I am not a confectionary" or something like that, I cant remember(damn!... OH, yeah... he said " I am not a sweet treat" )
I did a "HUH?" and later found out that a ding-dong is actually the name of a product (can YOU tell I didn't spend all my life in North America?)
So, next time I saw him, out of humour again, I addressed him as "ding-dong", and he answered with variations of it.
"I am not a sugared doughnut"
"I am not a twinkie"
"I am not puff-pastry!"
SO I started to ask him what he was, then....
"But are you a flakie?"
"Absolutely."
So now it's not only a game, it's a standard salutation.
"Hey, so Ding-Dong is the one with the creamy filling" "He's the one filled with creamy goodness" (AND DON'T YOU DARE START THINKING WHAT I KNOW YOU'RE THINKING!)
If he's kicking butt, (i.e he is the pred) I have been known to say "Kill the Twinkie! Kill the twinkie!" ....That always gets some kinda response, either from him or someone else in the game :-)
Dingbat is married, and I have been informed that he & his wife may have indeed spawned a few ding-a-lings .....
OOO,Ooh, update, update!! (WARNING: go and relieve yerself b4 you read this part...) :-D (rofl!)
I caught Dingbat online! I asked him if his wife ever had anything baking in the oven, if they made any ding-a-lings, and I was informed:-
"One mini-doughnut."
So I asked him.. "The mini doughnut fresh, or it been on the shelf for a while?"
"It's a four-year old doughnut."
As I was typing "Ewww, it's stale! just kidding", He came up with another line:-
"Growing into twinkiehood." (By this point I was laughing too hard to type.) He was still on a roll:
"Soon to go off to college to become a pop tart." He then finished off with "Then all it will be able to look forward to is retirement to the ding-dong deli." (NEXT time I'm gonna ask him if his wife was standing next to him when I asked those questions... how the hell did he come up with those lines so quickly?)

Now, ^^o^^Batmax's prescence on the BatCave is sort of enigmatic. He'll either be there, and be eternally observing. Or he'll connect, then disconnect. Then just as suddenly reconnect, and then... Or he'll be standing in one place, doing nothing. One time I actually tried to chasecam him, but all I could see for a good twenty minutes were his two dead feet. One is tempted to think that the lights are all on, but nobody's home... :-)
Until you realize that Batmax is THE box man, familiar with all forms of networking and does such for a living.
He's most likely doing something, or mod programming & testing, which he does along with Ding-dong ...err, I mean Dingbat. So that will explain all the Quake related techno-babble you'll see him talking with BatCat.
And then there is the console. {sometimes BatMax just simply patches in to the dedicated server at his house, and talks to people, mostly cat, or ding if he's there}
The first time I saw him talking as the console, I saw two lines suddenly appear:- "console: cat, check your email." "console:cat, come to 15"
I went "Holy shit! The computer's talking to you?" (DON'T laugh!) "What, is that some kind of fancy program?" "No, it's just Max :-)"
Once I was clued in, I started to have some FUN: "Hey, console. Earl Grey tea. Hot." "Hey console... roll over. Beg." (that first smart remark came back at me, when cat and max came down to Cyberland one day, and they had Earl Grey tea bags hanging around. "Here. Here's the tea bags you've been asking for.")


--Honouraries--
This section is something that should have happened. It is devoted to those special elements of the NH experience. One such person is P1lot, of clan DIG, and he had the room all to himself .. but now we have Swat. :-)
--P1lot
Actually, he was sort of a Bat at one point. He was christened ^^o^^Bat'Let. From what I have been told, and am now correcting, BatCat was the one who dragged HIM into this mess. :-)
He's one of the pioneers of Night Hunters. He pimped Night Hunters every chance he got, and still does. He was a regular, logging at LEAST 6 hours a day playing NH, until something I believe called W.O.R.K. ^(TM) got in the way. (*@#!! )
The story seems to be that he was floating around, after moving to Toronto, because he left the clan that he was in while living in Sudbury, Ontario.He met BatCat, and they had a couple of LAN parties, met for a few breakfasts after all night frag fests, and that sort of thing. BatCat had christened him Bat'Let...
The thing was, he was already half way through an initiation into Clan DiG, and didn't want to back out. :-(
P1lot still feels he is an "honourary" Bat, because he got to know them all personally, and it was just bad timing that he met them when he did. In P1lot's humble opinion, "the ^^Bat^^ 's still rule! "
He very recently did a Return From The Dead ^(TM) where everybody fell over themselves to greet him (all hail to the messageboard), and you will be seeing more of him, as he has taken a new position at work, and will now have more time to frag; and "NH rocs my boat." Oh noo...
If you hear "DiG iT!!!" in the batcave, run ...

--swat
Now this peach meade room available on his system for our ^^o^^ Bat clan game server (there are other NH servers) when Max's electronic landlords began complaining. He gave us a warm place to stay, some warm screaming marines to dine on, gave us a roof over our heads ....
... he gave me rcon.......



--Regulars-- {think your name belongs here? e-mail me!}
. Fragu. Fragu is a female (YES!! :-) ) who regularly comes on the server, and she is pretty darn humourous about her beginner/ intermediate skills, and regularly makes cracks about her skills in dying, flipping into lava...
. BARtMan.. O Lord, he kicks ass.. watch out. Whenever he is on the server, he and I are normally going neck-on-neck for the most frags...when BatCat is not playing. :-)
. Mercenary. I had to tell him once to stop with the hilarious quotes or I was gonna pee. (Now an honourary bat. Get a name, buddy!)
. BiosInfect. His famous quote for those who can't aim is in the weenie section. ( now a bat!)
. Lorus. Nice dude, hadn't seen him in a while, ( now an honourary bat)
. Yama. Gets his name from "a Hindu god of death"...
. Headstone. ...WHAT? His name's Headstone, an' U need an explanation?...
. Pao Ti Bi
This one is lethal. Goes "pow" and makes me go "Yeow!" Went to vacation in Malasia (I think it's there) and picked up a dirty word. Figured that he'll use it as his name.........
. {tog}Killjoy
Another nice dude........
. Dr.Nutbrush
Another bad dude.
Sent me an e-mail, just to say hello...
Awwwwww...... (look what you got for it)
. Mr B
A pal with Ding-dong from back when. Good player.
. FriQue
. Fireseal0
. Dreadnought
. HiTekRedNek
The name kinda lends itself to no explanation .....


.Noteable visitor
Caneadiss... hehe. This one got immortalized on the NH messageboard. {He posted some question, and when he wrote his name, rabidly stressed my version as wrong}
I'm sorry. I couldn't resist... "Hi candyass!"
OOoohh how he blows an artery when I call him that one! (man o man, I meant it affectionately..) After a while, BatCat picked up on it too, LOL! Where you gone, buddy? Haven't seen him in a while as of this writing. Maybe he uses another name? :-)

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WHaT CONsTiTUTeS A WEENIe
Ok. I've decided to devote the well-loved "Weenie" section to its own page. For all you people who already read & loved it, here's where to go to read it (again&again&again&...)
If U HAVEN'T read it already, WHAT U WAITIN' 4?
ZAp! pOw! GO!!!

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