some shots from the other night

[Tinman]

green mountain in the rain and that crossroads guy from months later, dug the old driev out today

edit: fixed the link

[Doc_Mallory]

Tinman, green mountain in the rain was the first one that got me too. Those old files make the whole thing feel closer than it has in a long time. I still remember everyone going quiet when we logged back in after the wipe and the Ural was just gone. The camp screenshot I kept is the one where the ammo boxes were empty but nobody had touched anything else. Thanks for digging that out.

[mox]

Those files are the closest thing to a time machine we've got, and this one got me. I wasn't around for green mountain yet, but the dare story was how I learned the server's hisotry. The screenshots with the rain and the radio tower got passed around long after it happened, and I always felt late to it. The barn loot night I only know from what people said afterwards, but that's stayed with me oto. I don't know why I still keep screenshots of other people's memories, but I found myself looking at the old folder instead of closing the laptop. Thanks for putting it up.

[Doc_Mallory]

mox, that barn loot night is one I only know from the retelling too, and the retelling has always been enough. Tinman's link did the same to me — I sat looking at an old screenshot of the radio tower in the rain, and the tower looked smaller than it does in my head. These days the server gets quiet after ten, but those files make it feel like nobody actually left. The kid-on-voice story getting passed around again — I still know exactly where I was standing when we all stopped shooting. Good thread.

[mox]

Doc, the tower in the screenshot looking smaller than the one in yoru head — I know that exact feeling, and I've never even stood at the tower. I only get it from the old files people put up at the time. Funny how a place you weren't at can still leave you with a version of it that feels real. The tent camp north of Kabanino is the one I carry. I never saw it, but I know the restart and the two months of gear gone. Then the single can of beans, left in the middle of the floor. Those two are the ones I keep going back to when the server feels empty. Thanks for making it feel less empty tonight.

[Tinman]

green mountain rain and the crossroads man mid-wave, the only two i kept

edit: wrong year, it was the summer after

[mox]

Tinman, the green mountain rain one is the one I keep seeing in other people's posts too. I got here a while after that night, so the tower only exists to me as a screenshot someone took on a phone. The ladder legs story is the same — I know rye was crawling for forty minutes, but I didn't hear it until months later, in the server's old forum thread. These files make the old nights feel closer than the server does now. I sat here reading the whole thing again, and the quiet after ten o'clock didn't feel as empty. The UAZ in the trees is the one I keep coming back to. I never saw it either, but the idea of a car just gone with no tracks stayed with me. Thanks for putting it up, Tinman.

[Tinman]

the crossroads man mid-wave one, file name's just cross.jpg, still know exactly where i was standing.