"Moscow trip" by darm Well hello there, my nickname is darm, and maybe you heard about me :) I used to be known as a good elma player before it came out that i did cheat. Nowdays i stopped that disgusting thing, believe it or not ;) So i was caught someday in August 2004, and then started to play clean (at least to prove to MYSELF i can do nice times without saveload). And i was kinda happy when realized that i can visit Moscow elma meeting, but lets start from the beginning.... The day that "Moscow trip thingie" started is 10th of September. I got a phonecall from my uncle, who lives in Moscow, and he said: "Hello there my little buddy, plz be a nice boy and come to my wedding". I was kinda shocked and omg, cuz my uncle is sort of a weird person and just thinking of him and marriage was fun ;P Anyway I agreed ofcourse, and decided to go with my sister (She is 4 years older than me, named Tatyana, has a husband and a daughter:). Or maybe she decided to get me with her :S Doesnt matter :) And that day i thought that it would be very nice to meet those elma guys who live in Moscow, so i posted about that in forum and irc. After having a nice birthday party on 22nd of September (that was the most awesome of my birthdays ;) i bought two tickets for a train and the departure was 7:15 23rd September if i do remember correctly. If you don`t know i live in Cheboksary city which is 700 km east from Moscow, so it wasnt a small trip :) I got an upper seat and when the train started to move i realized that forgot to take some book to read so had nothing to do but just lay down and fell asleep. First time i woke up cuz the train stopped at some station, and i went out with my sister to buy some food. Then thing i bought was a can of salt cucumbers :) After eating that mess i felt into the darkness again. Next waking up was a bit worse cuz i had a dream that i was falling down and then realized that that wasnt a dream :X So some sleepless hours afterwards i found myself in Moscow! Wohoo, didnt visit my Motherland capital for years :)) The guy who met us at train station was a good friend of my sister`s husband and he had AWESOME car, i was so omg when saw it, white NISSAN SKYLINE with spoilers and stuff, a feeling you warped to some Need For Speed game :) And i should admit that riding at 120 km\h at morning Moscow streets is a very nice feeling :) Finally, we came to my grandma`s appartment, and i felt asleep again. When i woke up, it was about 12:00 and i was told the wedding ceremony and the following party would be today, so i called with my cellphone, (thanx Luther :*) to Zordin and said that the meeting will be tomorrow (25th of September). Then followed the boring part with kisses, rings and champagne, and i was teh photographer, i wonder how angry they were after watching ugly pics :) Then it was afterweddingparty or whatever u call it, and it was held in one restaraunt "Kaban" =) Didnt see so much food (i ate salt cucumbers again:) and so many people eating this food ever in my life, also some stupid young female mongo was singing karaoke at the scene ;D Then all the girls got drunk and started to shake their asses making something they thought is a dance :) Well, it could be worse.. :) I went to my grandma home late night and was about to have some dreams, when got happy news! "Hey Danilka, plz help me with the dishes and meals for tomorrows party" Ofcourse i was like wtf and it came out that grandma`s friends will come to celebrate the marriage to her house :E So i was MAX tired when finally gone to rest. Next day morning wasnt any special, same cooking and washing and sweeping, then that mongo party with some old harpies :> It was a good dinner actually, and i ate many salt cucumbers... And phew, i said i gtg to the meeting with coal elma moscow guys :) We decided to meet all together at metro station (named Mayakovskaya if u are interested :) I came there first and was standing alone thinking bout if they would kick me only with fists or legs too.. :) It was about 19:00 when other people started to come around and they were watching suspectivly at me, then when there were about 8 of them, one small guy (nickname Player :) came to me and asked if i am "The DarMoeD" =) I had to agree and joined them, we said each others names and nicks, its kinda fun to see real faces of people u talked so much before in irc and emails. Then we waited bout 20 minutes for others guys, the last came Vadim (the guy who made main russian elma portal www.elmaclub.com along with Zordin). Then Zordin asked: "Wtf took you so long Vadim?". The answer was "I was in public toilet and then buckle of my belt ripped of and felt into water" and he showed us the broken belt :)))) Afterwards we made some pics, i was presented with a beer and we came out to the fresh air. That Moscow elma meeting wasnt the first one, so they had a plan already. First we went to some shopcenter to buy food and drinks. Zordin went home to get the notebook and returned with it... and the car :) That time we came to a park, there were some benches, so wasnt too uncomfortable. All the way from the metro to the park i was asked numerous questions bout me myself, my nickname and ofcourse elma. Like how did you cheat, why, how much money did you earn, etc :) Uhm, where was I? Oh, the park.. I burned some CDs at home, with my CS movies and Elma recs :) So we put notebook on one bench and tried to sit alltogether in front of it on another. I was ruling the party and showed them my old cheated and new clean recs... I bet those loud screamings over the dark Moscow streets frightened some people ;) We also made pics and even videos of recs :) It was impossible to play elma on this notebook thou, cuz reaction on pressed keys came like 0,5 sec later :( But my tremendous skills let me make 14.xx time in warm up :)) But just when i put in my CS cd and started the movie, the notebook said "Its enough fun for today guys, my battery is zero" :( So we just talked, took pics again (Zordin had some huge monstrous camera, wtf rich mangos :P It was about 22.30 when i had to leave cuz my grandma called and was like omg, why you are not still at home, angry moscow punks will catch and rape you, so i started to move, some guys joined me, among them was Oleg (from famous MIPT team :)) And we realized that he lives kinda near to my grandma, and agreed that i will call him tomorrow. So next day, it was Saturday 26th of September i called Oleg, he told me his adress and i started to move my ass there. Some buses, some walking and here i am. Oleg has a brother named Yura, he is kinda mega op at #elma.ru channel, but we (evil persons) made a joke on him and didnt say that iam that famous darmoed he such wanted to see ;)) I forgot to tell that i was feeling myself TERRIBLE this day, my stomach was such in pain (then i realized that it was cuz of those GOD DAMN SALT CUCUMBERS! >:( Well, i tried to eat some pills, but it didnt help, anyways we had a nice time there, watched my recs, CS movies, i played elma beating Oleg times :) When Yura was going to go out Oleg told him to call to MY cellphone, and it was so fun to watch his face when he saw my phone rigning :) Then i presented him a CD with all my recs!! (video here :) Then elder brother of Oleg came, he is not elma related guy, but was told bout me, he was kinda huge and nat friendly first and asked me to show how i do play, i was so frightened that made headbanger 49.xx almost with a first try :)) Then the headache started... we went to kitchen, ate something, and then i asked Oleg to come with me to buy some stuff and then to the trainstation. He is a very nice person so he had to agree :P When we were going on a bus to the metro i did buy a ticket but he didnt, and right the next stop after we came in, he was caught and had to pay 100 roubles (3$) :) And all becouse of me ;( We bought what i wanted (mouse skates for my MX510 :) he took some pics of me in front of some Moscow sightseens we passed by and then it was “return home time” :( I sat into the train, and started to wait when they will open the toilets :) So thats it, a small review of my trip to Moscow, i really liked it, iam happy for my uncle, i met moscow elma kuskis, they turned out to be very nice guys, so i dont regret at all that time and money spending :) Hope you had at least some fun reading all this or learned something new :) With the best regards, darm