When I was growing up there was a huge christmas tree farm that was right behind our house. During the summer, all the neighborhood kids would dress in black and go there after dark to play "Manhunt" basically team hide-and-go-seek / freeze tag, where you had to wait in a "jail" area when captured.
During the start of a round, when no one's eyes had really become dark adapted, you could pull off crazy hiding spots like just lying down in the middle of a path and not moving. Later on, the moon would be more than enough light to hunt by.
Later we started carrying flashlights as weapons. If we saw someone coming close and it looked like they would find us, we would blast them with our minimags and 2 d-cell incans and run away giggling. After playing in the dark for a while, those lights were more than enough to disrupt nightvision enough to make a getaway. The flashlight blinding lead to everyone wearing a bandana over one eye. If you got blasted, you'd switch eyes and give chase. It was totally ineffective though, 'cause we would just wait for the eye switch and blast 'em again, and also, it was quite hard to run at speed with one eye covered... yet everyone wore them, including me. It was quite a sight. About 20 kids walking into a christmas tree farm carrying flashlights and wearing lopsided bandanas.
...even now as I think about it, i wonder why we never used the lights to help look for people... we only used it to enhance the darkness by blinding other people... I guess it was just more fun that way.
During the start of a round, when no one's eyes had really become dark adapted, you could pull off crazy hiding spots like just lying down in the middle of a path and not moving. Later on, the moon would be more than enough light to hunt by.
Later we started carrying flashlights as weapons. If we saw someone coming close and it looked like they would find us, we would blast them with our minimags and 2 d-cell incans and run away giggling. After playing in the dark for a while, those lights were more than enough to disrupt nightvision enough to make a getaway. The flashlight blinding lead to everyone wearing a bandana over one eye. If you got blasted, you'd switch eyes and give chase. It was totally ineffective though, 'cause we would just wait for the eye switch and blast 'em again, and also, it was quite hard to run at speed with one eye covered... yet everyone wore them, including me. It was quite a sight. About 20 kids walking into a christmas tree farm carrying flashlights and wearing lopsided bandanas.
...even now as I think about it, i wonder why we never used the lights to help look for people... we only used it to enhance the darkness by blinding other people... I guess it was just more fun that way.
