Pastemaster
05-20-2009, 08:28 PM
Greetings Outcast Reborn,
The Winged Warriors invite you to help us honor Pieter Kok (Night Rider 7) by participating in the Night Rider 7 Halo 2 Tournament.
Day to day we are concerned with Halo. It is what binds us together as a community. We are more concerned with our accuracy than the weather, our K/D than our work, and always, always, when the new maps will be released into the wild. And as each day passes we grow more deeply interwoven with this community of Halo players, this community of believers in our world. These bonds grow over time, whether through shared battles or simply the conversation we make while in the lobby waiting for a game and in our forums arguing. They change from someone on our Friends List to actual friends.
That was the foundation of the first clan I joined. I met a group of friends who played together and represented each other as a group, and realized how much I wanted that. I spent a year with them, learning and living Halo, playing eight hours a night with my friends. It was all I wanted out of life at the time, respect by peers who were concerned with the same things as me. I wanted you to know I was perfectly happy before I told you that was also the day I first met Pieter Kok.
One day I was approached by Night Rider 7, he asked me if I would like to be a part of something special, a clan devoted to the ideals I held and the level of competition we all aspired to. He asked me if I wanted that, not in the future, but now. He didn’t push, he didn’t lie; he inspired me with his vision and, in a way, held out his hand for me to follow him down a path yet cleared by others. Many of you knew this Night Rider. He was as strong alone as he was surrounded by his clan. We were brilliant when we were good, but he was brilliant when he was worthless and in all things that was his character. For many of you, the name Night Rider 7 means very little, so then the name Pieter Kok must mean even less. But I can tell you, they were one and the same.
Sadly, both barely survived a car crash in rural Oklahoma. He was struck while driving on the road and the car was instantly totaled. He survived but not without massive trauma to his brain, his eyes, and his motor skills. He spent most of the first month or two in a coma, with no sign of his ultimate fate yet present. His family stood by while he lay in silence. And his Halo family felt a blow even though he had been away. It saddens his Warriors that we found out so late, but months later we heard the news and soon discovered that he was finally awake. He was not speaking yet, but he could communicate with hand gestures and that meant he was still there. We struggled with this; he had been our leader, but more importantly a friend to all of us. Here we were each alone, each separated from the next, each unable to reach out and help this friend that had shared our world for so long. But our long dark year has come to a close and Pieter is well again. Nothing will be the same for Pieter again, but he will live many more years, years where he will bless others in the real world besides us. Now they will get to have what we selfishly held close and secret for years.
We tell you this, not to garner your sympathy, but to ask for your excellence and for your character. We wish to honor Night Rider 7 as his Winged Warriors, and ask you to honor him as his community. Night Rider was obsessed with both and considered anything but absolute determination in those two areas a failure for you and your clan. Hold to strong strategy, hold to sharp tactics, hold to practice, hold to teamwork, hold to humility, hold to mercy, hold to honor. We respect those whom we have lost by behaving as if they are still here, so if you would honor Pieter honor him in that way.
-Isnagov
Please visit the tournament forum (http://wingedwarriors.freeforums.org/index.php) to learn more about the tournament and how to participate.
Thank you,
The Winged Warriors
The Winged Warriors invite you to help us honor Pieter Kok (Night Rider 7) by participating in the Night Rider 7 Halo 2 Tournament.
Day to day we are concerned with Halo. It is what binds us together as a community. We are more concerned with our accuracy than the weather, our K/D than our work, and always, always, when the new maps will be released into the wild. And as each day passes we grow more deeply interwoven with this community of Halo players, this community of believers in our world. These bonds grow over time, whether through shared battles or simply the conversation we make while in the lobby waiting for a game and in our forums arguing. They change from someone on our Friends List to actual friends.
That was the foundation of the first clan I joined. I met a group of friends who played together and represented each other as a group, and realized how much I wanted that. I spent a year with them, learning and living Halo, playing eight hours a night with my friends. It was all I wanted out of life at the time, respect by peers who were concerned with the same things as me. I wanted you to know I was perfectly happy before I told you that was also the day I first met Pieter Kok.
One day I was approached by Night Rider 7, he asked me if I would like to be a part of something special, a clan devoted to the ideals I held and the level of competition we all aspired to. He asked me if I wanted that, not in the future, but now. He didn’t push, he didn’t lie; he inspired me with his vision and, in a way, held out his hand for me to follow him down a path yet cleared by others. Many of you knew this Night Rider. He was as strong alone as he was surrounded by his clan. We were brilliant when we were good, but he was brilliant when he was worthless and in all things that was his character. For many of you, the name Night Rider 7 means very little, so then the name Pieter Kok must mean even less. But I can tell you, they were one and the same.
Sadly, both barely survived a car crash in rural Oklahoma. He was struck while driving on the road and the car was instantly totaled. He survived but not without massive trauma to his brain, his eyes, and his motor skills. He spent most of the first month or two in a coma, with no sign of his ultimate fate yet present. His family stood by while he lay in silence. And his Halo family felt a blow even though he had been away. It saddens his Warriors that we found out so late, but months later we heard the news and soon discovered that he was finally awake. He was not speaking yet, but he could communicate with hand gestures and that meant he was still there. We struggled with this; he had been our leader, but more importantly a friend to all of us. Here we were each alone, each separated from the next, each unable to reach out and help this friend that had shared our world for so long. But our long dark year has come to a close and Pieter is well again. Nothing will be the same for Pieter again, but he will live many more years, years where he will bless others in the real world besides us. Now they will get to have what we selfishly held close and secret for years.
We tell you this, not to garner your sympathy, but to ask for your excellence and for your character. We wish to honor Night Rider 7 as his Winged Warriors, and ask you to honor him as his community. Night Rider was obsessed with both and considered anything but absolute determination in those two areas a failure for you and your clan. Hold to strong strategy, hold to sharp tactics, hold to practice, hold to teamwork, hold to humility, hold to mercy, hold to honor. We respect those whom we have lost by behaving as if they are still here, so if you would honor Pieter honor him in that way.
-Isnagov
Please visit the tournament forum (http://wingedwarriors.freeforums.org/index.php) to learn more about the tournament and how to participate.
Thank you,
The Winged Warriors