When we last left our heroes, Frost was blasting his way into Zach's expansion in the lower left. We now take you to the next events that occur, live and on the scene ...

All bad aiming aside, however, Frost does manage to eventually cripple the expansion at the lower left with his carrier (about 8) arbiter (2) probe (still alive! WOO) combo. This takes Zach down from 3 mining bases to 1.

Dagger sees the plight that Zach is in and sets up a trade alliance. Both players begin to mine the expo at 9 to show this. Meanwhile, Fessor sets up a base at Wang's natural and defends it with his small army of DTs, zealots, and DAs.

Now we have reached sort of a lull. Frost, who has the only real offensive force to be worried about, is content slowly picking away at Zach's expansion at the bottom left. Dagger is trying to rebuild her ling army off of one half of a mining base, while Zach is working on the other half while slowly teching to god-knows-what on the tech tree (what can you build with 3 command centers?). Fessor seems content, mining out of one base and keeping the defense up with his Dark Archons.

The lull is broken when Zach decides that he wants the base he's been sharing with Dagger all to himself, and takes it with a half dozen goons and a templar. This leaves Dagger with about 275 minerals, of which she spends on upgrading her remaining troops. This move renders her out of the game, as her remaining military consists of mainly drones and overlords.

Soon after, Zach isn't faring to well himself. Frost's carrier fleet has been picking away at his army of goon/templar, and even though he mind controlled one of Dagger's drones, the hatchery he made out of it was quickly liquefied by a batch of Fessor's Dark Templar. The templar continue to rampage through Zach's only terran base and even though he still has one mining base, a handful of wraiths, and a minor shot at winning, he decides to throw in the towel.

So it has come down to the last two. Frost has quite the carrier/arbiter combo and he's looking quite the pimp. So pimp, in fact, that he takes no time in slapping down the Dark Templar that were roaming around/killing off Zach's buildings. Forget that DTs can't hit air and have almost no HPs to start with, but hey, it was a victory.

This victroy proved to be Frost's last, however. Remember Fessor's conga line of Dark Archons? Let me refresh your memory:

Well, most of those guys are still very alive and rather kicking. And they've been biding their time, building up energy ... waiting for that one crucial moment ... when they reach back ... and ORDER ICE CREAM !!

Yayy! Everyone loves ice cream!

[digression over]

Okay okay, the small army of Dark Arcons did their bidness and that bidness was Mind Control. Frost noticed his army slowly turning purple and turning on him. I'll let the new new animated GIF action explain below:

Well, Frost isn't doing to good now. His army: captured. He doesn't have too many more cards to play, so he focuses on using what he's got: a handful of goon/zeal and a few templar. Frost actually manages to make it up the ramp of Fessor's one mining expansion, but soon, zealots, carriers, and those pesky dark archons come into play again, and the attack is utterly thwarted.

The rest of the game essentially plays out like this: Frost mounts an offensive consisting of carriers, he kills a few buildings, but ultimately succumbs to Fessor's mind control and psistorm. Soon, the map is totally mined out. Realizing that the game is going to go even longer than the over one hour it is currently at with Fessor slowly taking the lead, army-wise, Frost decides to bolt. And bolt he does. Bye bye.

- Try to pass off as much work as you can to co-workers, but offer to use the time you free up to help others at where you work. This makes you friends with your co-workers, and shows that you have managerial skills.

- If you're eating jalapenos, wash your hands before you go pee.

- I was going to put goatse in this report, but Windows BSODed on me when trying to edit the picture into a non-porn fashion. Windows has saved you all.

- Replays don't save chat text. ;/

- Getting back into battlereports is hard.

Thank you, come again.