Contest Halocustoms' Holiday Contest

[SOLIDSNAKEee]

It's that special time of year again where we determine how to digest large quantities of food that mostly involve turkey and other meats, where we share stories and some of our most memorable experiences throughout the past year and of course it'll be Halocustoms' birthday! Oh how they grow up so fast.

Now to help celebrate this years memorable milestones and because we wanted to have a nice little contest this year that both Xbox 360 and Xbox One members of the site could participate in. Now all you'll have to do is submit a story about some of your most memorable Halo experiences but it must be Halo related. It's probably worth noting that we'll accept both fiction and non-fiction stories like that one time I got a perfection on Psychoduck. True story .

Of course no contest is a contest without some prizes to giveaway but what are these prizes exactly? Well I'm glad you asked. We'll have a total of 3 winners chosen by our festively themed fruits ranked from 1st-3rd place but not lets get onto those prizes shall we?

-1st place-
Our first place winner will not only bag themselves a pretty baller custom title but they'll also receive a steam copy of Payday: The Heist. You'll also receive the "Contest Winner" trophy.

-2nd place-
Our runner up will receive a 1 week XBL code donated by our very own Steelgreen.

-3rd place-
Our 3rd place winner will receive a 48 hour XBL code donated once again by Steelgreen.​

Now some quick pointers, you'll want to keep your story short enough so that it isn't a wall of text but long enough to actually explain your story. The more unique the story the better. So whether you're a badass who single handily brought your team back from imminent defeat in matchmaking or driving a warthog off the edge from the end of "The Ark", just be sure to keep it unique and interesting.

It's also probably worth noting that you're more than welcome to enter a picture or a clip along with your short story but you must, and I can't stress this enough, must have a short story in order to be eligible to win prizes. Also try and keep it relevant, plzkthx.

Submissions will be limited to one story per user and submissions will close on December 25th. Winners will also be announced on Christmas Day. Best of luck everyone!

From all of us here at Halocustoms,
Happy holidays.

 

[Madirate]

 

[Charles Stoot]

Can we post clips?

 

[SOLIDSNAKEee]

Can we post clips?

So long as you have a story you can also enter pictures or clips with your submission. Though it will only earn you +1 internet cookies.

I've also updated the post to make it clear that all submissions may contain pictures and clips.

 

[DeadlockDrago]

So long as you have a story you can also enter pictures or clips with your submission. Though it will only earn you +1 internet cookies.

I've also updated the post to make it clear that all submissions may contain pictures and clips.

But wouldn't the video tell the story? If it was from you point?

 

[Charles Stoot]

So this is more of an over all basis, sure I have better ones but here it is. I was hosting on August 25, 2013 on Halo 4. Much like halo 4 does it would kick the leader some times randomly. I got kicked, I got brought back to the lobby and some guy called shock wayne was promoted leader. We then spent the last 5 minuets trying to get his attention. He finally gave host back and the game continued. Well after he left the lobby was persistent to call out Shock wave, yes I said that right, Shock wave every time something went wrong. Seen here in the highlights.

I couldn't get the link to the section to work so click here---> 1:40 if you want to see what I'm talking about.
​

Any way soon after that lobby byflare made this giff. I tend to bring it up every now again to see who played in that lobby because that was one of my most memorable lobbies I had here on Halo Customs.

Figure 1: giff posted by byflare on August 25, 2013

Is this short enough?​

 

[DeadlockDrago]

So this is more of an over all basis, sure I have better ones but here it is. I was hosting on August 25, 2013 on Halo 4. Much like halo 4 does it would kick the leader some times randomly. I got kicked, I got brought back to the lobby and some guy called shock wayne was promoted leader. We then spent the last 5 minuets trying to get his attention. He finally gave host back and the game continued. Well after he left the lobby was persistent to call out Shock wave, yes I said that right, Shock wave every time something went wrong. Seen here in the highlights.

I couldn't get the link to the section to work so click here---> 1:40 if you want to see what I'm talking about.
​

If you went to episode 6 of those, and went to the 2:20 mark, I was the box in what was essentially prop hunt in Halo. And I was there for like the entire match and won that way, zen with the map.
I was also the idiot who blew my cover in episode 7 at the 1:21 mark.

The last one I cannot find, but It was a game of Jenga in Halo 4 (the version with the banshee shooting at the tower) and as the tower was falling apart, it glitched on my end sending me all the way into the sky and hitting the ceiling of the map. Then I began to plummet back to the ground hitting the teleporter so fast I go out the other end avoiding the kill barrier and flying all the way out to the edge of the map, and this was all on forge island so that distance was great, and done in about 5 seconds I was moving that fast, all the while I'm telling the other guys I'm in the sky and flying out of the map going on a vacation saying bye along the way. I don't know why but I'm always breaking the maps without even trying.

 

[General Sarbina]

Be me
17 and at home hosting a Halo 4 Clue lobby
Mom calls and says I need to drive our second vehicle so my older brother can use it
Fuck
Complies and tells the lobby that I will be back as soon as possible.
Drives second car to the farm where brother works
Mom is behind schedule and arrives late
Driving home and mom tells me we need to go into town to get fuel
Town is a thirty minute round trip
I have three options: go with mom into town, tell mom to drop me off at the stop sign, or bale out of car
I ask mom to drop me off at the stop sign so I can run the mile to the house so I won't miss the entirety of the lobby
Bitch tells me "no bitch, you play too much goddamn Halo. Your ninja ass coming with me to get gas"
I don't want to miss my lobby
I have only one choice
I open the car door and say a prayer to God and jump out of the car that is speeding down the highway
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I gracefully glide through the air and enjoy the sensation of flying
Face hits the ground and I start rolling
I get up covered in road rash and start my now mile-and-a-half sprint home
I arrive at my couch in the basement drenched in sweat and just before sitting down I trip and face plant into the wooden board frame
Fuck
But I get up and brush it off like a boss and finish the lobby
Mom gets home later and beats my ass for jumping out of the car like a complete lunatic
It was worth it

 

[Madirate]

Be me
17 and at home hosting a Halo 4 Clue lobby
Mom calls and says I need to drive our second vehicle so my older brother can use it
Fuck
Complies and tells the lobby that I will be back as soon as possible.
Drives second car to the farm where brother works
Mom is behind schedule and arrives late
Driving home and mom tells me we need to go into town to get fuel
Town is a thirty minute round trip
I have three options: go with mom into town, tell mom to drop me off at the stop sign, or bale out of car
I ask mom to drop me off at the stop sign so I can run the mile to the house so I won't miss the entirety of the lobby
Bitch tells me "no bitch, you play too much goddamn Halo. Your ninja ass coming with me to get gas"
I don't want to miss my lobby
I have only one choice
I open the car door and say a prayer to God and jump out of the car that is speeding down the highway
I gracefully glide through the air and enjoy the sensation of flying
Face hits the ground and I start rolling
I get up covered in road rash and start my now mile-and-a-half sprint home
I arrive at my couch in the basement drenched in sweat and just before sitting down I trip and face plant into the wooden board frame
Fuck
But I get up and brush it off like a boss and finish the lobby

What did I just read?

 

[General Sarbina]

What did I just read?

Beauty

 

[DeadlockDrago]

Beauty

All that's missing is what your mother was thinking when you did that, and what she says after she gets back and sees you like that.

 

[Stevo]

I couldn't possibly name a single moment...
But the most fun I've had on any Halo game involved alcohol, some toadz, man cannons, energy shroomz and a duck.

Once upon a time there was a Drunken Stevo. No, not that time he dressed as a woman, another time. He was up late drinking with some merry companions around his local area and headed home early for some silly games of Halol.
Stevo powered up the Xbox and saw that a Physioduck was having a spot of tea with another bird companion; MattKestrel.

The beaked duo were analysing a map of Sierra 117 that had been remade on Forge World, probably looking for nesting grounds or searching for lost eggs and shiny things or bread. You know, typical feathery antics...

So Stevo rolled in and began babbling on about, well, who knows? The topic of discussion quickly turned from appreciation of the map, to the destruction of it. The devilish Kestrel was being mean while drunk Stevo was confused as to why he kept falling to his death and stuffs, and that later led on to vehicular manslaughter, as things often do with confusion, alcohol and an array of vehicles.

There was only question on Duck's mind at this point though... "How does one fly?"
- By stacking 10 vehicle man-cannons on top of each other, and entering it with a vehicle of course!

Thus, the birthing stone of Toadz was slowly excreted onto the island of Paradiso and cemented firmly into the ground and the question was then all about who can get the Wraith into the coliseum first?
And the rest, you might say, is history...

 

[Buddy]

...

That was entertaining!

 

[AssaultCommand]

I had a lot of fun setting up this map a few years ago, although I do not remember it well enough to write a story about it.
Ah well, have a christmas e-card

 

[-Orzium-]

Those prizes though!

 

[deathwish9x]

This moment is most memorable to me because of an annoying griefer. The bulk of it is, this jerk and his buddy were pushing teammates(like myself) off the spire on Halo Reach. it got to the point where I went to his XBL profile mid-game and started listing off the junk he put in his bio to, well, try to troll him instead.
Unfortunately, it just made him mad and he pushed me off while I was sniping one last time. Luckily for me, I spawned right by the banshee and decided to pay him a visit(kill him). He was yet again on the spire, but in a falcon picking up his buddy. The buddy must have been shooting at the falcon to get the attention of the griefer, because when I fired off the fuel rod cannon the game pinned the betrayal blame on the buddy. It was simply hilarious listening to the guy squeal after everything he did that game.

 

[EmbarkingZeus]

Hmmm, well, I am going to call out Jesus in Malibu , cause this story involves him, and a certain Clue lobby.

Enter me, and one of my first custom lobbies on the site, as well as my first Clue lobby. I went on a whim and decided to RSVP for it, for it peaked my interest. Now, I am by no means a big talker, and I was not one then either. So there I am, quiet little ol' me, in the midst of this hectic and fun clue game on a map called Fecal Frontier, having spawned with some ideal weapons, trying to survive and find the killers, when all of a sudden, a little notice comes on screen that a certain religious figure was on a killing spree. Alright, I thought, I can win this and become God for the next round.
So, when I next saw his Spartan, I took my chance and shot him with the rocket launcher I had spawned with. Well, I thought I was going to get my head torn from my body and mounted on a pike for breaking the rules, because Jesus just starts FLIPPING out, cursing and muttering words that would make even a sailor blush, saying I had broken the rule of don't just kill someone for no reason, and I am sure he was hovering on the "Boot player" option, when I announced, in a small, timid voice, "I saw your killing spree" ... The entire lobby, that had once been deathly quiet only moments before, erupted into laughter, and Jesus, who I believe was simply flabbergasted, simply tells me "Oh, ok then"

And so began a tradition of always checking for killing sprees, and a new love for Clue formed.

Now, why do I feel like a just wrote an essay? Meh 'twas fun. And, if anyone else who was there for that game remembers this, feel free to chuckle quietly to yourself

 

[Jebus]

Hmmm, well, I am going to call out Jesus in Malibu , cause this story involves him, and a certain Clue lobby.

Enter me, and one of my first custom lobbies on the site, as well as my first Clue lobby. I went on a whim and decided to RSVP for it, for it peaked my interest. Now, I am by no means a big talker, and I was not one then either. So there I am, quiet little ol' me, in the midst of this hectic and fun clue game on a map called Fecal Frontier, having spawned with some ideal weapons, trying to survive and find the killers, when all of a sudden, a little notice comes on screen that a certain religious figure was on a killing spree. Alright, I thought, I can win this and become God for the next round.
So, when I next saw his Spartan, I took my chance and shot him with the rocket launcher I had spawned with. Well, I thought I was going to get my head torn from my body and mounted on a pike for breaking the rules, because Jesus just starts FLIPPING out, cursing and muttering words that would make even a sailor blush, saying I had broken the rule of don't just kill someone for no reason, and I am sure he was hovering on the "Boot player" option, when I announced, in a small, timid voice, "I saw your killing spree" ... The entire lobby, that had once been deathly quiet only moments before, erupted into laughter, and Jesus, who. I believe was simply flabbergasted, simply tells me "Oh, ok then"

And so began a tradition of always checking for killing sprees, and a new love for Clue formed.

Now, why do I feel like a just wrote an essay? Meh 'twas fun. And, if anyone else who was there for that game remembers this, feel free to chuckle quietly to yourself

Fffffff...uck.

I mean pshh that never happened.

 

[EmbarkingZeus]

Fffffff...uck.

I mean pshh that never happened.

 

[deathwish9x]

I wish HC still had a like button. Could that be a prize?