Quick on his feet, smokin' with them pipes, Lord Of The Llamas busted onto the scene with an aggressive style that took many of his enemies by surprise. The ones who underestimate him, that is...

"Somebody kick Llama, he keeps spamming!" is usually a statement made by frustrated enemies, as Lord Of The Llamas tears a hole through their defenses as though they were rice paper. Don't be fooled by these whiners. This player knows how to prime and detonate his wares with extreme precision. He has mastered this class above all, and low gravity has afforded him some serious death-dealing ability, especially with his pipe bombs, which he detonates on target with great skill.

He doesn't say much. Lord Of The Llamas is not like the others. He has no time for idle chatter, or spamming the message with sound clips, rants, and the like. He plays without a word, creeping into the enemy base and turning man and machine into mincemeat.

He suddenly appears on the server, plays a few games, usually scores quite high, about a 4 to 1 ratio, including caps, sg kills and frags. Then as fast as he appears, at the next map change he has gone. Sometimes he does not return for days or weeks.

Who is this silent, and elusive demoman, who causes so much destruction? It is difficult to obtain any information on this character, as he seems to shun any conversation, or bonding with his fellow players, as though doing so might take away the mystique...

One thing is for sure. This player is a killing machine. Lord Of The Llamas has but one purpose in the game. To bring your team's flag back to his team's base. All resistance is met with the full force of his might, as he explodes his way towards his ultimate goal. Your flag room, and that banner of honor.

He has built in radar, and seems to know exactly where an enemy sniper or sentry gun is situated around the next corner. He'll sneak around enemy players, get behind enemy lines, lay a pipe garden underneath the enemy sentry, and take it out in one fell blow with a tap of his "special" button. He can do this many times in a row, usually back in the engineer's base before he detonates it again, the engineer along with it.

A master of angles. Executing several pipe bounces off the wall around a corner to lay a deadly patch of firepower, the pipes land perfectly on or underneath their target, and kabaam!, the target is blown to smithereens.

Adept at switching from the grenade launcher to pipe launcher, he masterfully cuts through the enemy defense to the flag room.

Once the flag is taken, he may leave a nice present for the panicked enemy, who in their haste to protect their flag, end up in pieces from a detonating MIRV.

When finally "The enemy has captured your flag" is announced across the server to all, still there is silence. No gloating, no "w00t". No taunting, no celebration. In fact, by the time the message has played, Lord Of The Llamas has already re-entered the enemy base, on his way to grab the enemy flag once more. A machine. A cold machine. A deadly machine.

Beware Lord Of The Llamas. Do not underestimate him. Pick him out of the crowd and stop him with all you got. Only then may you stop his reign of Demoman terror...

"Tunnel vision" may be his only weakness. In his zeal to capture the enemy teams flag, sometimes he does not notice what he should on the way, and pays with his life. Use this to your advantage.

Poo Puppet FEB 2003