Now that MARARTHON has officially taken its own life, there are a few things I’d like to get off my chest. I mean, they’ve bothered me for something like a year. That’s a long time if you think about it. (Also, I have the gift of Bourbon, so truth is coming more naturally to me at the moment.)

(Try to read between the lines a little bit more)

For those who wanted to know what CLIQUE is: just watch and listen as Ray drops some beats on a dancing Bridget and a number of hot sisters.

So, back in the day, when I was still running ITO as a Marathon site, we had the House of Luck Companion. It was a blog in which Wrk, Ryoko, and I wrote; Wrk and I covered JUICE stuff, while Ryoko handled most of the mapping articles. I deleted HOLC when I loched, but… Google Reader caches feeds; just found out! So I took the entire library of HOLC articles (nearly a hundred) and converted it as best I could into basic HTML. I might end up using a stylesheet on this page, but for now it’s pretty damn raw. There are many images missing and not all the words are still there. We were some pretty serious motherfuckers.

W’rk and I wanted it to be an anonymous collective of mapmaking; a loch combination of Forge House, JUICE, and Bauhaus. We wanted throngs of people “in on the joke” of JUICEMAN to use his surprisingly mysterious identity as a way to set ourselves free of inhibition. We wanted to create the most revoltingly fun and silly map pack that had ever existed. We wanted to make more than two levels. We wanted all this, and we were too late.

Will the tide ever change?

Quick note: I somehow mistook Doy for the owner of Pfhorchan. Ray is the real owner. Oops. Also, pardon the background noise. Maybe there will be a “remastered” version soon.

OH HEY, here’s a link to it, in case the title-link thing is throwing you dudes off.

Links discussed:

Pfhorchan
Treellama’s Blog
Simplici7y
Pfhorums
Traxus
Smithy
MarathUp
JUICE
TGI
Marathon C (Demo)
Marathon White
Eternal
Jack Hammer

PS: If you use a “podcatcher,” you can subscribe to the JUICEcast subfeed on JFO using your software.

This is the original JUICEcast from May 2007. Not as good as the next one, but still entertaining.