Chapter Four

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He moved his drones to the minerals mine and started evolving his larvae into more drones. He sent his overlord to the opposite corner of the map to scout the opponent. After the 9th drone came out he built a spawning pool and started pumping out some zerglings. He built a second hatchery near a second mineral source for faster unit production, and built an extractor to mine vespene gas. He sent his zerglings to harass the enemy base, but then his overlord scouted the marines and bunkers and he decided that he had better not be too impulsive with his offence.

All this happened in about one minute. He knew he had to be fast.

Terrence, aka. mis.click, knew it was a futile game - he was playing against his friend Dong, aka. Rori313, who had participated in amateur Starcraft gaming leagues before. But still, he had to at least try.

He evolved his hatchery into a lair and instantly started constructing tier 2 buildings. His plan was to mass mutalisks and zerglings and hope that through some miracle law of large numbers (he had been taught this in Statistics 371 not long ago) his swarm would be able to defeat the Terran army.

It worked for a while, and the mutalisks were able to take out a few SCVs, but then the missile defence towers started picking them off one by one and they were forced to retreat temporarily. He had not realized that during this time, Rori313 had already started building his third expansion in a hidden corner of the map, and was well ahead in technology as well as resources. As the game went on mis.click upgraded his buildings to produce stronger units, and then Rori313 countered him with even stronger ones, until each of their armies became a bastard mix of vultures and tanks and goliaths and hydralisks and ultralisks and defilers. But while all this was happening, Rori313 had sneaked units onto the inaccessible hill adjacent to mis.click's expansion and had erected an extensive horizon of missile defense towers along the edges, wiping out an entire section of his Zerg base. He had no more resources and his army had been outclassed.

That's game, he thought, and typed GG.