May 16th 2010, 19:28:46
the interview took place inside a conference room in a large office tower in a major midwestern city where we got exclusive access to his war room
ExpN: Gregg, the rumor is you retired, is that true?
the holy gregg: I accomplished everything i wanted; there is no reason to continue. The game is addictive and may detract from work so yes i retitred.
ExpN: How can you walk away at the pinnacle of your sucess?
the holy gregg: Mr. Brown did it, Michael tried it, always leave them wanting more.
ExpN: The most popular posts are all about you, there are more threads about you than any other topic, the server has more players than ever before in large part because of you, how can you leave your fans like this?
the most holy of greggs: Hate to burst your bubble but i have no obligation to my express fans, my obligations are to god, family, country and work in that order.
Expn: Aren't you afraid that LaEx will destroy the game?
Gregg the great: of course they will, but i do not care, anymore.
at that point the room filled with the sounds of a slide bass playing an unreleased version of the oldie ,"dont care no more"
and a giant screen about 10' by 12' slid down and filled half of a wall of the room
the monitor disclosed three massive flow charts marked LaEx ESC and LaE. a digitized female voice intoned , "Jag3 is on line and pounding one of the LaEx land farms.
gregg pushed a button on the table and seconds later a goth appeared
the gregg of greggs: i thought i ordered this program erased
goth girl: susan said to keep it, you might get addicted again.
our favorite player: you do know susan is not the boss?
goth girl just gave a blank stare and left after a few seconds.
we stared at the screen and it became clear that this program was how Gregg the omniscient had detected tracked and eventually exposed LaEx.
It looked like the mosaic board on steroids, all digitzed with blue lines instead of red
ExpN: what does this do?
gregg the modest: it tracks LaEx and their nefarious dealings. it pays particular attention to the ESC portion of LaEx
ExpN: How does it work?
Gregg the virtuous:It tracks the login time on ffa of the known cheaters and extrapolates their arrival on express. It has a pattern recognition software that runs the names of express countries against the naming patterns of the four main cheaters to determine the likelihood of ESC ties. It also uses spy alliance data and ingame strategies to determine the odds they are part of LaEx.
ExpN: we all know about LaEx but what is the ESC?
Gregg the victorious: The ESC is the Evil Shadow Clan i have discussed at length. It consists of llaar( I only cheated for twelve hours) , Ice ( I cheated for years) Man, Dark (the game needs cheaters) Morbid and jag(i will keep on cheating for years) ernacht. They lost ten countries last set and according to my puter have fourteen countries this set. So the server's newfound numbers are only partly due to me. Fourteen of the new countries are LaEx. All four of the cheaters said they would play this set.
Expn: Yes they did but those players said they were only playing to kill you.
Gregg the farsighted: You believed them?
ExpN: What are the other factions?
Nostragreggus: The puppet regime and the indirect beneficiaries. The puppet regime consists of thunder (all noise and no substance), Mr (no vocabulary) Ford, and NOW3 ( iadmitted the cheaters all played here when gregg said they did((()P.
ExpN: That is the new leadership of LaE surely Llaar and company will obey their every command?
gregg the wise:
Expn: What of the indirect?
gregg the alpha: this interview is over get out
ExpN: any last words for your fans?
gregg the omeg
unfortunately weather destroyed the last words of the greatest player of any and all time