Keenan, Captain of Close To Death

AD: How have things changed for you and your squad since last time we’ve talked? What kind of improvements or dilemmas has your team gone through?

Keenan: Well, it has been a different experience for all of us. College has started back up so two of our players have been burying their faces in their textbooks. One of us has started a new career in home-repair. Another one of us is expanding his business to be more than just tile preparation. Lastly, the final player is realizing his dream of going to Clown College.

We have our fingers crossed that these skills will transfer over to the Nexus.

AD: How has this recent patch effected your drafting? Qhira no longer a major threat, is Tassadar the answer?

Keenan: To be honest, this patch didn’t have a heavy impact on drafting. While Qhira may have a huge damage output, there are numerous strategies to incapacitate her. For instance, mobile heroes can force her into a bad spot by swiftly changing their own position. Tasssadar? More like Tassadon’t.

AD: I’ve heard you play against them quite frequently. How does that effect your game plan?

Keenan: It does not affect us. We will come into this game with the same mindset that we do every game -The louder you are, the more right you are.

AD: As a competitive Hero Storm player, what kind of content would you like the developers to put out next?

Keenan: More maps! We would love to see more innovative level design like Towers of Doom. The Heroes of the Storm development team has been brilliant in bringing new ideas to the MOBA genre.

I personally wish that HOTS could be the first game with a scent element, because who wouldn’t want to experience Murky’s aroma first-hand?

AD: With Halloween coming up everything around us is getting the Fall/spooky treatment. Have you ever had any experience with paranormal activity?

Keenan: I am not a stranger to the paranormal and I have not been since the Fall of 2010. I was taking care of a neighbor’s pet animals while they were out of town. One morning, I came over and the dogs were locked in a closet and the cats were freaking out. Before I had left the previous day, I made sure that all the doors were closed. Therefore, that means that the door had been opened, the dogs had been put inside, and then someone (or something) locked the door. I suspected that someone had broken in and burglarized the place, but there wasn’t any evidence of forced entry, nor was anything valuable missing. I shrugged it off and put it out of my mind. Well, I did, until later in the day when I hung out with my friend, Stevie. I explained the unusual circumstances to Stevie. He scratched his chin and deduced the cats had learned to open doors. I assured him that was a foolish conclusion because it was more likely that a ghost was haunting the house than a cat operating a deadbolt. He scoffed at me and proclaimed that ghosts did not exist. Immediately, a stapler flew off the desk between us. It happened while the stapler was in our eyesight. We both saw it happen. We both saw the stapler fly more than six feet off the desk. The following week Stevie informed me that he was hearing weird noises at night including heavy footsteps. I assumed that his imagination was getting the best of him and teased that I would bring as many ghosts as I could into his home. It was all fun and games for me while my best friend was terrified. However, I stopped laughing when his dad questioned us about what we were doing at night. His father was unaware of the previous spooky events, but he too had been hearing the footsteps. He was even hearing cabinet doors slam and finding the cabinets wide open in the morning. When we revealed the strange events to Stevie’s dad, he made fun of us. He told Stevie that cats cannot operate complicated safety mechanisms and that my theory of a ghostly haunting was equally dumb. After that, nothing spooky ever happened at his home again. I guess the ghost was more afraid of Stevie’s dad than we were of the ghost.