Guys. This glass in the mess just lifted into the air, the contents disapeared, and then it fell back to the table. I'd say that the place is haunted but it is probably just anti-grav tests in the lab.
Pretty sure the boss said that the science types aren't supposed to be fooling around any of that alien tech.
For their sake, I hope it's ghosts. For their still's sake, I really hope it's ghosts.
*intercom* X-COM, this is your Captain speaking. As you've all been made aware, Operation Candied Merkin suffered the loss of Captain cB557 and Squaddie Heatwave. They were both humans that I had come to respect and admire in the concerted futile attempts to hold back the invasion. While their sacrifices will not be forgotten, those that remain to remember them are not likely to outlive them by much.
A toast in their honour will be held in the dry mess at 2100 hours. Alcohol requisition forms will be required to be filled out by 1600 hours to receive your Alcohol docket, first in best dressed. TeeMan out.
well like
I'm sad I died early
but at least I manage to not act like an unbelievable douche canoe this time
hey cheer up
the words Candied Merkin will forever be associated with your corpse
And by "associated," we really mean "engraved," and by "your corpse," we mean "on your tombstone."
In about ... 60 years or so, assuming we all survive this, you're going to have the most popular headstone in the cemetery.
So essentially, you won't.
Pretty sure none of us are going to have anything on our tombstones besides the word "redacted" a half dozen times and, maybe, a serial number.
Assuming of course that any of us survive long enough to order tombstones for the rest of us.
well like
I'm sad I died early
but at least I manage to not act like an unbelievable douche canoe this time
hey cheer up
the words Candied Merkin will forever be associated with your corpse
And by "associated," we really mean "engraved," and by "your corpse," we mean "on your tombstone."
In about ... 60 years or so, assuming we all survive this, you're going to have the most popular headstone in the cemetery.
So essentially, you won't.
Pretty sure none of us are going to have anything on our tombstones besides the word "redacted" a half dozen times and, maybe, a serial number.
Assuming of course that any of us survive long enough to order tombstones for the rest of us.
The serial number will also be redacted. Y'alls will be lucky if the dashes between number clusters escapes the redacting pen.
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should we just buy black construction paper? seems like it'd have the same effect without wasting all that ink.
Hell, just buy a blank tombstone, or do what the CIA does and just etch a star into a Memorial Wall. No name, no nothing. just a star that someone died in the line of duty.
should we just buy black construction paper? seems like it'd have the same effect without wasting all that ink.
Hell, just buy a blank tombstone, or do what the CIA does and just etch a star into a Memorial Wall. No name, no nothing. just a star that someone died in the line of duty.
But then they'd know it wasn't just swamp gas!
I say we put up *s. That way it doesn't confirm anything.
well like
I'm sad I died early
but at least I manage to not act like an unbelievable douche canoe this time
hey cheer up
the words Candied Merkin will forever be associated with your corpse
And by "associated," we really mean "engraved," and by "your corpse," we mean "on your tombstone."
In about ... 60 years or so, assuming we all survive this, you're going to have the most popular headstone in the cemetery.
So essentially, you won't.
Pretty sure none of us are going to have anything on our tombstones besides the word "redacted" a half dozen times and, maybe, a serial number.
Assuming of course that any of us survive long enough to order tombstones for the rest of us.
The serial number will also be redacted. Y'alls will be lucky if the dashes between number clusters escapes the redacting pen.
Given the restrictions placed on this campaign, we'll be lucky if there's someone left at the end of it to bury the bodies.
well like
I'm sad I died early
but at least I manage to not act like an unbelievable douche canoe this time
hey cheer up
the words Candied Merkin will forever be associated with your corpse
And by "associated," we really mean "engraved," and by "your corpse," we mean "on your tombstone."
In about ... 60 years or so, assuming we all survive this, you're going to have the most popular headstone in the cemetery.
So essentially, you won't.
Pretty sure none of us are going to have anything on our tombstones besides the word "redacted" a half dozen times and, maybe, a serial number.
Assuming of course that any of us survive long enough to order tombstones for the rest of us.
The serial number will also be redacted. Y'alls will be lucky if the dashes between number clusters escapes the redacting pen.
Given the restrictions placed on this campaign, we'll be lucky if there's someone left at the end of it to bury the bodies.
I'm sure the mutons will be gentle with our corpses
Translated from muton:
<What the hell are you doing?>
<The humans call it, 'playing horseshoes.'>
"Despite the destruction of the human race, it left its destroyers a cursed gift. Like the console wars of the early 21st century, the Mutons split into two factions. The Terraphiles and their love of Earth games and the Spheroid loyalists and their preference for Alien Entertainment Spheres. The destructive schism ended when one side swatted blaster bombs into the opposing alien base while they streamed entertainment broadcasts to Cydonia."
GONG-00 on
Black lives matter.
Law and Order ≠ Justice
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Still waiting on Dan "Man of his Word" Ryckert to eat a hat
+2
MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
based on the lore there would still be humans, theyd just be, different
(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
should we just buy black construction paper? seems like it'd have the same effect without wasting all that ink.
Hell, just buy a blank tombstone, or do what the CIA does and just etch a star into a Memorial Wall. No name, no nothing. just a star that someone died in the line of duty.
But then they'd know it wasn't just swamp gas!
I say we put up *s. That way it doesn't confirm anything.
Every time someone dies, I'll walk down to the shore of the Mediterranean and silently release a single black balloon in memoriam.
♪♪ Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont ♪♪
should we just buy black construction paper? seems like it'd have the same effect without wasting all that ink.
Hell, just buy a blank tombstone, or do what the CIA does and just etch a star into a Memorial Wall. No name, no nothing. just a star that someone died in the line of duty.
But then they'd know it wasn't just swamp gas!
I say we put up *s. That way it doesn't confirm anything.
Every time someone dies, I'll walk down to the shore of the Mediterranean and silently release a single black balloon in memoriam.
♪♪ Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont ♪♪
Look, boss. I'm no accountant, but I was looking over your shoulder while you were working out the budget for the next month. And I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure we don't have the liquid fiduciary resources to buy quite that many balloons.
+4
MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
Their memorial is in our hearts and will stay with us right up until the point we get eviscerated and an alien tentacle reaches in and pulls it out of our still warm flesh.
(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
should we just buy black construction paper? seems like it'd have the same effect without wasting all that ink.
Hell, just buy a blank tombstone, or do what the CIA does and just etch a star into a Memorial Wall. No name, no nothing. just a star that someone died in the line of duty.
But then they'd know it wasn't just swamp gas!
I say we put up *s. That way it doesn't confirm anything.
Every time someone dies, I'll walk down to the shore of the Mediterranean and silently release a single black balloon in memoriam.
♪♪ Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont ♪♪
Look, boss. I'm no accountant, but I was looking over your shoulder while you were working out the budget for the next month. And I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure we don't have the liquid fiduciary resources to buy quite that many balloons.
On the other hand, we are bringing back a fair number of alien corpses, and they're just full of bladders and assorted tubes and such. A little ingenuity and a whole lot of helium and we're good to go on project "99 Balloons".
Though, briefing development would still like to work with you on that name.
FandaHang a shining starupon the highest boughRegistered Userregular
Another Terror ship.
It's on the same trajectory as the Floater Scout we shot down in Chile at the beginning of the month, so Lt. MechMantis heads back to South America.
We're hoping to shadow it with our Interceptor and have a strike team en route to engage in case it lands. But in the two and a half hours it takes MechMantis to reach Chile, the Terror ship has apparently finished what it set out to do and is on its way back into space. MechMantis arrives just in time to watch it leave.
The Terror ship's appearance does give us two important pieces of information, though. First, the UFO activity in South America this month must have been terror site scouting, not an infiltration. And second, our next terror mission will be conducted by Floaters, not Sectoids. Good news all around.
Not until the following week do we get another contact we can actually shoot down. Captain EvmaAlsar makes short work of a Large Scout in northern France.
As the Dakkajet is on its way home, I take the opportunity to glance at the UFO activity graphs. X-Com agents are reporting renewed activity in Siberia, so EvmaAlsar diverts to check it out.
Well, hello there. I believe that's our first landed UFO. But not, alas, our first ground assault: before the Skyranger even reaches the Russian border, the landed Scout takes off.
And our Interceptor puts it right back down again. With only four Stingrays remaining from his starting payload of twelve, EvmaAlsar is headed home for the second time today.
Skyranger-1 passes the returning Dakkajet northeast of Moscow. The frigid taiga and a wrecked Large Scout await.
Because it's not quite up to "Candied Merkin" standards?
Well, there's that. But their bigger problem is that the plan as currently written requires 104 balloons, and they worry it may be confusing.
Hold on a second, getting a call on my personal comm device. Because that's cooler to say then "crappy walmart brand cell phone". They're just getting to you on that?
...Yes, it's 104 now...
...yeah, they had to round up...
...No, they still don't know how to inflate 3/4s of a balloon, so the original idea just isn't feasible.
...No, I don't know how you would make 3/4s of a balloon work either....
...sigh... yeah, it would have been cool to see.
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For their sake, I hope it's ghosts. For their still's sake, I really hope it's ghosts.
A toast in their honour will be held in the dry mess at 2100 hours. Alcohol requisition forms will be required to be filled out by 1600 hours to receive your Alcohol docket, first in best dressed. TeeMan out.
If you require me, commander, I will !signup for duty.
It IS a good thread. Every time one of these comes along, it makes me wonder when someone is going to try this with Xenonauts.
Also sad folks are dying but yaaaaaay I'm getting closer to my own gory death!
Chicago Megagame group
Watch me struggle to learn streaming! Point and laugh!
I'm sad I died early
but at least I managed to not act like an unbelievable douche canoe this time
And at least this spares you the indignity of getting mind controlled into killing your fellow alien hunters or turning into Chrysalid chow.
soon the deaths will begin to lose their meaning.
--Mark Twain
hey cheer up
the words Candied Merkin will forever be associated with your corpse
And by "associated," we really mean "engraved," and by "your corpse," we mean "on your tombstone."
In about ... 60 years or so, assuming we all survive this, you're going to have the most popular headstone in the cemetery.
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Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
So essentially, you won't.
Pretty sure none of us are going to have anything on our tombstones besides the word "redacted" a half dozen times and, maybe, a serial number.
Assuming of course that any of us survive long enough to order tombstones for the rest of us.
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The serial number will also be redacted. Y'alls will be lucky if the dashes between number clusters escapes the redacting pen.
Hell, just buy a blank tombstone, or do what the CIA does and just etch a star into a Memorial Wall. No name, no nothing. just a star that someone died in the line of duty.
Steam - NotoriusBEN | Uplay - notoriusben | Xbox,Windows Live - ThatBEN
Law and Order ≠ Justice
ACNH Island Isla Cero: DA-3082-2045-4142
Still waiting on Dan "Man of his Word" Ryckert to eat a hat
But then they'd know it wasn't just swamp gas!
I say we put up *s. That way it doesn't confirm anything.
Why I fear the ocean.
time to stop riding the hyperwaves and fight for freedommmmmmm
Given the restrictions placed on this campaign, we'll be lucky if there's someone left at the end of it to bury the bodies.
I'm sure the mutons will be gentle with our corpses
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<What the hell are you doing?>
<The humans call it, 'playing horseshoes.'>
"Despite the destruction of the human race, it left its destroyers a cursed gift. Like the console wars of the early 21st century, the Mutons split into two factions. The Terraphiles and their love of Earth games and the Spheroid loyalists and their preference for Alien Entertainment Spheres. The destructive schism ended when one side swatted blaster bombs into the opposing alien base while they streamed entertainment broadcasts to Cydonia."
Law and Order ≠ Justice
ACNH Island Isla Cero: DA-3082-2045-4142
Still waiting on Dan "Man of his Word" Ryckert to eat a hat
for a given definition of individual
3DS: 0447-9966-6178
Every time someone dies, I'll walk down to the shore of the Mediterranean and silently release a single black balloon in memoriam.
♪♪ Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont ♪♪
Look, boss. I'm no accountant, but I was looking over your shoulder while you were working out the budget for the next month. And I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure we don't have the liquid fiduciary resources to buy quite that many balloons.
Though, briefing development would still like to work with you on that name.
Really, though ... what is?
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
It's on the same trajectory as the Floater Scout we shot down in Chile at the beginning of the month, so Lt. MechMantis heads back to South America.
We're hoping to shadow it with our Interceptor and have a strike team en route to engage in case it lands. But in the two and a half hours it takes MechMantis to reach Chile, the Terror ship has apparently finished what it set out to do and is on its way back into space. MechMantis arrives just in time to watch it leave.
The Terror ship's appearance does give us two important pieces of information, though. First, the UFO activity in South America this month must have been terror site scouting, not an infiltration. And second, our next terror mission will be conducted by Floaters, not Sectoids. Good news all around.
Not until the following week do we get another contact we can actually shoot down. Captain EvmaAlsar makes short work of a Large Scout in northern France.
As the Dakkajet is on its way home, I take the opportunity to glance at the UFO activity graphs. X-Com agents are reporting renewed activity in Siberia, so EvmaAlsar diverts to check it out.
Well, hello there. I believe that's our first landed UFO. But not, alas, our first ground assault: before the Skyranger even reaches the Russian border, the landed Scout takes off.
And our Interceptor puts it right back down again. With only four Stingrays remaining from his starting payload of twelve, EvmaAlsar is headed home for the second time today.
Skyranger-1 passes the returning Dakkajet northeast of Moscow. The frigid taiga and a wrecked Large Scout await.
Oh, it's going to be one of those missions.
Hold on a second, getting a call on my personal comm device. Because that's cooler to say then "crappy walmart brand cell phone".
They're just getting to you on that?
...Yes, it's 104 now...
...yeah, they had to round up...
...No, they still don't know how to inflate 3/4s of a balloon, so the original idea just isn't feasible.
...No, I don't know how you would make 3/4s of a balloon work either....
...sigh... yeah, it would have been cool to see.
I had "Operation Hot Father" once.
Dear Russia,
Congratulations on your purchase of a Sectoid small UFO crew. With proper care and feeding, they're sure to bring you many years of happiness.
Love and kisses,
X-Com
We need those alien bladders and tubes.
The hell am I going to do with this much helium?