A couple of Sectoids open fire from the north. The first narrowly misses Food where he stands at the base of the ramp. The second blows away all its cover, then hits kednik. He stays on his feet until our turn begins, then drops from blood loss.
KapsLocked darts north and spots the aliens- a Chaser and a Sectoid, positioned so he can hit them both with a grenade.
Two grenades later and the Chaser is dead, but the Sectoid isn't even singed. Obviously he didn't use enough! Behemoth decides he's had enough of this skulking around with grenades shit and slams through the trees to deliver a load of shot to the Sectoid's face. Kill!
With the immediate threat gone, everyone begins to fan out away from the transport.
ben0207 makes the next sighing- another Larve tucked into the nooks and valleys that cover the map.
Still long-range for a shotgun, so another grenade deals with that threat.
The next turn is quiet. Still, there's a lot of hiding spots around, and a lot of smoke from where bits of the UFO set the ground on fire.
Good ol' grenade! It's also cool to have PFC Food with us. I have a good feeling about this mission!
Words of a dead man.:P
Oooh yeah.
The northern areas are more open woods, so the team clearing them- Behemoth, KapsLocked, Raiden 333 and Food- moves faster. But see nothing, at least so far. A fair amount of random damage, but no aliens, no UFO.
wabbiteh, on the far right flank of the north line, spots a Sectoid off in the distance. The odds for hitting it suck, so he kneels down and waits, hoping it'll miss or he'll be able to pop off a reaction shot..
It doesn't miss. wabbiteh takes two hits and drops- wounded at least, not dead. But the Sectoid keeps shooting, and might have charred him a bit in the process.
Worse, its got a friend. A Muton moves out of the shadows and opens fire on PFC Food, hitting him a glancing blow. The shield cuts it down to 7 damage and he returns fire, wounding the Muton and making its follow-up shots miss.
Down south, ben0207 and Carch take fire from at least one, maybe two aliens. Carch steps up, spots a Sectoid, and throws a grenade.
Hmm. Do over! Another grenade is tossed, and when the smoke clears...
Carch, do you remember those classroom examples on accuracy vs precision? This was a BAD time to be precise!
Fortunately, ben0207 has plenty of AP, and the Sectoid doesn't have any left to reaction fire. One more point-blank shotgunning, coming right up!
Up north, Food takes out the offending Muton with a single burst of his Laser Rifle, though he has to hit it twice more to do it. Raiden333 runs up and becomes the first CAF trooper to perform first aid!
(everyone else died too fast to bother trying...)
Once his head wound is patched up, Food takes a step forward, giving him a clear shot at the Sectoid that brought wabbiteh down.
Carch, do you remember those classroom examples on accuracy vs precision? This was a BAD time to be precise!
Sorry Commander. Won't happen again Commander.
Won't this mission at least.
A Chaser pokes its head out of the rubble north of Carch and ben0207 and hits Carch twice. Like kedinik, he toughs it out until our turn, then collapses.
That does spend all its AP, and ben0207 gives it a good example why reserving some for reaction fire is a good idea.
A bit farher north, closer to Food and Raiden333, another Chaser appears, but doesn't fire. That proves to be a mistake. Food levels his rifle and holds down the trigger, hosing the area with laser bolts. Hit! Hit! it dies. Hit...wait, what?!
Turns out there was another alien behind that one, and Food picked it off too.
ben0207 picks his way north over the alien bodies, peering into crevices as he goes. No sighting. Map is clean!
Not bad, boys. Only one death- wabbieth bled out sometime during the mission. Still, compared to bringing one back ALIVE the first two, that's a big improvement!
And Food gets amply rewarded. Congratulations. Corporal. Well earned, given that you have more kills than everyone else on the active list COMBINED.
Who knew that plasma hurt so much? But hey, at least I survived!
Well, I'm going to enjoy heckling you all during briefings. Don't mind my crippled ass wandering around base, replacing grenades with potatoes and vice versa.
Well, those fuckers at command are calling me a corporal now. Imagine that. Killing these aliens is easy enough. See, to them, us humans are nothing more than animals. Well if they want me to be an animal, then that's what I'll be. But I aint no dog to be ordered around or cattle to be herded. When I'm in the field I'm a grizzly bear. I'm a god damn saber tooth tiger. Hear me roar, motherfuckers!
Zen is ANGRY: Ask in the UFO thread if Zen can have more than one set of shields
Zen is ANGRY: And why he wasn't with PFC food
Zen is ANGRY: Zen is too busy shocking one of the corpses to say this himself.
Well, those fuckers at command are calling me a corporal now. Imagine that. Killing these aliens is easy enough. See, to them, us humans are nothing more than animals. Well if they want me to be an animal, then that's what I'll be. But I aint no dog to be ordered around or cattle to be herded. When I'm in the field I'm a grizzly bear. I'm a god damn saber tooth tiger. Hear me roar, motherfuckers!
Corporal Food out.
Aw, the Corporal's a big ball of psychotic rage. Guess we should all follow his example, eh?
At least all of you do whilst I sit here nursing my horrible, horrible plasma burns. Hey kedinik! Wanna play cards?
Man... I was hoping to get out there next mission. But I suppose it's for the better that we keep all our people out there rather than having to bring up new soldiers...
Man... I was hoping to get out there next mission. But I suppose it's for the better that we keep all our people out there rather than having to bring up new soldiers...
No its not, Blarney. Don't fool yourself. Listen to the slop in the tube; the sooner they die the sooner we get our glory.
Maybe you should sabotage the plane, make it crash.
Kill them all, Blarney. Its the only way you'll be the hero you should be.
[Journal entry 06]:
Its been 2 weeks since I arrived here at the base and I'm already thinking enlisting wasn't such a good Idea. I've been cooped up at the base either on guard duty or helping serve the food in the mess hall (bastards won't let me cook though). This place is getting more depressing with each passing hour. Thank god for the idiots here, at least they lighten the mood a little. Last night, a few of the guys (namely, see317) decided to activate the rectal probulator on Carch while he was sleeping. They left him there for like an hour before letting him down. It was cruel, but... I mean, who the hell sleeps on a disection table!?
But it is getting hard to get some sleep around here. I've been sleeping under a Tree behind the barracks (thank god my girl told me to bring that tent, I'm fuckin' shocked at the living quarters here).
Well, Another team came back from combat today. The lucky bastards only took one casualty, Cpl. food is building up a reputation. But... I don't know. Something about him just creeps me out. It's like he isn't even human but... something else... All that aside, he's the one I'd like to have watching my back in a fight, even if he is a little off.
I clean my gun every day now, I guess I'm a little nervous for the upcoming battles.
Heres hoping I can at least stay sane till' my turn.
I hope you all like grenades, because I'm going to start leaving them with their pins loose around base. The rectal probulator incident will not stand! :x
Why do I get the feeling Food is going to become a walking God of Death?
I hope you all like grenades, because I'm going to start leaving them with their pins loose around base. The rectal probulator incident will not stand! :x
Why do I get the feeling Food is going to become a walking God of Death?
gurgle glug glug gurgle glug twitch gurgle glug (20 SPACE MONIES says he dies next mission)
I hope you all like grenades, because I'm going to start leaving them with their pins loose around base. The rectal probulator incident will not stand! :x
Why do I get the feeling Food is going to become a walking God of Death?
gurgle glug glug gurgle glug twitch gurgle glug (20 SPACE MONIES says he dies next mission)
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It is seriously creeping me out the way the unprocessed recruits keep talking. What's worse is that I can understand what they're saying.
Also, fuck the dissection/torture table, and fuck it's analytical systems. I'll sleep in the hangar next to the ammunition crates. Hell, at least if the constant mind numbing stress keeps me awake I can count grenades until I fall asleep.
I just can't do anything right. Carch was pissed that his comfy bed in the containment room didn't turn out to be so comfy. When he got back from his last mission he was cursing up a storm "I'm not staying in a medbay with these jerks".
So him and his bandaged leg make it down to the Hanger where he sets himself up behind a couple of grenade crates. Unfortunately he doesn't tell me and i'm driving the forklift round unloading all the new boxes of laser pistols from the transport. Since my tank is on backorder and we have plenty of rookies the commander has had me in here.
Whilst I was working I dropped the box with Nocren's custom weapon on Carch's head.
So now I have to avoid Carch for a little bit (Not hard, I can usually outrun him) and Nocren until the Heavy Laser shipment comes in (At which point if I snag one and let him play with it in the firing range I should be good).
Is it too late to sign up? Because I totally would rock a Stun Rocket Launcher and Stun Stick combo.
"What are you, some kind of pacifist?" you sneer, "We're fightin' for Earth!"
Oh, no. You shoot an alien once, he bleeds out and dies but once. Stun him, bag him, and drag him back to the lab, and you can bleed him out and kill him forever and ever.
Bursar on
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I've been cooped up in this base for a while now, watching troops head out to fight, Food getting promoted to Corporal, and globs of slime that used to be his meat shield returning to the lab so they can be re-cloned - seems like they're having all the excitement, while us rookies are stuck on guard duty. I wanna blow stuff up already!
Oh well, I managed to sneak some materials out of the workshop, that should help me liven things up here - everything I need to make a small timed explosive. I think I'll set the timer to 2 minutes, and give the term 'mess hall' a new meaning - I hear they've put soup on the menu today...
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Who knew that plasma hurt so much? But hey, at least I survived!
Well, I'm going to enjoy heckling you all during briefings. Don't mind my crippled ass wandering around base, replacing grenades with potatoes and vice versa.
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Carch has been giving me the evil eye ever since that incident with the rectal probulator.
I'd be worried if I didn't remember the smile he was wearing while Ol' Recty was giving him a workout.
Now he's sleeping behind the grenades. I don't know what he expects to happen to him there, but I hope whoever he gets to help him out with it remembers the rubber gloves.
I feel a bit odd praying for the deaths of everyone else on the team, but how the hell am I going to get my hands on some weaponry if they don't get out the way first?
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KapsLocked darts north and spots the aliens- a Chaser and a Sectoid, positioned so he can hit them both with a grenade.
Two grenades later and the Chaser is dead, but the Sectoid isn't even singed. Obviously he didn't use enough! Behemoth decides he's had enough of this skulking around with grenades shit and slams through the trees to deliver a load of shot to the Sectoid's face. Kill!
With the immediate threat gone, everyone begins to fan out away from the transport.
ben0207 makes the next sighing- another Larve tucked into the nooks and valleys that cover the map.
Still long-range for a shotgun, so another grenade deals with that threat.
The next turn is quiet. Still, there's a lot of hiding spots around, and a lot of smoke from where bits of the UFO set the ground on fire.
*cocks shotgun*
Dammit, don't jinx the squad.
At least I took out one of them!
Oooh yeah.
The northern areas are more open woods, so the team clearing them- Behemoth, KapsLocked, Raiden 333 and Food- moves faster. But see nothing, at least so far. A fair amount of random damage, but no aliens, no UFO.
wabbiteh, on the far right flank of the north line, spots a Sectoid off in the distance. The odds for hitting it suck, so he kneels down and waits, hoping it'll miss or he'll be able to pop off a reaction shot..
It doesn't miss. wabbiteh takes two hits and drops- wounded at least, not dead. But the Sectoid keeps shooting, and might have charred him a bit in the process.
Worse, its got a friend. A Muton moves out of the shadows and opens fire on PFC Food, hitting him a glancing blow. The shield cuts it down to 7 damage and he returns fire, wounding the Muton and making its follow-up shots miss.
Down south, ben0207 and Carch take fire from at least one, maybe two aliens. Carch steps up, spots a Sectoid, and throws a grenade.
Hmm. Do over! Another grenade is tossed, and when the smoke clears...
Carch, do you remember those classroom examples on accuracy vs precision? This was a BAD time to be precise!
Fortunately, ben0207 has plenty of AP, and the Sectoid doesn't have any left to reaction fire. One more point-blank shotgunning, coming right up!
Sorry Commander. Won't happen again Commander.
(everyone else died too fast to bother trying...)
Once his head wound is patched up, Food takes a step forward, giving him a clear shot at the Sectoid that brought wabbiteh down.
Zap. Minus one more.
Won't this mission at least.
A Chaser pokes its head out of the rubble north of Carch and ben0207 and hits Carch twice. Like kedinik, he toughs it out until our turn, then collapses.
That does spend all its AP, and ben0207 gives it a good example why reserving some for reaction fire is a good idea.
A bit farher north, closer to Food and Raiden333, another Chaser appears, but doesn't fire. That proves to be a mistake. Food levels his rifle and holds down the trigger, hosing the area with laser bolts. Hit! Hit! it dies. Hit...wait, what?!
Turns out there was another alien behind that one, and Food picked it off too.
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Not bad, boys. Only one death- wabbieth bled out sometime during the mission. Still, compared to bringing one back ALIVE the first two, that's a big improvement!
And Food gets amply rewarded. Congratulations. Corporal. Well earned, given that you have more kills than everyone else on the active list COMBINED.
Carch will be out for 21 days, kedinik for 26.
Active: (kills / stuns / deaths / missions) type
Food: (9 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 2 missions) (Are you TRYING for karmatic death here?)
Zen Vulgarity: (0 kills / 2 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) stun rod / shields
Lampley: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) grenades
1k Dicks: (2 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) explosives (full name won't fit)
Nocren: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) Heavy (no autocannon, but BIG lasers!) Charlene
ben0207: (3 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) shotgun
Carch: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) pistols (hey, I went by the title)
KapsLocked: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) grenades
Raiden333: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) Medic
kedinik: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) shotgun
Behemoth: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) shotgun
Clone List: (kills / stuns / deaths / missions) type
WMain00: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rifle
Klyka: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) dual pistols
MrBlarney: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) medic
Domhnall: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) flamethrower
YerMum: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rocket launcher
Fish: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) shotgun
Antihippy: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) grenade
Dignified Pauper: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) sniper
Cinders: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rocket launcher
Rabidrabbit: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) shotgun
Skutskut: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rifle
bongi: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rifle
Maddoc: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) pistols grenades scoutKILL
Inzigna: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rifleman
Mr Ray: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rifle / grenades
DualEdge: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) stunrod / stunrod
Jast: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rifle
MrMonroe: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) prox/stunrod
Forar: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rifle/shotgun
Steel Angel: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) sniper
Sheepman: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) medic
Xtarath: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) medic
Core: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) shotgun
Erandus: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rifle
Blue map: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) grenades
gunwarrior: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) shotgun
BronzeDuck: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) Heavy
Omnicron9999: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 1 deaths / 1 missions) infantry
Jesuits: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 1 deaths / 1 missions) flamethrower
Parkingtigers: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) pistols /stun
Flippy_D : (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) GUESS.
Igel: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions)
Jean Claude Van Calm: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) sniper
Roshin: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) scout
joshua1: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions)
Velmeran: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) rifleman
Zandracon: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) explosives
Sunstrand: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions)
mrsnackroad: (2 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) expendable rifle
Wheezer: (2 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) rifleman
Khavall: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) sniper
Typhus733: (1 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) shotgun
Zone: (2 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) bazkooka
see317: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) rockets / grenades
Apharmd: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) heavy
4rch3nemy: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) maniac
SanderJK : (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions)
BlitzAce: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) BOOM
TehSpectre: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 0 missions) scout / dual pistols
wabbiteh: (0 kills / 0 stuns / 0 deaths / 1 missions) generic
Vehicle Pilots: (kills / stuns / deaths / missions)
RogueKnight (2 kills / 0 stuns / 1 deaths / 1 missions)
A lot of you sons of bitches gotta die before I get back into the fight. Knock off this not dying shit, huh?
Think there is a mistake on that list though, it credits Redshirt Parkingtigers with a kill, but I don't believe I have seen action yet.
Well, I'm going to enjoy heckling you all during briefings. Don't mind my crippled ass wandering around base, replacing grenades with potatoes and vice versa.
And congratulations to Corporal Food!
Corporal Food out.
Zen is ANGRY: And why he wasn't with PFC food
Zen is ANGRY: Zen is too busy shocking one of the corpses to say this himself.
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MY LIFE FOR THE SWARM
Aw, the Corporal's a big ball of psychotic rage. Guess we should all follow his example, eh?
At least all of you do whilst I sit here nursing my horrible, horrible plasma burns. Hey kedinik! Wanna play cards?
As loudly as possible.
WHERE'S CHARLENE?!?!!?!?
*sits off in the corner of the transport on the way back like this, playing with two grenades like the soldier in TF2*
No its not, Blarney. Don't fool yourself. Listen to the slop in the tube; the sooner they die the sooner we get our glory.
Maybe you should sabotage the plane, make it crash.
Kill them all, Blarney. Its the only way you'll be the hero you should be.
Who'd have thought I'd rise to internet fame as a pile of guts and turds in a tube in an X-Com LP?
Its been 2 weeks since I arrived here at the base and I'm already thinking enlisting wasn't such a good Idea. I've been cooped up at the base either on guard duty or helping serve the food in the mess hall (bastards won't let me cook though). This place is getting more depressing with each passing hour. Thank god for the idiots here, at least they lighten the mood a little. Last night, a few of the guys (namely, see317) decided to activate the rectal probulator on Carch while he was sleeping. They left him there for like an hour before letting him down. It was cruel, but... I mean, who the hell sleeps on a disection table!?
But it is getting hard to get some sleep around here. I've been sleeping under a Tree behind the barracks (thank god my girl told me to bring that tent, I'm fuckin' shocked at the living quarters here).
Well, Another team came back from combat today. The lucky bastards only took one casualty, Cpl. food is building up a reputation. But... I don't know. Something about him just creeps me out. It's like he isn't even human but... something else... All that aside, he's the one I'd like to have watching my back in a fight, even if he is a little off.
I clean my gun every day now, I guess I'm a little nervous for the upcoming battles.
Heres hoping I can at least stay sane till' my turn.
Gunwarrior out
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Why do I get the feeling Food is going to become a walking God of Death?
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Begin Log
It is seriously creeping me out the way the unprocessed recruits keep talking. What's worse is that I can understand what they're saying.
Also, fuck the dissection/torture table, and fuck it's analytical systems. I'll sleep in the hangar next to the ammunition crates. Hell, at least if the constant mind numbing stress keeps me awake I can count grenades until I fall asleep.
End Log
I just can't do anything right. Carch was pissed that his comfy bed in the containment room didn't turn out to be so comfy. When he got back from his last mission he was cursing up a storm "I'm not staying in a medbay with these jerks".
So him and his bandaged leg make it down to the Hanger where he sets himself up behind a couple of grenade crates. Unfortunately he doesn't tell me and i'm driving the forklift round unloading all the new boxes of laser pistols from the transport. Since my tank is on backorder and we have plenty of rookies the commander has had me in here.
Whilst I was working I dropped the box with Nocren's custom weapon on Carch's head.
So now I have to avoid Carch for a little bit (Not hard, I can usually outrun him) and Nocren until the Heavy Laser shipment comes in (At which point if I snag one and let him play with it in the firing range I should be good).
"What are you, some kind of pacifist?" you sneer, "We're fightin' for Earth!"
Oh, no. You shoot an alien once, he bleeds out and dies but once. Stun him, bag him, and drag him back to the lab, and you can bleed him out and kill him forever and ever.
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I've been cooped up in this base for a while now, watching troops head out to fight, Food getting promoted to Corporal, and globs of slime that used to be his meat shield returning to the lab so they can be re-cloned - seems like they're having all the excitement, while us rookies are stuck on guard duty. I wanna blow stuff up already!
Oh well, I managed to sneak some materials out of the workshop, that should help me liven things up here - everything I need to make a small timed explosive. I think I'll set the timer to 2 minutes, and give the term 'mess hall' a new meaning - I hear they've put soup on the menu today...
I've been thinking about running off to join the infantry. Mom says I'll put my eye out. Dad just drinks heavily. They don't understand me....
I've enjoyed it.
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Carch has been giving me the evil eye ever since that incident with the rectal probulator.
I'd be worried if I didn't remember the smile he was wearing while Ol' Recty was giving him a workout.
Now he's sleeping behind the grenades. I don't know what he expects to happen to him there, but I hope whoever he gets to help him out with it remembers the rubber gloves.
I feel a bit odd praying for the deaths of everyone else on the team, but how the hell am I going to get my hands on some weaponry if they don't get out the way first?