The Year is 2015.
And shit... just got reaaaalllll
The Withered are invading earth. It's up to a rag tag task-force of the best and the brightest Earth has to offer to repel the forces of the Lich and Escape from Undeath.
We are Earths final hope. We are EFUCom
Hosted in the United States of America, EFUCom's Persistant World(wide) efforts are the only thing standing between humanity and total destruction.
[hide="First Contact"]
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We have met the enemy, and shot them in the face with automatic weapons. A team consisting of DM Howland, DM Derfo, DM Shadow Charlatan and DM Jaydemoon has made first contact with the aliens, returning with the corpses of four
Fleshlings(Sectoids) and the fragments of their equipment. Whatever fell magic holds their weapons together seems to disintegrate when they die. Never the less, it's from these humble beginnings that our research into our enemy and their methods will begin. We have immediately begun researching the Withered's
Weapon Fragments, building two more
Flying Enclaves (satellites) for future deployment, and sent an order in for 8 more soldiers to bring our numbers up to 20 souls.
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Our roster right now consists of 10 DM's and Capricious and Sylvyr, because I didn't know the names of any other female EFU players.
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All that awaits us is to scan for more Withered activity.
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[hide="Mission 1: Operation Sacred Star"]
Our first 'real' mission comes six days later, when Aliens begin enmasse abductions in multiple parts of the world.
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EFUCom chooses to respond to Australia's call for help, because nobody cares about France and nobody EFU lives in Egypt. Also, the Aussies are offering sweet cash, and we're in dire need of funds this early in the war.
Command puts out the call. A-Team assembles.
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Humanities greatest hope
And so, ONE LONG BORING ASS PLANE RIDE LATER-
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The team arrives in Australia outside some paper mill in Melbourne, ready to stop the withered scum defiling our pulped-wood products.
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The team fans out and takes cover, everyone over-watches this turn. As is usual, Howland loiters in the background, because his weapon has the longest range. Also snipers can't fire their rifle after moving unless they take a special perk, so they don't make good point men.
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Jaydemoon takes point and immediately see's a Fleshling in the distance (he probably held down tab). It appears to be humping a burning car. Truly, our enemy is debased. A second fleshling see's us and bolts, falling back.
The whole team moves up, staying behind full cover and those who don't dash overwatch. Seeing no easy way to advance, Jaydemoon lines up a shot on the fleshling in the distance. He only has a 45% chance to hit, a waste of an action.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img696/561/xcomgame201210251217441.jpg)
He takes the gamble anyway, and miraculously crits the Fleshling, killing it instantly.
The team moves up with ShadowCharlatan taking point, revealing two more fleshlings hiding behind the windows, as well as the earlier one that fell back. Due to the scarcity of cover, Derfo pops a smoke to give the pointmen a defense bonus.
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Unfortunatly it's insufficient to negate the disadvantage of hiding behind some shitty japanese compact, and a Fleshling scores a particularly nasty shot on ShadowCharlatan from inside the building, doing 4 bars of damage.
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Having had enough of these motherfucking withered in this motherfucking parkinglot, Derfo moves up and takes cover by the door, where he finds he has a line of fire on one of the Fleshlings inside the building.
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He lines up a shot. 50%. Time to flip a coin and pray to Tymora. He takes the shot and crits, killing the enemy instantly.
The team moves up, taking a couple shots and missing.
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Two more Fleshlings come out of the woodwork, flanking Howland and taking a shot at him. Fortunately, this one only does two bars of damage.
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Jaydemoon also takes a shot during these turns, losing two bars of health. Howland, finally having something in range, switches to his sniper rifle and finishes off a Fleshling with a crit. Derfo and ShadowCharlatan mop up the remaining two. Mission successful.
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Returning to base, we take stock. Nobody died, but three members of A-Team will be down with injuries for a week. Only Derfo escapes unscathed, and is promoted to Corporal for his trouble.
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Flush with Aussie cash, which I can only assume consists of sea-shells and beads, we set the dwarves to work expanding our base, beginning three simultaneous excavations.
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Our first mission done, we take stock of our schedule of the upcoming month. Only two more days remain on our current research project.
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Here's hoping it's worth it.[/hide]
[hide="Mission 2: Operation Twisted Prophet"]
Three days pass without incident. During that time, our research into weapon fragments finish, permitting us to manufacture advanced scopes for our weapons. By EFU-IRC vote, we select Alien Materials for our next research project. Almost immediately after, we log a bogey in our airspace.
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We scramble our Spelljammer, Raven-1, and take to the skies, blowing the interloper out of the sky in just two shots. Meanwhile our ground team assembles. With three members of A-Squad still recovering in the infirmary, Derfo will be taking rookies into the field. Derfo brings along a medikit just incase.
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The Replacement Players pile into the Skyranger and roll out.
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Setting down in a thick coniferous forest somewhere in the upper mid-west, the team quickly fans out. Derfo takes point, and hears movement to the north.
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The team swings up that direction, moving from cover to cover. Coming to some elevated terrain, Talir dashes ahead and spots the enemy - two Fleshlings, hiding among the rocky outcroppings. And they have him flanked.
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Fortunatly, the shots the Fleshlings take after scrambling for cover miss widely against all odds. The rest of the team moves up. Derfo pops a smoke over the low ground to make up for the scant cover, and Capricious moves forward to take a shot which misses.
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A tense, close quarters fire fight ensues, neither side scoring any hits. Then, a lucky break. One of the enemy breaks cover and advances, trying to flank Capricious. Unfortunately he presents an exposed flank squarely to Talir, up close and personal. He dispatches the fleshling with practiced ease.
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More shooting ensues, and Derfo scores another kill. The enemy tries to fall back to the other side of the outcropping in order to escape the assault. One flanks wide to come around to the other side of DM Morte, firing on him and scoring a glancing hit for 3 bars of damage.
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Unfortunately for him, this brings him squarely into the sights of Derfo, who drops him on a 53% chance shot.
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Meanwhile, Talir draws a bead on the last fleshling and ends him with a crit. Mort falls back to Derfo, and Derfo tends his injury with his sack of healing grains. The team advances carefully towards the crashed vessel.
BUT THEN - OH SHIT, WHATS THAT!?
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It's a SPOOOOKY
GHOST(Outsider)!
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Casper takes an unsuccessful shot at Derfo, his ectoplasm spraying over the terrain like a porn star taking a money shot. Derfo returns fire, winging the Ghost for two bars of damage. The rest of the team moves up, using the shell of the crash as cover.
Talir flanks from the opposite side using a hole in the wall, and ends it.
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Mission successful.
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Taking stock, neither Capricious nor Morte scored any kills, and are thus passed over for promotion. Derfo racks up another two, and Talir finishes us out with three, earning a promotion and his sniper rifle.
We also score some loot. Broken
Spelljammer(UFO) parts. These are useless for our research team, so we sell them off for 70 extra gold.
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Back to watching the skies...[/hide]
[hide="Mission 3: Operation Driving Hawk"]
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A two weeks pass without incident. During that time our research on materials reaches fruition, allowing us to create armored under-vests for our soldiers. The dwarves also finish our new excavations, and our Enclave over Egypt is properly installed. We also finish manufacturing two new Enclaves for further surveillance, but lack the
Mythallers (Sattelite Uplinks) to fly them at this time. We begin studying the "biology", for lack of a better term, of our enemy.
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We're halfway through that when we're contacted by the Peerage
(Council).
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The nobles say that the Withered are massing in a graveyard in Russia. Don't these idiots burn their dead? Time to suit up. With their injuries healed, this time we take along ShadowCharlatan and Jaydemoon, along with Derfo and Talir. Each of the core classes is represented - Fighter (assault), Rogue (sniper), Barbarian (heavy), and Cleric (support)
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Taking the sky-ship to the mission area, we recieve our briefing. The Withered are planting magical explosive devices in the area. Left uncontested, they could raze the whole region to the ground. Time to get cracking.
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With time running out, the team immediatly fans out as it hits the ground. Talir breaks left and ShadowCharlatan breaks right, both staying on the high ground incase they need to bring their heavier weapons to bear. Talir see's something shiny ahead on the ground, and relying on his finely honed adventurers instincts, runs up and hits it with a stick. This turns out to be a good thing, as these devices happen to be charging the explosive device. Derfo advances on his flank and overwatches.
The team rapidly presses on, but oh no whats that in the shadows?!
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Ew, gross, it's an animated stargazer
(thin man). These pricks are fragile, but accurate and agile. Also they spit poison. Stargazers spit poison right?
ShadowCharlatan continues down the right flank and deactivates another glowing thingy, Derfo and Talir up the left (killing a fleshling or two as they go), and JaydeMoon up the center.
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For his trouble, JaydeMoon gets shot at by the overwatching Stargazer. Fortunately, this isn't Wanted so his bitch-ass never learned to curve shots around walls. The team also spots some Fleshlings ahead.
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That's a dank ass shot to make with a shotgun. Can he do it?
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Yep. Talir moves up, gets shot at by the 'Stargazer' again, and he misses, again. Meanwhile, ShadowCharlatan comes around the corner, turns off another relay, and takes a bead on the enemy sniper.
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Not good odds.
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But it's a hit. At this point, the team is spread all across the map. ShadowCharlatan is isolated on his side of the Mausoleum. One enemy fleshling takes up behind some cover and goes on overwatch. Another takes the highground and shoots at ShadowCharlatan. He misses, but destroys his cover.
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SC is in a bit of a jam. He's completly exposed, but if he moves that over-watching fleshling will take a shot at him. Talir rushes forward to save the day, taking cover on the opposite side of the Mausoleum.
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A clutch shot with low chances of success, but miraculously he makes it, killing the overwatching Fleshling. ShadowCharlatan, save from reposte attack, dives behind cover and guns down the other Fleshling. The whole team advances and converges on the bomb at the center top of the map, and JaydeMoon deactivates it.
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One last enemy gets the drop on them though, popping out of who-the-fuck-knows. JaydeMoon is the closest and runs into position behind cover, drawing overwatch fire from the enemy that misses. That's a total of three dodges this mission. 62% chance to hit, no problem. JM drops the last enemy for the win. Flawless victory.
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Promotions all around. With the Wizards (scientists) rewarded to us for completing the mission, our research jumps ahead by three days. We also turn around and invest the cash reward in some scopes and extra spell-jammers to station around the world so we can intercept UFO's on any continent.
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[/hide]
[hide="Mission 4: Operation Flying Blade"]
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We finish researching Necro-Biology and begin an autopsy on one of our Fleshling corpses. Two days later, we get our next mission. More abductions. This time, we're headed to Nigeria, where the panic is greatest.
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After the last mission we've purchased the 5 man squad upgrade, allowing us to bring Howland along. I don't usually field more than one sniper but I'd like to level Howland up to make up for the time he lost in the infirmary. The team is also outfitted with scopes, adding +10 to everyones accuracy (except Derfo who brings the healing).
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We set down in Ibadan, Nigeria, and Derfo takes point. Immediately he see's two Fleshlings inside a convenience store.
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And instantly kills one of them. Pop Pop Pop, watchin sucka's drop.
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JaydeMoon Runs and Guns up to the front of the store and takes a shot. Unfortunately, despite his better than average hit percentage, he misses.
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ShadowCharlatan fares better and guns the Fleshling down.
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The team fans out and spreads out wide to find more Withered. Jayde and Talir go left, SC and Howland go right, and Derfo up the center through the convenience store.
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Suddenly, two fleshlings run across the street. Derfo, whose on Overwatch, takes a shot at one of them and grazes it for two bars of damage. The injured Fleshling runs away, while the other takes cover behind some crates.
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SC takes a shot, but misses. However, he destroys it's cover, and Derfo guns it down immediately after.
Another Fleshling comes running down the street, taking full cover besides a widget. Howland takes a shot at him but misses.
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Derfo, again, has better luck.
Meanwhile, down the street, the previously wounded Fleshling breaks into the store JaydeMoon has been sneaking through with a partner.
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The Fleshlings do a vulcan mind meld, boosting their pointmans health and accuracy. It blasts away at Jaydemoon, doing a critical hit and reducing him to one health.
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Meanwhile, SC is acrossed the street, lining up a shot.
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With the mind melded fleshling dead, the other one is killed by the backlash. Both die, ending the mission.
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Derfo, SC, and Howland earn promotions. With Derfo at lieutenant, he'll be pulled from Active Team for the time being to give some rookies a chance to level up.
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We return to watching the skies...
[/hide]
[hide="Mission 5: Operation Flying Jester"]
Things are quiet for a while after that. We get a lot done in that time.
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We build some shit.
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We get our report cards
And we get a lot of research projects done, thanks to our mission rewards. Then, we get a tag in Egypt. A landed Spell-Jammer. Time to suit up.
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Lt. Derfo sit's this one out to give Rookie Capricious a chance. This turns out to be a bad/good idea later on.
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We touch down, and Capricious (being the most expendable) takes point. She immediately see's three Fleshlings, which scurry for cover.
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Howland kills one.
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ShadowCharlatan (with some impressive luck) kills another.
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The third tries to move to new cover and gets reaction shot by Mort. Surgical.
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The team moves up, and then a new monster arrives on the scene. Goddamn Flying Monstrosities
(Floaters). Cap takes a reaction shot and misses.
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And Howland racks up another kill.
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The Team faces off against the enemy on the ridge. SC tries for another miracle shot, but misses.
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Talir drops a second Flyer. The snipers are owning this mission.
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One zips for new cover and gets grazed by Mort for two damage.
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And Howland racks up yet another kill, finishing it off. The team advances to the next ridge.
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More Fleshlings come running through the ship.
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And Howland quickly dispatches two of them.
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Another Spooooky Ghost!
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Wait... Shit.
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Capricious dies instantly.
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And Talir headshots it the very next turn.
Howland snipes the next and final Fleshling as soon as it comes into view. Mission complete.
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Howland racked up an impressive kill Count that mission. Promotions for him, Talir, and Mort.
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Unfortunatly, Capricious is the first casualty of this war.
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[/hide]
[hide="Mission 6: Operation Red Prophet"]
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It's becoming imperative we fly more Enclaves (read: Satelites), but we lack the facilities to do so, because we need more engineers. So to get more engineers, we start building a workshop.
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Three days later, we've finished researching the stun-gun so we can take captives and torture the shit out of them and manufactured a couple. Conveniently, almost immediately after we get our next mission.
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TO CANUCKISTAN!
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JM, being our assault, gets an arc thrower since he's usually on point anyway. LPFF gets one too because he's a rookie, and therefore expendable. Again, no Derfo because we're trying to rank up the second stringers.
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Contact is made almost immediately after touchdown. A montage of kills follow.
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Everything is going pretty well, but things can never be simple. Our formation gets stretched out as we split up to cover more ground, and wouldn't you know it some enemies flank us and get right at our squishy snipers in the back.
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Howland gets shot twice and goes critical. First of all, extremely lucky he didn't die outright, especially for just being a sergeant in weaksauce standard armor. Second - we don't have a medic with us because Derfo is our only support. Fffffffuu-
The clock is ticking. Howland bleeds out in four turns, and without a way to stabilize him the team kicks into overdrive.
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Jayde bags a trophy
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And the rest of the team shoots the fuck out of everything in sight.
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Amazingly we pull it out on the last turn. Howland lives to fight another day.
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SC gets promoted to leuitenant and officially put on the bench with Derfo. Jaydemoon gets a promotion and a nickname for tazering the shit out of that Thinman.
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5360/xcomgame201210251948352.jpg)
With the engineers rewarded to us for completing that mission, an extra workshop is no longer necessary. We halt construction and immediately begin constructing an uplink facility so we can fly more satellites, getting more monthly income and keeping panic down.
[/hide]
[hide="Mission 7: Operation Driving Line"]
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Another week, another mission. This time a ship we shot down over the US.
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Today's team is three Sergeants and two rookies, both of whom get stun guns because expendable. Off we go!
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LPFF gets in a wee bit of a pickle when he gets pinned down and flanked with nobody nearby but rookie Core to support him.
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Fortunately Talir proves his worth and thins out the enemy ranks.
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The rest of the mission is by the numbers and uneventful. Some kills are scored, and we capture an Outsider.
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[hide="Mission 8: Operation Lone Mist"]
Awww shit, it just done got real-er yo.
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TERROR MISSION. In Mexico?
Guess the Aliens like tequila and cheap prescription drugs too.
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For this, we assemble the A-Team, pulling the elite off the bench. Only the best of the best. And also Core, because everyone else good is in the infirmary.
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Bust some caps, save some lives. Lets go.
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Derfo, as usual, melts faces.
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Unfortunatly, this is the first mission we encounter Chrysalids. One gets up close and personal with Derfo, but we kill it. Another scuttles off and lays eggs in some poor civilian.
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Talir kills it before it can get another one though.
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Unfortunately, due to an overwatch snafu, the zombie gets close to Derfo with some health remaining.
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And proceeds to beat him to death while the team looks on in horror.
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SC guns it down Jesse Ventura style immediately after, but it won't bring back Derfo.
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R.I.P
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[hide="Mission 9: Operation Brutal Throne"]
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With the team reeling from the loss of Derfo and JaydeMoon in the infirmary with injuries he recieved during the terror mission, it's up to Squaddies Mort and Core to lead a team of three rookies on a city mission.
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Unfortunatly they're about as accurate as drunken fratboys and the squaddies aren't much better, so this turns into a long shoot-out.
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Sylvyr gets shot up by some floaters and dropped to one health, but amazingly survives. The mission is largely uneventful besides that.
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Other notable female efu players are myself, lovethesuit, alyssara, caster, and elmo, just in case you need more.
Other notable female efu players are myself, lovethesuit, alyssara, caster, and elmo, just in case you need more.
I should be Korea.
WWind, Sylvyr, Alyssara, MiraFI and... someone else... are girls.
Also, Green.
I am unable to change the nationality/flag of a character, but as per his request I have made Jaydemoon azn and given him green armor. Also a mohawk.
(http://imageshack.us/a/img801/8196/xcomgame201210251314569.jpg)
I absolutely love this game. Going through an ironman classic game at the moment and mutons are totally crazyhard.
I'll volunteer!
Exquisite. I am very amused by this.
I'd volunteer, but that wouldn't be fair because I'd end up showing everyone else up.
Shame.
:cool:
I want JaydeMoon to die. Kill him faster!
Pfft. Didn't even make the noob team?
Bad news guys. Derfo died. Chrysalid Zombie killed him.
I volunteer myself to the mission of EFUCom. I have blonde hair and blur armor.
Updated with Mission 7-9. X-Com has a lot of missions. I'm going to start skimming over them more.
Squaddie core fucking shit up... or at least not dying immediately. Rock on bro.
I've been really busy, but i'll get back to this soon. Show of hands, who wants me to raise the difficulty to classic?
Impossible or nothing. Let the blood of rookies flow.
BLEGH. Such a tease.