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The two remaining civvies honoured the departing Skyranger with a golf clap. "Oh, well done." and survey what is left of their once-beautiful city.

 

Classic Terror Mission. Like carpet bombing, only messier.

 

So I get to use the closest thing X-Com has to a flamethrower, I burned half a city to the ground, AND I lived beyond the average rookie life expectancy? Fantastic!

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So how long before I recover?

 

You should be fighting fit by the end of the month.

 

What's wrong with this picture?

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I took some of the monkeys off making medikits, but forgot to then put them on laser pistols. D'oh. They are now scratching their arses and heads industriously over the blueprints.

 

Last interception of the month, methinks.

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Eventually shot down over the North Sea. All that technology, and they can't swim. Left to that most ruthless of services, Her Majesty's Coastguard, there were no survivors.

 

Ah, second last. Shot one down over Spain, then went and did and nice quick crash site. Captain Thorondor and Sergeant Space Voyager riding herd over six rookies. This was an easy mission, lost two rookies to sniper fire, toasted a farmhouse with some Sectoids in,

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Thorondor saw a Sectoid that woke up after taking an overdose of metal sleeping pills to the face

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and promptly shot it until there was nothing left but goo. Sgt. Strike (not an actual sergeant) and Grossbeer were in on the fun, and survived.

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Nice little cherry on top to get my monthly score respectable.

 

Thorondor and SV are my two top performers, having both survived two missions. This makes them grizzled vets at this stage. Thor is also the top killer, with eight aliens to his name (he picked up five in this mission, proving himself a dab hand with an autocannon).

 

It's that time of the month!

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Yeah, my dead body thanks you for the briefcases of cash. Jesus Christ, small bills? Do you know how much that's going to weigh?

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Thor, we survived TWO missions!!!

*hands SV a celebratory guillotined Montecristo*

 

I'm taking a liking to having alien muck on my visage too. No - really - it's growing on me...

 

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@FA: my dignified position doesn't permit me to roll on the floor laughing like this, so pretend I just chuckled gruffly on inspection of this latest instalment, oh Great Dead One. :(

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Did a lovely little crash site, didn't lose anyone. Pete 2 got in on the action, killing one Floater from the safety of the Skyranger, and then another after Zombie II set fire to everything.

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Admittedly, for the second kill he did force his head through the floor of a barn, so extra kudos.

 

Sgt. Strike had a go at breaching and clearing.

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And picked up a kill.

 

Everyone went home and breached and cleared their pants.

 

Easy 106 pointer, now got Sunflash and sir-roosio as sergeants too.

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I like the fact that my second incarnation is taking pot-shots from the relative safety of the Skyranger. I can see his superiors now:

 

Thorondor: "Pete, get down that ramp! That's an order!"

 

Pete 2: "No no, I'm fine here thank you very much. *Peers cautiously through the plasma-proof cockpit windscreen* "That tactic didn't end so well for me in a previous life y'know."

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Right, got my base rearranged, got the second lab and workshop on the way, as well as the alien containment.

 

Making laser rifles, and medikits for sale. Researching Personal Armour.

 

Doing well financially, all the hires this month plus some facilities, still got more than 3 mill in the bank (thank the Alien Brain for mind probe-heavy crews). Sold the rifles and pistols, kept one of each alien tech and body, kept the alloys and elerium.

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