Update 8: Wartorn
Feb 23rdON THE LAST EXCITING EPISODE...!
At 6:43, the Skyranger arrives.
Maxclone continues his time-honored tradition of finding an alien straight off the Skyranger.
And of immediately murdering both it and its friend hidden in the darkness.
Unfortunately he then spots
another one immediately thereafter.
...and deals with it in a similar fashion.
Miranda disembarks only to discover a Sectoid of her own, which she takes down with a flurry of laser fire. The remaining members begin filing off the Skyranger, but with four aliens down straight out of the gate, one might pardon my suspicion that this mission is already nearly over.
The sounds of plasma fire and human screams assures us that there's still plenty of work to be done, however.
O'Malley spots yet another Sectoid in the building the other three were next to, and puts it down with a bit of indiscriminate collateral damage.
Fanning out of the Skyranger's lot and into the street, Maxclone spots...
...the hell does he spot? A floating disc?
Well, whatever. Our agents open fire on it with a flurry of explosive weapons.
It doesn't go down.
Well, shit. Who else is avail-
...well. Seems we have someone suited to these sorts of things after all.
Unfortunately, he mostly misses, and the part of the explosion it is caught in doesn't destroy it.
Things take a turn for the worse as another disc is discovered in the alley behind the thoroughly damaged buildings nearby. Much determined fire later, it
explodes.
At least we can now blame structural damage on the aliens.
Another disc is noticed in roughly the same location. Roughly the same amount of collateral damage later, it roughly blows up in roughly the same fashion.
Somewhere in this mess, the first disc is taken down, but not before a reactive shot at Maxclone silences gentle Kilroy.
Attempts to advance quickly reveal another Sectoid. Efforts to kill it fail, and it quickly retreats to go murder a civilian. When we catch sight of it again, it's in the company of one of those discs.
Fortunately, it makes the rather obvious mistake of standing in front of something hardier than it.
Meanwhile, an alien grenade lands in a hedge vaguely near Miranda. This is obviously not behavior that can be tolerated, and so Miranda begins edging towards the resulting smoke cloud, preparing a grenade of her own. She can't get a good angle, however, and so tosses the grenade rather uselessly at the very front of the alley the alien's probably hiding in the back of.
Urist McCannonFodder and Xenio begin coming around the structure from another angle, with Urist spotting the alien and opening fire but missing. Xenio cracks open some of the structure, then opens fire as well, but fails to kill it. The alien's reply is mercifully inept, and it retreats.
Miranda scouts ahead, edging carefully into the smoke cloud. Confirming that it can't really be hiding in the smoke, Xenio begins firing on sections of wall, whittling down the number of doors the alien could possibly be behind. With the structure's wall completely leveled, McCannonFodder takes a wild guess with fully automatic explosive rounds.
You can still see the alien's gun.
With immediate threats dealt with, the teams begin moving across the street. Commissar Bane sweeps the warehouse behind the ruined structures, though with civilians milling around it seems unlikely there's anything in there. His search soon proves boring, and he exits to examine the suspicious-looking park nearby.
Maxclone sweeps an alleyway, only to be shot by an alien popping around the corner. O'Malley, GlyphGryph, and Bob Bunny converge to take it down, but a thrown alien grenade silences Bob Bunny and Commander GlyphGryph.
Enraged, O'Malley bursts around the corner, annihilating the alien but catching himself in an explosion off the corner of the building. His wounds are fatal if untreated, but not currently serious (by his standards, anyway), and he brushes off medical attention to finish off the last alien known to be hiding in there. Sadly, it shoots him square in the chest as he approaches the corner, leaving Commissar Bane the last member on that side.
Meanwhile, Miranda creeps along a wooden fence, confirming nothing on her side. Then she turns around to look at the opening. There's a disc.
Miranda: "Hell. No."
Miranda turns around and keeps going, trying to put more distance between herself and the disc on the other side of the fence. The majority of the team still alive gathers up to assist, with Dr. Euchre throwing his already-primed smoke grenade with a shrug. Miranda throws her own grenade blind, hoping to hit something.
With everyone in position, lined up on the street, Xenio opens fire with his laser, ripping apart the fence separating the team from the alien... thing. Surprisingly, this reveals a regular Sectoid hiding in there as well, which Xenio quickly drops like a piece of cheap fence. It also reveals the disc to have moved, now being much closer to Miranda.
Miranda covers her ears as explosive fire rains all around her. She's left standing behind a rather small section of fence, unscathed.
Then she peeps around and sees another one. In all likelihood, this is the thing that killed O'Malley.
The team rushes in and lays down yet more fire. Miranda herself finally takes it down with a burst of laser fire, causing it to explode spectacularly.
Mission accomplished.
Normally this would be the part where I have a nice little chat with the team about only being able to kill half the aliens without annihilating the corpse in the process, but right now I'm more concerned about losing half the team instead. We're going to have to continue production of more armor, and hopefully find a way to cut down on future casualties.
We've lost many of our finest this time.
Maxclone I has slain 3 Sectoids!
Miranda has slain a Sectoid! Miranda has slain a Cyberdisc!
Sir Kahn has slain a Sectoid! Sir Kahn has slain a Cyberdisc!
Brian O'Malley has slain a Sectoid!
Urist McCannonFodder has slain a Sectoid!
Xenio has slain a Sectoid!
Unknown has slain a Sectoid! Unknown has slain 4 Cyberdiscs!
Kilroy The Grand has been struck down!
Maxclone I has been struck down!
Commander GlyphGryph has been struck down!
Bob Bunny has been struck down!
Brian O'Malley has been struck down!
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