Update 9: Serpents' Nests
Feb 23rd
Almost immediately after the disastrous terror mission in Karachi, another UFO is spotted. With the Skyranger still refueling, we have no way of dealing with it once it's down, but our interceptors are dispatched regardless.
The craft lands almost immediately, however, obviating the need for fighters but making our Skyranger all the more important. It takes hours to refuel, and I suspect the UFO may depart before we're ready. It does not, but by the time the still-diminished team arrives, night has fallen.
The team quickly files out, grabbing electroflares as they go. The craft is quickly discovered right next to the Skyranger, and a bolt of plasma sails past Dr. Euchre. Efforts at locating it simply by tossing flares fails. A smoke grenade is tossed to one side of the craft for good measure, and the sound of an alien door opening causes McCannonFodder to hurl a grenade next to the undiscovered part of the UFO, hoping to catch something in the doorway.
As Miranda creeps up to the Skyranger's front wheel in an attempt to find the culprit, she discovers one right in front of her instead. It's not a Sectoid, instead being orange and with a serpentine lower body. She murders it almost immediately with her laser, however.
Meanwhile, Dr. Euchre creeps forward a bit, almost immediately spotting the previously hidden alien thanks to a nearby flare. He fires at it, letting the ground and air feel his wrath, before miraculously downing it with a single shot. Whatever these things are, they're apparently not that tough.
As the team prepares to breach the UFO, a third creature is seen slithering around in the barn next to the craft. With a clean shot at the team through the hole Miranda blasted in the wall killing its companion, taking it down suddenly becomes a priority. Stone Cold takes a carefully aimed shot, hitting the wall twenty feet away from him, and the alien responds by blasting the hole in the brick wall a little larger.
Sir Kahn, with no clear line of fire, begins the time-honored tradition of firing at a spot nearby, hoping to catch it in the blast radius. She kills it, lights part of the barn on fire, and then annihilates the corpse in her extended salvo.
Miraculously, that's it; our further sweeps uncover nothing out of the ordinary, and we return with all seven operatives and two new alien corpses.
Despite a slow start and an incomplete team, the mission was a complete and utter success.
Miranda Galena has slain a Snakeman!
Dr. Euchre has slain a Snakeman!
Sir Kahn has slain a Snakeman!
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