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Total Members Voted: 14

[GentlemanRaptor]

Well, my stats certainly seem appropriate for an office worker...

[poketwo]

Maybe I should have the heist psy stat???

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Maybe I should have the heist psy stat???

That all depends on whether I have psionics researched, and I don't even know what tech that is.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

<Double post so I can make sure people see this, since an edit won't add the thread back to show unread replies.>

Anyone have an idea for the name for the first operation?  I'm running the game right now, and while I can possibly come up with a name myself, I would like to have as much input as possible in the 'fluff' aspects.

[Darkening Kaos]

Operation ‼☼Cat's Paw☼‼

[IronyOwl]

The newer XCOM has a good system for this.


Prefix

01	Tattered
02	Cursed
03	Broken
04	Vibrant
05	Dark
06	Ruined
07	Thunder
08	Rain
09	Shallow
10	Deep

Suffix

01	God
02	Hound
03	Storm
04	Spectre
05	Cowl
06	Path
07	Battle
08	Nautilus
09	Sledge
10	Day

According to the dice, this is Operation Deep Battle.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

This is Operation Deep Battle.

That sounds significant.  I'll use it.

Night, January 2, 1999 - Interception and Send-off

: "Sir, you need to stop playing cards.  Your presence is needed in the Command Center."
: "Aw, com'n, I was winning."
"You're down three hundred dollars."
: "Shut up, scientist, I was making a turnaround."
"For one round, and you only got five dollars
: "I am afraid this is an urgent matter."
: "Fine.  I'll be back to get the money back later.  So what am I needed for so urgently?"
: "There is an unidentified craft not responding to hails in south-east Washington state."

: "No shit.  Send in an interceptor.  Good thing we kept one in reserve, and only had one on patrol.  You wanted both out there."
: "It would have doubled the area of coverage, and possibly found it, but yes, we wouldn't have been able to catch this one.  That may have wound up being a fiasco to explain to the council."
: "Yeah, yeah, holy shit that craft is fast.  And good maneuvering too, that thing turned sharply from a vector towards Vancouver."
: "Interceptor closing in.  Pilot, do you have visual contact?"
*"Nearing range.  Should be coming in...is that what I think it is?  What the hell?"*
: "Pilot, what do you see?"
*"It's a goddamn Roswell style alien ship."*
: "Repeat that."
*"It's a fucking flying saucer.  Want me to shoot it down, sir?"*
: "Yes.  I don't know who's putting this on, but I'd rather not have conspiracy theorists run rampant.  Might find this base."
*"Coming into range.  Firing on saucer.  What the fuck?  Oh you wanna try that motherfucker, eat lead!  Ha, don't take damage too well, do ya?"*
: "Pilot, what happened?"
*"The sauce' shot at me."*
: "That shouldn't be to..."
*"With plasma."*
: "..."
: "Repeat that, pilot."
*"It shot me with plasma."*
: "It's shot down, right?"
*"Yup."*

: "Come back to base.  A team will be sent soon."

: "Good thing we gave them those AN/PVS-7 night vision goggles.  Going without those would be asking for suicide."


Next post will detail the actual Op.  Only posting this now because it ends with a good point.  Seriously, night vision has been around since WWII, why would X-Com not have some.  I am going to provide a reason, though, rather than just skipping that little detail.  Next post (in an hour or so, maybe) will have Operation Deep Battle.

Edit: Dear god, D. Kaos took only 1 step outside the main hatch and was killed.

[Darkening Kaos]

    That's why you always throw smoke out first and then move.

[IronyOwl]

Moving and then dropping smoke usually works, at least on lower difficulties, but yeah.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Operation Deep Battle

*"Descending to LZ.  Yep, that's a flying saucer.  Interceptor got some nice shots on the thing."*
: "How's the landing crew doing?"
*"Complaining about some interference with the goggles.  Can't always let them see properly.  Some have removed them."
: "Let's hope it clears up when they land.  I don't want to see how bad this could get without them."
: "I'm heading down the ramp."
: "You toss a smoke off to the side, Raven will toss one on the oth-"
: "Arg-*gurgle"
: "What the hell just happened?"
Bart McBill: "A PLASMA SHOT JUST HIT D ON THE FIRST STEP OUT!  NOW THE CORPSE IS BEING SHOT!"

: "Raven!  Toss the smoker!"
: "..."

: I am not afraid.

Maxclone I: "Hey Broomy made it through, may-*URG*"
Bart McBill: "SHIT!  MAX IS DOWN TOO!  HE ONLY TOOK ONE STEP FORWARD TO THE EXIT!  HE HADN'T EVEN STEPPED ONTO THE RAMP!"
: "Hit the hull between Raven and the Tart, too!"
: "All units hold until the smoker goes off!"

: "Hit the hull, again.  Same place, at that!"
: "Advance into the smoke."

Caramel Tart: "..."
: "..."

: "Well that's not disturbing..."

: Enemy sighted.

: Yippie ki ya.
Bart McBill: "He shot it three times in a row.  And hit it three times in a row.  With these guns."
*Gunfire sounds through the com.*
*Heavy radio static*
: "What's going on!?"
"There's interference, sir!  We're trying to get it back!"
*Heavy radio static*
Caramel Tart: *blurp*
: "There goes the tart."
*Heavy radio static*
: "urg..."
: "And Raven."
*Heavy radio static*
: "Eat this bastards!  Hell yeah, kill shot!"
: Ha.  Take that fuckers.
*Heavy radio static*
: "At least we're improving."
: Orange glowy stuff.
*Light radio static*
Bart McBill: "Looks like broomy's fritzed for now."
: "I see the last one!  Firing!"
"Getting picture back, sir"

: "Nice shot."
Bart McBill: "Command!  The hell you been?"
: "We've had some interference of some kind.  Couldn't get audio or visual."
: "What happened soldier?"
: "Three of the bastards were hiding around the edge of the saucer."
Bart McBill: "Raven managed to take one of them out before he and Tart were shot dead."
: "And I got the fucker that shot them."
Bart McBill: "One headed up the hill.  The one Raven just killed."
: "What happened to Broomy and Mario?"
Bart McBill: "Hit by a plasma burst.  Fritzed him out, but the electronics don't look too bad, so he'll require minimal repairs.  Mario's corpse is on the ground, but I don't know how he died."
: "We heard Broom say something about orange stuff?"
Bart McBill: "Looks like one of their engines.  It appears that there were only the five we killed.  There's only five seats in the ship."
: "We're keeping an eye out for more, just in case."
: "Get everything onboard the Skyranger and come back to base.  It looks like this is going to be a long fight."
: "I'd like to put on record that we need flares.  These NVGs are pieces of shit near the sauc's."
Bart McBill: "Maybe some stun rods and get a containment unit online.  I'd like to put the hurt on those aliens for what they did today."

: "Tell me the truth, how bad do you think this fight will be."
"I don't think the world is going to survive this if we don't catch up to these bastards, sir.  Best as I can tell, from the computer before it began to delete itself, there's going to be more.  A lot more."
Bart McBill: "And a lot worse too."


Well that went a lot better than I expected.  I thought I would get a total party kill.

[Furtuka]

You forgot to resize one of those pics

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

You forgot to resize one of those pics

Yeah, I messed up a bit in that first section.  Fixed now.

Edit: Surprised you didn't go after the mess up with the raven pics.

[Darkening Kaos]

I'll sign up again.

Name: E. Kaos
Preferences (weapons, stats, etc): AutoCannon with Incendiary rounds.  High TU and min 29 strength, (29 is enough to carry autocannon and 1 extra mag of incendiary rounds).
Bio: D's younger brother, out for revenge.
Appearance (may be an image): use same as before.

[MaximumZero]

Fuuuuu--Send in MaxcloneII, and make sure he has a smoke grenade set to 0.

[darkpaladin109]

Dammit, Mario said all of one sentence before he died. NEW METASHIELD TIME
Name: Captain Falcon
Preferences (weapons, stats, etc): Fast, weapons with firerates, good health and accuracy.
Bio: Jumped out of a large blue spaceship that landed in front of XCOM HQ one day. He was mistaken for an alien at first, but was recruited after he explained he wasn't.
Appearance (may be an image):

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