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[Ashsaber]

Spoiler: Final Tally (click to show/hide)

As subject line implies.
Who wants to put their name in the hat?
(Or more importantly who wants to see something like this at all)
Whether if you wanted to see it or not, this is now up and running.
Playlist Link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3DU-AFaZHocqbhSDq9inWvtInA5emo0W
First Video of Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvkP6zu7MM&list=PL3DU-AFaZHocqbhSDq9inWvtInA5emo0W&index=1

Spoiler: Bay12 Roster (click to show/hide)

Major Blase "Brass" Svenson: 21 Missions, 45 Kills
2nd Lieutenant Darkening "Surgeon" Kaos: 15 Mission, 51 Kills
Master Sergeant Vanya "Graverobber" Grave: 27 Missions, 102 Kills
Tech Sergeant Anja "Silver" Galena: 12 Missions, 34 Kills Killed by Archon Overlord
Master Sergeant Anne "One" Schmidt: 23 Missions, 55 Kills
Tech Sergeant Eto "Shock@Awe" Shuzaka: 22 Missions, 34 Kills
Gunnery Sergeant Mirihero "Disgrace" Sakurai: 19 Missions, 32 Kills Killed by Muton (assist: Archon Overlord)
Master Sergeant Lydia "Hellion" Black: 12 Missions, 20 Kills
Master Sergeant Adam "Ensign" Rojas: 15 Missions, 41 Kills
Master Sergeant King "King" George IX: 14 Missions, 37 Kills
Staff Sergeant Leeroy "Old Man" Porkins: 5 Missions, 6 Kills Killed by ADVENT Captain (assist: literally everybody)
Squaddie Syndra 'Arbalest' Bale: 2 Missions, 3 Kills Killed by Mech Micro Missiles
Corporal Jack 'Flash' Gorden: 3 Missions, 3 Kills
Sergeant Leeroy 'Old Man' Porkins the Second: 2 Missions, 6 Kills
Squaddie Shortie 'Dorsid' Shorts: 2 Missions, 6 Kills Killed by Mech Mag Cannon

Spoiler: Units Awaiting Entry (click to show/hide)

None at present.

Spoiler: Kill Leader (click to show/hide)

Second Lieutenant Sixten "Blade" Arvidsson: 22 missions, 110 kills Deceased

Game Difficulty - Rookie.
Reasons: 1: I am bad at this game. 2: Tactical leeway. 3: We can pave our way with bodies.
[Arguments for raising the difficulty will be entertained]

Classes in Long War 2 - See bottom of post
Entry-
Name:
Nickname:
Nationality:
Gender:
Class (if any, rookie if blank):
Style (kinda defunct now):
Customization options (if any):

Note that for style, "play along with the group" type answers will be ignored as it is implied.
For customization options (which is optional), if you tell me something you specifically and where it is I'll go pick it up.
(And yes I do have the Neptune Extreme Immersion Shattering voices and other weeabo stuff)

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Unit Skill Trees (grouped in 3s, so each group is a tier of promotions and are mutually exclusive with each other)
Assault - Fast, in-your-face with shotgun folk.

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Run And Gun - Get a action at the end of 2 moves

Slugshot - Shot with 2 pierce and no range penalty.
Electroshock - Arc thrower disorients upon missing.
Lighting Reflexes - Minimize chance of overwatch hitting (not zero)

Trench gun - Normal attack in arc (so can miss)
Arc Pulser - Arc Thrower damages mech.
Close and Personal - +30 crit on adjacent targets. Less bonus at range.

Killer Instinct - +50% crit when running and gunning.
Stun Gunner - Arc Thrower Hit Up
Fortify - +20 defense on activate, no action cost, long cooldown.

Extra Conditioning - Run and Gun cooldown faster
Aggression - +5 crit per visible enemy. Up to +30.
Formidable - +1 armor, -66% explosive damage taken.

Hit and Run - Gain 1 move after shooting at flanked enemy
Rapid Fire - Fire twice, each shot -15 hit.
Close Encounter - +1 action when shooting at enemy within 4 tiles

Bring 'em on - +1 damage per visible enemy. Up to +8
Close Combat Specialist - Fire at any mobile enemy moving within 4 tiles.
Untouchable - After scoring a kill, next attack taken will whiff.

Street Sweeper - Cone shotgun blast, can't miss, blocked by cover.
Chain Lightning - Fire Arc thrower at all visible enemies.
Lethal - Weapon damage +2

Grenadier - Explosives

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Launch Grenade - Grenades go farther and boom bigger.

Sapper - explosives can destroy cover.
Needle Grenades - explosives do not destroy loot.
Rapid deployment - When activated, next 'nade costs no action.

Heavy Ordinance - Grenades dealing damage gets +1 use.
Center Mass - gun damage +1
Protector - Grenades dealing no damage gets +1 use.

Boosted cores - Grenade damage +1
Formidable - Gain +2 ablative health. explosives hit for -50% damage
Bluescreen bombs - flashbangs work on mechs

HEAT - grenades pierce 2 armor, shred 1 armor
Tandem warheads - Grenades and Rockets deal full damage.
Dense Smoke - Smoke Grenades give +10 more defense

Biggest boom - grenades can crit
Chain shot - aim -5, fire. If hit, fire again.
Sting Grenade - flashbangs can now stun.

Volatile Mix - Grenade AOE +1
Bombadier - Grenade range +2
salvo - first nade does not end turn

Combat Engineer - Nade fucks cover
Full kit  - nade use +1.
Ghost 'nade - Action. Use on ally to give them concealment.

Gunner - Boolets Everywhere

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Area suppression - exactly as the name implies.

Center mass - Gun damage +1
Combatives - dodge +10, parry melee hits
Grazing fire - Miss attacks get a second role to Graze.

Flush - Activated. Force target to move if it hits
Formidable - +2 ablative health, -50% explosive damage
Lockdown - +15 hit against suppressed enemies if they move.

Hail of bullets - 5 ammo action. Always hit target.
Shredder - attacks harm target armor.
Mayhem - +25% damage versus suppressed enemies if they move.

Chain shot - Hit -5, fire. If hit, fire again.
Iron Curtain - Cone action. Reduced damage. Target mobility dropped.
Demolition - 5 ammo action. Murder enemy cover and only cover.

Cyclic Fire - Fire 3 times at target. Needs both actions. Shots have accuracy falloff.
Danger Zone - Area suppression radius is now 6.
Cool Under Pressure - +10 aim and can crit on overwatch

Rupture - Action. Hit enemy has ruptured state.
Rapid fire - Aim -15, fire twice.
Kill Zone - Overwatch shot on all enemies that wander INTO cone of fire.

Saturation Fire - Cone action. Destroys cover.
Combat fitness - +4 aim, +1 move, +2 hp, +4 will, +4 dodge
Traverse Fire - if shoot first, second act isn't wasted (but can't move)

Ranger - halfway point between assault and gunner.

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Light 'em up - shooting only takes 1 action.

Walk fire - action. +30 hit, 1/2 damage.
Close and Personal - +30 crit against nearby targets.
Ever Vigilant - If both actions for the turn are MOVE actions, overwatch at end of turn.

Locked on - +10 hit/crit for each shot at the same unit.
Pump action - Saw off ammo+2
Covering Fire - Overwatch can shoot at enemy shooter

Aggression - +5 crit per visible enemy, +30 max.
Center mass - gun damage +1
Cool Under pressure - +10 hit and can crit on overwatch

Executioner - +10 hit and crit on targets at less than 1/2 hp
Fortify - action. +20 defense until next turn.
Suppression - Can suppress target

Bring 'em On - +1 damage per visible enemy, +8 max
Implacable - Gain 1 MOVEMENT action for killing targets.
Grazing Fire - +1 roll on missed shots to make them grazes.

rapid fire - Action. Aim -15, fire twice.
Tactical sense - +5 defense per visible enemy, +20 max
rapid reaction - when in overwatch, each hit gives more overwatch. Up to 3.

Rupture - action. deals crit damage. if hit, target takes +3 damage for future attacks.
Combat fitness - +4 aim, +1 move, +2 hp, +4 will, +4 dodge
Kill zone - conic overwatch.

Samurai - Sword Weebos

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Way of Samurai - +3 dmg, +10 hit with melee, -20 aim with gun

Unstoppable - melee cannot graze
Energy Focus - melee shred damage +1
Lone wolf - +10 aim, +10 defense when more than 7 tiles from ally

Bladestorm - automelee on all adjacent targets
Danger sense - exposes hidden enemies.
Low Profile - half cover counts as full.

Training Discipline - +3 move, +20 dodge
Yamabushi Heritage - +2 armor, +15 defense, regen 2 hp (up to 6)
Cutthroat - melee ignores armor, +2 crit damage, +15 crit chance

Lightning Reflexes - Minimize overwatch chance to hit on target. effect falloff.
Untouchable - If attack killed, next attack against this target will miss.
Implacable - If attack killed, gain move action.

Aggression - +5 crit for each visible enemy, max +30
Resilience - enemy crit -50
Deep Cover - Auto hunker down when not attacking

Shigurui - when wounded, +80 dodge, +50 melee crit, +1 action. 2 round effect.
Dragon Strike - 5 tile radius AOE melee action.
Tactical sense - +5 defense per visible enemy. max +20

Whirlwind strike - action. -15 aim, two attacks.
Shinigami - Gain 1 'soul' per kill. souls can be expended for bonus actions.
Reaper - If killing, continue killing until no more killing can happen. Damage falloff on attacks.

Sharpshooter - sit in the back and shoot.

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Squadsight - can hit targets in friendly visual range.

Death from above - if killing target below you, gain 1 action. Sniper rifle accuracy increase.
Rapid Targetting - action. holotarget for free.
Snap Shot - Decrease range in exchange for moving and shooting with sniper rifle.

Damn Good Ground - +10 hit and defense versus lower target.
Phantom - Stay concealed when squad is busted.
Center mass - gun damage +1

precision shot - action. +30 crit chance, +33% crit damage.
Hidef Holo - holotargetted enemies gets critted more
Lone Wolf - hit,crit+10 when >7 space from ally.

Long Watch - Overwatch uses squadsight
Independent tracking - holotarget effect +1 turn
Low profile - Half cover is now full cover

Deadeye - action. Hit-15, damage+50%
Vital point targetting - holotargetted enemies get hit harder.
Aggression - +5 crit per visible enemy, +30 max

Kubikiri - action. can only target wounded. If critical hit, enemy die. Else, deal 1/2 damage.
Multitargetting - Can holotarget multiple enemies
Hunter instinct - When flanking, damage +2

Double tap - Action. Can take a second SNIPER Gun actions on visible enemies.
Alpha Mike Foxtrot - gun damage +4
Serial - For each kill, action is refunded. Damage falloff.

Shinobi - Stealthy weebo.

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Slash - can melee attack.

Ghostwalker - action. reduce detection range by 40% when active.
Lone Wolf - +10 aim, +10 def when no friendlies in 7 tiles.
Blademaster - melee dmg+1, hit+10
Cutthroat - melee ignores armor. Crit damage +2, crit chance +15

Shadowstep - Ignore overwatch.
Executioner - hit,crit chance +10 versus targets at <=50% health
Combatives - Parry melee, dodge+10

Covert - detection range -20% against unit.
Hard Target - evade +5 per visible enemy, max +30.
Cutthroat - melee crit chance +15, crit damage+2

Shadowstrike - when concealed, +50 aim and crit chance.
Low Profile - half cover counts as full.
Bladestorm - automelee on targets moving into adjacent range.

Hunter's instinct - flanking damage +2
Evasive - Gain 100 dodge shield. lose shield after being hit.
Reaper - activated. if killing, continue killing. Damage falloff.

Tradecraft - reduce infiltration time
Hit and Run - sucessful flanking gun attacks give +1 ACTION per turn.
Whirlwind - successful melee attacks give +1 MOVEMENT action per turn.

Conceal - go hide. Ends unit's turn.
Rapid Fire - Action. Hit-15, shoot twice.
Coup de grace - action, may instakill stun, disoriented, or unconscious units.

Spec Ops - American Weebo

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Phantom - does not reveal like everybody else

Throwing Knife - +1 throwing knife. +1 damage, +15 aim to throwing knives
Combat Knife - Silent Takedown cooldown reduction and melee damage +2
Snap Shot - Sniper rifle can fire while moving.

Demo expert - Action? Destroy explosive terrain objects in tile radius.
Ambush - Overwatch. If target is killed, remain in ambush.
Evasive - 100 dodge shield. shield is removed when hit.

Evasion - When first revealed, spawn mimic beacon.
Aggression - +10 crit per visible enemy, max +30
Lightning Reflexes - minimize chance of overwatch hit.

Spec Flash - Disorient, +30% stun, Does not break concealment, can do damage.
Implacable - If kill, get 1 move.
Conceal - Go hide.

Marksman - Mini-squadsight.
Plant X4 - damage 8-10, shred 2 armor, pierce 2 armor in 8 tile radius. Does not break concealment on use.
Bring 'em on - damage +1 per visible enemy, max +8

Ghostwalker - Action. Detection range -40%
Lethal - Gun damage +2
Cutthroat - melee damage +2, crit +15

Stealth Tactics - if no enemy in sight for 1 round, conceal
ghost - kills does not break concealment. Action?
Reaper - if killing, continue killing

Specialist Hack and Heal and Gun and rearm and...

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Hack - Remotely hack stuff

Revival Protocol - Removes negative effects on friendly
Sentinel - When on overwatch, take 2 shots instead of 1.
Combat Protocol - long distance guaranteed damage (2,4,6)

Field surgeon - reduce wound recovery time
Covering fire - overwatch triggers on enemy attack
Interference - action. remove enemy overwatch

Medical protocol - long distance heal
Scanning Protocol - action. reveal hidden units
Trojan - hacked mechs lose hp when hack ends

Field medic - medikits use +2
Ever Vigilant - If only two move actions are taken, gain overwatch on end of turn
Airdrop - Give friendly target a grenade.

Savior - Healing power +4
Cool under pressure - +10 aim and can crit on overwatch
Failsafe - Failed hacks do not cause bad results.

Rescue Protocol - Give friendly target 1 MOVEMENT action.
Threat Assessment - Aid Protocol now gives overwatch with 1 extra cooldown.
Full Override - Gain permanent control over robotic unit.

Restoration - Squad Heal/Revive, but cannot stabilize.
Kill Zone - Take an overwatch shot on an enemy that wanders INTO the cone of fire.
Capacitor Discharge - Action. AOE damage. Can Stun. Extra damage to robots.

Technical - Flamethrowers and rockets

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heavy weapons - can use fire and rockets

Fire In the Hole - Rocket spread -2.
Suppression - Can suppress
Roust - action. enemies must move after attack hits.

Biggest boom - explosives can crit
Fortify - action. +20 defense until next turn.
Napalm-X - fire can disorient enemies

Concussion rocket - special rocket. Can disorient and stun.
shredder - gun shreds armor
burnout - flamethrower creates smoke around user

tandem warheads - explosives deal max damage
formidable - +1 armor, -66% explosive damage taken
phosphorous - flamethrower hurts mechs

javelin rocket - rocket range +6
fire and steel - gauntlet specific weapons damage+1
incinerator - flamethrower range and cone increased.

Salvo - explosives first no longer ends turn.
Tactical sense - +5 def per visible enemy, max +20
Quickburn - Action. Flamethrower does not cost action.

Bunker Buster - new rocket fucks environment
Rapid fire - action. Aim -15, fire twice.
Firestorm - burns in a circle around user (and gives fire immunity)

[Greatness942]

I have so many ideas! Is it alright if I post more than one character for this?

[Mephansteras]

Oh, fun. Can you add in the LW Samurai class? That one is great fun!

Either way I'll post a character submission tomorrow. I have to ponder what i want to go with.

[Ashsaber]

@Mephansteras
I will take a look at that. Answer will likely be yes.

@Greatness
Sure, go nuts.

[Mephansteras]

It's reasonably balanced. Very powerful in melee but sucks with guns. The trick is to survive long enough to get promoted to the levels where you start getting survival bonuses.

I also enjoy the LW2 The Axe Mod and LW2 Katana pack reloaded. Lots of fun melee weapons in there. The Ninjato in particular is wonderful for Shinobi.


I think I'll grab a random favorite from my character pool:

Name: Vanya Grave
Nickname: Graverobber
Nationality: Irish
Gender: Female
Class: Samurai (If not, Shinobi or Assault)
Style: Aggressive, but not suicidal. Wears the most armor available so she can take risks getting up close.
Customization options:
Um...I have a ton of mods installed, so not quite sure where all these came from. But as close as you can get to this:

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[Ashsaber]

@Mephansteras
You can export your character. Would be easier than me trying to remake it (and probably more accurate). It would be within the XCOM2 folder in Documents somewhere.
And if you can show me your mod list I'll just grab everything I see to solve any incompatibility issues.

[Strife26]

I'm game, although I'd say that veteran difficulty is better than difficulty. I'm not too great and haven't had too much trouble on veteran.


Name: Blase Svenson
Nickname: Brass
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Class: Specialist
Style: Shotgun toting specialist. Probably requires a high mobility.

[Greatness942]

Name: Adam Rojas
Nickname: Ensign Redshirt
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Class: Ranger
Style: Likes to get up close and personal. To a suicidal degree? Maybe, but he isn't stupid, just rebellious. Also likes to shout "REBELLION" for reasons only he knows.
Customization Options: Red armor. Otherwise, anything works.

Name: Eto Shuzaka
Nickname: Shock and Awe
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Female
Class: Technical
Style: Violent. Loves fire and explosions to a very unhealthy degree
Customization Options: Jet black hair and blood red armor

Name: Mirihero Sakurai
Nickname: Disgraced Ninja
Nationality: Either Chinese or Japanese
Gender: Male
Class: Shinobi
Style: Prefers his sword, but will use his SMG if it helps. Quite cautious
Customization Options: Face is covered as much as possible with masks, wears black armor.

Name: Anne Schmidt
Nickname: OS/OK (One Shot, One Kill. Don't know if that will fit, though)
Nationality: German
Gender: Female
Class: Sharpshooter
Style: Long range, smart, and caluculating
Customization Options: Light blue armor with dark blue trim, and the hairstyle being one of the longest you can get it.

[TheDarkStar]

I guess I'll use my standard XCOM character submission.

Name: King George IX
Nickname: King George IX
Nationality: Thinks he is British
Gender: Male
Class: Shinobi
Style: In keeping with his kingly delusions, he likes others to do things for him, especially shoot. Of course, he doesn't mind slicing aliens in half from time to time. [George can also be used as a meatshield for actually useful members of the team as long as you don't tell him ]
Customization options: I don't know what options there are, but I would prefer something that resembles a crown. And maybe red/blue/white armor to match the colors of the British flag. Anything to make him either look like an insane asylum escapee or like the King of England would be fine, really.

[Mephansteras]

Ok, I now have a Collection set up for my Mods. They all seem to be compatible with LW2. Or at least I haven't found any issues yet.


And here should be an importable version of the character

[Darkening Kaos]

     I'll grab a sharpshooter when you get one.

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Name: Darkening Kaos
Nickname: The Surgeon
Nationality: Aussie
Gender: Male
Class: Sharpshooter
Style: Grumpy old mongrel
Customization options: Helmet/Hat = Ballcap
Arms = 1
Legs = 2
Upper face prop = Half-framed Glasses
Weapon Pattern = Hex (not that you can see it on the rifle)
Then;
Face = Face A.
Hair = Receding Hair Medium.
Facial Hair = Scruffy Beard.
Hair Colour = 0
Eye colour = 0
Race = 0
Skin colour = 0
Main Armour Colour = 37
Secondary Armour Colour = 72
Weapon Colour = 36
Voice = Australian English 2 (The least offensive choice)
Attitude (When available) = Laidback.
Image from Aklyon's LP.

[Burnt Pies]

Name: Anja Galena
Nickname: Silver
Nationality: Brit
Gender: Female
Class: Assault
Style: Slowly and steadily works around the edges of the engagement, ideally only sprinting into the fray once other scouts (usually a sneaky shinobi) have ensured she won't find herself in a bad position. Will take potshots with whatever weapons or skills (Slug Shot) she has until that point.
Customization options: Pale skin, black hair in one of the longer loose hairstyles, red and grey armour, red weapon. Favours whole body armour.

[Ashsaber]

The first batch of missions featuring game-given rookies are done.
Start Point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvkP6zu7MM&index=1&list=PL3DU-AFaZHocqbhSDq9inWvtInA5emo0W
This is mission zero of the playlist. All the videos are about 20 minutes long, which is definitely nice.

Summary of Mission Zero - Gatecrasher
As told badly
1. We bought a warehouse

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But there were people outside being rude with their loud music, so we decided to calmly stop them from playing music with our guns.

2. Their loudspeakers could float.

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As you can see our aim was affected.

3. Our friend suffered a tragic accident.

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She still had her right to bear arms, though.

4. Some of the other guys didn't like us, so we decided to burn their eyes out.

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The one dude in the container was ok.

5. Our friend stops a loud music player.
6. The loud music player in question.

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It was a good day for peace and quiet.

7. They got mad.

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But since we blew their eyes out everything was ok.

8. We had to get madder.

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9. The face of mercy (.jpeg)

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Does this look like one?

10. Lesson about spacing

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Good thing they didn't learn it.

11. Our friends look for the rest of their guys.

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They weren't inside.

12. Our friend eventually finds one of their guys.

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I think our powers of friendship needs a little work.

13. Their music was so bad it woke the dead.

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And the dead suffers despite not having any eardrums.

14. Goku saves the day

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15. Finish!

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It was a good day.

In the future I think I'll cut each mission down to three to five highlights, because doing a long update for each mission is going to get...erm. Bad.

[Greatness942]

The first batch of missions featuring game-given rookies are done.
Start Point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvkP6zu7MM&index=1&list=PL3DU-AFaZHocqbhSDq9inWvtInA5emo0W
This is mission zero of the playlist. All the videos are about 20 minutes long, which is definitely nice.

Summary of Mission Zero - Gatecrasher
As told badly
1. We bought a warehouse

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But there were people outside being rude with their loud music, so we decided to calmly stop them from playing music with our guns.

2. Their loudspeakers could float.

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As you can see our aim was affected.

3. Our friend suffered a tragic accident.

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She still had her right to bear arms, though.

4. Some of the other guys didn't like us, so we decided to burn their eyes out.

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The one dude in the container was ok.

5. Our friend stops a loud music player.
6. The loud music player in question.

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It was a good day for peace and quiet.

7. They got mad.

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But since we blew their eyes out everything was ok.

8. We had to get madder.

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9. The face of mercy (.jpeg)

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Does this look like one?

10. Lesson about spacing

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Good thing they didn't learn it.

11. Our friends look for the rest of their guys.

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They weren't inside.

12. Our friend eventually finds one of their guys.

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I think our powers of friendship needs a little work.

13. Their music was so bad it woke the dead.

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And the dead suffers despite not having any eardrums.

14. Goku saves the day

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15. Finish!

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It was a good day.

In the future I think I'll cut each mission down to three to five highlights, because doing a long update for each mission is going to get...erm. Bad.

So, this is just a highlight reel? Good, the pictures are jacked up.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, most of the pictures show up empty.