This is getting ridiculous... Due to house labor and other circumstances, I haven't done squat with this. And now it's past midnight again.
I'll finish up the ship mission, at least... But if anyone would be willing to take this over, I think we'd be doing everyone a favor. I'm obviously not doing a good job of it.
The remainder of the bug hunt was your standard fare of "check each and every dank and smelly corner in search of that one last cretin, and only after spending an entire turn on killing him in an elaborate fashion discover that he had a couple friends". If you've ever played an X-COM terror mission, you know what I mean. That last alien is always the most annoying... Especially when he's not the last.
Things carried along just fine... There was a slight hiccup when Devastation lost half his health and got three wounds in return after a ghost punched him in the nuts. I hadn't seen or heard anyone attack him, he was just happily standing next to a support girder and bleeding his guts out.
He was, however, standing in some smoke when I noticed he had taken a beating... Maybe something blew up there without my knowing, maybe the coelecanth shooting at some explosive barrels on the other side of the map caused him to bug out and take damage... We may never know.
But whatever the case, he did see a deep one hanging around suspiciously. Unfortunately, he noticed this by turning to look at the person who had just patched him up. The medic was between him and the alien. He promptly took a shot and missed wildly, hitting an elevator. Zangi cleaned up after him, nailing the blighter with a well-placed sonic blast.
Spartan proved to be quite useful yet again, tossing explosives into those hard-to-reach places and flushing out (I.E. killing) a couple bugs before retiring to look at some rivets.
Many, many tense turns of searching later, Gang Bai discovered what I believed to be the last alien. This was after turn 20, so I thought the aliens might start coming to me for a change. This individual was excused, however, due to his being trapped in a room full of barrels.
Hmmm... Barrels you say? Well, in that case, better prime a grenade with a long fuse, plonk it down outside the door and then make a break for the stairs.
Man, you gotta love cooking those gits when they're trapped... Makes ya feel special.
And although he turned out not to be the last one, I received word next turn that the gillman squad leader had panicked. I then leisurely went about the business of spraying his goddamn bug-brains all over the cold, steel walls! HAHAHAHAHA! Take that cow-suckers!
It ended up being a very good turnover. Throughout the course of the mission, seven civvies were killed by aliens, but we managed to safely rescue 20(!) of them, which netted us a pretty damn sizable points boost.
We'll just see how that holds up though... We've got another terror mission (which may prove very interesting, seeing as I don't have enough ammo to restock the coelecanth, and I don't have enough time to order more), not to mention the colony. Man, this is gonna be one very interesting month...
I'll update with a couple photos when tinypic decides to not be such a whiny little prat.
