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[forsaken1111]

Sparky reporting for duty to kill some alien scum sir!

Specializes in energy weapons, laser pistol or rifle preferred until we get better stuff.

Soldier, obv.

[Urist McOverlord]

Name: Chad
Role: Scout/Breacher
Stats: TUs, Reactions, Bravery
Equipment: Pistol/Stun rod

Bio: Transferred to XCOM for being such an awesome* soldier. Definitely not** for being an insufferable prick. Assigned to dangerous scout duty for much the same reasons.
     *For varying definitions of 'awesome'
     **For varying definitions of 'not'

[Carrion]

Name: Frog
Role: Assault(?)
Stats: Bravery, Accuracy, TU
Equipment: Rifle, Grenade(s)

Hope that's all you need...

[maxicaxi]

Name: doomPotato
Role: Grenadier
Gender: Either is fine
Weapon:grenades and heavy explosives, nothing else except maybe stunrod
Stat: Action Points and throwing accuracy

[hexedmagica]

Name: Hexedy
Role: Soldier
Gender: Male
Weapon: Rifles
Stats: Accuracy and reactions

[MaximumZero]

Name: Maxclone I (further clones can be of either gender)
Preferences: Anything that has HE or Incendiary rounds, grenades, Male, preferred stat is TUs/Firing Accuracy
Position: soldier (demolitions/explosives)

[Falknor]

Name: OneShot
Role: Sniper/Rifleman
Gender: Doesn't Matter
Weapon: Best Accuracy rifle
Stats: Accuracy

'AlienSmack' is fine for a base name.

[GlyphGryph]

OKay, I'm back and ready to go! Lets get this thing started up and found AlienSmack... err, whatever it was you guys decided the base name would be.

[GlyphGryph]

Our story opens in an undisclosed location. A view screen comes to life, and a dialogue begins...

"Greetings, Captain. I assume everything is going as planned?"

"Yes, General Dottertumit. The Earthlings remain generally unaware of our presence. Some suspect... a crashed scout vehicle of ours nearly broke our cover, but our infiltrators and allies were able to cover it up. Even that evidence they have gathered of our presence and ill-intent has only built up enough support to fund one small, harmless agency they are calling "X-Com". We have, of course, already made moves to infiltrate the organization. For now, the earthlings don't seem to understand the threat we pose, and their governments have every wish to keep our existence secret - for now, that may well play into our hands, as we convince select individuals of our positive intentions."

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world...
AlienSmack begins operation...


Commander Griffin, Log 1
Today, we arrived at the base, which has finally been completed. Myself, Lucky, Codec, and five baby faced greenbacks make up the fighting core of X-Com. Technically, I'm in command of all aspects of this organization, and should be avoiding fieldwork where possible... but as I've said, I've been placed in command of the organization, and I believe in order to do that, I'll have to see what's going on first hand. Plus, who wants to miss an opportunity to shoot some bug eyes, eh?

Assuming, of course, we aren't just being sent on some wild goose chase... but our sources indicate these aliens are real, so I'll give them the benefit of a doubt. I've served with Lucky and Codec, and they've been assigned here at my request. The others were chosen by various nations for  various reasons. I had originally made it a point to learn all their names, but I got as far as Tony Tononi and his Jersey accent before deciding that maybe it wasn't so important after all. I've been introduced to the bases scientific and engineering team, but none of them seemed particularly memorable. Hopefully, they can do their job and otherwise stay out of my way.

I've set the researches to reverse engineer a basic piece of "alien" technology from a supposed crash site, and they claim they can use it to create a handheld scanner that could be used in various industries and blah blah blah but supposedly we could produce them here and sell them for a hefty profit to various government agencies, so I gave it the go ahead. Hopefully the radar boys will find something more interesting for us to do soon.

We're a bit short-staffed under-supplied, so I've sent away for more researches, two more soldiers, and some basic ammo, grenades, and flares.

Spoiler: Commander Griffin (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Lucky (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Codec (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Tony Tononi (click to show/hide)

[Phantom]

Holy crap those screens are tiny.

[Tarran]

Holy crap those screens are tiny.

That's because GlyphGryph is playing the game at it's normal screen size which... Personally, I think is way too small for today's standards.

GlyphGryph, can you make the screen size bigger if you don't mind?

[GlyphGryph]

Trying to adjust the screen size on my computer crashes it... so no.

They seem sized fine to me though...
Anyway to just resize the images in the bbcode?

[GlyphGryph]

Commander Griffin, Log 2
The new recruits arrived today. One immediately introduced himself as Azurro, and for speaking out of turn I swapped his rifle with a stun rod and told him to have fun.

The other I have nicknamed Fragbait, in accordance with his future role in the squad, before he could try to talk to me.

I've also received a report about some new experimental weapon that might be arriving soon. I wonder what it could be?

Spoiler: Azurro (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Fragbait (click to show/hide)

[Phantom]

Man, if you were a real commander you'd be stricter than me.

Heck, I sacked a guy in TFTD just for having 1 TU less then my best unit.

[Tarran]

Heck, I sacked a guy in TFTD just for having 1 TU less then my best unit.

Eh, I don't sack my guys personally. The aliens do my sorting out for me; those that suck die first. Their stats don't matter to me(since they all can fire a Heavy Plasma about as good), their luck does. Those with high luck survive to become captains and higher. Those that suck utterly die first mission.