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The SPECIFIC Gamer quest
- Thread starter We Just Write
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[X] Write-in: Vikings take down those ships, Troops start moving to cover. Someone get that bloody Magician on the comms.
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NOTE: This post doesn't reduce the amount of posts left in the quicktime vote.
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[X] Vikings, take down the alien ships!
writing.
[X] Vikings, take down the alien ships!
writing.
I hate to bring this up again, but this is why the previous vote bothered me so much. What's happening right now is very tense and exciting, but none of that lets me ignore the fact that it shouldn't be happening right now.
Actually, why didn't we send that woman to go help? She's completely immortal, and that ability she has would be all we really need.
Actually, why didn't we send that woman to go help? She's completely immortal, and that ability she has would be all we really need.
Maragas
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Probably because we don't even know her other than few minutes of talking.
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Hey, anyone want to guess what type of magic user blew up those Sectoids?
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technomancer, he must have activated the phone torture routine
Technomancer? Him fiddling with his phone right before the spell seems to hint at that.
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Technomancer or an Internal one, The fiddling with his phone could be a self imposed mental link between him and his power.
Imcoming 4
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Upon seeing this, you immediately order "Vikings, blow those alien ships out of the sky!" The pilots immediately comply, shifting their over-engineered multi-role war machines back into aerospace fighter mode as they bounce back up into the sky. The fighters loose their missiles, the MT50 Lanzers streaking across the sky. Cydonium is immensely durable compared to conventional materials, but nowhere near indestructible. This is proven as 8 missiles slam into the closest alien ship, their armor piercing shaped fusion warheads being specifically designed to blow holes in reinforced aerospace craft hulls, which they do.
This firmly draws the attention of the alien ships as one of their number falls to a power core breach from secondary blast effects. Though no ship-grade plasma is being sent your troop's way, your Viking pilots have their work cut out for them. As they strafe one ship with Gauss fire and another volley of missiles, the gear-shaped one gets a shot to connect with Viking 2, blowing off its left engine, missile pod, and wing.
That done, the only currently unscathed alien craft begins accelerating straight up in a desperate bid to get out of the atmosphere as quickly as it can. By your gaze, you can sort of tell that they're red-lining the engine. Your remaining Viking attempts to pursue, but the alien ship can accelerate just that little bit faster than the Viking and jumps to FTL the very instant it clears the atmosphere.
Back on the ground, four of your soldiers have been injured enough to be incapable of any further fighting today, three wounded from enemy fire, and one has a crushed shoulder from failing to brace properly when firing their C-10. You've also got one fatality in CMC-400 from a grenade, though if you get him back ASAP you might be able to put him on life support (and possibly make him a shiny new cyborg body) before he suffers too much vital organs-blown-to-bits related brain damage. Currently his suit is applying cryogenic substances to his head to assist in that endeavor, but that's only good for about half an hour.
MISSION COMPLETED
+2 UFO wrecks (medium scout)(ownership disputed)
+13 UFO wrecks (varied)(ownership guaranteed, though retrieval will be a pain)
+48 Sectoid corpses (ownership disputed)
+4 Cyberdisc wreckage (ownership disputed)
+41 Sectoid plasma rifles (ownership disputed)
+119 Sectoid plasma rifle magazines (ownership disputed)
+7 Sectoid plasma rifles (retrieved)
+20 Sectoid plasma rifle magazines (retrieved)
+100 Sectoid grenades (ownership disputed)
+10 relationship {X-COM}
+reputation {US gov}: mysterious, possibly untrustworthy, probably saved Cleveland
+reputation {American Magical Community}: Where'd these guys come from!?
+reputation {Sybille}: Fairly competent, given his lack of experience
+reputation {aliens}: Mass Murdering psychos with access to hardware they really shouldn't have
+2 free hangar space
-1 Firestorm (reclaimed 430 Cydonium, 45 Superconductors)(lost 120 Elerium)
-1 Viking (reclaimed 600 Neosteel, 420 Superconductors)
-1 suit CMC-400 (reclaimed 70 Neosteel, 6 Superconductors)
-1 C-14 Impaler Gauss Rifle (reclaimed 1 Neosteel)
-11 magazines C-14 ammo
-1 magazine C-10 ammo
-8 magazines plasma rifle ammo
-12 Hypersonic Fragment grenades
-3 Elerium Warhead grenades
-2 stun grenades (reclaimed and waiting for refurbishing)
-1 Hover HWP (reclaimed 180 Cydonium, 75 Superconductors)(lost 3 Elerium)
-680 Cydonium, 180 Neosteel, 100 Superconductors for repairs
-425 Elerium to refuel aerospace craft
-4 MELD to stabilize wounded for transport (aren't you glad you brought those medics now?)
This firmly draws the attention of the alien ships as one of their number falls to a power core breach from secondary blast effects. Though no ship-grade plasma is being sent your troop's way, your Viking pilots have their work cut out for them. As they strafe one ship with Gauss fire and another volley of missiles, the gear-shaped one gets a shot to connect with Viking 2, blowing off its left engine, missile pod, and wing.
That done, the only currently unscathed alien craft begins accelerating straight up in a desperate bid to get out of the atmosphere as quickly as it can. By your gaze, you can sort of tell that they're red-lining the engine. Your remaining Viking attempts to pursue, but the alien ship can accelerate just that little bit faster than the Viking and jumps to FTL the very instant it clears the atmosphere.
Back on the ground, four of your soldiers have been injured enough to be incapable of any further fighting today, three wounded from enemy fire, and one has a crushed shoulder from failing to brace properly when firing their C-10. You've also got one fatality in CMC-400 from a grenade, though if you get him back ASAP you might be able to put him on life support (and possibly make him a shiny new cyborg body) before he suffers too much vital organs-blown-to-bits related brain damage. Currently his suit is applying cryogenic substances to his head to assist in that endeavor, but that's only good for about half an hour.
MISSION COMPLETED
+2 UFO wrecks (medium scout)(ownership disputed)
+13 UFO wrecks (varied)(ownership guaranteed, though retrieval will be a pain)
+48 Sectoid corpses (ownership disputed)
+4 Cyberdisc wreckage (ownership disputed)
+41 Sectoid plasma rifles (ownership disputed)
+119 Sectoid plasma rifle magazines (ownership disputed)
+7 Sectoid plasma rifles (retrieved)
+20 Sectoid plasma rifle magazines (retrieved)
+100 Sectoid grenades (ownership disputed)
+10 relationship {X-COM}
+reputation {US gov}: mysterious, possibly untrustworthy, probably saved Cleveland
+reputation {American Magical Community}: Where'd these guys come from!?
+reputation {Sybille}: Fairly competent, given his lack of experience
+reputation {aliens}: Mass Murdering psychos with access to hardware they really shouldn't have
+2 free hangar space
-1 Firestorm (reclaimed 430 Cydonium, 45 Superconductors)(lost 120 Elerium)
-1 Viking (reclaimed 600 Neosteel, 420 Superconductors)
-1 suit CMC-400 (reclaimed 70 Neosteel, 6 Superconductors)
-1 C-14 Impaler Gauss Rifle (reclaimed 1 Neosteel)
-11 magazines C-14 ammo
-1 magazine C-10 ammo
-8 magazines plasma rifle ammo
-12 Hypersonic Fragment grenades
-3 Elerium Warhead grenades
-2 stun grenades (reclaimed and waiting for refurbishing)
-1 Hover HWP (reclaimed 180 Cydonium, 75 Superconductors)(lost 3 Elerium)
-680 Cydonium, 180 Neosteel, 100 Superconductors for repairs
-425 Elerium to refuel aerospace craft
-4 MELD to stabilize wounded for transport (aren't you glad you brought those medics now?)
AZATHOTHoth
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Aw, we only kill you to show you how much we care about you.
Maragas
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They did not even saw out StarCraft BattleShip
We Just Write
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DERP, forgot to add votes
You've got some time left, anything you want to make?
[] Something new
-[] New aerospace craft
--[]role?
---[] any specifics?
-[] teleporter
design goals (pick 2)
--[] safe for humans
--[] energy efficient
--[] fast
-[] A robot
--[] Utility?
---[] specifics?
--[] Combat?
---[] specifics?
-[] something else
[] Upgrade
-[] improve the Avenger's FTL
-[] do something about the C-10's recoil
-[] write in
What to do with that guy who's basically a brain in a jar?
[] let the other guys 'borg him (moderately improved performance, still better than most soldiers)
[] forward them some plans (specify his new specialty and some abilities, nothing too exotic)
[] 'borg him yourself (get an awesome cyborg hero unit with full control over the design, but can't SCIENCE anything else at the moment)
The aliens know where your base is now, what do?
[] Try and talk someone into letting you build a base there
[] just go ahead and do it
-[] build on the moon where they have no authority perhaps?
[] build a mobile base/semi-capital ship (huge resource draw, takes almost a month, awesome results)
[] fortify so hard that you can take whatever they can throw at you
Anyways, you've got an appointment with the UN
[] Go in person with a full entourage
[] quick fab a hologram drone (-1 Superconductors)
[] send an understudy
Any particular tone you're trying to set? (write in)
You've got some time left, anything you want to make?
[] Something new
-[] New aerospace craft
--[]role?
---[] any specifics?
-[] teleporter
design goals (pick 2)
--[] safe for humans
--[] energy efficient
--[] fast
-[] A robot
--[] Utility?
---[] specifics?
--[] Combat?
---[] specifics?
-[] something else
[] Upgrade
-[] improve the Avenger's FTL
-[] do something about the C-10's recoil
-[] write in
What to do with that guy who's basically a brain in a jar?
[] let the other guys 'borg him (moderately improved performance, still better than most soldiers)
[] forward them some plans (specify his new specialty and some abilities, nothing too exotic)
[] 'borg him yourself (get an awesome cyborg hero unit with full control over the design, but can't SCIENCE anything else at the moment)
The aliens know where your base is now, what do?
[] Try and talk someone into letting you build a base there
[] just go ahead and do it
-[] build on the moon where they have no authority perhaps?
[] build a mobile base/semi-capital ship (huge resource draw, takes almost a month, awesome results)
[] fortify so hard that you can take whatever they can throw at you
Anyways, you've got an appointment with the UN
[] Go in person with a full entourage
[] quick fab a hologram drone (-1 Superconductors)
[] send an understudy
Any particular tone you're trying to set? (write in)
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NOTE: The aliens got away with about 20 abductees.
Maragas
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What to do with that guy who's basically a brain in a jar?
[X] let the other guys 'borg him (moderately improved performance, still better than most soldiers)
[X] Something new
-[X] teleporter
--[X] safe for humans
--[X] fast
The aliens know where your base is now, what do?
[X] Moon Base with Anti-Orbital
Anyways, you've got an appointment with the UN
[X] Go in person with a full entourage.Go in with teleporter and have emergency teleporting excape.
[X] let the other guys 'borg him (moderately improved performance, still better than most soldiers)
[X] Something new
-[X] teleporter
--[X] safe for humans
--[X] fast
The aliens know where your base is now, what do?
[X] Moon Base with Anti-Orbital
Anyways, you've got an appointment with the UN
[X] Go in person with a full entourage.Go in with teleporter and have emergency teleporting excape.
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Maragas
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Nah.I do not know about mage man so can you do it for me ?But please make him have that Time Ability alongside classical super strengh,durability etc.
AZATHOTHoth
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What to do with that guy who's basically a brain in a jar?
[X] 'borg him yourself (get an awesome cyborg hero unit with full control over the design, but can't SCIENCE anything else at the moment)
The aliens know where your base is now, what do?
[X] build a mobile base/semi-capital ship (huge resource draw, takes almost a month, awesome results)
Anyways, you've got an appointment with the UN
[X] quick fab a hologram drone (-1 Superconductors) With fail safe to overload the drone if it's gets tampered/captured.
I want a helicarrier.
[X] 'borg him yourself (get an awesome cyborg hero unit with full control over the design, but can't SCIENCE anything else at the moment)
The aliens know where your base is now, what do?
[X] build a mobile base/semi-capital ship (huge resource draw, takes almost a month, awesome results)
Anyways, you've got an appointment with the UN
[X] quick fab a hologram drone (-1 Superconductors) With fail safe to overload the drone if it's gets tampered/captured.
I want a helicarrier.
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Now where in the world did @Gunman and @Trondason get off to? They're normally here by now.
I'm torn between borging him ourselves, and making a Teleporter. Teleporters are SUPER useful, after all.
I'm going to go with Teleporter, cause we can always borg people later.
[X] let the other guys 'borg him (moderately improved performance, still better than most soldiers)
[X] Something new
-[X] teleporter
--[X] safe for humans
--[X] fast
[X] just go ahead and do it
-[X] build on the moon where they have no authority perhaps?
Lets get ourselves some other bases before we sink a ton of money into a mega base. Lots of places we can place it, on the moon, under water, in antartica, the North Pole, Mars, Venus, Mercury, in the Asteroid Belt (ships capable of 40c travel really lets us get around, and they have enough fuel to do two two-way trips to Pluto on one tank).
[X] Go in person with a full entourage
With the teleporter, we can both arrive in style, and leave pronto if things go south.
I'm going to go with Teleporter, cause we can always borg people later.
[X] let the other guys 'borg him (moderately improved performance, still better than most soldiers)
[X] Something new
-[X] teleporter
--[X] safe for humans
--[X] fast
[X] just go ahead and do it
-[X] build on the moon where they have no authority perhaps?
Lets get ourselves some other bases before we sink a ton of money into a mega base. Lots of places we can place it, on the moon, under water, in antartica, the North Pole, Mars, Venus, Mercury, in the Asteroid Belt (ships capable of 40c travel really lets us get around, and they have enough fuel to do two two-way trips to Pluto on one tank).
[X] Go in person with a full entourage
With the teleporter, we can both arrive in style, and leave pronto if things go south.
It's only been 40 minutes, I been messing with a design in Minecraft, trying to figure out how to get something to work.
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What to do with that guy who's basically a brain in a jar?
[X] 'borg him yourself (get an awesome cyborg hero unit with full control over the design, but can't SCIENCE anything else at the moment)
The aliens know where your base is now, what do?
[X] build a mobile base/semi-capital ship (huge resource draw, takes almost a month, awesome results)
Anyways, you've got an appointment with the UN
[X] quick fab a hologram drone (-1 Superconductors) With fail safe to overload the drone if it's gets tampered/captured.
I second the motion for a helicarrier
[X] 'borg him yourself (get an awesome cyborg hero unit with full control over the design, but can't SCIENCE anything else at the moment)
The aliens know where your base is now, what do?
[X] build a mobile base/semi-capital ship (huge resource draw, takes almost a month, awesome results)
Anyways, you've got an appointment with the UN
[X] quick fab a hologram drone (-1 Superconductors) With fail safe to overload the drone if it's gets tampered/captured.
I second the motion for a helicarrier
@Maragas Since most people seem to be following your lead, can I ask you to let other people borg the dude, and vote to have us build a teleporter? Teleporters are super useful things that we want sooner rather than later, and we can always either borg someone else, or build a AI for our robot.