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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: The E on February 13, 2016, 07:17:32 am
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It's time for another run at getting HLP people killed! If you own XCOM2 and want to be in this, please create a soldier for yourself and send it to me. If you don't, signups can happen through the usual means.
OUR CAST OF HEROES:
Darius
Mammothtank
Phantom Hoover
Starslayer
Herra Tohtori
Gortef
Orph3us
CKid
Lepanto
Crizza
Jeff Vader
AdmiralRalwood
qazwsx
Hades
EveningTea
T-Rog
IronWorks
Turambar
MP-Ryan
NGTM1R
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Sick. Does the "Usual means" mean PM?
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PM, or posting here.
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bagsy the sniper
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I wanna be a tank again :(
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I wanna be expendable meatshield again!
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i revise my last post, i want to be a specialist and spoon can be my robot?
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I wanna be a tank again :(
No tanks in here, I'm afraid. Not even SHIVs.
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they've all been replaced with ion array frigates
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Sign me up as a specialist.
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What's the class with the Drone? Specialist, right? - Sign me up as one of those please...
DOWN WITH THE ADVENT! ALL HAIL OUR MANMADE AI OVERLORDS!
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Let's take Earth back.
Sign me up as a sniper. Don't care how I look.
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As posted in the other thread, count me in, whatever suits you or I guess... Heavy.
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Sign me up as... iunno. Something.
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[Right, let's get this started then. OOC comments will appear in square brackets, like this one.]
I awake abruptly. This is not new, this has happened dozens of times before; A sudden invasion of consciousness where there was nothing (something? anything?) before. Memories stir: of briefings, of hours spent directing people from the safety of an XCOM JTIC system, of desperate defenses, forlorn hopes, grand victories and crushing defeats.
But something is new.
(http://i.imgur.com/CClwWgE.jpg)
Usually, I awake in my quarters at XCOM base. This time, people are talking to me, no, about me. I try to move, but can't; I try to talk, but can't.
What the ****?
(http://i.imgur.com/InhCgJL.jpg)
Is that ... Bradford? But I do not meet him here. I meet him in the command center, after breakfast. What is happening?
....Why is this familiar?
(http://i.imgur.com/xhiOOX3.jpg)
Oh. That's why.
What the **** is going on?
Things are happening to me. I drift in and out of consciousness; it feels as if I am having the most invasive dental procedure ever.
(http://i.imgur.com/ZSpCIK9.jpg)
I see an Ethereal, making his gestures at me. Then I wake up, again, but it seems for good this time. I am no longer in the sickbay that escaped from a horror movie; it seems these are living quarters. Bradford is there.
He looks ... old. The Bradford I know is young, an up-and-coming officer seconded from some US Army outfit somewhere.
He fills me in. I am not sure I believe him. He tells me that XCOM was wiped out in the early days of the alien invasion, 20 years ago (But that didn't happen! They tried, yes, but we beat them!) (Or did we?) (I remember both... but that's not possible?); that he, Shen and Valen escaped. That he and Shen found the wreck of an old logistics ship the aliens lost early on, tried to patch it up as best they could without attracting attention.
Meanwhile, the Aliens dismantled our governments one by one. Promises of life eternal, life amongst the stars, friendship with a coalition of friendlies.
"Advent", they call it.
(http://i.imgur.com/mqxStn2.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Hmiu9NM.jpg)
Did noone tell them that humans are conditioned to see black and red as bad?
Would they care?
"Okay, you're telling me we're ****ed. We have no ressources, no allies. Noone but the couple dozen people rattling around in this wreck."
"Yes."
"I am going to assume there's a reason why you freed me, aside from my good looks."
"There is. Something's changed. Advent has long-standing incentive programs to get people into the cities. People have abandoned the rural areas, everyone but the most stubborn eventually went there. But when we look at the cities, they do not seem fuller. People are disappearing, and we don't know why or where to. Now we're getting reports that entire villages have fallen off the map. It seems to me that the aliens are working to a timetable, and whatever their goal is, it's near. We need to start striking back. Show everyone out there that XCOM is still there."
"And I assume you have a first goal in mind?"
"I do. There's a big monument they recently unveiled in Chicago. We're going to bring it down."
(http://i.imgur.com/txxYWHT.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/jyIQfMn.jpg)
And so we do.
Vigilo Confido.
We're back.
[I am not going to cover the intro mission, as no HLPXCOM people were involved in it. Say hello to the first few proper members the RNG spit out:
(https://i.imgur.com/zWY0JCU.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/glrD2g2.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/7pun16Q.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/1NFTvIu.jpg)
Yes, I am in there. No, I do not have a split personality.]
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So hi, I'm a rookie. Or a scientist. Or drive the Skyranger. Whatever!
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I would like to join as any sort of soldier, or engineer, or pilot. Let's go get some aliens!
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Count me in pretty please. I'd just like to get the first Argentinian you get free.
Looks and role don't matter, but just soldier. I want to die in a blaze of glory someday :D
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I'm on the team now! Yay!
I hope my contribution or my death is memorable.
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Ahem. You appear to have forgotten me and my shotfun. Though I hear there's now a melee spec too, so I'd take that as well. And no, don't have the game to pre-create for you, sorry.
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You are now in the pool. Sorry for the oversight.
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You're free to get me killed etc
Or throw me in a lab coat. Either works
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Reporting for duty, sah!
Preferred class: the Ranger
But really, anything goes as long as it's gonna be epic
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You better move on this, I got my copy of the game now.
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Got held up by real life, but next installment should be up soon.
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Hoo boy my receding hairline looks absolutely fabulous :D
If you want to fiddle with my appearance a bit, you could use my RL "gear against really low temperatures" as a reference.
(http://puu.sh/nugHL/2f218ee50c.jpg)
(Damn you Firaxis for not including Binland as a country -sure there are mods for that, but still)
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Sorry guys, I'm going to have to cancel this. I just don't have the energy right now to commit to this as fully as I have to to do a decent job of it.
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In that case, it's time to rush my second playthrough so I can make sure I actually know how to beat the game.
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It's ok The E :)
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It's ok The E :)
Seconded
... and we will get there eventually (and maybe by that time, I will have had the spare time to upgrade my PC so it runs XCom 2 - Argentina was a sort of a flattering country of origin, but I rather have a more acurate depiction of myself getting shot in the face with Alien Plasma weaponary :) )
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It's ok The E :)
:yes: