Operation Red Shield
Landed UFO Assault
Nigeria
Present: StarSlayer, The E, SpardaSon21, IronBeer, Gortef.Mission Objective: Capture anything the moves. We just got our stunguns in.
Greetings from...wherever these dudes come from.
Aww man, stop spitting goop at The E, that's not cool.
Or shooting Sparda!
So, fire returned, and the dice gods are unhappy with everyone, everybody with the 1 HP slapped-in-the-face. AND STOP SHOOTING AT SPARDA. Least they missed this time.
Pistol return fire. Plinking for 1 HP, but that's intentional. Basic pistols are the best way to maximize capture chance because they plink and you can bring alien health down controllably.
However we don't need all of them alive, so this guy takes one round in the gut from Gortef.
The E shows off Suppression. The aliens
do not like Suppression and react quite violently to it. Case in point: the alien he's suppressing tries to hurt him to break it. So does the other alien that's badly injured. Neither hits.
AND THEN THESE GUYS DROP IN. Great, just great.
StarSlayer's reaction shot once again demonstrates why his current nickname is "Crit Miss" although I could fit it I would totally nickname him "Hated of the Dice Gods".
Sparda, too, is not favored. Though he does do more damage than StarSlayer
So this is Double Shot, which does pretty much what it says on the tin. Two shots, at an accuracy penalty, but in this case that still leaves StarSlayer a 62% chance to hit. One miss, one three-HP hit, not what was hoped for but eh I'll take it.
IronBeer's miss, not so much. AND THEN SOMEONE INVADES THE E'S PERSONAL SPACE AGAIN. Ouch. Still, three HP that's not so bad, he'll live, not a huge threat despite the fact he's poisoned. (I will regret writing this.)
And the the aliens show some dumbness, because apparently they can suppress too but didn't try to just counter-suppress The E. No, they tried to suppress IronBeer. NEWS FLASH: IronBeer has Lightning Reflexes, your free reaction shot when he moves to break suppression will
automatically miss.
And then The E gets shot again. For another three HP. So he's down to two. And he's poisoned so he's going to lose one of them at least. Frak.
Gortef kills one of the Floaters because I am now officially pissed off.
The E displaces and kills his Personal Space Invader with a burst.
Sparda misses his attempt to kill the alien suppressing IronBeer. Incidentally, the incoming fire here is from the Suppression directed at IronBeer. It also vapes Sparda's cover, which I didn't notice until it was too late. That could potentially suck.
Told you the free shot would miss. Actually it missed so hard the dude spun around to fire backwards. (And then his shots turned over 90 degrees leaving the barrel to be a near miss. Go figure.)
Ride the fraking lightning. First operational use of the HLPX-COM stun weapons is a success.
And then Sparda gets shot for all but one of his remaining HP and there's another active alien and FML-wait it missed. Okay, panic over now.
You're going to suffer hours of excruciating interrogation for this! Both of you!
And then there were Sectoids, Jesus Christ on a pogo stick. They even shot IronBeer, though fortunately he's not too badly hurt.
Gortef returns fire. The other two Sectoids have run off on me.
So basically only StarSlayer and IronBeer are fit to assault ship with at least two known aliens in it. This'll be fun. In much the same way Dwarf Fortress is fun. I'm so short on useable firepower right now I'm going to actually send in Gortef with a pistol because I'm that out of options.
IronBeer spots one of the crystalline ones so we're back up to three aliens, but misses his shot at it. This is going to suck.
StarSlayer runs in, taking some hits on the way, and stuns a Sectoid, but that still leaves two active aliens. Still gonna suck.
Starslayer is shot. IronBeer is shot. StarSlayer is hanging on with 2 HP and IronBeer is at 4 HP but by now it's much too late. This is gonna suck, but we're gonna win it.
StarSlayer uses the Double Shot again, which is fortunate because once again the Dice Gods tried to backhand him with a 1 HP hit on the first round. The second round finishes the job.
IronBeer runs up to our Crystalline Entity wannabe, and at this range literally cannot miss plus 70% crit chance. You can guess what happens next.
Mission Complete. And a mess.
Hospital stays for everyone except Gortef! (Who got promoted, lemme know know what lieutenant-level sniper skill you want plz Gortef.) StarSlayer is in for 14 days, The E for 13, Sparda for 11, and IronBeer for 8.
It's a good thing I was planning on doing a housekeeping post because I'm pretty sure if I gave you all another combat mission or simply pointed a floor fan at you, you'd all fall over dead.