Joka IV's in the M.C. Lab.
Lindblum said:
I read this whole LP in one day and I am hooked.
Please let me fight for humanity as Lindblum!
Please assign me to whatever high risk job that has an open spot!
No open spot for now but that can change rather quickly. You're on the list either way.
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UPDATE 38 - Molecular Control
When we last left off, Triton-1 was en route to recover a battleship full of gill men.
The site is reached without problems.
It doesn't take long for RK47 to spot our first targets. A revealed gill man and two shadows.
aRyan stumbles upon a more dangerous opponent to the north.
Pulsers are thrown all around the sub. The first explosion kills a gill man.
The second takes care of another.
The third kills one more.
But the northern pulser fails to destroy the Xarquid.
RK47 begins scouting and is shot. The tank took heavy damage.
The alien responsible is found around the corner. It's a Xarquid.
RK47 shoots the Displacer Cannon but take a retaliation shot in return. Down to 22 health, he retreats before he's destroyed.
A Pulser is thrown to deal with the threat, and succeeds.
More gill men are discovered near our starting location.
RK47 fires snap shots and his first miss kills a hidden gill man! The second one hits the right target. lightbane explores the area and finds another Xarquid.
He retreats and the next turn, RK47 takes revenge on the nautilus.
Twice.
lightbane isn't out of danger yet, another Xarquid is nearby.
Hellraiser throws a pulser and the beast is down.
Another Xarquid !
Black IV shoots and hits.
eklektyk finishes the monster.
The Sub is found to the west. Promixity mines claim a gill man life.
aRyan shoots a shadow far to the southwest.
lightbane comes face to face with another Xarquid.
kazgar fires a Thermal Shok and it falls down.
Black IV manages a beautiful reaction shot as he spots an alien coming down stairs.
Another alien is found, and Black continues his killing spree.
BayBee enters the sub and finds a dangerous target.
Banelion takes his shots and hits once.
And twice, both with snapshots. The Xarquid is however still alive.
Black continues killing aliens as they come down the stairs.
And a third shot by Banelion takes care of the Xarquid.
lightbane explores a corner of the map and spots yet another Xarquid.
eklektyk shoots and kills it with two snapshots.
Screams of frustration are heard inside the sub.
BayBee runs up the stairs and stabs the berserk alien.
Banelion stops his advance as he sees a guard standing nearby. BayBee goes through the elevator and stabs it.
Another Xarquid is discovered by lightbane.
aRyan shoots at it.
But once again eklektyk has to finish the job.
BayBee goes up the elevator and is shot. Unarmed, our aquanaut takes care of the last alien on the map.
A very successful mission despite a rather bad start.
Interrogations continue. More details on alien subs are revealed.
Tasoths are starting to look for our bases.
The site is too deep for our Barracuda.
But the sub eventually comes up and is destroyed as soon as it gets in range.
Gill Men continue their attempts in the North Atlantic.
But we don't let them do as they please.
As expected, they launch a retaliation mission.
The scout is vaporized long before it can approach our base.
Scientists examine more pieces of recovered alien technology.
Gill Men are trying hard at finding our base.
This sub even came relatively close before it was shot down.
Now Tasoths are joining on the search.
Their sub is shot down, just as every other.
The end of the month arrives, and all our interceptions got us a very good score. Funding rises noticeably but still can't pay for our maintenance.
Implantation of M.C. chips is finished on most of our soldiers and their scores are revealed. Altantic team fares pretty well, with most having above 50 and a soldier getting the perfect 100 score on the test. Congratulations, Banelion.
The weakest soldier is without a doubt the newly appointed Lieutenant Zdzisiu. We'll have to be careful around him when M.C. is to be expected.
Pacific team lost most of the soldiers scheduled for implantation, so many scores remain a mystery. Those that are revealed aren't very good.
Garfunkel being the absolute worst of all, with a M.C. strength of 0.
Research completes as the month finishes.
It's just another alien sub profile.
And with that, I have finally exhausted the last of my previously played updates. Now that M.C. is readily available, it's time to decide whether it will be used or not. There are multiple choices possible :
A - Never. M.C. is for the weak, blow up the disrupting devices and never talk about it again.
B - Perfect scores only. It would be a shame not to take advantage of our best soldiers' abilities. As things stand Banelion would be the only one allowed a M.C. disruptor.
C - Full clearance. Use M.C. like another weapon in our arsenal.