Elfen High 2 (OOC 8, Closed, Will it Hurt?)

[Constaniana]

You say that as if Argentina is a valuable possession. Besides, your sizeable American group is made up of people like this.

It goes both ways, Brit.

Incidentally, my old English mothertongue teacher was from Durham.

It's not in Yorkshire; therefore this just reinforces my Yorkshireman superiority.

[Norvenia]

I was reading back over AWB Arc 1 today. That was a damn fine RP, in the early going especially.

[Agritum]

So, I'm playing XCOM:The Enemy Within.

One of my randomly generated rookie soldiers is an Indian guy. He was supposed to lead a four-man team of other clueless rookies in a desperate assault on a downed alien battleship (the experienced soldiers had all been wounded/killed in the precedent missions.)

I kinda expected that they would have all died, given that they were a band of greenhorns with shitty starting weapons and that they were going to face some motherfuckingly insidious alien types.

That Indian guy proved me wrong.

The moment the aliens started surrounding and attacking the team, the Indian rookie started blowing their brains out with absurdly precise bursts from his shitty assault rifle. He managed to headshot a Floater (alien cyborg with jetpack) which was at the other side of a 15 meters long room.

The mission ended, with the aliens slaughtered and with no XCOM casualties. The Indian got promoted to the rank of "Squaddie", which actually made me enraged: he deserved much more than some shitty low ranking promotion.

Then, a few days after, an organization of alien-worshippers called EXALT (they're kinda like the Illuminati/NWO) started pestering XCOM and the whole world with terrorist attacks and sabotage on XCOM assets. XCOM found one of their terrorist cells in Mexico, and decided to send a covert agent there to learn what the crazy cultists were up to. Without minding much about who I was sending, I chose the first person on the soldiers' list and sent them there.

Fast forward to a few days after: XCOM has received an emergency call from said covert agent, and has sent a strike team composed by their best soldiers to extract him from the small Mexican town he's blocked in.

XCOM's soldiers arrive in the town, and quickly engage in combat with the EXALT operatives, who proceed to surround them and pin them down with heavy weapons fire, and the American lieutenant leading the team is about to get gunned down by one of EXALT's men.

Then, a dude wearing a badass trenchcoat bursts in the scene by jumping out of a window, landing on the ground below and capping the EXALT operative in the head with a well-placed laser pistol shot, saving the wounded Lieutenant's life. He's the covert agent.

And he's the Indian guy from before.

With his help, the soldiers manage to defeat the EXALT operatives, who commit suicide instead of letting themselves get captured by XCOM. The mission is a complete success, and XCOM now knows even more things about the shadowy EXALT terrorists, other than having managed to quash down one of their terrorist cells. The agent gets lauded by everyone in the team, and manages to get another promotion.

It was only when I went to check the promotion in the guy's character screen that I realized that his surname was Khan.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

So, I'm playing XCOM:The Enemy Within.

One of my randomly generated rookie soldiers is an Indian guy. He was supposed to lead a four-man team of other clueless rookies in a desperate assault on a downed alien battleship (the experienced soldiers had all been wounded/killed in the precedent missions.)

I kinda expected that they would have all died, given that they were a band of greenhorns with shitty starting weapons and that they were going to face some motherfuckingly insidious alien types.

That Indian guy proved me wrong.

The moment the aliens started surrounding and attacking the team, the Indian rookie started blowing their brains out with absurdly precise bursts from his shitty assault rifle. He managed to headshot a Floater (alien cyborg with jetpack) which was at the other side of a 15 meters long room.

The mission ended, with the aliens slaughtered and with no XCOM casualties. The Indian got promoted to the rank of "Squaddie", which actually made me enraged: he deserved much more than some shitty low ranking promotion.

Then, a few days after, an organization of alien-worshippers called EXALT (they're kinda like the Illuminati/NWO) started pestering XCOM and the whole world with terrorist attacks and sabotage on XCOM assets. XCOM found one of their terrorist cells in Mexico, and decided to send a covert agent there to learn what the crazy cultists were up to. Without minding much about who I was sending, I chose the first person on the soldiers' list and sent them there.

Fast forward to a few days after: XCOM has received an emergency call from said covert agent, and has sent a strike team composed by their best soldiers to extract him from the small Mexican town he's blocked in.

XCOM's soldiers arrive in the town, and quickly engage in combat with the EXALT operatives, who proceed to surround them and pin them down with heavy weapons fire, and the American lieutenant leading the team is about to get gunned down by one of EXALT's men.

Then, a dude wearing a badass trenchcoat bursts in the scene by jumping out of a window, landing on the ground below and capping the EXALT operative in the head with a well-placed laser pistol shot, saving the wounded Lieutenant's life. He's the covert agent.

And he's the Indian guy from before.

With his help, the soldiers manage to defeat the EXALT operatives, who commit suicide instead of letting themselves get captured by XCOM. The mission is a complete success, and XCOM now knows even more things about the shadowy EXALT terrorists, other than having managed to quash down one of their terrorist cells. The agent gets lauded by everyone in the team, and manages to get another promotion.

It was only when I went to check the promotion in the guy's character screen that I realized that his surname was Khan.

[Agritum]

So, I'm playing XCOM:The Enemy Within.

One of my randomly generated rookie soldiers is an Indian guy. He was supposed to lead a four-man team of other clueless rookies in a desperate assault on a downed alien battleship (the experienced soldiers had all been wounded/killed in the precedent missions.)

I kinda expected that they would have all died, given that they were a band of greenhorns with shitty starting weapons and that they were going to face some motherfuckingly insidious alien types.

That Indian guy proved me wrong.

The moment the aliens started surrounding and attacking the team, the Indian rookie started blowing their brains out with absurdly precise bursts from his shitty assault rifle. He managed to headshot a Floater (alien cyborg with jetpack) which was at the other side of a 15 meters long room.

The mission ended, with the aliens slaughtered and with no XCOM casualties. The Indian got promoted to the rank of "Squaddie", which actually made me enraged: he deserved much more than some shitty low ranking promotion.

Then, a few days after, an organization of alien-worshippers called EXALT (they're kinda like the Illuminati/NWO) started pestering XCOM and the whole world with terrorist attacks and sabotage on XCOM assets. XCOM found one of their terrorist cells in Mexico, and decided to send a covert agent there to learn what the crazy cultists were up to. Without minding much about who I was sending, I chose the first person on the soldiers' list and sent them there.

Fast forward to a few days after: XCOM has received an emergency call from said covert agent, and has sent a strike team composed by their best soldiers to extract him from the small Mexican town he's blocked in.

XCOM's soldiers arrive in the town, and quickly engage in combat with the EXALT operatives, who proceed to surround them and pin them down with heavy weapons fire, and the American lieutenant leading the team is about to get gunned down by one of EXALT's men.

Then, a dude wearing a badass trenchcoat bursts in the scene by jumping out of a window, landing on the ground below and capping the EXALT operative in the head with a well-placed laser pistol shot, saving the wounded Lieutenant's life. He's the covert agent.

And he's the Indian guy from before.

With his help, the soldiers manage to defeat the EXALT operatives, who commit suicide instead of letting themselves get captured by XCOM. The mission is a complete success, and XCOM now knows even more things about the shadowy EXALT terrorists, other than having managed to quash down one of their terrorist cells. The agent gets lauded by everyone in the team, and manages to get another promotion.

It was only when I went to check the promotion in the guy's character screen that I realized that his surname was Khan.

I'm now naming him Krishna and customizing his appearance to resemble you.

This campaign is gonna be awesome.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I'm now naming him Krishna and customizing his appearance to resemble you.

This campaign is gonna be awesome.

I want regular updates.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I was reading back over AWB Arc 1 today. That was a damn fine RP, in the early going especially.

I quite liked it. Debated a reboot, decided against. May as well work that stuff into here.

[Norvenia]

I was reading back over AWB Arc 1 today. That was a damn fine RP, in the early going especially.

I quite liked it. Debated a reboot, decided against. May as well work that stuff into here.

Yes. And what I was struck by, reading it, was that the characters just made the story. Gabriel and Vernon bouncing off of each other was the heart of most of the Arc, Hailey and Annette were a believable couple, Peter and Gabriel later on were genuinely heartwarming while still remaining profoundly disturbing. We're all good writers, so good characters aren't terribly rare. Good characters with complex and interesting relationships, though - that still isn't as common, even for us. Without those characters, a reboot would be pointless.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

As a side note, I highly recommend you all watch The Wire. It's very good.

Something that gives me a pleasant surprise is how they don't refrain from putting non-whites in lead roles or making them the majority of the cast. Many shows will do that.

[Norvenia]

I second this recommendation.

[Agritum]

As a side note, I highly recommend you all watch The Wire. It's very good.

Something that gives me a pleasant surprise is how they don't refrain from putting non-whites in lead roles or making them the majority of the cast. Many shows will do that.

The premise sounds interesting enough.

Plus I can use it to pick on Condie and Arcad.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I second this recommendation.

I also recommend Doctor Who, Breaking Bad and Fullmetal Alchemist.

To be honest, I especially recommend Breaking Bad.

[Nationstatelandsville]

I second this recommendation.

I also recommend Doctor Who, Breaking Bad and Fullmetal Alchemist.

To be honest, I especially recommend Breaking Bad.

Listen, it looks cool and all, but I no longer consider someone a human being until they've seen John Hurt run a Dalek over in a police box.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I also recommend Doctor Who, Breaking Bad and Fullmetal Alchemist.

To be honest, I especially recommend Breaking Bad.

Listen, it looks cool and all, but I no longer consider someone a human being until they've seen John Hurt run a Dalek over in a police box.

This is also correct.

I'm yet again rewatching Pyramids of Mars- I really quite like this one.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Listen, it looks cool and all, but I no longer consider someone a human being until they've seen John Hurt run a Dalek over in a police box.

This is also correct.

I'm yet again rewatching Pyramids of Mars- I really quite like this one.

I prefer The Brain of Morbius, if that's the direction you want to go., but both are good.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Nat, post IC.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Nat, post IC.

Algebra homework.

[Liriena]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_XI

It turns out this is a fantastic game, surprisingly enough. :3

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Carry has turned out to be a character much more interesting when I revisit him.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Carry has turned out to be a character much more interesting when I revisit him.

He had to be flat before - most AWB characters did. All the attention was being devoted to Gabriel and Peter's characters, with good reason.

Like, you look at Earl, and he's one-note the whole time; but worked. Flat characters are a necessity.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Carry has turned out to be a character much more interesting when I revisit him.

He had to be flat before - most AWB characters did. All the attention was being devoted to Gabriel and Peter's characters, with good reason.

Like, you look at Earl, and he's one-note the whole time; but worked. Flat characters are a necessity.

This is completely true - but I'm still quite enjoying revisiting Carry. It's very fun to write him.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25088134

Admittedly, this could be made into a TV show.

[Nationstatelandsville]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25088134

Admittedly, this could be made into a TV show.

...Are we reading the same news story?

[Nightkill the Emperor]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25088134

Admittedly, this could be made into a TV show.

...Are we reading the same news story?

I just came off from an episode of The Wire.

Mentally I'm envisioning a South African copper working desperately to find links against this Czech businessman, catching him and beating him in a rage.

There's a TV show episode right there.

[Nationstatelandsville]

...Are we reading the same news story?

I just came off from an episode of The Wire.

Mentally I'm envisioning a South African copper working desperately to find links against this Czech businessman, catching him and beating him in a rage.

There's a TV show episode right there.

Much too 24 for my taste.