Bradford: Good work Commander, you squad is showing real promise out there.
Gamma: Thank you, but they're the ones taking all the risks, and they're getting more comfortable fighting these alien forces- Cybele and Eddard especially made the shots when they counted last mission, and Cybele seems to be getting over the anxiety she showed in the first one.
Bradford: Good to hear, when you have a few minutes I should also show you the situation room so you can have a better idea of the global issues X-Com is keeping track of.
Gamma: Let's go ahead now, I can stop by the barracks later.
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Bradford: This screen shows the estimated panic in each of the X-Com Council nations, as well as any satellites and interceptors stationed over them. Any country at 5 panic when the council has its monthly report is likely to abandon the project, so unless we desperately need a reward another country is offering we should prioritize missions on countries and continents with high panic. Any abduction missions we are unable to take on will noticably increase the panic of the country it's in as well as slightly increase the panic of all countries on that continent.
Bradford: In addition, you can view X-Com finances here, any pending requests from council nations, and communicate on the 'Grey Market' with the council nations to sell alien corpses and technology. Remember that Doctor Vahlen is expecting priority on anything not yet researched to further our long-term ability to win this war, so be careful of what you choose to sell.
Gamma: Understood. The screen is stating that we have uplink capabilities for another satellite, are we currently constructing another?
Bradford: We'll be starting on it as soon as the engineers from Germany arrive later today, having them on board will allow us to construct it much more efficiently than we could before.
Gamma: Excellent, if there's nothing else I'm going to head down to the barracks and congratulate the troops.
Bradford: That's it Commander.
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Zhou: Commander, what are you doing here?
Gamma: Just here to congratulate the troops on the last mission Miss Zhou.
Zhou: DON'T you be calling me Miss, I'm a soldier first MISTER Gamma. And you didn't thank me for the last mission, what kind of sexist shit is this?
Gamma: Uh...you weren't here. I only saw RC and Reck when I stopped by and the mission to Germany came up as I was here.
Zhou: And that thank you?
Gamma: Yes, you did good work on the first mission, thanks. Now can you tell me where the rest of the recruits are?
Zhou: There's several in the recreation room. I'm coming with you.
Gamma:Fine.
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Gamma: Good evening, me-SOLDIERS.
RC: Commander! We shot up those aliens BUT GOOD, me and Eddard here got a promotion!
Gamma: I heard, and congratulations! Not a single wound on any of you and every alien taken care of, it was fantastic!
Eddard: I shall wear no crowns and win no glory.
RC: Yeah, He's a bit of a stick-in-the-mud but he's fine once you get to know him.
Reck: You ARE getting me a better gun though right Gamma?
Gamma: I'm pretty sure it's not the gun's fault but I'll get you a different one.
Reck: I aimed it at him and pulled the trigger and it MISSED its not my fault.
Gamma: Aallllright Reck.
Reck: Cunt.
Zhou: Don't be using that derogatory word, just because you can't get any doesn't mean it's a bad thing!
Reck: Zhou I'm gay as fuck.
Zhou: Oh. Well. You still shouldn't use it.
Gamma: I'll go ahead and get the weapon requisition in Reck, and Congrats again everyone, enjoy relaxing until the next mission comes up. Hopefully we'll have a few days but be ready.
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Bradford: Commander, incoming transmission from the Council.
Gamma: Call in all of our soldiers who've been on a mission before, we need Zhou sniping on the bridge and it sounds like there's something bigger to worry about than in our last mission in the cemetery.
Bradford: I'm afraid we can't bring all 5- officially the risk of a chain reaction of panic without an officer in the field to guide them is too high to risk so many soldiers.
Gamma: Godamnit Bradford do you really want to not have enough soldiers on a mission straight from the council?
Bradford: Unofficially, Cybele was also practicing with smoke grenades half an hour ago and tripped on some barbed wire while trying to get to the next obstacle in the course. We're patching up her ankle now.
Gamma: godDAMNIT.
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Gamma: This operation's codename is Purple Daze, you'll be deploying to a bridge in Mexico.
Reck: Wait I've HAD Purple Daze before, what kind of codename is that?
Gamma: Some guy named Wraith makes them, he was the commander for the MOC-X trial simulations that convinced the Council to fund us.
Zhou: If HE'S so good at it why are you leading us?
Gamma: He requested a non-combat role after the simulations- he refused to give an explanation but he lost...a lot of soldiers in the them.
Zhou: Oh.
Eddard: The winters are hard, but we will endure. We always have.
Gamma: ...Thanks? I think. We believe there's a bomb somewhere on the bridge that we need to disarm. You'll only have a limited amount of time to disarm it before it's armed so you can't stop for a prolonged firefight- you HAVE to keep moving.
RC: They think they can mess with AMERICA?! THEY'RE DEEEAD WRONG.
RC: PERMISSION FOR TWO MORE GUNS SIR.
Gamma: No, stick with your assault rifle and smoke grenade. How would you even shoot the 3rd one anyway?
RC: Us Texans have some real big appendages if you know what I'm sayin'.
Zhou: Don't start this shit, I'll outshoot you any day.
RC: We'll see Missy!
Zhou: DON'T CALL ME MISSY.
Gamma: We're over the dropzone, prepare for deployment.
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RC: On the ground, what are these green things?
Gamma: Command is telling me they're power sources for the bomb- if you disable them we can buy some more time before the bomb can arm itself.
Reck: I'll take care of this one. *Kick* OWWWWWW
Gamma: Yeah, there's a removable module on the bottom that you can use to power them down, but kicking the plasma container seems to work too Reck. Good work.
Reck: Fuck you gamma.
Gamma: Everyone move up, Stark you're closest to the next power node.
Stark: Moving.
Stark: Something in the distance- a new type of walker. It's gone behind the truck.
Gamma: A shotgun will be useless at that range, see if you can hit it with your pistol Stark.
Stark: Firing.
Stark: Target is hit but won't die. They never die.
RC: Can't see the damn thing! Might as well use some smoke to cover us til we can move up.
Stark: Walker on the move, other side of the truck - he's..HRRRRGHH, CAN'T BREATHE
Gamma: Stark get out of that cloud, it looks like those thin human-looking aliens can spit poison.
Stark: Aurgh, moving.
Stark:Purging walker.
Stark: Walker's unharmed.
RC: We're moving up but we can't get a good shot of him!
Zhou: Hang on, I'm going around the side!
Yeah he got killed with a non-crit in full cover, and still would have probably died (he might have had a higher chance of being critically wounded instead but I don't know how the odds work for that) even if he hadn't taken the poison damage earlier. Thin men are assholes.
Reck: STARK IS DOWN
Zhou: Shit, I'm still going around - TWO MORE CONTACTS, THE GREY ONES
Gamma: We've dubbed those 'Sectoids', by the way.
RC: I see one out in the open, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS
RC: FUCKING HELL the Thin Guy peeked out at me, missed my shot.
Reck: Oh fuck this asshole. HEY RC, DUCK
Reck: Godamn that was satisfying.
Zhou: Firing at one of the Sectoids!
Zhou: Missed the target.
Reck: Who's the better shot now Zhou?
Zhou: You were the one who said explosives were easy.
RC: Sectoid coming towards me!
RC: Missed me you ugly grey yankee!
Zhou: Moving up and taking another shot!
Zhou: FUCKING HELL
Reck: Moving up, OH BALLS
Reck: Godamn, I'm alright.
RC: Let's take em' OOOOUT
RC: DAMNATION!
Reck: Maybe you should talk less while shooting and aim just a bit more.
RC: Show some respect you heathen!
Reck: Nooooot getting into this horseshit now.
Zhou: The aliens are doing something- it looks like one's making the other stronger somehow.
Reck: Taking fire!
Gamma: Readings show that the bomb is almost at full power, you need to reach one of those power nodes NOW!
Zhou: I've got it covered.
Reck: Moving up and taking a shot at the one in the back!
Reck: What were you saying Zhou?
Zhou: ...Good shot Reck.
Reck: THANK you. Wait, did that other sectoid just collapse too?
RC: Sure looks like it- *bang* yeah, pretty dead.
Gamma: Huh, I'd guess that killing the one 'powering' the other one hurts it somehow. Keep moving up, you still don't have a lot of time.
Zhou: Moving up to better cover now. Another Sectoid spotted, just one this time!
RC: These grey varmints are even worse shots than you Zhou!
Zhou: Shut up assholes, moving up to the next power node!
Zhou: There's one more Sectoid and the bomb up ahead! Taking out this sectoid!
Reck: ARE you though?
Zhou: Keep it up and the next frag's for you Reck.
Reck: Well at least you can hit with something.
Graphics maay have glitched out from how far the screen needed to zoom to get the sectoid and Zhou in the shot.
Zhou: Woah...everything went fuzzy for a second but I don't think I'm hurt.
Reck: RC, move up with me, Zhou see if you can take out the last sectoid.
Zhou: My angle on him's pretty bad but I'll take the shot.
Zhou: Yeah, shot wide, sorry.
Reck: Did that plasma whiff just make you nicer? I'm aimed at the sectoid, if he starts moving you flank you I'll take him out.
Zhou: Still taking fire but he isn't moving out of cover.
Reck: I'm moving up to the next power node but still can't get a bead on him without coming out of cover, Zhou can you give it one more shot?
Zhou: Yeah, aiming.
Zhou:FUCK yeah! Finally getting the hang of this thing.
Reck: Nice shot, keep it up and maybe we'll actually stand a chance against these bastards.
Gamma: Good job, now just move up and disarm the bomb.
Reck: So how do we do that exactly?
Gamma: Same way as the power nodes, just disconnect all the modules from the bottom, there should be one for each power node attached so make sure you get them all.
Reck: The same way huh?
Gamma: PUT DOWN THAT SECTOID, just because brute force worked once doesn't mean it won't blow you to hell this time.
Reck: Buzzkill.
Gamma: Nice work, it looks like there's one more wave of enemies on the way, take 'em out and then you can head home.
RC: You heard him, set em' up and gun em' down!
Reck: ...Hey Gamma, I'm on point here but I can't see any, you sure the readings are right?
Gamma: They're almost RIGHT on top of you now, you should...FUCK, LOOK UP.
Zhou & RC: FIRING
Reck: OH SHIT
Yeah, every single one of them missed their overwatch shot. It's quite bad.
Reck:TARGET'S STILL UP, THEY'RE JUST STARING AT US
RC: KEEP FIRING
Zhou: One down!
RC: Got another!
I should have had Reck fire at one of these two since he wasn't in line of sight of the one on top of the truck but I was most worried about them having a flanking shot on RC and Reck behind the car and didn't think it through. You're still all punks for missing EVERY overwatch shot though.
Reck: Can't get a bead on the last!
Zhou: Last one is moving, cover AUUGH
Reck: FUCK, MOVING UP TO FLANK HIM
Gamma: That's the last of them, is Zhou alright?!
Reck: She's dead Commander. Son of a bitch.
Aand I'm finally actually caught up! Going to be streaming a much smaller amount this Wednesday at 9pm EST again, hopefully with a few of the issues worked out this time- I did upload last weeks stream to youtube but since I wasn't using my mic and it had cutscenes it just immediately got blocked because of copyrights, hopefully if I actually bother with talking this time they won't care quite so much. I'll try to get the update up the same night but given how much time they seem to be taking don't ACTUALLY expect it up until thursday. >_>
