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| AzyWng:
Working on File 003 now. Spoiler alert: Agent "Nightbug" is dead. Some rats killed them. Also, unless someone suggests/requests names for agents, I'll be using randomly generated codenames. Be prepared to meet such illustrious figures as "Clueless Mosquito" and "Armored Duck". At least, in later files. |
| AzyWng:
Seeing as next week has at least two tests and an essay that is also a test grade, I don't think I'll be able to finish File 003 any time soon... Please wait patiently while I try to study, write, and not get distracted! |
| AzyWng:
"Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 14 d"-I get it man. Just wanted to let you folks know that I'm not dead, and that I'm not intending to quit the series the way I did with the Darkest Dungeon one. It's just that in between getting distracted and having to deal with schoolwork (including a few articles and an essay I need to write), I'm not very certain when I can finish the writing here - in part because the segment of footage I'm trying to cut down is nearly an hour in length. Still, though, I will continue working on it best I can. Thanks for being patient. |
| nav':
No worries, we're still waiting. At least I am. |
| AzyWng:
File 003 It's almost a two month delay, but better late than never - here's another post for the XCOM Files! North Africa had more zombies. This time, though, I wasn?t nearly as afraid - in part because I brought shotguns. Everyone knows zombies are weak to shotguns. The battle went on a lot longer than I anticipated, in part because Tamer and Julia were much, much more cautious than before. But before too long, the final zombie fell. One of the civilians couldn?t be saved, but all in all, it was a good day?s work. Before long, we had another mission - this time all the way up past Greenland. Strange life forms were attacking the locals, blah blah blah. Tamer and Julia hadn?t taken a scratch from their battle with the zombies earlier, so I sent them in. A bit of brief exploration and a toss of an electro-flare revealed... something. But I wasn?t quite sure what. Adjusting the camera a bit, I found it was... W-what the hell? It took way too many bullets to bring that thing down. Julia ran out of ammo for her shotgun and had to grab a pistol from the car. Some poor soul blundered into the creature?s path and got eviscerated... I don?t think any of us are going to be the same after that. A few new agents to bolster the roster... And... Fucking finally, Rodriguez! I know paperwork takes a long time to handle, but god damn! It?s been nearly four weeks! Not long after that, I got word from Vahlen about the ?zombies?. They are, in fact, victims of an alien parasite that almost completely takes over the host?s brain. Intellectually, they?re not capable of anything short of trying to claw people into pieces and eat them - though their deteriorated metabolism means they tend to have more than a little trouble digesting what they consume. Notably, these creatures are completely immune to pain, so the best strategy to deal with them is to simply crush them. The next mission... didn?t go over so well. Suffice it to say that giant rats can be plenty dangerous if you get careless, and when people get careless... sometimes they die. Henrikki Molanen is dead. After the rat-catching debacle, our interrogation of the strange man in the karate outfit finished. From the info from the interrogation and the research we conducted on them, these specific people are ?Black Lotus Followers?: low-ranking members who act somewhat like sleeper agents - even if their monk-like appearance is a dead giveaway that something about them has changed. Maybe they?re not privy to particularly valuable information, but we might still get something out of them - and that something?s worth more than nothing. This time, that ?something? was info on a Rennnielle Diolata - former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) member, until he discovered his family dead one night, with an AFP cap at the scene. His strike on the same base he once served at turned out to be the end of a lot of good people - and thus his current status is something Interpol will definitely be interested in. A short while after that, Helen came in with her report on our logistics network. In short, while ours is heavily hampered by red tape, she managed to get us van access - letting us deploy four agents anywhere on the globe with all the gear they need. Unfortunately, the increased logistics behind planting four agents on foreign soil means that the van will take much longer to set up and bring to the site. Another agent was lost to the rats - this time it was ?Nightbug?. After talking to an abducted farmer that we apprehended, we now know at least one of the things the aliens have been up to - ?harvesting? the animals of farms, often removing organs or leaving mutilated remains on farmland. Naturally quite the distressing sight. More gang takedowns ensued and, after that, our research on the giant rats was complete. Analysis of a live specimen showed that most of the rats carry a disease that makes them much more violent than normal. More distressingly, the rate at which these giant rats multiply is as fast as normal rats, making them a significant threat to food supplies. Another gang member captured, and another piece of basic equipment handled. Graham wasn?t able to get kevlar vests - which most larger-scale police forces have access to - but he does know how to get us some, even if the paperwork for that might be able to stop a bullet. In the meantime, however, he suggested leather coats, in the hope that they might stop a weak attack and, thus, will be better than no armor at all. And, finally, a giant bug, possibly related to the giant rats from earlier. Our most recent event is a notification of suspects in Lagos. I?m hoping to send our newest agent - ?Hawke? - in alongside a more experienced member of the team to show who?s available. Note: Received word from Helen. Turns out all the photos and videos from field footage I was attaching to the notes wound up padding their size, and our higher-ups don?t like the idea of our networks using more bandwidth than is needed. Probably bullshit, but in any case, you can expect fewer photos and video attachments in the future. |
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