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OPERATION FORGOTTEN CHANT
It's a restaurant location, and right away things get off to a craptastic start. We discover two thin men, and after a blown up car, severely damaged van, and a strange bug in which I don't flank one of them despite standing right next to him, the thin men are gone and so is Sterling Silvers, executed at point-blank range in about as quick a death as you can have in this game. Gale has been injured, and uses up the only medikit.
This could get ugly. Three left, and plenty more enemies I surmise. We move through the restaurant, surprisingly encountering no resistance. A methodical sweep takes time, but eventually out back there is a semi truck, and three sectoids.
We make short work of the first, McCloud on a reaction shot. They miss a return shot, and Idol climbs into the trailer, executing a second foe. The third retreats before we can do anything about it.
It tries to approach again, but Lights Out is there to ... well, you already know. He couldn't shoot thin men worth a thing to start the mission, but is two-for-two against these sectoids.
Movement around the left rear of the next building ... we open the large vehicle door in front, and there's two sectoids right on top of us! Gale and McCloud both miss. One stays just inside the door, another scampers to the roof. Idol moves in, gets the one on our floor, and three floaters show up!
Three of us, four of them, and they seem to multiplying no matter how fast we take them down. One is really close to Idol, who blasts it away. Gale looks for cover around the right corner of the building ... and the sectoid on the roof somehow spies her and she's hit. How he saw her, much less shot her, I haven't a clue. She misses floater number two, but McCloud ducks behind the semi and does not miss.
The floater comes around the building, missing Gale. It's exposed now, McCloud maneuvers for a shot around the left end of the truck up by the cab ... he can see the sectoid from here, and we might be able to get em both. A potshot from Gale misses, but a fairly lengthy shotgun blast nails another floater for Idol, and McCloud guns down the sectoid on the roof!
Well done, clean there at the end, and we are home free!
OPERATION FORGOTTEN CHANT. 10 dead aliens, 1 operative. Other than the thoroughly craptastic start with Silvers dying stupidly, an excellent mission.
PERFORMANCE REVIEW
** Cpl. Ace Idol -- 4 kills, promoted to Sergeant! Now known as 'Spitfire'
** Sq. Benton Gale II -- 1 kill, wounded(9 days)
** Lt. Fox 'Lights Out' McCloud -- 5 kills, promoted to Captain!
** Rk. Sterling Silvers II -- KIA, 0 kills in 1 mission. He lasted about two turns. Maybe three.
ARTIFACTS
** 5 Sectoid Corpses
** 3 Floater Corpses
** 2 Thin Man Corpses
** 20 Weapon Fragments
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