Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!

[Cubey]

Listen everyone, the biology division (I don't hang with them often, they don't like giant robots) released a short memo.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE MIND CONTROL
If one of your friends acts in unusual ways, they might be mind controlled by the alien scum! List of symptoms include:
-Absent gaze
-Slobbering, wide open mouth
-Unresponsiveness
-Sluggish or jerking, automatic movements
-Tendency to shoot you on sight
-General dislike for the science personnel *written in a different style* OR TENGU
In other words, these symptoms are nigh impossible to distinguish from waking up early in the morning without coffee. Or being Copper. If you suspect anyone of being mind controlled, let your superior officer know immediately! If you haven't been shot dead yet.

[chiasaur11]

Listen everyone, the biology division (I don't hang with them often, they don't like giant robots) released a short memo.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE MIND CONTROL
If one of your friends acts in unusual ways, they might be mind controlled by the alien scum! List of symptoms include:
-Absent gaze
-Slobbering, wide open mouth
-Unresponsiveness
-Sluggish or jerking, automatic movements
-Tendency to shoot you on sight
-General dislike for the science personnel *written in a different style* OR TENGU
In other words, these symptoms are nigh impossible to distinguish from waking up early in the morning without coffee. Or being Copper. If you suspect anyone of being mind controlled, let your superior officer know immediately! If you haven't been shot dead yet.

Good advice for us all.

Also: Tengu:

I'm feeling the strangest urge to give you a "Promotion". Also, some new "job benefits".

Now you get a free toothbrush. Sadly, we just have one, so you'll have to use if for both the standard purposes and your exciting expanded job activities.

That's right! Now you get to clean out the toilets with a toothbrush. I know you're excited.

[Tengu_temp]

It's not that I brush my teeth anyway...

Yes, I am excited. Very excited. So excited that I can't help but think that someone is going to leap out and steal my new job from my hands the moment we finish this conversation and I go to slack off fulfill my duties.

[BRC]

All this talk of Tengu mind controlling people makes me glad that I've been wearing a lead lined hat since slourble glorble glob.
*falls over and get's dragged to the Medbay for lead poisoning*

[Johnny Blade]

Considering the regular questions about the status of so far unused recruits, I think something like a fodder index in the first post - listing name, status (not created, alive, dead), location and rank - could be helpful.
And most likely save a lot of time in the long run.

[chiasaur11]

I'll do that after the next mission.

[Johnny Blade]

I would further like to note that this was indeed Tengu Temp's idea, who was just nice enough to let me make the suggestion to help a rookie.

Such a great guy, that Tengu Temp.

[Nano]

Well Commander, I was in the neighborhood and I got to thinkin' about all those letters mah cousin Copper sends me all the time about how fun it is bein' in X-Com! So I saw yer 'lil buildin' thur, and I got to figurin'; "well gosh darn! I know I played that thur Starcraft game for, gee, must be 'round six hunnert hours now, and I do lurve shootin' me some aliens!" So I reckon I'd just stop on by and see if'n I could land myself a position on board as a valued and indispensable teammate.


(Translation: I find you and this thread hilarious. Sign me up for whatever (if you like), and damnit you're gonna make me spend money for the game on Steam.)

[Lord of Rapture]

Listen everyone, the biology division (I don't hang with them often, they don't like giant robots) released a short memo.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE MIND CONTROL
If one of your friends acts in unusual ways, they might be mind controlled by the alien scum! List of symptoms include:
-Absent gaze
-Slobbering, wide open mouth
-Unresponsiveness
-Sluggish or jerking, automatic movements
-Tendency to shoot you on sight
-General dislike for the science personnel *written in a different style* OR TENGU
In other words, these symptoms are nigh impossible to distinguish from waking up early in the morning without coffee. Or being Copper. If you suspect anyone of being mind controlled, let your superior officer know immediately! If you haven't been shot dead yet.

So you're giving us free reign to shoot anybody who we think is being lazy?

*puts on commissar outfit and hat he's been saving for so long*

[BRC]

Well Commander, I was in the neighborhood and I got to thinkin' about all those letters mah cousin Copper sends me all the time about how fun it is bein' in X-Com! So I saw yer 'lil buildin' thur, and I got to figurin'; "well gosh darn! I know I played that thur Starcraft game for, gee, must be 'round six hunnert hours now, and I do lurve shootin' me some aliens!" So I reckon I'd just stop on by and see if'n I could land myself a position on board as a valued and indispensable teammate.


(Translation: I find you and this thread hilarious. Sign me up for whatever (if you like), and damnit you're gonna make me spend money for the game on Steam.)

You know, if you don't want to be a Grunt (because of the backlog of cannon fodder) you could sign on for some other role, like a pilot so you still get into the reports.

[Nano]

Which I would be totally fine with.


Disclaimer: Not actually Copper's cousin.

[Cubey]

So you're giving us free reign to shoot anybody who we think is being lazy?

*puts on commissar outfit and hat he's been saving for so long*

No. Just let your superiors know. And if the lazy one is a scientist, high chances are you are actually being mind controlled instead. In that case, you can make an exception - feel free to shoot yourself.

[chiasaur11]

You know, if you don't want to be a Grunt (because of the backlog of cannon fodder) you could sign on for some other role, like a pilot so you still get into the reports.

We could use a new pilot.

I mean, every base needs an interceptor, and we're well on out way to some pretty good gear...

[Lord of Rapture]

No. Just let your superiors know. And if the lazy one is a scientist, high chances are you are actually being mind controlled instead. In that case, you can make an exception - feel free to shoot yourself.

...By the glory and honor of the God Emperor of Mankind X-COM, I'll be watching you.

[Nano]

We could use a new pilot.

I mean, every base needs an interceptor, and we're well on out way to some pretty good gear...

Well, I can't promise that I'll be any good at it, but I saw like half of a Star Wars movie once. That's like training, right?

[Jimorian]

Also, Power Suits are just the milestone. What I aim for is... to make them FLY!

Why? For distinct tactical advantages, some might say. To make them lighter and easier to transport, that's what others believe. But these answers do not satisfy me. I do it... FOR SCIENCE!

And because it's awesome.

Not to mention that if everybody wears a flying suit, and turns it on and floats inside the skyranger on the way to a mission, the saved weight means we can bring more guns, ammo, and sammiches!

[Lord of Rapture]

Not to mention that if everybody wears a flying suit, and turns it on and floats inside the skyranger on the way to a mission, the saved weight means we can bring more guns, ammo, and sammiches!

Not to mention, the damn Chrysallids won't be able to get us anymore. NO MORE ZOMBIES, **** YEAH!

[Fri]

You know, if you don't want to be a Grunt (because of the backlog of cannon fodder) you could sign on for some other role, like a pilot so you still get into the reports.

And not even that. you can even be a medi-kit, just like me!

no, you're not hearing it wrong. not a medical personel. a medi-kit.

[BRC]

Behold
X-Comic #1
There's something about Tengu

Spoiler

Show

[chiasaur11]

Not to mention, the damn Chrysallids won't be able to get us anymore. NO MORE ZOMBIES, **** YEAH!

Well, they would still be zeds on terror missions.
And if you weren't careful, on base assaults.
And in the interior of spaceships.

[Copper8642]

.......yes.

[Lord of Rapture]

Technically, a ghost inhabiting a medi-kit, but you get the idea.

Personally, I'm just a guy who's paid to sit on his butt to make remarks for 20K per month.

[chiasaur11]

Technically, a ghost inhabiting a medi-kit, but you get the idea.

Personally, I'm just a guy who's paid to sit on his butt to make remarks for 20K per month.

It's a growth industry!

[Copacetic]

Behold
X-Comic #1
There's something about Tengu

Spoiler

Show

I'm trying to think of a witty response to how awesome that is but I'
m failing miserably.

[Fri]

I guess we're lucky that our leader got the second strongest psi power right?

And tengu will be too lazy to do something that took more time than dominating the cafetaria.

[chiasaur11]

I guess we're lucky that our leader got the second strongest psi power right?

And, according to Chumbley, a stubbernness so determined, even the most powerful psychic gives up in a couple of hours. Some even commit suicide in realization of the futility of it all!

[Pie Guy]

Guys, is there any easy way to tell if you're being mind-controlled or just really, really high off all the weed you've been smoking? 'Cuz, I think I'm one of those two things.

[chiasaur11]

Guys, is there any easy way to tell if you're being mind-controlled or just really, really high off all the weed you've been smoking? 'Cuz, I think I'm one of those two things.

Probably mind control.

The only weeds at X-Com bases are toxic, so if you were smoking them, you'd be dead.

And it would serve you right, hippy.

[Lord of Rapture]

Sir, requesting permission to execute Pie Guy, sir!

[Johnny Blade]

And tengu will be too lazy to do something that took more time than dominating the cafetaria.

Not the cafeteria!