Let's Sperg Let's Play XCOM Terror From The Deep (Completed) - This is gonna hurt

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In fiction as in life, I ended up somehow not dying when I probably should have; while wrangling tards, juggling lives & explosives.... I try to to think about it too much, and kinda sounds like @L50LasPak might need to do the same with this LP.
 
15. The Stars Are Right

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It seems these days one can never be too superstitious. It is the impression of even the most rational of XCOM's staff, that the stars are almost right, and something terrible will befall the world soon.

Dear Leader, Pocket Dragoon and Willy confer over stacks of battle reports mixed haphazardly with copies of ancient texts and works once thought blasphemous or outright fictional. If the science team can't make sense of this shit, what chance do they have?

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Getting your lobster boiled, how they say, Texas Style, will make you say a lot of weird things, but the black speech that the translator spit out after the Lobsterman started babbling still needs to be decoded. The entire science staff complains of sleepless nights and waking nightmares when they nod off. The base is mostly a collection of lexorin junkies at this point. Even Command's booze cabinent is starting to run a bit dry. The science team says they need only one more step though.

Deep in the bowels of Vulcania the Technicians still work feverishly on the hull of the Leviathan. It ain't gonna be pretty, but it will get XCOM to the deepest part of the ocean. Nobody thinks to ask them about getting back though, so its unclear if they've built it with that in mind or not.

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The ScubaJace and ScubaTyce pilots still find mild distraction. But even alien activity has decreased somewhat recently, at least where we can see it.

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Might as well give the rookies something to do.

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Ah, this is a nice surprise. Another terrain type: Volcanic. Realistically speaking being this close to an underwater magma vent would instantly cook you alive even if it didn't melt your suit, but hey it looks pretty at least.

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Mostly just a bunch of wandering around and mind controlling enemies. Willy is still out of commission but Hiram and Dear Leader are more than capable of taking up the slack at this point.

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This is it, we have the location of an alien city, in the Sigsbee Deep, Gulf of Mexico, some 14,000 meters below the surface. This is only a stone's throw from the massive Chicxulub Crater in Yucatan, Mexico, where the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is said to have struck. We now know the truth, that it was T'leth that struck our planet rather than a random meteor. And that apparently it bounced.

A supreme being lying asleep in an underwater city, and when he awakes the world will be terrible? Where have I heard this story before?

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Final research is divided between the various live aliens and alien corpses we still have, just for the hell of it.

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Command agrees with the officers that the recruits should be given some busywork while we await the completion of the Leviathan. A Hunter class USO is shot down in the North Pacific, it will be XCOMs next target.

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Hunters were the craft with the small entryway I thought were Fleet Supply Cruisers earlier, if you recall.

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Well that's entertaining. We don't even do anything on the first turn and a Tasoth loses it and nukes his buddy. Even the aliens seem to be living in fear of what's coming next for this planet.

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Getting to the submarine is uneventful, but when we actually get there its a different story. Gezkill is immediately mind controlled and runs out the door. I think I've forgotten to mention this entire time that you can't use psonics to take control of your own troops back in either game. LullerDerbyRollin is ordered to try and stay inside the Hunter and wait out Gezkill's mind control rather than try to taze him and risk getting shot.

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I figure that's the end of it when we take over a Tasoth Squad Leader hiding on the upper level. I have it kill its buddy and then let LullerDerby waste it.

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Seems I spoke too soon though, and Gezkill is controlled by another Squad Leader. He bombs @LullerDerbyRollin in the back.

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@Gezkill is understandably horrified when he comes back to himself, and runs screaming into the ship where he's shot and killed by the very same alien that had taken him over moments ago.

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Fougaro is sent up to find Gezkill's killer and manages to find the alien crouched on the very edge of the outside of the USO, where Gezkill couldn't see it. In the process of mind controlling it we detect one more alien outside which also falls quickly to mind control.

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Disturbingly, the two aliens we take into custody seem to be almost passive, as if they are fine with being sheltered in XCOM's containment cells.

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More target practice while we wait for the damn Leviathan to finish up.

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Some random research completes in the mean time.

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Finally. The sub isn't quite ready to go right away though, a few Medikits need to be manufactured first, some tazers need to be ordered, and Dear Leader agrees to wait a week or so for TerribleIdeasTM's psionic training to complete since he's otherwise so close to being able to use an MC Disruptor.

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USO activity is almost at a standstill. The aliens might be preparing a retaliation. Or worse.

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Some more miscellaneous research completes. The Gillman is of course a reference to the Creature From The Black Lagoon.

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Oddly enough, after the two deaths we had on the preivous mission we have exactly 26 marines to fill the Leviathan to capacity. I had ordered ten more but not named them yet. Thus, there will be no last call for marine names, as we have all that we need already. The final loadout will be at the end of this update.

If you missed out, once again, have faith that this won't be the last XCOM LP I do.

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More research. Note the Tentaculat's entry actually uses the word "Lovecraftian" to describe it.:story:

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The month has to end before TerribleIdeasTM's training can complete. The Council of Funding Nations wishes us luck.

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Can't help but feel I'm forgetting something.

Ah yes, I haven't named the Leviathan yet.

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Final Loadout:
Psionics/Scanner Team:
Captain Dear Leader
Commander Pocket Dragoon
Commander not william stenchever
Lieutenant HiramTheGrift
Lieutenant AwfulConceptsTM (TerribleIdeasTM)

Ordnance Team:
Lieutenant Shady Edea (Dark Edea)
Seaman Friend Computer 002 (friend Computer)

The Farmers:
Seaman Kane Lives A Third Time (Kane Lives)
Seaman Fougaro
Seaman Shadfan777xxx111 (Shadfan666xxx000)
Seaman BerserkWombat (RabidWombat)
Seaman dragggs (draggs)
Seaman RIPRRongoRongo (RIPRhongoBongo)
Seaman Genichiro the 3rd (Genichiro)
Seaman ditdatdotdut (ditdatdot)
Seaman McMitch6kf (McMitch4kf)
Seaman Corn Pops (Corn Flakes)
Seaman Purity of Essence (Precious Bodily Fluids)
Seaman Booble Meng (Mooger Meng)
Seaman Serf (Peasant)
Seaman Some DICK (Some JERK)
Seaman Liechtenstein57 (Swiss46)
Seaman Spookmancer (Niggermancer)
Seaman ChingleChangle (JongleJingle)
Seaman Catgirls are Harmony (Catgirls are Love)
Seaman BeyondtheBareBasalt (SailingTheSaltySeas)

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Next time: The reckoning awaits.
So that a pretty xcom way for me to go out. Getting mind controlled, killing a team mate and then getting killed by the same alien that mc me.
 
It is only fitting the the best thing to serve with lobster (thermidor) is (grenade) spam.

Kudos, @L50LasPak. you not only managed to suffer through this disaster of a game, you kept it engaging and entertaining for us rubberneckers!
 
Turns out the real Terror From The Deep was the friendships we made along the way
Agreed; putting the zap on upper management & peons alike was mightily cathartic.

While everyone else was on the boring tentaculat porn kick; whenever he made someone ride the lightning, my guy busted a nut in his swimsuit.
 
Ah well, I didn’t get a chance to come back and not help at all again.

Still, it was a fun LP and I had a good time watching. I’ll have to get in earlier next time.

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I expected to die a lot but I somehow made it all the way through to survive the final mission. I'm sure getting psionic training helped keep me out of the line of fire but I got lucky before that.
And then we died, clutching each other in fear, shitting ourselves as T'Leth exploded and sank.
 
X-COM: providing hilariously underwhelming finales to video games long before Neil Druckmann cursed the world!

Hats off to you once again @L50LasPak for being a cool dood, providing a romp through a game that nobody should ever play holy tapdacing Jesus what was wrong with these people and having a damn fine taste in music.
 
Don't worry, we will get the chance to panic and shoot each other in the future, I am sure of it.

In the very least we can replicate this adventure in real life when the aliens truly invade.
I await dying beside you my clown friend, no matter where, how or why.
X-COM: providing hilariously underwhelming finales to video games long before Neil Druckmann cursed the world!

Hats off to you once again @L50LasPak for being a cool dood, providing a romp through a game that nobody should ever play holy tapdacing Jesus what was wrong with these people and having a damn fine taste in music.
You've been great too. Also, to be fair to them, they had no idea the hardest difficulty was bugged into being no where near for the OG Xcom. They legit thought people wanted even harder so they basically said "fuck quality control" and did well all the absolute shit you saw and more. Discommunication and misinformation kills and all that. That said, ya this game was a fucking train wreck.

However, this game brought a bunch of Kiwis together, all enthralled with the same goal. Of dabbing on water logged AYYLMAOS and dying!
 
When the Trannies invade..I promise to blow your brains out before they can convert you like the Psychic Aliens do.
You too man, I'll keep you a clown and we goin' down with the clown. We'll fuckin' smoke with Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J, maybe even make ICP and Twiztid work out their shit in Hell.
 
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