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Re: Shaun does TFTD! Woooooh! Miscellaneous meanderings...

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From: Big MAd drongo
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:00
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Shaun Green wrote in message ...
>What with me being off ill from sixth form with shingles,
<winces>
Bad luck my friend.

>having my DUP-armed Barracudas chewed up by large UFOs,
Your own silly fault :o)

>Then came the first TFTD cool thing (tm) - my first terror mission!
Island or Port?

>My first shipping mission was a passenger liner.  I think I saved about
>75 % of them, with a single casualty.  But that was only against feeble
>shit like gillmen, calcinites and other pansy-assed stuff.  It was
>much, much worse taking on Tasoths on a cargo ship.  But I still did
>it, albeit with more civilian deaths (about 40 % dead), and four
>casualties.
So which do you prefer, cargo or passenger?

I think cargo are mor fun, but passenger easier.

>Still, on that first level, I lost... hmm... NONE of my fourteen
aquatoids,
Been recruiting amonst the enemy have we? :o)

>Me.  Still going, as the Commander.  But not for much longer; he's a
>below average psi.  Not a liability yet, but he's not going on the
T'leth
>mission, I'll tell you that...
Dump hiom then, not worth the effort :o)

Big MAd drongo

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'Um . . . Um . . .'
'He once drank a whole pint of shandy,' said Stibbons, who had the
decency to look embarrassed.

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