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In the description of aliens there seems to be the phrasing "(alien type)
is....." instead of "(alien type) were....."; using "were" seems to be usual
way action is written as if they were historical events, from a 3rd person
perspective.

Over-all work is nice.  Nice detail with the little bits such as badge
numbers.

I'm almost inspired to fire up Apoc, 'cept it's so hard on my CD-rom.

"Satis" <howard_offtherails at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c61188c5f5d8b6fbdf79c3a23e4f7493@news.teranews.com...
> Hey all,
>
> My under-sexed, over-paid brain has been threatening to do an X-Com fanfic
> for some time (about six years, as it happens) and after a hell of a lot
of
> false starts it's finally happened, hard drive crashes and all.
>
> A bit of background: it's set during Apoc, six weeks into the campaign. I
> screwed around with the timeline a bit, but everything in here is drawn
from
> the game. Comments welcome. I present Day Forty Three.
>
> *Satis
> Off the Rails
>
>
> Multiworms are not intelligent creatures. They do little except feed
> voraciously to support the foetuses they carry within them and they
respond
> to danger in a very predictable way. They did that now, picking targets at
> random and crawling towards them.
>
> > The worms are incredibly tough creatures, able to take several hits
before
> they expire. Still, with eight weapons trained on them the five creatures
> expired within seconds. But Multiworms are merely incubators for the next
> stage.
>