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Offline mrxian

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Haiku
« on: February 19, 2015, 11:09:57 pm »
four laser rifles
Eight heavy plasma rifles
Two dozen grenades.

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2015, 08:53:27 am »
Ready to move out-
contact enemy unknown 15 meters!
Don't stare for too long.


Keep it going.

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2015, 05:20:45 pm »
Enemy Reaction fire incoming-

Laser Rifle 1+2 are down.
Heavy Plasma returns fire-

Blaster Bomb incoming!

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2015, 12:10:12 pm »
All my friends are dead
Only one floater remains
I better panic.

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2015, 01:07:11 pm »
All my friends are dead
Only one floater remains
I better panic.

Due to the heroic acts of panic berserk shooting, the last floaters dies in agony and pain.
Squad Wiped - but Missions Successful.

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2015, 07:46:51 am »
i call this one "casualties"

one hundred and ten
one hundred and eleven
one hundred and twelve
« Last Edit: February 27, 2015, 07:49:15 am by Warboy1982 »

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2015, 07:44:49 am »
Due to the heroic acts of panic berserk shooting, the last floaters dies in agony and pain.
Squad Wiped - but Missions Successful.
This is no haiku
Which is the point of this thread
So can you rephrase?

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2015, 05:45:22 pm »
Unseen Ethereal revealed
Mind moves on its own
Alien my friend is



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Re: Haiku
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2015, 06:25:34 pm »
Skyranger has landed
Ethereal looking up the ramp
Every damn time
« Last Edit: February 28, 2015, 06:28:48 pm by Align »

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2015, 05:27:48 am »
A terror mission
Do we face cyberdisks or
those damn chryssalids?

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2015, 07:20:31 am »
A terror mission
Do we face cyberdisks or
those damn chryssalids?

Impregnation occured - mind going wobble wobble
hungry... smash things... hungry

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2015, 07:58:23 pm »

UFO aground
The breach a rookie charges
Sacrifice worthy

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2015, 12:48:20 pm »
How to become brave?
Take a grenade and blow up
All your new rookies!

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2015, 10:36:41 pm »
City at nightfall
A Chryssalid steals a kiss
Here abounds terror

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Re: Haiku
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2015, 12:36:48 am »
I used to be a texas ranger

Now I sit in the dinning hall
of a metalic underground hole

Off to defend humanity atop the skyranger!