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Contributions => Fan-Stuff => Topic started by: mrxian on February 19, 2015, 11:09:57 pm

Title: Haiku
Post by: mrxian on February 19, 2015, 11:09:57 pm: four laser rifles
Eight heavy plasma rifles
Two dozen grenades.
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Mr. Quiet 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.
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: hellrazor 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!
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mrxian on February 23, 2015, 12:10:12 pm: All my friends are dead
Only one floater remains
I better panic.
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: hellrazor on February 26, 2015, 01:07:11 pm: Quote from: mrxian on February 23, 2015, 12:10:12 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.
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Warboy1982 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
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mrxian on February 28, 2015, 07:44:49 am: Quote from: hellrazor on February 26, 2015, 01:07:11 pm
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?
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Hobbes on February 28, 2015, 05:45:22 pm: Unseen Ethereal revealed
Mind moves on its own
Alien my friend is
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Post by: Align on February 28, 2015, 06:25:34 pm: Skyranger has landed
Ethereal looking up the ramp
Every damn time
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mrxian on March 02, 2015, 05:27:48 am: A terror mission
Do we face cyberdisks or
those damn chryssalids?
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: hellrazor on March 02, 2015, 07:20:31 am: Quote from: mrxian on March 02, 2015, 05:27:48 am
A terror mission
Do we face cyberdisks or
those damn chryssalids?

Impregnation occured - mind going wobble wobble
hungry... smash things... hungry
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: DoxaLogos (JG) on March 04, 2015, 07:58:23 pm: UFO aground
The breach a rookie charges
Sacrifice worthy
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mrxian on March 06, 2015, 12:48:20 pm: How to become brave?
Take a grenade and blow up
All your new rookies!
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: DoxaLogos (JG) on March 06, 2015, 10:36:41 pm: City at nightfall
A Chryssalid steals a kiss
Here abounds terror
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: pilot00 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!
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Solarius Scorch on November 04, 2016, 01:50:42 am: Death Blossom is great
Mini-Cougar is better
But no chemical rounds
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: ohartenstein23 on November 04, 2016, 01:58:21 am: Sprinting down the ramp
That move was sub-optimal
Need a new rookie
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Solarius Scorch on November 04, 2016, 02:36:01 am: Quote from: ohartenstein23 on November 04, 2016, 01:58:21 am
Sprinting down the ramp
That move was sub-optimal
Need a new rookie

Essential X-Com
Thought hope does spring eternal
Reality strikes
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: ohartenstein23 on November 04, 2016, 03:01:20 am: Three smoke grenades bloom
Safety until hot plasma rains
Cyberdisk from above
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Post by: Dioxine on November 04, 2016, 03:18:39 am: Floater, his cape red
He was flying so high
We all fly so high
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Post by: ohartenstein23 on November 04, 2016, 04:00:52 am: Skyranger lifts off
No one even disembarked
Leaving us to burn
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Post by: Warboy1982 on November 04, 2016, 07:30:42 am: the calm, blue ocean
gently the alien drifts
searching for his prey
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Post by: Solarius Scorch on November 04, 2016, 03:41:04 pm: Cydonia falling
Ancient pyramids on fire
What'll become of us?
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Post by: ohartenstein23 on November 04, 2016, 03:43:35 pm: Deep beneath the waves
The sleepers slowly waking
Ancient vengeance comes
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Post by: stepbystep on November 04, 2016, 04:49:58 pm: Gray sectoid
Green spear of light
Red mist
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Post by: ohartenstein23 on January 12, 2017, 05:12:55 am: Showing poor judgement
Many a player's mantra
"'Twas sub-optimal"
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Post by: The_Funktasm on January 15, 2017, 02:32:19 pm: A Blaster Launcher,

Firing in the darkness so,

Hope Jon Homburger lives.
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Dj_Black_Tea on January 31, 2017, 10:08:59 pm: You think you are brave
Etherals and Chryssalids
Are digging your grave

They are just units
You play a superhuman
Your heart is a stone

No mercy, no rest
For those who don`t know yet
X-com is the best
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: endersblade on February 20, 2017, 08:48:44 am: Noobs in the front, why?
Rank has its privileges, duh.
Shoot first or die.
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on July 29, 2017, 06:09:18 pm: This is a floater
This is an ethereal
One of them's scary

This is a muton
This is the muton's brother
One of them's Larry

Rifles are weakness
Lasers shoot so much better
But plasma is king

This is maybe late
But some "haikus" are so wrong
It's five, seven, five
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Solarius Scorch on July 31, 2017, 12:32:08 am: Three Cyberdiscs spotted
All go down in the same turn
Oh God, there were four
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mumble on July 31, 2017, 04:59:39 am: Fire overpowered
makes enemies panick fast
instant surrender

Panick with rockets
Oh god please no dont oh crap
half my squad dead now.

Chupacabras suck
They eat your face for breakfast
like wild methhead dog

unit paralyzed
from endless psi attack
so you taze his ass

in the xcom files
no-one cares if you blow up
a whole fuel depot
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on July 31, 2017, 05:42:35 am: Every Battle,
Death awaits for the squad,
The thing we tackle
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: The Reaver of Darkness on July 31, 2017, 05:57:37 am: In the 'pedia
Cyberdiscs are tough to boom
But 'splosions kill them
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mumble on July 31, 2017, 09:35:54 am: Fighting small arm guys
Bullets bounce off great armor
panick cause helpless
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Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on July 31, 2017, 03:14:43 pm: Eventually runs
And went to hide somewhere safe
Ah! A job well done!
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Yataka Shimaoka on August 01, 2017, 11:55:11 am: Everyone runs
Before the skyranger flies
DON'T LEAVE US BEHIND!
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: DoxaLogos (JG) on March 26, 2018, 10:39:32 pm: The Skyranger lands
And ramp unfolds before us
Run into death's maw
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Lord Flasheart on June 03, 2018, 06:28:52 am: Died in terror
from the deep
down below
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: KickAssAndGiggle on July 18, 2018, 03:05:22 am: Bloody Chryssalids!
I hate them. I hate them. Ugh.
Zombifying dudes.
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: tarkalak on May 31, 2019, 02:41:09 pm: (Human screams) (Human screams) (Human screams)
rocket launcher
(alien screams) (alien screams) (alien screams).
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: brogue123 on October 20, 2020, 10:27:29 pm: Chryssalid in base
All my beautiful people
Goddamn fucking shit
Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: tarkalak on October 23, 2020, 05:01:15 pm: Alien haiku:
I spy with my little eye ...
An X-COM agent!
And he is gone!