Saturday, May 18, 2024

Who's on Base?

Characters:

  • Dave: The one who explains the mission.
  • Zaph: The confused one.
  • Myles: The even more confused one.
  • Craig: The utterly bewildered one.


EXT. FORTRESS BASE - DAY

Dave: Alright team, listen up. Our mission is to defend this fort... well, it's more like a base.

Myles: A fort or a base, Dave?

Dave: It’s a base-fort. We need to defend it.

Craig: Defend it from what?

Dave: The bugs. Now, there's the front door... or, wait, there are two front doors.

Craig: Two front doors?

Dave: Yes, and a back door. No, wait, two back doors.

Myles: Two front doors and two back doors?

Dave: Right, and there's also a middle door.

Craig: How many doors does this place have?

Dave: All the doors can be opened and closed with a switch near the door.

Zaph: What does the switch look like?

Dave: It’s... uh, near the door.

Myles: Do the doors start open or closed?

Dave: Oh, and there's a generator in the base. If the bugs destroy it, we lose.

Myles: Where’s the generator?

Zaph: What does it look like?

Dave: It's a generator. And there are drop ships launching from somewhere.

Myles: Where do they launch from?

Dave: We need to hold the base until eight ships have launched to win.

Zaph: Eight ships, got it.

Dave: Oh, and we also need to get to the evac point and catch a drop ship off the planet.

Zaph: Where's the evac point?

Dave: It's somewhere. Now, it’s best not to close all the doors, or the bugs will just smash them.

Myles: Are the bugs spawning from inside or outside the base?

Craig: Is the base a circle with an inner area, or do the bugs come through the back door and front door?

Dave: Myles, why did you pick the landing zone outside the base?

Myles: That’s where your cursor was pointing.

Dave: Well, we're going to have to quick march into the base before the bugs start pouring in.

Craig: This is confusing.

Zaph: I thought we were defending the base.

Craig: With how many doors again?

Dave: Exactly!

Zaph: And if we don't?

Dave: We die.

Myles: And if we make it?

Dave: You might still die.

Craig: Great. So, what's the plan?

Dave: Defend the base.

Myles: With five doors.

Dave: Correct.

Zaph: And save the generator.

Dave: Absolutely.

Craig: And get to the evac point.

Dave: Precisely.

Myles: This is going to be a disaster.

Dave: It already is.


Narrator: They died many times. Only four drop ships escaped, and only two of them made it to the evac drop ship.

Friday, May 17, 2024

Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons

 

Here we see Craig standing a top of the Hell Bomb - which is wedged into the ground.


Here we don't see Craig.



There are lot of things that go boom.



Try not getting too close!