.erercott: Another valiant effort unto breach...

Despite my overwhelming sensation of success, I failed once more to deliver the package and defeat the final level of FTL.
Even on easy mode.

I journeyed with a hefty sum of scrap throughout my campaign.
Made many allies with newer and newer crewmates almost at each stop.

As soon as I had enough scrap I upgraded my shields the highest amount and boosted the energy in my ship and still I was met with
hordes of enemies boarding the ship while taking gunfire damage.

Relentless waves of attacks-the number of crew members didn't matter after a while. Even the shields did little to stop the onslaught of enemy
invasions.

Prior to my death I made a plan to play it safer and avoid conflict-yet I was unable to deflect the enemy's visceral attack schemes.

It was still on easy and I have had closer calls. I don't know how to get better at this game, as in this case I had to reset three times before getting a good flow.

It's quite the spectacle to see my efficient gameplay turn upside its head.

I tried again. I really did this time but I'm met with the empty void of space. The shrapnel of my vessel scattered in the echoes of space.
Leaving a far bigger imprint in my life than it did in the galaxy it lived on.

I myself will remember this moment in the event of a future victory.

syscrusher: So FTL is a rogelike, in that you play, are beaten, then you use earned XP to upgrade your ship. That's the game loop I know very well from Immortal Redneck. Such games can be highly addictive.

Sanc: Shadow of the Tomb Raider

After coming back to San Juan, Lala Craft is now visiting the mission building itself, noticing that it was under repairs (those regular apocalyptic termors have hit the whole region) , trying to finally find the stolen mcguffin that the Yaaxil had failed to protect

Sidekick Jonah insisted in going along, probably some more headache for Lala when he'll decide to start his pseudo wisdom dialogues nonsense.

After finding some hidden entrance to an underground facility, Lala started to notice a lot of inverted crosses, seems there was some evil cult going on around there.

After finding plenty of mummies and corpses rotting around, attached to the roof or used as decorum, it became obvious this was some demonic death sect in there.

Once finding the mcguffin in the hands of the corpse of the cult leader Lala understood that as the legends mentionned , the mcguffin was really the same as the Lord of the Ring stuff : it was corrupting anyone that possessed it as that cult leader was originally a christian missionary that found and stole the mcguffin only to become some evil monstrous cult leader after that.

Lala thought "No wonder the gollums were keeping it, the whole stuff is just is just a bad imitation of the Tolkien's story..."

sigh.. and obviously it was then that the trinity mercs showed up suddenly, like in some of the worst badly wrote story in which the enemy simply pop up out of nowhere at the exact time to steal the mcguffin ... Lala really was rolling her eyes at the cringe from the situation.
Oh well, at least that means Stabbing Party was going to start soon !

syscrusher: Heh, the recent lull in Lala's bloodletting can only mean she will be back in business soon!