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Location: E01 (Donwarr) Tags: Spying, Land vehicle **** Advance apologies for the quality of some of the photos below. I'll see if I can get some better shots up later in the week. **** Aboard the MANTIS flagship Petticoat: "Look General, I know the paint job isn't regulation, but there isn't anything we can do about it until we return to the docks in Torresta in a few weeks when we deliver Laszlowe to begin his sentence." Well look into it immediately! It's a complete disgrace! **************** Shortly thereafter, the Petticoat picked up an uncommon transmission--one from a black box. MANTIS engineers had managed to reduce the size of this technology, meaning virtually every MANTIS craft could be equipped with it. This enabled the location and recovery of practically every ship, to help engineers better equip the rest of the fleet against future malfunction or mishap. Also built in was a switch that would only turn on after most or all other systems were unresponsive for a determined length of time. Normally, MANTIS black boxes sent tracking emissions only intermittently, so as to conserve battery life. However, this meant that such a signal was unlikely to be picked up by scanners unless they were specifically looking for it, as was often the case when rescuers were searching for a downed ship. This particular emission was even more of a rare case--the black box code identified it as belonging to a small speedboat, the last ship assigned to Scorpio Starstriker and Jessica DuBois, who had vanished on a spying mission nearly two months prior. This was not the most intriguing part, however: the boat had been dispatched to Jurin II, not Donwarr. Although there had been mishaps with the gates before, they were not yet understood. Therefore, a recovery team was dispatched immediately to go down to the surface and bring the black box back for analysis. **************** Later, on Donwarr's surface... Ick, you know Williams I don't usually mind tough conditions, but the smell here is horrible. That's just the Octan you smell, Private. Figures that this mysterious signal would come from an unrecoverable swamp--probably the only one on Donwarr--that also happens to be crawling with Octan speeders. I hear one coming our way, now! Stay low, and keep your blaster ready. I'll see if I can spy it... Should I take it out? No, it would only reveal our location to the rest of Octan. Only shoot if we're already caught. Looks like he's moved on... Well, which way do we go? North, we're already pretty close. **************** Last known location is right here, and look, there's some wreckage. And what appears to be human remains. Climb in there and get the box, and a bit of the body. See if the lab guys can match the DNA. Yuck. Shut up, Private. **************** Suddenly, there was a soft woooooosh sound, as Private took a dart to the neck. Captain Williams spun around to face the assault, but too late; in a flash, the assailant was on top of her, knife in hand. In the swampy marsh, she could get no footing, and found herself completely disarmed and vulnerable. Who are you? Why do you come to this place? ... Answer! Captain April Williams, MANTIS Marine Corps North. ...MANTIS! After all this time! The attacker relaxed her grip on Williams, who slipped in the mud, from surprise as much as anything else. You've finally come for us. It's been two years! Two years, do you hear me! Where have you been!? Do I...Should I know you? Here my name is only Jex, but before I was Jessica DuBois, MANTIS pilot Second Class. This here is Scorpio Starstriker. Please take us home. ****************

Actually Saddam just says "Your powers are weak, old man" with a really thick lisp. Keep going! Here's another pic to help out (may be mildly inappropriate):

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Oh, well then, here you go:

With more pictures I become more convinced that I don't want to skip out on any... When the official list came out I thought" I'll just get these three." Then the first pics and I thought "I'll just get these seven." Now with these pictures I really think I have to pick up all of them. Must...resist...urge...

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While that seems to have been the case with most PAMs so far, it is especially true of this one. Definitely less than the sum of its (fantastic) parts.

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Or anywhere on the Internet Wednesday morning, along with dozens of inane videos where you can watch other people watch the trailer.

...any chance of that parts selection showing up at other stores?

Woah, that's fantastic! While the flower is great, you get major NPU points for those bionicle masks as wings!

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I have been to two different Targets on two occasions, and they have had a full display each time. Not always the figs I wanted, but between the two I picked up what I wanted. FWIW, one of these Targets has had stocking issues in the past--they were always out of Monsters, for example. Kind of the opposite of what you all are talking about.

Hmmm, it does look a little odd. I'll still try and pick one up, though. On the plus side, I'm sure it will find its way into a lot more creative NPU situations in MOCs if those holes are anti-studs or technic-sized. I know I'm intrigued by the possibilities.

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NPU on both the flick-fires and the brick separator! The pizza parlor is good, too, and the story is intriguing. Looking forward to more!

Superb speeder! And of course, the cracked terrain is cool

Excellent work with the micro vehicles, they all look fantastic!

Who knew flick-fires could be so versatile? I liked the dialog quite a bit, too. I already have Laszlowe's sentence worked out, although it's not as...exotic...as some of Raven's suggestions.

...why would anyone do that? Thanks for the clarification!

So, players receive credits based on their score, and awesomnium will be awarded accordingly. Do regular tech/equipment bonuses apply for this challenge?

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So, like a "Rename the movie" a la Apples to Apples instead of "Guess the movie"? I don't suppose the mods would like it much if we started such a similar topic to this one.

Woah! I love the shaping of the armor, it creates some really fantastic lines along the sides. The weapons are well done, also

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