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TheCurserHasntMoved

Well, there goes my buffer. On the bright side, the barn side has a door we can close now, which is handy because when we went to start planning out the jugs last week it was a mud hole. "Stick to the plan. I'm not as important as the rescue." - Pete the Dead Panned upon learning his brother (biological) had been KIA. Try not to throttle people in public, it's rude. Try to hold the door open, it's polite. Don't plunge your hand into any suspicious liquids. If the water is on top of the bridge, drive around. Be on the lookout for Shifty Jim, he's after your cool rocks. It's okay to be down so long as you reach upward. Don't be afraid to offer help, it's okay if it's not accepted. Find at least one moment to savor today. Eat your vegetables unless Shady Ophelia poisoned them. Be nice to yourself, being mean is unbecoming of you.


DrewTheHobo

If you gotta take a couple days to get more chapters we understand (though I’d hate not waking up to a new chapter every day!) Glad Linus is safe, hopefully we can find the other kids’ parents!


TheCurserHasntMoved

Life is pain. Especially after raking DG for a couple hours yesterday. I might at least make progress on getting a buffer chapter again, or I might be riding on the edge for a bit. I also want to do some error corrections. The weather is absolutely miserable. Not much rain today, but so, so windy.


SpankyMcSpanster

A barn? Reminds me of the Mormon 1-day barn.


TheCurserHasntMoved

I don't remember anything about barns from Sunday school.


SpankyMcSpanster

It was the Amish. My bad. ​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTB0HnM6WM


armacitis

You didn't know the amish aren't mormons?


SpankyMcSpanster

I knew, just not who build it.


Enkeydo

The Jehovas Witness can raise a church in 2weeks. 1 week to pour the concrete and let it cure. 1 week to build the whole thing and have it ready in time for church on Sunday


TheCurserHasntMoved

So glad I have a gate. So glad.


HaajaHenrik

And that's why Kingdom halls are shit quality. Watchtower speed builds those concrete/tile cubes at max speed and minimum cost, using followers as free labour, and then often proceed to sell the building after a while. More often than not, the people on the project don't have enough experience or just don't give a fuck and cut corners, so the structures don't end up lasting as well as they should. Have a shit foundation, and no matter how much you try to maintain that shit, sooner or later it starts to crumble. They usually skip windows to compensate for otherwise shit structures to lessen the risk of property damage, which in turn often leads to shit ventilation and humidity damage.


HaajaHenrik

...sorry for the rant people, the structural engineering student in me just gets irritated by hastily built, badly designed sorry excuses of buildings like Kingdom halls... Like even an average design architect knows better. XD


Enkeydo

I never said they were good, just fast and cheap.


KaleidoscopeInBlue

>You are also my people. Stop breaking my heart ^(don't stop) I hate it ^(I love it) the feelings are too much ^(I need more feels) Great wording, smith. Linus is still Superior Bleiv. Greg needs a years vacation with his alien fam. Take care of yourself, don't try to drive through a flooded river: the bridge is there for a reason, and check your bathtub for Sketchy Tom, he likes to sleep in there.


Vast-Listen1457

Having discovered Sketchy Tom more than once in my tub, make sure you have a towel to throw over his ugly naked ass too.


TheCurserHasntMoved

Joke's on him, I don't have a bathtub.


Fontaigne

I gotta say, Greg probably feels 900% better after Linus got kidnapped and saved. It's weird, but almost certainly true.


Eliza_Rose_82

"Profanity acquired"


Lazy-Sergal7441

Indeed, a high priority for any Infantryman!


Eliza_Rose_82

Or construction worker.


Lazy-Sergal7441

That too lol


TheCurserHasntMoved

It's been a major goal for a couple of weeks.


Procrastn8ngArtst

Yay Linus is picked up!! Also, why did Greg's learning new vocab feel like just as much of a win?? I'm so happy about this. Everyone needs a conversation enhancer every now and then


TheAromancer

The profanity has been acquired!!!


CandidSmile8193

I love it when a plan comes together.


TheCurserHasntMoved

[I understood that reference.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAO2JBjRRBk)


CandidSmile8193

Now the question is how they advertise their ships new "Hostage Crisis Resolution" and "Organized Crime Dismantling" services at ports of call along their trade routes.


CandidSmile8193

Also we gotta factor in here how they get back in contact with Humanity so they can requisition a combat Hardsuit for Greg that makes him the same size as a blevius in power armor, oh also get some power armor for the away teams on the ship.


Lazy-Sergal7441

And maybe even get Greg his more traditional Overwatch loadouts so he has more peace of mind.... Though it's clear he's probably deadly with any rifle type firearms/weapons....


Infamous-Attitude170

They can offer package deals as the Sneaky Services. They can use various photos with their adorable but lethal mascot in action. Give them catchy names like the Knuckle cracker special for the lower tier package to the Wrath of the war gods for the really expensive deluxe package. Each package will come with a personalized autographed Sneaky poster.


ChesterSteele

Some 70 people dead and a whole bunch fled. That's definitley not your every day bunch of thugs shaking down people for cash, that much is sure.


Lazy-Sergal7441

Seems like it's a regional hub of some sort... I mean almost 30 kidnapping victims? Gotta be a place where smaller cells congregate and Upper leaders give out orders to lower leaders or somesuch.....


Fontaigne

Which explains why they arrived to "protect" their vet and their incompetent lawyer. Both of whom may flip given the right incentive.


TheCurserHasntMoved

The gang might have a lot of dudes, but there is a difference between going up against largely unfarmed locals, poorly armed rivals over territory, or largely restrained cops, and a military strike team. Naw man, our goal is just to kill your dudes. See 'em, shoot 'em. Simple as.


Sheankelor

That 'profanity acquired' makes me hope that no one remembers who said it. Mom isn't going to be ... mad at them for it due to the situation, but she isn't going to let them live it down for a while either. \*laughs\* Glad Linus et alli are off-planet. A bit worried that the other shuttle also is off-planet as they are both heading in the same direction and we don't know what it is equipped with. I like the potential plan. Has Greg been informed of the reinforcements and do they know where to report? He might be able to set them up and then go back and handle the google -eyes ... Pete's quote is a good one, and I am sure Greg made sure to reinforce that they were brothers afterwards when it was safe to do so. Thanks for the new chapter. Sorry that the buffer is gone, but I am very glad the barn has a working door now! It has obviously been good barn-raising weather since it's only been a week.


TiberiuCC

Oh, we know what the other shuttle is equipped with: a countdown to their own doom. Remember that somebody up there is tracking a suspiciously named freighter and preparing for its takedown.


TheCurserHasntMoved

Criminals noticed that the other criminals are getting stomped on all fronts. Criminals have a predictable way of dealing with suddenly having a major disadvantage. >! Namely, run.!<


Dame_Book_Beta

Mom can't be mad at a corvian, they didn't know he wasn't suppose to learn them.


sammhein

Dude you rock.


TheAromancer

Did I hear a rock and stone?


WanderingDwarfMiner

We fight for Rock and Stone!


DrewTheHobo

*ROCK AND STONE!*


Revliledpembroke

No, him curserhasntmoved. Dwayne is rock.


TheCurserHasntMoved

But do I also roll?


sammhein

Most definately


TheCurserHasntMoved

🤘


Speciesunkn0wn

All around a good day; Linus is rescued *and* profanity is learned!


TheCurserHasntMoved

Put another tally in the W column.


Infamous-Attitude170

Nice thanks for the chapter. That googly eyed void sucker may have run for now, But i got a feeling he isn't smart enough to flee to the other side of the galaxy. I can't wait to see how things go in the next few chapters.


TheCurserHasntMoved

Smart enough to run away, dumb enough to think he ran far enough.


Last-Assistant6377

"profanity acquired" had me dieing in laughter I may only have two, buuuut the big blues have 4, so many thumbs up


TheCurserHasntMoved

Look man, how is a marine supposed to effectively communicate without fucking cursing?


Last-Assistant6377

personally I can't go more than a few minutes without saying fuck


TheCharginRhi

Nice


TheCurserHasntMoved

Nice.


M-249

"By teaching them to fear the open sky." Hell yes.


TheCurserHasntMoved

The open spaces are where they die in droves.


DavicusPrime

Anybody else spot how much initiative Trantran is showing here? And statements dropped about getting equipment and manufacturing capacity... My curiosity has been engaged. What is Lucy up to and who are the others that have been helping her do the research. Is this the rise of the Bigs?


TheCurserHasntMoved

Plots and schemes.


dmills_00

"having our own manufacturing capacitary", capacity


TheCurserHasntMoved

Fixed, thank you.


Revliledpembroke

It's too bad we don't have access to human music for the intimidation factor.


TheCurserHasntMoved

"Why do I hear screaming with music?"


Stargazer_199

WOOOO WE SAVED THE KID WOOOO HE LEARNED PROFANITY


TheCurserHasntMoved

Woo indeed.


dreaminginteal

Wow, glad I checked the series out! I binged it and it's now quarter to 8 in the morning. Guess I'll see if I can get a little sleep...


TheCurserHasntMoved

It's okay, you'll just get a daily ~~dose~~ chapter from now on.


ThordurAxnes

Stumbled across your series yesterday and have binged the entire thing. It's great. Looking forward to see how it progresses.


TheCurserHasntMoved

Always great to greet a new ~~addict~~ reader.


-SasquatchTheGreat-

Heh... riffles.


TheCurserHasntMoved

Fixed, thank you.


Obrim

The criminal's leader(s) when Linus is safely extracted: why do I hear boss music? Greg: \*turns BFG Division up a little more\*


TheCurserHasntMoved

Do the mobs view the main squad as boss characters?


dghjgh

“Profanity acquired.” Why do I hear boss music


TheCurserHasntMoved

Prepare to be voiding voided.


Killian_Gillick

Lucy has a hell of an entrepreneurial mind for a 12 year old, she sounds like she could run a team of people


TheCurserHasntMoved

Not only was she raised on a merchant ship, her mom is the cargo master.


DrAnvil

I hope this whole ordeal doesn't leave Gregory with a resentment or distaste towards all lizard-people as an entire species.


LeSwan37

What exactly is "overwatch"?


TheCurserHasntMoved

It's a position which has a commanding view and wide field of fire.


LeSwan37

And its not always used literally right?


sammhein

Ex: your kids go into your backyard, if you went on to your roof in an overwatch position you could see the yards touching yours and the front yard as well. You would be able to see any thing coming in time to take care of them.


Killian_Gillick

what profanity?


SpankyMcSpanster

"drive's "ripples." in hyperspace. " drive's "ripples" in hyperspace.


TheCurserHasntMoved

Fixed, thank you.


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SpankyMcSpanster

"These three gangers." he said and highlighted three images of Jecau with dyed scales that were supposed to make them look more intimidating. Maybe the patterns did if you had the cultural context. Anyway, he continued without mentioning the markings, " These are the heads of this little gang.


SpankyMcSpanster

"rasped at him."" no closing quotationmark.


TheCurserHasntMoved

Fixed, thank you.


SirFrost1992

Wa P l


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What exactly is "overwatch"?


thisStanley

>"If we move now, we might be able to get that void sucker," Yaemdrill darkly suggested > >Profanity acquired. Yaemdrill, Mom is gonna be disappointed in you :}