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While on assignment in a seamy foreign city, you take an ill-advised midnight stroll alone, and are recognized by some of my operatives, who rightly blame you for the deadly air assaults that have plagued our formerly peaceful nation. It is several months before the buried suitcases containing you are found in Cairo, Osaka, and Detroit. My hill.

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It turns out the Mormons were right, and heavenly rapture sweeps them off the face of the earth. With no-one to watch over Utah's criminal element, violence spreads like wildfire; your insignificant death goes unnoticed amidst the horrific carnage. After the last two trailer park oafs have killed one another over the last can of Bud in the desert, I fly in from NYC with my team of morticians and architects, to build a paradise over the ashes. My hill.

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I offer Godzilla some fish as per the Michael Broderick movie and she clears out. I then draw up a mercenary team consisting of an Afrikaner, a Finn, a Rhodesian, a Scotsman and an Afghan and request that they guard the hill. My hill. And it will be so unless you're ready for a seriously drawn-out and unrewarding conflict.

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A Finn and a Scotsman together? You fool! They succumb to the power of drink one night, beat the Rhodesian to a pulp, and stumble off into the darkness arm-in-arm. The next evening, the Afrikaner is lured off the hill by a cardboard cutout of Nelson Mandela. Your sole remaining Afghan mercenary is happy to cede control of the hill in exchange for his very own sheep. You don't even notice until it's too late; you're busy with homework. My hill.

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The next evening' date=' the Afrikaner is lured off the hill by a cardboard cutout of Nelson Mandela.[/quote'] :lol: What exactly did you think Koobus was going to do with that cutout? I finish my homework and complete my term project; a 6.8 SPC conversion for the Ultimax 100. After a few bursts I have cleared the area. My hill.
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Re: King Of The Hill My crack team of emu farmers descends upon your crew, slaughtering and devouring them. With dung and shreds of homework, they build a bonfire that consumes the remnants. Afterwards, there's no hint that you or your emus ever existed. My hill.

:lol: What exactly did you think Koobus was going to do with that cutout?
He saw a chance for one last photo with the great man... a handshake, maybe?
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