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ooooo ooooo .oooooo. oooooooooooo HOE E'ZINE RELEASE #841
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`888' `888' d8P' `Y8b `888' `8
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888 888 888 888 888 "Chapter 1: Cobra Triangle"
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888ooooo888 888 888 888oooo8
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888 888 888 888 888 " by Neko
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888 888 `88b d88' 888 o 9/24/99
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o888o o888o `Y8bood8P' o888ooooood8
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Suddenly I appear -- a mere boat in the murky waters that make up the
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Tanzene, also known as the Cobra Triangle.
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I am slightly unfamiliar with the controls of this boat, but I
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quickly figure out how to accelerate, and, more importantly, shoot.
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I'm not at all unfamiliar with the use of guns -- in my travels from
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the jungles of Brazil (Mission Contra) to the hell of medieval Transylvania
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(mission Castlevania), I have been forced to use weapons to achieve my
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goal -- destroy evil everywhere.
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I am not usually told much about my destination or my goals. They
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usually become apparent later. Sometimes much later. Mission Cobra
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Triangle is no different in this regard -- all I know is that I am in the
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waters of the Tanzene, and that there are lots of other boats around me that
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I am apparently supposed to be shooting. And don't forget the gun turrets
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on the river banks.
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I'm a little rusty -- I often ram my boat head on into the banks --
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or worse, into another boat. Sometimes I even lose control long enough to
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travel straight through the path of a bullet, damaging my already-weak boat.
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Soon after I departed I find what we like to call a "one up". I
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already come equipped with three lives, but finding the mythical "one up"
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allows me an extra chance at survival.
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The "one up" was not enough, I soon found out. The boat's controls
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were horrid. and I often found myself, like I said, ramming into the banks.
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After making a wild turn and losing track of where I was going, I
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passed some finish line -- what *was* the point of this adventure?
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I soon passed into another level of the river. This one was confined
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to a much smaller area, and my task was to take water mines from a squared
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off area, and drag them to another squared off area to detonate them.
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Sounds easy, right?
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Well, it turned out to be pretty damned difficult. They had a boat
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guarding the mines, and it chased me and often grabbed them back from me.
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The worst part was that this boat apparently had bulletproof siding on it,
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as no matter how many shots I fired at it, I couldn't make a dent in it.
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I was able to safely detonate one mine, but the second time I made it
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into the detonation square, I was not so lucky. The mine detonated and took
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my boat with it.
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Now I am back at base, awaiting another assignment....
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[ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #841 - WRITTEN BY: NEKO - 9/24/99 ]
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