See that Sectoid? Not any more! Try the latest and greatest invention of XCOM’s Xeno-B-Gone development crew; the Plasma Rifle! Nothing says “welcome to Earth” like superheated balls of plasma, after all.
You’ll need:
- 1oz gin
- 1/2 oz Midori
- 1/4 oz triple sec
- 1/4 oz lime juice
- Soda water to top
- Cherry (optional)
Add gin, Midori, triple sec and lime juice to a shaker filled with ice. Stir briefly to chill. Pour into a Collins glass filled with ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with a cherry. Serve!
This modified assault rifle fires a jet of ionized gas through a focused magnetic field — an extremely effective plasma-based weapon. — Plasma Rifle weapon description, XCOM: Enemy Unknown
I have a love-hate relationship with XCOM.
Love: there’s nothing quite like building a team of rough-and-ready saviours of humanity, taking them from raw recruits right up to borderline-superhuman alien killers capable of decimating an entire ship of greys with a mere look.
Hate: THAT SHOT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE 95 F*CKING PER CENT CHANCE TO HIT YOU ABSOLUTE F*CKING ASKJDFGHASH^#&$6734.
That’s usually the point I alt-f4.
The bad times are bad, but the good times? Oh, the good times are good. I still remember one of my soldiers from the first XCOM reboot, a marksman who most assuredly earned her autogenerated nickname of “Bullseye”: she was singlehandedly responsible for exploding the heads of at least a hundred invaders, and contributed far more than anybody else on my primary squad towards the war effort. It was so satisfying seeing her blat bad guys from halfway across the map.
But a great deal of the satisfaction I felt was from the guns of XCOM; they had weight, especially the later weapons, and none more so, in my opinion, than the plasma rifles. Seeing them charge up and let loose that bolt of green energy into the faces of Elders was nothing short of art. I have a serious gun-boner for those rifles. So of course I had to to make them into a drink.
Want to escape the weirdness of my gun-boner? Quick, jump into this recipe for Nuka Cola from Fallout instead!
The Midori gets you that lovely bright green which combined with the triple sec provides a baseline of sweetness. The lime juice knocks that back a tad and provides a dash of astringency, and the gin lays down a foundation of florality that gives the drink that little bit of something something. The soda water adds a “plasma fizz” and the cherry? Well, the cherry is just pretty.
Voila! Tastes like something that would burn a hole in any alien’s chest—in a good way.
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