Lay
Lay noun - The activity by which one regularly makes a living.
Usage example: my main lay is as a general contractor, but I do side work as a carpenter
Mission
Mission noun - A specific task with which a person or group is charged.
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- The Miriapode infuses Lilith with the relevant languages and local history for each mission, but finding the lay of the land is usually a part of Lilith's arrival in any new time before that point.
Source: Comic Book / Lilith -
World at War, in the final American mission you get to call in an air strike on Shuri Castle, and in the last Russian mission you lay siege on the Reichstag.
Source: Monumental Damage -
Inverted in one Soviet mission, where you electrify the Eiffel Tower into a gigantic tesla coil, which proceeds to lay waste to the entire city.
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