[Gaming] RimWorld
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Just had a bunch of raiders try to "tunnel around my defenses" straight into an ancient danger that had two centipedes and a scyther in it. It did not end well for them. Thankfully I had been building up an area to fight the mechs from, so I was able to deal with them after the raiders got wrecked.
GasBandit
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RimWorld - Halforums (Tribal) Edition
10 Dec - A simple prosthetic leg and some glitterworld medicine is purchased from a passing exotic goods caravan to replace Gas' peg leg, bankrolled by the sale of Snuffles' erotic artwork and some warthog piglets.
12 Dec - A 17 year old escaped slave comes to West Acapulco and begs asylum from his pursuers. The tribe agrees, but then see his pursuit - 5 Cabras, and their leader is Ravenpoe's sister. She must have fallen in with the Cabras after the mechanoids razed the village. She is killed during the fight, unfortunately. A grave is made to honor their former tribeswoman. The HF tribe suffers no casualties, only injuries among the trained attack-hogs. Ravenpoe, however, forms a dire grudge against Tinwhistler, whose shot took her down.
15 Dec - Gas, Snuffles, Tin and Ravenpoe are stricken with Malaria. They are bedridden for days. Medical supplies run low.
1 Aprimay, 5501 - Dei and Ashburner hitch up the alpacas and grab everything the tribe can live without, and haul it off to Patience's Ridge, hoping to trade for medicine.
2 Apr - With Dei doing the negotiating, much better prices are had. The caravan returns with the medicine, and some extra money besides. Dei has also picked up a "Mash-een Piss-tul." However, a pack of manhunting arctic wolves has followed them to the settlement. With the help of some fortuitous visitors, the wolves are dealt with, with no casualties.
3 Apr - Thanks to the medicine, the sick tribesmen are beginning to recover, and by the next day, the malaria epidemic has been eradicated.
6 Apr - A herd of deer turn violent while being hunted. Dei and her bonded warthog, Blanche, are injured. The hog has lost three hooves. Peg legs are the best that can be done for Blanche at the moment.
7 Apr - Cargo pods full of ibex meat crash directly into the primary storehouse, smashing in through the roof and scattering their contents. I've heard of grocery delivery service, but this is ridiculous.
3 Jugust - Pirate raid, they bring guns this time. It is driven off, but there are pretty much injuries all around. Tinwhistler's left leg is shot off.
4 Jugust - Tin is fitted for a peg leg.
7 Jugust - Dei and Ash take another caravan to market, selling off all but one male chicken, the piglets, and various bulk goods and pirate weapons. They come back with medical goods - and penoxyciline, to prevent further malaria epidemics and the like.
10 Jugust - A hen contracts cirrhosis of the liver, from a "massive alcohol tolerance." Where it found alcohol, nobody can imagine.
11 Jugust - The skies darken. A volcanic winter is upon the area. Pele demands a sacrifice.
12 Jugust - Dei hunts a cougar with her new "Ayarr fifteen," but it savagely shreds her, and Ashburner when he goes to try to help. Terrik and GasBandit finally bring it down.
2 Septober - The Cabras chase a 57 year old assassin to the camp, where she asks for help. They attempt to defend her, and find Dei's brother among the attackers. He escapes when they are driven off, but Gas and Tin are injured, and the trained warthogs are badly hurt. The newcomer's name is Shegokigo... and there's something... not quite right about how she interacts with people. Tinwhistler is heard using the word "Psychopath," whatever that means.
3 Septober - Passing visitors buy up all of Snuffles' art, and pay with a "Charge Rifle." Tinwhistler calls dibs, as he's the only one with a history of using such things. A Timberwolf self-tames, and Terrik decides to take on training it.
4 Septober - 8 pirates attack in the night. There are light wounds all around, and 2 pirates are captured, including their leader.
7 Septober - A grizzly bear comes into the village and eats a piglet. The tribe guns it down, though Shego is wounded and loses a toe.
12 Sept - Green dust begins to rain gently from the sky, making everything it gets on turn sickly and die. The offworlders who have joined the tribe call it "Toxic Fallout." Not good.
13 Sept - GasBandit comes down with the flu. He is bedridden for a few days.
15 Sept - The toxic fallout has killed off most of the wildlife and vegetation in the area. The modest food reserves dwindle faster than anticipated. If this continues for too long, the tribe will have to consider fleeing West Acapulco in search of somewhere they can survive.
1 Dec - Dei and Tinwhistler decide to take all the male chickens, the prisoners, along with whatever else can be spared, to town to trade for supplies to try to outlast the fallout. The plan falls apart when the prisoners stage an escape, and the alpacas become incapacitated from toxicity. It then begins snowing. The tribe won't be going anywhere for a while.
3 Dec - The food stores are depleted of pemmican. There's nothing left for the herbivorous animals to eat. The volcanic winter combined with the regular winter is keeping the temperatures low, which is helping prolong the meat stores, so at least for the moment the tribe itself won't starve or have to resort to killing livestock... yet.
4 Dec - Thanks to Ravenpoe and Shego, the tribe has figured out electricity and temperature control. Freezer facilities are frantically constructed to preserve what food is left.
5 Dec - Most of the chickens die of malnutrition.
6 Dec - Chickens continue to die. A pirate sapper raid hits from the north. Dei's pet, Blanche, is killed. Two pirates are captured. Most of the chicken carcasses rot before they can be butchered. The prisoners are released because the food to feed them is too dear, and nobody wants to contemplate what might be done with them if they are executed. Specifically, with their meat.
7 Dec - More chickens die. An Exotic goods trader arrives, Dei's uncle accompanies them. GasBandit and Ravenpoe come to blows as the caravan approaches due to an insult from Poe. Then, the toxic fallout finally settles. Ravenpoe, however, must spend the next couple days recovering in bed from the beatdown he received. And the volcanic winter has not abated yet, either.
8 Dec - Farming and hunting resumes. Of the several dozen chickens that had sprung from the two Gas originally purchased, 3 hens and a rooster are all that have survived.
10 Dec - a 61 year old elder from the tribe who has been wandering for the last two years since the destruction of the village finds West Acapulco, and joins. His name is Dave.
11 Dec - The wild animals around West Acapulco return extremely slowly, and in the dim light of volcanic winter, the crops grow excruciatingly slowly. Famine looks to be creeping in. In a desperate gamble, Dave, Shego, and Tin set forth with nothing but what they can carry to hunt the hills beyond the home range.
12 Dec - The trio find a lush range thick with game, and claim an abandoned metal structure to serve as their shelter. Tin and Shego hunt everything they can find and prepare it into simple meals, while Dave hauls the meals back to West Acapulco.
Pictured: The hunting lodge
15 Dec - the skies clear of the volcanic ash. The hunting party packs up everything they have and returns home.
2 Apr - With the first harvest of rice finally coming in, it looks like the famine is finally over.
Pictured: West Acapulco, Aprimay 4th, 5502.
12 Dec - A 17 year old escaped slave comes to West Acapulco and begs asylum from his pursuers. The tribe agrees, but then see his pursuit - 5 Cabras, and their leader is Ravenpoe's sister. She must have fallen in with the Cabras after the mechanoids razed the village. She is killed during the fight, unfortunately. A grave is made to honor their former tribeswoman. The HF tribe suffers no casualties, only injuries among the trained attack-hogs. Ravenpoe, however, forms a dire grudge against Tinwhistler, whose shot took her down.
15 Dec - Gas, Snuffles, Tin and Ravenpoe are stricken with Malaria. They are bedridden for days. Medical supplies run low.
1 Aprimay, 5501 - Dei and Ashburner hitch up the alpacas and grab everything the tribe can live without, and haul it off to Patience's Ridge, hoping to trade for medicine.
2 Apr - With Dei doing the negotiating, much better prices are had. The caravan returns with the medicine, and some extra money besides. Dei has also picked up a "Mash-een Piss-tul." However, a pack of manhunting arctic wolves has followed them to the settlement. With the help of some fortuitous visitors, the wolves are dealt with, with no casualties.
3 Apr - Thanks to the medicine, the sick tribesmen are beginning to recover, and by the next day, the malaria epidemic has been eradicated.
6 Apr - A herd of deer turn violent while being hunted. Dei and her bonded warthog, Blanche, are injured. The hog has lost three hooves. Peg legs are the best that can be done for Blanche at the moment.
7 Apr - Cargo pods full of ibex meat crash directly into the primary storehouse, smashing in through the roof and scattering their contents. I've heard of grocery delivery service, but this is ridiculous.
3 Jugust - Pirate raid, they bring guns this time. It is driven off, but there are pretty much injuries all around. Tinwhistler's left leg is shot off.
4 Jugust - Tin is fitted for a peg leg.
7 Jugust - Dei and Ash take another caravan to market, selling off all but one male chicken, the piglets, and various bulk goods and pirate weapons. They come back with medical goods - and penoxyciline, to prevent further malaria epidemics and the like.
10 Jugust - A hen contracts cirrhosis of the liver, from a "massive alcohol tolerance." Where it found alcohol, nobody can imagine.
11 Jugust - The skies darken. A volcanic winter is upon the area. Pele demands a sacrifice.
12 Jugust - Dei hunts a cougar with her new "Ayarr fifteen," but it savagely shreds her, and Ashburner when he goes to try to help. Terrik and GasBandit finally bring it down.
2 Septober - The Cabras chase a 57 year old assassin to the camp, where she asks for help. They attempt to defend her, and find Dei's brother among the attackers. He escapes when they are driven off, but Gas and Tin are injured, and the trained warthogs are badly hurt. The newcomer's name is Shegokigo... and there's something... not quite right about how she interacts with people. Tinwhistler is heard using the word "Psychopath," whatever that means.
3 Septober - Passing visitors buy up all of Snuffles' art, and pay with a "Charge Rifle." Tinwhistler calls dibs, as he's the only one with a history of using such things. A Timberwolf self-tames, and Terrik decides to take on training it.
4 Septober - 8 pirates attack in the night. There are light wounds all around, and 2 pirates are captured, including their leader.
7 Septober - A grizzly bear comes into the village and eats a piglet. The tribe guns it down, though Shego is wounded and loses a toe.
12 Sept - Green dust begins to rain gently from the sky, making everything it gets on turn sickly and die. The offworlders who have joined the tribe call it "Toxic Fallout." Not good.
13 Sept - GasBandit comes down with the flu. He is bedridden for a few days.
15 Sept - The toxic fallout has killed off most of the wildlife and vegetation in the area. The modest food reserves dwindle faster than anticipated. If this continues for too long, the tribe will have to consider fleeing West Acapulco in search of somewhere they can survive.
1 Dec - Dei and Tinwhistler decide to take all the male chickens, the prisoners, along with whatever else can be spared, to town to trade for supplies to try to outlast the fallout. The plan falls apart when the prisoners stage an escape, and the alpacas become incapacitated from toxicity. It then begins snowing. The tribe won't be going anywhere for a while.
3 Dec - The food stores are depleted of pemmican. There's nothing left for the herbivorous animals to eat. The volcanic winter combined with the regular winter is keeping the temperatures low, which is helping prolong the meat stores, so at least for the moment the tribe itself won't starve or have to resort to killing livestock... yet.
4 Dec - Thanks to Ravenpoe and Shego, the tribe has figured out electricity and temperature control. Freezer facilities are frantically constructed to preserve what food is left.
5 Dec - Most of the chickens die of malnutrition.
6 Dec - Chickens continue to die. A pirate sapper raid hits from the north. Dei's pet, Blanche, is killed. Two pirates are captured. Most of the chicken carcasses rot before they can be butchered. The prisoners are released because the food to feed them is too dear, and nobody wants to contemplate what might be done with them if they are executed. Specifically, with their meat.
7 Dec - More chickens die. An Exotic goods trader arrives, Dei's uncle accompanies them. GasBandit and Ravenpoe come to blows as the caravan approaches due to an insult from Poe. Then, the toxic fallout finally settles. Ravenpoe, however, must spend the next couple days recovering in bed from the beatdown he received. And the volcanic winter has not abated yet, either.
8 Dec - Farming and hunting resumes. Of the several dozen chickens that had sprung from the two Gas originally purchased, 3 hens and a rooster are all that have survived.
10 Dec - a 61 year old elder from the tribe who has been wandering for the last two years since the destruction of the village finds West Acapulco, and joins. His name is Dave.
11 Dec - The wild animals around West Acapulco return extremely slowly, and in the dim light of volcanic winter, the crops grow excruciatingly slowly. Famine looks to be creeping in. In a desperate gamble, Dave, Shego, and Tin set forth with nothing but what they can carry to hunt the hills beyond the home range.
12 Dec - The trio find a lush range thick with game, and claim an abandoned metal structure to serve as their shelter. Tin and Shego hunt everything they can find and prepare it into simple meals, while Dave hauls the meals back to West Acapulco.
Pictured: The hunting lodge
15 Dec - the skies clear of the volcanic ash. The hunting party packs up everything they have and returns home.
2 Apr - With the first harvest of rice finally coming in, it looks like the famine is finally over.
Pictured: West Acapulco, Aprimay 4th, 5502.
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The fact that I muttered "oh no" at a point in reading this update shows how invested you can get in reading about a video game 
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GasBandit
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RimWorld: Halforums Tribal Edition
7 Aprimay, 5502 - Shego, Tin, and Snuffles are diagnosed with muscle parasites. Their lives aren't going to be any fun for a couple weeks. An outer wall begins being built around West Acupulco
8 Apr - A bear gets into the settlement again, and attacks Aaron (Gas' warthog). The response is swift and deadly, but Aaron still loses his nose.
Pictured: BEEAAAAR in the dungeon! Thought you'd like to know.
9 Apr - The wall is still not even halfway around the village, and 10 Cabras come back for another raid, including Dei's brother. He is killed in the assault. Pez and Terrik sustain minor injuries, and Dei's brother is buried in a grave next to Poe's brother. A prisoner is taken, but he is treated and released in a further attempt to assuage the Cabras. Seeing her brother die so soon after also losing her bonded animal has put Dei in a downward spiral. She blames Pez for everything, though he was only acting in self defense.
11 Apr - No rest for the wicked. A pirate raid brings sappers to the new-forming wall. In the fight, Dei accidentally shoots Aaron, killing him. GasBandit is mortified. Three prisoners are taken. One is judged guilty enough to be executed. The other two are treated for their wounds and held to be sold into slavery.
1 Jugust - another cougar in the breezeway, this one eats a chick. Dei is wounded taking it out - mostly by Ashburner's incautious support fire.
2 Jug - Dei, Terrik, and Shego form a trade caravan to take the plunder, slaves, and other sundries to town. Along the way, something happens that causes Terrik to break up with Dei. She does not take it well at all. She returns to West Acapulco in a towering mood.
4 Jug - A pair of man-eating rhinos enter the area. One is confounded by the mostly-completed outer wall, the other is gunned down as it charges.
5 Jug - The second rhino figures out the wall doesn't go all the way around yet. It tramples Ashburner before being taken down, but nothing permanent looks to be squashed...
13 Jug - Snuffles insults Pez, and fisticuffs ensue. Snuffles gets knocked out, but Pez is also rather beat up.
15 Jug - The Cabras are back for more. But the wall is complete, and they are funneled into a killing zone, where they are chewed to pieces. One captive is taken, treated, and released. One more after that should probably get them to the peace table.
3 Septober - Then, pirates show up with sappers. They break in through the side, but are also defeated. The defending swineforce takes most of their punishment.
5 Sept - At breakfast, Dei starts a fight with Pez, still angry with him for killing her brother (and she's not in the best mood from all the other crap that's been going on lately). Catharsis helps a little bit, but she's still holding a grudge. And it's a waste of a day's labor for both of them, not to mention the medpacks to heal them up.
Pictured: Dei assaults Pez in the kitchen, while Ash apparently teaches a hog to play horseshoes.
13 Sept - It's amazing how quickly the chickens have bounced back. There are over 40 of them, and 37 fertilized eggs gestating. Gas and Dei decide to take the roosters and fertilized eggs to market before they eat everyone out of house and home.
14 Sept - A mysterious blight wipes out the crops. Fortunately, a Harvest was just brought in a couple days ago.
2 Dec - When Dei and Gasbandit return, they find that in their haste they forgot to take the male chicks with them, as well. DOH.
7 Dec - The evil spirit returns, and all the hares in the area turn violent. Dave is bitten. Terrik is nibbled. The attackers are delicious.
9 Dec - Pirate Sappers attack from the northeast, breach the wall, start some fires and kill some chickens before they are taken down. Some pirates escape, but none that are downed survive to be taken prisoner. No tribespeople are seriously hurt. Pez and Shego seem to be a little too enthused about the pirates they killed.
11 Dec - a sudden cold snap arrives in the middle of the night. Despite an emergency scramble to harvest whatever of the crop can be salvaged, most of it is lost. Some of the chickens succumb to frostbite.
13 Dec - as the snows of the cold snap finally break, a merchant caravan arrives, and Gas and Dei's "oopsie" is rectified. The excess livestock is sold off, and medicine is purchased in trade... just in case.
14 Dec - The vegetable stores run out. It is discovered that, at some point, the animals must have gotten into the emergency rations and eaten a large amount of it. Fortunately, meat and eggs are not scarce this winter - the meals will just be a little brown and monochromatic until spring comes around. The hens should have enough hay to get them through. Dave is bitten by an emu while hunting, but the worst injury is done to his pride.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco as the year 5502 comes to a close.
8 Apr - A bear gets into the settlement again, and attacks Aaron (Gas' warthog). The response is swift and deadly, but Aaron still loses his nose.
Pictured: BEEAAAAR in the dungeon! Thought you'd like to know.
9 Apr - The wall is still not even halfway around the village, and 10 Cabras come back for another raid, including Dei's brother. He is killed in the assault. Pez and Terrik sustain minor injuries, and Dei's brother is buried in a grave next to Poe's brother. A prisoner is taken, but he is treated and released in a further attempt to assuage the Cabras. Seeing her brother die so soon after also losing her bonded animal has put Dei in a downward spiral. She blames Pez for everything, though he was only acting in self defense.
11 Apr - No rest for the wicked. A pirate raid brings sappers to the new-forming wall. In the fight, Dei accidentally shoots Aaron, killing him. GasBandit is mortified. Three prisoners are taken. One is judged guilty enough to be executed. The other two are treated for their wounds and held to be sold into slavery.
1 Jugust - another cougar in the breezeway, this one eats a chick. Dei is wounded taking it out - mostly by Ashburner's incautious support fire.
2 Jug - Dei, Terrik, and Shego form a trade caravan to take the plunder, slaves, and other sundries to town. Along the way, something happens that causes Terrik to break up with Dei. She does not take it well at all. She returns to West Acapulco in a towering mood.
4 Jug - A pair of man-eating rhinos enter the area. One is confounded by the mostly-completed outer wall, the other is gunned down as it charges.
5 Jug - The second rhino figures out the wall doesn't go all the way around yet. It tramples Ashburner before being taken down, but nothing permanent looks to be squashed...
13 Jug - Snuffles insults Pez, and fisticuffs ensue. Snuffles gets knocked out, but Pez is also rather beat up.
15 Jug - The Cabras are back for more. But the wall is complete, and they are funneled into a killing zone, where they are chewed to pieces. One captive is taken, treated, and released. One more after that should probably get them to the peace table.
3 Septober - Then, pirates show up with sappers. They break in through the side, but are also defeated. The defending swineforce takes most of their punishment.
5 Sept - At breakfast, Dei starts a fight with Pez, still angry with him for killing her brother (and she's not in the best mood from all the other crap that's been going on lately). Catharsis helps a little bit, but she's still holding a grudge. And it's a waste of a day's labor for both of them, not to mention the medpacks to heal them up.
Pictured: Dei assaults Pez in the kitchen, while Ash apparently teaches a hog to play horseshoes.
13 Sept - It's amazing how quickly the chickens have bounced back. There are over 40 of them, and 37 fertilized eggs gestating. Gas and Dei decide to take the roosters and fertilized eggs to market before they eat everyone out of house and home.
14 Sept - A mysterious blight wipes out the crops. Fortunately, a Harvest was just brought in a couple days ago.
2 Dec - When Dei and Gasbandit return, they find that in their haste they forgot to take the male chicks with them, as well. DOH.
7 Dec - The evil spirit returns, and all the hares in the area turn violent. Dave is bitten. Terrik is nibbled. The attackers are delicious.
9 Dec - Pirate Sappers attack from the northeast, breach the wall, start some fires and kill some chickens before they are taken down. Some pirates escape, but none that are downed survive to be taken prisoner. No tribespeople are seriously hurt. Pez and Shego seem to be a little too enthused about the pirates they killed.
11 Dec - a sudden cold snap arrives in the middle of the night. Despite an emergency scramble to harvest whatever of the crop can be salvaged, most of it is lost. Some of the chickens succumb to frostbite.
13 Dec - as the snows of the cold snap finally break, a merchant caravan arrives, and Gas and Dei's "oopsie" is rectified. The excess livestock is sold off, and medicine is purchased in trade... just in case.
14 Dec - The vegetable stores run out. It is discovered that, at some point, the animals must have gotten into the emergency rations and eaten a large amount of it. Fortunately, meat and eggs are not scarce this winter - the meals will just be a little brown and monochromatic until spring comes around. The hens should have enough hay to get them through. Dave is bitten by an emu while hunting, but the worst injury is done to his pride.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco as the year 5502 comes to a close.
Welp, this pretty much solidifies which member of LOST I am.
Dave
Staff member
Holy shit that brings back memories! I loved that show.
GasBandit
Staff member
Nothing to go to WAR over, though. I hear those don't end well.
I don't know that villages have wooden floors connecting all the houses though.
But tell us about the game.Well, they're limestone brick, now
It's just a trick I've found that causes less dirt to be tracked into bedrooms.
There's a rimworld modWell, they're limestone brick, now
It's just a trick I've found that causes less dirt to be tracked into bedrooms.
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=21718.0
It's a doormat. It collects dirt, so that you track less throughout the habitations
GasBandit
Staff member
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Neat, I might get that, though really I'll still continue to connect the rooms with "floor" because unfloored dirt has a movement speed penalty, and this also helps keeps fires from spreading between buildings.
GasBandit
Staff member
I just wanna know what the hell happened on that caravan trip that made you decide "Nope, that's it, I'm done."I'm alone again.
That's ok.
I guess.
I started a "1 save" game tonight, and so far I've only had one death due to my forgetting to cancel a door being made while a bunch of muffalo went mad after one got shot.
To be fair, I set it on an easier difficulty because I didn't want to deal with non stop bullshit raids.[DOUBLEPOST=1499756069,1499755916][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, can we just talk about the shapes that random fires can make?
To be fair, I set it on an easier difficulty because I didn't want to deal with non stop bullshit raids.[DOUBLEPOST=1499756069,1499755916][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, can we just talk about the shapes that random fires can make?
GasBandit
Staff member
It reminds me of the old cell-based life simulations.I started a "1 save" game tonight, and so far I've only had one death due to my forgetting to cancel a door being made while a bunch of muffalo went mad after one got shot.
To be fair, I set it on an easier difficulty because I didn't want to deal with non stop bullshit raids.[DOUBLEPOST=1499756069,1499755916][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, can we just talk about the shapes that random fires can make?
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Or a minecraft map from back in the days before fires would burn themselves out.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Dei's picture also reminds me of how irritated I get that pawns entering/leaving the map, ostensibly by the roadway, don't walk on the roadway if it is diagonal. They zigzag across it in horizontal/vertical lines, wasting SO much time. Usually the pathing in this game is pretty intelligent, but following roads it shits the bed.
GasBandit
Staff member
RimWorld: Halforums (Tribal) Edition
1 Aprimay, 5503 - Gas and Dei ring in the new year by ringing each other's bells. And non in a good/sexy way. Nope, Gas has to go and insult her, and she pops him one, and next thing you know they've beaten each other into hamburger. Gas gets the worst of it, but they're both laid up for a day.
Pictured: You can ring my bee-eee-eeell you can ring my bell. Ah-ah.
3 Apr - The evil spirit compels many of the boomalopes in the area to go berserk. Fires rage. Horror of horrors, the horseshoe pin - the settlement's only gaming attraction - is destroyed.
Pictured: Boom, baby
5 Apr - The Cabras are back at it again. They attack just before midnight. They are absolutely decimated, but Ashburner's favorite warthog, Spooky, is grievously injured, and loses a leg and a jaw. No captives are taken. Terrik also receives a shattered rib.
Pictured: The Cabras beat feet - those of them still on their feet, anyway.
7 Apr - in the wee hours of the morning, a greedy compulsive liar with a drug habit who is incapable of caring, socializing, or intellectual work begs for shelter from the pirates chasing him. The Halforumites tell him to keep walking. The radio relays his panicked scream before it is switched off.
Pictured: Ha ha ha, no.
8 Apr - Components for the newfangled machines are running low. A caravan is formed with Dei and Tinwhistler heading into town to trade for supplies. Dei trades the settlements vast collection of skins and crappy pirate weapons (along with 150 eggs) for lots of components, a jaw replacement for Spooky, and all the raw steel they can carry. Plus about 1000 silver in cash.
Pictured: Quite a haul
13 Apr - Another lost member of the tribe wanders to West Acapulco, and is greeted with open arms. Her name is CeltZ, a 44 year old optimist who likes to cook, craft, and mine, but is incapable of violence.
14 Apr - The Cabras are back for more, with another midnight raid. Ashburner's sister is with them. She is shot down by GasBandit, and that friendship is sundered right there. In my defense, she WAS coming straight at me with a spear. Terrik also takes an arrow to the spine, but is expected to recover. Ashburner personally guns down two more fleeing Cabras in his grief. Even with his violent outburst, five prisoners are taken. They are treated for their wounds and released, which (along with the obvious effects of attrition, no doubt) finally convinces the Cabras to end their aggression with the Halforums Tribe and open trade negotiations. Ashburner buries his sister with the other unfortunate tribespeople who ended up on the wrong side of fate.
4 Jugust - Wildfires are set outside the wall by a dry thunderstorm. Huge swaths of land (plus some wildlife) are burned, and Snuffles sustains burns on his torso and right leg. A little medicine and rest puts him back on his feet within a day, but this underscores the need for an infirmary, sooner the better.
Pictured: Fire, water, burn.
7 Jugust - A party of offworlders visits as they pass by. Dei's grandmother is among them, surprisingly enough. She is a guard for their party. Dei visits with her and trades with the visitors, paying exorbitantly for components - whatever, pirates will always bring more crap weapons to sell, and Snuffles will always make more porny artwork.
8 Jugust - a pack of man-eating panthers moves into the area. GasBandit is badly lacerated, loses an ear, and catches a hit of buckshot in the arm from Shego. Dei loses a toe, and almost the whole leg. Ashburner similarly accidentally hits Terrik in the back with his machine pistol fire.
Pictured: Marvel at the Black Panthers
10 Jug - The first two beds are completed in the new infirmary, which also has sterile tile and climate control. The tribe is starting to feel less "tribal" and more outlander.
11 Jug - The evil spirit reveals itself! A great metal house, or a piece of an even greater one, falls from the sky, and voices in every man and woman's head begins filling their thoughts with horrific, violent impulses. The more knowledgeable members of the tribe who used to be offworlders caution that, if disturbed, blood machines will come pouring out! The tribe fears a repeat of the massacre of years ago, but the horror has crashed inside the walls and the psychic assault cannot be ignored. Sandbags are erected around it, and then the carnage begins. Two scythers and a caterpillar erupt from the crashed ship part. The battle isn't prolonged, and the mechanoids are put down. Dei takes a charge lance shot in the gut, almost destroying a kidney. There is relief that the tribe can now stand up to the demons that destroyed their past lives.
Pictured: Drop your weapon - you have fifteen seconds to comply.
12 Jug - CeltZ says something that insults Tinwhistler so much he wails on her. The poor woman stands no chance against the former shock trooper. Tin at least comes to his senses before she is beaten to incapacity, and she goes to the infirmary under her own power.
15 Jug - A heat wave sets in, threatening heatstroke to all who labor outside. Evaporative coolers are built to supplement the air conditioners, so as to not overtax the electric grid.
1 Septober - Dei is attacked by a timberwolf. Terrik attempts to help her, but ends up shooting one of her fingers off.
2 Sept - Terrik decides a grizzly bear in the settlement needs killing. He gets a little clawed up. It would have been worse if other Halforumites hadn't backed his play. Dave chases a wounded turkey all the way around the outer wall. If the turrets hadn't finished it off, who knows how many laps it would have led him on?
Pictured: Terrik is unBEARable.
3 Sept - Pirate Sappers attack from the west. They bring sniper rifles. Shego is downed by sniper fire, and Dei is downed and Terrik is seriously injured when a defense turret malfunctions and explodes. The pirates are driven off, but Shego has lost her left leg and her right foot... which is a real puzzler, considering she was hiding behind sandbags at the time.
4 Sept - Another bear gets in and mauls a warthog. With half its fighters down wounded, the tribe barely manages to kill the bear and save the pig.
5 Sept - More pirates attack. No rest for the wicked. Shego can't help defend, as she's still legless, and Dei is still recovering in the infirmary. GasBandit takes a shot to the brain, and dies instantly. Tinwhistler takes too many to the chest and slumps over, dead. Terrik's bonded wolf companion dies of blood loss before help arrives. The pirates are driven back, but the terrible cost has left morale in the dirt. Even Ashburner isn't able to take much solace in GasBandit's death, despite his grudge against him for the death of his sister.
Pictured: The death of the Gas Bandit
6 Sept - GasBandit and Tinwhistler are buried in the graveyard. Tinwhistler is nude, as he would have wanted.
8 Sept - Another sapper raid, this time from the south. Jeez, enough with the raids already! It's driven back with some wounds to Dei and Terrik, but the ranks of the attack animals are eviscerated. Spooky and Darya, Ash and Dei's boars, both die, further driving them into depression. Ravenpoe forms a bond with a warthog he names Black, who has had both its eyes shot out. In light of recent events, the decision is made to militarize the entire warthog population, whereas before only a few were used in combat and the rest were simply working animals.
Pictured: Pigs vs Pirates
9 Sept - Shego is fitted for a peg leg, though she's still missing the other foot. Research is getting close to figuring out basic prosthetics, and she'll wait for that.
11 Sep - Shegokigo gets her prosthetic foot, and a real prosthetic leg to replace the peg leg.
12 Sep - Ravenpoe and Dei have spent a lot of time talking in private in the last few days. Poe seems to have worn down her reluctance, and today they become lovers. Danil the alpaca has a heart attack, but Snuffles successfully rescuscitates it.
13 Sep - A timber wolf sneaks into the settlement, but is killed before it can do any mischief.
14 Sep - Another mechanoid ship crashes just inside the wall to the east. As before, sandbags are set up, and the blood machines are sent back to hell. A few hogs are wounded, but aside from one lost eye, not seriously.
1 Dec - The Pirates are back. Yes, again. The new, improved killzone does its job, and a tidal wave of pork engulfs the pirates. Three hogs are lost, but the pirates are absolutely demolished. One is taken prisoner.
10 Dec - Several days pass blessedly without incident. Ravenpoe decides this is a good time to pop the question. Dei agrees to marry him. That night, West Acapulco is attacked by 34 man-eating chinchillas. Everybody gets a little bitten and scratched, and one piglet is killed, but other than that... tons of free chinchilla meat and fur. One of Pez's bites gets infected, and he's out of commission for a day.
Pictured: Chinchillapocalype 2017
12 Dec - Mechanoids drop in outside the wall via transport pods. Two scythers and a caterpillar. Dei takes a shot in the gut and nearly bleeds out, but is rescued in time. A couple hogs are lost.
14 Dec - It's been a very mild winter, and the growing season never stopped. The colony has so much surplus rice that much goes to waste, rotting in storage.
15 Dec - A grizzly bear sneaks past everyone somehow and eats a chicken. It is hunted down by every tribesman with a gun, and is quickly killed.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5503
Pictured: You can ring my bee-eee-eeell you can ring my bell. Ah-ah.
3 Apr - The evil spirit compels many of the boomalopes in the area to go berserk. Fires rage. Horror of horrors, the horseshoe pin - the settlement's only gaming attraction - is destroyed.
Pictured: Boom, baby
5 Apr - The Cabras are back at it again. They attack just before midnight. They are absolutely decimated, but Ashburner's favorite warthog, Spooky, is grievously injured, and loses a leg and a jaw. No captives are taken. Terrik also receives a shattered rib.
Pictured: The Cabras beat feet - those of them still on their feet, anyway.
7 Apr - in the wee hours of the morning, a greedy compulsive liar with a drug habit who is incapable of caring, socializing, or intellectual work begs for shelter from the pirates chasing him. The Halforumites tell him to keep walking. The radio relays his panicked scream before it is switched off.
Pictured: Ha ha ha, no.
8 Apr - Components for the newfangled machines are running low. A caravan is formed with Dei and Tinwhistler heading into town to trade for supplies. Dei trades the settlements vast collection of skins and crappy pirate weapons (along with 150 eggs) for lots of components, a jaw replacement for Spooky, and all the raw steel they can carry. Plus about 1000 silver in cash.
Pictured: Quite a haul
13 Apr - Another lost member of the tribe wanders to West Acapulco, and is greeted with open arms. Her name is CeltZ, a 44 year old optimist who likes to cook, craft, and mine, but is incapable of violence.
14 Apr - The Cabras are back for more, with another midnight raid. Ashburner's sister is with them. She is shot down by GasBandit, and that friendship is sundered right there. In my defense, she WAS coming straight at me with a spear. Terrik also takes an arrow to the spine, but is expected to recover. Ashburner personally guns down two more fleeing Cabras in his grief. Even with his violent outburst, five prisoners are taken. They are treated for their wounds and released, which (along with the obvious effects of attrition, no doubt) finally convinces the Cabras to end their aggression with the Halforums Tribe and open trade negotiations. Ashburner buries his sister with the other unfortunate tribespeople who ended up on the wrong side of fate.
4 Jugust - Wildfires are set outside the wall by a dry thunderstorm. Huge swaths of land (plus some wildlife) are burned, and Snuffles sustains burns on his torso and right leg. A little medicine and rest puts him back on his feet within a day, but this underscores the need for an infirmary, sooner the better.
Pictured: Fire, water, burn.
7 Jugust - A party of offworlders visits as they pass by. Dei's grandmother is among them, surprisingly enough. She is a guard for their party. Dei visits with her and trades with the visitors, paying exorbitantly for components - whatever, pirates will always bring more crap weapons to sell, and Snuffles will always make more porny artwork.
8 Jugust - a pack of man-eating panthers moves into the area. GasBandit is badly lacerated, loses an ear, and catches a hit of buckshot in the arm from Shego. Dei loses a toe, and almost the whole leg. Ashburner similarly accidentally hits Terrik in the back with his machine pistol fire.
Pictured: Marvel at the Black Panthers
10 Jug - The first two beds are completed in the new infirmary, which also has sterile tile and climate control. The tribe is starting to feel less "tribal" and more outlander.
11 Jug - The evil spirit reveals itself! A great metal house, or a piece of an even greater one, falls from the sky, and voices in every man and woman's head begins filling their thoughts with horrific, violent impulses. The more knowledgeable members of the tribe who used to be offworlders caution that, if disturbed, blood machines will come pouring out! The tribe fears a repeat of the massacre of years ago, but the horror has crashed inside the walls and the psychic assault cannot be ignored. Sandbags are erected around it, and then the carnage begins. Two scythers and a caterpillar erupt from the crashed ship part. The battle isn't prolonged, and the mechanoids are put down. Dei takes a charge lance shot in the gut, almost destroying a kidney. There is relief that the tribe can now stand up to the demons that destroyed their past lives.
Pictured: Drop your weapon - you have fifteen seconds to comply.
12 Jug - CeltZ says something that insults Tinwhistler so much he wails on her. The poor woman stands no chance against the former shock trooper. Tin at least comes to his senses before she is beaten to incapacity, and she goes to the infirmary under her own power.
15 Jug - A heat wave sets in, threatening heatstroke to all who labor outside. Evaporative coolers are built to supplement the air conditioners, so as to not overtax the electric grid.
1 Septober - Dei is attacked by a timberwolf. Terrik attempts to help her, but ends up shooting one of her fingers off.
2 Sept - Terrik decides a grizzly bear in the settlement needs killing. He gets a little clawed up. It would have been worse if other Halforumites hadn't backed his play. Dave chases a wounded turkey all the way around the outer wall. If the turrets hadn't finished it off, who knows how many laps it would have led him on?
Pictured: Terrik is unBEARable.
3 Sept - Pirate Sappers attack from the west. They bring sniper rifles. Shego is downed by sniper fire, and Dei is downed and Terrik is seriously injured when a defense turret malfunctions and explodes. The pirates are driven off, but Shego has lost her left leg and her right foot... which is a real puzzler, considering she was hiding behind sandbags at the time.
4 Sept - Another bear gets in and mauls a warthog. With half its fighters down wounded, the tribe barely manages to kill the bear and save the pig.
5 Sept - More pirates attack. No rest for the wicked. Shego can't help defend, as she's still legless, and Dei is still recovering in the infirmary. GasBandit takes a shot to the brain, and dies instantly. Tinwhistler takes too many to the chest and slumps over, dead. Terrik's bonded wolf companion dies of blood loss before help arrives. The pirates are driven back, but the terrible cost has left morale in the dirt. Even Ashburner isn't able to take much solace in GasBandit's death, despite his grudge against him for the death of his sister.
Pictured: The death of the Gas Bandit
6 Sept - GasBandit and Tinwhistler are buried in the graveyard. Tinwhistler is nude, as he would have wanted.
8 Sept - Another sapper raid, this time from the south. Jeez, enough with the raids already! It's driven back with some wounds to Dei and Terrik, but the ranks of the attack animals are eviscerated. Spooky and Darya, Ash and Dei's boars, both die, further driving them into depression. Ravenpoe forms a bond with a warthog he names Black, who has had both its eyes shot out. In light of recent events, the decision is made to militarize the entire warthog population, whereas before only a few were used in combat and the rest were simply working animals.
Pictured: Pigs vs Pirates
9 Sept - Shego is fitted for a peg leg, though she's still missing the other foot. Research is getting close to figuring out basic prosthetics, and she'll wait for that.
11 Sep - Shegokigo gets her prosthetic foot, and a real prosthetic leg to replace the peg leg.
12 Sep - Ravenpoe and Dei have spent a lot of time talking in private in the last few days. Poe seems to have worn down her reluctance, and today they become lovers. Danil the alpaca has a heart attack, but Snuffles successfully rescuscitates it.
13 Sep - A timber wolf sneaks into the settlement, but is killed before it can do any mischief.
14 Sep - Another mechanoid ship crashes just inside the wall to the east. As before, sandbags are set up, and the blood machines are sent back to hell. A few hogs are wounded, but aside from one lost eye, not seriously.
1 Dec - The Pirates are back. Yes, again. The new, improved killzone does its job, and a tidal wave of pork engulfs the pirates. Three hogs are lost, but the pirates are absolutely demolished. One is taken prisoner.
10 Dec - Several days pass blessedly without incident. Ravenpoe decides this is a good time to pop the question. Dei agrees to marry him. That night, West Acapulco is attacked by 34 man-eating chinchillas. Everybody gets a little bitten and scratched, and one piglet is killed, but other than that... tons of free chinchilla meat and fur. One of Pez's bites gets infected, and he's out of commission for a day.
Pictured: Chinchillapocalype 2017
12 Dec - Mechanoids drop in outside the wall via transport pods. Two scythers and a caterpillar. Dei takes a shot in the gut and nearly bleeds out, but is rescued in time. A couple hogs are lost.
14 Dec - It's been a very mild winter, and the growing season never stopped. The colony has so much surplus rice that much goes to waste, rotting in storage.
15 Dec - A grizzly bear sneaks past everyone somehow and eats a chicken. It is hunted down by every tribesman with a gun, and is quickly killed.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5503
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Staying home sick today (apparently along with everyone else at my office who got a free slurpee from 7-11 yesterday 
). Is this on sale yet?
). Is this on sale yet?
Word is, Rimworld will not go on sale until after its release.Staying home sick today (apparently along with everyone else at my office who got a free slurpee from 7-11 yesterday
Wait a minute--this whole time, Gas has been playing an early access title?
According to Wikipedia, it's not even in Beta yet?