Dec 2 - Breaking from tradition, Emrys and BErt decide to have their wedding ACTUALLY IN THE ROSE GARDEN specifically made for weddings. Whodathunkit?!
Pictured: Thank Jibbers, I thought this area was going to go entirely to waste.
Dec 4 - Cargo Pods land within the wall... full of painting supplies? That night a cold snap rolls in, and almost all the crops in the field die unharvested.
Pictured: The gods are mocking us.
Dec 7 - 18 man-hunting elk enter the area. Ravenpoe barely makes it back inside the wall in time. Longshank is not so lucky and gets badly stomped. Fortunately, the elk don't finish him off and move on... he regains consciousness on his own during the fight at the main gate, and sneaks back in a postern. Patrthom and Thynne are caught outside, too, but manage to hide in a ruined building until the Elk have passed them by. The fight at the gate is excellently conducted and there are no injuries on our side.
Pictured: Longshank Pezzleton gets trampled by angry elk.
Pictured: Well, I guess that decides the menu for the week.
Dec 8 - The cold snap finishes, but it's still pretty cold out at night. At least the days are warmer, though, and the fields can be replanted. Noblhippy propositions Bubble181. They are now lovers.
Pictured: Noblhippy cajoles Bubble into her bed.
Dec 9 - A poison ship crashes out west. New experimental EMP mortars are built, to help deal with the menace with less danger to colonists and structures. Turns out the EMPs don't damage the ship itself. When the centipedes pop out, turns out the EMPs only stun them. Regular mortars are added into the mix. The bombardment continues through the night. The mechanoids run back and forth in confusion, and kill off all the boomalopes sent to harrass them as well. Gotta start taming boomalopes all over again. Ah well, that's what they're for.
Dec 10 - Adam insults Zero and a fight ensues. They fight goes on a long time, and they both get pretty beat up, but nothing permanent.
Pictured: Adam v Zero
Dec 12 - An item stash is located through rumor that is said to have uranium in it. Terrik, SpecialKO, Frank and Charon are sent to check it out via transport pod. Turns out it's a pirate outpost. GasBandit, Ravenpoe, and Gruebeard are sent as backup. The fight goes reasonably well, with some light injuries to our side. The pirates are nearly annihilated. The reward is sweet. It, and the raiding party, are sent back to the compound by transport pod over the next 48 hours.
Pictured: Scouting the pirate outpost
Pictured: After the pirates are dead or run off, the loot is plundered.
Pictured: ooh, more loot.
Dec 14 - A mysterious blight wipes out half the crops, or more. DarkAudit and Dave get into a fight in the kitchen, gumming up the cooking routine and wasting medkits to heal their bruises. Ravenpoe tries to clear a bear out that has wandered into the compound, but it attacks him. Despite Wasabi helping him, he gets downed and his nose is bitten off. She carries him to the infirmary. Jun is able to install a new artificial nose on him that very night. With the spoils of the raid, there's enough uranium to build the ship's reactor core.
Pictured: Dave v DarkAudit
Pictured: Ravenpoe finds the situation unBEARable
Dec 15 - the prisoners stage a prison break! Emrys is in the jail feeding them when they spring into action, and wound her. She runs for it. The Militia arrives ASAP. Emrys has received a collection of bruises, and Klew gets hit by a suspiciously large amount of friendly fire, but the prisoners are downed. Patrthom's father's eye is shot out in the proceedings. The debate is rekindled about what to do with the prisoners. A fox attacks a muffalo calf. Thynne attempts to rescue the calf, but whatever affected Celt Z seems to have Thynne in its grip as well - he is completely unable to hit the fox, and in fact shoots the calf to death by accident. By the time the fox is killed, it has actually scratched the ever-loving shit out of Thynne and he needs medical attention urgently. That night, when Ashburner is looking in on the prisoners, they stage another prison break, despite being heavily wounded. Moffa and SpecialKO are first on the scene to deal with it. Zappit's father, Veniamin Pitt, is shot dead by Moffa, who is now the subject of Zappit's undying hatred. SpecialKO manages to down Patrthom's father while keeping him alive, but Sir Menner has infected wounds. Veniamin is buried in a grave to the west of the colony mausoleum. The ship's reactor is completed. Now the main structure and the cryptosleep pods. Several hundred more uranium will be needed for that, along with steel and plasteel. It's looking more likely that the colonists will get off... but if we want to take animals, and/or relatives of varying degrees of repute, we'll need even more... and that's assuming we can protect the thing while we build it. The other factions might get awful desperate when they learn about the incoming Planetkiller...
Pictured: PRISON BREAK (1)
Pictured: No chance to escape
Pictured: PRISON BREAK! (again!)
Pictured: Imminent violence
Pictured: Social standings at the end of 5502