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#1
GasBandit
GasBandit
In the distant future, humanity has spread to the stars in countless numbers. However, despite the postulation of myriad science-fiction authors and movies, no "faster than light" travel has really been discovered. Interstellar travel means entering crytptosleep - a bizarre and slightly unsettling state of suspended animation in which you do not dream, age, or experience anything whatsoever - frozen in time for hundreds of years.
Closest to Earth, the cradle of humankind, are the Glitterworlds - shimmering balls of light on which the wealthy live and play in the pampered luxury of their beautiful skyscrapers and plazas, with little thought spared for those whose lot in life is worse elsewhere. But the farther out into the black you go, the more the harsh realities of life become apparent. Thieves and urchins choke the dirty streets of the urbworlds, and men and women toil ceaselessly in the factories of the indworlds. But they are comparatively lucky still. The underground dwellers of the hiveworlds might never see sky, the iceworlders huddle in their caves and hydroponic bays, eking out a living, and the midworlders rediscover the "joys" of serfdom as they till the soil for their feudal lords in a new spaceship-studded dark age. And worse off still are the glassworlders, whose planets' radioactive surfaces mean short, sick lives for any who do not frantically work to keep running the technology that keeps them alive in the vaults below the beautiful, deadly crystals of their home.
But by far, the worst off of humanity has to be those consigned to the planets out on the rim of explored space. The rimworlds are barely even settled, if at all. Many of their populations have reverted completely into neolithic tribes, while more recent, often unwilling population additions struggle to make some life for themselves on this new frontier - or find some way to escape it back to more comfortable climes. It's rare that anyone comes to a rimworld by choice, aside from a few opportunistic trade ships looking to abuse the abject poverty for huge profits back home. Thus, most people who wash up on the shores of a rimworld spend the rest of their lives there - however long or short that might be.
And short those lives often are - dangerous creatures, inhospitable climes, natural disasters, pirates, hostile tribals, and worst of all the biomechanical remnants of a great cyberwar that ended millennia ago are all found on these untamed planets, and the law of life is that for one to live, usually someone else must die. Survival of the fittest claims the lives of tens of thousands every year, as spacers discover themselves particularly unsuited to the rough life one must lead... on a RimWorld.
Take, for example, one such unlucky bunch. Attacked by twisted, alien, mechanoid monstrosities, their ship was destroyed. Their lifepods found only one minimally "safe" place to take the survivors within range. Keeping the humans in cryptosleep, the lifepods silently made their way to the rimworld. Many didn't make it. Malfunctions, malefactors and plain old misfortune cut short many lives who never even woke to know their doom.
But four and a half score doughty survivors survived the perilous plummet through the atmosphere, and woke to find themselves marooned. The last message left by the AI of their old ship was that this planet would only be safe for 11, maybe 12 years... for though there was no other place to take them, a planetkiller moved steadily in the wake of the fleeing lifepods, and when it arrives, no one at all will survive, anywhere.
Edit - might as well throw in the teaser here, too, eh?
Closest to Earth, the cradle of humankind, are the Glitterworlds - shimmering balls of light on which the wealthy live and play in the pampered luxury of their beautiful skyscrapers and plazas, with little thought spared for those whose lot in life is worse elsewhere. But the farther out into the black you go, the more the harsh realities of life become apparent. Thieves and urchins choke the dirty streets of the urbworlds, and men and women toil ceaselessly in the factories of the indworlds. But they are comparatively lucky still. The underground dwellers of the hiveworlds might never see sky, the iceworlders huddle in their caves and hydroponic bays, eking out a living, and the midworlders rediscover the "joys" of serfdom as they till the soil for their feudal lords in a new spaceship-studded dark age. And worse off still are the glassworlders, whose planets' radioactive surfaces mean short, sick lives for any who do not frantically work to keep running the technology that keeps them alive in the vaults below the beautiful, deadly crystals of their home.
But by far, the worst off of humanity has to be those consigned to the planets out on the rim of explored space. The rimworlds are barely even settled, if at all. Many of their populations have reverted completely into neolithic tribes, while more recent, often unwilling population additions struggle to make some life for themselves on this new frontier - or find some way to escape it back to more comfortable climes. It's rare that anyone comes to a rimworld by choice, aside from a few opportunistic trade ships looking to abuse the abject poverty for huge profits back home. Thus, most people who wash up on the shores of a rimworld spend the rest of their lives there - however long or short that might be.
And short those lives often are - dangerous creatures, inhospitable climes, natural disasters, pirates, hostile tribals, and worst of all the biomechanical remnants of a great cyberwar that ended millennia ago are all found on these untamed planets, and the law of life is that for one to live, usually someone else must die. Survival of the fittest claims the lives of tens of thousands every year, as spacers discover themselves particularly unsuited to the rough life one must lead... on a RimWorld.
Take, for example, one such unlucky bunch. Attacked by twisted, alien, mechanoid monstrosities, their ship was destroyed. Their lifepods found only one minimally "safe" place to take the survivors within range. Keeping the humans in cryptosleep, the lifepods silently made their way to the rimworld. Many didn't make it. Malfunctions, malefactors and plain old misfortune cut short many lives who never even woke to know their doom.
But four and a half score doughty survivors survived the perilous plummet through the atmosphere, and woke to find themselves marooned. The last message left by the AI of their old ship was that this planet would only be safe for 11, maybe 12 years... for though there was no other place to take them, a planetkiller moved steadily in the wake of the fleeing lifepods, and when it arrives, no one at all will survive, anywhere.
Edit - might as well throw in the teaser here, too, eh?
#2
PatrThom
IT'S COMING...
--Patrick
PatrThom
IT'S COMING...
--Patrick
#3
GasBandit
GasBandit
#4
GasBandit
GasBandit
The story begins-
APR 2, 5500 - The survivors of the destruction of the mothership crashland in a hilly temperate forest, with some food and basic equipment. Beyond the reach of any rescue, they have 12 years to find a way off-planet before the alien planetkiller weapon arrives and destroys all life. Construction begins on rudimentary facilities, while growers start planting and others wander the area picking up scattered supplies from the haphazard drop. But first order of business is to make sure that the work is properly assigned, the supplies are properly inventoried, and the weapons are distributed.
Pictured: Divvying up the work
Pictured: Scheduling special work and sleeping hours for the night owls
There are five other major factions in the area, not counting the menacing mechanoid monstrosities. There are two other outworlder "unions," a friendly tribe, a hostile tribe, and of course, pirates.
Pictured: the factions
Pictured: building a storehouse to preserve the supplies
Pictured: A nearby ruin is refurbished into a kitchen. A lot of cooking is going to need to be done, to support 50+ colonists.
Pictured: farmland is designated and planted a ways to the south, and then work begins on a bunkhouse/barracks, so that people will have a place to sleep until more permanent accomodations can be made.
Apr 3, 5500 - Far and Film Fanatic get in a fist fight. Both of them are laid up for the day, and Film an additional day. They really laid into each other.
Apr 3 - Work begins on a dining hall that can seat most of the population. It will serve as the central social gathering point for the colony.
GenSpec and Celt Z apparently shared a lifepod on the way down, and woke up before it landed. The experience helped them form a kinship, which within two days planetside, has blossomed to romance.
Apr 5 - While out salvaging metal from a nearby ruin, Gryfter is attacked by a mad hare and bitten multiple times. Painful, but not life threatening.
Apr 6 - Container pods full of chinchilla fur land nearby. Ok... we will take what we can get.. The first rice harvest comes in. Charon gets a cracked rib when hunting an ibex goes south, and it attacks him. Zero is suffering go-juice withdrawal symptoms, which makes him extra tired, extra hungry, extra slow, and all around miserable as hell.
Pictured: The first rice harvest.
Apr 7 - Zero suffers a psychotic break and wanders off in a daze. A single pirate wanders into the area. The militia assembles and downs him easily. It is decided he can't be allowed to leave, but they can't afford to feed him either... Celt Z surprises everyone by solving the issue, killing the pirate with her bare hands, snapping his neck. Wasabi's fennec fox can't accept her as its master, and instead bonds with SpecialKO.
Apr 8 - The group hunts an invasive pack of alphabeavers - both to protect the local tree population, and for meat. They turn vicious, and attack Frank. He is wounded by their bites, and also by a smidge of friendly fire. One of the bites gets infected. Bert's Alcohol withdrawal starts to take a toll. Jwhouk's husky bonds with Frank during his convalescence.
Pictured: Niiiice beaver
Pictured: Frank's infection
Apr 9 - A psychic drone sets every female colonist's teeth on edge. Gasbandit is ambushed by 3 hares while hunting one of them, but bests them in fisticuffs with only minor injury.
Pictured: The bunnies around here are awfully bitey.
Apr 10 - The Psychic drone flips polarity, and instead of irritating females, it soothes males. PATRIARCHY. Way out in the woods, Eriol is attacked by a Timber Wolf. It takes him down, but gruebeard draws its attention before it can kill him. Eriol loses a finger, but it could have been a lot worse. Thynne carries him back to camp to be healed up. That night, another timberwolf attacks Gruebeard, but is killed before it does any real damage.
Pictured: Eriol is set upon by a wild wolf, and struggles to hold out until help arrives.
Pictured: Eriol in shock, nearly killed by the wolf - Gruebeard to the rescue.
Pictured: Eriol, rescued and tended by Thynne, recuperates in his new private room.
Apr 12 - A heat wave moves into the area, which is already struggling with heat and power outages. No traders have come, and mechanical components have run out. Dei, CeltZ, Bubbbles and GasBandit take the muffalos with some silver to a nearby town to buy some. They sell off the huge amounts of leather the colony has built up during hunting, and purchase components, medicine, steel, and a new shotgun for Dei. GasBandit longingly stares at a shiny new pulse rifle for sale, but decides they can't afford it.
Pictured: The caravan enroute to town
Apr 14 - On its way back, the HF caravan is attacked by mad hares. GasBandit is bitten. WHY ARE THE BUNNIES HERE SO BITEY
Pictured: Divvying up the work
Pictured: Scheduling special work and sleeping hours for the night owls
There are five other major factions in the area, not counting the menacing mechanoid monstrosities. There are two other outworlder "unions," a friendly tribe, a hostile tribe, and of course, pirates.
Pictured: the factions
Pictured: building a storehouse to preserve the supplies
Pictured: A nearby ruin is refurbished into a kitchen. A lot of cooking is going to need to be done, to support 50+ colonists.
Pictured: farmland is designated and planted a ways to the south, and then work begins on a bunkhouse/barracks, so that people will have a place to sleep until more permanent accomodations can be made.
Apr 3, 5500 - Far and Film Fanatic get in a fist fight. Both of them are laid up for the day, and Film an additional day. They really laid into each other.
Apr 3 - Work begins on a dining hall that can seat most of the population. It will serve as the central social gathering point for the colony.
GenSpec and Celt Z apparently shared a lifepod on the way down, and woke up before it landed. The experience helped them form a kinship, which within two days planetside, has blossomed to romance.
Apr 5 - While out salvaging metal from a nearby ruin, Gryfter is attacked by a mad hare and bitten multiple times. Painful, but not life threatening.
Apr 6 - Container pods full of chinchilla fur land nearby. Ok... we will take what we can get.. The first rice harvest comes in. Charon gets a cracked rib when hunting an ibex goes south, and it attacks him. Zero is suffering go-juice withdrawal symptoms, which makes him extra tired, extra hungry, extra slow, and all around miserable as hell.
Pictured: The first rice harvest.
Apr 7 - Zero suffers a psychotic break and wanders off in a daze. A single pirate wanders into the area. The militia assembles and downs him easily. It is decided he can't be allowed to leave, but they can't afford to feed him either... Celt Z surprises everyone by solving the issue, killing the pirate with her bare hands, snapping his neck. Wasabi's fennec fox can't accept her as its master, and instead bonds with SpecialKO.
Apr 8 - The group hunts an invasive pack of alphabeavers - both to protect the local tree population, and for meat. They turn vicious, and attack Frank. He is wounded by their bites, and also by a smidge of friendly fire. One of the bites gets infected. Bert's Alcohol withdrawal starts to take a toll. Jwhouk's husky bonds with Frank during his convalescence.
Pictured: Niiiice beaver
Pictured: Frank's infection
Apr 9 - A psychic drone sets every female colonist's teeth on edge. Gasbandit is ambushed by 3 hares while hunting one of them, but bests them in fisticuffs with only minor injury.
Pictured: The bunnies around here are awfully bitey.
Apr 10 - The Psychic drone flips polarity, and instead of irritating females, it soothes males. PATRIARCHY. Way out in the woods, Eriol is attacked by a Timber Wolf. It takes him down, but gruebeard draws its attention before it can kill him. Eriol loses a finger, but it could have been a lot worse. Thynne carries him back to camp to be healed up. That night, another timberwolf attacks Gruebeard, but is killed before it does any real damage.
Pictured: Eriol is set upon by a wild wolf, and struggles to hold out until help arrives.
Pictured: Eriol in shock, nearly killed by the wolf - Gruebeard to the rescue.
Pictured: Eriol, rescued and tended by Thynne, recuperates in his new private room.
Apr 12 - A heat wave moves into the area, which is already struggling with heat and power outages. No traders have come, and mechanical components have run out. Dei, CeltZ, Bubbbles and GasBandit take the muffalos with some silver to a nearby town to buy some. They sell off the huge amounts of leather the colony has built up during hunting, and purchase components, medicine, steel, and a new shotgun for Dei. GasBandit longingly stares at a shiny new pulse rifle for sale, but decides they can't afford it.
Pictured: The caravan enroute to town
Apr 14 - On its way back, the HF caravan is attacked by mad hares. GasBandit is bitten. WHY ARE THE BUNNIES HERE SO BITEY
#6
SpecialKO
WHAT FUCKING PLANET HAVE YOU BROUGHT US TO?!!
SpecialKO
WHAT FUCKING PLANET HAVE YOU BROUGHT US TO?!!
#7
Soupy
Soupy
#8
GasBandit
GasBandit
#9
General Specific
Just no one tell my IRL wife, who's sitting on the couch next to me.
General Specific
Just no one tell my IRL wife, who's sitting on the couch next to me.
#10
Cheesy1
Cheesy1
Just because I want to use this picture again, Gas hunting the wabbits:
#11
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
#12
Eriol
Eriol
#13
PatrThom
PatrThom
#14
Frank
Frank
#16
Bubble181
Bubble181
Gruebeard to the rescue of Eriol - and with that, it was firmly established this is fiction and nothing like the Real World.
Also, damn you GenSpec!
Also, damn you GenSpec!
#17
Gryfter
Gryfter
#18
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#19
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
I swear to God if my fox bonds with anyone BUT ME, I will kill. 
EDIT: And his name is Count?? I'm in love! THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER!
EDIT: And his name is Count?? I'm in love! THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER!
#20
Siska
Siska
#21
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#22
GasBandit
What the trendy halforumite is wearing this year:
GasBandit
I think I finally got one for you last night. But yeah, I set the tailors to making cowboy hats and dusters as much as possible to help prevent heat stroke among the population.
What the trendy halforumite is wearing this year:
#23
Dei
Dei
I think you should spend the first hour of your stream today manually prioritizing tasks. Because if you're going to individually bond pets, you might as well take twice as long making everyone's double flame jobs their #1 priority. 
#24
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
I know what my Halloween costume is gonna be this year.What the trendy halforumite is wearing this year:
#25
Gruebeard
If the coat was a darker brown, and the hat had a flatter crown, that would be what I'm wearing this year.
And not just on Halloween
Gruebeard
Huh.I think I finally got one for you last night. But yeah, I set the tailors to making cowboy hats and dusters as much as possible to help prevent heat stroke among the population.
What the trendy halforumite is wearing this year:
If the coat was a darker brown, and the hat had a flatter crown, that would be what I'm wearing this year.
And not just on Halloween
#26
GasBandit
GasBandit
SOOOO much WUUUURKI think you should spend the first hour of your stream today manually prioritizing tasks. Because if you're going to individually bond pets, you might as well take twice as long making everyone's double flame jobs their #1 priority.
#27
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
#28
Dei
Dei
#29
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#30
Dirona
Dirona
Story time!
#31
GasBandit
GasBandit
Part 2 (doesn't really conform to any nice round date number)
Apr 14 - Klew attempts to tame a bear which is killing local wildlife. He fails catastrophically and it chases him. His wolf, Killer, tries to defend him, but the bear is too strong and rips off one of the wolf's paws. The militia comes to defend Klew, and the bear is killed and Killer rescued. Krisken passes out from heatstroke and is carried to bed. In order to help with the power strain during this heat wave, passive evaporative coolers are researched and ordered built in every room.
Pictured: Killer defends his master, as Klew flees
Pictured: No dog left behind
Pictured: Krisken is overcome by the sweltering 51 degree (123 F) heat
Apr 15 - BErt passes out from heatstroke. Zero finally overcomes his go-juice addiction while wandering in a mental break state, but it leaves him exhausted and starving. The heat wave finally subsides, but this is small comfort as now the summer proper is about to begin.
Pictured: Bert passes out
Pictured: Zero finally has the monkey off his back, but it has been a grueling process.
Jugust 1 - A local Boomalope goes mad and attacks the colony. The militia takes it out, but it starts a fire. A message is received from a friendly AI that there is a ship on planet that can take the colonists into space! But it is a very long, treacherous journey into the western mountains across a vast desert that will need lots of supplies. At least it's not at the north pole, I guess.
Pictured: The Message
Pictured: The blue house in the middle of the continent is us. The Purple flag on the west coast is the ship. You know, the one behind the gigantic mountain range on the other side of a desert the size of China, and the only pass through that mountain range is controlled by pirates.
Jug 2 - Killer gets a peg leg to replace his missing paw. BErt finally kicks his alcohol addiction, and feels much better about everything. 13 pirates arrive during a raid. Frank is downed, and there are moderate injuries all around, but Frank is rescued and nothing permanent is lost on anybody. The pirates are driven off. The downed pirates are finished off, and their weapons distributed among those with the skill but lacking the equipment to hunt.
Pictured: The Pirate raiders arrive
Pictured: The fight against the pirates
Jug 3 - Several Chunks of spacecraft fall in the vicinity. Free salvage!
Jug 4 - Construction begins of a wall around the colony to help defend from pirates and wild predators. It will take a good long while to complete.
Jug 6 - A pair of labradors decide they live with the colony now. Dei figures out how to fix all the wrong pet bonds so everybody gets the pet they wanted. Thanks, Dei!
Pictured: The corrected bonds
Jug 7 - Another swarm of alphabeavers, but they are hunted down without incident.
Jug 8 - For some reason, Pez gets really sad and wanders around all day instead of doing any work.
Jug 9 - The first layer of the wall is completed. A killbox is constructed at the main entrance. A poison ship lands outside the wall. The plan to lure the mechanoids to the killbox doesn't work, and a frontal assault must be attempted before the poison leeching out of it kills all the crops. Frank, with his new AR-15 assault rifle, keeps the mechanoids distracted with suppressing fire from the northeast, supported by Charon, Gas and Dei - while the bulk of the militia (with their shorter range pistols) flank the mechanoids from around behind their ship chunk to swarm them with rapid fire. Unfortunately, in the fight, Tinwhistler takes a charge-lance straight to the gut, gets a basketball-sized hole blown through his torso, and is dead before he hits the ground. GasBandit gets shot in the face with an inferno cannon, and is left with a nasty scar across his left eye. Null catches a minigun bullet in the eye, and it is irreperably damaged. This causes people to have a hard time looking at either of them. Tinwhistler is interred in an ornate sarcophagus in a cave on the south side of the colony. His pistol, and place on the line, is reassigned to Wasabi.
Pictured: The killbox, for all the good it did
Pictured: Sic Transit Gloria Tinwhistler
Jug 10 - The first caravan to come along has a myriad number of relatives of colonists among it - apparently other lifepods must have landed elsewhere on the planet. Null's mother, and Zero's, Pez's, and Hylian's sisters all come visiting along with the caravan. A mad boomalope attacks, but the militia easily puts it down.
Pictured: Family reunion
Pictured: Boomalope in the killbox, put out the fire!
Jug 11 - Null's labrador, Bellboy, is attacked by a timberwolf. Dirona's Lynx, Paddy, manages to keep it busy until help arrives, and the wolf is put down. Bellboy, unfortunately, has already lost an eye.
Jug 13 - The ancient unsettling structure to the north is finally cracked open, and the militia is ready for whatever is to come out. Or so they thought. A caterpillar mechanoid with an inferno cannon comes out blasting. Several colonists are set ablaze, including Thynne, who collapses while engulfed in flames. He is rescued by GenSpec, but he's going to have a facial scar, too. Moderate burns all around for everybody else. Things look to be going badly, until Dei and her Muffalo run forward, the muffalo tanking the mechanoid while Dei unloads on it with her shotgun. Finally the metal beast goes down. It is finally decided to name the faction and the colony, now that the local terrors are put to bed.
Pictured: Making it Official
The colony's relationship cloud - green is friendship, blue is romance. Higher intensity colors are stronger. Unfortunately this display doesn't show hair on people with hats, for some reason, so rest assured if you are wearing a hat your hair/beard is not really missing.
Pictured: Killer defends his master, as Klew flees
Pictured: No dog left behind
Pictured: Krisken is overcome by the sweltering 51 degree (123 F) heat
Apr 15 - BErt passes out from heatstroke. Zero finally overcomes his go-juice addiction while wandering in a mental break state, but it leaves him exhausted and starving. The heat wave finally subsides, but this is small comfort as now the summer proper is about to begin.
Pictured: Bert passes out
Pictured: Zero finally has the monkey off his back, but it has been a grueling process.
Jugust 1 - A local Boomalope goes mad and attacks the colony. The militia takes it out, but it starts a fire. A message is received from a friendly AI that there is a ship on planet that can take the colonists into space! But it is a very long, treacherous journey into the western mountains across a vast desert that will need lots of supplies. At least it's not at the north pole, I guess.
Pictured: The Message
Pictured: The blue house in the middle of the continent is us. The Purple flag on the west coast is the ship. You know, the one behind the gigantic mountain range on the other side of a desert the size of China, and the only pass through that mountain range is controlled by pirates.
Jug 2 - Killer gets a peg leg to replace his missing paw. BErt finally kicks his alcohol addiction, and feels much better about everything. 13 pirates arrive during a raid. Frank is downed, and there are moderate injuries all around, but Frank is rescued and nothing permanent is lost on anybody. The pirates are driven off. The downed pirates are finished off, and their weapons distributed among those with the skill but lacking the equipment to hunt.
Pictured: The Pirate raiders arrive
Pictured: The fight against the pirates
Jug 3 - Several Chunks of spacecraft fall in the vicinity. Free salvage!
Jug 4 - Construction begins of a wall around the colony to help defend from pirates and wild predators. It will take a good long while to complete.
Jug 6 - A pair of labradors decide they live with the colony now. Dei figures out how to fix all the wrong pet bonds so everybody gets the pet they wanted. Thanks, Dei!
Pictured: The corrected bonds
Jug 7 - Another swarm of alphabeavers, but they are hunted down without incident.
Jug 8 - For some reason, Pez gets really sad and wanders around all day instead of doing any work.
Jug 9 - The first layer of the wall is completed. A killbox is constructed at the main entrance. A poison ship lands outside the wall. The plan to lure the mechanoids to the killbox doesn't work, and a frontal assault must be attempted before the poison leeching out of it kills all the crops. Frank, with his new AR-15 assault rifle, keeps the mechanoids distracted with suppressing fire from the northeast, supported by Charon, Gas and Dei - while the bulk of the militia (with their shorter range pistols) flank the mechanoids from around behind their ship chunk to swarm them with rapid fire. Unfortunately, in the fight, Tinwhistler takes a charge-lance straight to the gut, gets a basketball-sized hole blown through his torso, and is dead before he hits the ground. GasBandit gets shot in the face with an inferno cannon, and is left with a nasty scar across his left eye. Null catches a minigun bullet in the eye, and it is irreperably damaged. This causes people to have a hard time looking at either of them. Tinwhistler is interred in an ornate sarcophagus in a cave on the south side of the colony. His pistol, and place on the line, is reassigned to Wasabi.
Pictured: The killbox, for all the good it did
Pictured: Sic Transit Gloria Tinwhistler
Jug 10 - The first caravan to come along has a myriad number of relatives of colonists among it - apparently other lifepods must have landed elsewhere on the planet. Null's mother, and Zero's, Pez's, and Hylian's sisters all come visiting along with the caravan. A mad boomalope attacks, but the militia easily puts it down.
Pictured: Family reunion
Pictured: Boomalope in the killbox, put out the fire!
Jug 11 - Null's labrador, Bellboy, is attacked by a timberwolf. Dirona's Lynx, Paddy, manages to keep it busy until help arrives, and the wolf is put down. Bellboy, unfortunately, has already lost an eye.
Jug 13 - The ancient unsettling structure to the north is finally cracked open, and the militia is ready for whatever is to come out. Or so they thought. A caterpillar mechanoid with an inferno cannon comes out blasting. Several colonists are set ablaze, including Thynne, who collapses while engulfed in flames. He is rescued by GenSpec, but he's going to have a facial scar, too. Moderate burns all around for everybody else. Things look to be going badly, until Dei and her Muffalo run forward, the muffalo tanking the mechanoid while Dei unloads on it with her shotgun. Finally the metal beast goes down. It is finally decided to name the faction and the colony, now that the local terrors are put to bed.
Pictured: Making it Official
The colony's relationship cloud - green is friendship, blue is romance. Higher intensity colors are stronger. Unfortunately this display doesn't show hair on people with hats, for some reason, so rest assured if you are wearing a hat your hair/beard is not really missing.
#32
Dei
Dei
#33
GasBandit
But yeah, he's a prima donna to be sure.
I also left out the part where
GasBandit
Well, it's more like Snuffles refuses to haul anything, especially a corpse, and since the artwork is done at the time of interring, that precludes him from decorating the sarcophagus.
But yeah, he's a prima donna to be sure.
I also left out the part where
I accidentally told Zappit to EAT Tinwhistler's corpse rather than inter it. Don't worry, Zap, I caught my error before you actually took a bite
#34
Celt Z
Celt Z
#35
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
I accidentally told Zappit to EAT Tinwhistler's corpse rather than inter it. Don't worry, Zap, I caught my error before you actually took a bite
wait..i'm dead already? :'(
#36
Emrys
Emrys
#37
Celt Z
Celt Z
#39
GasBandit
GasBandit
#40
Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
You say that like it's a bad thing.I accidentally told Zappit to EAT Tinwhistler's corpse rather than inter it. Don't worry, Zap, I caught my error before you actually took a bite
#41
figmentPez
figmentPez
#42
Dei
Dei
#43
GasBandit
GasBandit
#44
Adam
Adam
#45
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#46
klew
klew
#47
General Specific
General Specific
#48
GasBandit
GasBandit
#49
General Specific
General Specific
Awwww, face scars are cool. All I did was rescue someone from a fire...</humblebrag>
#50
Dei
Dei
#51
GasBandit
Anyway, like Dei says
GasBandit
In this game, facial scars count as disfigurement and cause a -15 penalty to your social standing with all the other colonists. Less "cool knife scar" and more "The Hound's horrifying burns." Null, Thynne, myself and a couple others now all have them. I'm in the process of trying to find enough plasteel to make bionic eye replacements for us, because bionic eyes aren't offputting at all, apparently.Awwww, face scars are cool. All I did was rescue someone from a fire...</humblebrag>
Anyway, like Dei says
#52
Emrys
Emrys
#53
Emrys
Emrys
#54
Dei
Dei
#55
Dave
Dave
I assume this means the relationship is off?
#57
Dei
Dei
#58
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE: RIMWORLD - PART 3
Jug 13, cotd - Dei's Muffalo, Juliette, miscarries due to injuries sustained fighting the crypt centipede. Dodge sets about burning a huge cache of Luciferium found in the crypt before anybody else can get into trouble with it. Charon's burns were not particularly well-dressed, and he contracts an infection.
Pictured: Dodge throwing luciferium in the fire as fast as he is safely able to do so.
Pictured: Evidence of Malpractice
Jug 14 - A group of lost Huskies join the colony.
Pictured: What I just said
Jug 15 - The groundwork is laid for an infirmary. No beds yet, but at least the colony will start to be able to manufacture its own medicine.
Septober 1 - Dave and Dei become lovers.
Pictured: Bow chicka wow wow
Sept 6 - Dolly, Far's husky, has two puppies, Celia and Newton. A boomrat goes mad. It attacks CynKat, and her Spelopede defends her. It blows up, setting both of them on fire. Fortunately, it is raining. Unfortunately, her face is disfigured by a scar. Another caravan must be sent to buy supplies. Frank, Bubble, Celt Z and Dei leave with the muffalo and all the sculptures they can carry.
Pictured: They call it a boomrat for a reason
Sept 7 - The caravan is attacked by 7 pirates. The Muffalo are critically injured, and the caravan has to stop and make camp. They're not too far out from home, though, so Terrik, Gas, and Jun head out to bring them medicine and food. Unfortunately, Dei's muffalo does not survive its blood loss, and Dei's own injuries become infected. The trip to town must be aborted, and the wounded must be carried home so they can heal safely.
Pictured: The ambush
Pictured: Trying to save the wounded. Terrik, Jun, and GasBandit arrive as reinforcements, and bring medicine.
Sept 8 - A pack of manhunting grizzly bears attacks the colony. The militia manages to take it down, though Grifter catches a friendly fire graze. Later that night, Far dumps Emrys at dinner. There is no apparent reason. She hates him now.
Pictured: Our defenses are BEARly adequate
Pictured: How's your food, hon? By the way, we're over.
Sept 10 - Silence, the last Muffalo, finally develops an immunity to its infection. It was a close call, but he will survive. The task of replacing Juliette, however, will be a long and arduous one. The cryptosleep caskets found in the ancient crypt are opened, inside are found a dead body, and a live person. Closer inspection of the live occupant reveals she is a luciferium addict (and a pyromaniac). A horrifying prospect. Fortunately, a pirate tradeship is in orbit, and both the addict and her stash of deadly luciferium are sold. Everyone's a little uncomfortable with the fact that they basically just sold someone into slavery.
Pictured: Cracking open some cold ones with the boys
Sept 11 - When he thinks nobody is looking, Ravenpoe butchers the dead body that was found in the crytposleep casket. Somebody noticed. Word spreads, and everyone (Except Wasabi) is horrified.
Pictured: Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!
Sept 12 - A cold snap rolls in. The crops are hurriedly harvested even before being fully grown, lest they die to the cold and be completely wasted. That night, Putt-Putt, JWhouk's husky, has a heart attack, but miraculously walks it off. Tough girl.
Sept 14 - The hard snows set in. Hopefully the colony has enough food to make it through the winter.
Sept 15 - The cold snap ends, but winter proper begins.
Decembruary 1 - A poison ship crashes out in the hinterlands and must be dealt with. There's not enough resources to make sandbags around it, so trees and rocks have to do for cover. The fight is violent and dangerous, and Snuffles takes a chargelance shot to the chest, destroying his sternum and his life. He is interred next to Tinwhistler in a sarcophagus, the artwork for which depicts Snuffles writing his masterwork novel, which is still in the storage room.
Pictured: The Setup
Pictured: Snuffles buys the farm
Dec 2 - Celt Z accepts GenSpec's marriage proposal. A rose garden is planted near the south wall to serve as a site for the ceremony
Pictured: social standings. Ignore the ravenpoe data, I didn't mean to have anybody selected when I took the screenshot and forgot.
Pictured: Dodge throwing luciferium in the fire as fast as he is safely able to do so.
Pictured: Evidence of Malpractice
Jug 14 - A group of lost Huskies join the colony.
Pictured: What I just said
Jug 15 - The groundwork is laid for an infirmary. No beds yet, but at least the colony will start to be able to manufacture its own medicine.
Septober 1 - Dave and Dei become lovers.
Pictured: Bow chicka wow wow
Sept 6 - Dolly, Far's husky, has two puppies, Celia and Newton. A boomrat goes mad. It attacks CynKat, and her Spelopede defends her. It blows up, setting both of them on fire. Fortunately, it is raining. Unfortunately, her face is disfigured by a scar. Another caravan must be sent to buy supplies. Frank, Bubble, Celt Z and Dei leave with the muffalo and all the sculptures they can carry.
Pictured: They call it a boomrat for a reason
Sept 7 - The caravan is attacked by 7 pirates. The Muffalo are critically injured, and the caravan has to stop and make camp. They're not too far out from home, though, so Terrik, Gas, and Jun head out to bring them medicine and food. Unfortunately, Dei's muffalo does not survive its blood loss, and Dei's own injuries become infected. The trip to town must be aborted, and the wounded must be carried home so they can heal safely.
Pictured: The ambush
Pictured: Trying to save the wounded. Terrik, Jun, and GasBandit arrive as reinforcements, and bring medicine.
Sept 8 - A pack of manhunting grizzly bears attacks the colony. The militia manages to take it down, though Grifter catches a friendly fire graze. Later that night, Far dumps Emrys at dinner. There is no apparent reason. She hates him now.
Pictured: Our defenses are BEARly adequate
Pictured: How's your food, hon? By the way, we're over.
Sept 10 - Silence, the last Muffalo, finally develops an immunity to its infection. It was a close call, but he will survive. The task of replacing Juliette, however, will be a long and arduous one. The cryptosleep caskets found in the ancient crypt are opened, inside are found a dead body, and a live person. Closer inspection of the live occupant reveals she is a luciferium addict (and a pyromaniac). A horrifying prospect. Fortunately, a pirate tradeship is in orbit, and both the addict and her stash of deadly luciferium are sold. Everyone's a little uncomfortable with the fact that they basically just sold someone into slavery.
Pictured: Cracking open some cold ones with the boys
Sept 11 - When he thinks nobody is looking, Ravenpoe butchers the dead body that was found in the crytposleep casket. Somebody noticed. Word spreads, and everyone (Except Wasabi) is horrified.
Pictured: Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!
Sept 12 - A cold snap rolls in. The crops are hurriedly harvested even before being fully grown, lest they die to the cold and be completely wasted. That night, Putt-Putt, JWhouk's husky, has a heart attack, but miraculously walks it off. Tough girl.
Sept 14 - The hard snows set in. Hopefully the colony has enough food to make it through the winter.
Sept 15 - The cold snap ends, but winter proper begins.
Decembruary 1 - A poison ship crashes out in the hinterlands and must be dealt with. There's not enough resources to make sandbags around it, so trees and rocks have to do for cover. The fight is violent and dangerous, and Snuffles takes a chargelance shot to the chest, destroying his sternum and his life. He is interred next to Tinwhistler in a sarcophagus, the artwork for which depicts Snuffles writing his masterwork novel, which is still in the storage room.
Pictured: The Setup
Pictured: Snuffles buys the farm
Dec 2 - Celt Z accepts GenSpec's marriage proposal. A rose garden is planted near the south wall to serve as a site for the ceremony
Pictured: social standings. Ignore the ravenpoe data, I didn't mean to have anybody selected when I took the screenshot and forgot.
#59
Gryfter
Gryfter
#60
jwhouk
jwhouk
#61
Hylian
Hylian
#62
GasBandit
GasBandit
#63
Far
Far
#64
GasBandit
GasBandit
#65
MindDetective
MindDetective
#66
GasBandit
GasBandit
#69
Far
Far
As sad as I am the relationship fizzled, when you said your rat would haunt me I thought I had killed it and was not looking forward to the repercussions of that!You will face the wrath of the rat!
<I still love you
#71
Dave
Dave
It all makes sense now! Sorry about last night, Dei!... Remember her quip about your wedding vows?
#72
Celt Z
Celt Z
I'm sad you didn't include the recap of my muffalo vengeance.
Looks like I went to bed too soon. GenSpec liked it so much, he's put a ring on it!
Looks like I went to bed too soon. GenSpec liked it so much, he's put a ring on it!
#73
Emrys
All by myself! Don't wanna be all by myself anymore!
Emrys
All by myself! Don't wanna be all by myself anymore!
#74
Dirona
Dirona
I'm picturing your doomie avatar singing that.
#75
Snuffleupagus
Snuffleupagus
#76
GasBandit
GasBandit
#77
Snuffleupagus
Snuffleupagus
#78
General Specific
General Specific
I'm sad you didn't include the recap of my muffalo vengeance.
Looks like I went to bed too soon. GenSpec liked it so much, he's put a ring on it!
#79
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#80
GasBandit
GasBandit
#81
Celt Z
Celt Z
#82
Dei
Dei
#83
Terrik
Terrik
#84
Dei
Dei
#85
jwhouk
jwhouk
#86
Terrik
Terrik
#87
WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
#88
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#89
PatrThom
PatrThom
#90
GasBandit
GasBandit
PART 4 - rounding out the year.
Dec 3 - A psychic wave sweeps over the area, soothing the mind of all male colonists. And then a group of pirate raiders arrive. Gryfter's father is among them. They break through the north wall, and a shootout commences. There's some injuries taken, but no casualties. Terrik gets hit by friendly fire from Frank. Frank himself absorbed a surprising amount of LMG fire. Celt Z was the one to gun down Gryfter's father, and in so doing earned the son's enmity. Dave's husky, "Puppy," who is actually full-grown, loses her tail. DarkAudit bandages Puppy up, and the two form a bond. As Dave has not done so yet, he gives the dog to DA. This victory means a good number of gun upgrades among the militia, including sniper rifles. Gas Bandit also pockets the grenades, and Terrik is given EMP grenades.
Pictured: Gryfter's dad IS the sapper.
Pictured: The aftermath of the fight
Dec 4 - As they convalesce, Dave pops the question to Dei. Bit soon there, don'tcha think? Dei certainly does, and turns him down. We shall see if their relationship survives.
Pictured: Maybe wait more than a week, Dave. Also maybe wait to ask when she's NOT in agony from gunshot wounds.
Dec 5 - A group of passing pilgrims has more surprise family members among them - Kags' father, and Zappit's.. WIFE?!
Dec 6 - Early in the morning, a solar flare knocks out all electric devices for most of the day. A cougar gets into the compound and attacks Bellboy, the lab. GasBandit and SpecialKO take it down. TommiR insults Poe, and they get into a fistfight in the dining hall. They beat each other up pretty good. Then around noon, Mind Detective insults Dirona and sets her off. They scuffle, and by the time it is over, she's torn off two fingers from his left hand! Yowza. It makes Dirona feel a little better, but MD is understandably pissed at her. Between the raids and the fights, the colony is running out of good medicine. There's plenty of herbal stuff left, and they could make some more real medkits if the cotton crop would just come in.
Pictured: Putting down the cougar
Poe v. TommiR:
Pictured: MD vs Dirona
Dec 8 - One of Bront and Putt-Putt's puppies, Debt, is eaten by a Warg. Paddy the lynx also suffers a wargbite. Bert and Bront go out to deal with the warg. The warg attacks when Bert's pistol fire first hits it, and he runs back toward the colony, with Bront biting at the warg as it chases his master. Charon finishes it off when BErt makes it back to the wall. That night, while both are out trying to tame boomrats, Zero insults Wasabi and she takes a swing at him. Unfortunately for her, Zero's much better at fisticuffs, and he takes a couple bumps while she needs medical treatment.
Pictured: Warg-garbl
Pictured: Warglbargle
Pictured: What, MORE of this??
Dec 9 - Ash clouds fill the sky. A volcanic winter chokes off the sun... right in the middle of regular winter. This could be a problem. Gruebeard and Kags become lovers and move in together. That night, Cog and Gryfter go at it. WHAT is WITH everybody lately?! Fortunately, they come to their senses pretty quickly, before any real injury occurs.
Pictured: Aw fuck.
Pictured: Grue and Kags - Tappin' it.
Pictured: MAYBE IT WOULD BE NICE IF EVERYBODY COULD MAYBE COOL OUT MAYBE
Dec 10 - A Muffalo herd wanders into the area. The colonists attempt to tame the females.
Pictured: Muffaloooooooooooo
Dec 11 - Early in the morning, a herd of maneating Caribou enter the area. The Militia tries to deal with them, but BErt foolishly goes out on his own, and is caught unawares. He is set upon by 3 caribou and stomped into unconsciousness. Once the threat is dealt with, Adam rescues him... but BErt has lost his left arm. One of the Muffalos are tamed, and Dei is made her master.
Pictured: Man. Eating. Caribou.
Pictured: Caribou GORRRRNN
Pictured: "Can't we talk about this, guys?" - BErt, moments before being stomped to paste
Pictured: Emrys and Dei visit Tin and Snuffles.
Dec 13 - A Boomrat goes mad, and charges into the colony way early in the morning. It attacks Frank, but when it is killed is when the most damage is done - it explodes all over him. Fortunately, the burns aren't too bad, and he just has to spend most of the day recouperating in the infirmary. He gets out just in time - a hostile tribal raid arrives and attacks! The dumb savages stumble across one of the trained boomalopes and get a face-full of fiery ouch for their numbskullery. Then they wander into the killbox and get a great big heapin' helpin of industrial tech in the form of a hail of gunfire, cutting down half of them before they are completely demoralized and flee. No Halforumites are wounded at all. Three captives are taken, with the intent to treat and release them to help bolster relations with the tribe.
Pictured: Frank go boom
Pictured: Oh shit. I don't think you can take them all on your own, SpecialKO.
Pictured: That'sa spicy-a meat-a-ball
Pictured: Hammer, meet nail
Dec 14 - Despite having a rose garden grown specifically for the purpose, Celt Z and GenSpec decide to hold their wedding ceremony in the dining hall. I guess that's where all the food is. Everyone has a grand time, and it's the social event of the year. A huge dent is put in the food reserves.
Pictured: Mawwaige. Mawwaige is what bwings us heah today.
Dec 15 - One of the captives dies of an infection. The other two were more successfully stabilized, and their release went some way to beginning to mend fences with their tribe. BErt and Emrys become lovers.
Pictured: Emrys, on the rebound
Aprimay 1, 5501 - Dave calls off the relationship with Dei, never having gotten over his proposal being rejected. The food supplies run out, and the emergency rations have to be invaded again.
Pictured: Dei-ve is no more
Pictured: Wow, first time seeing RED arrows on the social network layout...
Pictured: Gryfter's dad IS the sapper.
Pictured: The aftermath of the fight
Dec 4 - As they convalesce, Dave pops the question to Dei. Bit soon there, don'tcha think? Dei certainly does, and turns him down. We shall see if their relationship survives.
Pictured: Maybe wait more than a week, Dave. Also maybe wait to ask when she's NOT in agony from gunshot wounds.
Dec 5 - A group of passing pilgrims has more surprise family members among them - Kags' father, and Zappit's.. WIFE?!
Dec 6 - Early in the morning, a solar flare knocks out all electric devices for most of the day. A cougar gets into the compound and attacks Bellboy, the lab. GasBandit and SpecialKO take it down. TommiR insults Poe, and they get into a fistfight in the dining hall. They beat each other up pretty good. Then around noon, Mind Detective insults Dirona and sets her off. They scuffle, and by the time it is over, she's torn off two fingers from his left hand! Yowza. It makes Dirona feel a little better, but MD is understandably pissed at her. Between the raids and the fights, the colony is running out of good medicine. There's plenty of herbal stuff left, and they could make some more real medkits if the cotton crop would just come in.
Pictured: Putting down the cougar
Poe v. TommiR:
Pictured: MD vs Dirona
Dec 8 - One of Bront and Putt-Putt's puppies, Debt, is eaten by a Warg. Paddy the lynx also suffers a wargbite. Bert and Bront go out to deal with the warg. The warg attacks when Bert's pistol fire first hits it, and he runs back toward the colony, with Bront biting at the warg as it chases his master. Charon finishes it off when BErt makes it back to the wall. That night, while both are out trying to tame boomrats, Zero insults Wasabi and she takes a swing at him. Unfortunately for her, Zero's much better at fisticuffs, and he takes a couple bumps while she needs medical treatment.
Pictured: Warg-garbl
Pictured: Warglbargle
Pictured: What, MORE of this??
Dec 9 - Ash clouds fill the sky. A volcanic winter chokes off the sun... right in the middle of regular winter. This could be a problem. Gruebeard and Kags become lovers and move in together. That night, Cog and Gryfter go at it. WHAT is WITH everybody lately?! Fortunately, they come to their senses pretty quickly, before any real injury occurs.
Pictured: Aw fuck.
Pictured: Grue and Kags - Tappin' it.
Pictured: MAYBE IT WOULD BE NICE IF EVERYBODY COULD MAYBE COOL OUT MAYBE
Dec 10 - A Muffalo herd wanders into the area. The colonists attempt to tame the females.
Pictured: Muffaloooooooooooo
Dec 11 - Early in the morning, a herd of maneating Caribou enter the area. The Militia tries to deal with them, but BErt foolishly goes out on his own, and is caught unawares. He is set upon by 3 caribou and stomped into unconsciousness. Once the threat is dealt with, Adam rescues him... but BErt has lost his left arm. One of the Muffalos are tamed, and Dei is made her master.
Pictured: Man. Eating. Caribou.
Pictured: Caribou GORRRRNN
Pictured: "Can't we talk about this, guys?" - BErt, moments before being stomped to paste
Pictured: Emrys and Dei visit Tin and Snuffles.
Dec 13 - A Boomrat goes mad, and charges into the colony way early in the morning. It attacks Frank, but when it is killed is when the most damage is done - it explodes all over him. Fortunately, the burns aren't too bad, and he just has to spend most of the day recouperating in the infirmary. He gets out just in time - a hostile tribal raid arrives and attacks! The dumb savages stumble across one of the trained boomalopes and get a face-full of fiery ouch for their numbskullery. Then they wander into the killbox and get a great big heapin' helpin of industrial tech in the form of a hail of gunfire, cutting down half of them before they are completely demoralized and flee. No Halforumites are wounded at all. Three captives are taken, with the intent to treat and release them to help bolster relations with the tribe.
Pictured: Frank go boom
Pictured: Oh shit. I don't think you can take them all on your own, SpecialKO.
Pictured: That'sa spicy-a meat-a-ball
Pictured: Hammer, meet nail
Dec 14 - Despite having a rose garden grown specifically for the purpose, Celt Z and GenSpec decide to hold their wedding ceremony in the dining hall. I guess that's where all the food is. Everyone has a grand time, and it's the social event of the year. A huge dent is put in the food reserves.
Pictured: Mawwaige. Mawwaige is what bwings us heah today.
Dec 15 - One of the captives dies of an infection. The other two were more successfully stabilized, and their release went some way to beginning to mend fences with their tribe. BErt and Emrys become lovers.
Pictured: Emrys, on the rebound
Aprimay 1, 5501 - Dave calls off the relationship with Dei, never having gotten over his proposal being rejected. The food supplies run out, and the emergency rations have to be invaded again.
Pictured: Dei-ve is no more
Pictured: Wow, first time seeing RED arrows on the social network layout...
#91
Far
Far
#92
Dei
Dei
But who kept the bed?!PART 4 - rounding out the year.
Dec 3 - A psychic wave sweeps over the area, soothing the mind of all male colonists. And then a group of pirate raiders arrive. Gryfter's father is among them. They break through the north wall, and a shootout commences. There's some injuries taken, but no casualties. Terrik gets hit by friendly fire from Frank. Frank himself absorbed a surprising amount of LMG fire. Celt Z was the one to gun down Gryfter's father, and in so doing earned the son's enmity. Dave's husky, "Puppy," who is actually full-grown, loses her tail. DarkAudit bandages Puppy up, and the two form a bond. As Dave has not done so yet, he gives the dog to DA. This victory means a good number of gun upgrades among the militia, including sniper rifles. Gas Bandit also pockets the grenades, and Terrik is given EMP grenades.
Pictured: Gryfter's dad IS the sapper.
Pictured: The aftermath of the fight
Dec 4 - As they convalesce, Dave pops the question to Dei. Bit soon there, don'tcha think? Dei certainly does, and turns him down. We shall see if their relationship survives.
Pictured: Maybe wait more than a week, Dave. Also maybe wait to ask when she's NOT in agony from gunshot wounds.
Dec 5 - A group of passing pilgrims has more surprise family members among them - Kags' father, and Zappit's.. WIFE?!
Dec 6 - Early in the morning, a solar flare knocks out all electric devices for most of the day. A cougar gets into the compound and attacks Bellboy, the lab. GasBandit and SpecialKO take it down. TommiR insults Poe, and they get into a fistfight in the dining hall. They beat each other up pretty good. Then around noon, Mind Detective insults Dirona and sets her off. They scuffle, and by the time it is over, she's torn off two fingers from his left hand! Yowza. It makes Dirona feel a little better, but MD is understandably pissed at her. Between the raids and the fights, the colony is running out of good medicine. There's plenty of herbal stuff left, and they could make some more real medkits if the cotton crop would just come in.
Pictured: Putting down the cougar
Poe v. TommiR:
Pictured: MD vs Dirona
Dec 8 - One of Bront and Putt-Putt's puppies, Debt, is eaten by a Warg. Paddy the lynx also suffers a wargbite. Bert and Bront go out to deal with the warg. The warg attacks when Bert's pistol fire first hits it, and he runs back toward the colony, with Bront biting at the warg as it chases his master. Charon finishes it off when BErt makes it back to the wall. That night, while both are out trying to tame boomrats, Zero insults Wasabi and she takes a swing at him. Unfortunately for her, Zero's much better at fisticuffs, and he takes a couple bumps while she needs medical treatment.
Pictured: Warg-garbl
Pictured: Warglbargle
Pictured: What, MORE of this??
Dec 9 - Ash clouds fill the sky. A volcanic winter chokes off the sun... right in the middle of regular winter. This could be a problem. Gruebeard and Kags become lovers and move in together. That night, Cog and Gryfter go at it. WHAT is WITH everybody lately?! Fortunately, they come to their senses pretty quickly, before any real injury occurs.
Pictured: Aw fuck.
Pictured: Grue and Kags - Tappin' it.
Pictured: MAYBE IT WOULD BE NICE IF EVERYBODY COULD MAYBE COOL OUT MAYBE
Dec 10 - A Muffalo herd wanders into the area. The colonists attempt to tame the females.
Pictured: Muffaloooooooooooo
Dec 11 - Early in the morning, a herd of maneating Caribou enter the area. The Militia tries to deal with them, but BErt foolishly goes out on his own, and is caught unawares. He is set upon by 3 caribou and stomped into unconsciousness. Once the threat is dealt with, Adam rescues him... but BErt has lost his left arm. One of the Muffalos are tamed, and Dei is made her master.
Pictured: Man. Eating. Caribou.
Pictured: Caribou GORRRRNN
Pictured: "Can't we talk about this, guys?" - BErt, moments before being stomped to paste
Pictured: Emrys and Dei visit Tin and Snuffles.
Dec 13 - A Boomrat goes mad, and charges into the colony way early in the morning. It attacks Frank, but when it is killed is when the most damage is done - it explodes all over him. Fortunately, the burns aren't too bad, and he just has to spend most of the day recouperating in the infirmary. He gets out just in time - a hostile tribal raid arrives and attacks! The dumb savages stumble across one of the trained boomalopes and get a face-full of fiery ouch for their numbskullery. Then they wander into the killbox and get a great big heapin' helpin of industrial tech in the form of a hail of gunfire, cutting down half of them before they are completely demoralized and flee. No Halforumites are wounded at all. Three captives are taken, with the intent to treat and release them to help bolster relations with the tribe.
Pictured: Frank go boom
Pictured: Oh shit. I don't think you can take them all on your own, SpecialKO.
Pictured: That'sa spicy-a meat-a-ball
Pictured: Hammer, meet nail
Dec 14 - Despite having a rose garden grown specifically for the purpose, Celt Z and GenSpec decide to hold their wedding ceremony in the dining hall. I guess that's where all the food is. Everyone has a grand time, and it's the social event of the year. A huge dent is put in the food reserves.
Pictured: Mawwaige. Mawwaige is what bwings us heah today.
Dec 15 - One of the captives dies of an infection. The other two were more successfully stabilized, and their release went some way to beginning to mend fences with their tribe. BErt and Emrys become lovers.
Pictured: Emrys, on the rebound
Aprimay 1, 5501 - Dave calls off the relationship with Dei, never having gotten over his proposal being rejected. The food supplies run out, and the emergency rations have to be invaded again.
Pictured: Dei-ve is no more
Pictured: Wow, first time seeing RED arrows on the social network layout...
#93
BErt
BErt
#94
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#95
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#96
MindDetective
MindDetective
#97
Dave
Dave
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#99
Gryfter
Gryfter
#100
GasBandit
she's part of the militia but so far has avoided injury for the most part. Just living life, doing her jobs, and managing to be fairly happy. She's one of the few people who's good enough at medicine/crafting to make medkits, which is important. Also she's getting to be a pretty good hunter.[DOUBLEPOST=1501856217,1501855711][/DOUBLEPOST]
GasBandit
Not picking any fights and managing to not get shot
she's part of the militia but so far has avoided injury for the most part. Just living life, doing her jobs, and managing to be fairly happy. She's one of the few people who's good enough at medicine/crafting to make medkits, which is important. Also she's getting to be a pretty good hunter.[DOUBLEPOST=1501856217,1501855711][/DOUBLEPOST]
Dei's in the bed for the moment, but if she doesn't find somebody else to shack up with pretty quick, it's likely she'll have to move back down to a single, too, to make room for whoever the next couple is that needs it
#101
Cog
Cog
#102
Emrys
Emrys
#103
Adam
Adam
#104
GasBandit
GasBandit
#105
Dave
Dave
#107
Dave
Dave
#108
Bubble181
Bubble181
#109
Adam
Adam
#110
GasBandit
GasBandit
#111
Adam
Adam
Eat the women first!
And then potentially cannibalize them
And then potentially cannibalize them
#113
Dave
Dave
#114
MindDetective
MindDetective
#115
Dave
Dave
#116
Dirona
Dirona
#117
GasBandit
they're apparently under one of the workbenches in the shop or something... couldn't find em even to reattach them.
Good thing you don't need all your fingers to do research.
Speaking of research, building three research stations and having so many ardent researchers working day and night is making us SHRED through research. Right now, we've just passed the one year mark and have accomplished easily 5 years worth of research. That's good. Now if we only had the resources to make the things we research.
GasBandit
Especially on the night shift.[DOUBLEPOST=1501862290,1501862160][/DOUBLEPOST]
She did not
they're apparently under one of the workbenches in the shop or something... couldn't find em even to reattach them.Good thing you don't need all your fingers to do research.
Speaking of research, building three research stations and having so many ardent researchers working day and night is making us SHRED through research. Right now, we've just passed the one year mark and have accomplished easily 5 years worth of research. That's good. Now if we only had the resources to make the things we research.
#118
Terrik
Terrik
#119
GasBandit
GasBandit
#120
Dave
Dave
#121
Bubble181
Bubble181
#123
Emrys
Emrys
#127
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#128
TommiR
TommiR
#129
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#130
Frank
Frank
#131
GasBandit
GasBandit
#132
Frank
Frank
#134
Emrys
Emrys
#135
GasBandit
GasBandit
#136
General Specific
General Specific
#137
GasBandit
On the other hand, assuming some of the colony survives, it will drastically simplify escaping the planet before the planetkiller gets here
GasBandit
On the one hand, mass starvation is a horrific thing.
On the other hand, assuming some of the colony survives, it will drastically simplify escaping the planet before the planetkiller gets here
#138
Bubble181
Bubble181
#139
GasBandit
GasBandit
#140
Bubble181
Bubble181
#141
GasBandit
GasBandit
#142
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#143
GasBandit
I suppose it's also a bit murky because shooting at someone is not always a guaranteed kill unless a critical organ is destroyed. Commonly, a target is just "downed" where most often they will bleed out if not rescued/captured and their wounds tended. This is especially the case on low damage weapons like pistols, machine pistols, and SMGs. But Gryfter's father was not lucky, and the shot that downed him also killed him - shot from Celt Z's AR.
GasBandit
Well, *I* didn't code the damn thing
I suppose it's also a bit murky because shooting at someone is not always a guaranteed kill unless a critical organ is destroyed. Commonly, a target is just "downed" where most often they will bleed out if not rescued/captured and their wounds tended. This is especially the case on low damage weapons like pistols, machine pistols, and SMGs. But Gryfter's father was not lucky, and the shot that downed him also killed him - shot from Celt Z's AR.
#144
Dave
Dave
#145
jwhouk
jwhouk
#146
Dei
Dei
#147
Null
Null
#148
Celt Z
Celt Z
#149
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#150
Zappit
Zappit
So we're about to turn into a Brazilian soccer team. One misclick and I introduce the idea of corpse eating, trendsetter that I am.
And I get a wife that just suddenly drops out of the sky. Sigh - that's sadly accurate, because at this point that's probably the only way that would happen for me.
And I get a wife that just suddenly drops out of the sky. Sigh - that's sadly accurate, because at this point that's probably the only way that would happen for me.
#151
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#153
PatrThom
PatrThom
#154
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#156
Gryfter
Gryfter
#157
GasBandit
GasBandit
HalForums House:Rimworld - 5501, part 1
Apr 3 - The muffalo are hunted, and they turn violent, wounding PatrThom. A premature harvest is forced to get rice early for the low food crisis, it nets about 2000 rice.
Pictured: Pat drops his machine pistol as he flees the wooly stomping.
Apr 5 - Sara's... lover?? arrives as part of a visiting trade caravan
He's actually quite the looker.
Apr 6 - Reverent1 begins having an extramarital affair with Squidleybits, despite being married to NobleHippy. Bubble181 accidentally slights CynicalKat, and she starts a fight with him. It's short and lackluster, though it still will gladly waste a MEDKIT EACH. That night, a pirate sapper raid arrives. Pez's uncle is among them. Dave and Null get shot up pretty bad, but nothing permanent. Terrik loses a thumb. Pez's uncle is downed and captured. He actively participated in the raid, but didn't kill anyone... so there's a debate about what to do with him. He's kept in a bare, lightless room, and allowed food, medicine and visitors.
Pictured: LOTHARIO!
Pictured: a slapfight in the rice paddy
Pictured: the sapper raid is routed
Apr 7 - Ashburner gets the munchies and eats all the ambrosia fruit the colony has.
Apr 9 - Sated, Ashburner decides it's time to spark up, and goes on a smokeleaf binge. Of course, there's only the 5 joints to smoke that were taken off dead pirates...
Apr 10 - A wild boar goes mad and bites Emrys on the toe. It is shot by nearby colonists. Fortunately, Emrys doesn't lose her toe. Another sapper raid arrives. The colony softens them up on their approach with mortars. Dirona takes an ill-advised shortcut around the OUTSIDE of the wall and gets shot in the chest by sniper, destroying one of her lungs. Only one pirate even makes it to the front gate, the rest are pounded to hamburger by the mortars.
Pictured: Fire for Effect
Apr 11 - At 4 am, MikeRC is somehow motivated to throw a party in the dining hall. Attendance is understandably sparse, at first, but people arrive as they wake up. As if on cue, the volcanic ash disappears from the sky.
Pictured: the party that ended the winter
Apr 12 - Zero performs surgery successfully on BErt, fitting him with a bionic arm - the first bionic made by the colony.
Pictured: An historic surgery
Apr 13 - An exotic goods caravan visits, along with which come Pez's sister and Charon's.... crossdressing father? Most of the non-bonded animal offspring is sold, along with the boomalopes, a lot of art, and a few other things. A flatscreen TV is purchased for the infirmary. Oh, and glitterworld medicine and plasteel.
Pictured: Charon's dad is a sailor moon fan
Jugust 1 - GasBandit commits a slight against Dodge, and Dodge gives him five across the eyes. The ensuing scuffle hurts both pretty bad, but GasBandit ends up getting KTFO. Ironically, the catharis brought by the fight improves their relations with each other. MindDetective does a sub-standard job of patching Gas up. A heat wave moves into the area, pushing the temperatures above 50c.
Pictured: I DO RESPECT YOU BRO
Pictured: KAY OHHHHH
Jugust 2 - Jun successfully installs a bionic eye in Null, fixing his disfigurement and giving him sight beyond sight. A psychic ship part crashes far to the west... but not far enough. Krisken passes out from heatstroke and must be carried to his bed. Eriol prematurely triggers the mechanoids to pop out from their husk, and pays the price. In the desperate fight that follows, Reverent1 takes a charge lance shot through the spine and is paralyzed. Hylian's nose is shot off. Unfortunately, just as medical attention arrives for Eriol, he bleeds out.
Pictured: Krisken couldn't take the heat, and getting out of the kitchen didn't help.
Pictured: It was at that moment... Eriol knew... he fucked up.
Pictured: Shot through the spine, and you're to blame, you OH GOD HELP ME I CAN'T FEEL MY LEGS
Pictured: Eriol didn't make it.
Jugust 3 - A hunting trip goes awry when the deer herd fights back. Attempting to defend Mikerc, Frank accidentally shoots him. BErt is overrun by several angry deer. Bront valiantly defends his downed master. Eriol is buried in a sarcophagus, the artwork depicting him hunting a hare.
Pictured: Why's every critter always pickin' on BErt?
Pictured: Eriol's interment
Jugust 4 - Jun installs a bionic eye in Thynne, and Zero does the same for Gas Bandit. However, something goes catastrophically wrong during the surgery and Gas's face starts spurting blood. Zero frantically tries to stop the bleeding, and fortunately succeeds. The bionic eye goes to waste, however, and Gas is fairly pissed at Zero when he wakes up and learns what happened. A Solar flare disables all electric appliaces for the rest of the day.
Jugust 5 - Jun fixes up Hylian with some rhinoplasty and an artificial nose, so that she won't be afraid to show her face any more. Bolstered by her successes, she attempts to replace Reverent1's shattered spine with a bionic one. The operation is a rousing success - not only can Reverent1 walk again, but he can move and manipulate objects 20% faster than he could when he was whole. On a roll, she installs a bionic eye in CynicalKat, and then just to prove who's boss doc around here, she fixes Zero's blunder, and installs another bionic eye for GasBandit. That night, more relatives arrive with another trade caravan. It's a pity the Halforumites won't be able to take them all with them when they escape... IF they escape...
Jugust 8 - GasBandit was having a nice chat with Jun when all of a sudden she insults him viciously. Bereft of his senses, he attacks her. They both rough each other up a bit and then stop. How did this even come to pass?! By way of apology, Gas personally tends her bruises in the infirmary, though it's clear she now regards him with disdain. She continues to slight him as they both recouperate. So much for the master plan, eh Terrik?
Pictured: And they were getting along so nicely
Pictured: An olive branch
Jugust 10 - Wasabi gets roughed up by a wild boar she is hunting. Nothing too serious, but painful. As steel and plasteel is starting to get plentiful, construction begins on a ship. It'll be a long, long time before it is finished, though... but hopefully not much more than 10 years.
Jugust 12 - A sapper raid arrives in the night, and Null's brother and Bubble's father are with them. How bitter. The attack is crushed utterly, and neither survive. The injuries to the colonists are barely worth mentioning. Bubble now hates Mikerc feverently, and Null feels the same about Thynne.
Pictured: the raiders are slaughtered
Jug 13 - For some bizarre reason, Bert goes hunting at 3 am - without his dog. He hunts a megasloth, which rarely ever fight back. Well, guess what. It tears off his left leg and leaves him to bleed out in the rainy night. Mikerc manages to rescue him, and Null finishes off the sloth. Pez's father, Teddy "Longshank" Pezzleton, is finally talked around into joining by, surprisingly, Jun - who isn't even all that interested in social work to begin with. He's a good crafter and grower, but he's gonna have a hard road to win over the other colonists.
Pictured: "NOM" - Megasloth. "MY LEG" - BErt
Pictured: Longshank joins
Pictured: The social network as it stands at the end of Jugust, 5501
Pictured: Pat drops his machine pistol as he flees the wooly stomping.
Apr 5 - Sara's... lover?? arrives as part of a visiting trade caravan
He's actually quite the looker.
Apr 6 - Reverent1 begins having an extramarital affair with Squidleybits, despite being married to NobleHippy. Bubble181 accidentally slights CynicalKat, and she starts a fight with him. It's short and lackluster, though it still will gladly waste a MEDKIT EACH. That night, a pirate sapper raid arrives. Pez's uncle is among them. Dave and Null get shot up pretty bad, but nothing permanent. Terrik loses a thumb. Pez's uncle is downed and captured. He actively participated in the raid, but didn't kill anyone... so there's a debate about what to do with him. He's kept in a bare, lightless room, and allowed food, medicine and visitors.
Pictured: LOTHARIO!
Pictured: a slapfight in the rice paddy
Pictured: the sapper raid is routed
Apr 7 - Ashburner gets the munchies and eats all the ambrosia fruit the colony has.
Apr 9 - Sated, Ashburner decides it's time to spark up, and goes on a smokeleaf binge. Of course, there's only the 5 joints to smoke that were taken off dead pirates...
Apr 10 - A wild boar goes mad and bites Emrys on the toe. It is shot by nearby colonists. Fortunately, Emrys doesn't lose her toe. Another sapper raid arrives. The colony softens them up on their approach with mortars. Dirona takes an ill-advised shortcut around the OUTSIDE of the wall and gets shot in the chest by sniper, destroying one of her lungs. Only one pirate even makes it to the front gate, the rest are pounded to hamburger by the mortars.
Pictured: Fire for Effect
Apr 11 - At 4 am, MikeRC is somehow motivated to throw a party in the dining hall. Attendance is understandably sparse, at first, but people arrive as they wake up. As if on cue, the volcanic ash disappears from the sky.
Pictured: the party that ended the winter
Apr 12 - Zero performs surgery successfully on BErt, fitting him with a bionic arm - the first bionic made by the colony.
Pictured: An historic surgery
Apr 13 - An exotic goods caravan visits, along with which come Pez's sister and Charon's.... crossdressing father? Most of the non-bonded animal offspring is sold, along with the boomalopes, a lot of art, and a few other things. A flatscreen TV is purchased for the infirmary. Oh, and glitterworld medicine and plasteel.
Pictured: Charon's dad is a sailor moon fan
Jugust 1 - GasBandit commits a slight against Dodge, and Dodge gives him five across the eyes. The ensuing scuffle hurts both pretty bad, but GasBandit ends up getting KTFO. Ironically, the catharis brought by the fight improves their relations with each other. MindDetective does a sub-standard job of patching Gas up. A heat wave moves into the area, pushing the temperatures above 50c.
Pictured: I DO RESPECT YOU BRO
Pictured: KAY OHHHHH
Jugust 2 - Jun successfully installs a bionic eye in Null, fixing his disfigurement and giving him sight beyond sight. A psychic ship part crashes far to the west... but not far enough. Krisken passes out from heatstroke and must be carried to his bed. Eriol prematurely triggers the mechanoids to pop out from their husk, and pays the price. In the desperate fight that follows, Reverent1 takes a charge lance shot through the spine and is paralyzed. Hylian's nose is shot off. Unfortunately, just as medical attention arrives for Eriol, he bleeds out.
Pictured: Krisken couldn't take the heat, and getting out of the kitchen didn't help.
Pictured: It was at that moment... Eriol knew... he fucked up.
Pictured: Shot through the spine, and you're to blame, you OH GOD HELP ME I CAN'T FEEL MY LEGS
Pictured: Eriol didn't make it.
Jugust 3 - A hunting trip goes awry when the deer herd fights back. Attempting to defend Mikerc, Frank accidentally shoots him. BErt is overrun by several angry deer. Bront valiantly defends his downed master. Eriol is buried in a sarcophagus, the artwork depicting him hunting a hare.
Pictured: Why's every critter always pickin' on BErt?
Pictured: Eriol's interment
Jugust 4 - Jun installs a bionic eye in Thynne, and Zero does the same for Gas Bandit. However, something goes catastrophically wrong during the surgery and Gas's face starts spurting blood. Zero frantically tries to stop the bleeding, and fortunately succeeds. The bionic eye goes to waste, however, and Gas is fairly pissed at Zero when he wakes up and learns what happened. A Solar flare disables all electric appliaces for the rest of the day.
Jugust 5 - Jun fixes up Hylian with some rhinoplasty and an artificial nose, so that she won't be afraid to show her face any more. Bolstered by her successes, she attempts to replace Reverent1's shattered spine with a bionic one. The operation is a rousing success - not only can Reverent1 walk again, but he can move and manipulate objects 20% faster than he could when he was whole. On a roll, she installs a bionic eye in CynicalKat, and then just to prove who's boss doc around here, she fixes Zero's blunder, and installs another bionic eye for GasBandit. That night, more relatives arrive with another trade caravan. It's a pity the Halforumites won't be able to take them all with them when they escape... IF they escape...
Jugust 8 - GasBandit was having a nice chat with Jun when all of a sudden she insults him viciously. Bereft of his senses, he attacks her. They both rough each other up a bit and then stop. How did this even come to pass?! By way of apology, Gas personally tends her bruises in the infirmary, though it's clear she now regards him with disdain. She continues to slight him as they both recouperate. So much for the master plan, eh Terrik?
Pictured: And they were getting along so nicely
Pictured: An olive branch
Jugust 10 - Wasabi gets roughed up by a wild boar she is hunting. Nothing too serious, but painful. As steel and plasteel is starting to get plentiful, construction begins on a ship. It'll be a long, long time before it is finished, though... but hopefully not much more than 10 years.
Jugust 12 - A sapper raid arrives in the night, and Null's brother and Bubble's father are with them. How bitter. The attack is crushed utterly, and neither survive. The injuries to the colonists are barely worth mentioning. Bubble now hates Mikerc feverently, and Null feels the same about Thynne.
Pictured: the raiders are slaughtered
Jug 13 - For some bizarre reason, Bert goes hunting at 3 am - without his dog. He hunts a megasloth, which rarely ever fight back. Well, guess what. It tears off his left leg and leaves him to bleed out in the rainy night. Mikerc manages to rescue him, and Null finishes off the sloth. Pez's father, Teddy "Longshank" Pezzleton, is finally talked around into joining by, surprisingly, Jun - who isn't even all that interested in social work to begin with. He's a good crafter and grower, but he's gonna have a hard road to win over the other colonists.
Pictured: "NOM" - Megasloth. "MY LEG" - BErt
Pictured: Longshank joins
Pictured: The social network as it stands at the end of Jugust, 5501
#158
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#159
Gryfter
Gryfter
#160
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#161
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#162
GasBandit
GasBandit
#163
PatrThom
PatrThom
#164
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
This is what I don't get. The dude is coming to kill us. Doesn't matter that he's a "relation," he's coming to kill us. Would he have gone after Bubble or not? Mike saved your stranded ass, too. So lay off the hate and be grateful.
#165
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#166
GasBandit
GasBandit
#167
Dirona
Dirona
#168
GasBandit
GasBandit
#169
mikerc
mikerc
#171
MindDetective
MindDetective
#173
GasBandit
[DOUBLEPOST=1501958137][/DOUBLEPOST]Double checked, yep you did.
GasBandit
Might be something to that.[DOUBLEPOST=1501958054,1501958041][/DOUBLEPOST]
Maybe you did, I forgetI thought I did?
[DOUBLEPOST=1501958137][/DOUBLEPOST]Double checked, yep you did.
#174
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#175
GasBandit
GasBandit
#177
Sara_2814
Sara_2814
Hellooooooo, Nurse!Apr 5 - Sara's... lover?? arrives as part of a visiting trade caravan
#178
BErt
BErt
#179
Emrys
Emrys
#180
PatrThom
PatrThom
#181
Eriol
I thought I'd be more of a "homebody" with the construction focus so stuff like this wouldn't happen!
Eriol
I thought I'd be more of a "homebody" with the construction focus so stuff like this wouldn't happen!
#182
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
I'm sorry that your mini-me (mini-you?) didn't make it.[DOUBLEPOST=1501988910,1501988567][/DOUBLEPOST]
I thought I'd be more of a "homebody" with the construction focus so stuff like this wouldn't happen!
What a roller coaster!! Other than the super gratuitous violence, this is some serious 90210 quality drama here! Including affairs, feuds and surprise family members!
#183
General Specific
General Specific
I certainly seem toHey, people like me that way! Look at those green arrows!
#184
GasBandit
GasBandit
Buckle up kids, it's been a wild year.
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - The end of 5501
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - The end of 5501
Jugust 14 - BErt gets a bionic leg to match his bionic arm. How many more animal-related mishaps before he is all machine, I wonder?
Pictured: Above.
Pictured: Surgery, then a game of horseshoes, yes?
Jugust 15 - A chunk of spacecraft falls through the roof over some grain storage. Thankfully it's not the kind that has mechanoids in it.
Pictured: Somebody order some orbital debris?
Septober 1 - I shouldn't have mentioned Mechanoids. A pack of them attack from the west. Cog obliviously goes outside a side entrance and unwittingly attracts the attention of a scyther. He gets shot full of holes, and loses a foot. CynicalKat almost loses a leg defending the main entrance. Wasabi gets too stressed out and just kind of wanders off.
Pictured: DESTROY ALL HUMANS
Pictured: Cog becomes the hunted.
Sept 2 - Zero manages to not fuck up installing Cog's bionic foot.
Sept 4 - Cheesy has a major depressive episode and goes on an eating binge.
Pictured: Fuck this farming shit, Imma eat my weight in rice.
Sept 6 - A new leisure hall is constructed. The card table is a big hit.
Pictured: I'll see your bet, and raise you 50.
Sept 7 - Gruebeard proposes to Kags, and she accepts. I smell another winter wedding. Good thing we're stocked up on food. BErt goes hunting another Megasloth, and it rips his right foot off. Bront tries to defend him, but gets his tail bitten off as well.
Pictured: Kagsbeard? Gruekags?
Pictured: WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO BERT
Sept 8 - Jun installs BErt's new bionic food. How much longer before he is more machine than man?!
Sept 9 - The colony is attacked by 38 man-eating deer. In the ensuing battle, Mikerc hits Pez with friendly fire - in the head, and he's killed instantly. BErt loses an eye. Reverent1 also gets hit in the eye, and while it isn't a total loss, it's almost as good as gone. Hylian has an ear torn off. Most of the injuries among the colonists come from friendly fire, actually - and it's a big morale dump.
Pictured: Carnage and loss.
Sept 10 - Frank insults Celt Z, and she plays him a little chin music. The fight is over before anybody's seriously hurt, and it comes out about even - what with Keltsy being better at melee, but Frank wearing armor. Pez is interred in an artful sandstone sarcophagus.
Pictured: Celt Z v. Frank
Sept 11 - a Poison ship crashes out west. It is bombarded with mortars, and the scythers rush into the killbox to be destroyed. The Caterpillars, however, are hit by mortars and thus move too slowly to get to the killbox, but are still too dangerous to charge out from behind cover. The bombardment of them continues well into the night. Bubble insults Gruebeard and it kicks off another fight. Hylian gets a bionic ear. Mikerc tries to install BErt's bionic eye but fails catastrophically, causing more harm. Meanwhile, every single thing that can be researched has been researched.
Pictured: Bubble v. Grue
Pictured: "I don't know, I wasn't there, he just started spurting blood on his own" - Mikerc
Sept 13 - Reverent1 gets a bionic eye. He hasn't seen this well in years.
Sept 14 - Emrys' pet rat, Blood, is eaten by a grizzly bear. The bear is hunted down, but the damage is done.
Pictured: A rat is lost
Decembruary 2 - Far slights Null. A few blows are exchanged, but the fight is not prolonged. Emrys gets food poisoning and vomits all over the place.
Pictured: Null, Far, wherever you are
Pictured: "Somebody hold my hair!" -Emrys
Dec 3 - An exotic goods trader passes by with a human lung on ice. It is purchased for Dirona.
Dec 4 - Mechanoids attack the colony again. Reverent1 takes an idiotic shortcut OUTSIDE the wall to get to the killbox and is shot dead by a charge lance to the chest. Now neither NobleHippy OR Squidley gets him, and they're both really upset about it. Mikerc's arm gets shot off. A cold snap moves in during the fight.
Pictured: Reverent1's lechery is ended, rather permanently.
Dec 5 - Zero botches Dirona's lung surgery so badly he nearly kills her. She's in the hospital for a long, long time. And the lung went to waste. Jun installs a bionic arm on Mikerc with no difficulty.
Pictured: ZERO. How do you fail a lung transplant so badly that you CRACK HER PELVIS? What'd you do, FALL ON HER?
Dec 6 - Called it. Gruebeard and Kags' wedding takes place in the dining hall. That night, pirate sappers arrive. PatrThom's father is among them. Dave gets his arm blown off. PatrThom's father is captured.
Pictured: Wuv, TWOO wuv... chewish your wuv...
Dec 7 - Jun installs Dave's bionic arm.
Dec 10 - Cheesy1 gets struck by lightning and is hospitalized. CynicalKat begins having an extramarital affair with Patrthom.
Pictured: The institution of marriage is a sham.
Dec 13 - Null and Dei become lovers.
Dec 14 - a poison ship crashes right in the fucking middle of the compound, narrowly missing destroying two storage pavilions. A defensive barrier is hastily constructed, and the militia attempts to deal with it. It's an ugly scene, Mikerc and GasBandit are severely wounded. SpecialKO loses his nose and an ear. Gryfter loses a foot.
Pictured: AVON CALLING, MEATSACKS.
Pictured: The bloody aftermath.
Dec 15 - Wasabi can't deal with being in the hospital and goes on a food binge. Zero manages not to fuck up installing Gryfter's bionic foot.
Aprimay 1, 5502 - SpecialKO gets a new artificial nose and bionic ear, courtesy of Jun.
State of the Colony: Food is no longer an issue. We're drowning in food. We also have plenty of access to the more mundane of building materials - wood is plentiful, and we're able to drill for steel and plasteel. The problem we face now is we need uranium - and a lot of it - to build a ship reactor and the ship's cryptosleep pods. I've been keeping an eye out on traders, but they've been kinda scarce and none of them have brought uranium. I'm starting to think we're going to have to send caravans to the surrounding towns looking to buy everything we can, AND possibly send mining groups to camp out in the mountains and try to find uranium there. We've got a good beginning to a muffalo herd, so that's helpful for caravaning.
Social outlook:
Pictured: Above.
Pictured: Surgery, then a game of horseshoes, yes?
Jugust 15 - A chunk of spacecraft falls through the roof over some grain storage. Thankfully it's not the kind that has mechanoids in it.
Pictured: Somebody order some orbital debris?
Septober 1 - I shouldn't have mentioned Mechanoids. A pack of them attack from the west. Cog obliviously goes outside a side entrance and unwittingly attracts the attention of a scyther. He gets shot full of holes, and loses a foot. CynicalKat almost loses a leg defending the main entrance. Wasabi gets too stressed out and just kind of wanders off.
Pictured: DESTROY ALL HUMANS
Pictured: Cog becomes the hunted.
Sept 2 - Zero manages to not fuck up installing Cog's bionic foot.
Sept 4 - Cheesy has a major depressive episode and goes on an eating binge.
Pictured: Fuck this farming shit, Imma eat my weight in rice.
Sept 6 - A new leisure hall is constructed. The card table is a big hit.
Pictured: I'll see your bet, and raise you 50.
Sept 7 - Gruebeard proposes to Kags, and she accepts. I smell another winter wedding. Good thing we're stocked up on food. BErt goes hunting another Megasloth, and it rips his right foot off. Bront tries to defend him, but gets his tail bitten off as well.
Pictured: Kagsbeard? Gruekags?
Pictured: WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO BERT
Sept 8 - Jun installs BErt's new bionic food. How much longer before he is more machine than man?!
Sept 9 - The colony is attacked by 38 man-eating deer. In the ensuing battle, Mikerc hits Pez with friendly fire - in the head, and he's killed instantly. BErt loses an eye. Reverent1 also gets hit in the eye, and while it isn't a total loss, it's almost as good as gone. Hylian has an ear torn off. Most of the injuries among the colonists come from friendly fire, actually - and it's a big morale dump.
Pictured: Carnage and loss.
Sept 10 - Frank insults Celt Z, and she plays him a little chin music. The fight is over before anybody's seriously hurt, and it comes out about even - what with Keltsy being better at melee, but Frank wearing armor. Pez is interred in an artful sandstone sarcophagus.
Pictured: Celt Z v. Frank
Sept 11 - a Poison ship crashes out west. It is bombarded with mortars, and the scythers rush into the killbox to be destroyed. The Caterpillars, however, are hit by mortars and thus move too slowly to get to the killbox, but are still too dangerous to charge out from behind cover. The bombardment of them continues well into the night. Bubble insults Gruebeard and it kicks off another fight. Hylian gets a bionic ear. Mikerc tries to install BErt's bionic eye but fails catastrophically, causing more harm. Meanwhile, every single thing that can be researched has been researched.
Pictured: Bubble v. Grue
Pictured: "I don't know, I wasn't there, he just started spurting blood on his own" - Mikerc
Sept 13 - Reverent1 gets a bionic eye. He hasn't seen this well in years.
Sept 14 - Emrys' pet rat, Blood, is eaten by a grizzly bear. The bear is hunted down, but the damage is done.
Pictured: A rat is lost
Decembruary 2 - Far slights Null. A few blows are exchanged, but the fight is not prolonged. Emrys gets food poisoning and vomits all over the place.
Pictured: Null, Far, wherever you are
Pictured: "Somebody hold my hair!" -Emrys
Dec 3 - An exotic goods trader passes by with a human lung on ice. It is purchased for Dirona.
Dec 4 - Mechanoids attack the colony again. Reverent1 takes an idiotic shortcut OUTSIDE the wall to get to the killbox and is shot dead by a charge lance to the chest. Now neither NobleHippy OR Squidley gets him, and they're both really upset about it. Mikerc's arm gets shot off. A cold snap moves in during the fight.
Pictured: Reverent1's lechery is ended, rather permanently.
Dec 5 - Zero botches Dirona's lung surgery so badly he nearly kills her. She's in the hospital for a long, long time. And the lung went to waste. Jun installs a bionic arm on Mikerc with no difficulty.
Pictured: ZERO. How do you fail a lung transplant so badly that you CRACK HER PELVIS? What'd you do, FALL ON HER?
Dec 6 - Called it. Gruebeard and Kags' wedding takes place in the dining hall. That night, pirate sappers arrive. PatrThom's father is among them. Dave gets his arm blown off. PatrThom's father is captured.
Pictured: Wuv, TWOO wuv... chewish your wuv...
Dec 7 - Jun installs Dave's bionic arm.
Dec 10 - Cheesy1 gets struck by lightning and is hospitalized. CynicalKat begins having an extramarital affair with Patrthom.
Pictured: The institution of marriage is a sham.
Dec 13 - Null and Dei become lovers.
Dec 14 - a poison ship crashes right in the fucking middle of the compound, narrowly missing destroying two storage pavilions. A defensive barrier is hastily constructed, and the militia attempts to deal with it. It's an ugly scene, Mikerc and GasBandit are severely wounded. SpecialKO loses his nose and an ear. Gryfter loses a foot.
Pictured: AVON CALLING, MEATSACKS.
Pictured: The bloody aftermath.
Dec 15 - Wasabi can't deal with being in the hospital and goes on a food binge. Zero manages not to fuck up installing Gryfter's bionic foot.
Aprimay 1, 5502 - SpecialKO gets a new artificial nose and bionic ear, courtesy of Jun.
State of the Colony: Food is no longer an issue. We're drowning in food. We also have plenty of access to the more mundane of building materials - wood is plentiful, and we're able to drill for steel and plasteel. The problem we face now is we need uranium - and a lot of it - to build a ship reactor and the ship's cryptosleep pods. I've been keeping an eye out on traders, but they've been kinda scarce and none of them have brought uranium. I'm starting to think we're going to have to send caravans to the surrounding towns looking to buy everything we can, AND possibly send mining groups to camp out in the mountains and try to find uranium there. We've got a good beginning to a muffalo herd, so that's helpful for caravaning.
Social outlook:
#185
Cheesy1
Cheesy1
#186
BErt
BErt
...everything is going according to plan. Shed ALL the limbs!
@Emrys, will you still love me when I'm an android? Also, I'm sorry for your loss ::hugs::
@Emrys, will you still love me when I'm an android? Also, I'm sorry for your loss
::hugs::
#187
figmentPez
figmentPez
NOOOOOO! I wanted RimKags and RimPez to become friends!
#189
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
That was so sad
And Jun's a beast in the OR, she should be at all the surgeries!
And Jun's a beast in the OR, she should be at all the surgeries!
#190
Far
Far
#191
CynicalKat
CynicalKat
Welp, lets just hope I'm sneaky 
#192
Emrys
Emrys
Blood! Noooooooo! I want a rug made from that bear's hide.[DOUBLEPOST=1502068101,1502068035][/DOUBLEPOST]
As long as you come with rechargeable batteries.
#194
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
Thank God for Jun! 
#195
Dirona
Dirona
#196
Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
#197
WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
#198
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
IM HONESTLY SO DISTRAUGHT.NOOOOOO! I wanted RimKags and RimPez to become friends!
#200
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#201
Bubble181
Why do the good guys never get the girl, huh? Are women just that stupid?!
[DOUBLEPOST=1502102582,1502102260][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, that's, like, the second person to get killed over taking a shortcut outside the base. Have you considered closing the backdoor?
Bubble181
Well, he shouldn't have stolen my girl. Admittedly, I hadn't actually ever talked to her, but in my heart, I knew she was right for me! I've been holding doors open for her and doffing my hat and everything!
Why do the good guys never get the girl, huh? Are women just that stupid?!
[DOUBLEPOST=1502102582,1502102260][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, that's, like, the second person to get killed over taking a shortcut outside the base. Have you considered closing the backdoor?
#202
MindDetective
MindDetective
#203
GasBandit
GasBandit
Not everybody's always inside when the raid begins, and I don't always see it until they head for the front gate. Locking the posterns would make it even worse, then they'd have nowhere else to get back in.Also, that's, like, the second person to get killed over taking a shortcut outside the base. Have you considered closing the backdoor?
#204
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#205
Gryfter
Gryfter
#206
PatrThom
PatrThom
#207
Gryfter
Gryfter
#208
GasBandit
GasBandit
#209
Cog
Cog
#210
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#212
GasBandit
GasBandit
#213
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#214
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
#215
GasBandit
But even after that... a lot can happen in 10 years. And then this is all over, one way or another...[DOUBLEPOST=1502129561,1502129532][/DOUBLEPOST]
GasBandit
Guess you'll have to wait til this afternoon's update to find out
But even after that... a lot can happen in 10 years. And then this is all over, one way or another...[DOUBLEPOST=1502129561,1502129532][/DOUBLEPOST]
Well, at least you're not in the militia... yet. Hrmm... it does have some vacancies to fill, now...
#216
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#217
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
Guess you'll have to wait til this afternoon's update to find out
But even after that... a lot can happen in 10 years. And then this is all over, one way or another...[DOUBLEPOST=1502129561,1502129532][/DOUBLEPOST]
Well, at least you're not in the militia... yet. Hrmm... it does have some vacancies to fill, now...
#218
GasBandit
GasBandit
#219
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
#220
Eriol
Eriol
#221
Bubble181
Bubble181
#222
GasBandit
GasBandit
#223
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD, year 5502 part 1
Aprimay 3, 5502 - Adam completes an excellent sculpture of Null and Dei "gamboling between the sheets." It is installed in the main courtyard for everyone to enjoy.
Apr 4 - A caravan is sent to the nearest town to look for uranium.
Apr 5 - The caravan is attacked by 7 pirates right outside the allied town. Half the pirates are killed and the rest driven off, with moderate to light wounds among the caravaneers. Adam and Zero get into a fight. When the caravan reaches the town, there is no Uranium for sale. But there is gold, which is needed too, and chickens and roosters! New food source, ahoy! Hope everybody likes eggs.
Pictured: The Ambush
Pictured: Adam v. Zero
Apr 6 - Luckily, another Exotic trade ship hits orbit, with another lung. Another 2000 silver for another crack at fixing up Dirona.
Apr 8 - Dave hunts a dangerous grizzly in the area. He kills it, but gets a little shredded in return. Nothing permanent, though. Wasabi gets so upset that she "had" to eat standing up because "it was too far to the dining hall" and goes to sulk in her room for an entire day. Jun transplants the new lung into Dirona with no difficulty whatsoever. Word comes down that Zappit's brother, Bret Pitt, has died. The news saddens him, and he goes off on his own to mope.
Pictured: A summary sheet of Wasabi's living hell
Pictured: Note the distinct lack of pelvic fractures
Apr 9 - Another grizzly bear comes all the way into the colony, but it is shot down by multiple colonists before it can hurt anything.
Apr 12 - a pack of 27 man-eating lynx enter the area. CynicalKat is cut down in a hail of friendly fire from Klew. For that matter, there are heavy injuries all around, Squidley's nose has been bitten off and Terrik has lost a leg. Megumi the Spelopede loses its mind in anguish and becomes a manhunter as well, attacking other colonists. It starts by attacking Cog and JWhouk, who flee into the dining hall. Krisken unknowingly opens the door and lets Megumi in, then flees himself. Soupy is left to deal with it with his knife until the militia gets back from the front gate. DarkAudit runs to help him. Between the two of them, they put the poor insect down. The vast majority of the injuries in this fight were friendly fire, and tensions are high.
Pictured: Uh... this... can't be good.
Pictured: The fall of CynicalKat
Pictured: Megumi's last stand
Apr 13 - Squidley throws an unreasonble hissyfit in the middle of eating for being SO HUNGRY and she can't feed herself fast enough. Ironically, this prevents her from eating and makes everything worse. A red fox slips into the compound in the confusion and attacks a muffalo calf. Celt Z tries to save it, but her aim is terrible... not only does she fail entirely to hit the fox, she actually hits the calf. The Fox leisurely eats the calf while Celt Z completely ineffectively fires at it. It is only brought down when it finishes eating.
Pictured: The failure of Celt Z
Apr 14 - Jun fixes up Squidley with an artificial nose. Her broken heart, however, is beyond Jun's arts. Terrik also gets a bionic leg installed by his wife. Moffa is put in charge of interring CynicalKat in her sarcophagus, and he has no chill and minces no words - the artwork depicts Klew viciously and intentionally murdering her without remorse.
Jugust 2 - Clearly, caravanning is not getting us any Uranium. Moffa, Cheesy, Cog, and Zero are launched in transport pods with ample provisions to set up a mining camp to the north, where they can prospect for the stuff. Klew is wounded by gunfire from Celt Z, ostensibly in a hunting accident. "I was shooting at the Ibex" swears Celt Z. Klew has lost his ear. Mikerc and BErt go at it when BErt lets an insult fly. Both walk away with bruises.
Pictured: Where's the Ibex?
Pictured: Mikerc v. BErt
Pictured: Establishing a mining camp
Jug 3 - Gruebeard is the one to install Klew's bionic ear, as nobody else is really happy with him at all.
Jug 4 - Jun ameliorates Bubbles' bad back by implanting him with a bionic spine. Now he's better than he's ever been.
Pictured: Meanwhile, mining operations commence...
Jug 6 - Frank is insulted by Wasabi, and they beat on each other for a while. It's about even, but Frank comes away from the fight feeling better, and Wasabi more frustrated. A psychic wave sweeps over the area and turns every tortoise into a manhunter. Several feet are bitten. Gruebeard attempts to help Gas Bandit with a tortoise and shoots Gas' arm off instead. PatrThom's dad, still imprisoned, comes down with plague. Fortunately, the rest of the colony has been taking their penoxycyline, so it shouldn't spread to the general population.
Pictured: Frank v. Wasabi
Jug 9 - Far takes a swing at Frank when Frank insults him. The two don't stop until Frank is beaten unconscious. No sooner does Frank hit the ground, than a tribal raid arrives. Despite this disadvantage, the tribals are easily mowed down by massed fire. Null takes the "outside path" and gets stabbed but escapes with the loss of merely one toe, and Denbrought is beaten a bit in melee range, but nothing serious to either person. Really, Frank's the worst off of the bunch. Four tribals are taken prisoner, to treat and release, but one of them bleeds out during treatment. Gruebeard gets his foot torn off by a megasloth. Ashburner hits on Jun, Dirona, and Quining, and gets shot down by all three. He then wanders off to mope and not do any work for a day or so.
Pictured: Frank v. Far - Frank sure seems to be getting in a lot of fights.
Pictured: Frank hits the floor, and the tribals show up to rumble
Pictured: The tribe's attack is absolutely demolished
Pictured: "My turn to get some more bionics!" - Gruebeard
Jug 10 - Gruebeard gets a bionic foot.
Jug 12 - Terrik and GenSpec go at it over an insult, but only briefly.
Pictured: Terrik and GenSpec fight among the plasteel heaps.
Jug 14 - the first mining camp is a bust. A fair amount of steel, a little silver, and some components, but no Uranium. The miners return to the main colony to regroup and plan the next step. Emrys proposes to BErt, and he accepts! Will they get married before winter? That night, a psychic droning compels Adam to run into his room and barricade the door.
Pictured: Emrys visits BErt as he works a deep mining drill, and picks up the steel he's drilled up to deliver to storage. "Oh hey, before I go, wanna get married?"
Pictured: "SHUT UP VOICES, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME"
Jug 15 - Dei accepts Null's marriage proposal. It's gonna be a fat couple days, whenever those weddings take place. Ravenpoe tries to tame a boomalope, and it reacts violently. The whole herd turns man-eater. He's forced to defend himself, and it explodes on both he and his dog Alexei. Dirona gets trampled, but nobody can get to her because the rogue boomalopes are in the way. SpecialKO rises to the occasion, killing 3 boomalopes with his plasteel longsword despite them exploding on him one by one. Good thing he's wearing power armor and it's raining. Dirona manages to regain consciousness during the fight and staggers back home under her own power. All three of them get patched up in the infirmary, though Dirona has to stay overnight.
Pictured: Null passes through the workshop where Dei is sewing. "Wanna get married?" "Eh, ok."
Pictured: "AH AH AH IT BURNS IT BURNS" - Ravenpoe "YIPE YIPE YIPE" - Alexei
Pictured: The physical layout of the colony, halfway through 5502
Pictured: The social layout as of 15 jug, 5502. Dusters and Cowboy Hats were once again in season during the hot summer.
Apr 4 - A caravan is sent to the nearest town to look for uranium.
Apr 5 - The caravan is attacked by 7 pirates right outside the allied town. Half the pirates are killed and the rest driven off, with moderate to light wounds among the caravaneers. Adam and Zero get into a fight. When the caravan reaches the town, there is no Uranium for sale. But there is gold, which is needed too, and chickens and roosters! New food source, ahoy! Hope everybody likes eggs.
Pictured: The Ambush
Pictured: Adam v. Zero
Apr 6 - Luckily, another Exotic trade ship hits orbit, with another lung. Another 2000 silver for another crack at fixing up Dirona.
Apr 8 - Dave hunts a dangerous grizzly in the area. He kills it, but gets a little shredded in return. Nothing permanent, though. Wasabi gets so upset that she "had" to eat standing up because "it was too far to the dining hall" and goes to sulk in her room for an entire day. Jun transplants the new lung into Dirona with no difficulty whatsoever. Word comes down that Zappit's brother, Bret Pitt, has died. The news saddens him, and he goes off on his own to mope.
Pictured: A summary sheet of Wasabi's living hell
Pictured: Note the distinct lack of pelvic fractures
Apr 9 - Another grizzly bear comes all the way into the colony, but it is shot down by multiple colonists before it can hurt anything.
Apr 12 - a pack of 27 man-eating lynx enter the area. CynicalKat is cut down in a hail of friendly fire from Klew. For that matter, there are heavy injuries all around, Squidley's nose has been bitten off and Terrik has lost a leg. Megumi the Spelopede loses its mind in anguish and becomes a manhunter as well, attacking other colonists. It starts by attacking Cog and JWhouk, who flee into the dining hall. Krisken unknowingly opens the door and lets Megumi in, then flees himself. Soupy is left to deal with it with his knife until the militia gets back from the front gate. DarkAudit runs to help him. Between the two of them, they put the poor insect down. The vast majority of the injuries in this fight were friendly fire, and tensions are high.
Pictured: Uh... this... can't be good.
Pictured: The fall of CynicalKat
Pictured: Megumi's last stand
Apr 13 - Squidley throws an unreasonble hissyfit in the middle of eating for being SO HUNGRY and she can't feed herself fast enough. Ironically, this prevents her from eating and makes everything worse. A red fox slips into the compound in the confusion and attacks a muffalo calf. Celt Z tries to save it, but her aim is terrible... not only does she fail entirely to hit the fox, she actually hits the calf. The Fox leisurely eats the calf while Celt Z completely ineffectively fires at it. It is only brought down when it finishes eating.
Pictured: The failure of Celt Z
Apr 14 - Jun fixes up Squidley with an artificial nose. Her broken heart, however, is beyond Jun's arts. Terrik also gets a bionic leg installed by his wife. Moffa is put in charge of interring CynicalKat in her sarcophagus, and he has no chill and minces no words - the artwork depicts Klew viciously and intentionally murdering her without remorse.
Jugust 2 - Clearly, caravanning is not getting us any Uranium. Moffa, Cheesy, Cog, and Zero are launched in transport pods with ample provisions to set up a mining camp to the north, where they can prospect for the stuff. Klew is wounded by gunfire from Celt Z, ostensibly in a hunting accident. "I was shooting at the Ibex" swears Celt Z. Klew has lost his ear. Mikerc and BErt go at it when BErt lets an insult fly. Both walk away with bruises.
Pictured: Where's the Ibex?
Pictured: Mikerc v. BErt
Pictured: Establishing a mining camp
Jug 3 - Gruebeard is the one to install Klew's bionic ear, as nobody else is really happy with him at all.
Jug 4 - Jun ameliorates Bubbles' bad back by implanting him with a bionic spine. Now he's better than he's ever been.
Pictured: Meanwhile, mining operations commence...
Jug 6 - Frank is insulted by Wasabi, and they beat on each other for a while. It's about even, but Frank comes away from the fight feeling better, and Wasabi more frustrated. A psychic wave sweeps over the area and turns every tortoise into a manhunter. Several feet are bitten. Gruebeard attempts to help Gas Bandit with a tortoise and shoots Gas' arm off instead. PatrThom's dad, still imprisoned, comes down with plague. Fortunately, the rest of the colony has been taking their penoxycyline, so it shouldn't spread to the general population.
Pictured: Frank v. Wasabi
Jug 9 - Far takes a swing at Frank when Frank insults him. The two don't stop until Frank is beaten unconscious. No sooner does Frank hit the ground, than a tribal raid arrives. Despite this disadvantage, the tribals are easily mowed down by massed fire. Null takes the "outside path" and gets stabbed but escapes with the loss of merely one toe, and Denbrought is beaten a bit in melee range, but nothing serious to either person. Really, Frank's the worst off of the bunch. Four tribals are taken prisoner, to treat and release, but one of them bleeds out during treatment. Gruebeard gets his foot torn off by a megasloth. Ashburner hits on Jun, Dirona, and Quining, and gets shot down by all three. He then wanders off to mope and not do any work for a day or so.
Pictured: Frank v. Far - Frank sure seems to be getting in a lot of fights.
Pictured: Frank hits the floor, and the tribals show up to rumble
Pictured: The tribe's attack is absolutely demolished
Pictured: "My turn to get some more bionics!" - Gruebeard
Jug 10 - Gruebeard gets a bionic foot.
Jug 12 - Terrik and GenSpec go at it over an insult, but only briefly.
Pictured: Terrik and GenSpec fight among the plasteel heaps.
Jug 14 - the first mining camp is a bust. A fair amount of steel, a little silver, and some components, but no Uranium. The miners return to the main colony to regroup and plan the next step. Emrys proposes to BErt, and he accepts! Will they get married before winter? That night, a psychic droning compels Adam to run into his room and barricade the door.
Pictured: Emrys visits BErt as he works a deep mining drill, and picks up the steel he's drilled up to deliver to storage. "Oh hey, before I go, wanna get married?"
Pictured: "SHUT UP VOICES, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME"
Jug 15 - Dei accepts Null's marriage proposal. It's gonna be a fat couple days, whenever those weddings take place. Ravenpoe tries to tame a boomalope, and it reacts violently. The whole herd turns man-eater. He's forced to defend himself, and it explodes on both he and his dog Alexei. Dirona gets trampled, but nobody can get to her because the rogue boomalopes are in the way. SpecialKO rises to the occasion, killing 3 boomalopes with his plasteel longsword despite them exploding on him one by one. Good thing he's wearing power armor and it's raining. Dirona manages to regain consciousness during the fight and staggers back home under her own power. All three of them get patched up in the infirmary, though Dirona has to stay overnight.
Pictured: Null passes through the workshop where Dei is sewing. "Wanna get married?" "Eh, ok."
Pictured: "AH AH AH IT BURNS IT BURNS" - Ravenpoe "YIPE YIPE YIPE" - Alexei
Pictured: The physical layout of the colony, halfway through 5502
Pictured: The social layout as of 15 jug, 5502. Dusters and Cowboy Hats were once again in season during the hot summer.
#224
General Specific
General Specific
#225
Celt Z
Celt Z
#226
Emrys
Emrys
#227
Terrik
Terrik
#228
BErt
BErt
#229
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#230
GasBandit
GasBandit
Did you think I was kidding when I wrote the expository paragraphs of this thread?
#231
klew
klew
1v27 and prevented things from getting worse, so someone had to die
#232
PatrThom
PatrThom
"Gruebeard attempts to help Gas Bandit with a tortoise and shoots Gas' arm off instead."
--Patrick
--Patrick
#233
General Specific
General Specific
#234
Soupy
Soupy
#235
Null
Null
#236
Dirona
Dirona
#237
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#238
WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
#239
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#240
Frank
Frank
#241
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - 5502 part 2 - Autumn
An interesting fall, though perhaps more interesting to play than to watch/read about. I had to stretch myself and try something I had not done previously.
An interesting fall, though perhaps more interesting to play than to watch/read about. I had to stretch myself and try something I had not done previously.
Septober 1, 5502 - Adam can't deal with being rebuffed by Celt Z, and goes off to binge on the sweet, addictive euphoria of Ambrosia fruit. Shortly thereafter, a psychic ship crashes outside the wall. In the morning, the militia lines up at the killbox and the mortars begin bombarding the mechanoids to get them to take the bait. But Film Fanatic, Cog, and Kags can't hit a single thing with the mortars and the whole thing has to be called off before the militia starves at their positions. They try again after nightfall, and fortunately, Dodge, Sara, and Jwhouk prove to be better shots. At the killbox, the Scythers get there first, and though they are defeated, Celt Z takes a shot to the right arm that leaves her both in danger of losing the arm and bleeding out, so she is sent back to get it treated. The 3 remaining caterpillars are seriously damaged by mortar fire, and so the militia stands down to let the big cannons pound them the rest of the way. Sara can't take the stress and wanders off. When the mechanoids are down to one extremely damaged caterpillar, the bombardment stops, and SpecialKO goes out to finish it by sword.
Pictured: "Uh.. so... should we come back later?"
Pictured: These three are no longer allowed on the mortars.
Pictured: SpecialKO finishes off the last mechanoid
Sept 2 - An expeditionary force is dropped via transport pod into a detected mineral cluster to the northeast. No enemy is found, but no uranium either. Lots of gold and steel, though. Moffa, Gas, Cheesy, Dave, Terrik and SpecialKO grab everything they can before they have to head home. With no enemies to fight, Only Moffa and Cheesy really have much to do there.
Pictured: Setting up camp at the mineral cache
Sept 3 - Opening an ancient set of cryptosleep caskets reveals two dead bodies and a badly wounded nurse. The nurse is rescued. When she regains consciousness, Susy decides to join the group.
Pictured: cracking open the cryptosleep caskets - the discovery of Susy and her two departed friends
Sept 5 - The mining expedition returns with Susy and a fair amount of gold and silver, and a tiny bit of uranium salvaged from the cryptosleep pods Susy was found in. That night, Wasabi hunts a boomrat, and... well... On a surprisingly unrelated note, a boomalope mysteriously dies and sparks off a massive wildfire that consumes most of the others in a chain reaction. By the time it starts raining, easily half the boomalope herd is gone. Because Wasabi was wounded in the middle of the night (and also took time to do other things before seeking medical attention), she is not tended until the morning, by which time her leg has an infection.
Pictured: Wasabi, are you sure that's a g...
Pictured: BOOM
Pictured: This got out of control in a hurry
Sept 7 - The colony trades out the dusters of summer for the parkas of the upcoming winter.
Sept 8 - A trade caravan arrives and with them is.. Gas Bandit's lover?! I had no idea... At any rate, a charge rifle is purchased. It is also discovered that Siska has created a masterwork sculpture depicting Jun elbow-deep in Bubble's guts as she performs his spine replacement surgery. Dei insists it should be installed in the hospital. The ship's computer core is completed construction, thanks to the gold that was recovered. Now it just needs a reactor and cryptosleep caskets...
Pictured: I have a lover?! And she won't stay with us ;_;
Sept 9 - Zappit and Darkaudit have a fight in the hayfield. DarkAudit comes away with considerablyless FEWER bruises. Squidley makes a masterwork sculpture of Dodge training a labrador while a vulture watches them... an omen?
Pictured: Zappit v. DarkAudit
Sept 10 - Gas and Terrik are sent to scout the other nearby possible mineral strike, to see if it is guarded. They find a tribal outpost. Frank, Charon, Gruebeard, SpecialKO and Dave are sent as reinforcements. They take up positions, then Gas goes and snipes one out in the open unawares to get their attention. The others chase him to the waiting Halforumites. Gas gets hit by an arrow in the right arm, but otherwise it's a one-sided slaughter. Not a single tribal escapes alive. It turns out the tribals had a cache of Uranium hidden in their huts! It's a start, and a pleasant surprise. Cheesy is dropped in to help mine the nearby gold, and then everything is loaded up into pod launchers to send back to the main colony. They return gradually over the next couple days. It's now getting too cold to travel, and everyone will have to bundle up and stoke the fires at home for the coming winter.
Pictured: Terrik and GB scout the enemy outpost
Pictured: Reinforcements arrive via drop pod
Pictured: After sniping one of the tribals dead instantly, GB leads the others on a chase.. into the waiting maws of the other HFers
Pictured: GB caught an arrow the hard way, but all the tribals are dead.
Pictured: The payday. The big blocky trapezoids are uranium.
Sept 13 - A boomalope goes mad, and attacks the colony. Gruebeard manages to snipe it before it hurts anybody.
Pictured: Sniped. Time to put out the fire.
Sept 14 - Work begins on improvements on the killbox. Ashburner decides to help himself to as much Ambrosia as he can stomach.
Sept 15 - The pirates switch tactics, and try to lay seige to the colony. Poe and Zappit's fathers are among the raiders. A mortar round dropped in the middle of their burgeoning fortifications convinces them to abandon the siege and charge to the attack. Working their way through the tamed boomalope herd, they lose more of their own to friendly fire, and mortar explosions (Boomalope explosions aren't as big a factor as they could be because it's raining, and they aren't stopping to finish off downed boomalopes). Poe's father is taken down by his own squadmates, and Zappit's father is downed by a mortar, and captured when his compatriots flee, leaving him behind. He shares the prison barracks with Patrthom's father.
Pictured: A mortar barrage dissaudes the pirates from digging in for the long haul.
Decembruary 1 - The first day of winter is commemerated by the wedding of Dei and Null. The food disappears in a whirlwind of gluttony.
Pictured: I now pronounce you Mr and Mrs Crowe
The social standings as of Dec 1
Pictured: "Uh.. so... should we come back later?"
Pictured: These three are no longer allowed on the mortars.
Pictured: SpecialKO finishes off the last mechanoid
Sept 2 - An expeditionary force is dropped via transport pod into a detected mineral cluster to the northeast. No enemy is found, but no uranium either. Lots of gold and steel, though. Moffa, Gas, Cheesy, Dave, Terrik and SpecialKO grab everything they can before they have to head home. With no enemies to fight, Only Moffa and Cheesy really have much to do there.
Pictured: Setting up camp at the mineral cache
Sept 3 - Opening an ancient set of cryptosleep caskets reveals two dead bodies and a badly wounded nurse. The nurse is rescued. When she regains consciousness, Susy decides to join the group.
Pictured: cracking open the cryptosleep caskets - the discovery of Susy and her two departed friends
Sept 5 - The mining expedition returns with Susy and a fair amount of gold and silver, and a tiny bit of uranium salvaged from the cryptosleep pods Susy was found in. That night, Wasabi hunts a boomrat, and... well... On a surprisingly unrelated note, a boomalope mysteriously dies and sparks off a massive wildfire that consumes most of the others in a chain reaction. By the time it starts raining, easily half the boomalope herd is gone. Because Wasabi was wounded in the middle of the night (and also took time to do other things before seeking medical attention), she is not tended until the morning, by which time her leg has an infection.
Pictured: Wasabi, are you sure that's a g...
Pictured: BOOM
Pictured: This got out of control in a hurry
Sept 7 - The colony trades out the dusters of summer for the parkas of the upcoming winter.
Sept 8 - A trade caravan arrives and with them is.. Gas Bandit's lover?! I had no idea... At any rate, a charge rifle is purchased. It is also discovered that Siska has created a masterwork sculpture depicting Jun elbow-deep in Bubble's guts as she performs his spine replacement surgery. Dei insists it should be installed in the hospital. The ship's computer core is completed construction, thanks to the gold that was recovered. Now it just needs a reactor and cryptosleep caskets...
Pictured: I have a lover?! And she won't stay with us ;_;
Sept 9 - Zappit and Darkaudit have a fight in the hayfield. DarkAudit comes away with considerably
Pictured: Zappit v. DarkAudit
Sept 10 - Gas and Terrik are sent to scout the other nearby possible mineral strike, to see if it is guarded. They find a tribal outpost. Frank, Charon, Gruebeard, SpecialKO and Dave are sent as reinforcements. They take up positions, then Gas goes and snipes one out in the open unawares to get their attention. The others chase him to the waiting Halforumites. Gas gets hit by an arrow in the right arm, but otherwise it's a one-sided slaughter. Not a single tribal escapes alive. It turns out the tribals had a cache of Uranium hidden in their huts! It's a start, and a pleasant surprise. Cheesy is dropped in to help mine the nearby gold, and then everything is loaded up into pod launchers to send back to the main colony. They return gradually over the next couple days. It's now getting too cold to travel, and everyone will have to bundle up and stoke the fires at home for the coming winter.
Pictured: Terrik and GB scout the enemy outpost
Pictured: Reinforcements arrive via drop pod
Pictured: After sniping one of the tribals dead instantly, GB leads the others on a chase.. into the waiting maws of the other HFers
Pictured: GB caught an arrow the hard way, but all the tribals are dead.
Pictured: The payday. The big blocky trapezoids are uranium.
Sept 13 - A boomalope goes mad, and attacks the colony. Gruebeard manages to snipe it before it hurts anybody.
Pictured: Sniped. Time to put out the fire.
Sept 14 - Work begins on improvements on the killbox. Ashburner decides to help himself to as much Ambrosia as he can stomach.
Sept 15 - The pirates switch tactics, and try to lay seige to the colony. Poe and Zappit's fathers are among the raiders. A mortar round dropped in the middle of their burgeoning fortifications convinces them to abandon the siege and charge to the attack. Working their way through the tamed boomalope herd, they lose more of their own to friendly fire, and mortar explosions (Boomalope explosions aren't as big a factor as they could be because it's raining, and they aren't stopping to finish off downed boomalopes). Poe's father is taken down by his own squadmates, and Zappit's father is downed by a mortar, and captured when his compatriots flee, leaving him behind. He shares the prison barracks with Patrthom's father.
Pictured: A mortar barrage dissaudes the pirates from digging in for the long haul.
Decembruary 1 - The first day of winter is commemerated by the wedding of Dei and Null. The food disappears in a whirlwind of gluttony.
Pictured: I now pronounce you Mr and Mrs Crowe
The social standings as of Dec 1
#242
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#243
Frank
Frank
#244
Bubble181
Bubble181
Hurray! I was touched by a real life woman for the first time since birth healed!
(what? My pawn's the creep, not me )
Also, I find it fitting - if sad - that Kat gets killed in a Lynx attack.
(what? My pawn's the creep, not me
)Also, I find it fitting - if sad - that Kat gets killed in a Lynx attack.
#245
Celt Z
Celt Z
#246
Cog
Cog
#248
PatrThom
PatrThom
#249
GasBandit
At least this time, it's not day-old kittens getting into the beer and drinking themselves to death. That was horrifying. [DOUBLEPOST=1502205848,1502205761][/DOUBLEPOST]
GasBandit
If I had to mention every unbonded animal that wandered off and died to being stupid, this would be the world's most depressing thread
At least this time, it's not day-old kittens getting into the beer and drinking themselves to death. That was horrifying. [DOUBLEPOST=1502205848,1502205761][/DOUBLEPOST]
It may be that he just isn't spending enough time around other people to form strong opinions, one way or the other. And also to really REALLY be hated you generally have to have a failed romance or kill someone's immediate relative.
#250
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
I feel like my pawn is doing things and contributing now.
#251
GasBandit
I only have the one shield belt for the whole colony, unfortunately. They take uranium to make, and I can't spare any... and they cost thousands from the traders...
Maybe I should start pulling them off dead pirates. Pawns don't like wearing stuff pulled off dead bodies, but maybe that won't bother Terrik, given his bloodlust trait...
GasBandit
It's pretty amazing what can be done with a high melee skill, a plasteel sword, a suit of power armor and a shield belt. You've pretty much become the shock troop I wanted Terrik to beI feel like my pawn is doing things and contributing now.
I only have the one shield belt for the whole colony, unfortunately. They take uranium to make, and I can't spare any... and they cost thousands from the traders...
Maybe I should start pulling them off dead pirates. Pawns don't like wearing stuff pulled off dead bodies, but maybe that won't bother Terrik, given his bloodlust trait...
#252
Dei
Dei
I thought you had a mod for that.It's pretty amazing what can be done with a high melee skill, a plasteel sword, a suit of power armor and a shield belt. You've pretty much become the shock troop I wanted Terrik to be
I only have the one shield belt for the whole colony, unfortunately. They take uranium to make, and I can't spare any... and they cost thousands from the traders...
Maybe I should start pulling them off dead pirates. Pawns don't like wearing stuff pulled off dead bodies, but maybe that won't bother Terrik, given his bloodlust trait...
#253
GasBandit
GasBandit
#254
Dei
Dei
#255
GasBandit
that's bullshit. I know Tynan said they're gonna fix it but that doesn't help me NOW.
I just googled up where it is in the game's files, I'm going to change the social penalty to 0.
For anyone else who wants to know, it is in
Mods/Core/Defs/ThoughtDefs/Thoughts_Situation_Social.xml
Entry "KilledColonyAnimal," change from -5 to 0.
GasBandit
Eh, it's a game mechanic that makes sense to me, though. Unlike the fact that every colonist who kills a chicken for dinner now is getting a -5 social penalty
that's bullshit. I know Tynan said they're gonna fix it but that doesn't help me NOW.I just googled up where it is in the game's files, I'm going to change the social penalty to 0.
For anyone else who wants to know, it is in
Mods/Core/Defs/ThoughtDefs/Thoughts_Situation_Social.xml
Entry "KilledColonyAnimal," change from -5 to 0.
#256
CynicalKat
CynicalKat
#257
GasBandit
GasBandit
#258
Celt Z
Celt Z
Hmmm... Dei's ex and her current flame "accidentally" aiming at each other...
#259
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#260
Celt Z
Celt Z
That ibex was coming straight at him!
I blame all the snu-snu with GenSpec. Every time I tune in to Gasbandit Live! there's hearts coming out of our room. It's a good thing the game doesn't let us reproduce, because I swear our pawns caught Stienmanitis and we're going to repopulate the colony with GenZ babies.
#261
GasBandit
Also, there's a mod to add pregnancy and babies, but I decided not to it's hard enough to keep up with the people we've got, and despite my best efforts to block it, you guys keep finding ways to bring in more people.
GasBandit
Well, I mean, you guys ARE barely turning 20. What else would you be doing on what amounts to a farm with no internet and the constant threat of death at any given moment?
Also, there's a mod to add pregnancy and babies, but I decided not to
it's hard enough to keep up with the people we've got, and despite my best efforts to block it, you guys keep finding ways to bring in more people.
#262
Celt Z
Celt Z
#263
Dei
Dei
#264
GasBandit
GasBandit
#265
jwhouk
jwhouk
#267
jwhouk
jwhouk
#268
Celt Z
Celt Z
#269
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#270
General Specific
General Specific
#271
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#272
GasBandit
Here, there will be an update on everyone's stats in the story post I'm about to make.
GasBandit
Actually, the entire point of the artificial nose is to restore your looks, so no, nobody can even tell a difference
Mostly research and animal handling. Which doesn't often cause anything to explode, burn down, or die, so you don't make a lot of headlines
Here, there will be an update on everyone's stats in the story post I'm about to make.
#273
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - Year 5502, part 3 - Winter
Pictured: Everybody's skill stats at the end of 5502
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
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
Pictured: Everybody's skill stats at the end of 5502
#274
Bubble181
Bubble181
#275
Dave
Dave
#276
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#277
Bubble181
Bubble181
Keeping prisoners well-supplied with weed is a good way of making sure they're incapable of escape
#278
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#279
GasBandit
GasBandit
#280
PatrThom
PatrThom
#281
GasBandit
And 2 genspecs in the album was a goof[DOUBLEPOST=1502305773,1502305605][/DOUBLEPOST]
GasBandit
For anybody else who didn't realize it THE STATS ARE AN ALBUM and you can click the arrows on the sides to flip pages until you find your own pawn self
And 2 genspecs in the album was a goof
[DOUBLEPOST=1502305773,1502305605][/DOUBLEPOST]
You put 2 interest points in it and started with a gun... it's only natural you spent a lot of your time hunting animals to satisfy the colony's bottomless appetite. Practice makes perfect, and passion speeds things along.
#282
PatrThom
You can really tell who gets utilized. Dang, so many 20's.
--Patrick
PatrThom
It was quite the happy accident.2 genspecs in the album was a goof
You can really tell who gets utilized. Dang, so many 20's.
--Patrick
#283
GasBandit
GasBandit
#285
GasBandit
Anyway, now you know why he rolls under the bed and comes out the other side ready for seconds every night.
GasBandit
It's a Keltsy Sandwich!There's TWO of them???
This would explain the libido...
Anyway, now you know why he rolls under the bed and comes out the other side ready for seconds every night.
#286
Emrys
Emrys
#287
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#288
Emrys
Emrys
#289
GasBandit
GasBandit
#290
Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
#292
General Specific
General Specific
#293
PatrThom
PatrThom
#295
Null
Null
#298
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - Year 5503, Part one: Spring
Aprimay 3, 5503 - A passing combat supply caravan has a uranium spear for sale for the jaw-dropping price of seven thousand silver. It is bought anyway, because we can smelt it to get some of the uranium back and we need every ounce we can scrounge up. Holy shit! It smelts for 225 uranium! NICE!
Pictured: SEVEN THOUSAND SILVER?! That's more than a good suit of power armor and the matching helmet! Better be worth it. Turns out, it is!
Apr 5 - Ten Man-eating polar bears attack! A careful and well-planned defense sees them off, with only moderate wounds to the defenders, and surprisingly little friendly fire. At Emry's insistence, one of the surviving downed polar bears is taken and healed in an attempt to tame. It is locked in a spare bedroom while it is "tamed"
Pictured: Polar Pounding
Apr 7 - A boomalope goes mad. The Turrets in the killbox take care of the animal, but the colonists have to deal with the fire afterwards. Null and Klew manage to set themselves on fire while trying to extinguish part of the blaze.
Pictured: BOOM
Apr 8 - Charon, Frank, Gas, SpecialKO, Longshank and Terrik are sent to check out another possible mineral source. An ancient danger is in the area. Inside is a mechanoid centipede! It blasts down Terrik. After the monstrosity is destroyed, Gas does his best to stabilize Terrik so he can be sent back home to recouperate. That night, Cargo pods full of neutroaleaf crash through the roof of Dave's room.
Pictured: Finishing off the centipede, with Terrik seriously injured (SpecialKO is standing over him)
Pictured: "Special delivery for Dave DeLong?" Dave's not home man... luckily. *CRASH*
Apr 9 - Terrik has stabilized enough to move, so he is sent back home in a pod to recover, along with a shitton of Jade. After that, the cryptosleep caskets are opened. Six hostile spacers with guns emerge, and attack! They are killed with only some wounds received. After that, a few days are spent breaking everything down for parts and mining the huge amounts of local steel (Cheesy is sent to help with that), and the spoils are sent home in pods, consisting of a huge amount of Jade, Steel, and a little gold.
Apr 12 - With a few payments of silver, peace is brokered with the hostile Bagabi of the Cliff tribe. They will no longer attempt to raid the colony.
Apr 13 - With the summer heat moving in, the colony swaps out their parkas for dusters. The last of the expedition to the mineral node returns.
Apr 14 - Cog's mother arrives as part of a slaver caravan. Well, at least she's not one of the slaves. The last year's worth of puppies are sold off to the caravan at a huge discount. Less mouths to feed. After that, a Pleasure Cruiser in orbit makes contact. The colony sells them all their statuary and other assorted odds and ends, and buys a whole lot of chocolate. That ought to boost some moods around here. DarkAudit insults Ravenpoe, and a brief fight ensues, with Poe getting a little more banged up than DA.
Pictured: Cog's mom and company
Pictured: DarkAudit v. Ravenpoe
Apr 15 - A flock of man-hunting... turkeys. 16 aggressive turkeys enter the area. This feels less of a threat and more of a "did somebody order a party platter" situation. I don't even bother waking up all the militia, I just let the night owls handle it (along with the turrets of the killbox). Well, as it turns out, the turkeys don't go to the killbox, they attack the departing slaver caravan, killing several tribals. This sours relations between the tribe and the colony, but a quick 1500 silver payoff smooths things over. Wasabi and DarkAudit get into a fight in the kitchen. What is with him these days?!
Picture: We are threatened by our food
Pictured: DA v. Wasabi
Pictured: The social standings as of the end of Aprimay, 5503.
Note that pretty much everybody now has an armored vest on under their duster, except Jun, who has opted for a surgical smock that increases her already-impressive medical capabilities.
The Polar bear is still not tamed, but is happy to sit in its climate controlled bedroom with wall-to-wall carpet and be fed by would-be tamers every day.
The ship is coming along slowly. Its primary systems are now all functional, and it has enough cryptosleep caskets for 13 people. Now that uranium is coming in, we're chewing through steel like nobody's business (it's 500 steel per casket, which, yes, is a lot - one tile of steel to be mined is generally 30-35 steel). Fortunately, steel is easier to come by than uranium... though we'll still need lots of uranium. But the outlook is a lot less bleak than it was a year ago.
Pictured: SEVEN THOUSAND SILVER?! That's more than a good suit of power armor and the matching helmet! Better be worth it. Turns out, it is!
Apr 5 - Ten Man-eating polar bears attack! A careful and well-planned defense sees them off, with only moderate wounds to the defenders, and surprisingly little friendly fire. At Emry's insistence, one of the surviving downed polar bears is taken and healed in an attempt to tame. It is locked in a spare bedroom while it is "tamed"
Pictured: Polar Pounding
Apr 7 - A boomalope goes mad. The Turrets in the killbox take care of the animal, but the colonists have to deal with the fire afterwards. Null and Klew manage to set themselves on fire while trying to extinguish part of the blaze.
Pictured: BOOM
Apr 8 - Charon, Frank, Gas, SpecialKO, Longshank and Terrik are sent to check out another possible mineral source. An ancient danger is in the area. Inside is a mechanoid centipede! It blasts down Terrik. After the monstrosity is destroyed, Gas does his best to stabilize Terrik so he can be sent back home to recouperate. That night, Cargo pods full of neutroaleaf crash through the roof of Dave's room.
Pictured: Finishing off the centipede, with Terrik seriously injured (SpecialKO is standing over him)
Pictured: "Special delivery for Dave DeLong?" Dave's not home man... luckily. *CRASH*
Apr 9 - Terrik has stabilized enough to move, so he is sent back home in a pod to recover, along with a shitton of Jade. After that, the cryptosleep caskets are opened. Six hostile spacers with guns emerge, and attack! They are killed with only some wounds received. After that, a few days are spent breaking everything down for parts and mining the huge amounts of local steel (Cheesy is sent to help with that), and the spoils are sent home in pods, consisting of a huge amount of Jade, Steel, and a little gold.
Apr 12 - With a few payments of silver, peace is brokered with the hostile Bagabi of the Cliff tribe. They will no longer attempt to raid the colony.
Apr 13 - With the summer heat moving in, the colony swaps out their parkas for dusters. The last of the expedition to the mineral node returns.
Apr 14 - Cog's mother arrives as part of a slaver caravan. Well, at least she's not one of the slaves. The last year's worth of puppies are sold off to the caravan at a huge discount. Less mouths to feed. After that, a Pleasure Cruiser in orbit makes contact. The colony sells them all their statuary and other assorted odds and ends, and buys a whole lot of chocolate. That ought to boost some moods around here. DarkAudit insults Ravenpoe, and a brief fight ensues, with Poe getting a little more banged up than DA.
Pictured: Cog's mom and company
Pictured: DarkAudit v. Ravenpoe
Apr 15 - A flock of man-hunting... turkeys. 16 aggressive turkeys enter the area. This feels less of a threat and more of a "did somebody order a party platter" situation. I don't even bother waking up all the militia, I just let the night owls handle it (along with the turrets of the killbox). Well, as it turns out, the turkeys don't go to the killbox, they attack the departing slaver caravan, killing several tribals. This sours relations between the tribe and the colony, but a quick 1500 silver payoff smooths things over. Wasabi and DarkAudit get into a fight in the kitchen. What is with him these days?!
Picture: We are threatened by our food
Pictured: DA v. Wasabi
Pictured: The social standings as of the end of Aprimay, 5503.
Note that pretty much everybody now has an armored vest on under their duster, except Jun, who has opted for a surgical smock that increases her already-impressive medical capabilities.
The Polar bear is still not tamed, but is happy to sit in its climate controlled bedroom with wall-to-wall carpet and be fed by would-be tamers every day.
The ship is coming along slowly. Its primary systems are now all functional, and it has enough cryptosleep caskets for 13 people. Now that uranium is coming in, we're chewing through steel like nobody's business (it's 500 steel per casket, which, yes, is a lot - one tile of steel to be mined is generally 30-35 steel). Fortunately, steel is easier to come by than uranium... though we'll still need lots of uranium. But the outlook is a lot less bleak than it was a year ago.
#299
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#300
GasBandit
we're having to keep it locked in an empty bedroom. It's anybody's guess whether it will finally accept training, or maul and eat the trainer for bothering it.
GasBandit
It's not tame yet
we're having to keep it locked in an empty bedroom. It's anybody's guess whether it will finally accept training, or maul and eat the trainer for bothering it.
#301
Frank
Frank
#302
Dei
Dei
#303
Eriol
Eriol
#304
Celt Z
Celt Z
#305
Bubble181
Bubble181
#307
Sara_2814
Sara_2814
#308
GasBandit
And yes, ship cryptosleep caskets have to be attached to actual ship structure, and each length of ship structural beam requires 200 steel, 150 plasteel, and 10 components. Depending on its location on the ship, a structural beam can support between 2 and 5 caskets.
Right now we have 13 caskets completed, and IIRC, our stores have about 2500 steel, 6000 plasteel, 100ish components, and around 200 uranium. Right now, the main thing slowing up construction is my unwillingness to go below 2000 steel in our stores, but we're yanking it out of the ground as fast as we can (we've easily got tens of thousands of steel already put into the ship, and the stores have never gone above 6000 steel).
Originally, I was worried we wouldn't find uranium fast enough to get all the colonists off the planet, much less pets and prisoners, so I was starting to try and come up with a plan that involved sending as many of the non-combatant colonists as possible away on the ship we built in whatever state it would be in in the year 5510, leaving the toughest behind with a 2 year deadline to grab whatever supplies they can and make the perilous journey west through a desert the size of China to a mountain range whose only pass is controlled by pirates. On the other side of that mountain range is another ship that is guaranteed to have as much room is as needed for whoever shows up. The main problem in reaching it is actually provisions - feeding 50 people and 50 animals (because in addition to pets, we'd have to take muffalo to carry supplies) means that the caravan would easily consume 200 meals a day, which is insanely fast (my previous playthrough only needed to carry 2000 meals total to make a trip that lasted an entire year, albeit some animals had to be slaughtered along the way). At any rate, in the event something goes wrong, that's still my backup plan.
He's still fine to bandage wounds, though.
GasBandit
I'm still trying to figure out why Terrik's shield belt failed to block a single one of those heavy charge blaster shots. I wonder if because it was at point blank range, the game mistakenly thought it was melee?
To build a single Ship Cryptosleep Casket (its in-game name) takes 500 steel, 5 uranium, and 10 components (and components we generally machine ourselves out of 10 steel each). We have 50 colonists, so at a minimum we need 50 pods. However, we also have ~20 bonded animals (as in, colonists have emotional bonds with them) and Patrthom's father imprisoned. Ideally, we'd want pods for them as well.
And yes, ship cryptosleep caskets have to be attached to actual ship structure, and each length of ship structural beam requires 200 steel, 150 plasteel, and 10 components. Depending on its location on the ship, a structural beam can support between 2 and 5 caskets.
Right now we have 13 caskets completed, and IIRC, our stores have about 2500 steel, 6000 plasteel, 100ish components, and around 200 uranium. Right now, the main thing slowing up construction is my unwillingness to go below 2000 steel in our stores, but we're yanking it out of the ground as fast as we can (we've easily got tens of thousands of steel already put into the ship, and the stores have never gone above 6000 steel).
Originally, I was worried we wouldn't find uranium fast enough to get all the colonists off the planet, much less pets and prisoners, so I was starting to try and come up with a plan that involved sending as many of the non-combatant colonists as possible away on the ship we built in whatever state it would be in in the year 5510, leaving the toughest behind with a 2 year deadline to grab whatever supplies they can and make the perilous journey west through a desert the size of China to a mountain range whose only pass is controlled by pirates. On the other side of that mountain range is another ship that is guaranteed to have as much room is as needed for whoever shows up. The main problem in reaching it is actually provisions - feeding 50 people and 50 animals (because in addition to pets, we'd have to take muffalo to carry supplies) means that the caravan would easily consume 200 meals a day, which is insanely fast (my previous playthrough only needed to carry 2000 meals total to make a trip that lasted an entire year, albeit some animals had to be slaughtered along the way). At any rate, in the event something goes wrong, that's still my backup plan.
I am now manually verifying that any given surgical procedure is NOT performed by Zero
He's still fine to bandage wounds, though.
#309
Eriol
Eriol
#310
GasBandit
One thing to take into account is that as the ship progresses, its parts count as "buildings" in the colony, and the calculations for how badly the game's storyteller treats us is directly linked to the colony's "wealth" level, both in items, colonists, and building values (which is why our second pirate attack had 20 pirates with guns in it, instead of the normal ramping up that usually takes place where it goes from one, to two, to three, usually with crappy melee weapons. We had 54 colonists and a decent amount of starting supplies, so Cassandra Classic deigned our wealth value to merit a harsher event).
So, the more resources I gather and the further along the ship gets, the more the game will try to kill us.
GasBandit
Yeah, but saying so generally jinxes it
One thing to take into account is that as the ship progresses, its parts count as "buildings" in the colony, and the calculations for how badly the game's storyteller treats us is directly linked to the colony's "wealth" level, both in items, colonists, and building values (which is why our second pirate attack had 20 pirates with guns in it, instead of the normal ramping up that usually takes place where it goes from one, to two, to three, usually with crappy melee weapons. We had 54 colonists and a decent amount of starting supplies, so Cassandra Classic deigned our wealth value to merit a harsher event).
So, the more resources I gather and the further along the ship gets, the more the game will try to kill us.
#311
Dei
Dei
If there's a really bad raid/game event that kills 2/3 of the colony, you are also good to go. Look on the bright side.Yeah, but saying so generally jinxes it
One thing to take into account is that as the ship progresses, its parts count as "buildings" in the colony, and the calculations for how badly the game's storyteller treats us is directly linked to the colony's "wealth" level, both in items, colonists, and building values (which is why our second pirate attack had 20 pirates with guns in it, instead of the normal ramping up that usually takes place where it goes from one, to two, to three, usually with crappy melee weapons. We had 54 colonists and a decent amount of starting supplies, so Cassandra Classic deigned our wealth value to merit a harsher event).
So, the more resources I gather and the further along the ship gets, the more the game will try to kill us.
#312
GasBandit
GasBandit
Thing is, the first 1/3 to die will be the armed ones. If the militia is killed off/incapacitated, there's nobody left to stop the pirates from running around throwing grenades and setting fires, as is often their wont. It's entirely possible they would burn down the ship. We'd just have to keep our fingers crossed that they don't, in that unfortunate eventuality.If there's a really bad raid/game event that kills 2/3 of the colony, you are also good to go. Look on the bright side.
#314
TommiR
TommiR
#315
Dei
Dei
#316
Eriol
I'm dead. I don't need to abide by EEL#20.
Eriol
Ya but I'm dead! This is all entertainment now.Yeah, but saying so generally jinxes it
Mwahahahaha!!!!
I'm dead. I don't need to abide by EEL#20.
#317
GasBandit
And even then, somebody still has to cross that damn desert and fight those damn pirates, because it's bigger than pod-range.
But yes, my calculations included BUYING supplies at every town we pass along the way, because even now money is plentiful, and probably will be even moreso in 7 years.
GasBandit
I tried to take a pod-based single-jump shortcut last playthrough with a measelly 20 colonists, just to get myself a 10 day headstart and it was a fucking nightmare. Loading the pods was a complete clusterfuck. And my experience with pods in a playthrough previous to that (where I tried to set up trade networks with multiple towns using leapfrog transport pod stations) basically establishes that "leapfrogging" pods becomes exponentially more expensive with each successive jump. Unfortunately, given the logistical limitations of the game, transport pods are basically "small load" solutions at best.
And even then, somebody still has to cross that damn desert and fight those damn pirates, because it's bigger than pod-range.
... are you suggesting we raid our way across the landscape?
But yes, my calculations included BUYING supplies at every town we pass along the way, because even now money is plentiful, and probably will be even moreso in 7 years.
#318
Dei
Dei
Have one person with supplies pod jump across the entire route (max pod range each hop) and set up supply dumps with permanent camps.I tried to take a pod-based single-jump shortcut last playthrough with a measelly 20 colonists, just to get myself a 10 day headstart and it was a fucking nightmare. Loading the pods was a complete clusterfuck. And my experience with pods in a playthrough previous to that basically establishes that "leapfrogging" pods becomes exponentially more expensive with each successive jump. Unfortunately, given the logistical limitations of the game, transport pods are basically "small load" solutions at best.
And even then, somebody still has to cross that damn desert and fight those damn pirates, because it's bigger than pod-range.
... are you suggesting we raid our way across the landscape?
But yes, my calculations included BUYING supplies at every town we pass along the way, because even now money is plentiful, and probably will be even moreso in 7 years.
#319
TommiR
TommiR
#320
Dei
Dei
#321
TommiR
TommiR
With a planet killer on the way, perhaps the time has come to be pragmatic about the situation.... are you suggesting we raid our way across the landscape?
#322
Dave
Dave
#323
GasBandit
GasBandit
A deeper explanation of how "leapfrogging" transport pods creates a huge ramping cost curve:
Every pod is single use and must be rebuilt and its launcher refueled after every launch. A pod takes 80 steel and 2 components to make. Assuming you're unable to source those requirements at each waystation (which is usually the case), it means the home base will have to ship replacement steel and components (along with chemfuel) along the same chain. One pod can carry a maximum of 300 steel (150kg weight limit). If you strip off their weapons and armor, you can usually squeeze two people into a pod.
So, you send one thing along a chain, of let's say 5 pod stations.
BASE -> S1 -> S2 -> S3 -> S4 -> S5 -> Destination
So, after the first payload reaches its destination, you have to rebuild the pods.
The base's pod is no problem, the materials are right there.
Each station requires 80 steel and 2 components, but for our purpses the components are of negligible weight, let's just focus on the steel.
To ship the 80 steel required to station 5 will mean that Station 4 now requires 160 steel (80 more to rebuild its own pod after it has launched station 5's required supplies).
To get 160 steel to station 4 means that station 3 will require 160 steel as well.
To get 320 steel to station 3 means station 2 will require 240 steel - since only 300 steel will fit in a single pod, sending the supplies to station 3 will require station 2 launch 2 pods.
That means sending 560 steel to station 2, which means station 1 will require 240 steel as well.
So, after sending one payload to its destination, Base will have to expend 240 steel of its own to send three pods with the 800 steel to station one, so it can then relay the rest of the steel needed to the stations further down the line. What costs 80 steel to send one hop now costs 1040 to send 6.
And that's not counting components and fuel, which also must be sent via pod.
All to get a single pod's cargo to the destination.[DOUBLEPOST=1502385069,1502384915][/DOUBLEPOST]
Also you have to get the mod I have to make component assembly reasonable, otherwise machining a single component takes days.[DOUBLEPOST=1502385241][/DOUBLEPOST] but that's not the issue.
The issue is the distance between towns and such, especially in the desert, may require more food than we can carry - especially given that there is no forage/grazing in the desert for the animals, which means they'll have to be fed meals.
Every pod is single use and must be rebuilt and its launcher refueled after every launch. A pod takes 80 steel and 2 components to make. Assuming you're unable to source those requirements at each waystation (which is usually the case), it means the home base will have to ship replacement steel and components (along with chemfuel) along the same chain. One pod can carry a maximum of 300 steel (150kg weight limit). If you strip off their weapons and armor, you can usually squeeze two people into a pod.
So, you send one thing along a chain, of let's say 5 pod stations.
BASE -> S1 -> S2 -> S3 -> S4 -> S5 -> Destination
So, after the first payload reaches its destination, you have to rebuild the pods.
The base's pod is no problem, the materials are right there.
Each station requires 80 steel and 2 components, but for our purpses the components are of negligible weight, let's just focus on the steel.
To ship the 80 steel required to station 5 will mean that Station 4 now requires 160 steel (80 more to rebuild its own pod after it has launched station 5's required supplies).
To get 160 steel to station 4 means that station 3 will require 160 steel as well.
To get 320 steel to station 3 means station 2 will require 240 steel - since only 300 steel will fit in a single pod, sending the supplies to station 3 will require station 2 launch 2 pods.
That means sending 560 steel to station 2, which means station 1 will require 240 steel as well.
So, after sending one payload to its destination, Base will have to expend 240 steel of its own to send three pods with the 800 steel to station one, so it can then relay the rest of the steel needed to the stations further down the line. What costs 80 steel to send one hop now costs 1040 to send 6.
And that's not counting components and fuel, which also must be sent via pod.
All to get a single pod's cargo to the destination.[DOUBLEPOST=1502385069,1502384915][/DOUBLEPOST]
You have to research component assembly, which requires a high-tech research bench and a multi-analyzer (which itself requires its own research, plus gold and plasteel to build). That will allow you to construct a component assembly bench (which is a gigantic FIVE BY TWO structure) for 400 steel and 20 components.
Also you have to get the mod I have to make component assembly reasonable, otherwise machining a single component takes days.[DOUBLEPOST=1502385241][/DOUBLEPOST]
It's unneccessary. Money is very light, and we've got enough to buy out the foodstores of all the other towns easily. I've got no moral compunctions about raiding pirate strongholds, however
but that's not the issue.The issue is the distance between towns and such, especially in the desert, may require more food than we can carry - especially given that there is no forage/grazing in the desert for the animals, which means they'll have to be fed meals.
#324
Eriol
Eriol
#325
GasBandit
GasBandit
#326
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#327
GasBandit
GasBandit
#328
SpecialKO
[DOUBLEPOST=1502396111,1502395973][/DOUBLEPOST]A sword, a power armor set, a shield belt and a Terrik-shaped mobile cover unit are all I need.
SpecialKO
Nah, I intentionally made a guy who stabs things all the time, so I'll stick with this. You've done a really good job making me useful.
[DOUBLEPOST=1502396111,1502395973][/DOUBLEPOST]A sword, a power armor set, a shield belt and a Terrik-shaped mobile cover unit are all I need.
#329
GasBandit
GasBandit
#330
Bubble181
Bubble181
He's not likely to get his uterus shot out, either, for a similar reason.
#331
Null
Null
Jun wasn't even there!He's not likely to get his uterus shot out, either, for a similar reason.
#332
Emrys
Emrys
I think it's time for my polar bear to start thinning the herd.
#333
GasBandit
GasBandit
Maybe I should lock you and Squidley in the Polar Bear's room, and whichever one he doesn't eat gets to be his masterI think it's time for my polar bear to start thinning the herd.
#334
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
FTFY and @Ravenpoe.Maybe I should lock you and Squidley in Ravenpoe's room, and whichever one he doesn't eat gets to be his master
#335
Emrys
Emrys
#337
jwhouk
jwhouk
#338
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - Year 5503, part 2: Summer
Jugust 2, 5503 - A psychic ship lands right smack inside the compound wall and needs to be dealt with. It is accomplished with comparatively little damage to the colonists, but Masahiro, Dodge's cat, is caught in the crossfire and killed. BErt took two charge lance hits to the chest... if it hadn't been for the new armor vests distributed to all the colonists, we'd be making him a sarcophagus right now.
Pictured: Gad dammit
Pictured: Alas, poor Masahiro
Jug 3 - A cargo pod with some precious rare hyperweave cloth crashes east of the wall. That's a big deal. Hyperweave can only be made on glitterworlds, and is needed to make synthetic internal organs and synthetic skin (for removing scars from body parts that can't be replaced with bionics, like the torso).
Jug 4 - Moffa is attacked by maddened boomrats while out hunting. He kills them, but is set on fire and drops his charge rifle... which also catches fire. Expensive goof, Moffa.
Pictured: Moffa aflame
Jug 5 - Film Fanatic and Bubble get in a fight in the gaming room. Terrik, SpecialKO, Gas, Charon and Moffa go check out a mineral cache via transport pod. Turns out, there's a pirate outpost there... manned by Wasabi's mom and Snuffles' dad. They also have turrets and an inciendiary mortar! This might be a tough nut to crack. GasBandit snipes turrets until the two pirates leave their entrenched area to attack. Terrik takes great pleasure in killing Mama Poptart with his sword. Pirate Upgaus tries to hit them with the mortar, but it's raining, and the rain shorts out the batteries and causes them to explode. Gasbandit snipes out the last turret defending the north side, and the party charges. Upagus is downed - but then his mortar explodes and kills him. It doesn't take long after that to take out the remaining turrets. Once the area is safe, Gas patches up the light wounds that were sustained, and Cheesy is sent in a pod with building materials for a temporary camp to exploit the resources of the region. Turns out, "Safe" might have been a generous appraisal. During the fighting, some of Upagus' mortars struck a nearby ancient crypt... which cause the cryptosleep caskets inside to eject their occupants. The psychotic men and women within managed to overcome the scythers inside the building by attrition, and the few that lived broke down the door to get out. Seeing the Halforumites, they attack. Gas and SpecialKO manage to take them out while the others are recovering/sleeping. A 35 year old female ninja named Mie is rescued from the crypt. The away team decides to use the now-vacant crypt as their shelter while they are on location.
Pictured: Film v. Bubble
Pictured: Upagus and Poptart, guarding the mineral cache
Pictured: Terrik feeds his bloodlust
Pictured: Upagus is downed, but... uh oh, that sparking mortar launcher can't be good news.
Pictured: The Crypt Spacers burst forth from their slumber
Jug 6 - Puppy, DarkAudit's bonded husky, has a brief, mild heart attack. The Polar Bear attacks and wounds Far while Far is trying to tame it. Far is treated in the infirmary, and the bear's door is locked until it calms down. Mie regains consciousness and mobility, but does not elect to join the group. She wanders, wounded and mostly naked, out into the wilderness. Mikerc makes a masterwork charge rifle and names it "SpecialKO's Cash."
Pictured: The Polar Bear tries to eat Far
Jug 8 - Krisken insults Frank, who knocks him right the fuck out. Bubble proposes to NoblHippy, who accepts. Wasabi's been smoking a lot of weed to deal with the death of her mother. Goes without saying she now hates Terrik with a burning passion.
Pictured: It was a short brawl.
Pictured: Tiptoe through the spectago with Bubble and NoblHippy
Jug 9 - Dave is out hunting wild muffalo, when the herd turns on him. There are so many they quickly stomp him into unconsciousness. The herd then goes charging at the colony itself, into the killbox. The colonists deal with them there, while Null's dog Bellboy goes and retrieves Dave, and drags him to safety. He is laid up for quite a while. Count and Romeo (Kags and Hylian's foxes) are caught in the crossfire and are wounded, but survive... though Count loses a leg.
Pictured: I hope Dave wore his brown pants today
Jug 10 - Jun installs an experimental animal-type bionic leg on Count, replacing the one that got shot off. A group of pirate sappers stage a surprise attack from the east. They have a doomsday rocket launcher! They fire it through the hole in the wall, causing widespread damage and injury. The pirates are driven off, Gryfter's grandfather is killed and Susy's father is captured. Many colonists sustain burns from trying to fight the massive fire in the east dormitory. Many beds are lost, but the building is saved. There's lots of bandaging and repairing done the rest of the day, and that night, a heat wave begins.
Pictured: Count - the cyborg fox
Pictured: Surprise sapper attack - this is the downside of building close to the edge of the map.
Pictured: KA-DOOOOOM
Jug 12 - Just barely getting back on our feet, a group of mechanoids moves in from the north. Despite explicit policy set to not leave the home area, Ravenpoe goes outside and finds a scyther has cut him off from returning to safety. A pig goes berserk and attacks, and Moffa gets caught in the crossfire of the killbox and is downed by the turrets. He sustains several hits to the head and suffers permanent brain damage. Squidley sustains some minor injuries in the firefight with the mechanoids once they arrive at the killbox, but aside from her and Moffa, everyone ends up ok.
Pictured: No rest for the weary
Pictured: The automatic defenses cut down Moffa, trying to shoot the pig attacking him
Jug 13 - The heat wave ends. Moffa, depressed over his reduced mental capacity after leading such an active, self-sufficient, and productive lifestyle previously, turns to smoking reefer. It overwhelms what brain he has left, and he blacks out and must be carried to bed. There is a procedure that can return Moffa's brain function to normal... but it would require 150 uranium to make the AI chip that would be implanted in his brain. That's a doozy of a decision. Jun successfully uses synthetic skin made from the hyperweave that dropped in a pod to erase the painful scar Zero had on his torso. Gruebeard gets a bionic eye to replace the one that was mangled by the doomsday rocket.
Jug 14 - Patrthom is installed with a bionic eye for the same reason as Grue.
Jug 15 - The ship now has 23 caskets. The polar bear is still not tame. There's 254 uranium in storage... do we fix Moffa's brain?
Pictured: The social standings at the end of Jugust, 5503
Pictured: Gad dammit
Pictured: Alas, poor Masahiro
Jug 3 - A cargo pod with some precious rare hyperweave cloth crashes east of the wall. That's a big deal. Hyperweave can only be made on glitterworlds, and is needed to make synthetic internal organs and synthetic skin (for removing scars from body parts that can't be replaced with bionics, like the torso).
Jug 4 - Moffa is attacked by maddened boomrats while out hunting. He kills them, but is set on fire and drops his charge rifle... which also catches fire. Expensive goof, Moffa.
Pictured: Moffa aflame
Jug 5 - Film Fanatic and Bubble get in a fight in the gaming room. Terrik, SpecialKO, Gas, Charon and Moffa go check out a mineral cache via transport pod. Turns out, there's a pirate outpost there... manned by Wasabi's mom and Snuffles' dad. They also have turrets and an inciendiary mortar! This might be a tough nut to crack. GasBandit snipes turrets until the two pirates leave their entrenched area to attack. Terrik takes great pleasure in killing Mama Poptart with his sword. Pirate Upgaus tries to hit them with the mortar, but it's raining, and the rain shorts out the batteries and causes them to explode. Gasbandit snipes out the last turret defending the north side, and the party charges. Upagus is downed - but then his mortar explodes and kills him. It doesn't take long after that to take out the remaining turrets. Once the area is safe, Gas patches up the light wounds that were sustained, and Cheesy is sent in a pod with building materials for a temporary camp to exploit the resources of the region. Turns out, "Safe" might have been a generous appraisal. During the fighting, some of Upagus' mortars struck a nearby ancient crypt... which cause the cryptosleep caskets inside to eject their occupants. The psychotic men and women within managed to overcome the scythers inside the building by attrition, and the few that lived broke down the door to get out. Seeing the Halforumites, they attack. Gas and SpecialKO manage to take them out while the others are recovering/sleeping. A 35 year old female ninja named Mie is rescued from the crypt. The away team decides to use the now-vacant crypt as their shelter while they are on location.
Pictured: Film v. Bubble
Pictured: Upagus and Poptart, guarding the mineral cache
Pictured: Terrik feeds his bloodlust
Pictured: Upagus is downed, but... uh oh, that sparking mortar launcher can't be good news.
Pictured: The Crypt Spacers burst forth from their slumber
Jug 6 - Puppy, DarkAudit's bonded husky, has a brief, mild heart attack. The Polar Bear attacks and wounds Far while Far is trying to tame it. Far is treated in the infirmary, and the bear's door is locked until it calms down. Mie regains consciousness and mobility, but does not elect to join the group. She wanders, wounded and mostly naked, out into the wilderness. Mikerc makes a masterwork charge rifle and names it "SpecialKO's Cash."
Pictured: The Polar Bear tries to eat Far
Jug 8 - Krisken insults Frank, who knocks him right the fuck out. Bubble proposes to NoblHippy, who accepts. Wasabi's been smoking a lot of weed to deal with the death of her mother. Goes without saying she now hates Terrik with a burning passion.
Pictured: It was a short brawl.
Pictured: Tiptoe through the spectago with Bubble and NoblHippy
Jug 9 - Dave is out hunting wild muffalo, when the herd turns on him. There are so many they quickly stomp him into unconsciousness. The herd then goes charging at the colony itself, into the killbox. The colonists deal with them there, while Null's dog Bellboy goes and retrieves Dave, and drags him to safety. He is laid up for quite a while. Count and Romeo (Kags and Hylian's foxes) are caught in the crossfire and are wounded, but survive... though Count loses a leg.
Pictured: I hope Dave wore his brown pants today
Jug 10 - Jun installs an experimental animal-type bionic leg on Count, replacing the one that got shot off. A group of pirate sappers stage a surprise attack from the east. They have a doomsday rocket launcher! They fire it through the hole in the wall, causing widespread damage and injury. The pirates are driven off, Gryfter's grandfather is killed and Susy's father is captured. Many colonists sustain burns from trying to fight the massive fire in the east dormitory. Many beds are lost, but the building is saved. There's lots of bandaging and repairing done the rest of the day, and that night, a heat wave begins.
Pictured: Count - the cyborg fox
Pictured: Surprise sapper attack - this is the downside of building close to the edge of the map.
Pictured: KA-DOOOOOM
Jug 12 - Just barely getting back on our feet, a group of mechanoids moves in from the north. Despite explicit policy set to not leave the home area, Ravenpoe goes outside and finds a scyther has cut him off from returning to safety. A pig goes berserk and attacks, and Moffa gets caught in the crossfire of the killbox and is downed by the turrets. He sustains several hits to the head and suffers permanent brain damage. Squidley sustains some minor injuries in the firefight with the mechanoids once they arrive at the killbox, but aside from her and Moffa, everyone ends up ok.
Pictured: No rest for the weary
Pictured: The automatic defenses cut down Moffa, trying to shoot the pig attacking him
Jug 13 - The heat wave ends. Moffa, depressed over his reduced mental capacity after leading such an active, self-sufficient, and productive lifestyle previously, turns to smoking reefer. It overwhelms what brain he has left, and he blacks out and must be carried to bed. There is a procedure that can return Moffa's brain function to normal... but it would require 150 uranium to make the AI chip that would be implanted in his brain. That's a doozy of a decision. Jun successfully uses synthetic skin made from the hyperweave that dropped in a pod to erase the painful scar Zero had on his torso. Gruebeard gets a bionic eye to replace the one that was mangled by the doomsday rocket.
Jug 14 - Patrthom is installed with a bionic eye for the same reason as Grue.
Jug 15 - The ship now has 23 caskets. The polar bear is still not tame. There's 254 uranium in storage... do we fix Moffa's brain?
Pictured: The social standings at the end of Jugust, 5503
#339
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#340
Null
Null
#341
Bubble181
Bubble181
Hey, as long as there's enough uranium left over for pods for me and my fiancee
We want to get off world so we can start a happy family
We want to get off world so we can start a happy family
#342
Celt Z
Celt Z
Do we still have 7 years? I'd chip him, we could possibly get more supplies.
Told you that polar bear was up to no good. He belongs at Halforums Academy, not the colony!
(Looking at that last screencap: helllloooooo, Officer!
)
Told you that polar bear was up to no good. He belongs at Halforums Academy, not the colony!
(Looking at that last screencap: helllloooooo, Officer!
)
#343
ncts_dodge_man
ncts_dodge_man
#344
Celt Z
Celt Z
#345
Gryfter
Gryfter
#346
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#347
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
My beautiful cyborg baby! 
HE'S ALIVE!
And praise Jun.
HE'S ALIVE!And praise Jun.
#348
Eriol
Eriol
#349
GasBandit
GasBandit
#350
Siska
Siska
#351
PatrThom
PatrThom
#352
Dei
Dei
#353
PatrThom
PatrThom
#354
GasBandit
and furthermore, "maximizing" melee potential would require way too much micromanagement, to put it lightly.
What I did was basically create the facilities, then tweak everyone's job assigments so that they'd try to do things they were passionate about first. After that, it was up to everyone to figure it out for themselves.
Sometimes that has unexpected results. For example, I didn't TELL Keltsy be a great white hunter, and she has no interest whatsoever in shooting, but damn if she hasn't gained SO many levels in it.[DOUBLEPOST=1502466861,1502466812][/DOUBLEPOST]
But there's no "job" that requires/raises melee.
GasBandit
I didn't "plan" anything
and furthermore, "maximizing" melee potential would require way too much micromanagement, to put it lightly.What I did was basically create the facilities, then tweak everyone's job assigments so that they'd try to do things they were passionate about first. After that, it was up to everyone to figure it out for themselves.
Sometimes that has unexpected results. For example, I didn't TELL Keltsy be a great white hunter, and she has no interest whatsoever in shooting, but damn if she hasn't gained SO many levels in it.[DOUBLEPOST=1502466861,1502466812][/DOUBLEPOST]
That and there's no automatic job that raises it. Hunting raises shooting. Dealing with prisoners raises social. Etc etc.
But there's no "job" that requires/raises melee.
#355
Celt Z
Celt Z
Snap one pirate's neck, and it opened a floodgate of insatiable bloodlust. Just ask the chickens.
#356
GasBandit
GasBandit
You are just ACHING for me to make a rooster joke, aren't you.Snap one pirate's neck, and it opened a floodgate of insatiable bloodlust. Just ask the chickens.
#358
General Specific
General Specific
#359
ncts_dodge_man
ncts_dodge_man
#360
GasBandit
GasBandit
#361
jwhouk
jwhouk
#362
GasBandit
GasBandit
#364
Dave
Dave
I know what I'd do. Of course, this is my current meat freezer.
#365
WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
#366
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - Year 5503, part 3 - Fall
Septober 1, 5503 - Foodstores are not where they should be for the approaching winter. A cotton field is repurposed to rice. After a series of frustrating days, Moffa enters a ship cryptosleep pod and goes into suspended animation to wait for either an AI chip implant, or for the ship to leave. Ashburner goes on a weed smoking binge.
Sept 2 - Gas, Thynne, Charon, Terrik and SpecialKO pile back into the pods to check out another potential resource find. The overabundance of armament turns out to be overkill, as there's nothing there but minerals and animals - not even an "ancient danger" crypt. Cheesy and Cog are sent immediately after the area is confirmed secure, to help mine the resources. Ako and Sir stage a prison break. They split up, and Akio (Susy's father) runs afoul of Frank, who blasts him. Sir (Patrthom's father) manages to sneak out a back door in the commotion. Somehow that back door was left unlocked... an inside job?! Since Akio attacked Frank (and beat up a husky puppy!) on his way, instead of going out quietly like Sir did, he is judged guilty and executed. Jun performs the medical execution as humanely as possible. Susy still hates her now, though. The negative vibes are too much for Ashburner, man, and he like, goes on another weed smoking binge. Somebody has let the polar bear out of its room. Akio is buried next to Veniamin Pitt.
Pictured: This mineral cache is actually kinda far
Pictured: A veritable cornucopia of nothing
Pictured: Frank shoots at the escapees
Pictured: Sir Menner escapes
Pictured: The execution of Akio is quick and painless.
Pictured: Ash, 420 blazin' it
Sept 3 - Silence, Celt Z's muffalo, gets struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. Fortunately Kags is nearby to help extinguish the flames, and Silence is then anesthetized and his burns are treated by Susy. SpecialKO returns home via transport pod, followed soon after by Terrik - they being the least useful in a mining situation. Jwhouk finally tames that razzafrazzin bear. As Squidley doesn't have the requisite animal skill to handle a bear, Emrys is made her master. It's not set in stone, though - the bear has yet to form any bonds with anyone.
Pictured: I bet that tingles
Pictured: The taming of the bear
Sept 4 - Thynne is sent home from the mining camp. Now it's just Gas, Cheesy, Charon and Cog. Cheesy and Cog are showing signs of stress, so Gas spends some time constructing objects to try to make them feel more comfortable. Bubble and Noblhippy get married in the rose garden. Cheesy's stress levels cause him to spend the rest of the day moping around.
Pictured: Bubble and Noblhippy's wedding reception
Sept 5 - A flash electrical storm sets many wildfires and imperils the northern power conduit. Many colonists spend the entire day fighting the blaze. A trade caravan comes through with a large number of relatives in it. Seems a great many of the ship's survivors fell in with the Alliance of (indecipherable). It is made sure that the next supply pod sent to the mining camp includes some smokeleaf joints to take the edge off for certain people.
Pictured: That's a lot of relatives
Sept 6 - A large sapper raid arrives from the southeast - and Sir is with them, and he's also brought Patrthom's mother, Aletta. Seems there's hard feelings for keeping him locked up for 2 years. The sappers try digging through a corner where there are no defensive structures on the inside, and stay too close to the wall for mortars. A smaller part of the defensive force stays where they are digging while the larger part heads out to flank them. Sir is shot dead in the first volley - by who else? Celt Z. A pirate fires a rocket poing blank at Klew's arctic wolf, Killer, which kills the pirate and the wolf both. When the pirates break through the wall, a well-timed pincer move by the defenders catches them and smashes their ranks. Aletta is also killed. The most serious injury on our side (aside from a dead pet wolf) is Null - who loses a toe. Any surviving downed pirates are executed immediately on the battlefield. Patrthom's parents are buried with the others.
Pictured: That is also a lot of relatives
Pictured: The flanking maneuver
Pictured: White wolf down
Sept 7 - Bellboy, Null's labrador, gets an infection from a wound sustained the day before. As the infection is in a leg that is already missing the paw, it's decided to amputate the entire leg and replace it with a bionic animal leg. But a solar flare knocks out all the electricity, so it will have to wait a day. Late that night, Gas is finally the last colonist to return from the mining camp.
Sept 8 - Jun installs Bellboy's bionic leg - and just in time - that infection was getting out of hand. Jwhouk is slighted by Squidley and a fight breaks out. Squidley finds the fight cathartic, but it pisses off Jwhouk even more. Ashburner reacts with another pot binge.
Pictured: Jwhouk v. Squidley
Sept 9 - With the nights getting colder, the dusters and cowboy hats are traded back out for Parkas and Tuques.
Sept 10 - A pack of alphabeavers goes violent, and attacks Gryfter, then Wasabi. Dirona, Patrthom and Squidley save them, and no important limbs are lost.
Pictured: Drowning in beavers
Sept 12 - Nothing bad has happened for a couple days. Ashburner can't take the suspense, and goes on a pot smoking binge.
Pictured: Ashburner happily tending to his smokeleaf crop
Sept 15 - The last harvest of the fall is a bumper crop. There's now plenty of food to make it through the winter, even if hunting is scarce.
Pictured: Social standings
Sept 2 - Gas, Thynne, Charon, Terrik and SpecialKO pile back into the pods to check out another potential resource find. The overabundance of armament turns out to be overkill, as there's nothing there but minerals and animals - not even an "ancient danger" crypt. Cheesy and Cog are sent immediately after the area is confirmed secure, to help mine the resources. Ako and Sir stage a prison break. They split up, and Akio (Susy's father) runs afoul of Frank, who blasts him. Sir (Patrthom's father) manages to sneak out a back door in the commotion. Somehow that back door was left unlocked... an inside job?! Since Akio attacked Frank (and beat up a husky puppy!) on his way, instead of going out quietly like Sir did, he is judged guilty and executed. Jun performs the medical execution as humanely as possible. Susy still hates her now, though. The negative vibes are too much for Ashburner, man, and he like, goes on another weed smoking binge. Somebody has let the polar bear out of its room. Akio is buried next to Veniamin Pitt.
Pictured: This mineral cache is actually kinda far
Pictured: A veritable cornucopia of nothing
Pictured: Frank shoots at the escapees
Pictured: Sir Menner escapes
Pictured: The execution of Akio is quick and painless.
Pictured: Ash, 420 blazin' it
Sept 3 - Silence, Celt Z's muffalo, gets struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. Fortunately Kags is nearby to help extinguish the flames, and Silence is then anesthetized and his burns are treated by Susy. SpecialKO returns home via transport pod, followed soon after by Terrik - they being the least useful in a mining situation. Jwhouk finally tames that razzafrazzin bear. As Squidley doesn't have the requisite animal skill to handle a bear, Emrys is made her master. It's not set in stone, though - the bear has yet to form any bonds with anyone.
Pictured: I bet that tingles
Pictured: The taming of the bear
Sept 4 - Thynne is sent home from the mining camp. Now it's just Gas, Cheesy, Charon and Cog. Cheesy and Cog are showing signs of stress, so Gas spends some time constructing objects to try to make them feel more comfortable. Bubble and Noblhippy get married in the rose garden. Cheesy's stress levels cause him to spend the rest of the day moping around.
Pictured: Bubble and Noblhippy's wedding reception
Sept 5 - A flash electrical storm sets many wildfires and imperils the northern power conduit. Many colonists spend the entire day fighting the blaze. A trade caravan comes through with a large number of relatives in it. Seems a great many of the ship's survivors fell in with the Alliance of (indecipherable). It is made sure that the next supply pod sent to the mining camp includes some smokeleaf joints to take the edge off for certain people.
Pictured: That's a lot of relatives
Sept 6 - A large sapper raid arrives from the southeast - and Sir is with them, and he's also brought Patrthom's mother, Aletta. Seems there's hard feelings for keeping him locked up for 2 years. The sappers try digging through a corner where there are no defensive structures on the inside, and stay too close to the wall for mortars. A smaller part of the defensive force stays where they are digging while the larger part heads out to flank them. Sir is shot dead in the first volley - by who else? Celt Z. A pirate fires a rocket poing blank at Klew's arctic wolf, Killer, which kills the pirate and the wolf both. When the pirates break through the wall, a well-timed pincer move by the defenders catches them and smashes their ranks. Aletta is also killed. The most serious injury on our side (aside from a dead pet wolf) is Null - who loses a toe. Any surviving downed pirates are executed immediately on the battlefield. Patrthom's parents are buried with the others.
Pictured: That is also a lot of relatives
Pictured: The flanking maneuver
Pictured: White wolf down
Sept 7 - Bellboy, Null's labrador, gets an infection from a wound sustained the day before. As the infection is in a leg that is already missing the paw, it's decided to amputate the entire leg and replace it with a bionic animal leg. But a solar flare knocks out all the electricity, so it will have to wait a day. Late that night, Gas is finally the last colonist to return from the mining camp.
Sept 8 - Jun installs Bellboy's bionic leg - and just in time - that infection was getting out of hand. Jwhouk is slighted by Squidley and a fight breaks out. Squidley finds the fight cathartic, but it pisses off Jwhouk even more. Ashburner reacts with another pot binge.
Pictured: Jwhouk v. Squidley
Sept 9 - With the nights getting colder, the dusters and cowboy hats are traded back out for Parkas and Tuques.
Sept 10 - A pack of alphabeavers goes violent, and attacks Gryfter, then Wasabi. Dirona, Patrthom and Squidley save them, and no important limbs are lost.
Pictured: Drowning in beavers
Sept 12 - Nothing bad has happened for a couple days. Ashburner can't take the suspense, and goes on a pot smoking binge.
Pictured: Ashburner happily tending to his smokeleaf crop
Sept 15 - The last harvest of the fall is a bumper crop. There's now plenty of food to make it through the winter, even if hunting is scarce.
Pictured: Social standings
#367
Cheesy1
Cheesy1
#368
jwhouk
jwhouk
Sure, I tame the polar bear and what happens? CeltZ is no longer my friend.
#369
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
Oshit, waddup?(Looking at that last screencap: helllloooooo, Officer!
#370
klew
klew
#371
Dei
Dei
#372
Null
Null
#373
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#374
Celt Z
Celt Z
Silence, noooooooooooo!
And sorry, Sir.
But The Dude cannot abide a polar bear....apparently.
And sorry, Sir.
Sure, I tame the polar bear and what happens? CeltZ is no longer my friend.
But The Dude cannot abide a polar bear....apparently.
I have a cult?! I am ready for this!
#375
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
Notice on the compound bulletin board: KEEP @Celt Z FAR AWAY FROM THE APPLESAUCE AND VODKA.I have a cult?! I am ready for this!
#376
BErt
BErt
#377
PatrThom
PatrThom
#378
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#379
GasBandit
GasBandit
#380
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#381
Gryfter
Gryfter
#382
GasBandit
GasBandit
The ship I used in the teaser had a crew of 30,000... soo... probably ALL our families
#383
Emrys
Emrys
#384
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
Is it the original code or a mod that is throwing so many relatives at us? Because it's getting a bit off-putting and taking me out of the story. I know, "real world logic" and all that. But it's starting to show why this is still in alpha after all this time.The ship I used in the teaser had a crew of 30,000... soo... probably ALL our families
#385
Dei
Dei
#386
GasBandit
GasBandit
#387
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#388
PatrThom
PatrThom
#389
jwhouk
jwhouk
#391
jwhouk
jwhouk
#392
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#393
PatrThom
PatrThom
#394
Bubble181
Bubble181
Sure, okay, she killed grampa, but...have you SEEN the size of her....eyes?
#395
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - Year 5503, part 4 - Winter
Decembruary 2, 5503 - GasBandit is nuzzled by a muffalo while working around the ship and names him Aussie, which strikes me as humorous. Now Wasabi can tell her husband he's in the game, too. Dodge and Cog get into a fight in the workshop. It isn't long or brutal, but Cog is clearly worse for wear. That night, a bug infestation suddenly pops up around the steel mine. BErt is in the mine when it happens, and is downed with life-threatening injuries. Putt-Putt loses an ear. Thankfully, the militia is able to kill the bugs and get to BErt in time to save him. However, the mining equipment is damaged and the two masterpiece sculptures there to keep the miners happy are destroyed.
Pictured: I dub thee Aussie.
Pictured: Dodge v Cog
Pictured: The infestation begins
Pictured: Take that, bug scum!
Dec 3 - Cargo pods full of wort (unfermented beer) fall in the middle of the crops. Wut. Who..
Pictured: WHO SHIPS UNFERMENTED BEER INTERPLANETARY? WHY?
Dec 4 - Cog throws a party in the dining hall at 4 in the morning. Attendance is understandably low, but even BErt manages to limp his way out of the hospital to be there.
Pictured: Morphine. It's the only way to paaarty
Dec 5 - Score! Cargo pods full of 79 uranium land just outside the north wall. Nice. Maybe it's time to make Moffa's brain chip.
Pictured: Manna from heaven. Really heavy, ugly, radioactive manna.
Dec 7 - It's taken a couple days to manufacture the chip, but Moffa is finally taken out of Cryptosleep and implanted with an AI chip by Jun. When he comes around from the anesthetic, he's good as new! Well, except for the hearing loss in his ears, but that's another matter.
Pictured: Brain Surgery, now with helmets
Dec 8 - One of the other faction leaders sells us a tip on an item cache that has 211 uranium in it. Unfortunately, it is guarded by a pirate outpost. The usual gang of balla-shotcallas are loaded into transport pods and sent to wreck shit. Turns out Mikerc's dad, GasBandit's mom and Denbrott's mom were among the pirates. I didn't even realize it until the fight was over. Thynne killed Mr. Someguy, SpecialKO killed Mrs. Pomona while she was fleeing, and Mrs. Spaniard escapes with some wounds. Thynne was caught in a grenade blast and took a lot of damage, but nothing too serious. GasBandit loses a finger, Terrik loses a toe. But the day is one and the payday is made. If you want to watch the actual combat, here's a highlight, but I recommend cranking it to 1.25x speed, maybe even 1.50.
Pictured: The tip
Pictured: The payoff
Dec 10 - The last of the raiding party returns from the item cache.
Dec 12 - A herd of deer goes mad and Gruebeard is surrounded. He gets stomped bad, but rescuers are soon on the scene and he is carried to the hospital by Squidley.
Pictured: Oh deer, Gruebeard
Dec 14 - Apparently it's Frank's turn to throw a 4am party. All these parties are actually kinda doing us a favor, it's been a very mild winter, and the foodstores are bursting at the seams. As people wake up, they wander into the festivities for breakfast. 11 Man-eating grizzlies enter the area. The Militia meets them in the killbox. Although Dirona gets clawed up a bit, there is a delightfully surprising lack of friendly-fire given how these things usually go.
Pictured: 6 am and the joint is jumpin'
Pictured: We sustain bear-ly any injuries
Dec 15 - I just had to say something about how mild the winter has been. A cold snap slams into the area, causing a late hard freeze. Not that supplies are particularly threatened. At the end of the year, the ship has 45 Cryptosleep pods. Making good progress. I worry about the rising wealth levels of the colony, however, and what that means for the challenges ahead.
Pictured: the wealth graph of the colony
Trying something different for the social standings, as they're getting difficult to get useful data out of -
Here they are only reflecting "likes" of 40 or stronger
Here are the "hates" of 40 or stronger
Here is the combined graphic
Pictured: I dub thee Aussie.
Pictured: Dodge v Cog
Pictured: The infestation begins
Pictured: Take that, bug scum!
Dec 3 - Cargo pods full of wort (unfermented beer) fall in the middle of the crops. Wut. Who..
Pictured: WHO SHIPS UNFERMENTED BEER INTERPLANETARY? WHY?
Dec 4 - Cog throws a party in the dining hall at 4 in the morning. Attendance is understandably low, but even BErt manages to limp his way out of the hospital to be there.
Pictured: Morphine. It's the only way to paaarty
Dec 5 - Score! Cargo pods full of 79 uranium land just outside the north wall. Nice. Maybe it's time to make Moffa's brain chip.
Pictured: Manna from heaven. Really heavy, ugly, radioactive manna.
Dec 7 - It's taken a couple days to manufacture the chip, but Moffa is finally taken out of Cryptosleep and implanted with an AI chip by Jun. When he comes around from the anesthetic, he's good as new! Well, except for the hearing loss in his ears, but that's another matter.
Pictured: Brain Surgery, now with helmets
Dec 8 - One of the other faction leaders sells us a tip on an item cache that has 211 uranium in it. Unfortunately, it is guarded by a pirate outpost. The usual gang of balla-shotcallas are loaded into transport pods and sent to wreck shit. Turns out Mikerc's dad, GasBandit's mom and Denbrott's mom were among the pirates. I didn't even realize it until the fight was over. Thynne killed Mr. Someguy, SpecialKO killed Mrs. Pomona while she was fleeing, and Mrs. Spaniard escapes with some wounds. Thynne was caught in a grenade blast and took a lot of damage, but nothing too serious. GasBandit loses a finger, Terrik loses a toe. But the day is one and the payday is made. If you want to watch the actual combat, here's a highlight, but I recommend cranking it to 1.25x speed, maybe even 1.50.
Pictured: The tip
Pictured: The payoff
Dec 10 - The last of the raiding party returns from the item cache.
Dec 12 - A herd of deer goes mad and Gruebeard is surrounded. He gets stomped bad, but rescuers are soon on the scene and he is carried to the hospital by Squidley.
Pictured: Oh deer, Gruebeard
Dec 14 - Apparently it's Frank's turn to throw a 4am party. All these parties are actually kinda doing us a favor, it's been a very mild winter, and the foodstores are bursting at the seams. As people wake up, they wander into the festivities for breakfast. 11 Man-eating grizzlies enter the area. The Militia meets them in the killbox. Although Dirona gets clawed up a bit, there is a delightfully surprising lack of friendly-fire given how these things usually go.
Pictured: 6 am and the joint is jumpin'
Pictured: We sustain bear-ly any injuries
Dec 15 - I just had to say something about how mild the winter has been. A cold snap slams into the area, causing a late hard freeze. Not that supplies are particularly threatened. At the end of the year, the ship has 45 Cryptosleep pods. Making good progress. I worry about the rising wealth levels of the colony, however, and what that means for the challenges ahead.
Pictured: the wealth graph of the colony
Trying something different for the social standings, as they're getting difficult to get useful data out of -
Here they are only reflecting "likes" of 40 or stronger
Here are the "hates" of 40 or stronger
Here is the combined graphic
#396
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#397
WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
Was that a random action or did you give the muffalo his name? 
#398
GasBandit
GasBandit
It was random! Ain't that a hoot.Was that a random action or did you give the muffalo his name?
#399
WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
#400
Null
Null
#401
PatrThom
PatrThom
#402
Celt Z
Celt Z
#403
Dei
Dei
#404
GasBandit
GasBandit
#405
PatrThom
PatrThom
#406
Hylian
Hylian
#407
GasBandit
But you're there, you're doin stuff
GasBandit
The nature of the reports is if it bleeds, it leads - if you don't do something egregiously stupid, or mean, or get sliced up like a christmas turkey... then I don't mention you a lot
But you're there, you're doin stuff
#408
Dei
Dei
#409
MindDetective
MindDetective
#410
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE:RIMWORLD - Year 5504, part 1 - Spring
Brace yourselves.
Brace yourselves.
Aprimay 1, 5504 - As presaged by the cold snap that rolled in the previous day, it starts snowing.
Apr 2 - DarkAudit and Frank slug it out in the dining hall. DA finds catharsis, Frank is even more pissed.
Pictured: DA v. Frank
Apr 3 - It struggled valiantly, but the cold snap fails to kill off the crops and dies with a whimper.Temperatures start climbing again, and the crops continue growing.
Apr 4 - Charon hunts muffalo, and angers the herd, and they stomp him flat. Ravenpoe tries to come to the assist, but also gets trampled.
Pictured: Mooooooaahhh shit
Pictured: Poe down
Apr 5 - Wasabi hunts a cougar, and finds herself becoming the hunted. Her hunting dog is strangely absent, and the cougar shreds off her ear, crushes her jaw, and knocks her out. However, a muffalo she has been training comes to her rescue and stomps the cougar. Sissy, her dog, shows up late, and nuzzles the unconscious Wasabi until help arrives to retrieve her.
Pictured: Sissy nudges her motionless master's bleeding body
Apr 6 - Jun installs a bionic ear and jaw in Wasabi. Look out, she's a biter.
Apr 7 - as the weather warms up, the colony trades out their heavy winter gear for dusters and cowboy hats again. Seventeen colonists -including Jun- suddenly come down with the flu. The infirmary is far too small for them all, so most have to stay in their regular bed.
Pictured: The sick roster of the great influenza epidemic of 5504 (red dots)
Apr 8 - A heat wave grips the area. Evaporative coolers are installed in the bedrooms, infirmary, and major work areas. But before that can be completed, a Psychic mechanoid ship crashes in the north rice field.
Pictured: This doth not bode well
Apr 9 - Mikerc throws a 4-am party! What is with these people and their 4 am parties? Especially when we've got a mechanoid ship to deal with! Defenses are constructed and the shooting starts. Huge amounts of mechanoids pour out of the ship part. Since the sick colonists were in bed, we have about half the militia missing. Injuries are plentiful and horrific. Squidley is shot to death. Zero dies to friendly fire, and his rat goes berserk and attacks a muffalo - which stomps it flat. Seeing SpecialKO go down, DarkAudit whips out his knife and personally tanks three scythers before going down, losing his nose. Klew has lost a leg. Ravenpoe is dragged to safety, but bleeds out before he can be bandaged. GasBandit's, Wasabi's, and Gruebeard's wounds become badly infected and require intensive care. I neglect to take screenshot of much of it because I'm just desperately trying to staunch the gushing wounds of half the colony, while making sure the other half don't die of the flu.
Pictured: But at least I remembered to screenshot the 4 am party
Pictured: the half-strength militia, about to do and die for the colony
Apr 10 - The colony is a chaotic swirl of bandages, blood and vomit. Tensions are high. Mikerc decides to smoke some weed despite his blood loss and ends up passing out in the game room. Klew follows suit in the south storage room. Thankfully, the heat wave ends, lending some small comfort to the miserable colony. That night, Dave goes hunting, and manages to find THREE wargs. I've never seen more than one warg at once. He takes down one before the other two get him, tearing off one of his feet and mangling an eye. Due to a clerical error, Aussie is butchered for meat while I am busy dealing with the various other crises >_< .
Pictured: Mikerc's folly
Pictured: Dave is warg fodder
Apr 11 - A huge raid of pirate sappers shows up in the middle of the night, with everyone still down and wounded. A desperate fight ensues, requiring even flu-sickened colonists to fight. Terrik loses a hand. Mikerc hobbles late to the fight on his stump leg and catches a grenade for his trouble. There are other moderate injuries to several people, but the pirates are thankfully driven back. Astonishingly, there were no family members among the raid, for once. If this isn't the last of it for a while, we're in serious trouble - almost no able bodied fighters are left in the colony. A warg gets into the colony, but Dirona takes it down.
Pictured: The walking wounded after the pirate raid.
Apr 12 - Jun installs a scyther blade in place of Terrik's missing left hand. I pity whoever gets in a fist fight with him, now. Klew gets a regular old bionic leg. Siska creates a large, glorious, golden statue depicting Celt Z creating a statue.
Apr 13 - For the first time ever, Jun fails an operation, botching the installation of a bionic foot on Dave. Gruebeard also fucks up doing the same for Mikerc.
Apr 14 - Jun puts a bionic eye in Dave, without fail this time.
Apr 15 - Things are finally starting to return to some semblance of order, when a psychic drone suddenly starts driving all the women of the colony out of their minds. They're all on edge for the next day or two. Despite that, Jun manages to correct her mistake and installs a bionic foot on Dave, and then another on Mikerc.
Over 130 medkits were used this month. Thank god I stocked up. Eriol just HAD to talk about how assured our victory seemed, didn't he?
Speaking of, despite the monumental setbacks of the month, there are now 54 pods on the ship. There are 16 bonded animals and 46 colonists. We're in spitting distance of getting off this rock... so long as NOTHING ELSE GOES WRONG... (ominous music)
Pictured: Two different views of the social standings
Apr 2 - DarkAudit and Frank slug it out in the dining hall. DA finds catharsis, Frank is even more pissed.
Pictured: DA v. Frank
Apr 3 - It struggled valiantly, but the cold snap fails to kill off the crops and dies with a whimper.Temperatures start climbing again, and the crops continue growing.
Apr 4 - Charon hunts muffalo, and angers the herd, and they stomp him flat. Ravenpoe tries to come to the assist, but also gets trampled.
Pictured: Mooooooaahhh shit
Pictured: Poe down
Apr 5 - Wasabi hunts a cougar, and finds herself becoming the hunted. Her hunting dog is strangely absent, and the cougar shreds off her ear, crushes her jaw, and knocks her out. However, a muffalo she has been training comes to her rescue and stomps the cougar. Sissy, her dog, shows up late, and nuzzles the unconscious Wasabi until help arrives to retrieve her.
Pictured: Sissy nudges her motionless master's bleeding body
Apr 6 - Jun installs a bionic ear and jaw in Wasabi. Look out, she's a biter.
Apr 7 - as the weather warms up, the colony trades out their heavy winter gear for dusters and cowboy hats again. Seventeen colonists -including Jun- suddenly come down with the flu. The infirmary is far too small for them all, so most have to stay in their regular bed.
Pictured: The sick roster of the great influenza epidemic of 5504 (red dots)
Apr 8 - A heat wave grips the area. Evaporative coolers are installed in the bedrooms, infirmary, and major work areas. But before that can be completed, a Psychic mechanoid ship crashes in the north rice field.
Pictured: This doth not bode well
Apr 9 - Mikerc throws a 4-am party! What is with these people and their 4 am parties? Especially when we've got a mechanoid ship to deal with! Defenses are constructed and the shooting starts. Huge amounts of mechanoids pour out of the ship part. Since the sick colonists were in bed, we have about half the militia missing. Injuries are plentiful and horrific. Squidley is shot to death. Zero dies to friendly fire, and his rat goes berserk and attacks a muffalo - which stomps it flat. Seeing SpecialKO go down, DarkAudit whips out his knife and personally tanks three scythers before going down, losing his nose. Klew has lost a leg. Ravenpoe is dragged to safety, but bleeds out before he can be bandaged. GasBandit's, Wasabi's, and Gruebeard's wounds become badly infected and require intensive care. I neglect to take screenshot of much of it because I'm just desperately trying to staunch the gushing wounds of half the colony, while making sure the other half don't die of the flu.
Pictured: But at least I remembered to screenshot the 4 am party
Pictured: the half-strength militia, about to do and die for the colony
Apr 10 - The colony is a chaotic swirl of bandages, blood and vomit. Tensions are high. Mikerc decides to smoke some weed despite his blood loss and ends up passing out in the game room. Klew follows suit in the south storage room. Thankfully, the heat wave ends, lending some small comfort to the miserable colony. That night, Dave goes hunting, and manages to find THREE wargs. I've never seen more than one warg at once. He takes down one before the other two get him, tearing off one of his feet and mangling an eye. Due to a clerical error, Aussie is butchered for meat while I am busy dealing with the various other crises >_< .
Pictured: Mikerc's folly
Pictured: Dave is warg fodder
Apr 11 - A huge raid of pirate sappers shows up in the middle of the night, with everyone still down and wounded. A desperate fight ensues, requiring even flu-sickened colonists to fight. Terrik loses a hand. Mikerc hobbles late to the fight on his stump leg and catches a grenade for his trouble. There are other moderate injuries to several people, but the pirates are thankfully driven back. Astonishingly, there were no family members among the raid, for once. If this isn't the last of it for a while, we're in serious trouble - almost no able bodied fighters are left in the colony. A warg gets into the colony, but Dirona takes it down.
Pictured: The walking wounded after the pirate raid.
Apr 12 - Jun installs a scyther blade in place of Terrik's missing left hand. I pity whoever gets in a fist fight with him, now. Klew gets a regular old bionic leg. Siska creates a large, glorious, golden statue depicting Celt Z creating a statue.
Apr 13 - For the first time ever, Jun fails an operation, botching the installation of a bionic foot on Dave. Gruebeard also fucks up doing the same for Mikerc.
Apr 14 - Jun puts a bionic eye in Dave, without fail this time.
Apr 15 - Things are finally starting to return to some semblance of order, when a psychic drone suddenly starts driving all the women of the colony out of their minds. They're all on edge for the next day or two. Despite that, Jun manages to correct her mistake and installs a bionic foot on Dave, and then another on Mikerc.
Over 130 medkits were used this month. Thank god I stocked up. Eriol just HAD to talk about how assured our victory seemed, didn't he?
Speaking of, despite the monumental setbacks of the month, there are now 54 pods on the ship. There are 16 bonded animals and 46 colonists. We're in spitting distance of getting off this rock... so long as NOTHING ELSE GOES WRONG... (ominous music)
Pictured: Two different views of the social standings
#411
Null
Null
#412
GasBandit
GasBandit
#413
Null
Null
#414
GasBandit
GasBandit
#415
Ravenpoe
Ravenpoe
#416
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#417
WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
#418
GasBandit
GasBandit
#419
Dei
Dei
#420
Bubble181
Bubble181
#421
Celt Z
Celt Z
#423
GasBandit
GasBandit
#424
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
#425
Dei
Dei
#426
Bubble181
Bubble181
#428
GasBandit
GasBandit
#429
Adam
Adam
#430
Null
Null
#431
GasBandit
GasBandit
#432
Dei
Dei
#433
GasBandit
GasBandit
I take nothing for granted, especially knowledge of extremely-short-lived Diet Pepsi jingles from the early 90s.
#434
Dei
Dei
It wasn't that short lived....I take nothing for granted, especially knowledge of extremely-short-lived Diet Pepsi jingles from the early 90s.
#436
BErt
BErt
#437
GasBandit
GasBandit
#438
PatrThom
...yeah, I haven't seen it.
--Patrick
PatrThom
It's hard to tell sometimes, since Ray is one of the few who have played both sides of the aisle.I take nothing for granted, especially knowledge of extremely-short-lived Diet Pepsi jingles from the early 90s.
That was the weird medical thing gives kid a golden arm movie, wasn't it?
...yeah, I haven't seen it.
--Patrick
#439
GasBandit
Also it had the laughable premise of a Cubs v Mets national championship game.
GasBandit
Yeah. 12 year old kid injures his shoulder and the "tendons heal a little too tight" giving him a preternatural 100+mph fastball. So naturally, the hapless cubs bring him on as pitcher.
Also it had the laughable premise of a Cubs v Mets national championship game.
#440
WasabiPoptart
WasabiPoptart
#441
GasBandit
GasBandit
HALFORUMS HOUSE: RIMWORLD - THE FINAL CHAPTER
Jugust 1, 5504 - DarkAudit gets a new artificial nose to replace the one the scythers cut off.
Jug 2 - The 60th cryptosleep casket is installed on the ship. Excited about the prospect of going home, Ashburner goes on a weed smoking binge.
Jug 3 - The psychic assault on the colony widens, and the wild boomalopes in the area suddenly turn hostile! they catch Hylian and Frank outside the wall, but the duo gun down the attacking beasts... and set of a giant conflagration that nearly bifurcates the external power grid. Thynne and Soupy get into a fight outside the kitchen. Soupy clearly does more damage, and both now dislike each other much more than before. One more boomalope explodes, and Klew and TommiR are caught in the explosion. Despite having burns over most of his body, Klew decides he'd rather get in a game of billiards before going to the infirmary, and TommiR's first priority is to change out of his singed clothing before seeking treatment.
Pictured: Bringing the BOOM
Pictured: Well, that's inconvenient
Pictured: IT'S OK, IT'S FINE, WE CAN HANDLE THIS
Pictured: Thynne v. Soupy
Pictured: Klew's priorities
Jug 4 - GasBandit gets a bionic eye to replace his damaged one. That means he's got a matched set now. Achievement Unlocked: Battou
Jug 6 - It's a foggy, stormy night, and a large group of mechanoids moves in from the north. While the mortars try to pound the slower moving caterpillars, the militia lines up at the killbox to deal with the faster scythers. The Scythers try to get out of the killbox laterally - that's a new move from them - but they're still shot down. Wasabi takes a charge lance hit to the leg, but will not lose the appendage. The mortars do enough damage to the caterpillars that their advance is slowed to.. well, a crawl. The militia is released to get fed and rest. When they finally creep into the killbox, the turrets alone are enough to deal with them. Cargo pods full of potatoes rain down upon us.
Pictured: EX-TER-MI-NATE
Pictured: The militia lines up for the defense as the Scythers arrive
Pictured: The Scythers tried something new, but it availed them naught.
Jug 8 - Naturally, now that the ship is nearing completion, we start to get cargo pods full of uranium. Dolly, Putt-Putt, Puppy, Uma, Bront, Romeo and Hoagie are anesthetized and carried into cryptosleep caskets.
Pictured: Free Uranium
Jug 9 - Nora, Savanna, Ichabod, Bits, Count, Elmer, Dynamite, Paddy, Tattletale, and Silence are anesthetized and loaded into ship cryptosleep caskets. This accounts for all the bonded animals. To commemorate the last night of the colonists on the planet, 15 cases of beer are purchased from a passing pleasure cruiser, and the policy on beer and pot is relaxed to allow for unlimited recreational use. As if on cue, 22 colonists come down with the flu. Fortunately, this will just mean they get loaded into the pods first, instead of getting to party. Sorry guys!
Pictured: Sucks to be sick on your last night on the planet.
Pictured: Some of the sickies climbing into their cryptosleep pods
Jug 10 - after a night of surprisingly restrained revelry (you boring nerds drank all of FOUR beers), All the remaining colonists line up at 8 am to board the ship.
Pictured: Lined up to board
Pictured: GasBandit hangs back as the others board
GasBandit is the last to board, and before he does, he stops to visit the sarcophagi of the 9 colonists that didn't make it. Tinwhistler, Snuffles, Eriol, Pez, Reverent1, CynicalKat, Zero, Ravenpoe, and Squidley will not be forgotten.
Pictured: GasBandit pays one more visit to the departed. "Sorry, Guys."
All the remaining animals are set free so that they can forage and live on their own. GasBandit takes one last look at the colony, shakes his fist at the unseen planetkiller in the sky, and boards the ship.
Pictured: One last look at the colony, our home for the last 5 years
Pictured: GasBandit boards the ship, ready for liftoff
The End:
Jug 2 - The 60th cryptosleep casket is installed on the ship. Excited about the prospect of going home, Ashburner goes on a weed smoking binge.
Jug 3 - The psychic assault on the colony widens, and the wild boomalopes in the area suddenly turn hostile! they catch Hylian and Frank outside the wall, but the duo gun down the attacking beasts... and set of a giant conflagration that nearly bifurcates the external power grid. Thynne and Soupy get into a fight outside the kitchen. Soupy clearly does more damage, and both now dislike each other much more than before. One more boomalope explodes, and Klew and TommiR are caught in the explosion. Despite having burns over most of his body, Klew decides he'd rather get in a game of billiards before going to the infirmary, and TommiR's first priority is to change out of his singed clothing before seeking treatment.
Pictured: Bringing the BOOM
Pictured: Well, that's inconvenient
Pictured: IT'S OK, IT'S FINE, WE CAN HANDLE THIS
Pictured: Thynne v. Soupy
Pictured: Klew's priorities
Jug 4 - GasBandit gets a bionic eye to replace his damaged one. That means he's got a matched set now. Achievement Unlocked: Battou
Jug 6 - It's a foggy, stormy night, and a large group of mechanoids moves in from the north. While the mortars try to pound the slower moving caterpillars, the militia lines up at the killbox to deal with the faster scythers. The Scythers try to get out of the killbox laterally - that's a new move from them - but they're still shot down. Wasabi takes a charge lance hit to the leg, but will not lose the appendage. The mortars do enough damage to the caterpillars that their advance is slowed to.. well, a crawl. The militia is released to get fed and rest. When they finally creep into the killbox, the turrets alone are enough to deal with them. Cargo pods full of potatoes rain down upon us.
Pictured: EX-TER-MI-NATE
Pictured: The militia lines up for the defense as the Scythers arrive
Pictured: The Scythers tried something new, but it availed them naught.
Jug 8 - Naturally, now that the ship is nearing completion, we start to get cargo pods full of uranium. Dolly, Putt-Putt, Puppy, Uma, Bront, Romeo and Hoagie are anesthetized and carried into cryptosleep caskets.
Pictured: Free Uranium
Jug 9 - Nora, Savanna, Ichabod, Bits, Count, Elmer, Dynamite, Paddy, Tattletale, and Silence are anesthetized and loaded into ship cryptosleep caskets. This accounts for all the bonded animals. To commemorate the last night of the colonists on the planet, 15 cases of beer are purchased from a passing pleasure cruiser, and the policy on beer and pot is relaxed to allow for unlimited recreational use. As if on cue, 22 colonists come down with the flu. Fortunately, this will just mean they get loaded into the pods first, instead of getting to party. Sorry guys!
Pictured: Sucks to be sick on your last night on the planet.
Pictured: Some of the sickies climbing into their cryptosleep pods
Jug 10 - after a night of surprisingly restrained revelry (you boring nerds drank all of FOUR beers), All the remaining colonists line up at 8 am to board the ship.
Pictured: Lined up to board
Pictured: GasBandit hangs back as the others board
GasBandit is the last to board, and before he does, he stops to visit the sarcophagi of the 9 colonists that didn't make it. Tinwhistler, Snuffles, Eriol, Pez, Reverent1, CynicalKat, Zero, Ravenpoe, and Squidley will not be forgotten.
Pictured: GasBandit pays one more visit to the departed. "Sorry, Guys."
All the remaining animals are set free so that they can forage and live on their own. GasBandit takes one last look at the colony, shakes his fist at the unseen planetkiller in the sky, and boards the ship.
Pictured: One last look at the colony, our home for the last 5 years
Pictured: GasBandit boards the ship, ready for liftoff
The End:
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PatrThom
PatrThom
#443
Cheesy1
Cheesy1
#444
Soupy
Soupy
#445
Dave
Dave
#446
Cog
Cog
#447
Eriol
Eriol
#448
Dirona
Dirona
#449
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
Well done, GB, this was great.
#450
Gryfter
Gryfter
#451
GasBandit
It felt startlingly brief in comparison, actually... making an episode of HFA2 took 1-2 weeks - 2 hours of gameplay, ~30 hours of video editing. This one was usually just 4 hours of gameplay and 30-45 minutes of copy and paste to make an update. Heck, it was even easier than HFA1.
1) trying to make the ship big enough to take ALL the animals, not just the bonded ones
2) waiting around as long as possible for other family members among the pirates to "find" us so they could be captured, rehabilitated, and taken with us
or
3) raiding other factions to capture family members back to take with us.
But I decided against all that when the second flu epidemic hit and I thought "oh shit gotta get outta here, here it all comes again!" That, and I'm going out of town next week, and I thought it better to end victorious now than go on hiatus for ~10 days.
Because when that planetkiller gets here, it's gonna blast right through like a rifle bullet into a water balloon, so I've heard from other sources. It doesn't just end all life on the planet, it converts it to a new asteroid belt 0_o
GasBandit
Didn't I? Kinda?
Dibs on the redheaded movie star.
Actually, compared to HFA2, this was a piece of cake
It felt startlingly brief in comparison, actually... making an episode of HFA2 took 1-2 weeks - 2 hours of gameplay, ~30 hours of video editing. This one was usually just 4 hours of gameplay and 30-45 minutes of copy and paste to make an update. Heck, it was even easier than HFA1.I briefly considered prolonging it by:
1) trying to make the ship big enough to take ALL the animals, not just the bonded ones
2) waiting around as long as possible for other family members among the pirates to "find" us so they could be captured, rehabilitated, and taken with us
or
3) raiding other factions to capture family members back to take with us.
But I decided against all that when the second flu epidemic hit and I thought "oh shit gotta get outta here, here it all comes again!" That, and I'm going out of town next week, and I thought it better to end victorious now than go on hiatus for ~10 days.
The locals, and the family members we left behind, better hope it's within the next 7 years
Because when that planetkiller gets here, it's gonna blast right through like a rifle bullet into a water balloon, so I've heard from other sources. It doesn't just end all life on the planet, it converts it to a new asteroid belt 0_o
#452
TommiR
TommiR
#453
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#455
GasBandit
GasBandit
Well, I've had colonies get up into the 20s before, but over 50 right from the start was definitely a challenge. Unfortunately it meant that I couldn't give each individual pawn as much attention as I would have liked, and would have during an ordinary game. For example, apparently at some point @Krisken formed a bond with a tamed boomalope (named Tattletale) and I didn't even notice, so he went for weeks or maybe months getting a -5 mood penalty for not being assigned as that animal's master. Only the squeakiest of wheels ever got any grease, and many colonists were unhappy about one thing or another - usually that nobody had cleaned up dirt and/or blood from their room, or that they were wearing the wrong temperature clothes, etc.[DOUBLEPOST=1502817917,1502817894][/DOUBLEPOST]
And that. Without Colony Manager, this would have not been possible. It automated designating animals for hunting, taming, marking excess livestock for slaughter, harvesting trees for lumber according to inventory levels, foraging, and also had a helpful power management module. All according to policies I designate.Colony Manager.
#456
PatrThom
PatrThom
#457
GasBandit
GasBandit
#458
Krisken
Krisken
#460
Dei
Dei
#461
GasBandit
GasBandit
#462
Dei
Dei
#464
Dei
Dei
#467
Null
Null
#468
Dei
Dei
#469
GasBandit
GasBandit
#470
Dave
Dave
#471
GasBandit
GasBandit
#472
Grytpipe-Thynne
Grytpipe-Thynne
#473
GasBandit
GasBandit
#474
mikerc
mikerc
#475
Dei
Dei
#476
PatrThom
PatrThom
#477
General Specific
General Specific
#478
GasBandit
GasBandit
#479
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#480
GasBandit
GasBandit
#481
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
So sad
Squidley Jr almost made it off the planet.
Squidley Jr almost made it off the planet.
#482
AshburnerX
... despite binging through the stash HOW many times? And yet nothing bad happened to him this round.
AshburnerX
I feel a little bad that some folks didn't get off, especially since Ash, in his cryptosleep casket, is basically...So sad
Squidley Jr almost made it off the planet.
... despite binging through the stash HOW many times? And yet nothing bad happened to him this round.
#483
SpecialKO
SpecialKO
Ash was gonna help them build the ship...but then he got high?
#484
GasBandit
GasBandit
He was gonna prepare for our space trip, but then he got high.Ash was gonna help them build the ship...but then he got high?
#485
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#486
GasBandit
GasBandit
#487
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
YOU SAVED COUNT!!
#488
Emrys
Emrys
#489
GasBandit
GasBandit
#491
GasBandit
GasBandit
There were hard choices and tearful regrets all around! I had to leave my lover on the planet simply because she got taken in by another faction! I have no idea if those bozos will manage to get her off planet or not!
#492
Dave
Dave
#493
Krisken
Krisken
#495
jwhouk
jwhouk
#496
Emrys
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Emrys
Meaning that it mauled you?
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Quiet, you. Don't make me release the weasels.