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
