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.