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GasBandit
GasBandit
Making a new thread , because I think there are enough rimworld posts in the "what are you playing" thread to mean that RimWorld merits its own thread 
Now... for actual content... stay tuned.
Now... for actual content... stay tuned.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
So, my previous zombie playthrough concluded successfully, in that my colonists all got tired of fighting zombies nonstop, built a spaceship big enough to carry not only themselves but all their bonded animals (and the game doesn't require that, you can just completely abandon your loving pets and it won't bat an eyelash, but that's cold, man), and took off for parts unknown.
I'm having too much fun playing with mods and learning more about the game's various functions, so I'm going to give Darkest Dungeon more time to get its DLC balanced and start a new HF-type playthrough. Yes, yes, rest assured I still have all your names in my list. The people who have gamed with me get naming priority, but beyond that, I'll be naming people based on their attributes.
So, for the new playthrough... instead of the story of a lone Glitterworlder who grew bored of city life and headed out to the frontier alone (see RimWorld - Halforums Edition in the "What are you playing" thread), we'll be coming at it from the other direction - tribals.
RIMWORLD - HALFORUMS (TRIBAL) EDITION
The mechanoids destroyed our tribe's home. Now there's only the five of us. Time to start anew.
As I'm playing as tribals this time, that means I won't have the luxury of things like electricity and guns at the start of the game... just neolithic tech. Additionally, research in most areas will cost double or more the time to complete, as our primitive brains try to come to grips with the scientific concepts of the industrial age, and worse, the space age. We'll be extremely vulnerable to the offworlders with their thunder-sticks and worse, the blood machines.
At least there won't be zombies this time.
Our five initial tribespeople are:
I've already got some playtime on them, but not enough for a proper post I think, so I'll play some more tomorrow and then start the story...
I'm having too much fun playing with mods and learning more about the game's various functions, so I'm going to give Darkest Dungeon more time to get its DLC balanced and start a new HF-type playthrough. Yes, yes, rest assured I still have all your names in my list. The people who have gamed with me get naming priority, but beyond that, I'll be naming people based on their attributes.
So, for the new playthrough... instead of the story of a lone Glitterworlder who grew bored of city life and headed out to the frontier alone (see RimWorld - Halforums Edition in the "What are you playing" thread), we'll be coming at it from the other direction - tribals.
RIMWORLD - HALFORUMS (TRIBAL) EDITION
The mechanoids destroyed our tribe's home. Now there's only the five of us. Time to start anew.
As I'm playing as tribals this time, that means I won't have the luxury of things like electricity and guns at the start of the game... just neolithic tech. Additionally, research in most areas will cost double or more the time to complete, as our primitive brains try to come to grips with the scientific concepts of the industrial age, and worse, the space age. We'll be extremely vulnerable to the offworlders with their thunder-sticks and worse, the blood machines.
At least there won't be zombies this time.
Our five initial tribespeople are:
I've already got some playtime on them, but not enough for a proper post I think, so I'll play some more tomorrow and then start the story...
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bhamv3
bhamv3
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Denbrought
Denbrought
#5
PatrThom
PatrThom
#6
Terrik
Terrik
#7
GasBandit
GasBandit
#8
GasBandit
GasBandit
#9
Gruebeard
Gruebeard
#10
GasBandit
GasBandit
#11
PatrThom
PatrThom
#12
GasBandit
GasBandit
#13
MindDetective
MindDetective
#14
PatrThom
PatrThom
#15
GasBandit
GasBandit
#16
PatrThom
PatrThom
#17
Dave
Dave
#18
GasBandit
You could always also enjoy the game vicariously, I always stream it when I play it
GasBandit
I'm not really looking to build a community of non-participants
You may have a bit of a wait, even during the summer sale the price didn't come down very much. I guess it's just in high demand, still.
You could always also enjoy the game vicariously, I always stream it when I play it
#19
Dei
Dei
It didn't go on sale at all actually.I'm not really looking to build a community of non-participants
You may have a bit of a wait, even during the summer sale the price didn't come down very much. I guess it's just in high demand, still.
You could always also enjoy the game vicariously, I always stream it when I play it
#20
PatrThom
PatrThom
#21
GasBandit
GasBandit
I didn't pay close attention as I already have it.It didn't go on sale at all actually.
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Dei
Dei
#23
GasBandit
GasBandit
#24
Terrik
Terrik
#25
GasBandit
GasBandit
#26
bhamv3
bhamv3
#27
GasBandit
GasBandit
#28
GasBandit
GasBandit
Alright, let's tell some story, biznitches!
Rimworld: Halforums Tribal Edition
Rimworld: Halforums Tribal Edition
1 Apr 5500 - Fleeing the destruction of their tribe, our five surviving tribals band together in the wilderness to start anew. There's a lot of work ahead of them. First order of business is to build a storehouse and a communal workshop.
Pictured: Humble Beginnings
6 Apr - During work, GasBandit forms a bond with one of the domesticated warthogs, and names it Aaron. It is now his personal hunting and fighting companion.
7 Apr 5500 - After spending several days together working on mining steel from a hillside, Terrik and Dei become lovers. It is decided that private rooms are suddenly a much more urgent priority.
8 Apr - Construction begins on private rooms. Wandering tame alpacas decide to settle down in the camp. This is a stroke of luck, it will make it much more convenient to form trade caravans to visit a nearby outlander settlement.
9 Apr - A lone pirate with a knife "raids" the settlement. GasBandit receives a superficial cut, but the pirate is downed and left to bleed out. When the site is checked the next day, the pirate's body is gone, and a blood trail leads off to the east into the distance... either the pirate regained consciousness and limped away, or his body was dragged away by something.
14 Apr - And of course, the first sculpture crafted in the settlement (by Snuffles) depicts Terrik and Dei doin' it.
4 Jugust - Two pirates with melee weapons attack the settlement. They are defeated soundly. A trained boar is seriously injured in the fight, but recovers in a couple days.
7 Jugust - A month to the day after their relationship began, Terrik Proposes to Dei. She accepts.
13 Jugust - An Escape Pod comes screaming out of the sky and crashes in the hills to the east. GasBandit rescues the 16-year-old male occupant. Also, cargo pods full of smokeleaf. When the Spacer regains consciousness, he joins the tribe. His name is FigmentPez.
15 Jugust - Terrik finishes crafting many pairs of pants as part of a project to get the tribe out of their crude stitched-hide clothing, but has not actually started making any shirts yet. Dei is not amused at the idea of running around topless.
1 Septober - GasBandit decides the settlement is missing some essentials, and loads up the alpacas with excess rice and wool that the tribe doesn't need. He takes them to the nearby offworlder town of Patience's Ridge to trade.
Pictured: The caravan plods steadily toward the offworlder town
2 Septober - Gasbandit returns. Over the course of the trip, he has named all three alpacas (Floyd, Danil, and Difficulty), and he has traded the spare bulk goods for a rooster, a hen, and a couple outworlder weapons - a "Piss-tul" and an "Elemgee." Gas keeps the former for himself, Terrik insists on being given the latter.
3 Septober - HUNTING IS NOW AMAZING. Dei finally gets to put on a shirt.
4 Sept - Some sort of invisible brain-hurty spirit makes every raccoon in the vicinity of the settlement turn rabid. Gas and Pez are bitten, Pez rather badly. It takes him two days to recover.
11 Sept - An offworlder named TinWhistler flees to the settlement pursued by a rival tribe, the Confederation of Cabra. He begs protection. The tribe needs more workers, so they resolve to attempt to chase off the pursuers. Unfortunately, while the enemy tribe is beaten back, GasBandit loses a leg in the fight. Two female captives are taken. In the interests of stabilizing the relationship with the Cabra tribe, they are treated and released. As for Tinwhistler himself, he is a 47 year old former offworld soldier of an elite shock troop unit. The grizzled veteran is a better fighter - in either ranged or hand to hand - than anyone in the tribe, and a better medic as well. He does have one major quirk, however - he prefers nudity to wearing clothes.
12 Sept - RavenPoe fits GasBandit for a peg leg. It isn't pretty or comfortable, but at least he gets around on his own at a reasonable pace, now.
13 Sept - the tribe officially decides to call itself the Halforums Tribe. The settlement is named West Acapulco. Brilliant. Nobody will ever find it!
14 Sept - A cold snap engulfs the settlement. Tinwhistler briefly suffers from hypothermia and begrudgingly agrees to put on pants.
1 Decembruary - Cold Snap ends.
2 Dec - In the early hours of the morning, three Cabras attack West Acapulco. They kill one of the juvenile warthogs, and then are driven off. One enemy is killed and one is taken captive, treated, and released to foster good will with the Cabras.
Pictured: West Acapulco, and its sleeping arrangements, as of Decembruary 4th, 5500.
Pictured: Humble Beginnings
6 Apr - During work, GasBandit forms a bond with one of the domesticated warthogs, and names it Aaron. It is now his personal hunting and fighting companion.
7 Apr 5500 - After spending several days together working on mining steel from a hillside, Terrik and Dei become lovers. It is decided that private rooms are suddenly a much more urgent priority.
8 Apr - Construction begins on private rooms. Wandering tame alpacas decide to settle down in the camp. This is a stroke of luck, it will make it much more convenient to form trade caravans to visit a nearby outlander settlement.
9 Apr - A lone pirate with a knife "raids" the settlement. GasBandit receives a superficial cut, but the pirate is downed and left to bleed out. When the site is checked the next day, the pirate's body is gone, and a blood trail leads off to the east into the distance... either the pirate regained consciousness and limped away, or his body was dragged away by something.
14 Apr - And of course, the first sculpture crafted in the settlement (by Snuffles) depicts Terrik and Dei doin' it.
4 Jugust - Two pirates with melee weapons attack the settlement. They are defeated soundly. A trained boar is seriously injured in the fight, but recovers in a couple days.
7 Jugust - A month to the day after their relationship began, Terrik Proposes to Dei. She accepts.
13 Jugust - An Escape Pod comes screaming out of the sky and crashes in the hills to the east. GasBandit rescues the 16-year-old male occupant. Also, cargo pods full of smokeleaf. When the Spacer regains consciousness, he joins the tribe. His name is FigmentPez.
15 Jugust - Terrik finishes crafting many pairs of pants as part of a project to get the tribe out of their crude stitched-hide clothing, but has not actually started making any shirts yet. Dei is not amused at the idea of running around topless.
1 Septober - GasBandit decides the settlement is missing some essentials, and loads up the alpacas with excess rice and wool that the tribe doesn't need. He takes them to the nearby offworlder town of Patience's Ridge to trade.
Pictured: The caravan plods steadily toward the offworlder town
2 Septober - Gasbandit returns. Over the course of the trip, he has named all three alpacas (Floyd, Danil, and Difficulty), and he has traded the spare bulk goods for a rooster, a hen, and a couple outworlder weapons - a "Piss-tul" and an "Elemgee." Gas keeps the former for himself, Terrik insists on being given the latter.
3 Septober - HUNTING IS NOW AMAZING. Dei finally gets to put on a shirt.
4 Sept - Some sort of invisible brain-hurty spirit makes every raccoon in the vicinity of the settlement turn rabid. Gas and Pez are bitten, Pez rather badly. It takes him two days to recover.
11 Sept - An offworlder named TinWhistler flees to the settlement pursued by a rival tribe, the Confederation of Cabra. He begs protection. The tribe needs more workers, so they resolve to attempt to chase off the pursuers. Unfortunately, while the enemy tribe is beaten back, GasBandit loses a leg in the fight. Two female captives are taken. In the interests of stabilizing the relationship with the Cabra tribe, they are treated and released. As for Tinwhistler himself, he is a 47 year old former offworld soldier of an elite shock troop unit. The grizzled veteran is a better fighter - in either ranged or hand to hand - than anyone in the tribe, and a better medic as well. He does have one major quirk, however - he prefers nudity to wearing clothes.
12 Sept - RavenPoe fits GasBandit for a peg leg. It isn't pretty or comfortable, but at least he gets around on his own at a reasonable pace, now.
13 Sept - the tribe officially decides to call itself the Halforums Tribe. The settlement is named West Acapulco. Brilliant. Nobody will ever find it!
14 Sept - A cold snap engulfs the settlement. Tinwhistler briefly suffers from hypothermia and begrudgingly agrees to put on pants.
1 Decembruary - Cold Snap ends.
2 Dec - In the early hours of the morning, three Cabras attack West Acapulco. They kill one of the juvenile warthogs, and then are driven off. One enemy is killed and one is taken captive, treated, and released to foster good will with the Cabras.
Pictured: West Acapulco, and its sleeping arrangements, as of Decembruary 4th, 5500.
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#30
figmentPez
figmentPez
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Dei
Dei
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GasBandit
GasBandit
#35
Dave
Dave
#36
GasBandit
GasBandit
Well, I mean, I'm not "incapable" but my social skills are also "zero." Maybe that's why I traded a thousand units of rice and 500 wool for two guns and two chickens.True, you did all get beaten out by the guy incapable of social.
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Dei
Dei
#38
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#39
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld - Halforums (Tribal) Edition
10 Dec - A simple prosthetic leg and some glitterworld medicine is purchased from a passing exotic goods caravan to replace Gas' peg leg, bankrolled by the sale of Snuffles' erotic artwork and some warthog piglets.
12 Dec - A 17 year old escaped slave comes to West Acapulco and begs asylum from his pursuers. The tribe agrees, but then see his pursuit - 5 Cabras, and their leader is Ravenpoe's sister. She must have fallen in with the Cabras after the mechanoids razed the village. She is killed during the fight, unfortunately. A grave is made to honor their former tribeswoman. The HF tribe suffers no casualties, only injuries among the trained attack-hogs. Ravenpoe, however, forms a dire grudge against Tinwhistler, whose shot took her down.
15 Dec - Gas, Snuffles, Tin and Ravenpoe are stricken with Malaria. They are bedridden for days. Medical supplies run low.
1 Aprimay, 5501 - Dei and Ashburner hitch up the alpacas and grab everything the tribe can live without, and haul it off to Patience's Ridge, hoping to trade for medicine.
2 Apr - With Dei doing the negotiating, much better prices are had. The caravan returns with the medicine, and some extra money besides. Dei has also picked up a "Mash-een Piss-tul." However, a pack of manhunting arctic wolves has followed them to the settlement. With the help of some fortuitous visitors, the wolves are dealt with, with no casualties.
3 Apr - Thanks to the medicine, the sick tribesmen are beginning to recover, and by the next day, the malaria epidemic has been eradicated.
6 Apr - A herd of deer turn violent while being hunted. Dei and her bonded warthog, Blanche, are injured. The hog has lost three hooves. Peg legs are the best that can be done for Blanche at the moment.
7 Apr - Cargo pods full of ibex meat crash directly into the primary storehouse, smashing in through the roof and scattering their contents. I've heard of grocery delivery service, but this is ridiculous.
3 Jugust - Pirate raid, they bring guns this time. It is driven off, but there are pretty much injuries all around. Tinwhistler's left leg is shot off.
4 Jugust - Tin is fitted for a peg leg.
7 Jugust - Dei and Ash take another caravan to market, selling off all but one male chicken, the piglets, and various bulk goods and pirate weapons. They come back with medical goods - and penoxyciline, to prevent further malaria epidemics and the like.
10 Jugust - A hen contracts cirrhosis of the liver, from a "massive alcohol tolerance." Where it found alcohol, nobody can imagine.
11 Jugust - The skies darken. A volcanic winter is upon the area. Pele demands a sacrifice.
12 Jugust - Dei hunts a cougar with her new "Ayarr fifteen," but it savagely shreds her, and Ashburner when he goes to try to help. Terrik and GasBandit finally bring it down.
2 Septober - The Cabras chase a 57 year old assassin to the camp, where she asks for help. They attempt to defend her, and find Dei's brother among the attackers. He escapes when they are driven off, but Gas and Tin are injured, and the trained warthogs are badly hurt. The newcomer's name is Shegokigo... and there's something... not quite right about how she interacts with people. Tinwhistler is heard using the word "Psychopath," whatever that means.
3 Septober - Passing visitors buy up all of Snuffles' art, and pay with a "Charge Rifle." Tinwhistler calls dibs, as he's the only one with a history of using such things. A Timberwolf self-tames, and Terrik decides to take on training it.
4 Septober - 8 pirates attack in the night. There are light wounds all around, and 2 pirates are captured, including their leader.
7 Septober - A grizzly bear comes into the village and eats a piglet. The tribe guns it down, though Shego is wounded and loses a toe.
12 Sept - Green dust begins to rain gently from the sky, making everything it gets on turn sickly and die. The offworlders who have joined the tribe call it "Toxic Fallout." Not good.
13 Sept - GasBandit comes down with the flu. He is bedridden for a few days.
15 Sept - The toxic fallout has killed off most of the wildlife and vegetation in the area. The modest food reserves dwindle faster than anticipated. If this continues for too long, the tribe will have to consider fleeing West Acapulco in search of somewhere they can survive.
1 Dec - Dei and Tinwhistler decide to take all the male chickens, the prisoners, along with whatever else can be spared, to town to trade for supplies to try to outlast the fallout. The plan falls apart when the prisoners stage an escape, and the alpacas become incapacitated from toxicity. It then begins snowing. The tribe won't be going anywhere for a while.
3 Dec - The food stores are depleted of pemmican. There's nothing left for the herbivorous animals to eat. The volcanic winter combined with the regular winter is keeping the temperatures low, which is helping prolong the meat stores, so at least for the moment the tribe itself won't starve or have to resort to killing livestock... yet.
4 Dec - Thanks to Ravenpoe and Shego, the tribe has figured out electricity and temperature control. Freezer facilities are frantically constructed to preserve what food is left.
5 Dec - Most of the chickens die of malnutrition.
6 Dec - Chickens continue to die. A pirate sapper raid hits from the north. Dei's pet, Blanche, is killed. Two pirates are captured. Most of the chicken carcasses rot before they can be butchered. The prisoners are released because the food to feed them is too dear, and nobody wants to contemplate what might be done with them if they are executed. Specifically, with their meat.
7 Dec - More chickens die. An Exotic goods trader arrives, Dei's uncle accompanies them. GasBandit and Ravenpoe come to blows as the caravan approaches due to an insult from Poe. Then, the toxic fallout finally settles. Ravenpoe, however, must spend the next couple days recovering in bed from the beatdown he received. And the volcanic winter has not abated yet, either.
8 Dec - Farming and hunting resumes. Of the several dozen chickens that had sprung from the two Gas originally purchased, 3 hens and a rooster are all that have survived.
10 Dec - a 61 year old elder from the tribe who has been wandering for the last two years since the destruction of the village finds West Acapulco, and joins. His name is Dave.
11 Dec - The wild animals around West Acapulco return extremely slowly, and in the dim light of volcanic winter, the crops grow excruciatingly slowly. Famine looks to be creeping in. In a desperate gamble, Dave, Shego, and Tin set forth with nothing but what they can carry to hunt the hills beyond the home range.
12 Dec - The trio find a lush range thick with game, and claim an abandoned metal structure to serve as their shelter. Tin and Shego hunt everything they can find and prepare it into simple meals, while Dave hauls the meals back to West Acapulco.
Pictured: The hunting lodge
15 Dec - the skies clear of the volcanic ash. The hunting party packs up everything they have and returns home.
2 Apr - With the first harvest of rice finally coming in, it looks like the famine is finally over.
Pictured: West Acapulco, Aprimay 4th, 5502.
12 Dec - A 17 year old escaped slave comes to West Acapulco and begs asylum from his pursuers. The tribe agrees, but then see his pursuit - 5 Cabras, and their leader is Ravenpoe's sister. She must have fallen in with the Cabras after the mechanoids razed the village. She is killed during the fight, unfortunately. A grave is made to honor their former tribeswoman. The HF tribe suffers no casualties, only injuries among the trained attack-hogs. Ravenpoe, however, forms a dire grudge against Tinwhistler, whose shot took her down.
15 Dec - Gas, Snuffles, Tin and Ravenpoe are stricken with Malaria. They are bedridden for days. Medical supplies run low.
1 Aprimay, 5501 - Dei and Ashburner hitch up the alpacas and grab everything the tribe can live without, and haul it off to Patience's Ridge, hoping to trade for medicine.
2 Apr - With Dei doing the negotiating, much better prices are had. The caravan returns with the medicine, and some extra money besides. Dei has also picked up a "Mash-een Piss-tul." However, a pack of manhunting arctic wolves has followed them to the settlement. With the help of some fortuitous visitors, the wolves are dealt with, with no casualties.
3 Apr - Thanks to the medicine, the sick tribesmen are beginning to recover, and by the next day, the malaria epidemic has been eradicated.
6 Apr - A herd of deer turn violent while being hunted. Dei and her bonded warthog, Blanche, are injured. The hog has lost three hooves. Peg legs are the best that can be done for Blanche at the moment.
7 Apr - Cargo pods full of ibex meat crash directly into the primary storehouse, smashing in through the roof and scattering their contents. I've heard of grocery delivery service, but this is ridiculous.
3 Jugust - Pirate raid, they bring guns this time. It is driven off, but there are pretty much injuries all around. Tinwhistler's left leg is shot off.
4 Jugust - Tin is fitted for a peg leg.
7 Jugust - Dei and Ash take another caravan to market, selling off all but one male chicken, the piglets, and various bulk goods and pirate weapons. They come back with medical goods - and penoxyciline, to prevent further malaria epidemics and the like.
10 Jugust - A hen contracts cirrhosis of the liver, from a "massive alcohol tolerance." Where it found alcohol, nobody can imagine.
11 Jugust - The skies darken. A volcanic winter is upon the area. Pele demands a sacrifice.
12 Jugust - Dei hunts a cougar with her new "Ayarr fifteen," but it savagely shreds her, and Ashburner when he goes to try to help. Terrik and GasBandit finally bring it down.
2 Septober - The Cabras chase a 57 year old assassin to the camp, where she asks for help. They attempt to defend her, and find Dei's brother among the attackers. He escapes when they are driven off, but Gas and Tin are injured, and the trained warthogs are badly hurt. The newcomer's name is Shegokigo... and there's something... not quite right about how she interacts with people. Tinwhistler is heard using the word "Psychopath," whatever that means.
3 Septober - Passing visitors buy up all of Snuffles' art, and pay with a "Charge Rifle." Tinwhistler calls dibs, as he's the only one with a history of using such things. A Timberwolf self-tames, and Terrik decides to take on training it.
4 Septober - 8 pirates attack in the night. There are light wounds all around, and 2 pirates are captured, including their leader.
7 Septober - A grizzly bear comes into the village and eats a piglet. The tribe guns it down, though Shego is wounded and loses a toe.
12 Sept - Green dust begins to rain gently from the sky, making everything it gets on turn sickly and die. The offworlders who have joined the tribe call it "Toxic Fallout." Not good.
13 Sept - GasBandit comes down with the flu. He is bedridden for a few days.
15 Sept - The toxic fallout has killed off most of the wildlife and vegetation in the area. The modest food reserves dwindle faster than anticipated. If this continues for too long, the tribe will have to consider fleeing West Acapulco in search of somewhere they can survive.
1 Dec - Dei and Tinwhistler decide to take all the male chickens, the prisoners, along with whatever else can be spared, to town to trade for supplies to try to outlast the fallout. The plan falls apart when the prisoners stage an escape, and the alpacas become incapacitated from toxicity. It then begins snowing. The tribe won't be going anywhere for a while.
3 Dec - The food stores are depleted of pemmican. There's nothing left for the herbivorous animals to eat. The volcanic winter combined with the regular winter is keeping the temperatures low, which is helping prolong the meat stores, so at least for the moment the tribe itself won't starve or have to resort to killing livestock... yet.
4 Dec - Thanks to Ravenpoe and Shego, the tribe has figured out electricity and temperature control. Freezer facilities are frantically constructed to preserve what food is left.
5 Dec - Most of the chickens die of malnutrition.
6 Dec - Chickens continue to die. A pirate sapper raid hits from the north. Dei's pet, Blanche, is killed. Two pirates are captured. Most of the chicken carcasses rot before they can be butchered. The prisoners are released because the food to feed them is too dear, and nobody wants to contemplate what might be done with them if they are executed. Specifically, with their meat.
7 Dec - More chickens die. An Exotic goods trader arrives, Dei's uncle accompanies them. GasBandit and Ravenpoe come to blows as the caravan approaches due to an insult from Poe. Then, the toxic fallout finally settles. Ravenpoe, however, must spend the next couple days recovering in bed from the beatdown he received. And the volcanic winter has not abated yet, either.
8 Dec - Farming and hunting resumes. Of the several dozen chickens that had sprung from the two Gas originally purchased, 3 hens and a rooster are all that have survived.
10 Dec - a 61 year old elder from the tribe who has been wandering for the last two years since the destruction of the village finds West Acapulco, and joins. His name is Dave.
11 Dec - The wild animals around West Acapulco return extremely slowly, and in the dim light of volcanic winter, the crops grow excruciatingly slowly. Famine looks to be creeping in. In a desperate gamble, Dave, Shego, and Tin set forth with nothing but what they can carry to hunt the hills beyond the home range.
12 Dec - The trio find a lush range thick with game, and claim an abandoned metal structure to serve as their shelter. Tin and Shego hunt everything they can find and prepare it into simple meals, while Dave hauls the meals back to West Acapulco.
Pictured: The hunting lodge
15 Dec - the skies clear of the volcanic ash. The hunting party packs up everything they have and returns home.
2 Apr - With the first harvest of rice finally coming in, it looks like the famine is finally over.
Pictured: West Acapulco, Aprimay 4th, 5502.
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Hailey Knight
Hailey Knight
The fact that I muttered "oh no" at a point in reading this update shows how invested you can get in reading about a video game .
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PatrThom
PatrThom
#42
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld: Halforums Tribal Edition
7 Aprimay, 5502 - Shego, Tin, and Snuffles are diagnosed with muscle parasites. Their lives aren't going to be any fun for a couple weeks. An outer wall begins being built around West Acupulco
8 Apr - A bear gets into the settlement again, and attacks Aaron (Gas' warthog). The response is swift and deadly, but Aaron still loses his nose.
Pictured: BEEAAAAR in the dungeon! Thought you'd like to know.
9 Apr - The wall is still not even halfway around the village, and 10 Cabras come back for another raid, including Dei's brother. He is killed in the assault. Pez and Terrik sustain minor injuries, and Dei's brother is buried in a grave next to Poe's brother. A prisoner is taken, but he is treated and released in a further attempt to assuage the Cabras. Seeing her brother die so soon after also losing her bonded animal has put Dei in a downward spiral. She blames Pez for everything, though he was only acting in self defense.
11 Apr - No rest for the wicked. A pirate raid brings sappers to the new-forming wall. In the fight, Dei accidentally shoots Aaron, killing him. GasBandit is mortified. Three prisoners are taken. One is judged guilty enough to be executed. The other two are treated for their wounds and held to be sold into slavery.
1 Jugust - another cougar in the breezeway, this one eats a chick. Dei is wounded taking it out - mostly by Ashburner's incautious support fire.
2 Jug - Dei, Terrik, and Shego form a trade caravan to take the plunder, slaves, and other sundries to town. Along the way, something happens that causes Terrik to break up with Dei. She does not take it well at all. She returns to West Acapulco in a towering mood.
4 Jug - A pair of man-eating rhinos enter the area. One is confounded by the mostly-completed outer wall, the other is gunned down as it charges.
5 Jug - The second rhino figures out the wall doesn't go all the way around yet. It tramples Ashburner before being taken down, but nothing permanent looks to be squashed...
13 Jug - Snuffles insults Pez, and fisticuffs ensue. Snuffles gets knocked out, but Pez is also rather beat up.
15 Jug - The Cabras are back for more. But the wall is complete, and they are funneled into a killing zone, where they are chewed to pieces. One captive is taken, treated, and released. One more after that should probably get them to the peace table.
3 Septober - Then, pirates show up with sappers. They break in through the side, but are also defeated. The defending swineforce takes most of their punishment.
5 Sept - At breakfast, Dei starts a fight with Pez, still angry with him for killing her brother (and she's not in the best mood from all the other crap that's been going on lately). Catharsis helps a little bit, but she's still holding a grudge. And it's a waste of a day's labor for both of them, not to mention the medpacks to heal them up.
Pictured: Dei assaults Pez in the kitchen, while Ash apparently teaches a hog to play horseshoes.
13 Sept - It's amazing how quickly the chickens have bounced back. There are over 40 of them, and 37 fertilized eggs gestating. Gas and Dei decide to take the roosters and fertilized eggs to market before they eat everyone out of house and home.
14 Sept - A mysterious blight wipes out the crops. Fortunately, a Harvest was just brought in a couple days ago.
2 Dec - When Dei and Gasbandit return, they find that in their haste they forgot to take the male chicks with them, as well. DOH.
7 Dec - The evil spirit returns, and all the hares in the area turn violent. Dave is bitten. Terrik is nibbled. The attackers are delicious.
9 Dec - Pirate Sappers attack from the northeast, breach the wall, start some fires and kill some chickens before they are taken down. Some pirates escape, but none that are downed survive to be taken prisoner. No tribespeople are seriously hurt. Pez and Shego seem to be a little too enthused about the pirates they killed.
11 Dec - a sudden cold snap arrives in the middle of the night. Despite an emergency scramble to harvest whatever of the crop can be salvaged, most of it is lost. Some of the chickens succumb to frostbite.
13 Dec - as the snows of the cold snap finally break, a merchant caravan arrives, and Gas and Dei's "oopsie" is rectified. The excess livestock is sold off, and medicine is purchased in trade... just in case.
14 Dec - The vegetable stores run out. It is discovered that, at some point, the animals must have gotten into the emergency rations and eaten a large amount of it. Fortunately, meat and eggs are not scarce this winter - the meals will just be a little brown and monochromatic until spring comes around. The hens should have enough hay to get them through. Dave is bitten by an emu while hunting, but the worst injury is done to his pride.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco as the year 5502 comes to a close.
8 Apr - A bear gets into the settlement again, and attacks Aaron (Gas' warthog). The response is swift and deadly, but Aaron still loses his nose.
Pictured: BEEAAAAR in the dungeon! Thought you'd like to know.
9 Apr - The wall is still not even halfway around the village, and 10 Cabras come back for another raid, including Dei's brother. He is killed in the assault. Pez and Terrik sustain minor injuries, and Dei's brother is buried in a grave next to Poe's brother. A prisoner is taken, but he is treated and released in a further attempt to assuage the Cabras. Seeing her brother die so soon after also losing her bonded animal has put Dei in a downward spiral. She blames Pez for everything, though he was only acting in self defense.
11 Apr - No rest for the wicked. A pirate raid brings sappers to the new-forming wall. In the fight, Dei accidentally shoots Aaron, killing him. GasBandit is mortified. Three prisoners are taken. One is judged guilty enough to be executed. The other two are treated for their wounds and held to be sold into slavery.
1 Jugust - another cougar in the breezeway, this one eats a chick. Dei is wounded taking it out - mostly by Ashburner's incautious support fire.
2 Jug - Dei, Terrik, and Shego form a trade caravan to take the plunder, slaves, and other sundries to town. Along the way, something happens that causes Terrik to break up with Dei. She does not take it well at all. She returns to West Acapulco in a towering mood.
4 Jug - A pair of man-eating rhinos enter the area. One is confounded by the mostly-completed outer wall, the other is gunned down as it charges.
5 Jug - The second rhino figures out the wall doesn't go all the way around yet. It tramples Ashburner before being taken down, but nothing permanent looks to be squashed...
13 Jug - Snuffles insults Pez, and fisticuffs ensue. Snuffles gets knocked out, but Pez is also rather beat up.
15 Jug - The Cabras are back for more. But the wall is complete, and they are funneled into a killing zone, where they are chewed to pieces. One captive is taken, treated, and released. One more after that should probably get them to the peace table.
3 Septober - Then, pirates show up with sappers. They break in through the side, but are also defeated. The defending swineforce takes most of their punishment.
5 Sept - At breakfast, Dei starts a fight with Pez, still angry with him for killing her brother (and she's not in the best mood from all the other crap that's been going on lately). Catharsis helps a little bit, but she's still holding a grudge. And it's a waste of a day's labor for both of them, not to mention the medpacks to heal them up.
Pictured: Dei assaults Pez in the kitchen, while Ash apparently teaches a hog to play horseshoes.
13 Sept - It's amazing how quickly the chickens have bounced back. There are over 40 of them, and 37 fertilized eggs gestating. Gas and Dei decide to take the roosters and fertilized eggs to market before they eat everyone out of house and home.
14 Sept - A mysterious blight wipes out the crops. Fortunately, a Harvest was just brought in a couple days ago.
2 Dec - When Dei and Gasbandit return, they find that in their haste they forgot to take the male chicks with them, as well. DOH.
7 Dec - The evil spirit returns, and all the hares in the area turn violent. Dave is bitten. Terrik is nibbled. The attackers are delicious.
9 Dec - Pirate Sappers attack from the northeast, breach the wall, start some fires and kill some chickens before they are taken down. Some pirates escape, but none that are downed survive to be taken prisoner. No tribespeople are seriously hurt. Pez and Shego seem to be a little too enthused about the pirates they killed.
11 Dec - a sudden cold snap arrives in the middle of the night. Despite an emergency scramble to harvest whatever of the crop can be salvaged, most of it is lost. Some of the chickens succumb to frostbite.
13 Dec - as the snows of the cold snap finally break, a merchant caravan arrives, and Gas and Dei's "oopsie" is rectified. The excess livestock is sold off, and medicine is purchased in trade... just in case.
14 Dec - The vegetable stores run out. It is discovered that, at some point, the animals must have gotten into the emergency rations and eaten a large amount of it. Fortunately, meat and eggs are not scarce this winter - the meals will just be a little brown and monochromatic until spring comes around. The hens should have enough hay to get them through. Dave is bitten by an emu while hunting, but the worst injury is done to his pride.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco as the year 5502 comes to a close.
#43
Dave
Dave
#44
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#45
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
Welp, this pretty much solidifies which member of LOST I am.
#46
Dave
Dave
#47
GasBandit
GasBandit
#48
Dei
Dei
#49
GasBandit
GasBandit
#50
Dei
Dei
#51
GasBandit
It's just a trick I've found that causes less dirt to be tracked into bedrooms.
GasBandit
Well, they're limestone brick, now
It's just a trick I've found that causes less dirt to be tracked into bedrooms.
#52
Hailey Knight
Hailey Knight
But tell us about the game.Well, they're limestone brick, now
It's just a trick I've found that causes less dirt to be tracked into bedrooms.
#53
Tinwhistler
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=21718.0
It's a doormat. It collects dirt, so that you track less throughout the habitations
Tinwhistler
There's a rimworld modWell, they're limestone brick, now
It's just a trick I've found that causes less dirt to be tracked into bedrooms.
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=21718.0
It's a doormat. It collects dirt, so that you track less throughout the habitations
#54
GasBandit
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GasBandit
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Neat, I might get that, though really I'll still continue to connect the rooms with "floor" because unfloored dirt has a movement speed penalty, and this also helps keeps fires from spreading between buildings.
#55
Terrik
Terrik
I'm alone again.
That's ok.
I guess.
That's ok.
I guess.
#56
GasBandit
GasBandit
I just wanna know what the hell happened on that caravan trip that made you decide "Nope, that's it, I'm done."I'm alone again.
That's ok.
I guess.
#57
Terrik
Terrik
Lets just say that I discovered I was the other man, and I didn't find out until he squealed.
I'll see myself out.
I'll see myself out.
#58
GasBandit
GasBandit
#59
Dei
Dei
I started a "1 save" game tonight, and so far I've only had one death due to my forgetting to cancel a door being made while a bunch of muffalo went mad after one got shot.
To be fair, I set it on an easier difficulty because I didn't want to deal with non stop bullshit raids.[DOUBLEPOST=1499756069,1499755916][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, can we just talk about the shapes that random fires can make?
To be fair, I set it on an easier difficulty because I didn't want to deal with non stop bullshit raids.[DOUBLEPOST=1499756069,1499755916][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, can we just talk about the shapes that random fires can make?
#60
GasBandit
GasBandit
It reminds me of the old cell-based life simulations.I started a "1 save" game tonight, and so far I've only had one death due to my forgetting to cancel a door being made while a bunch of muffalo went mad after one got shot.
To be fair, I set it on an easier difficulty because I didn't want to deal with non stop bullshit raids.[DOUBLEPOST=1499756069,1499755916][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, can we just talk about the shapes that random fires can make?
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#61
PatrThom
PatrThom
#62
GasBandit
GasBandit
#63
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld: Halforums (Tribal) Edition
1 Aprimay, 5503 - Gas and Dei ring in the new year by ringing each other's bells. And non in a good/sexy way. Nope, Gas has to go and insult her, and she pops him one, and next thing you know they've beaten each other into hamburger. Gas gets the worst of it, but they're both laid up for a day.
Pictured: You can ring my bee-eee-eeell you can ring my bell. Ah-ah.
3 Apr - The evil spirit compels many of the boomalopes in the area to go berserk. Fires rage. Horror of horrors, the horseshoe pin - the settlement's only gaming attraction - is destroyed.
Pictured: Boom, baby
5 Apr - The Cabras are back at it again. They attack just before midnight. They are absolutely decimated, but Ashburner's favorite warthog, Spooky, is grievously injured, and loses a leg and a jaw. No captives are taken. Terrik also receives a shattered rib.
Pictured: The Cabras beat feet - those of them still on their feet, anyway.
7 Apr - in the wee hours of the morning, a greedy compulsive liar with a drug habit who is incapable of caring, socializing, or intellectual work begs for shelter from the pirates chasing him. The Halforumites tell him to keep walking. The radio relays his panicked scream before it is switched off.
Pictured: Ha ha ha, no.
8 Apr - Components for the newfangled machines are running low. A caravan is formed with Dei and Tinwhistler heading into town to trade for supplies. Dei trades the settlements vast collection of skins and crappy pirate weapons (along with 150 eggs) for lots of components, a jaw replacement for Spooky, and all the raw steel they can carry. Plus about 1000 silver in cash.
Pictured: Quite a haul
13 Apr - Another lost member of the tribe wanders to West Acapulco, and is greeted with open arms. Her name is CeltZ, a 44 year old optimist who likes to cook, craft, and mine, but is incapable of violence.
14 Apr - The Cabras are back for more, with another midnight raid. Ashburner's sister is with them. She is shot down by GasBandit, and that friendship is sundered right there. In my defense, she WAS coming straight at me with a spear. Terrik also takes an arrow to the spine, but is expected to recover. Ashburner personally guns down two more fleeing Cabras in his grief. Even with his violent outburst, five prisoners are taken. They are treated for their wounds and released, which (along with the obvious effects of attrition, no doubt) finally convinces the Cabras to end their aggression with the Halforums Tribe and open trade negotiations. Ashburner buries his sister with the other unfortunate tribespeople who ended up on the wrong side of fate.
4 Jugust - Wildfires are set outside the wall by a dry thunderstorm. Huge swaths of land (plus some wildlife) are burned, and Snuffles sustains burns on his torso and right leg. A little medicine and rest puts him back on his feet within a day, but this underscores the need for an infirmary, sooner the better.
Pictured: Fire, water, burn.
7 Jugust - A party of offworlders visits as they pass by. Dei's grandmother is among them, surprisingly enough. She is a guard for their party. Dei visits with her and trades with the visitors, paying exorbitantly for components - whatever, pirates will always bring more crap weapons to sell, and Snuffles will always make more porny artwork.
8 Jugust - a pack of man-eating panthers moves into the area. GasBandit is badly lacerated, loses an ear, and catches a hit of buckshot in the arm from Shego. Dei loses a toe, and almost the whole leg. Ashburner similarly accidentally hits Terrik in the back with his machine pistol fire.
Pictured: Marvel at the Black Panthers
10 Jug - The first two beds are completed in the new infirmary, which also has sterile tile and climate control. The tribe is starting to feel less "tribal" and more outlander.
11 Jug - The evil spirit reveals itself! A great metal house, or a piece of an even greater one, falls from the sky, and voices in every man and woman's head begins filling their thoughts with horrific, violent impulses. The more knowledgeable members of the tribe who used to be offworlders caution that, if disturbed, blood machines will come pouring out! The tribe fears a repeat of the massacre of years ago, but the horror has crashed inside the walls and the psychic assault cannot be ignored. Sandbags are erected around it, and then the carnage begins. Two scythers and a caterpillar erupt from the crashed ship part. The battle isn't prolonged, and the mechanoids are put down. Dei takes a charge lance shot in the gut, almost destroying a kidney. There is relief that the tribe can now stand up to the demons that destroyed their past lives.
Pictured: Drop your weapon - you have fifteen seconds to comply.
12 Jug - CeltZ says something that insults Tinwhistler so much he wails on her. The poor woman stands no chance against the former shock trooper. Tin at least comes to his senses before she is beaten to incapacity, and she goes to the infirmary under her own power.
15 Jug - A heat wave sets in, threatening heatstroke to all who labor outside. Evaporative coolers are built to supplement the air conditioners, so as to not overtax the electric grid.
1 Septober - Dei is attacked by a timberwolf. Terrik attempts to help her, but ends up shooting one of her fingers off.
2 Sept - Terrik decides a grizzly bear in the settlement needs killing. He gets a little clawed up. It would have been worse if other Halforumites hadn't backed his play. Dave chases a wounded turkey all the way around the outer wall. If the turrets hadn't finished it off, who knows how many laps it would have led him on?
Pictured: Terrik is unBEARable.
3 Sept - Pirate Sappers attack from the west. They bring sniper rifles. Shego is downed by sniper fire, and Dei is downed and Terrik is seriously injured when a defense turret malfunctions and explodes. The pirates are driven off, but Shego has lost her left leg and her right foot... which is a real puzzler, considering she was hiding behind sandbags at the time.
4 Sept - Another bear gets in and mauls a warthog. With half its fighters down wounded, the tribe barely manages to kill the bear and save the pig.
5 Sept - More pirates attack. No rest for the wicked. Shego can't help defend, as she's still legless, and Dei is still recovering in the infirmary. GasBandit takes a shot to the brain, and dies instantly. Tinwhistler takes too many to the chest and slumps over, dead. Terrik's bonded wolf companion dies of blood loss before help arrives. The pirates are driven back, but the terrible cost has left morale in the dirt. Even Ashburner isn't able to take much solace in GasBandit's death, despite his grudge against him for the death of his sister.
Pictured: The death of the Gas Bandit
6 Sept - GasBandit and Tinwhistler are buried in the graveyard. Tinwhistler is nude, as he would have wanted.
8 Sept - Another sapper raid, this time from the south. Jeez, enough with the raids already! It's driven back with some wounds to Dei and Terrik, but the ranks of the attack animals are eviscerated. Spooky and Darya, Ash and Dei's boars, both die, further driving them into depression. Ravenpoe forms a bond with a warthog he names Black, who has had both its eyes shot out. In light of recent events, the decision is made to militarize the entire warthog population, whereas before only a few were used in combat and the rest were simply working animals.
Pictured: Pigs vs Pirates
9 Sept - Shego is fitted for a peg leg, though she's still missing the other foot. Research is getting close to figuring out basic prosthetics, and she'll wait for that.
11 Sep - Shegokigo gets her prosthetic foot, and a real prosthetic leg to replace the peg leg.
12 Sep - Ravenpoe and Dei have spent a lot of time talking in private in the last few days. Poe seems to have worn down her reluctance, and today they become lovers. Danil the alpaca has a heart attack, but Snuffles successfully rescuscitates it.
13 Sep - A timber wolf sneaks into the settlement, but is killed before it can do any mischief.
14 Sep - Another mechanoid ship crashes just inside the wall to the east. As before, sandbags are set up, and the blood machines are sent back to hell. A few hogs are wounded, but aside from one lost eye, not seriously.
1 Dec - The Pirates are back. Yes, again. The new, improved killzone does its job, and a tidal wave of pork engulfs the pirates. Three hogs are lost, but the pirates are absolutely demolished. One is taken prisoner.
10 Dec - Several days pass blessedly without incident. Ravenpoe decides this is a good time to pop the question. Dei agrees to marry him. That night, West Acapulco is attacked by 34 man-eating chinchillas. Everybody gets a little bitten and scratched, and one piglet is killed, but other than that... tons of free chinchilla meat and fur. One of Pez's bites gets infected, and he's out of commission for a day.
Pictured: Chinchillapocalype 2017
12 Dec - Mechanoids drop in outside the wall via transport pods. Two scythers and a caterpillar. Dei takes a shot in the gut and nearly bleeds out, but is rescued in time. A couple hogs are lost.
14 Dec - It's been a very mild winter, and the growing season never stopped. The colony has so much surplus rice that much goes to waste, rotting in storage.
15 Dec - A grizzly bear sneaks past everyone somehow and eats a chicken. It is hunted down by every tribesman with a gun, and is quickly killed.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5503
Pictured: You can ring my bee-eee-eeell you can ring my bell. Ah-ah.
3 Apr - The evil spirit compels many of the boomalopes in the area to go berserk. Fires rage. Horror of horrors, the horseshoe pin - the settlement's only gaming attraction - is destroyed.
Pictured: Boom, baby
5 Apr - The Cabras are back at it again. They attack just before midnight. They are absolutely decimated, but Ashburner's favorite warthog, Spooky, is grievously injured, and loses a leg and a jaw. No captives are taken. Terrik also receives a shattered rib.
Pictured: The Cabras beat feet - those of them still on their feet, anyway.
7 Apr - in the wee hours of the morning, a greedy compulsive liar with a drug habit who is incapable of caring, socializing, or intellectual work begs for shelter from the pirates chasing him. The Halforumites tell him to keep walking. The radio relays his panicked scream before it is switched off.
Pictured: Ha ha ha, no.
8 Apr - Components for the newfangled machines are running low. A caravan is formed with Dei and Tinwhistler heading into town to trade for supplies. Dei trades the settlements vast collection of skins and crappy pirate weapons (along with 150 eggs) for lots of components, a jaw replacement for Spooky, and all the raw steel they can carry. Plus about 1000 silver in cash.
Pictured: Quite a haul
13 Apr - Another lost member of the tribe wanders to West Acapulco, and is greeted with open arms. Her name is CeltZ, a 44 year old optimist who likes to cook, craft, and mine, but is incapable of violence.
14 Apr - The Cabras are back for more, with another midnight raid. Ashburner's sister is with them. She is shot down by GasBandit, and that friendship is sundered right there. In my defense, she WAS coming straight at me with a spear. Terrik also takes an arrow to the spine, but is expected to recover. Ashburner personally guns down two more fleeing Cabras in his grief. Even with his violent outburst, five prisoners are taken. They are treated for their wounds and released, which (along with the obvious effects of attrition, no doubt) finally convinces the Cabras to end their aggression with the Halforums Tribe and open trade negotiations. Ashburner buries his sister with the other unfortunate tribespeople who ended up on the wrong side of fate.
4 Jugust - Wildfires are set outside the wall by a dry thunderstorm. Huge swaths of land (plus some wildlife) are burned, and Snuffles sustains burns on his torso and right leg. A little medicine and rest puts him back on his feet within a day, but this underscores the need for an infirmary, sooner the better.
Pictured: Fire, water, burn.
7 Jugust - A party of offworlders visits as they pass by. Dei's grandmother is among them, surprisingly enough. She is a guard for their party. Dei visits with her and trades with the visitors, paying exorbitantly for components - whatever, pirates will always bring more crap weapons to sell, and Snuffles will always make more porny artwork.
8 Jugust - a pack of man-eating panthers moves into the area. GasBandit is badly lacerated, loses an ear, and catches a hit of buckshot in the arm from Shego. Dei loses a toe, and almost the whole leg. Ashburner similarly accidentally hits Terrik in the back with his machine pistol fire.
Pictured: Marvel at the Black Panthers
10 Jug - The first two beds are completed in the new infirmary, which also has sterile tile and climate control. The tribe is starting to feel less "tribal" and more outlander.
11 Jug - The evil spirit reveals itself! A great metal house, or a piece of an even greater one, falls from the sky, and voices in every man and woman's head begins filling their thoughts with horrific, violent impulses. The more knowledgeable members of the tribe who used to be offworlders caution that, if disturbed, blood machines will come pouring out! The tribe fears a repeat of the massacre of years ago, but the horror has crashed inside the walls and the psychic assault cannot be ignored. Sandbags are erected around it, and then the carnage begins. Two scythers and a caterpillar erupt from the crashed ship part. The battle isn't prolonged, and the mechanoids are put down. Dei takes a charge lance shot in the gut, almost destroying a kidney. There is relief that the tribe can now stand up to the demons that destroyed their past lives.
Pictured: Drop your weapon - you have fifteen seconds to comply.
12 Jug - CeltZ says something that insults Tinwhistler so much he wails on her. The poor woman stands no chance against the former shock trooper. Tin at least comes to his senses before she is beaten to incapacity, and she goes to the infirmary under her own power.
15 Jug - A heat wave sets in, threatening heatstroke to all who labor outside. Evaporative coolers are built to supplement the air conditioners, so as to not overtax the electric grid.
1 Septober - Dei is attacked by a timberwolf. Terrik attempts to help her, but ends up shooting one of her fingers off.
2 Sept - Terrik decides a grizzly bear in the settlement needs killing. He gets a little clawed up. It would have been worse if other Halforumites hadn't backed his play. Dave chases a wounded turkey all the way around the outer wall. If the turrets hadn't finished it off, who knows how many laps it would have led him on?
Pictured: Terrik is unBEARable.
3 Sept - Pirate Sappers attack from the west. They bring sniper rifles. Shego is downed by sniper fire, and Dei is downed and Terrik is seriously injured when a defense turret malfunctions and explodes. The pirates are driven off, but Shego has lost her left leg and her right foot... which is a real puzzler, considering she was hiding behind sandbags at the time.
4 Sept - Another bear gets in and mauls a warthog. With half its fighters down wounded, the tribe barely manages to kill the bear and save the pig.
5 Sept - More pirates attack. No rest for the wicked. Shego can't help defend, as she's still legless, and Dei is still recovering in the infirmary. GasBandit takes a shot to the brain, and dies instantly. Tinwhistler takes too many to the chest and slumps over, dead. Terrik's bonded wolf companion dies of blood loss before help arrives. The pirates are driven back, but the terrible cost has left morale in the dirt. Even Ashburner isn't able to take much solace in GasBandit's death, despite his grudge against him for the death of his sister.
Pictured: The death of the Gas Bandit
6 Sept - GasBandit and Tinwhistler are buried in the graveyard. Tinwhistler is nude, as he would have wanted.
8 Sept - Another sapper raid, this time from the south. Jeez, enough with the raids already! It's driven back with some wounds to Dei and Terrik, but the ranks of the attack animals are eviscerated. Spooky and Darya, Ash and Dei's boars, both die, further driving them into depression. Ravenpoe forms a bond with a warthog he names Black, who has had both its eyes shot out. In light of recent events, the decision is made to militarize the entire warthog population, whereas before only a few were used in combat and the rest were simply working animals.
Pictured: Pigs vs Pirates
9 Sept - Shego is fitted for a peg leg, though she's still missing the other foot. Research is getting close to figuring out basic prosthetics, and she'll wait for that.
11 Sep - Shegokigo gets her prosthetic foot, and a real prosthetic leg to replace the peg leg.
12 Sep - Ravenpoe and Dei have spent a lot of time talking in private in the last few days. Poe seems to have worn down her reluctance, and today they become lovers. Danil the alpaca has a heart attack, but Snuffles successfully rescuscitates it.
13 Sep - A timber wolf sneaks into the settlement, but is killed before it can do any mischief.
14 Sep - Another mechanoid ship crashes just inside the wall to the east. As before, sandbags are set up, and the blood machines are sent back to hell. A few hogs are wounded, but aside from one lost eye, not seriously.
1 Dec - The Pirates are back. Yes, again. The new, improved killzone does its job, and a tidal wave of pork engulfs the pirates. Three hogs are lost, but the pirates are absolutely demolished. One is taken prisoner.
10 Dec - Several days pass blessedly without incident. Ravenpoe decides this is a good time to pop the question. Dei agrees to marry him. That night, West Acapulco is attacked by 34 man-eating chinchillas. Everybody gets a little bitten and scratched, and one piglet is killed, but other than that... tons of free chinchilla meat and fur. One of Pez's bites gets infected, and he's out of commission for a day.
Pictured: Chinchillapocalype 2017
12 Dec - Mechanoids drop in outside the wall via transport pods. Two scythers and a caterpillar. Dei takes a shot in the gut and nearly bleeds out, but is rescued in time. A couple hogs are lost.
14 Dec - It's been a very mild winter, and the growing season never stopped. The colony has so much surplus rice that much goes to waste, rotting in storage.
15 Dec - A grizzly bear sneaks past everyone somehow and eats a chicken. It is hunted down by every tribesman with a gun, and is quickly killed.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5503
#64
Terrik
Terrik
#65
PatrThom
PatrThom
#66
Hailey Knight
Hailey Knight
Staying home sick today (apparently along with everyone else at my office who got a free slurpee from 7-11 yesterday 
). Is this on sale yet?
). Is this on sale yet?
#67
Denbrought
Denbrought
Word is, Rimworld will not go on sale until after its release.Staying home sick today (apparently along with everyone else at my office who got a free slurpee from 7-11 yesterday
#68
Hailey Knight
Hailey Knight
#69
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#70
GasBandit
GasBandit
#71
Dei
Dei
#73
PatrThom
PatrThom
#74
GasBandit
GasBandit
#75
Dei
Dei
But seriously, don't let your kittens find the beer.
#76
Denbrought
Denbrought
#77
GasBandit
GasBandit
#78
Dei
Dei
#79
PatrThom
PatrThom
#80
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld: Halforums (Tribal) Edition
5 Aprimay, 5504 - Mechanoids land to the southwest. They attack through the killbox, and a couple warthogs die to charge lance fire, but all four scythers are taken out. Terrik almost loses a leg, and Ash takes one in the chest, but both pull through.
Pictured: Metal and Pork
6 Apr - The cabras send their first trade caravan (as opposed to raiding party). Bulk goods are traded.
9 Apr - Another Psychic ship chunk crashes inside the walls. In the ensuing battle, Pez loses a hand to a charge lance shot.
11 Apr - Dei and Shego take the Alpacas to market, loaded with as much rice as they can carry. Turns out they'll need multiple trips to deal with their rice glut, though.
1 Jugust - 23 manhunting arctic foxes move into the area, and attack the settlement. Never has battle been so luxuriant. The battle of Foxes vs Warthogs claims many four-legged lives, but only one of them porcine. Lots of meat goes to waste as there isn't enough room for it all in the freezers.
Pictured: So cute. So bitey.
3 Jug - Dave's curiosity leads him to open an ominous structure to the south. A blood machine is inside! Dave escapes to warn the others.
4 Jug - It's decided the blood machine must be rooted out. A defensive wall of sandbags is built, and then the tribe opens fire. The scyther is taken out, but when the cryptosleep caskets inside are hit by glancing fire, they open, and reveal wounded people inside. The female leaves of her own will, but the male wearing power armor is incapacitated, and is taken to the infirmary for treatment. CeltZ decides to throw a party in the kitchen. Much merriment is had by all. When the soldier regains consciousness after treatment and feeding, he decides to leave.
Pictured: Peek-a-boo, you son of a bitch
6 Jug - Shegokigo has a heart attack, but doesn't tell anybody about it for several hours. Luckily, Ravenpoe is still able to save her using some of their precious, scarce supply of glitterworld medicine.
8 Jug - Dei and Ravenpoe are married in the kitchen with all in attendance, and a reception afterwards. It's the social event of the season. Dei's wedding present is a bionic eye, to replace the one that nearly got scratched out by an animal, and left a nasty scar.
Pictured: The wedding of Poe and Dei
11 Jug - Shego gets bionics to replace her prosthetics. Pez, too.
12 Jug - A herd of 9 man-eating Caribou.. Well, at least it's not chinchillas. Dei, Terrik and Ashburner get a little bruised up, but nothing serious. Again, SO much wasted meat.
14 Jug - Two scyther mechanoids and a caterpillar assault the front gates. The blood machines sure seem to be showing up more often these days... fortunately not in great numbers. Dave and Shego are lightly injured. Shego's wounds develop an infection, so she is bedridden an extra few days.
5 Sept - The settlement buys a megascreen TV from a passing exotic goods tradeship. They are officially modern civilization.
7 Sept - Just when people were starting to relax and think they were going to have a nice, quiet fall, a pirate raid arrives from the south. They bring incendiary launchers. Dei's left arm is shot off, and there are gunshot wounds and burns all around.
8 Sept - Once everyone is stabilized and there is room to spare in the infirmary, Dei gets fitted for a bionic arm. She's now got a bionic eye, ear, and arm, making her now pass Shego as the most mechanized member of the tribe.
10 Sept - A mysterious blight ravages the crops. This would be more concerning if there wasn't already too much food to store properly. Later that evening, another group of mechanoids attack from the northeast. Half the defenders are lightly wounded and two turrets are destroyed. Pez gains a disturbing scar on his eye. The decision is made to improve the killzone once again.
2 Decembruary - In the middle of the night, another poison mechanoid ship crashes right next to the newly constructed emergency food storage warehouse. CeltZ delays the armed response squad dealing with it by throwing a party first thing in the morning.
3 Dec - The effort to deal with the mechanoid ship hits an unexpected snag when Shego lobs a casual insult at Terrik during combat and he throws his weapon on the ground and lunges at her with his fists. Dave is hit by an inferno cannon and runs around screaming while he burns. The next volley of inferno cannon fire hits Terrik and Shego, which seems to snap them out of their scuffle, at the cost of some major burns. Ashburner catches fire while trying to extinguish the others. When all is said and done, everybody's kinda hurt and Shego has a grudge against Terrik.
Pictured: God Dammit Terrik
5 Dec - 25 man eating iguanas amble in for breakfast. It takes them hours, however, to figure out where the opening in the wall is. The combat is made all the more explosive by a hapless boomalope that wanders into the crossfire. Dei's pet boar, Ferdinand, nearly burns to death in the ensuing blaze, because he's a dumbass and doesn't wait for combat to be over to start trying to retrieve dead iguanas.
Pictured: Iguana tell ya something
6 Dec - A cold snap sets in. The crops are gotten in before it kills them.
13 Dec - Pirates attack just after bedtime, moving swiftly before everyone can get into position. Nevertheless they are utterly destroyed with only moderate wounds to one or two defenders.
15 Dec - Now that the tribe knows how to make real vacuum-sealed survival meals, a caravan is sent to sell off all the pemmican reserves, along with the tattered clothing and extra rice. Patience's Ridge, however, doesn't have enough cash on hand to buy it all, so all kinds of goods that West Acapulco "might conceivably need" are taken in trade, and even then about 1500 silver worth of perishables are just given to the town rather than haul it back home.
Pictured: Metal and Pork
6 Apr - The cabras send their first trade caravan (as opposed to raiding party). Bulk goods are traded.
9 Apr - Another Psychic ship chunk crashes inside the walls. In the ensuing battle, Pez loses a hand to a charge lance shot.
11 Apr - Dei and Shego take the Alpacas to market, loaded with as much rice as they can carry. Turns out they'll need multiple trips to deal with their rice glut, though.
1 Jugust - 23 manhunting arctic foxes move into the area, and attack the settlement. Never has battle been so luxuriant. The battle of Foxes vs Warthogs claims many four-legged lives, but only one of them porcine. Lots of meat goes to waste as there isn't enough room for it all in the freezers.
Pictured: So cute. So bitey.
3 Jug - Dave's curiosity leads him to open an ominous structure to the south. A blood machine is inside! Dave escapes to warn the others.
4 Jug - It's decided the blood machine must be rooted out. A defensive wall of sandbags is built, and then the tribe opens fire. The scyther is taken out, but when the cryptosleep caskets inside are hit by glancing fire, they open, and reveal wounded people inside. The female leaves of her own will, but the male wearing power armor is incapacitated, and is taken to the infirmary for treatment. CeltZ decides to throw a party in the kitchen. Much merriment is had by all. When the soldier regains consciousness after treatment and feeding, he decides to leave.
Pictured: Peek-a-boo, you son of a bitch
6 Jug - Shegokigo has a heart attack, but doesn't tell anybody about it for several hours. Luckily, Ravenpoe is still able to save her using some of their precious, scarce supply of glitterworld medicine.
8 Jug - Dei and Ravenpoe are married in the kitchen with all in attendance, and a reception afterwards. It's the social event of the season. Dei's wedding present is a bionic eye, to replace the one that nearly got scratched out by an animal, and left a nasty scar.
Pictured: The wedding of Poe and Dei
11 Jug - Shego gets bionics to replace her prosthetics. Pez, too.
12 Jug - A herd of 9 man-eating Caribou.. Well, at least it's not chinchillas. Dei, Terrik and Ashburner get a little bruised up, but nothing serious. Again, SO much wasted meat.
14 Jug - Two scyther mechanoids and a caterpillar assault the front gates. The blood machines sure seem to be showing up more often these days... fortunately not in great numbers. Dave and Shego are lightly injured. Shego's wounds develop an infection, so she is bedridden an extra few days.
5 Sept - The settlement buys a megascreen TV from a passing exotic goods tradeship. They are officially modern civilization.
7 Sept - Just when people were starting to relax and think they were going to have a nice, quiet fall, a pirate raid arrives from the south. They bring incendiary launchers. Dei's left arm is shot off, and there are gunshot wounds and burns all around.
8 Sept - Once everyone is stabilized and there is room to spare in the infirmary, Dei gets fitted for a bionic arm. She's now got a bionic eye, ear, and arm, making her now pass Shego as the most mechanized member of the tribe.
10 Sept - A mysterious blight ravages the crops. This would be more concerning if there wasn't already too much food to store properly. Later that evening, another group of mechanoids attack from the northeast. Half the defenders are lightly wounded and two turrets are destroyed. Pez gains a disturbing scar on his eye. The decision is made to improve the killzone once again.
2 Decembruary - In the middle of the night, another poison mechanoid ship crashes right next to the newly constructed emergency food storage warehouse. CeltZ delays the armed response squad dealing with it by throwing a party first thing in the morning.
3 Dec - The effort to deal with the mechanoid ship hits an unexpected snag when Shego lobs a casual insult at Terrik during combat and he throws his weapon on the ground and lunges at her with his fists. Dave is hit by an inferno cannon and runs around screaming while he burns. The next volley of inferno cannon fire hits Terrik and Shego, which seems to snap them out of their scuffle, at the cost of some major burns. Ashburner catches fire while trying to extinguish the others. When all is said and done, everybody's kinda hurt and Shego has a grudge against Terrik.
Pictured: God Dammit Terrik
5 Dec - 25 man eating iguanas amble in for breakfast. It takes them hours, however, to figure out where the opening in the wall is. The combat is made all the more explosive by a hapless boomalope that wanders into the crossfire. Dei's pet boar, Ferdinand, nearly burns to death in the ensuing blaze, because he's a dumbass and doesn't wait for combat to be over to start trying to retrieve dead iguanas.
Pictured: Iguana tell ya something
6 Dec - A cold snap sets in. The crops are gotten in before it kills them.
13 Dec - Pirates attack just after bedtime, moving swiftly before everyone can get into position. Nevertheless they are utterly destroyed with only moderate wounds to one or two defenders.
15 Dec - Now that the tribe knows how to make real vacuum-sealed survival meals, a caravan is sent to sell off all the pemmican reserves, along with the tattered clothing and extra rice. Patience's Ridge, however, doesn't have enough cash on hand to buy it all, so all kinds of goods that West Acapulco "might conceivably need" are taken in trade, and even then about 1500 silver worth of perishables are just given to the town rather than haul it back home.
#81
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld: Halforums (Tribal) Edition
1 Aprimay, 5505 - 29 manhunting tortoises slowly plod in from the southeast. Ashburner's favorite pig, Aoi, is accidentally shot to death.
8 Apr - Another early morning CeltZ party first thing today. She's turning out to be quite the party girl.
9 Apr - A group of pirates set up positions to lay siege with mortars, to the north. West Acapulco is barely completing mortars of their own, and they don't have any ammo yet! A frontal assault is unfortunately necessary. It's a bloody business, and although it succeeds, some of the tribe's warriors are wounded. Ashburner takes a shot in the head that his helmet doesn't stop. It doesn't kill him, but there's a definite impairment of cognitive functions going on. Any wounded pirates are simply left to die out in the woods. Well, at least the settlement's mortars have some ammo, now.
Pictured: Attacking the enemy in the woods before they can set up mortars
13 Apr - An escape pod lands conveniently right outside the infirmary. He is rescued and convalesces in said infirmary, and is so grateful that he joins the tribe. He's Stienman, a 25 year old charity worker who was raised in a convent, and thus can't bear to hold a weapon, but is an industrious worker with an interest in growing and building things. He's also a night owl.
15 Apr - Snuffles insults Pez, and Pez can't let it go. They get into a tussle in the hall, and both get a little banged up. They're both laid up for a day.
3 Jugust - Danil, one of the tribe's faithful alpacas, is 15 years old and has developed a bad back and dementia. He wanders around in a daze, most often. Probably time to put him out to pasture.
5 Jug - A trade caravan hauling bulk goods stops by. Dei's grandmother is among them.
6 Jug - Pirates attack, nothing too fancy, but they do have EMP grenades, which take out a couple turrets. No living tribal defenders are hurt at all, however. No pirate survivors.
11 Jug - The Mysterious Blight returns, and most of what crops are growing, die.
12 Jug - Dei hunts a boomrat, it turns into a literal melee, and it also literally blows up in her face. She's out of commission for a day or two.
15 Jug - Another evil spirit house crashes on the lawn. In the fight, Pez is downed and loses his OTHER hand.
2 Septober - FigmentPez gets a second bionic hand installed.
3 Sept - The formation of a caravan is followed by the arrival of pirates. Ravenpoe has an aunt among the attackers. Dave, Terrik and Snuffles do their best to defend without the others. Thanks to the super-efficient killbox, no defenders are injured. One pirate is taken prisoner. The aunt does not survive.
7 Sept - An escape pod crashes outside the wall. The female occupant is rescued, but after the most cursory of medical checkups, she is in a hurry to leave. Dave hunts a grizzly bear that has wandered inside the walls, and gets clawed up a little, but he also gets shot by Terrik, who is trying to "help" him. He'll recover, but he's a little miffed at Terrik.
8 Sept - Ravenpoe's boar, Black, has a heart attack and dies before medical help can be rendered. Poe buries him with the others.
11 Sept - Another escape pod, in the middle of the night. Stienman gets the occupant to the infirmary, and Snuffles patches her up in the morning. Grateful, she joins the tribe. She's a 37 year old former mercenary leader, daughter of a crime boss, named Amy. She's a bit on the neurotic side, and doesn't care much for anything but socializing and fighting. That night, Dave hunts Muffalo, but angers the entire herd. They trample him into the dirt. Terrik and Pez finish off the herd and haul Dave to the infirmary. Just in time, as a pack of 19 man-eating wargs come bounding into the area as soon as the door slams behind Pez and Dave.
Pictured: Dave, under the hooves
12 Sept - The wargs apparently have difficulty finding the front door. Only 3 of them attack, and the turrets alone are enough to put them down. The rest wander for a while, then suddenly burst in and attack a visiting caravan. They are put down, but there are casualties in the caravan.
9 Decembruary - After a mostly pleasant and peaceful winter's beginning, suddenly West Acapulco is attacked by 38 man-hunting gazelles! They break down a postern door and flood into the village proper! The smash in the workshop door and bludgeon Ravenpoe unconscious. CeltZ takes cover in the emergency stores, and Stienman runs for the killzone. Meanwhile the defending militia has to go street-to-street clearing the suckers out. Many boars and Alpacas are also savaged in addition to the tribespeople, and various structures are all damaged from stray gunfire and berzerk horn battering. No sooner is this problem barely dealt with, than half the tribe comes down with the flu. CeltZ, Dei, Pez, Shego, Stienman, and Dave are all down with the sickness.
Pictured: Gazellemageddon in progress
10 Dec - A solar flare helps everyone be more comfortable and heal faster by knocking out the electricity. Did I say help? I mean the other thing.
11 Dec - Ravenpoe has been using Ambrosia fruit as a painkiller for those in the hospital. Dei develops an addiction.
13 Dec - The flu epidemic finally breaks.
14 Dec - A cold snap rolls in at night. Stienman does his best, but much of the crop is lost before it can be harvested.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5505 (Teddy is a prisoner)
8 Apr - Another early morning CeltZ party first thing today. She's turning out to be quite the party girl.
9 Apr - A group of pirates set up positions to lay siege with mortars, to the north. West Acapulco is barely completing mortars of their own, and they don't have any ammo yet! A frontal assault is unfortunately necessary. It's a bloody business, and although it succeeds, some of the tribe's warriors are wounded. Ashburner takes a shot in the head that his helmet doesn't stop. It doesn't kill him, but there's a definite impairment of cognitive functions going on. Any wounded pirates are simply left to die out in the woods. Well, at least the settlement's mortars have some ammo, now.
Pictured: Attacking the enemy in the woods before they can set up mortars
13 Apr - An escape pod lands conveniently right outside the infirmary. He is rescued and convalesces in said infirmary, and is so grateful that he joins the tribe. He's Stienman, a 25 year old charity worker who was raised in a convent, and thus can't bear to hold a weapon, but is an industrious worker with an interest in growing and building things. He's also a night owl.
15 Apr - Snuffles insults Pez, and Pez can't let it go. They get into a tussle in the hall, and both get a little banged up. They're both laid up for a day.
3 Jugust - Danil, one of the tribe's faithful alpacas, is 15 years old and has developed a bad back and dementia. He wanders around in a daze, most often. Probably time to put him out to pasture.
5 Jug - A trade caravan hauling bulk goods stops by. Dei's grandmother is among them.
6 Jug - Pirates attack, nothing too fancy, but they do have EMP grenades, which take out a couple turrets. No living tribal defenders are hurt at all, however. No pirate survivors.
11 Jug - The Mysterious Blight returns, and most of what crops are growing, die.
12 Jug - Dei hunts a boomrat, it turns into a literal melee, and it also literally blows up in her face. She's out of commission for a day or two.
15 Jug - Another evil spirit house crashes on the lawn. In the fight, Pez is downed and loses his OTHER hand.
2 Septober - FigmentPez gets a second bionic hand installed.
3 Sept - The formation of a caravan is followed by the arrival of pirates. Ravenpoe has an aunt among the attackers. Dave, Terrik and Snuffles do their best to defend without the others. Thanks to the super-efficient killbox, no defenders are injured. One pirate is taken prisoner. The aunt does not survive.
7 Sept - An escape pod crashes outside the wall. The female occupant is rescued, but after the most cursory of medical checkups, she is in a hurry to leave. Dave hunts a grizzly bear that has wandered inside the walls, and gets clawed up a little, but he also gets shot by Terrik, who is trying to "help" him. He'll recover, but he's a little miffed at Terrik.
8 Sept - Ravenpoe's boar, Black, has a heart attack and dies before medical help can be rendered. Poe buries him with the others.
11 Sept - Another escape pod, in the middle of the night. Stienman gets the occupant to the infirmary, and Snuffles patches her up in the morning. Grateful, she joins the tribe. She's a 37 year old former mercenary leader, daughter of a crime boss, named Amy. She's a bit on the neurotic side, and doesn't care much for anything but socializing and fighting. That night, Dave hunts Muffalo, but angers the entire herd. They trample him into the dirt. Terrik and Pez finish off the herd and haul Dave to the infirmary. Just in time, as a pack of 19 man-eating wargs come bounding into the area as soon as the door slams behind Pez and Dave.
Pictured: Dave, under the hooves
12 Sept - The wargs apparently have difficulty finding the front door. Only 3 of them attack, and the turrets alone are enough to put them down. The rest wander for a while, then suddenly burst in and attack a visiting caravan. They are put down, but there are casualties in the caravan.
9 Decembruary - After a mostly pleasant and peaceful winter's beginning, suddenly West Acapulco is attacked by 38 man-hunting gazelles! They break down a postern door and flood into the village proper! The smash in the workshop door and bludgeon Ravenpoe unconscious. CeltZ takes cover in the emergency stores, and Stienman runs for the killzone. Meanwhile the defending militia has to go street-to-street clearing the suckers out. Many boars and Alpacas are also savaged in addition to the tribespeople, and various structures are all damaged from stray gunfire and berzerk horn battering. No sooner is this problem barely dealt with, than half the tribe comes down with the flu. CeltZ, Dei, Pez, Shego, Stienman, and Dave are all down with the sickness.
Pictured: Gazellemageddon in progress
10 Dec - A solar flare helps everyone be more comfortable and heal faster by knocking out the electricity. Did I say help? I mean the other thing.
11 Dec - Ravenpoe has been using Ambrosia fruit as a painkiller for those in the hospital. Dei develops an addiction.
13 Dec - The flu epidemic finally breaks.
14 Dec - A cold snap rolls in at night. Stienman does his best, but much of the crop is lost before it can be harvested.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5505 (Teddy is a prisoner)
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Terrik
Terrik
#83
PatrThom
PatrThom
#84
Dei
Dei
#85
Terrik
Terrik
#86
PatrThom
PatrThom
#87
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#88
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld: Halforums (Tribal) Edition
2 Aprimay, 5506 - The cold snap breaks, fortunately as the kibble reserves for the chickens were down to about 1 day's worth remaining.
3 Apr - A cargo pod lands within the wall, containing 72 chicken eggs. The irony is not lost on the tribe. Five Man-eating elephants enter the area from the north. They find their way to the killbox. Going to be a lot more meat going to waste.
Pictured: Mad Elephants On Parade
5 Apr - Despite a stricter policy having been enacted regarding ambrosia fruit, Ashburner also develops an addiction. It turns out most of the colony has been using the fruit as a food source, rather than using packaged meals, which technically circumvents the "Drug" policy. The Ambrosia is locked up, and everybody's forced to detox.
6 Apr - in the dead of night, the pirate prisoner manages to break out of his cell and runs for the exit. He beats a boar to death on his way. A trade caravan arrives later that day, with pirate raiders hot on its heels - and the escaped prisoner is with them. They wait until nightfall to begin their assault. The leader of the caravan, for some bizarre reason, decided to sleep outside the wall, and is quickly killed. The rest of the caravan immediately runs for the hills (despite being safely inside the wall). The pirate raid is repulsed, and two captives are taken - different captives, the original escapee sucessfully flees with the other pirates.
11 Apr - Amy throws a party first thing in the morning. What is with these people and breakfast parties?
13 Apr - An Alpaca has a heart attack, but Snuffles saves it. Another evil spirit shell crashes, right on the chickens. In the subsequent fight, Terrik takes an inferno cannon blast dead on, and Amy catches a charge lance shot in the leg. Both are patched up and out of the infirmary by morning.
Pictured: Terrik Flambe
15 Apr - The pirates are back, and they brought sappers. There are light to medium wounds all around, but nothing that is irreplacable is lost. The escapee, Teddy, is recaptured along with another pirate. Ashburner passes out from pain and blood loss, but is rescued by a warthog and carried to the infirmary. He is hospitalized for an extra day, but everybody else besides he and Pez are good as new by bedtime.
Pictured: Waaaaait for iiiiiit...
2 Jugust - An early heat wave is interrupted by a volcanic winter, coinciding with another round of blight. To compensate for the slower growth of what will be replanted, more farmland is allocated. One of the new prisoners is recruited to join the tribe. His name is Charon, former military with a passion for horticulture, and actually a pretty nice guy. He gets a new nose, though, as his got shot off.
5 Jug - Toxic fallout begins raining from the sky during the night. It is decided to put a roof over the crops, and install sun lamps. This will drastically increase electricity consumption, but is probably the best that can be done. Feeding the chickens will become a problem within a week, as their numbers usually require outdoor grazing during all but the coldest of winter days. A new Geothermal generator is built to help offset the power consumption, but it looks like even that may not be enough.
6 Jug - The power drain and the chickens' voraciousness were both vastly underestimated. Seeing no other choice, the chickens are taken to the hunting lodge by Dei and Poe, hopefully to graze there until the fallout passes. Two more geothermal power generators are planned.
7 Jug - Six more quad freezer units are built to handle all the meat from the dying out of the local animal population. There won't be any more hunting for a while, so this meat cannot go to waste.
9 Jug - No sooner are the preparations for the long, dead stretch of surviving the toxic fallout complete... than it clears. /headdesk. /headdesk. /headdesk.
10 Jug - The guy who escaped, then was recaptured, is finally convinced to just join on. Not everybody is happy with him, given that he's been a thorn in the tribe's side multiple times, but he gets a shot. He's a former urbworld pimp, and in order to get a new start, his old name "Teddy" is done away with, and the Tribe renames him "Chazwozel." That night, the remaining two prisoners attempt a prison break. It is unsuccessful, and they are recaptured.
12 Jug - another pirate raid with more sappers. Dave's leg is shot off, but the other injuries among the tribe are minor. No pirates are taken prisoner - but two survivors are executed in the field. Dave gets a bionic replacement leg that very night.
13 Jug - Chaz manages to convince one of his pirate former allies to join the tribe as well. He's called Null, he does a little bit of everything.
14 Jug - The last prisoner attempts a prison break. He doesn't get far at all and is recaptured.
15 Jug - Terrik crafts a masterwork spear, covered in etched artwork depicting Dei recruiting Charon to the tribe. It's only fitting Charon carries it as his sidearm.
3 Septober - Terrik hunts a boomalope that is within the wall. It explodes next to some chickens, setting them on fire. Eh, thinks Terrik, it's raining. They'll be fine. Shego and Null end up tending to the chickens' impressive array of burns. The prisoner, having just gotten over an infected wound from his escape attempt, contracts malaria. A hospital bed is moved into the prisoner area for him.
4 Sept - All the wild boars in the area go maneater. Dave is attacked near the killbox, and the poor accuracy of the turrets means he gets gunned down in addition to the pigs. He gains an impressive list of injuries all over him, as well as losing a finger. Shego gets him back to the infirmary, and Null patches him up, but he's out of commission for several days.
7 Sept - Pirates arrive in drop pods southeast of the wall. They want to set up a siege - but this time, the tribe has mortars. The pirates are pounded into hamburger. One is taken prisoner.
13 Sept - With the volcanic winter still in effect, the snows come early this year.
15 Sept - The pirates are back, with lots of new faces. Where do these guys keep getting recruits? They catch Terrik outside the wall and a sniper shoots off his arm. The rest of the tribe deal with the pirates harshly, and it's a slaughter. One pirate is taken prisoner.
2 Decembruary - 10 manhunting cassowaries descend upon West Acapulco. They catch Chaz outside the wall, and he barely makes it back inside. Charon is jumped by a lone straggler as he attempts repairs on a geothermal generator. He beats the big bird, receiving a mere scratch in return.
3 Dec - The skies finally clear - the volcanic winter is over. Now it's just regular winter.
4 Dec - One of the prisoners named DarkAudit is convinced they'd be better off joining. It turns out he's actually kinda interested in almost any activity that ISN'T combat, and he's a night owl to boot.
10 Dec - Pirate sappers arrive in the middle of the night. Null's daughter is with them. They come in through a large rock in the process of being dug out, right into an ambush. The pirates are cut to pieces. The only significant injury to the defenders is when Terrik shoots Charon by mistake. Null's daughter is wounded but escapes.
Pictured: SUPPLIES!
11 Dec - Shego picks a fight with Amy while Amy is out hunting, for no real discernable reason, other than she "didn't like her face."
12 Dec - A manhunting pack of 22 arctic wolves arrives. Once again, Chaz is off on his own doing fuck-knows-what and gets his ass chewed off. Charon goes to rescue him and gets HIS ass chewed off. Then Dave, who loses an eye and almost loses the other. When everybody's done being fucking idiots, the pack is dealt with. Snuffles then has an attack of the derps and fucks up surgery on a boar twice. Then RavenPoe fucks up. Relative medical-neophyte Null finally gets the job done.
13 Dec - Dave is fitted with bionic eyes. His one remaining one was pretty much useless anyway.
15 Dec - there is a roof collapse when digging out the southern rock feature, and Terrik is crushed to death. His bonded boar, Joker, goes berserk with grief. It attacks Shego, who kills it. The area is re-dug out, but Terrik's body is never found. The only things found are his spear, and his lunch. Ash, CeltZ and Amy are particularly upset about his death.
Pictured: Terrik Pancake
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5506.
3 Apr - A cargo pod lands within the wall, containing 72 chicken eggs. The irony is not lost on the tribe. Five Man-eating elephants enter the area from the north. They find their way to the killbox. Going to be a lot more meat going to waste.
Pictured: Mad Elephants On Parade
5 Apr - Despite a stricter policy having been enacted regarding ambrosia fruit, Ashburner also develops an addiction. It turns out most of the colony has been using the fruit as a food source, rather than using packaged meals, which technically circumvents the "Drug" policy. The Ambrosia is locked up, and everybody's forced to detox.
6 Apr - in the dead of night, the pirate prisoner manages to break out of his cell and runs for the exit. He beats a boar to death on his way. A trade caravan arrives later that day, with pirate raiders hot on its heels - and the escaped prisoner is with them. They wait until nightfall to begin their assault. The leader of the caravan, for some bizarre reason, decided to sleep outside the wall, and is quickly killed. The rest of the caravan immediately runs for the hills (despite being safely inside the wall). The pirate raid is repulsed, and two captives are taken - different captives, the original escapee sucessfully flees with the other pirates.
11 Apr - Amy throws a party first thing in the morning. What is with these people and breakfast parties?
13 Apr - An Alpaca has a heart attack, but Snuffles saves it. Another evil spirit shell crashes, right on the chickens. In the subsequent fight, Terrik takes an inferno cannon blast dead on, and Amy catches a charge lance shot in the leg. Both are patched up and out of the infirmary by morning.
Pictured: Terrik Flambe
15 Apr - The pirates are back, and they brought sappers. There are light to medium wounds all around, but nothing that is irreplacable is lost. The escapee, Teddy, is recaptured along with another pirate. Ashburner passes out from pain and blood loss, but is rescued by a warthog and carried to the infirmary. He is hospitalized for an extra day, but everybody else besides he and Pez are good as new by bedtime.
Pictured: Waaaaait for iiiiiit...
2 Jugust - An early heat wave is interrupted by a volcanic winter, coinciding with another round of blight. To compensate for the slower growth of what will be replanted, more farmland is allocated. One of the new prisoners is recruited to join the tribe. His name is Charon, former military with a passion for horticulture, and actually a pretty nice guy. He gets a new nose, though, as his got shot off.
5 Jug - Toxic fallout begins raining from the sky during the night. It is decided to put a roof over the crops, and install sun lamps. This will drastically increase electricity consumption, but is probably the best that can be done. Feeding the chickens will become a problem within a week, as their numbers usually require outdoor grazing during all but the coldest of winter days. A new Geothermal generator is built to help offset the power consumption, but it looks like even that may not be enough.
6 Jug - The power drain and the chickens' voraciousness were both vastly underestimated. Seeing no other choice, the chickens are taken to the hunting lodge by Dei and Poe, hopefully to graze there until the fallout passes. Two more geothermal power generators are planned.
7 Jug - Six more quad freezer units are built to handle all the meat from the dying out of the local animal population. There won't be any more hunting for a while, so this meat cannot go to waste.
9 Jug - No sooner are the preparations for the long, dead stretch of surviving the toxic fallout complete... than it clears. /headdesk. /headdesk. /headdesk.
10 Jug - The guy who escaped, then was recaptured, is finally convinced to just join on. Not everybody is happy with him, given that he's been a thorn in the tribe's side multiple times, but he gets a shot. He's a former urbworld pimp, and in order to get a new start, his old name "Teddy" is done away with, and the Tribe renames him "Chazwozel." That night, the remaining two prisoners attempt a prison break. It is unsuccessful, and they are recaptured.
12 Jug - another pirate raid with more sappers. Dave's leg is shot off, but the other injuries among the tribe are minor. No pirates are taken prisoner - but two survivors are executed in the field. Dave gets a bionic replacement leg that very night.
13 Jug - Chaz manages to convince one of his pirate former allies to join the tribe as well. He's called Null, he does a little bit of everything.
14 Jug - The last prisoner attempts a prison break. He doesn't get far at all and is recaptured.
15 Jug - Terrik crafts a masterwork spear, covered in etched artwork depicting Dei recruiting Charon to the tribe. It's only fitting Charon carries it as his sidearm.
3 Septober - Terrik hunts a boomalope that is within the wall. It explodes next to some chickens, setting them on fire. Eh, thinks Terrik, it's raining. They'll be fine. Shego and Null end up tending to the chickens' impressive array of burns. The prisoner, having just gotten over an infected wound from his escape attempt, contracts malaria. A hospital bed is moved into the prisoner area for him.
4 Sept - All the wild boars in the area go maneater. Dave is attacked near the killbox, and the poor accuracy of the turrets means he gets gunned down in addition to the pigs. He gains an impressive list of injuries all over him, as well as losing a finger. Shego gets him back to the infirmary, and Null patches him up, but he's out of commission for several days.
7 Sept - Pirates arrive in drop pods southeast of the wall. They want to set up a siege - but this time, the tribe has mortars. The pirates are pounded into hamburger. One is taken prisoner.
13 Sept - With the volcanic winter still in effect, the snows come early this year.
15 Sept - The pirates are back, with lots of new faces. Where do these guys keep getting recruits? They catch Terrik outside the wall and a sniper shoots off his arm. The rest of the tribe deal with the pirates harshly, and it's a slaughter. One pirate is taken prisoner.
2 Decembruary - 10 manhunting cassowaries descend upon West Acapulco. They catch Chaz outside the wall, and he barely makes it back inside. Charon is jumped by a lone straggler as he attempts repairs on a geothermal generator. He beats the big bird, receiving a mere scratch in return.
3 Dec - The skies finally clear - the volcanic winter is over. Now it's just regular winter.
4 Dec - One of the prisoners named DarkAudit is convinced they'd be better off joining. It turns out he's actually kinda interested in almost any activity that ISN'T combat, and he's a night owl to boot.
10 Dec - Pirate sappers arrive in the middle of the night. Null's daughter is with them. They come in through a large rock in the process of being dug out, right into an ambush. The pirates are cut to pieces. The only significant injury to the defenders is when Terrik shoots Charon by mistake. Null's daughter is wounded but escapes.
Pictured: SUPPLIES!
11 Dec - Shego picks a fight with Amy while Amy is out hunting, for no real discernable reason, other than she "didn't like her face."
12 Dec - A manhunting pack of 22 arctic wolves arrives. Once again, Chaz is off on his own doing fuck-knows-what and gets his ass chewed off. Charon goes to rescue him and gets HIS ass chewed off. Then Dave, who loses an eye and almost loses the other. When everybody's done being fucking idiots, the pack is dealt with. Snuffles then has an attack of the derps and fucks up surgery on a boar twice. Then RavenPoe fucks up. Relative medical-neophyte Null finally gets the job done.
13 Dec - Dave is fitted with bionic eyes. His one remaining one was pretty much useless anyway.
15 Dec - there is a roof collapse when digging out the southern rock feature, and Terrik is crushed to death. His bonded boar, Joker, goes berserk with grief. It attacks Shego, who kills it. The area is re-dug out, but Terrik's body is never found. The only things found are his spear, and his lunch. Ash, CeltZ and Amy are particularly upset about his death.
Pictured: Terrik Pancake
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5506.
#89
Hailey Knight
Hailey Knight
#90
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#91
PatrThom
PatrThom
#92
GasBandit
GasBandit
#93
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#94
PatrThom
PatrThom
#95
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld - Halforums (Tribal) Edition -
1 Aprimay, 5507 - Dei and Charon set out with the alpacas and all the sundries of the tribe to go trade in town. Not as much is for sale there as hoped, but deals are struck.
5 Apr - A siege party lands to the southwest. Mortars away! The rain of explosives is so deadly and terrifying that the pirates don't even attempt a frontal assault, they just flee into the hills.
Pictured: FUCK THIS YOU CAN KEEP YOUR SHIT AAAAA
7 Apr - The psychic metal monsters land incredibly close to the town in the night. Dealing with it has to wait til morning. Ash shows up to the fight stoned, and isn't very capable. Amy,Pez, and Dave are all hit with charge lance bolts, requiring them to be hospitalized for a day or two.
Pictured: Surround and Conquer
10 Apr - The Sappers - and Null's daughter - are back. They arrive in the middle of the night to try to get the jump on the tribe. They flee, but there are some wounds on the defenders, including Snuffles, who has lost a hand.
14 Apr - Dei takes the latest dozens of hog offspring to market to sell. Along the way, so many nuzzle her affectionately that she's named half of them by the time they get there. Null completes work on an AI chip that will finally correct Ash's brain damage. After it is installed, it's like a haze has lifted from his eyes.
2 Jugust - The pirates have another go, and not only is Null's daughter with them, but so are Dei's grandparents. Pez and Ash are slightly wounded. Dei's grandfather and Null's daughter do not survive. In fact, Null witnessed her death at the hands of Dei, and now hates Dei with a passion.
5 Jug - 12 Man-eating Elk attack in the middle of the night. The defenders defend, but the elk close the distance through the kill zone too quickly. Ash and Pez are trampled and have to be carried back to the infirmary unconscious.
8 Jug - Chaz talks another one of the pirates in custody into becoming a former-pirate. He's a big vat-grown space marine who likes to shoot and fight, but also has a green thumb, and his new "starting over" name is DocSeverin.
11 Jug - a Lynx gets into the settlement and attacks CeltZ. Shego quickly kills the predatory feline, and CeltZ isn't hurt too badly.
Pictured: Trying hard not to make a dirty pun
12 Jug - Those sappers never learn. The Defenders get into position to ambush them, but Dave takes an unlucky hit to the head that probably would have killed him if he hadn't been wearing a helmet... but as it stands, he's worse off than even Ash was. Work begins on a new AI chip to fix him up in the same manner, but there's not enough uranium to complete it yet.
Pictured: The wounding of Dave
14 Jug - Dei goes to market to sell piglets. On her way back, a pirate stops her on the road and demands all her belongings and money. She refuses. A fight ensues. It turns out, the brigand doesn't even have a gun, just the world's shittiest knife and a face that looks like a cross between a malformed fetus and a drawing done by an untalented child. Dei guns her down, checks her over to confirm that the pirate has nothing worth taking, and continues toward home.
Pictured: Dei Waylayed
15 Jug - Amy hunts a boomalope, and when it explodes, she gets her fool self set on fire. Then a poison ship crashes outside the wall. The tribe bombards it with mortars until the blood machines come to the killbox. Chaz talks another pirate captive into converting. Her new name is Emrys, and she's good with animals, cooking, growing, and constructing. Dave gets so stoned on smokeleaf, what's left of his brain shuts down, and he has to be rescued off the floor of the storage warehouse.
Pictured: Amy's hot Hot HOT
1 Sep - Half the damn tribe, and even a captive, comes down with the flu.
4 Sep - After a stressful few days, the epidemic breaks as immunities develop.
6 Sep - A freak heat wave washes over the area. Dave gets stoned and passes out again.
7 Sep - Raid with sappers. While they chew through the wall, they are bombarded with mortars. When they finally break through, they are gunned down. DocSeverin takes a nasty hit in the arm, but otherwise no injuries.
9 Sep - The evil spirit is angry! It compels all the raccoons in the area to attack the tribe. Steinman goes outside to build a mining annex, and is bitten until he is incapacitated. Dei rescues him, but gets a nasty scratch for her trouble.
11 Sep - Another Pirate raid. They wait until a caravan is leaving and then ambush them. The tribe moves to assist, and saves some of the caravaneers. The pirates suffer heavy casualties, and the survivors are executed on the spot.
Pictured: Guerillas in the Mist
14 Sep - DarkAudit and Emrys become lovers. How this is gonna work when he's up at night and she sleeps at night... well, don't ask me.
15 Sep - The work on the AI chip to fix Dave's brain is complete, and it is surgically installed.
3 Dec - Shegokigo hunts a predatory bear in the area. She bungles it pretty badly, and it tears her remaining leg off - and almost gets her bionic one, too. Just as she's being rescued, sappers arrive in the southeast. Amy and Chaz take a few hits during the battle to drive them off.
Pictured: Fat Dog for Shego
Pictured: You assholes, we just fixed that wall
4 Dec - Shego gets a second bionic leg. DarkAudit proposes, and Emrys accepts.
5 Dec - A group of bloodmachines come from the southwest. They come through the killbox and are handily defeated, though Null does get a facefull of inferno cannon.
6 Dec - Ashburner accidentally says something that drives Charon into a rage. They fight in the corridor.
Pictured: Ash V. Charon
9 Dec - The last pirate captive is finally talked into joining by Dei. She's a smartassed former smuggler named Kags, who makes it clear she doesn't do farm stuff.
12 Dec - Ash can't keep his big yap shut, and inadvertently insults DocSeverin enough to start a fight, and gets his clock cleaned.
14 Dec - Toxic Fallout begins raining from the sky. Supplies are plentiful, but for how long...?
15 A wildfire in the middle of the night destroys one of the geothermal power stations. When the sun rises, it brings a cold snap, and just as the fire is brought under control, a poisonous ship part crashes just outside the wall. Kags has a mental break and wanders out into the toxic snow. IS THIS THE END OF WEST ACAPULCO?
Pictured: If the toxins don't get ya, the wildfires will
Pictured: The situation is grim
5 Apr - A siege party lands to the southwest. Mortars away! The rain of explosives is so deadly and terrifying that the pirates don't even attempt a frontal assault, they just flee into the hills.
Pictured: FUCK THIS YOU CAN KEEP YOUR SHIT AAAAA
7 Apr - The psychic metal monsters land incredibly close to the town in the night. Dealing with it has to wait til morning. Ash shows up to the fight stoned, and isn't very capable. Amy,Pez, and Dave are all hit with charge lance bolts, requiring them to be hospitalized for a day or two.
Pictured: Surround and Conquer
10 Apr - The Sappers - and Null's daughter - are back. They arrive in the middle of the night to try to get the jump on the tribe. They flee, but there are some wounds on the defenders, including Snuffles, who has lost a hand.
14 Apr - Dei takes the latest dozens of hog offspring to market to sell. Along the way, so many nuzzle her affectionately that she's named half of them by the time they get there. Null completes work on an AI chip that will finally correct Ash's brain damage. After it is installed, it's like a haze has lifted from his eyes.
2 Jugust - The pirates have another go, and not only is Null's daughter with them, but so are Dei's grandparents. Pez and Ash are slightly wounded. Dei's grandfather and Null's daughter do not survive. In fact, Null witnessed her death at the hands of Dei, and now hates Dei with a passion.
5 Jug - 12 Man-eating Elk attack in the middle of the night. The defenders defend, but the elk close the distance through the kill zone too quickly. Ash and Pez are trampled and have to be carried back to the infirmary unconscious.
8 Jug - Chaz talks another one of the pirates in custody into becoming a former-pirate. He's a big vat-grown space marine who likes to shoot and fight, but also has a green thumb, and his new "starting over" name is DocSeverin.
11 Jug - a Lynx gets into the settlement and attacks CeltZ. Shego quickly kills the predatory feline, and CeltZ isn't hurt too badly.
Pictured: Trying hard not to make a dirty pun
12 Jug - Those sappers never learn. The Defenders get into position to ambush them, but Dave takes an unlucky hit to the head that probably would have killed him if he hadn't been wearing a helmet... but as it stands, he's worse off than even Ash was. Work begins on a new AI chip to fix him up in the same manner, but there's not enough uranium to complete it yet.
Pictured: The wounding of Dave
14 Jug - Dei goes to market to sell piglets. On her way back, a pirate stops her on the road and demands all her belongings and money. She refuses. A fight ensues. It turns out, the brigand doesn't even have a gun, just the world's shittiest knife and a face that looks like a cross between a malformed fetus and a drawing done by an untalented child. Dei guns her down, checks her over to confirm that the pirate has nothing worth taking, and continues toward home.
Pictured: Dei Waylayed
15 Jug - Amy hunts a boomalope, and when it explodes, she gets her fool self set on fire. Then a poison ship crashes outside the wall. The tribe bombards it with mortars until the blood machines come to the killbox. Chaz talks another pirate captive into converting. Her new name is Emrys, and she's good with animals, cooking, growing, and constructing. Dave gets so stoned on smokeleaf, what's left of his brain shuts down, and he has to be rescued off the floor of the storage warehouse.
Pictured: Amy's hot Hot HOT
1 Sep - Half the damn tribe, and even a captive, comes down with the flu.
4 Sep - After a stressful few days, the epidemic breaks as immunities develop.
6 Sep - A freak heat wave washes over the area. Dave gets stoned and passes out again.
7 Sep - Raid with sappers. While they chew through the wall, they are bombarded with mortars. When they finally break through, they are gunned down. DocSeverin takes a nasty hit in the arm, but otherwise no injuries.
9 Sep - The evil spirit is angry! It compels all the raccoons in the area to attack the tribe. Steinman goes outside to build a mining annex, and is bitten until he is incapacitated. Dei rescues him, but gets a nasty scratch for her trouble.
11 Sep - Another Pirate raid. They wait until a caravan is leaving and then ambush them. The tribe moves to assist, and saves some of the caravaneers. The pirates suffer heavy casualties, and the survivors are executed on the spot.
Pictured: Guerillas in the Mist
14 Sep - DarkAudit and Emrys become lovers. How this is gonna work when he's up at night and she sleeps at night... well, don't ask me.
15 Sep - The work on the AI chip to fix Dave's brain is complete, and it is surgically installed.
3 Dec - Shegokigo hunts a predatory bear in the area. She bungles it pretty badly, and it tears her remaining leg off - and almost gets her bionic one, too. Just as she's being rescued, sappers arrive in the southeast. Amy and Chaz take a few hits during the battle to drive them off.
Pictured: Fat Dog for Shego
Pictured: You assholes, we just fixed that wall
4 Dec - Shego gets a second bionic leg. DarkAudit proposes, and Emrys accepts.
5 Dec - A group of bloodmachines come from the southwest. They come through the killbox and are handily defeated, though Null does get a facefull of inferno cannon.
6 Dec - Ashburner accidentally says something that drives Charon into a rage. They fight in the corridor.
Pictured: Ash V. Charon
9 Dec - The last pirate captive is finally talked into joining by Dei. She's a smartassed former smuggler named Kags, who makes it clear she doesn't do farm stuff.
12 Dec - Ash can't keep his big yap shut, and inadvertently insults DocSeverin enough to start a fight, and gets his clock cleaned.
14 Dec - Toxic Fallout begins raining from the sky. Supplies are plentiful, but for how long...?
15 A wildfire in the middle of the night destroys one of the geothermal power stations. When the sun rises, it brings a cold snap, and just as the fire is brought under control, a poisonous ship part crashes just outside the wall. Kags has a mental break and wanders out into the toxic snow. IS THIS THE END OF WEST ACAPULCO?
Pictured: If the toxins don't get ya, the wildfires will
Pictured: The situation is grim
#96
AshburnerX
I'm betting what stopped a lot of Ash's bad social habits was that he was dumb as a brick. Now that's he's fixed, it's basically a Flowers for Algernon situation; he knows everyone around him is an asshole and he can't pretend it's not true now that he knows.
AshburnerX
I'm betting what stopped a lot of Ash's bad social habits was that he was dumb as a brick. Now that's he's fixed, it's basically a Flowers for Algernon situation; he knows everyone around him is an asshole and he can't pretend it's not true now that he knows.
#97
Dave
Dave
#98
PatrThom
PatrThom
#99
GasBandit
GasBandit
#100
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld: Halforums (Not-so-Tribal) Edition
1 Aprimay, 5508 - A hapless caravan blunders into the crashed poison ship. Dei, Chaz and Shego are wounded trying to rescue them. Only 4 caravaneers survive to be rescued, and one of them dies of blood loss on the way to the infirmary.
Pictured: Shit, meet fan
3 Apr - A solar flare knocks out the electricity for the settlement. The tribe must temporarily go back to relying on fire for warmth, for the day.
8 Apr - The Toxic fallout finally relents. Good thing, too, the meat stores were just giving out...
11 Apr - Sapper raid from the south. Emrys' sister and Dei's aunt and grandmother are among them. Null gets a little injured in the fight. Dei's relatives are captured, Emrys' sister dies in the fight.
14 Apr - Emrys and DarkAudit's wedding takes place. Not everyone can attend, as four tribesmen are out on a caravan and don't make it back in time. They do make it in time for the second half of the reception, though... and something happens there, I'm not sure what, that makes Emrys IMMEDIATELY call off the marriage and kick DarkAudit out. Hoooooly drama.
Pictured: A beautiful wedding
Pictured: WELL THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG
2 Jugust - A raid group consisting of Amy, Shego, Chaz, Charon and Docseverin uses Transport pods to attack a nearby pirate outpost. It goes moderately well, and the wounds received in the attack are healed before the party loads up two dromedaries (also delivered by transport pods after the victory) with booty and heads for home.
5 Jug - A pirate raid shows up with Dei's Father. Seems like a whole lot of the old tribe must have fallen in with the pirates out of desperation. Unfortunately, he is killed in the attack. The HF raiding party arrives right after the pirate raid is defeated.
6 Jug - a Heat wave grips West Acapulco. Snuffles and Pez get into a fight in the hallway.
7 Jug - A psychic ship part crashes outside the east wall. An excellent plan to bombard it with mortars is fucked up when dave goes outside to hunt a rat and gets his dumb ass shot to shit with charge lances. To his credit, he manages to take down 4 scythers before they incapacitate him. Most likely thanks to his AI chip implant keeping him awake and fighting through the pain, and out of shock, for as long as possible. In the pitched battle to go out to rescue him, and Amy, Chaz and Pez are lightly wounded.
Pictured: Dave: CyberRambo
9 Jug - Another raid, with sappers, and yet again with another one of Dei's relatives - Her great grandfather. He doesn't survive. Pez loses a leg in the battle.
10 Jug - Pez gets a bionic leg. With that, his 2 bionic hands, and bionic eye, he's now officially the most-mechanized tribesman.
3 Septober - Dei and Poe are sent far to the north by Transport pod to establish a trading post in a town-dense area. They are chosen because they are married and their abilities compliment each other.
Pictured: Breaking in the new bed at the newly constructed trading post
4 Sept - Pirates come to try to lay siege to West Acapulco. You'd think they'd remember what happened the last time. The mortars once again pound them into paste.
7 Sept - Ashburner's mother is part of a travelling group that passes through, and stops to visit.
11 Sept - Dei's mother is actually now head of a trade caravan for the Tibudta Strong Dominion, it turns out. They arrive at West Acapulco today, but naturally, Dei isn't there - she's up at the trading post with Poe. Perhaps it's just as well, she's pretty pissed at Dei for the death of various members of their family. Charon and Kags decide to become lovers.
12 Sept - At breakfast, Chaz and Emrys go at it after she tells him exactly what he can stick where. She gets the worst of the exchange.
13 Sept - Another metal evil spirit within the wall at dusk. In fact, it barely misses the infirmary. Careful preparation is the key here. The militia is exhausted by the time the defensive emplacements are built, so it is decided to attack in the morning.
14 Sept - The attack commences. Four caterpillars pop out. The fighting is furious but fast. Snuffles nearly loses a foot, but the menace is ended. That evening, Dei's captured pirate aunt, Dirona, finally comes around and joins the Tribe.
1 Decembruary - Kags tells Chaz to stick it where the sun don't shine. Fisticuffs commence. They come out about even and call it off, but both hold grudges. A compacted plasteel vein is discovered in the mountain behind Dei and Poe'sfuckhut love shack trading post. Since travelling to trade during the winter is impractical, they spend the winter mining plasteel, eating lavish meals, and banging like teenagers.
Pictured: Chaz vs. Kags in the kitchen
2 Dec - A cold snap rolls through. Fortunately, it hits in late morning, so there's plenty of time to get the crops in before the hard freeze. A woman in an escape pod crashes to the west, and is rescued. When she regains consciousness, she joins the Tribe in gratitude. She's a 51 year old medical assistant named Sara. She's got an optimistic outlook, but has a crippling phobia of fire.
4 Dec - Sara turns out to be a bit of a junkie... she goes on a smokeleaf binge with little provocation. Seems her pyrophobia doesn't extend to sparking up a J.
5 Dec - Emrys insults DarkAudit while they're out planting when the cold snap passes, and it's the final straw. The two have a fistfight right there among the haygrass. Each of them end up tearing a finger off of the other! They hate each other SO much, now.
Pictured: It's an institute you can't disparage
7 Dec - Sappers arrive in the dead of the night. In a strange show of semi-intelligence, they choose to try ramming down postern doors instead of breaking through a wall. Null is taken down by friendly fire, and he loses an arm AND a foot. Some pirates are captured, but most are downed. All but one downed pirate are executed, the exeption is captured. Null gets bionic replacements within 24 hours.
Pictured: Enjoy those limbs while they last
8 Dec - Dei's grandmother - Dirona's mother - is finally talked around to joining by the smooth-talking pimp Chazwozel. Her name is Squidley, and she's a 47 year old former writer whose creative spirit was crushed by a factory job.
9 Dec - 9 man-eating polar bears attack West Acapulco. Gonna be plenty of meat and fur for a while.
The rest of the winter passes quietly and productively.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5508
Pictured: The state of the north trading post, at the same time
Pictured: Shit, meet fan
3 Apr - A solar flare knocks out the electricity for the settlement. The tribe must temporarily go back to relying on fire for warmth, for the day.
8 Apr - The Toxic fallout finally relents. Good thing, too, the meat stores were just giving out...
11 Apr - Sapper raid from the south. Emrys' sister and Dei's aunt and grandmother are among them. Null gets a little injured in the fight. Dei's relatives are captured, Emrys' sister dies in the fight.
14 Apr - Emrys and DarkAudit's wedding takes place. Not everyone can attend, as four tribesmen are out on a caravan and don't make it back in time. They do make it in time for the second half of the reception, though... and something happens there, I'm not sure what, that makes Emrys IMMEDIATELY call off the marriage and kick DarkAudit out. Hoooooly drama.
Pictured: A beautiful wedding
Pictured: WELL THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG
2 Jugust - A raid group consisting of Amy, Shego, Chaz, Charon and Docseverin uses Transport pods to attack a nearby pirate outpost. It goes moderately well, and the wounds received in the attack are healed before the party loads up two dromedaries (also delivered by transport pods after the victory) with booty and heads for home.
5 Jug - A pirate raid shows up with Dei's Father. Seems like a whole lot of the old tribe must have fallen in with the pirates out of desperation. Unfortunately, he is killed in the attack. The HF raiding party arrives right after the pirate raid is defeated.
6 Jug - a Heat wave grips West Acapulco. Snuffles and Pez get into a fight in the hallway.
7 Jug - A psychic ship part crashes outside the east wall. An excellent plan to bombard it with mortars is fucked up when dave goes outside to hunt a rat and gets his dumb ass shot to shit with charge lances. To his credit, he manages to take down 4 scythers before they incapacitate him. Most likely thanks to his AI chip implant keeping him awake and fighting through the pain, and out of shock, for as long as possible. In the pitched battle to go out to rescue him, and Amy, Chaz and Pez are lightly wounded.
Pictured: Dave: CyberRambo
9 Jug - Another raid, with sappers, and yet again with another one of Dei's relatives - Her great grandfather. He doesn't survive. Pez loses a leg in the battle.
10 Jug - Pez gets a bionic leg. With that, his 2 bionic hands, and bionic eye, he's now officially the most-mechanized tribesman.
3 Septober - Dei and Poe are sent far to the north by Transport pod to establish a trading post in a town-dense area. They are chosen because they are married and their abilities compliment each other.
Pictured: Breaking in the new bed at the newly constructed trading post
4 Sept - Pirates come to try to lay siege to West Acapulco. You'd think they'd remember what happened the last time. The mortars once again pound them into paste.
7 Sept - Ashburner's mother is part of a travelling group that passes through, and stops to visit.
11 Sept - Dei's mother is actually now head of a trade caravan for the Tibudta Strong Dominion, it turns out. They arrive at West Acapulco today, but naturally, Dei isn't there - she's up at the trading post with Poe. Perhaps it's just as well, she's pretty pissed at Dei for the death of various members of their family. Charon and Kags decide to become lovers.
12 Sept - At breakfast, Chaz and Emrys go at it after she tells him exactly what he can stick where. She gets the worst of the exchange.
13 Sept - Another metal evil spirit within the wall at dusk. In fact, it barely misses the infirmary. Careful preparation is the key here. The militia is exhausted by the time the defensive emplacements are built, so it is decided to attack in the morning.
14 Sept - The attack commences. Four caterpillars pop out. The fighting is furious but fast. Snuffles nearly loses a foot, but the menace is ended. That evening, Dei's captured pirate aunt, Dirona, finally comes around and joins the Tribe.
1 Decembruary - Kags tells Chaz to stick it where the sun don't shine. Fisticuffs commence. They come out about even and call it off, but both hold grudges. A compacted plasteel vein is discovered in the mountain behind Dei and Poe's
Pictured: Chaz vs. Kags in the kitchen
2 Dec - A cold snap rolls through. Fortunately, it hits in late morning, so there's plenty of time to get the crops in before the hard freeze. A woman in an escape pod crashes to the west, and is rescued. When she regains consciousness, she joins the Tribe in gratitude. She's a 51 year old medical assistant named Sara. She's got an optimistic outlook, but has a crippling phobia of fire.
4 Dec - Sara turns out to be a bit of a junkie... she goes on a smokeleaf binge with little provocation. Seems her pyrophobia doesn't extend to sparking up a J.
5 Dec - Emrys insults DarkAudit while they're out planting when the cold snap passes, and it's the final straw. The two have a fistfight right there among the haygrass. Each of them end up tearing a finger off of the other!
They hate each other SO much, now.Pictured: It's an institute you can't disparage
7 Dec - Sappers arrive in the dead of the night. In a strange show of semi-intelligence, they choose to try ramming down postern doors instead of breaking through a wall. Null is taken down by friendly fire, and he loses an arm AND a foot. Some pirates are captured, but most are downed. All but one downed pirate are executed, the exeption is captured. Null gets bionic replacements within 24 hours.
Pictured: Enjoy those limbs while they last
8 Dec - Dei's grandmother - Dirona's mother - is finally talked around to joining by the smooth-talking pimp Chazwozel. Her name is Squidley, and she's a 47 year old former writer whose creative spirit was crushed by a factory job.
9 Dec - 9 man-eating polar bears attack West Acapulco. Gonna be plenty of meat and fur for a while.
The rest of the winter passes quietly and productively.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco at the end of 5508
Pictured: The state of the north trading post, at the same time
#101
GasBandit
GasBandit
#102
Dave
Dave
#103
Dei
Dei
#104
Dave
Dave
#105
Denbrought
Denbrought
#106
Dave
Dave
#107
GasBandit
Yeah, any brand new game with Randy would probably be over within the first year
GasBandit
I could, I could make a special save, do one thing, then go back to that save, and try another thing.
Yeah, any brand new game with Randy would probably be over within the first year
#108
Denbrought
Denbrought
#109
GasBandit
That's one to think about for the next playthrough.
I'm never gonna get back to Darkest Dungeon at this rate ha ha ha
GasBandit
Oh, heck yeah, I forgot about making a custom start. I could have people roll themselves up like a character sheet, even, since I use "Prepare Carefully."
That's one to think about for the next playthrough.
I'm never gonna get back to Darkest Dungeon at this rate
ha ha ha
#110
Bubble181
Bubble181
#111
MindDetective
MindDetective
#112
PatrThom
PatrThom
Seems like @DarkAudit and @Emrys gave each other the finger.
Exchanging rings is usually the more customary ceremony, but who am I to judge how they express their love?
Can't wait to see how they celebrate their handfasting.
--Patrick
Exchanging rings is usually the more customary ceremony, but who am I to judge how they express their love?
Can't wait to see how they celebrate their handfasting.
I might even get the DLC before you get back to it ha ha.I'm never gonna get back to Darkest Dungeon at this rate
--Patrick
#113
DarkAudit
DarkAudit
#114
Soupy
Soupy
#115
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#116
GasBandit
GasBandit
#117
Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#118
Soupy
Soupy
#119
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld - Halforums (Increasingly-less-tribal) edition
1 Aprimay, 5509 - Amy is sent to market with the winter's piglets and alpaca babies. By the time she gets there, she's been nuzzled about 30 times and has given half of them names.
4 Apr - The decision of the Tribal council is that the tribe will leave West Acapulco and trek to the north pole, where a ship awaits them, buried in the ice, to take them to the stars. Even under the best of circumstances, it's a 43 day trip, and preparations need to be made. The decision is, this year will be spent preparing, and at first thaw in 5510, the tribe will depart, never to return to the settlement. Even the massive amounts of packaged emergency meals they have set aside would only last 24 days, and that's assuming adequate grazing for the livestock along the way. It would be ideal to not enter the frozen wastes until summer, but you have to be close enough to reach the ship before fall.
Pictured: The route to the ship
7 Apr - Charon proposes to Kags, and she accepts. The two are now engaged. That evening, a poison ship must be dealt with. Despite appropriate sandbagging, Kags is downed in the fight, with serious life-threatening injuries. Charon breaks ranks to rescue her. Ashburner gets a leg shot off. Various other somewhat less horrific injuries are also taken by others.
Pictured: Not Just Another Day at the Office
8 Apr - As if there weren't enough people in the infirmary already, somehow the ONLY TWO PEOPLE awake at 4 am take issue with each other and get into a fist fight. Or rather, it's more accurate to say DarkAudit takes a swing at Stienman, as the latter is incapable of violence. Fortunately, only a couple bruises are gained before DA realizes he's beating a defenseless man. Stienman doesn't hold a grudge, and within a few days the two have made up. Ash gets a bionic leg.
Pictured: "Nice chat. Nice chat. YOU MOTHER FUCKER"
10 Apr - Sara has a heart attack while working in the hydroponics. She walks herself all the way across the settlement to the infirmary, rather than get help immediately. Despite that, Shego is able to stabilize her.
13 Apr - More mechanoids enter the area, by land this time. Fortunately, they funnel into the killzone. Charon catches the edge of an inferno cannon blast, but isn't hurt too badly.
15 Apr - Snuffles and Emrys become lovers. Sappers arrive that evening. Emrys' father is among them. The mortars fuck. them. up. When they break through, Figmentpez gets the killing shot on Emrys' dad, and now she hates him. Charon takes a little bruise from a club held by one pirate lucky enough to get into melee range for a second. Any surviving wounded pirate is executed on the spot.
Pictured: Ey boss, whazzat whistling noise?
Pictured: "I know it looks bad, guys, but I'm almost through the last door, and then.."
5 Jugust - Cooking around the clock has increased the survival meals from 1000 to 1300, but that may not be fast enough to get the requisite 2000 by next spring. Additional cooking facilities are made. Also, more machining benches to churn out as much power armor and shield belts as possible. The road is a dangerous place.
6 Jug - Seating is at a premium at Charon and Kags' wedding. This time, there's no drama at the reception. Everything goes splendidly. Morale among the tribe is soaring.
Pictured: Mawwaige. Mawwaige is what bwings us heah today.
9 Jug - More mechanoids move in from the southeast. Pez picks this moment to start a fight with Amy. Fortunately, the caterpillars do not keep pace with the scythers, the latter of which simply feed themselves to the automatic turrets. The caterpillars get distracted shooting errant boars of the compound, and don't even make it to the killbox until after dark. They're handled with only modest injury, mostly from the damned inferno cannons.
10 Jug - in order to concentrate on the preparation effort, the north trade post is abandoned. Dei and Poe move everything of value that they don't sell back to West Acapulco via transport pod, and then themselves the same way.
Pictured: The trading post, cleaned out and abandoned
11 Jug - cleanup from the last mechanoid incursion isn't even finished yet, and a poison ship crashes right next to the killbox. The tribe takes no chances, and builds extra defensive positions. But even with the precautions, half the tribe's warriors get a liberal dose of inferno cannon. But hey, free plasteel (when you break the metal menaces down for scrap).
Pictured: Well ain't that a coincidence
15 Jug - Ravenpoe successfully installs a bionic spine in a boar that got his own destroyed by mechanoid charge-lance fire. Congratulations! Kags does follow up installing a peg leg and fails so catastrophically she nearly manages to kill the animal.
1 Septober - The food production is back on track, but overhunting is depleting the area. The hills have little more to offer than boomrats these days, which are problematic to hunt and offer a low return on investment.
4 Sept - Sapper raid from the south. A grenade hits a clump of defenders, but nothing more serious than a toe is lost.
6 Sept - The number of packaged survival meals is now 2000. Guess that third kitchen really kicked in to high gear. That should feed the entire tribe (but not the animals) for 45 days.
8 Sept - A fleet of pod launchers is constructed, large enough to hopefully send the tribe, its food, and pack animals all at once. This should shave days, maybe weeks, off their journey north. Every day counts. Suddenly, all the boomrats in the area turn mad. Dave takes three exploding kamikazi jihadrats right in the face. Charon gets boomed by one. Pez gets a couple too. Amy takes one AND gets a volley of turret friendly-fire. It's a busy night in the burn ward.
Pictured: There's no way this will turn out to be a complete and utter waste of time, right?
15 Sept - Another bunch of sappers flies in on drop pods, and lands to the southeast. The leader of their faction is heading this assault himself. Seems they must have noticed the buildup of supplies in the settlement, because they've come heavier than usual. Doesn't matter, between the mortars and cunning strategy, they're pounded into mush, and their leader is downed. Only four pirates escape. The leader of the Ash Cutlass Pirates is executed on the spot. James "Doc" Grey, it turns out, was a child prodigy born on a war-torn glitterworld, where his father was killed in action. He had to work extra hard to get into university, where he was bullied as a charity case. The torment drove him to unsanctioned areas of science, and when he was exposed for the mad scientist he was, he had to flee to the rimworlds, where he became a pirate king. He met his end on Septober 15th, 5509, gunned down on a raid on West Acapulco. His last sight in this world was DocSeverin standing over him, raising his plasteel longsword, and then swinging it down in a powerful stroke. Word comes through the grapevine, though, that the pirates are not done for, and have picked a new leader named Aleksander "Fjellsmel" Fjellanger.
Pictured: DocSeverin's weapon gleams as he draws it to finish off Doc
2 Decembruary - a Cold Snap rolls in in the middle of the night, and a psychic ship chunk crashes right next to the killzone. A decent amount of the crop is salvaged before the temperatures kill it. Pez gets his nose shot off in the fight against the mechanoids. Several turrets are destroyed. Considering there were EIGHT scythers and a caterpillar inside, it could have gone a lot worse. And there's gonna be a bumper crop of plasteel.
4 Decembruary - Policy changes in clothing patterns come down the pipe - Cowboy hats and light jackets, previously serviceable in the region's warm summers and comparatively gentle winters, are now out. As the trek north will head into the icecap, materials are outlayed for heavy parkas and tuques, and lots of spare extra clothing. This should keep a colonist warm even in temperatures as low as -40c.
6 Dec - Dirona, while drilling for chemfuel, is attacked by a timber wolf. She makes short work of it with her plasteel sword, and only gets a couple scratches.
8 Dec - Stienman commits an accidental slight at Dei, and she can't take his shit anymore, and beats him up. He's out of commission for a day.
11 Dec - Mechanoids arrive from the east. They have to walk all the way around to the front gate on the west side, which means the scythers get separated from the caterpillars. A couple boars are grazing outside the wall, blissfully unaware of the danger until the scythers' charge lances splatter their guts across the dell. DocSeverin is also cluelessly hunting a rabbit and tries to take a scyther 1 on 1 in melee, and loses his fucking leg, though his boar companions take down the scyther that did for his leg while he retreats. He almost manages to hop to the infirmary on his own but finally passes out from blood loss 2 doors away from it. Dave tries to rescue an animal and gets a facefull of inferno cannon for his trouble, I don't know why I even bother with these nitwits. Null rescues the unconscious Severin and patches him up, and sticks a bionic leg on him. And then everybody gets fucking muscle parasites, which is EXACTLY what you want right before you start a big fucking trip. The turrets eventually deal with all the mechanoids, no thanks to the bumbling idiots of West Acapulco.
14 Dec - a pack of manhunting boomalopes (ugh, the absolute worst) attack the settlement. The turrets mostly deal with them, but there's a hell of a fire to put out.
15 Dec - The decision is made to delay the departure until everyone is over their muscle parasites infections, and additionally, a bionic spine is being made for Squidley, as her bad back would slow her (and therefor the caravan) down by 30%. No sooner is that decision made than 4 tribesmen come down with Sensory Mechanites, most of whom already have muscle parasites. What the fuck got into the food? As the year quietly slides to a close, the last cherry on the misfortune shitcake is Dirona suffering a devastating and instantly-fatal heart attack. Her body is discovered in the hall by DocSeverin, and she is buried with the other fallen colonists. Dei is saddened, and Squidley is devastated.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco, early morning 15 Dec before any shit went down.
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4 Apr - The decision of the Tribal council is that the tribe will leave West Acapulco and trek to the north pole, where a ship awaits them, buried in the ice, to take them to the stars. Even under the best of circumstances, it's a 43 day trip, and preparations need to be made. The decision is, this year will be spent preparing, and at first thaw in 5510, the tribe will depart, never to return to the settlement. Even the massive amounts of packaged emergency meals they have set aside would only last 24 days, and that's assuming adequate grazing for the livestock along the way. It would be ideal to not enter the frozen wastes until summer, but you have to be close enough to reach the ship before fall.
Pictured: The route to the ship
7 Apr - Charon proposes to Kags, and she accepts. The two are now engaged. That evening, a poison ship must be dealt with. Despite appropriate sandbagging, Kags is downed in the fight, with serious life-threatening injuries. Charon breaks ranks to rescue her. Ashburner gets a leg shot off. Various other somewhat less horrific injuries are also taken by others.
Pictured: Not Just Another Day at the Office
8 Apr - As if there weren't enough people in the infirmary already, somehow the ONLY TWO PEOPLE awake at 4 am take issue with each other and get into a fist fight. Or rather, it's more accurate to say DarkAudit takes a swing at Stienman, as the latter is incapable of violence. Fortunately, only a couple bruises are gained before DA realizes he's beating a defenseless man. Stienman doesn't hold a grudge, and within a few days the two have made up. Ash gets a bionic leg.
Pictured: "Nice chat. Nice chat. YOU MOTHER FUCKER"
10 Apr - Sara has a heart attack while working in the hydroponics. She walks herself all the way across the settlement to the infirmary, rather than get help immediately. Despite that, Shego is able to stabilize her.
13 Apr - More mechanoids enter the area, by land this time. Fortunately, they funnel into the killzone. Charon catches the edge of an inferno cannon blast, but isn't hurt too badly.
15 Apr - Snuffles and Emrys become lovers. Sappers arrive that evening. Emrys' father is among them. The mortars fuck. them. up. When they break through, Figmentpez gets the killing shot on Emrys' dad, and now she hates him. Charon takes a little bruise from a club held by one pirate lucky enough to get into melee range for a second. Any surviving wounded pirate is executed on the spot.
Pictured: Ey boss, whazzat whistling noise?
Pictured: "I know it looks bad, guys, but I'm almost through the last door, and then.."
5 Jugust - Cooking around the clock has increased the survival meals from 1000 to 1300, but that may not be fast enough to get the requisite 2000 by next spring. Additional cooking facilities are made. Also, more machining benches to churn out as much power armor and shield belts as possible. The road is a dangerous place.
6 Jug - Seating is at a premium at Charon and Kags' wedding. This time, there's no drama at the reception. Everything goes splendidly. Morale among the tribe is soaring.
Pictured: Mawwaige. Mawwaige is what bwings us heah today.
9 Jug - More mechanoids move in from the southeast. Pez picks this moment to start a fight with Amy. Fortunately, the caterpillars do not keep pace with the scythers, the latter of which simply feed themselves to the automatic turrets. The caterpillars get distracted shooting errant boars of the compound, and don't even make it to the killbox until after dark. They're handled with only modest injury, mostly from the damned inferno cannons.
10 Jug - in order to concentrate on the preparation effort, the north trade post is abandoned. Dei and Poe move everything of value that they don't sell back to West Acapulco via transport pod, and then themselves the same way.
Pictured: The trading post, cleaned out and abandoned
11 Jug - cleanup from the last mechanoid incursion isn't even finished yet, and a poison ship crashes right next to the killbox. The tribe takes no chances, and builds extra defensive positions. But even with the precautions, half the tribe's warriors get a liberal dose of inferno cannon. But hey, free plasteel (when you break the metal menaces down for scrap).
Pictured: Well ain't that a coincidence
15 Jug - Ravenpoe successfully installs a bionic spine in a boar that got his own destroyed by mechanoid charge-lance fire. Congratulations! Kags does follow up installing a peg leg and fails so catastrophically she nearly manages to kill the animal.
1 Septober - The food production is back on track, but overhunting is depleting the area. The hills have little more to offer than boomrats these days, which are problematic to hunt and offer a low return on investment.
4 Sept - Sapper raid from the south. A grenade hits a clump of defenders, but nothing more serious than a toe is lost.
6 Sept - The number of packaged survival meals is now 2000. Guess that third kitchen really kicked in to high gear. That should feed the entire tribe (but not the animals) for 45 days.
8 Sept - A fleet of pod launchers is constructed, large enough to hopefully send the tribe, its food, and pack animals all at once. This should shave days, maybe weeks, off their journey north. Every day counts. Suddenly, all the boomrats in the area turn mad. Dave takes three exploding kamikazi jihadrats right in the face. Charon gets boomed by one. Pez gets a couple too. Amy takes one AND gets a volley of turret friendly-fire. It's a busy night in the burn ward.
Pictured: There's no way this will turn out to be a complete and utter waste of time, right?
15 Sept - Another bunch of sappers flies in on drop pods, and lands to the southeast. The leader of their faction is heading this assault himself. Seems they must have noticed the buildup of supplies in the settlement, because they've come heavier than usual. Doesn't matter, between the mortars and cunning strategy, they're pounded into mush, and their leader is downed. Only four pirates escape. The leader of the Ash Cutlass Pirates is executed on the spot. James "Doc" Grey, it turns out, was a child prodigy born on a war-torn glitterworld, where his father was killed in action. He had to work extra hard to get into university, where he was bullied as a charity case. The torment drove him to unsanctioned areas of science, and when he was exposed for the mad scientist he was, he had to flee to the rimworlds, where he became a pirate king. He met his end on Septober 15th, 5509, gunned down on a raid on West Acapulco. His last sight in this world was DocSeverin standing over him, raising his plasteel longsword, and then swinging it down in a powerful stroke. Word comes through the grapevine, though, that the pirates are not done for, and have picked a new leader named Aleksander "Fjellsmel" Fjellanger.
Pictured: DocSeverin's weapon gleams as he draws it to finish off Doc
2 Decembruary - a Cold Snap rolls in in the middle of the night, and a psychic ship chunk crashes right next to the killzone. A decent amount of the crop is salvaged before the temperatures kill it. Pez gets his nose shot off in the fight against the mechanoids. Several turrets are destroyed. Considering there were EIGHT scythers and a caterpillar inside, it could have gone a lot worse. And there's gonna be a bumper crop of plasteel.
4 Decembruary - Policy changes in clothing patterns come down the pipe - Cowboy hats and light jackets, previously serviceable in the region's warm summers and comparatively gentle winters, are now out. As the trek north will head into the icecap, materials are outlayed for heavy parkas and tuques, and lots of spare extra clothing. This should keep a colonist warm even in temperatures as low as -40c.
6 Dec - Dirona, while drilling for chemfuel, is attacked by a timber wolf. She makes short work of it with her plasteel sword, and only gets a couple scratches.
8 Dec - Stienman commits an accidental slight at Dei, and she can't take his shit anymore, and beats him up. He's out of commission for a day.
11 Dec - Mechanoids arrive from the east. They have to walk all the way around to the front gate on the west side, which means the scythers get separated from the caterpillars. A couple boars are grazing outside the wall, blissfully unaware of the danger until the scythers' charge lances splatter their guts across the dell. DocSeverin is also cluelessly hunting a rabbit and tries to take a scyther 1 on 1 in melee, and loses his fucking leg, though his boar companions take down the scyther that did for his leg while he retreats. He almost manages to hop to the infirmary on his own but finally passes out from blood loss 2 doors away from it. Dave tries to rescue an animal and gets a facefull of inferno cannon for his trouble, I don't know why I even bother with these nitwits. Null rescues the unconscious Severin and patches him up, and sticks a bionic leg on him. And then everybody gets fucking muscle parasites, which is EXACTLY what you want right before you start a big fucking trip. The turrets eventually deal with all the mechanoids, no thanks to the bumbling idiots of West Acapulco.
14 Dec - a pack of manhunting boomalopes (ugh, the absolute worst) attack the settlement. The turrets mostly deal with them, but there's a hell of a fire to put out.
15 Dec - The decision is made to delay the departure until everyone is over their muscle parasites infections, and additionally, a bionic spine is being made for Squidley, as her bad back would slow her (and therefor the caravan) down by 30%. No sooner is that decision made than 4 tribesmen come down with Sensory Mechanites, most of whom already have muscle parasites. What the fuck got into the food? As the year quietly slides to a close, the last cherry on the misfortune shitcake is Dirona suffering a devastating and instantly-fatal heart attack. Her body is discovered in the hall by DocSeverin, and she is buried with the other fallen colonists. Dei is saddened, and Squidley is devastated.
Pictured: The state of West Acapulco, early morning 15 Dec before any shit went down.
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#120
GasBandit
GasBandit
RimWorld - Halforums (Safe-to-say-its-tribal-in-name-only-now) edition
1 Aprimay 5510 - Dirona's body is discovered in the hallway. She is buried with the other tribesmen. Squidley gets her bionic spine, but muscle parasites still ravage the community.
Pictured: Dirona's fall
2 Apr - the decision is made that the departure can't be put off any more. The pods are beginning to be loaded. Unfortunately, the pods are a washout. They won't even hold half of what needs to go, and they would take days to load. The tribe loads up a regular caravan to depart on foot. The first night on the road, Shegokigo has a heart attack of her own. It is treated.
3 Apr - An electrical storm strikes West Acapulco, but nobody is left there to fight the fires, and they run wild.
Pictured: The fields of West Acapulco are ablaze
4 Apr - Rains arrive and quench most of the fires, but some turrets were destroyed beforehand, and all but 2 of the remaining turrets are cut off from power because the conduit burned. The conduits to the outlying geothermal generators is also severed.
5 Apr - The tribe stops at a friendly town called Fortune Teller's Desert, they buy 3 more alpacas, food, medicine, and sell off some trade goods they brought with them.
Pictured: FT's Desert. West Acapulco is the blue tent at the bottom of the screen
6 Apr - A poisonous mechanoid ship crashes within the walls. There is nobody there to deal with it. The local plant life begins to die off.
7 Apr - Without maintenance, one of the last two geothermal generators still connected to the grid breaks down at West Acapulco. The batteries are quickly drained, and the abandoned settlement is now all but in perpetual blackout.
9 Apr - DocSeverin has a mental break while on the road, and wanders off. Finding him delays travel for a few hours. A flock of man-eating turkeys finds their way to West Acapulco, and find no prey. The Caravan itself is ambushed by manhunting emus. They are slaughtered easily, though DarkAudit accidentally shoots Shego in the leg. While the caravan stops for the night, another group of travellers meets them - and among them are Amy's lover... and Ashburner's WIFE?!
Pictured: Manhunting emu attack
Pictured: Nice to meet you, apparent wife and lover people.
10 Apr - the going slows dramatically as the tribe leaves the temperate zone and moves into the boreal mountains. One can only assume the tundra not much further ahead will be even slower.
Pictured: Leaving the green behind
11 Apr - Cargo pods full of potatoes rain down on West Acapulco. Nobody knows.
12 Apr - The Tribe meets a friendly tribal caravan on the road. They trade newly born piglets for pemmican and herbal medicine.
14 Apr - Snuffles proposes to Emrys, and she accepts. Maybe they'll pass a town with a chapel?
15 Apr - Cargo pods full of Bear meat fall on West Acapulco. It is eaten by hungry dogs. A trade caravan led by Dei's other Grandmother arrives, and finds the town empty.
1 Jugust - Just as summer begins, the tribe marches into the tundra. Good timing.
5 Jug - Pirate sappers arrive at the abandoned settlement at 2 in the morning. They blow open the south wall with explosives, accidentally wounding one of their own. They fight the one functioning turret outside the jail, and generally wreck up the place with grenades. A fire is started in one of the bedrooms, and spreads through the air vents to the adjacent bedrooms. The pirates break into the workshop and start tearing apart the machinery there, set fire to the store room that has all the chemfuel in it, then take whatever they can carry (especially the megascreen TV) and leave. Funnily enough, the pirates suffer 3 casualties to their own carelessness and that one turret. They also bifurcate the power grid in such a way that the most power-draining elements are cut off, and the batteries actually start to recharge gradually, though the southern part of the settlement is now more or less completely and permanently without power.
7 Jug - The tribe stops at the last village before the polar ice cap, a tribal village named Green Desert. They trade more newborn pigs for more food and medicine. Also wood, in case fires need to be built out on the ice sheet. It's now an estimated 20 days' travel to where the ship is supposed to be. Through judicious planning and trading (and animal grazing, though that will end soon), the tribe still has 55 days of food left.
Pictured: Last chance gas
8 Jug - Null and CeltZ become lovers after a night of clumping together for warmth.
10 Jug - Right at the edge of the ice sheet, 13 pirates stop the caravan and demand payment, and to take some of the tribe as slaves! The tribe refuses, and battle ensues. The pirates seem to be losing, when one of them breaks out a doomsday rocket launcher! He fires right into the tribe's defensive formation, and massive damage ensues - Ashburner and Docseverin are instantly killed. Shego loses a leg. The initial group of pirates is driven off at heavy cost, but a second wave arrives and attacks! They are driven off, but Charon passes out from blood loss. Then a herd of maneating deer attack! This is some fucking bullshit if you ask me. Only a couple fighters are still standing, so everyone bands together and tries to defend themselves. It doesn't work. The tribe is overrun by angry, carnivorous deer. Their animals try to defend them as well, but the men and women bleed out one by one. Eventually, Amy staggers to her feet and, in a blood-starved daze, manages to shoot down the last deer.
The caravan manages to piece itself together and tries to make a camp, but Dei, Ashburner, Dave, Docseverin, Charon, and Null are all dead. Pez, Shego, Chaz, Squidley, and Sara can't walk and have to be carried. Pez dies of blood loss. Kags suffers a mental break and goes Berserk because her husband died.
Pictured: The initial confrontation
Pictured: Doomsday
Pictured: Deerpocalypse now
11 Jug - Camp is set up to tend to the wounded. It's a bad situation. The stress becomes too much and Ravenpoe cracks. The others take him down non-lethally.
12 Jug - Kags goes berserk and has to be taken down. She survives, but hurts Squidley fairly seriously. The caravan stops long enough to fabricate and install a peg leg on shego, since the spare bionic leg apparently got lost in the ambush.
Pictured: Picking up the pieces
13 Jug - Chazwozel and CeltZ, consoling each other, become lovers. Amy gets herself shitfaced on beer taken from the dead pirates.
14 Jug - The tribe gets back underway. But things look bleak. There's only 10 days of food left, and the ship is 20 days away... and winter is 15 days away. In desperation, the tribe turns loose most of the animals, keeping only the muffalo and dromedaries to carry all the food, medicine, wood and essentials (in case they have to stop and make a fire out on the ice sheet where no trees grow). It pains many of the tribe to say goodbye to animals they've bonded with over the last 10 years, but it is feared that the choice is to set them loose now, or eat them later - and at this point, what's a little more pain in all this tragedy? As it stands, without all the animals to feed, the food supply now should last 30 days. Of course, if the tribe doesn't make it to the ship a lot faster than that, the dead of winter will set in, and food won't be the problem.
15 Jug - Cargo containers full of wooden prosthetic feet crash just outside the wall of West Acapulco. That night a huge swarm of manhunting alphabeavers also go to the settlement, but find nobody there to hunt.
Pictured: Clogged?
2 Septober - Ravenpoe, in his grief over the loss of his wife Dei, has another psychotic break. It takes half the day to get him calmed down, during which the caravan is immobilized.
4 Sept - It's a long, slow, cold slog across the ice sheet. Still 12 days to go by most estimates, and Kags is showing signs of breaking again.
5 Sept - Sure enough, this afternoon Kags goes berserk, and the caravan has to stop to deal with it. They don't get underway again until 11am the next day.
6 Sept - As sun sinks lower in the sky each day, it grows colder. It now takes longer to travel, and the ETA is revised upwards to 15 days. There is 19 days of food left.
7 Sept - The weather takes an even more drastic turn for the worse. The dromedaries all get frostbite and can't move. It is decided to set up camp, and butcher the dromedaries for meat.
8 Sept - CeltZ has a mental break, and in her sorrow, wanders out into the early morning twilight. Pirate raiders arrive at West Acapulco. Displeased to find it already empty and picked over, they break things and set fires. When they finish their fit of pique, they leave the place to burn down. Kags has another berserk episode and is taken down, which triggers Squidley to do the same.
Pictured: The winter camp
Pictured: West Acapulco burns
9 Sept - Again, Kags goes berserk and attacks squidley, and must be shot. The stress sets off Amy. The medicine is running out. The medics do the best they can anyway, but Amy's wounds become infected. The situation is grim.
10 Sept - Adding insult to injury, Toxic fallout begins raining on the smouldering ruins of West Acapulco, and more pirates arrive. What they hope to accomplish is anyone's guess. They break more stuff and set more fires. Roof collapses ring out across the settlement as loadbearing wooden walls give way.
Pictured: Wintering at the north pole
12 Sept - An escape pod crashes in West Acapulco. Poor bastard.. the occupant dies naked and cold in the toxic rain. Kags goes berserk again.
13 Sept - Ravenpoe loses it and has to be beaten into submission. Winter is almost here... The tribe could conceivably last the winter... if the firewood holds out. AND IF PEOPLE STOPPED GOING BERSERK
1 Dec - Kags goes berserk.
2 Dec - Some basic comforts like tables and beds are attempted, mostly using steel and silver. The most brittle-minded colonists are prioritized, hoping that it will ease their tantrums. The two couples get double beds, so as to boost their spirits further. The tribe has cooked all the meat from the dromedaries who froze to death, so they set to work making meals out of the rice, eggs and corn. One nice thing about the north pole, you can just put food outside and it will never go bad.
3 Dec - Deciding to grab what little joy there is to be had in this precarious life, CeltZ and Chaz decide to get married. Presuming they survive the winter.
4 Dec - Snuffles and Emrys keep everybody up at night with their lovemaking in the communal shelter. It also sets off a chain reaction... Snuffles and Emrys do it, which prompts Chaz and CeltZ to do it, which prompts the first pair to go at it again... and so on. Well, at least SOMETHING life-affirming is going on, and people can always sleep in if they want. Not like there's anything else to do while they wait for spring.
5 Dec - 4 wandering pirates pick over the corpse of West Acapulco. Kags goes berserk again. Medicine is running out.
6 Dec - It's the deepest part of winter, but all the raw food is cooked, and will fit on the muffalos now with room to spare for medicine and fodder, but prety much everything else will have to be left behind. Might as well start marching. The food should last 30 days now, and it might be as few as 11 days to the ship, if the weather holds. Of course, not even a day after breaking camp, Ravenpoe has another episode.
10 Dec - Ravenpoe holds up the caravan again for another snarling fit. At least on the move, the caravan can give him space and let him work it out on his own without hurting anybody or getting hurt, so it is easier on the medical supplies, and provides a couple days of catharsis for the rager.
14 Dec - A few pirate sappers come into the charred husk of West Acapulco to burn some things for laughs. What little there is left to burn, that is. But it starts to rain, so they just grab a couple hundred plasteel from storage and leave.
15 Dec - The ship's coordinates are around 2 days away now, and morale is starting to recover. There's light at the end of the tunnel, finally!
1 Aprimay, 5511 - A single scyther lands early in the morning in a drop pod to attack West Acapulco. But nobody is there. They're hours from salvation. The blood machine breaks a few walls in digital frustration. A year to the day after leaving West Acapulco behind, the survivors of the Halforums Tribe board the promised starship, welcomed by the crew with open arms. It lifts off, and departs for worlds unknown.
Pictured: The ruins of West Acapulco
Pictured: Dirona's fall
2 Apr - the decision is made that the departure can't be put off any more. The pods are beginning to be loaded. Unfortunately, the pods are a washout. They won't even hold half of what needs to go, and they would take days to load. The tribe loads up a regular caravan to depart on foot. The first night on the road, Shegokigo has a heart attack of her own. It is treated.
3 Apr - An electrical storm strikes West Acapulco, but nobody is left there to fight the fires, and they run wild.
Pictured: The fields of West Acapulco are ablaze
4 Apr - Rains arrive and quench most of the fires, but some turrets were destroyed beforehand, and all but 2 of the remaining turrets are cut off from power because the conduit burned. The conduits to the outlying geothermal generators is also severed.
5 Apr - The tribe stops at a friendly town called Fortune Teller's Desert, they buy 3 more alpacas, food, medicine, and sell off some trade goods they brought with them.
Pictured: FT's Desert. West Acapulco is the blue tent at the bottom of the screen
6 Apr - A poisonous mechanoid ship crashes within the walls. There is nobody there to deal with it. The local plant life begins to die off.
7 Apr - Without maintenance, one of the last two geothermal generators still connected to the grid breaks down at West Acapulco. The batteries are quickly drained, and the abandoned settlement is now all but in perpetual blackout.
9 Apr - DocSeverin has a mental break while on the road, and wanders off. Finding him delays travel for a few hours. A flock of man-eating turkeys finds their way to West Acapulco, and find no prey. The Caravan itself is ambushed by manhunting emus. They are slaughtered easily, though DarkAudit accidentally shoots Shego in the leg. While the caravan stops for the night, another group of travellers meets them - and among them are Amy's lover... and Ashburner's WIFE?!
Pictured: Manhunting emu attack
Pictured: Nice to meet you, apparent wife and lover people.
10 Apr - the going slows dramatically as the tribe leaves the temperate zone and moves into the boreal mountains. One can only assume the tundra not much further ahead will be even slower.
Pictured: Leaving the green behind
11 Apr - Cargo pods full of potatoes rain down on West Acapulco. Nobody knows.
12 Apr - The Tribe meets a friendly tribal caravan on the road. They trade newly born piglets for pemmican and herbal medicine.
14 Apr - Snuffles proposes to Emrys, and she accepts. Maybe they'll pass a town with a chapel?
15 Apr - Cargo pods full of Bear meat fall on West Acapulco. It is eaten by hungry dogs. A trade caravan led by Dei's other Grandmother arrives, and finds the town empty.
1 Jugust - Just as summer begins, the tribe marches into the tundra. Good timing.
5 Jug - Pirate sappers arrive at the abandoned settlement at 2 in the morning. They blow open the south wall with explosives, accidentally wounding one of their own. They fight the one functioning turret outside the jail, and generally wreck up the place with grenades. A fire is started in one of the bedrooms, and spreads through the air vents to the adjacent bedrooms. The pirates break into the workshop and start tearing apart the machinery there, set fire to the store room that has all the chemfuel in it, then take whatever they can carry (especially the megascreen TV) and leave. Funnily enough, the pirates suffer 3 casualties to their own carelessness and that one turret. They also bifurcate the power grid in such a way that the most power-draining elements are cut off, and the batteries actually start to recharge gradually, though the southern part of the settlement is now more or less completely and permanently without power.
7 Jug - The tribe stops at the last village before the polar ice cap, a tribal village named Green Desert. They trade more newborn pigs for more food and medicine. Also wood, in case fires need to be built out on the ice sheet. It's now an estimated 20 days' travel to where the ship is supposed to be. Through judicious planning and trading (and animal grazing, though that will end soon), the tribe still has 55 days of food left.
Pictured: Last chance gas
8 Jug - Null and CeltZ become lovers after a night of clumping together for warmth.
10 Jug - Right at the edge of the ice sheet, 13 pirates stop the caravan and demand payment, and to take some of the tribe as slaves! The tribe refuses, and battle ensues. The pirates seem to be losing, when one of them breaks out a doomsday rocket launcher! He fires right into the tribe's defensive formation, and massive damage ensues - Ashburner and Docseverin are instantly killed. Shego loses a leg. The initial group of pirates is driven off at heavy cost, but a second wave arrives and attacks! They are driven off, but Charon passes out from blood loss. Then a herd of maneating deer attack! This is some fucking bullshit if you ask me. Only a couple fighters are still standing, so everyone bands together and tries to defend themselves. It doesn't work. The tribe is overrun by angry, carnivorous deer. Their animals try to defend them as well, but the men and women bleed out one by one. Eventually, Amy staggers to her feet and, in a blood-starved daze, manages to shoot down the last deer.
The caravan manages to piece itself together and tries to make a camp, but Dei, Ashburner, Dave, Docseverin, Charon, and Null are all dead. Pez, Shego, Chaz, Squidley, and Sara can't walk and have to be carried. Pez dies of blood loss. Kags suffers a mental break and goes Berserk because her husband died.
Pictured: The initial confrontation
Pictured: Doomsday
Pictured: Deerpocalypse now
11 Jug - Camp is set up to tend to the wounded. It's a bad situation. The stress becomes too much and Ravenpoe cracks. The others take him down non-lethally.
12 Jug - Kags goes berserk and has to be taken down. She survives, but hurts Squidley fairly seriously. The caravan stops long enough to fabricate and install a peg leg on shego, since the spare bionic leg apparently got lost in the ambush.
Pictured: Picking up the pieces
13 Jug - Chazwozel and CeltZ, consoling each other, become lovers. Amy gets herself shitfaced on beer taken from the dead pirates.
14 Jug - The tribe gets back underway. But things look bleak. There's only 10 days of food left, and the ship is 20 days away... and winter is 15 days away. In desperation, the tribe turns loose most of the animals, keeping only the muffalo and dromedaries to carry all the food, medicine, wood and essentials (in case they have to stop and make a fire out on the ice sheet where no trees grow). It pains many of the tribe to say goodbye to animals they've bonded with over the last 10 years, but it is feared that the choice is to set them loose now, or eat them later - and at this point, what's a little more pain in all this tragedy? As it stands, without all the animals to feed, the food supply now should last 30 days. Of course, if the tribe doesn't make it to the ship a lot faster than that, the dead of winter will set in, and food won't be the problem.
15 Jug - Cargo containers full of wooden prosthetic feet crash just outside the wall of West Acapulco. That night a huge swarm of manhunting alphabeavers also go to the settlement, but find nobody there to hunt.
Pictured: Clogged?
2 Septober - Ravenpoe, in his grief over the loss of his wife Dei, has another psychotic break. It takes half the day to get him calmed down, during which the caravan is immobilized.
4 Sept - It's a long, slow, cold slog across the ice sheet. Still 12 days to go by most estimates, and Kags is showing signs of breaking again.
5 Sept - Sure enough, this afternoon Kags goes berserk, and the caravan has to stop to deal with it. They don't get underway again until 11am the next day.
6 Sept - As sun sinks lower in the sky each day, it grows colder. It now takes longer to travel, and the ETA is revised upwards to 15 days. There is 19 days of food left.
7 Sept - The weather takes an even more drastic turn for the worse. The dromedaries all get frostbite and can't move. It is decided to set up camp, and butcher the dromedaries for meat.
8 Sept - CeltZ has a mental break, and in her sorrow, wanders out into the early morning twilight. Pirate raiders arrive at West Acapulco. Displeased to find it already empty and picked over, they break things and set fires. When they finish their fit of pique, they leave the place to burn down. Kags has another berserk episode and is taken down, which triggers Squidley to do the same.
Pictured: The winter camp
Pictured: West Acapulco burns
9 Sept - Again, Kags goes berserk and attacks squidley, and must be shot. The stress sets off Amy. The medicine is running out. The medics do the best they can anyway, but Amy's wounds become infected. The situation is grim.
10 Sept - Adding insult to injury, Toxic fallout begins raining on the smouldering ruins of West Acapulco, and more pirates arrive. What they hope to accomplish is anyone's guess. They break more stuff and set more fires. Roof collapses ring out across the settlement as loadbearing wooden walls give way.
Pictured: Wintering at the north pole
12 Sept - An escape pod crashes in West Acapulco. Poor bastard.. the occupant dies naked and cold in the toxic rain. Kags goes berserk again.
13 Sept - Ravenpoe loses it and has to be beaten into submission. Winter is almost here... The tribe could conceivably last the winter... if the firewood holds out. AND IF PEOPLE STOPPED GOING BERSERK
1 Dec - Kags goes berserk.
2 Dec - Some basic comforts like tables and beds are attempted, mostly using steel and silver. The most brittle-minded colonists are prioritized, hoping that it will ease their tantrums. The two couples get double beds, so as to boost their spirits further. The tribe has cooked all the meat from the dromedaries who froze to death, so they set to work making meals out of the rice, eggs and corn. One nice thing about the north pole, you can just put food outside and it will never go bad.
3 Dec - Deciding to grab what little joy there is to be had in this precarious life, CeltZ and Chaz decide to get married. Presuming they survive the winter.
4 Dec - Snuffles and Emrys keep everybody up at night with their lovemaking in the communal shelter. It also sets off a chain reaction... Snuffles and Emrys do it, which prompts Chaz and CeltZ to do it, which prompts the first pair to go at it again... and so on. Well, at least SOMETHING life-affirming is going on, and people can always sleep in if they want. Not like there's anything else to do while they wait for spring.
5 Dec - 4 wandering pirates pick over the corpse of West Acapulco. Kags goes berserk again. Medicine is running out.
6 Dec - It's the deepest part of winter, but all the raw food is cooked, and will fit on the muffalos now with room to spare for medicine and fodder, but prety much everything else will have to be left behind. Might as well start marching. The food should last 30 days now, and it might be as few as 11 days to the ship, if the weather holds. Of course, not even a day after breaking camp, Ravenpoe has another episode.
10 Dec - Ravenpoe holds up the caravan again for another snarling fit. At least on the move, the caravan can give him space and let him work it out on his own without hurting anybody or getting hurt, so it is easier on the medical supplies, and provides a couple days of catharsis for the rager.
14 Dec - A few pirate sappers come into the charred husk of West Acapulco to burn some things for laughs. What little there is left to burn, that is. But it starts to rain, so they just grab a couple hundred plasteel from storage and leave.
15 Dec - The ship's coordinates are around 2 days away now, and morale is starting to recover. There's light at the end of the tunnel, finally!
1 Aprimay, 5511 - A single scyther lands early in the morning in a drop pod to attack West Acapulco. But nobody is there. They're hours from salvation. The blood machine breaks a few walls in digital frustration. A year to the day after leaving West Acapulco behind, the survivors of the Halforums Tribe board the promised starship, welcomed by the crew with open arms. It lifts off, and departs for worlds unknown.
Pictured: The ruins of West Acapulco
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MindDetective
MindDetective
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Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
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AshburnerX
AshburnerX
I like to imagine Tribal Ash's wife left early in the series and basically came back for the finale because the fans liked her more than him. Imagine her surprise when he's all lucid thanks to the chip in his brain. They forgive each other and then go their separate ways, because it was never meant to be. Renewed on life, Tribal Ash looks like he's about to make it through this.
Then the slavers pull out the Doomsday and fire.
Then the slavers pull out the Doomsday and fire.
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Officer_Charon
Officer_Charon
#125
GasBandit
If you want to watch the full confrontation, unfolding with frequent pauses for me to type up notes to be posted in this thread, here you go:
GasBandit
Your wife Kags was one of the people they demanded to take as a slave, too
If you want to watch the full confrontation, unfolding with frequent pauses for me to type up notes to be posted in this thread, here you go:
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Celt Z
Celt Z
#127
GasBandit
You showed up in the last one, too.
Also, I don't remember if you saw my Darkest Dungeon: Halforums Edition playthrough, either.
GasBandit
You should check out the "what are you playing" thread more often
You showed up in the last one, too.
Also, I don't remember if you saw my Darkest Dungeon: Halforums Edition playthrough, either.
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Celt Z
Celt Z
#129
GasBandit
GasBandit
#130
figmentPez
figmentPez
#131
LittleKagsin
LittleKagsin
With the amount of psychotic breaks I had, they're going to regret their choices.Your wife Kags was one of the people they demanded to take as a slave, too
If you want to watch the full confrontation, unfolding with frequent pauses for me to type up notes to be posted in this thread, here you go:
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dei
Dei
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dei
Dei
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Dave
Dave
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
Granted, I usually like to build 5x5 bedrooms (which require 7x7 space after walls are figured in), but I had to shrink it a little because I've got so many people to house.
GasBandit
You should see the near-breakdown Dei is having because the floorplan I'm building is not symmetrical and the rooms are an even number of tiles wide, so the doors are slightly offset for each room
Granted, I usually like to build 5x5 bedrooms (which require 7x7 space after walls are figured in), but I had to shrink it a little because I've got so many people to house.
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Squidleybits
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Soupy
Soupy
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Squidleybits
Squidleybits
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Soupy
Soupy
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Squidleybits
Squidleybits
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Dei
Dei
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Dave
Dave
I named a guy after myself in my cannibal playthrough. He got married and everything. Then visitors came. One decided that it would be great to come into the bedroom and watch us have sexytimes. Mindy, you perv.
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Gared
Gared
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
TIL There's a mod on LoversLab for RimWorld (called RimJobWorld ) that... let's just say it would have made this playthrough a whole lot more like HFA O_O;
) that... let's just say it would have made this playthrough a whole lot more like HFA O_O;
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Dei
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Dei
>.>TIL There's a mod on LoversLab for RimWorld (called RimJobWorld
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Dave
Dave
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Heh, you remember when I posted this comic, right?
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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GasBandit
Oh wait... you probably didn't see last weekend's GoT episode, did you..
At any rate, the real lesson in tactics is that, in absence of dramatic combat capability disparity, numbers will tell, and who gets there firstest with the mostest will win.
GasBandit
As demonstrated in the lynx attack, however, both the halberdier and the rimworld tactical plan break down in the face of fast-moving enemies of equal numbers - Cavalry for the halberd unit, lynxes for the rimworlders. They close the distance, swamp the first rank, and throw the formation into chaos. The Dothraki can tell you how it goes
Oh wait... you probably didn't see last weekend's GoT episode, did you..At any rate, the real lesson in tactics is that, in absence of dramatic combat capability disparity, numbers will tell, and who gets there firstest with the mostest will win.
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Denbrought
I'm biased, but I like the structure of the Tercio, which is similar to what you describe (but is closer to Rimworld because guns
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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PatrThom
--Patrick
PatrThom
You have to explain to them, slowly and carefully, the way the world really is....like....like electric eels? How do you ground a fish?
--Patrick
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Another thing I learned last night - shot accuracy calculations actually completely ignore your weapon's visual "cone of fire." Sure, every shot from your weapon gets less accurate the greater the distance, but it isn't analogous to the observed path of placement variance at maximum range. Even at point blank range, it is possible to "miss" by an entire tile or more, meaning that you can potentially watch as a bullet exits the tip of your assault rifle's barrel at a 60 degree angle and strikes a wall to your left instead of the animal one tile in front of you.
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Dave
Dave
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Denbrought
Denbrought
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
Yep. Still in Alpha.Another thing I learned last night - shot accuracy calculations actually completely ignore your weapon's visual "cone of fire." Sure, every shot from your weapon gets less accurate the greater the distance, but it isn't analogous to the observed path of placement variance at maximum range. Even at point blank range, it is possible to "miss" by an entire tile or more, meaning that you can potentially watch as a bullet exits the tip of your assault rifle's barrel at a 60 degree angle and strikes a wall to your left instead of the animal one tile in front of you.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Soupy
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Soupy
Soupy
Yeah next time i'll hit the random button a few more times, no more arid scrubland for me!Didn't start in a temperate forest, eh?
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
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Dave
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Dave
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TommiR
TommiR
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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TommiR
TommiR
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Dave
Dave
So there's this faction that hates my guts. So much so that they keep sending suicide squads to try and take us out. They hit my killbox with their swords and pilums, and get just chewed to ever-loving pieces by the turrets and my fighter types. The good thing is that since all of my people (save the two who joined me) are cannibals, this is also a never-ending source of food.
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Dave
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Gruebeard
Gruebeard
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Dave
Dave
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Dave
Dave
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Soupy
. May work just right with your current setup.
Soupy
May I suggest Powerless! I haven't used it yet, but the description seems interesting.
. May work just right with your current setup.
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Dave
Dave
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Dave
Dave
The guy I thawed out has a name, but his nickname - given by the game, not me - is "Balls". Which leads to some amusing screenshots. "Nuzzled Balls."
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
Holy shit, @GasBandit! The cold snap ended and I got this...after being able to reestablish my food. So while I don't need it necessarily, I will.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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Gruebeard
Gruebeard
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Celt Z
Celt Z
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Dave
Dave
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Dave
Dave
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Dave
Dave
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Denbrought
Denbrought
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Squidleybits
Squidleybits
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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Celt Z
Sorry, Dave. I don't know if this is reflection of you or middle America.
Celt Z
...every time I get a notification Dave updates this thread, I'm on my phone, and I can't remember what I clicked on. And everytime I'm like, "WTF?!? What kind of 'Rant'...oh. 'Rimworld', not 'Rant'. "
Sorry, Dave. I don't know if this is reflection of you or middle America.
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
#228
Dave
Dave
Yeah, I wish I'd have seen this post before playing. All my mods! 
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Dave
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Dave
Dave
So....Godmode means you build stuff really fast, but if you are being attacked by centipedes and then a herd of elk run through your place...don't attack the elk. They went nuts. Which caused all my turrets to go nuts. Which caused all my elephants to go nuts. Two of my guys who are crack shots decided it would be a good idea to put on shield belts and wander into the fray. Note they are distance fighters, not melee. How effective were they? Well, let's just say the whole shitshow was a bloodbath. Killed my maid (a local whom I talked into joining and have him doing nothing but cleaning), downed two of my guys, and blew up some turrets.
On the bright side, I have a metric shit-ton of elk just waiting to be slaughtered.[DOUBLEPOST=1515343331,1515343100][/DOUBLEPOST]
On the bright side, I have a metric shit-ton of elk just waiting to be slaughtered.[DOUBLEPOST=1515343331,1515343100][/DOUBLEPOST]
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Dei
Dei
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DarkAudit
DarkAudit
The FTF thread on /r/anime has started talking Rimworld lately. So I've sent them here.
If you're here because I sent ya, stay a while. It's a nice place... mostly.
If you're here because I sent ya, stay a while. It's a nice place... mostly.
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Dave
Dave
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Celt Z
Celt Z
Welp, there goes my reputation with strangers from Reddit.
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Soupy
Soupy
As I said in another thread, the 1.0 unstable beta is fun.
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Dave
Dave
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PatrThom
--Patrick
PatrThom
--Patrick
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Bubble181
Bubble181
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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Soupy
Soupy
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Dave
Dave
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Dave
Dave
I'll...just be over here. Definitely *not* attacking you.
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Dave
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Dave
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Dave
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Celt Z
Celt Z
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Aislynn
Aislynn
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dei
Dei
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Dave
Dave
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Dave
Dave
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Dei
Dei
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Dave
Dave
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
I've heard that. 
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Dei
Dei
Ironically, the main branch updated to this after I posted. So lol.
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Dei
Dei
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PatrThom
Rimworld: 4, Banished: 0
--Patrick
PatrThom
Rimworld: 4, Banished: 0
--Patrick
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dave
Dave
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Dave
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Dave
Dave
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PatrThom
PatrThom
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Dave
Dave
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Dei
Dei
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GasBandit
GasBandit
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Dei
Dei
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Dei
Dei
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Dave
Dave
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Dave
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Dei
Dei
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Dei
Dei
I'm annoyed that boars can't haul anymore, but Randy has been showering me with Huskies and Labs in my current game, so I'll allow it for now.
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Did they make Hardworking Animals vanilla now or something?I'm annoyed that boars can't haul anymore, but Randy has been showering me with Huskies and Labs in my current game, so I'll allow it for now.
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Dei
Dei
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Dei
Dei
Well, B19 did that.
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Dei
Dei
Randy hates my new horse mod.
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Dave
Dave
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Celt Z
Celt Z
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GasBandit
GasBandit
Perhaps you should be comforted. Any muffalo in a Randy Random game.... are gonna have a bad time.
Yeah, thatYou would rather my muffalos were getting struck by lightning?!
#293
Dave
Dave
#294
Celt Z
Celt Z
What? No! Just that they aren't there. You know, muffaloing around and stuff.You would rather my muffalos were getting struck by lightning?!
#295
GasBandit
GasBandit
#296
Celt Z
Celt Z
#297
Dave
Dave
#298
GasBandit
GasBandit
#299
Dave
Dave
#300
Dei
Dei
#301
Dei
Dei
#302
Dei
Dei
The thing that Randy did last game that annoyed me was that I kept declining to help people fleeing from other factions, then he had something like 4 pacifist wanderers with one awesome trait and the rest shit join me over the course of the next season. And I'm too nice to just turn them into hats.
#303
Dave
Dave
#304
GasBandit
GasBandit
#305
Dei
Dei
Restrict your people from getting in their aggro range with zoning and finish your kill box.
#306
Dei
Dei
Speaking of the kill maze, I find that putting lots of rows of doors in every three squares lets you lay out traps throughout the maze without stepping on them yourself. Most of the time enemies will start to flee before they even get through. (I've also seen people make all the inside walls out of wood and roof it so they can block people in and set everything on fire as they try to flee, thus roasting them from overheating, but that's a bit much for me )
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#307
Dave
Dave
#308
Dei
Dei
#309
GasBandit
GasBandit
#310
Dei
Dei
#311
Dei
Dei
#312
Dave
Dave
#313
ncts_dodge_man
ncts_dodge_man
#314
Dave
2) I'm totally copying your kill box design tonight.
Dave
1) Making the thing out of wood is pretty much what I started doing on mine.Speaking of the kill maze, I find that putting lots of rows of doors in every three squares lets you lay out traps throughout the maze without stepping on them yourself. Most of the time enemies will start to flee before they even get through. (I've also seen people make all the inside walls out of wood and roof it so they can block people in and set everything on fire as they try to flee, thus roasting them from overheating, but that's a bit much for me
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2) I'm totally copying your kill box design tonight.
#315
Dei
Dei
There are a bunch of mods that have been updated already...
But not HugsLib.
But not HugsLib.
#316
Dave
Dave
#317
Dei
Dei
#318
ncts_dodge_man
ncts_dodge_man
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Dave
Dave
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ncts_dodge_man
ncts_dodge_man
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Dei
Dei
#322
Dei
Dei
#323
ncts_dodge_man
ncts_dodge_man
#324
Dave
Dave
#325
Dave
Dave
#326
ncts_dodge_man
ncts_dodge_man
#327
Dei
Dei
My daughter's dreams have come true.
#328
PatrThom
PatrThom
#329
Dave
Dave
#330
Dei
Dei
#331
Dave
Dave
#332
GasBandit
GasBandit
#333
GasBandit
GasBandit
#334
Dave
Dave
#335
Dei
Dei
#336
GasBandit
GasBandit
#337
Dei
Dei
#339
Dave
Dave
#340
Dei
Dei
#341
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
I am downloading it now
#342
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
Are there any mods that you all would recommend?
My tutorial was horrid, but my first game went well until everyone died trying to save a chick via caravan and my animals all starved while I had a freezer full of food....
Also, they rejected my name
My tutorial was horrid, but my first game went well until everyone died trying to save a chick via caravan and my animals all starved while I had a freezer full of food....
Also, they rejected my name
#343
GasBandit
GasBandit
#344
Dei
Dei
#345
Dave
Dave
#346
Dei
Dei
Here's an HTML Link to all of my mods, with descriptions and links included. (I have a mod that spits this out for me, I'm not insane)
I'd apologize for all of my hairstyle mods, but I have a feeling that you won't mind them.
(Download it then open it in your browser, using the link itself doesn't play nice)
I'd apologize for all of my hairstyle mods, but I have a feeling that you won't mind them.
(Download it then open it in your browser, using the link itself doesn't play nice)
#347
Dei
Dei
#348
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
Realistic rooms! I had a chick straight up throw tantrums over the massive room with a bluefur chair I made her. Always jealous of someone else’s! She was the worst.
The manager and the stacking sound awesome too!
I need to re-do my name as well. Dude was all “this is clearly not a realistic name”. No kidding lol
Also, if I download some of these, may I continue my game or do I need to re-start. I’m ok either way as I had a bloody fist fight on day one over a weight comment.
The manager and the stacking sound awesome too!
I need to re-do my name as well. Dude was all “this is clearly not a realistic name”. No kidding lol
Also, if I download some of these, may I continue my game or do I need to re-start. I’m ok either way as I had a bloody fist fight on day one over a weight comment.
#349
Dei
Dei
I mean, I assume that chick had jealous trait, which is why.Realistic rooms! I had a chick straight up throw tantrums over the massive room with a bluefur chair I made her. Always jealous of someone else’s! She was the worst.
The manager and the stacking sound awesome too!
I need to re-do my name as well. Dude was all “this is clearly not a realistic name”. No kidding lol
#350
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#351
Dave
Dave
#352
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#353
Dei
s.team
Dei
Also, what is your Steam username? Alternatively, here is a link to friend me on Steam.
Steam Community
#354
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
CupcakesMyCat. I’m adding you nowAlso, what is your Steam username? Alternatively, here is a link to friend me on Steam.
Steam Community
#355
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#356
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#357
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
I’m loving this game!
I had my in-game name rejected several times, but they agreed to accept it tonight
Question: are components silly rare to come by after the first few years or do I have a rough map? I’m hurting for them.
I also think I’ve finally figured out safe mining. Poor Coaks, he was a good member of the crew....
I had my in-game name rejected several times, but they agreed to accept it tonight
Question: are components silly rare to come by after the first few years or do I have a rough map? I’m hurting for them.
I also think I’ve finally figured out safe mining. Poor Coaks, he was a good member of the crew....
#358
GasBandit
GasBandit
I usually run a mod that makes it easier to manufacture your own components. Otherwise, yeah, they're stupid rare, you pretty much have to trade for them.I’m loving this game!
I had my in-game name rejected several times, but they agreed to accept it tonight
Question: are components silly rare to come by after the first few years or do I have a rough map? I’m hurting for them.
I also think I’ve finally figured out safe mining. Poor Coaks, he was a good member of the crew....
#359
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#360
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#361
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#362
GasBandit
GasBandit
#363
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#364
GasBandit
GasBandit
#365
Dei
Dei
#366
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#367
Dei
Dei
#368
Dei
Dei
Oooooh, I just found a new mod that will work great with Hospitality, which is one of my favorite mods.
Orion's Gastronomy
steamcommunity.com
Orion's Gastronomy
Steam Workshop::Gastronomy
#369
Dei
Dei
This is the bed mod you're looking for I think.
steamcommunity.com
Steam Workshop::[T] MoreBedsVanilla
#370
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#371
Dei
Dei
#372
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#373
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
#374
Dave
Dave
#375
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#376
Squidleybits
Squidleybits
#377
Dei
Dei
#378
GasBandit
GasBandit
#379
GasBandit
GasBandit
#380
Dave
Dave
#381
GasBandit
GasBandit
#382
GasBandit
GasBandit
#383
GasBandit
GasBandit
Just another Randy Random moment.
When you simultaneously get attacked by mechanoids and man-eating iguanas.... and they turn on each other first.
Unfortunately a gathered zombie horde kept me from harvesting the iguana flesh afterwards before it rotted.
When you simultaneously get attacked by mechanoids and man-eating iguanas.... and they turn on each other first.
Unfortunately a gathered zombie horde kept me from harvesting the iguana flesh afterwards before it rotted.
#384
GasBandit
GasBandit
#385
GasBandit
GasBandit
"Hello, yes? We'd like to purchase seventeen hydraulic vaginas. Do you deliver?"
Some time later, I get a call from the same settlement...
"Hey, now we want 17 revolvers of standard or better quality."
.... what are you making. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
"We'll reward you with an Archotech bionic anus!" I DON'T WANT THAT BUT THANK YOU PLEASE LOSE MY NUMBER
Some time later, I get a call from the same settlement...
"Hey, now we want 17 revolvers of standard or better quality."
.... what are you making. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
"We'll reward you with an Archotech bionic anus!" I DON'T WANT THAT BUT THANK YOU PLEASE LOSE MY NUMBER
#386
PatrThom
PatrThom
#387
GasBandit
GasBandit
#388
GasBandit
GasBandit
So I've made a lot of headway again. I actually moved my people to an entirely new colony and abandoned the old one just so I could do a redesign from the ground up with a better base layout than "I started with one big room and just kept adding to it. Now I've got inner and outer walls with embrasures on the outer walls and I'm pretty much toxic-fallout-proof and everything's so fancy now that all my colonists have the "sky high expectations" mood debuff which makes them harder to keep happy but amazingly enough I'm doing it.
And then a defoliator ship crashes nearby... with FIFTEEN centipedes armed with a mixture of heavy pulse blasters and inferno cannons.
This is what is commonly known as a "game-ender."
But I steeled myself to make it through this without losing a single colonist. I shelled them with mortars to loosen them up and destroy the defoliator, and then they came for me. I am on excellent terms with almost all my neighbors, so I called my most technologically advanced neighbor for backup, and they sent some drop pods with random cannon fodder.
Incidentally, you know what the secret is to fighting an overwhelming force of mechanoids with top tier weapons? It's pay-to-win, with payment in advance. The things you buy are Psychic Insanity Lances (and to a lesser degree, Psychic Shock Lances). Despite being artificial life forms, psychic weapons still work on mechanoids. One psychic insanity lance gets two shots and has the same range as a sniper rifle and NEVER MISSES. Zip Zap your enemy is now blasting his friends and they have to deal with him, especially if he's a 50m centipede armed with full auto armor-piercing charge blasters.
So things are progressing, occasionally one of the centipedes manages to shoot an inferno bomb through one of the holes in my embrasures and some of us get a little singed, but as we're wearing power armor it's not life threatening.
But then another group of my allies shows up of their own volition. 70+ tribals. I never call tribals for backup because they always say "we can't get there in time" but these guys came on their own. Their numbers wash over the mechanoids like a wave and many tribals die quickly and horribly but the number of targets keeps the mechanoids so busy that I send a fire team out to concentrate on them one by one and have no problem killing them all.
Now here's the complication. My first ally squad is enemies with the tribal allies who showed up later.
Soooo a war then broke out on my doorstep.
It doesn't take too long for the tribals to swarm the allied colonists. There aren't many left... and then, as the sun goes down, the zombies are starting to come into the map... 80+ and counting at the time of this writing.
And the mechanoids DID manage to punch a hole in my wall before they went down, and half my soldiers are in the hospital getting their burns tended.
This is gonna be interesting.
Pictured below: One of the industrial ally colonists is apparently Snuffles' sister, so when she got downed by tribals I sent him out there to rescue her. He's got a bionic leg so he runs fast.
And then a defoliator ship crashes nearby... with FIFTEEN centipedes armed with a mixture of heavy pulse blasters and inferno cannons.
This is what is commonly known as a "game-ender."
But I steeled myself to make it through this without losing a single colonist. I shelled them with mortars to loosen them up and destroy the defoliator, and then they came for me. I am on excellent terms with almost all my neighbors, so I called my most technologically advanced neighbor for backup, and they sent some drop pods with random cannon fodder.
Incidentally, you know what the secret is to fighting an overwhelming force of mechanoids with top tier weapons? It's pay-to-win, with payment in advance. The things you buy are Psychic Insanity Lances (and to a lesser degree, Psychic Shock Lances). Despite being artificial life forms, psychic weapons still work on mechanoids. One psychic insanity lance gets two shots and has the same range as a sniper rifle and NEVER MISSES. Zip Zap your enemy is now blasting his friends and they have to deal with him, especially if he's a 50m centipede armed with full auto armor-piercing charge blasters.
So things are progressing, occasionally one of the centipedes manages to shoot an inferno bomb through one of the holes in my embrasures and some of us get a little singed, but as we're wearing power armor it's not life threatening.
But then another group of my allies shows up of their own volition. 70+ tribals. I never call tribals for backup because they always say "we can't get there in time" but these guys came on their own. Their numbers wash over the mechanoids like a wave and many tribals die quickly and horribly but the number of targets keeps the mechanoids so busy that I send a fire team out to concentrate on them one by one and have no problem killing them all.
Now here's the complication. My first ally squad is enemies with the tribal allies who showed up later.
Soooo a war then broke out on my doorstep.
It doesn't take too long for the tribals to swarm the allied colonists. There aren't many left... and then, as the sun goes down, the zombies are starting to come into the map... 80+ and counting at the time of this writing.
And the mechanoids DID manage to punch a hole in my wall before they went down, and half my soldiers are in the hospital getting their burns tended.
This is gonna be interesting.
Pictured below: One of the industrial ally colonists is apparently Snuffles' sister, so when she got downed by tribals I sent him out there to rescue her. He's got a bionic leg so he runs fast.
#389
GasBandit
GasBandit
#390
GasBandit
GasBandit
Just when you thought this story couldn't get any more nneyyyghhahhghhhbbllkkk...
So, I ended up with WAY too many insectoids. We're talking, 50+ megascarabs and spelopedes approaching 40. I don't even keep that many chickens. The insectoid box got OUT of control. The amount of food necessary to feed the insectoids was getting ridiculous.
So, I decided, fuck it, they're just livestock (extremely chitinous, slicey, stabby livestock), let's slaughter the extras and turn them into kibble for the smaller, more manageable population we keep.
So I queue up the slaughter and conversion.
Suddenly a large number of my male colonists are having mental breaks.
What's going on, guys?
Uh... oh. Oh. OH.
So, apparently, I had not noticed that the lock on the door to the Box was more of a conceptual forbidding than an actual... you know... lock.
So, a number of my male colonists have been taking surreptitious trips INTO the box... the blood-spattered, knee-deep-in-amniotic-fluid-and-reproductive-gunk box.... and just helping themselves to the cocooned captives. Sexually. And it turns out, human semen fertilizes insectoid eggs just as readily as insectoids do themselves. And because the insectoids stuff those eggs everywhere, no form of orifice-related copulation is more "safe" than any other in this regard.
So a number of these insectoids are actually direct line descendants of my colonists.
And I just ordered them slaughtered by the literal dozens. So not only are these colonists going through the grief of losing dozens of children and grandchildren, but they believe their fellow colonists killed them in cold blood.
Uh... this... this could be bad.
I mean it IS bad. Obviously the moral and psychological implications here are horrifying.
But it is going to be getting worse in a GREAT big hurry.
Normally, if I have a colonist lose a loved one, if the grieving spouse or immediate family is TOO bereaved to function, I put them into cryptosleep for a month. The grieving timer elapses while they're frozen in carbonite. Handy, that.
But I don't have enough cryptosleep caskets, and even if I did, the colony couldn't take a productivity hit of this magnitude. The next raid would certainly overrun us.
I think this might be the beginning of the end.
So, I ended up with WAY too many insectoids. We're talking, 50+ megascarabs and spelopedes approaching 40. I don't even keep that many chickens. The insectoid box got OUT of control. The amount of food necessary to feed the insectoids was getting ridiculous.
So, I decided, fuck it, they're just livestock (extremely chitinous, slicey, stabby livestock), let's slaughter the extras and turn them into kibble for the smaller, more manageable population we keep.
So I queue up the slaughter and conversion.
Suddenly a large number of my male colonists are having mental breaks.
What's going on, guys?
Uh... oh. Oh. OH.
So, apparently, I had not noticed that the lock on the door to the Box was more of a conceptual forbidding than an actual... you know... lock.
So, a number of my male colonists have been taking surreptitious trips INTO the box... the blood-spattered, knee-deep-in-amniotic-fluid-and-reproductive-gunk box.... and just helping themselves to the cocooned captives. Sexually. And it turns out, human semen fertilizes insectoid eggs just as readily as insectoids do themselves. And because the insectoids stuff those eggs everywhere, no form of orifice-related copulation is more "safe" than any other in this regard.
So a number of these insectoids are actually direct line descendants of my colonists.
And I just ordered them slaughtered by the literal dozens. So not only are these colonists going through the grief of losing dozens of children and grandchildren, but they believe their fellow colonists killed them in cold blood.
Uh... this... this could be bad.
I mean it IS bad. Obviously the moral and psychological implications here are horrifying.
But it is going to be getting worse in a GREAT big hurry.
Normally, if I have a colonist lose a loved one, if the grieving spouse or immediate family is TOO bereaved to function, I put them into cryptosleep for a month. The grieving timer elapses while they're frozen in carbonite. Handy, that.
But I don't have enough cryptosleep caskets, and even if I did, the colony couldn't take a productivity hit of this magnitude. The next raid would certainly overrun us.
I think this might be the beginning of the end.
#391
GasBandit
GasBandit
The thing that chafes me about it, too, is I had finally put the finishing touches on a REALLY nice base.
Look at that, it's magnificent. Ample space, great defenses, well lit, fireproof, toxic fallout proof, volcanic winter proof, way more electricity than I need, well laid out, highly automated.... capable of supporting lots and lots of colonists safely...
I mean, sure, it's not exactly a garden spot... see all those brown and green dots lining the periphery? Those are zombies. About 500 of them at this particular moment. But the turrets usually do a pretty good job of keeping them from clumping up at the walls, and I can send a half dozen guys with autoshotties or heavy SMGs to whittle them down if they start to form into hordes and threaten to beat down doors (which are made of plasteel and can take quite the beating)....
Maaan... I guess that's what I get for trying to find a fast, easy, ethically reprehensible way to farm insectoid jelly.
Look at that, it's magnificent. Ample space, great defenses, well lit, fireproof, toxic fallout proof, volcanic winter proof, way more electricity than I need, well laid out, highly automated.... capable of supporting lots and lots of colonists safely...
I mean, sure, it's not exactly a garden spot... see all those brown and green dots lining the periphery? Those are zombies. About 500 of them at this particular moment. But the turrets usually do a pretty good job of keeping them from clumping up at the walls, and I can send a half dozen guys with autoshotties or heavy SMGs to whittle them down if they start to form into hordes and threaten to beat down doors (which are made of plasteel and can take quite the beating)....
Maaan... I guess that's what I get for trying to find a fast, easy, ethically reprehensible way to farm insectoid jelly.
#392
Vrii
Vrii
#394
GasBandit
GasBandit
#395
GasBandit
GasBandit
#396
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
#397
GasBandit
GasBandit
#398
GasBandit
GasBandit
#399
GasBandit
GasBandit
#400
GasBandit
GasBandit
Somebody on Imgur must have recently discovered Rimworld. It did make news this week when it suddenly got banned from Australia for some reason. Anyway...
Randy, be nice to me
Randy, be nice to me
#401
PatrThom
PatrThom
One more, straight from Steam:
They look so happy, so full of purpose.
Shame it won't last.
--Patrick
They look so happy, so full of purpose.
Shame it won't last.
--Patrick
#402
Tinwhistler
Tinwhistler
They look happy, because that's Phoebe Chillax, Randy Random, and Cassandra Classic. The three AI who control your fate by throwing you a mech raid while everyone is in bed because of dysentery.
#403
PatrThom
Ah well.
--Patrick
PatrThom
I wondered if they were the storytellers after seeing some of the memes.They look happy, because that's Phoebe Chillax, Randy Random, and Cassandra Classic. The three AI who control your fate by throwing you a mech raid while everyone is in bed because of dysentery.
Ah well.
--Patrick
#404
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
"Ahh yes... let me tell you the tale of the War of Shits and Robots..."They look happy, because that's Phoebe Chillax, Randy Random, and Cassandra Classic. The three AI who control your fate by throwing you a mech raid while everyone is in bed because of dysentery.
#405
GasBandit
GasBandit
#406
GasBandit
GasBandit
#407
GasBandit
GasBandit
#408
MindDetective
MindDetective
#409
Dave
Dave
#410
GasBandit
GasBandit
#411
AshburnerX
AshburnerX
#412
GasBandit
GasBandit
So when you get a man-eating megasloth raid in the middle of the night of the living dead, who wins?
Spoiler: the zombies kill and eat them all.
Spoiler: the zombies kill and eat them all.
#413
GasBandit
GasBandit
#414
PatrThom
PatrThom
#415
GasBandit
GasBandit
#416
PatrThom
PatrThom
#417
GasBandit
GasBandit
#418
GasBandit
GasBandit
So here's a bit of interesting trivia... the wood burning generator and chemfuel generator are the only two structures in the game that block line of sight while still being able to be walked across.
That means if you set up the entrance to your base like this...
(Barricade important because it won't let them "stop" in the hallway
... and then you put five melee-skilled pawns here using drafting (or more using area assignment)....
You get the following ridiculously overpowered defense
That means if you set up the entrance to your base like this...
(Barricade important because it won't let them "stop" in the hallway
... and then you put five melee-skilled pawns here using drafting (or more using area assignment)....
You get the following ridiculously overpowered defense
#419
Dave
Dave
#420
PatrThom
--Patrick
PatrThom
--Patrick
#421
Dei
Dei
#422
GasBandit
GasBandit
#423
GasBandit
GasBandit
Ok, what the fuck, Overmind. And double wtf, Serendipity.
#424
GasBandit
GasBandit
Coming close to my quote in Kags' signature about day old kittens getting into the beer.... is what just happened to me in this game.
A cute husky puppy getting struck by lighting in the head, blowing its head clean off.
A cute husky puppy getting struck by lighting in the head, blowing its head clean off.
#425
GasBandit
GasBandit
#426
GasBandit
GasBandit
#427
GasBandit
GasBandit
MFW the visiting Arms dealer from the Android collective is an 8 year old girl with a Naru Osaka haircut
#428
GasBandit
GasBandit
#429
GasBandit
GasBandit
#430
GasBandit
GasBandit
#431
GasBandit
GasBandit
"Hi, I'm Avery, I've come to visit your colony. I have a few things to trade!"
Oh, like what?
"Well, I've got some hyperweave, that's useful, and some components, everybody wants components..."
Ooh, yeah, good stuff, what else?
"Two hundred and fifty four used condoms...."
...
Ok, just because I'm impressed that you decided to cart 28 pounds of used condoms through the wilderness, believing someone would want to buy them from you... I'll take them. The incinerator is right over here, if you could just drop them next to it...
Oh, like what?
"Well, I've got some hyperweave, that's useful, and some components, everybody wants components..."
Ooh, yeah, good stuff, what else?
"Two hundred and fifty four used condoms...."
...
Ok, just because I'm impressed that you decided to cart 28 pounds of used condoms through the wilderness, believing someone would want to buy them from you... I'll take them. The incinerator is right over here, if you could just drop them next to it...
#432
PatrThom
PatrThom
#433
Dei
Dei
The multi-player mod for Rimworld got a neat update today
Update 0.9 | Multifaction
rimworldmultiplayer.com
#434
Dei
Dei