1st of Fall, 5500
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Fuck's sake! "Go have a nice cryosleep" , they said. "Everything's gonna b fine" , they said. Who are you people?
Azira *coughs* Vikingsson. Pilot.
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U wot? So it was YOU who crashed the ship?!
Let's say no.
Hurr. My memory feels fuzzy.
Cryosleep sickness, can tell by your face. 'ave the same happening to me, and it sucks.
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Just keep it together, men. Let's try to remember what we can. You go first, Pilot.
Let's see. My name is Azira, I'm about 36 years old. I've, *coughs* dropped out... of... pilot school.
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So are you a pilot or not?
Technically, no. I've decided to... dabble in medicine instead.
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Really now? How do you apply a bandage?
You eat it with a teaspoon. But anyway, I'm also a good shot.
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Have truly vast knowledge of *coughs* chemicals.
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And the ladies often say that I'm a cynic.
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Hmpf. Awright. You have a weird surname, though. Vikingsson?
A common nordic surname.
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What about you?
I'm Kalin. Son of Kalin.
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Don't really want to talk about my past with strangers. But it was nothing special. Been to unsavory places, saw some bad things. Just me and my luck.
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But then a decent gentlemen noticed my skills and made me a job offer I couldn't resist. A space cop, just like my father.
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Naturally, I am rather good at convincing people and settling things down.
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A social person.
Yes, you could say that.
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What else? I'm not giving up even if I have to live in this dumpster of a planet.
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Is that all?
No. You know the difference between you and me? Both of us have crushed in the middle of nowhere. But I was looking good while at it.
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Yes. Wonderful. Ffuck, still can't remember shit. I am Grim. Wulf? Let it be Grimwulf.
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I was born in Second Soviet Union. Worked my way on board of that ship.
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Some weird bug didn't apply name change to my backround, nevermind it.
Where I worked as... can't remember. Bottle Brother? OF COURSE! Space Mehrine!
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I tend to see things as they truly are. No pink glasses.
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I'm a social person like Kalin. I care about my team and my people.
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Then why do you have a FUCKING WARG with you?
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That's Champ! My doge.
You realize they only eat meat, right?
Aye. What of it?
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An awkward pause hanged in the air after we were done with introductions. All in all, I'd say it could be worse. Azira and Kalin will either help me survive this mess; or become a fine snack for Champ. Either way it's good to have them around.
The situation is shit; I feel like crap; we will all die soon. However, I'm excited to build command these people into building something glorious.
Goddamn cryosleep amnesia. I wonder why do I have a Captain's Log in my pocket? And why is it completely blank? Whoever used to be the Captain of that crashed ship, he was incompetent as fuck.
Do we know anything about the place we crashed on? Like, anything? Anyone?
Ahem. I might know a thing or two.
How so?
Oh, you know. Seen similiar places before.
I'm listening.
This planet has a funny year cycle. The days are really, really long. Judging by the sun, let's say it's about 6 AM, right? So basically we can still use 24h system for convinience, but the hours themselves will be way, waaay longer than we're used to.
Fuck it, let it be 24h.
Which leads to another, well, issue. Seasons only last 15 days. And I might happen to know that it's currently 1st day of Fall.
HOW DO YOU KNOW SO MUCH?!
It doesn't matter, ok? The point is, 15 days from now Winter will begin. It's cold out here already, and will only get worse.
These cryosleep outfits don't really help warming up.
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First things first, we need to find or build a shelter. Somewhere close.
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No, first of all, we must decide who is in charge. I am.
Why's that?
I have experience. Probably. And a warg.
Fair enough.
AWRIGHT THEN, no more bullshittin' around. We will build Communism in this dump. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. I am the man who measures everyone's abilities and needs.
I'd love to object, but can we start doing something about warming up? Shelter? Campfire?
Nu. I need an hour to draw a List of Priorities. Well, not this planet's hour, but... aw, screw it. Just wait.
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After running a few simple tests, I managed to roughly evaluate abilities of Azira and Kalin. Both of them are worhtless at basically everything, but we have to do our best. Thus the List of Priorities was born!
Whoever reads this Log - you should be ashamed. But anyway, you can skip this part entirely, it's only here for those interested in technicalities and how things work.
So, there are three of us atm, and we all have things which we are good at (bright squares; the better the skill - the brighter the square), things we are bad at (dark squares; the darker - the worse), and things we can't do at all (blank squares). Unfortunately, I cannot directly control the bastards, only set priorities and hope they will do something useful. I can, however, mess with working schedules and whatnot, but decided not to do it right now. I can give them direct orders during combat situations, but that's it.
Thus, we decided to work on priorities. 1 is the higher priority; 4 is the lower one. If a man has two activities both marked as "1", the higher priority will be the leftmost. E.g., Azira has Construction and Plant Cutting jobs both marked as 3. If I tell him to go build a couch for my ass and cut a damn pine - he will first build a couch, then cut a pine, because Construction is to the left of Plant Cutting. If, however, Kalin breaks a table at the same time, Azira will drop whatever he's doing and go for repairs. This whole thing will change a lot, and I probably won't talk about it in the future. Right now our effectiveness is nonexistent:
- Azira won't try to extinguish fire even if I try to burn him alive. Gotta remember that.
- We have no doctors. At all. I'd better not get hurt around here.
- We are all very social , but it's better to, well, not to talk to people we might encounter.
- Champ appears to be menacing, but in truth he cannot follow even the simplest commands. He needs some major training. Both me and Kalin know some theory about animal training, but no time to fuck around with my warg. We got a shelter to build.
- I'll have to cook myself for now. When I asked those idiots how to make a damn sandwitch, they suggested ordering pizza delivery.
- Guess we could all hunt, but there is no place to store food. It's just gonna rot. Maybe later, when the temperature outside will drop even lower.
- Me and Azira can handle construction somewhat. Wish we didn't have to, though.
- I am the only guy here who knows that plants grow from seeds. Fuck's sake. Hope I won't have to become a farmer, coz that's pretty much all I know about plants.
- Nobody can handle a pickaxe. At all. Which is a REAL FUCKING SHAME, coz I all I see around us is a fuckton of mountains!
- Kalin knows how to put stuff together. Which means he can do all kind of crafting, smithing, tailoring and whatnot. That's not important right now, but I'll keep that in mind.
- These bastards refuse to clean after themselves. They would rather sleep in a pool of their own blood and vomit than take a goddamn cleaning rag and work that shit. I hate them.
- Azira said that we'll have to do some research, "draw shemes" or whatever. I didn't really understand his point, neither did I care. But if he wants to research - he can do it himself. In the free time.
"Free time", hue hue
Really now. Let's find a place to warm up and store things. We can salvage a lot from the wreckage.
Speaking of which, are those weapons? Must have fallen from the ship's armory.
More like from baggage of some autistic collector of antiques. Azira, you seem to be a good shot - grab dat rifle.
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Kalin takes the knife to stab hostile lifeforms in the face.
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And I'll take that joke of a handgun.
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Now. The shelter, eh? Wait, those stones aren't natural. They look like remains of a building. Azira, grab something heavy and smash dat wall.
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Capt... I mean, General Secretary or whatever. I think I've heard a funny noise from behind the wall. Or maybe it was just my imagination.
Can't we just use steel and wood from the wreckage to construct shoddy walls and roof?
Why waste time if we got a building right here, ready and waiting? Let's put the matter to vote. That's how you build communism.
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Do we force our way into the building? Or do we leave it alone and build our own mancave?