Year 1, beginning of Septober
So we welcome Johannes, our ascetic teetolar in our pleasure-driven (but pleasure deprived) community.
A quick conversation with Tindrli about "recreation", or lack thereof, quickly convinces Johannes that his favorite character in the group is the dog, Couscous.
The relation between Johannes and Couscous deepens, while Johannes goes out of his way to avoid any risky topic with the humans :
Johannes would even build a small protection against the rain for Couscous (bottom left), and store some kibbles. Unfortunately, the kibbles would rot, and ValeVelKal wants the dog inside
Johannes would therefore build a small kibble storage room in ValeVelKal and Tindrli's room :
[I am putting this here so my successor are not too surprise by some of the stuff they find ]
Meanwhile, the thriving community success at welcoming guests increased its popularity, and we keep receiving all sorts of offer :
This one is an hard NO :
... and this one is a YES.
For someone as famous as Veronika Sheppard, who as you all know saved the galaxy from the reapers and more, we need some new nice accommodation :
And the group also accept this previous offer :
Suddenly, Tindrli and ValeVelKal tactical acumen is put to the test earlier than expected
... this is fine. We will... wait...
... this gets more complicated.
First thing first. The boomalope. It comes from the North West :
ValeVelKal and Tindrli move to meet the enemy. Tindrli hits the creature twice, including once in the leg, critically slowing it, but not stopping it. Soon, we get a view we should all be familiar with at this point :
Tindrli running away while a woman stands weirdly next to the enemy, not doing much.
The couple retreats North in order to drive the exploding beast away from the base. The plan is to bring the boomalope in the rocket area in the North, so the fire tirggered by its explosion can be contained easily...
... but Tindrli is trigger-happy and shoot a bit too early, blowing the boomalope in a quite green area not to far away from our base.
There is a fire starting, but no time to deal with it as one of the savage is coming from the West. Tindrli, ValeVelKal and Johannes wait for him in the kitchen :
Sadly, the door was left open, so the hostile tries to shoot with his bow through it - missing Johannes. ValeVelKal shoots back and hit the mofo. Tindrli cowers in a corner. Johannes, who has the club from the earlier "naked dude with a club", get closer and closer :
until *WHACK*, Johannes one-clubs the dude.
Suddenly, new guy coming from the North, through the blazing inferno now running rampant :
We are waiting for him in the recreation room, but the enemy takes cover from the wall we were building for Veronika, and starts shooting on Couscous, hitting him !
This won't do ! Tindrli moves out and put himself in a position where he can shoot. ValeVelKal also moves out and empty a clip, missing the enemy. She decides to charge into melee, Johannes and his club in her tow
and *WHACK* *WHACK*, Johannes clubs the dude dead. Two hits this time.
This time, ValeVelKal has been lightly bruised :
ValeVelKal goes to her room to put some cold water on her bruises, while Tindrli and Johannes are heading toward the third hostile now coming from the South :
Tindrli shoots at the guy from behind an barricade, while Johannes waits in ambush with his trusty club :
The dude is hit, but he carries on !
... until he reaches the entrance to the generator room, giving him a cover to shoot against Tindrli, who pathetically missed him as the guy passed a few meters from him :
But he does not stay there, and start entering 1st Street :
ValeVelKal grabs her pistol and get out.
The dude gets into the tailor / stonecutting room, and start to blow stuff up Minneapolis style :
ValeVelKal shoots across the door, but she misses at point blank range.
Reinforcement arrives :
As you notice, this is now a parody action flick. Tindrli opens the door, takes a long aim...
... and miss.
Frustrated, Tindrli rushes inside the building to baionette the guy. Johannes follows with his club :
*WHACK* *WHACK*. Don't bring a bow to a club fight.
Overall, the situation is OK :
Johannes is slightly wounded :
Tindrli has a light cut :
We are good...
... hmm...
forgotting someone ... How is Couscous ?
OH BOY ! OH MY LITTLE BOY !
ValeVelKal is sad, but Johannes lost his only friend.
Johannes would build a nice stone sarcophage for his only friend :
Well, at least we received a nice sculpture to compensate.
This quest finished, we received a new offer :
This is tempting of course. A new companion is always useful. But a EMP strike now would disrupt all my freezing chain, which means the freezer will be at ambiant temperature, which means the food would rot just before winter, which means everyone dies. Too risky. Typically the kind of gam-ending mistake. Not doing it. Nice try, Randy Rand...
Cold Snap ? This changes everything. Free freezer. For everyone It just needs to hold 6 days or so...
... and due to this, we say hello to our new friend, Baud :
She is ugly, she knows nothing of art, she can’t craft anything and generally has no marketable skill in a modern civilization but drop her in the jungle with her vagina and a knife and she gets out riding Bagheera and stabbing you in the face.
Also, she hates everyone's guts. It is going to be great.