2011/10/24(Mon)04:46 No. 360618 ID: cd94c7
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Good evening, fratboys. I think there's a little bit of truth in what you told me, afterall.

First, I have no idea why you insist that we monitor Persson-5. I can see the planet from my window, and its nothing but an airless barren rock. I think you'll be more interested on what the Eye saw about planet four.

First, the planet's an electronical hazard. Ionosphere's so thick, I'm surprised the Eye could read anything at all. The planet is mainly green with a breathable cyan atmo, apparently bursting with life... could be another read error. Can't find your supposed girl like this.

I'll be leaving the Eye's raw reads in the temp folder when I'm able. I can't file a full report; somebody locked out the planet's folder. ICDBee tech support claim its temporary, but I think it's the bureau.

2011/10/24(Mon)04:47 No. 360619 ID: cd94c7
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And the reason is... Yeah.
No matter how much these 'sats are stealth, they still can't make them invisible.
I don't know. I feel like I'm way over my paycheck here.

I'll be moving to open traffic to planets and orbits again, but I make no promises. Keep your eye on the news. And no, I can't authorize package sends if there's nobody on the planet; that violates the Recycling Code.
By the way, the Eye will make another pass at the region in a week.

That's all.

-- M. Thatcher, Package Send Management, Warehouse Traffic and Control, Royal Victoria

2011/10/24(Mon)04:50 No. 360621 ID: cd94c7
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The Persson System is an eight-planet, three-belt single star system located in the Maenad-Satyr arm of the Milky way (315°12'-65kly). It was first spotted by the People's Departament of Astronomical Studies in 2467-May-17, and confirmed by Bold Eagle in 2468-Jun-22. It was added to the Travel Plan in 01-Dec-2468 as a refuelling spot; arrival took place in 22-Aug-2470. The majority of the fleet is now stationed at the orbits of Persson-6 and its moons.

Persson-0 was confirmed as a K9V star going trough its Red Giant stage, and has an expected lifetime of four hundred years before collapsing.

Details about individual planets are under review and not avaliable at this time.

2011/10/24(Mon)04:50 No. 360622 ID: cd94c7
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--- The current state of prosthetics (excerpt)

(...) The field of artificial prosthethics was, and is, forever fighting its three demons -- weight, power and rejection.

In the meantime, the biological fields marched on. Gene-therapy and clone-based medicine continued to improve up to the modern standards. Lander psique and phisique handle very little augumentation compared to what's possible; but that little was more than enough to make the dream of everyday artificial prosthetics obsolete. And with them, went the interest in advanced prosthetics. The death of the world envisioned by Gibson. And in a larger extent, the death of transhumanism.

Many kinds of smaller implants are readily avaliable; subdermal chips, sensorial aids, short-range communications, unobstrusive things, powered by the user's body heat. But the closest humanity ever came to a Man-Machine, would be when the spacers joined mankind.

2011/10/24(Mon)04:53 No. 360624 ID: cd94c7
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With the assistance of state of the art full spactrum telescopes manufactured in Imperial Beijing, the People's Departament of Astronometrics locate the most optimum destination for the Fleet's flight path.

The next step is taken by the scout mothership Bold Eagle, which is prepared for single-ship long-range space travel. Supplied with a long list of systems to be surveyed, Bold Eagle uses their unique DRILL Engine to travel trough space by the means of instantaneous, self-generated Eisten-Rosen bridges in succession. Given the times involved between each bridge, this stage of the process takes ten months in average, with the longest surveying period recorded of ten decades. In the meantime, the Fleet explores the system where it resides for fuel and materials.

Once the destination is found, Bold Eagle uses an unique form of FTL communication to send their message, and begins assembling their end of the Gate. After the Fleet recieves the expected message, assembling our end of the Gate takes up to a month. Once both ends are active, its a matter of simply flying every ship in the Fleet to reach the new destination, where the proccess will begin anew.

Status: All packages received 2011/10/24(Mon)04:54 No. 360625 ID: cd94c7
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The Bayer v427 Automatisches Wundenverschlussmittel für innere und äußere Verletzungen (colloquially known as "stitchworm") is a Type 6-Platy enginnered live medical supply produced by Bayer Labor, with permisson from Bayer AG. It is used to quickly heal grave wounds in a lander's physique, but is capable to mend almost any kind of tissue and bone damage. Its use is recommended only for lethal internal and external hemorragies, lacerations, incisions and penetrations, whether its dealt to vital organs or not. It is known to reverse or mitigate amputations, damage to spine, auto-inflicted tracheal damage, decapitations and personality-changing brain injuries caused by iron rods.

The Bayer 427 AW-IÄV comes in five-inch hard plastic capsules, and have a two years storage life. The capsule must be broken directly over the patient's wounded area; the contents will leave its dormant state as soon as it comes in contact with air and skin, and will immediately start the healing proccess. As soon as the wound is mended, or after six hours, the patient must take a standard dose of floquinaxin, or a tripled dose of a broad spectrum antibiotic such as Avelaxin. A new application should not take place for at least forty hours after the previous one.

The Bayer 427 AW-IÄV is not indicated for children, pregnant people, not-carbon-based lifeforms and hosts of valuable parasites or symbionts. It is not recommended for heavy abrasions or any kind of tissue and bone damage that could take over six hours to heal. Symptoms of long-term use of the Bayer 427 AW-IÄV may include fever, convulsive shaking of extremities, oliguria, hepatic encephalopathy, sudden or gradual kidney and liver failure, terminating in death.

The Bayer 427 AW-IÄV is handled as a black-class controlled substance. It is standard issue in Surgery Kits.

>>360625

>As soon as the wound is mended, or after six hours, the patient must take a standard dose of floquinaxin, or a tripled dose of a broad spectrum antibiotic such as Avelaxin.

Ho boy... I hope Weasel is doing OK.

Excellent information, but what about Weasel? She's trapped in a hostile alien environment with no supplies.

>>360626
Note: We never actually used a stitchworm on her, the implant is just a SUPPORT thing for it. We probably didn't even manage to do anything with that, we just tried to contact it and got nothing.

Etoile-sama 2011/10/24(Mon)11:31 No. 360651 ID: 6af537
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First, what are those two concentric stroke circles in the southern corner of the map?
Second, the same question about the dotted line.
Third, in the squares are most probable locations of our current base, anyone care to concur/point out my topographical cretinism?

>>360651
Fenceposts if I had to guess, likely to keep in livestock, some kind of groundbound avian if I remember.

Of the two squares to monitor if I remember the most promising may be the one to the west, there was a waterfall and small pool she settled near wasn't there?

>>360688
>Fenceposts
Derp.

>the most promising may be the one to the west
>she settled near
Yes, she settled near (almost inside of) a waterfall. But what I'm asking is "which of the squares (maybe neither) highlight that point on the map?". Because I fail to positively identify any other landmarks.

Note also that the eastern square has dotted (waterfall-like) line in it, while the western's one is solid. What are all those strange lines for anyway?

When we get back in contact with Weasel, we should try breaking the fossil?-boulder by dropping it off a cliff. If there are no cliffs nearby with suitably rocky terrain below them, we should leave a heap of the larger rubble rocks we have collected at the intended impact spot (not great for smashing, but still better than dirt).

I wonder if we could get a news feed up simultaneously while we're in contact with weasel? That way if anything crops up re: what thatcher said, we'll know about it.

-- Weasel 2011/10/29(Sat)08:15 No. 362017 ID: 6707aa
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[Time: Day 4, Morning]

if they left me for-- uh-- huh--?!

Oh! Hello! Operator- operators, are you there??

I-- I wasn't wasting time! I--
Remember the axehead? In the branch? We have an axe now, I was just getting it here. Yes.

No problems around, nothing...

What's next?

Suggestion 2011/10/29(Sat)08:41 No. 362022 ID: 1854db
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You've moved. What is your current location? Oh, we have a map of sorts... we think we can see the waterfall on it. If you travel directly opposite of that cliff face for some time, we might see something interesting. Essentially, south.

(attached image: green circle marks where the pod landed)

>>362017
Wait wait wait slow down. I can barely understand you. What's your current position relative to camp, and what's your supply situation?

how are you on food? also our absence was because our network was taken down.
if you get a bow and some flaming arrows you could probably ignite those exploding bug trees from a distance and get rid of them.

>>362017
Uhm, weren't you... sort of in the process of being blown up last we saw? Did I miss something how did that work out anyhow, being exploded and all?

>>362086
Dude, you were asleep all day yesterday?!
you missed a thread, check the wiki

next step: build furniture.

If you are alright in terms of food, I think our next step should be to break apart that flint-like stone. We should do this by finding a cliff with rocks on the bottom to drop it off, and pule some rocks under a cliff if we cannot find a naturally rocky one.

>>362017
Long as you're okay. We've been worried.

-- Weasel 2011/10/30(Sun)05:40 No. 362271 ID: fccc4f
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Oh. I'm pretty close to camp actually, this tree's just a couple metres away.

I still have lots of that flour, should be enough soup for a couple days. Somewhat low on protein, though.

Bow, bow... this thing ain't yew, but I could fashion a bow out of this wood. I'm out of ideas about what to use as string, though.

A flaming arrow is just a torch with an arrowhead. There's plenty of stone, and that strange flint to fashion a head. But... what I would use as fuel? My suit isn't very flammable... and I'd rather not lose more of it.

Anything else? What are my orders?

you need a source of protein, have you found any more of those lizard/chicken things? if not then you need to find some.

We hunt and explore. There's coal deposits on exposed rock here and there, we just haven't found any we can reach easily.

Unless you think you can grab enough dirt via the plankpack to dump into that square ditch we saw before and make a ramp? There was exposed coal there, definitely, and also some red stuff.

The chicken fence has string, you could use that to make a bow.

>>362291
yes, good point, can you make the pack excavate? just grab a scoop out of an area or is it all or nothing all the time?
could also try to make a ladder out of this wood and climb down.

>>362294
This was mentioned before on the channel, packs can't excavate like that. The best they do is to collect any dirt or rock she loosens with a shovel, which is what she's been doing do far.

>>362271

Use part of your suit for bow string. It's stronger than pretty much anything else you'll find.

As for fuel for flaming arrows... animal fat?

-- Weasel 2011/10/31(Mon)10:52 No. 362692 ID: fccc4f
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Let's see... what I used on that fence wasnt string, it was wire. Mostly copper wire, from the pod. It wouldn't make good string, it retains shape...

.. nor would my clothes. The fiber itself is solid, but I'd need to rip and unweave to make string out of it...

Maybe a bow is a bad idea right now, we should think of another delivery system for the flaming arrows.

But yes. I'm going to need to hunt, armed with a stone axe. There's no game around here, so which direction should I go?

And if I'm not mistaken, I'm at the red square. The nearby dotted lines should be waterfalls...

I think we're lucky that map has the crash site at all!

An atl atl is a really simple thing to make that will let you throw a spear pretty far. I think a sling would be a better idea if you have literally anything you can cut. You'll need to practice with either one, but the sling is a lot less work and you don't have to make projectiles.

o 2011/10/31(Mon)11:09 No. 362695 ID: 0ef5d9
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Well if a bow is going to prove too difficult, an atlatl should work. All you really need is a sturdy and reasonably straight stick with a branch forking off near the base. Just cleanly break off the smaller fork near the base, and ensure your arrows can rest solidly against your notch. Its a simple lever to increase your arm's throwing speed, but it may take a little practice to get the hang of. It won't be capable of imparting the same speeds as a proper bow, but can and should use larger ammunition, somewhere between an arrow and a spear, so the kinetic energy transfer can be comparable.

let's try northwest.

>>362692
Wait wait wait.
First of all: what's that gray thing directly to your south?

Second: can you see anything unusual in that direction? According to the satscan, there's... something big there, showing up on the image as big circular area. Two of them, actually, concentric circles. If you can't see anything obvious, I propose we don't go there yet. If you can, then please describe.

>>362720
Btw, that gray thing coincides with a blank area on the satscan. Peculiar, isn't it?

>>362695
seconding

>>362692
Wait, you can see our images? That should come in handy.

Who says you can't make a bow with wire? The wood provides most of the tension anyway... the main issue would be the wire deforming or breaking. Metal is not known for its elasticity, so... yeah, I guess it wouldn't work very well in the long run.

I still want to check out those dotted lines on the ground down to the south of you, but an alternative would be going around behind the cliff that has the waterfall. That's closer unexplored territory.

look, if you're not expanding your base (frankly you really need a comfy bed and a door right now), you should be exploring for new materials and animals.

-- Weasel 2011/11/03(Thu)07:00 No. 363399 ID: fccc4f
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Northwest it is.. or not, because that'll only lead me back to the crash site. So I go north, around the west side of the mountain.

... quite a valley here. And still no visible wildlife...

The 'grey thing' is the rock I set up earlier for grinding wheat. If there's a blank there... I don't know, you think its important?

And yes, I can receive Bit-Tone visual. How else could I get schematics from you? I never liked the blues though, I have my HUD set for red-maroon.

I didn't see anything out of ordinary towards... southeast, right? Maybe they're just cartography marks?

oh yeah, on left there is some exposed black splotches, looks like coal. don't need some now but when it comes time to burn things it's nice to know. and it looks like another pond is around that small mound back there. maybe this one will have some little fishes or something?

>>363399

have we made any tools yet? because i think its high time we made some tools.

let's fashion a pickaxe out of stone and wood.

>>363406
We don't really have any workable stone yet. Turns out it's hard to make anything out of stone when the hardest material you have is wood! A task for the near future would be to find some stone approaching the right shape and use that. Or break some stone somehow. Perhaps by dropping it from a great height?

But yeah, let's check out that black substance.

>>363399

orange HUD is where it's at, sister.

check out them nearby stones on the left. afterwards the wheat. where there's food, there may be life. if not, hey, free wheat.

Weasel, we're burning resources here working on a few escape plans. We don't want to get your hopes up, but we have some promising ideas.

[Acquire a number of plankpacks with large apertures; begin researching methods of connecting two plankpacks to the same subspace pocket. Use related Imperial Beijing FTL technology for reference.]

-- Weasel 2011/11/05(Sat)11:08 No. 363806 ID: fccc4f
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[Time: Day 4, Noon]

The only stone tool I have is that axe from the tree, since the other one's not going to last much longer... with falling the trees and such.

I appreciate the dedication, Operators...

This is some peculiar thing, its like a bunch of rocks glued together with molasses. Impermeable molasses, might I add.

... wait a sec. Black, molassey glue on rocks? Did I just find asphalt?

>>363806
Smell it. If you did find asphalt, then holy shit do you realize how insanely useful this is.

A bit of research on asphalt: Despite its association with roads, asphalt can be naturally occurring, such as in tar pits. (Though it does become suspicious if it is regularly shaped or near other possible rubble.)
Low tech uses for it include waterproofing and use as an adhesive.

How is asphalt useful? ...I suppose if we found a source of heat to melt it down we could reshape it into whatever tool we wanted. I wonder what that red stuff is?

Regardless of WHAT this black rock is, this is really really weird. How can this be a natural deposit? I think this planet was artificially created, somehow.

Also at this point I think all the dark areas on our map are simply interference. Our contact did say the Ionosphere was really frickin' thick.

Hmm. Weasel, do you think you could make a pickaxe out of any of the metal from the pod?

>>363806
It makes absolutely no sense to find asphalt there. So yes, you probably did find asphalt.

[Bribe a hacker to add a beacon and an planetary escape kit to the authorized package send list, with the target coordinates set to Weasel's location.]

[Research why the fleet keeps moving instead of finding acceptable planets and establishing colonies or semi-permanent mining operations for fleet growth.]

>>363810
(CUT IT OUT ALREADY!)

important thing is will it burn? if so then we got some great shit for fire.
anyway, can you wiggle some of the exposed bits out? could test it before we try seriously getting a lot.

Make stone pickaxe
You are going to need it before you start any major mining plans.

>>363814
The author said it's okay as long as it's within reason. We're on a college campus, there's bound to be a few script kiddies around here who'd know how to pull it off.

>>363809
>>363810
Asphalt is perfectly common in nature. It can be used as pitch, and pitch has a whole bunch of uses.

>>363826
Chat excerpt:
<Farmer> I see Planetfall is going to be one short quest >.>; Whatever.
<Farmer> Seven is starting to try crazy plans to rescue weasel and I'm low on patience.

So yeah I'd like to actually do things in the quest rather than speedrunning to a "good" ending and miss all the fun. Optimally we would arrange some sort of proof to alert Weasel's superiors so that they can put in place the original plan of however she was supposed to get off the planet later. Or just get SUPPLIES.

>>363849
My honest suggestion for the author: If you're running out of patience with someone, just ignore their posts rather than hurting the quest for everyone else. :V

>>363425
What are you doing with crackpot physics theories? FTL does not work like that.

I also agree that we should not '[solve all our problems through non-author-introduced things]'.
I think it is legitimate to '[query information we could plausibly acquire]', but '[get equipment from made up source]' is just cheating.

>>363849
To be honest, Seven has never been that smart when it comes to quest suggestions. I dont know them personally, so Im just wroking off what Ive seen from them, but the only thing I can tell you is to ignore everything they say.

>>363853
The problem isn't trying to [do things], it's trying to [do things] that we don't actually have the resources to accomplish (for example, getting our hands on an emergency beacon or finding a skilled hacker). But this is getting off topic and we should really take it to the discussion.

Can I join in with all this spoilering, guys?

>>363806
If you did find asphalt, it would presumably make it easier to build. Of course, a lot of the things you've found so far have worked a bit differently to how both you and us have expected. If you can, take some with you. Expose it to fire sometime to see if it is flammable or if it just becomes less viscous.

remember this location. you'll be coming back here after you've made yourself a pickaxe.

-- Weasel 2011/11/12(Sat)05:48 No. 365214 ID: bce451
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Hey, hey. I think its time we focused, we're wasting time here.

I just arrived, so I could spend some time [surveying whats available]. Something better than the usual casual observations. No promises on finding anything though.

The asphalt... is asphalt. But I can't dig any of it with wooden tools without taking a day and a night doing it. And lots more of chisels. So no, ain't gonna happen without stone tools. Now, I can always [dig some rock] and hope I'm lucky; just tell me where. The stone around here is weak enough for my wooden chisel. Just.. not so much when there's something doing the binding.

I'd like to note I don't have anything to bind any toolhead I make to a branch. I can stick it into a tree like I did with the axe, but then the tool won't be ready until tomorrow maybe. The asphalt could be pretty handy for this... only if I could melt it.

And well, we're hunting. Or trying to find any fauna. We could always [move out], just give me a bearing and I'll be on my way.

okay yeah, just grab those wheats by the pond and head in one direction. you still have that tree in your pack right? if not then you need that, just get over an animal and drop a tree on it.

anyway, you just need to walk straight away from where the pod landed if any animals are around they would be that way.

you can make rope out of straw by splitting it into its fibers and braiding it together. it'll take some time though.

or if you see some dead trees around, rip its bark off and split its innermost bark into fibers and spin that.

Survey. We still haven't identified that red stuff.

Dig some rock. Make 1 square shelter. Block entrance with magically reconstructed rock. Survive night full of monsters. If find coal, make shelter bigger and add torch.

>>365302
are you new here? we did days ago.

>>365214

damnit weasel, we need proper tools here! at least sharpen a stray piece of metal into an edge and wrap the handle with cloth.

>>365566
Sharpen with what? Also we don't have any spare cloth.

...you know I don't think you guys are aware of the previous threads. Here:

http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/247569.html
http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/260083.html

Suggestion 2011/11/15(Tue)13:01 No. 365804 ID: 7a7217
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[EOF]
Saved as: Persson-5/003-failedstart.rec

Being without internet for this long, and having these many technical problems made me realize something. This quest is not worth it.

I do not care for it, painting these is too much work given how little I get from it. I'm not having fun.

Take your complaints to /questdis/. I'm done here.

FUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

>>365804

D:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ah well, it was an interesting experience. Thanks for running it! I enjoyed your artistic style.
Take care, and I hope your internet problems are less of an issue in the future.

>>366154

Seconded. Thanks for this!