>>267821

My guess is in training they don't expect you to underequipped/lacking external support, so they don't teach some of the handy stuff like that. Or Weasel missed that class.

>>267808

Well, unless you're feeling particularly hungry, I'd say to stay at camp and do some of the little stuff.

Let's gather some more materials now that we're fairly well-entrenched. Stone, I think. You're going to want to make a stone chisel eventually...

>>267833

WE REQUIRE MORE MINERALS.

 

well it happens to be one of those days of the year where you celebrate the end of the world.

or of the year. i forgot because of all this beer made of alien wheat.

but why talk, we should sing. because we do have reasons to sing.

-- Weasel 2011/01/01(Sat)06:17 No. 268209 ID: 81abed
File 129389142371.png - (246.90KB , 1024x576 , PF02-044.png )

[Time: Day 3, Sunset]

Got some digging done. Got a nice amount of cobble this way.
By the way, cold wheat soup is not as tasteless as it sounds.

Hey, I was taught a straw and mud construction does not make a good oven. And concrete is hardly 'fancy'...

I believe I mentioned, I can't really made a rock-headed appliance without having something to fasten the head to the shaft. With wood, I can just chip and break until I have a slot; I need tools to do that with rock.

I really don't know how I can break off a piece of the orange stuff. Even the smaller piece is massive to handle. I'm sure with some of the cobble I can shape the material into a blade, but breaking it apart would need either dynamite, power tools, or a rocky cliff.

>>268209
sorry, hangover.

well you could try to innovate. shape the wood to receive the piece of rock for example.

now you were saying something about your shelter needing reinforcements? the clobberstone could help?

oh and how about a proper door? id like to think that all that water will not make you cold at night...

>>268209
Something to fasten the head to the shaft?

The wood here grows into the dirt. Put the rock head in between the wood and the dirt. Let it grow around it. Presto, it's attached.

>>268209
Painstakingly make a hole in the rock head. Fashion a wooden shaft slightly narrower than the hole. Split the end of the shaft, then put that split end into the hole. Drive a wooden wedge into the split shaft end to tightly secure it into the stone head.
You're limited the the durability of the stone to repeated impacts, so the head'll probably break before it falls off the shaft.

-- Weasel 2011/01/02(Sun)04:51 No. 268449 ID: c5f1f6
File 129397267998.png - (141.00KB , 1024x576 , PF02-045.png )

.. huh, why not, what could go wrong? Dirt and branch it is. There goes the last one.

You try to bore a role in a piece of rock with nothing but wood and your own fingers.

... hmn, the wood I have isn't in the right shape to make a door to block the water. Or to build something to divert it. Sure, tying them into a bunch and using mud to waterproof is an ages old technique, but I doubt it'll cut for something mobile. Not mentioning the whole lack of rope thing.

Anyway... sun's still out there for a few hours, what's the plan?

Well, I suppose you could use a door as a door.
If you had one.
Which you do.

So, those pods have an 80% failure rate after landing? You didn't have much choice in careers, did you?

Mmm, try and get your sleeping area more comfortable before it's too late to get bedding.

>>268449
Fix up yo bed.

yeh, if you managed to make a bigger shelter you should start making rooms and furniture.

i think its a about bad idea to do that tool forst. a axe should be idea, since we dont really have infinite wood now.

-- Weasel 2011/01/03(Mon)06:02 No. 268834 ID: 76226f
File 12940633201.png - (189.94KB , 1024x576 , PF02-045.png )

I do have a door, don't I?

Heeeere it issss..... I'm not sure how I'll use it, this thing is kinda heavy. But I'm sure I can find a use for it.

I didn't choose this job. The Bureau needed someone, and they chose me for the trip, you know how it works.
But yes, pods aren't.. really made to survive the drop. Most of it ablates in the drop itself, and what's left is too fragile to have any use.
It does the job of safeguarding what's inside, but the pod itself? Electronics, shell, most of everything useful completely fails in the drop.

Except for the comm, that always survives the drop... except this time it didn't. I guess we're talking trough a satellite.

About the tool, I didn't have much choice. The cobble around here tends to be long, not flat. I guess I always can pick a bigger piece of cobble and chisel or knapp it into a dull blade, though.

And yea... going to get some leaves on my way back. That should do for a while.

>>268834
you grossly reminded me that bamboo can grow trhu people if given time...

maybe we should peform a test with the leave. simply leaving some in the floor of the cave can tell us if they can "root" or not

you know. im beginning to think this planet you are on was somewhat crafted.

I don't think you should actually put the door in place. You slept there for one night and it worked out fine. Remember that the reason you got fucked up last time is that you couldn't get OUT fast enough.

Bringing it closer to home base is a good idea anyway.

>>268954
a good point you have

leave it submerged for a while to wash it off, then we could use it as a table!

Yes, wait on the door

Ok, Weasel, you've had survival training, and we have not. We're doing our best, but we're obviously not doing well enough.
Think back to your training; if we weren't here then what would you be trying to do?
[Imperial Beijing Reconnaissance Bureau, please respond. We're sick of the incompetence on the Royal Victoria. As near as we can tell they sent our operative to the wrong damned planet, then insisted she died in transit rather than fess up, and now they've got all transit in that area on lockdown to keep us from having somebody go pick her up.
Any chance you'd be interested in giving us some help and rubbing their failure in their faces?]

-- Comm 2011/01/05(Wed)08:11 No. 269338 ID: 1937f3
File 129424391164.png - (224.05KB , 1024x576 , PF02-046.png )

It makes no sense to leave the door behind. It won't get any cleaner by soaking another day.

I don't know.... The first priority was food, which... is handled. Sort of.
Next, safety. I have a place to sleep, but given what we've met, I can't say its

Greetings, Theta. Gamma. Chi. Frat. House. Of. Of. -- shcrhreeeeee--. Your message is very important to us, and is being analyzed for its delivery to the appropriate department.

If your message is related to the recent events, we'd like to assure you all the data published by the People's Department of Astronometrics follows a high accuracy standard, and is constantly checked for its correctness.

The People's Department of Astronometrics has a long history with the Fleet. Since its creation over six hundred years ago, it provided the safest pathways in the dark, hostile universe we find ourselves in. A total of over 10 trillions lives came and gone during this period, a responsibility the Department always took seriously.

The People's Department of Astronometrics is a institution with strong goals and a serious commitment to the Fleet. It will always strive to do its best to ensure to all of its people a long, safe journey.

>>269338
[hang up]

Sorry Weasel, you got cut off by some automated bullshit from Imperial Beijing. Now you were saying something about where you're sleeping?

>>269338
Geez, automated calls? Really? Somebody write down that frequency.

Weasel, you were about to say something about the security of your sleeping place?

im kinda baffled. what was that message about? who send a complain about what?

anyway, weasel you should scrub the door a bit. i dont wanna discover that dead bug is a goood attractive to live bugs.

also time to get a fire on the leaves.

-- Weasel 2011/01/06(Thu)06:00 No. 269496 ID: 8ef176
File 129432241249.png - (212.31KB , 1024x576 , PF02-047.png )

Right, um.

When you're getting stationed anywhere, its food and safety.
Food is nominally taken care of, pure flour might not be the best thing at the long term, but keeps me working. I'm safe, I have a place to sleep, safe from predators, even if barely...

Next step should be work. I should [get on with the mission] and focus on building an outpost. Single-handedly. Without tools. Or, getting a bucket of magma material. As if.

Again, I can't shake the feeling those bugs are major trouble. They scare me major. I don't know anything about them; only that they're the only regular fauna in miles, and they don't hunt by day. [Maybe I should rectify that]. Maybe not.

I could just say this shelter isn't sufficient, and dial back the priorities; go, and [build, or find somewhere more suitable to live]. Or hide.

And about food... we'll see how the little farm grows. And there's always [foraging and exploring]. There has to be something, somewhere...

In any case, I guess I'll be making tools as we need them, with ... whatever we have at hand. As if. I can shape stone, but I really need [some fastener] to start decent stone toolmaking -- fiber, rope, leather, cloth, skin, glue -- ANYTHING!!!!

... augh, I'm panicking like I'm a first year's....

>>269496
Well, the highest priority then would be tools. They make everything easier and/or possible in the first place.

>>269496
Find a living branch. Cut a slit in it. Insert the axe-head or pick-head or whatever. Wait for the branch to grow around it.

Since trees grow so rapidly here, doing this tonight will let you have a tool in a day or two.

you do have reasons to panic. a first year by now would have seizures while trying to forage the bugs for food.

>>269500
this is... weird. it may just work.

glue can be made, but our best bet is trying to find a natural glue. since the trees dont seem to have sap, im guessing thats pratically out of the question.

you can try bark stripes. if we manage to make a rope of it, we should have something to work on already.

im right now willing to set something on fire. the ashes could become useful later, and i kinda need to discover if the leaves were made to burn or not to, to attract or repel bugs.

go foraging later, you'll find food and ore not that far underground, or at least, you should.

If you can put together a small oven out of clay, shove the ore in there and keep it hot propperly for about a day you should be able to collect a small amount of iron. you can hammer it into shape with rock if you have to. you can use that as a knife or as the tip of an adze or such.

test how the bugs react to fire when it gets dark, observe a burning flame from a distance, if you can get a fire going.

oh, another option would be to dig a hole in a spiral shape downwards. make sure you can diverge the river course to it, as you may actualy find adapted life form, trying to escape the bugs.

>>269500
This is actually a good idea.

I think we should explore more when we have time. We haven't really seen enough.

Sleep now, tools later

-- Weasel 2011/01/08(Sat)08:19 No. 269836 ID: 8c34a7
File 129450359558.png - (227.32KB , 1024x576 , PF02-048.png )

[Time: Day 3, Midnight]

... crazy enough to work.

I set some wood on fire and leave to burn outside; it makes a yellow, smoky fire, burns for a few hours. Nothing seems to approach it in the entire shift. The time I spent watching it, I fashion a crude axehead, and a stone chisel.
Having a plan motivates me to work.

The rock here isn't all that good to work, way too hard. As long as I hit soft woods with this thing, it should last many swings before it cracks.

I guess I can explore tomorrow, if that's still a plan. Anything else for today?

is it more smoke that the usual? well it seems we may have a good start to a torch. you think we can start working in a crude furnance tomorrow?

also, check your wounds, i dont wanna discover you have a infection. and go to sleep already, you are wounded.

Oh yes, definitely check those wounds. You can use still water as a mirror to check the ones on your back.

Setting rocks into wooden sticks in the hopes that they'll grow over it should only take a few minutes and if you do it now, it'll have all night to do that, so it'll be ready sooner.
After that, you should get some rest. It's been a long day.

Well, it 'is' green, freshly cut wood. Usually one 'seasons' one's wood by aging and drying it a bit, smoke is to be expected.

-- Weasel 2011/01/09(Sun)05:16 No. 269968 ID: 13d3ae
File 129457900377.png - (143.93KB , 1024x576 , PF02-049.png )

[Time: Day 3, Night]

... Sticking the axehead to a branch is harder than it seems. Cracking a hole for it was a chore, but now its done.

Checking my own wounds reminded me they hurt. Nothing is openly bleeding, I guess going back and forth trough the waterfall is keeping them clean... we'll see over the next few days.

It also reminds me I have nothing to save me if I develop some infection. I'm surprised I didn't catch something nasty just from landing in here.

My leg... hurts less. But I hold no illusions; it wont get actually better until I am confined to a bed for a few weeks. All I can do is try to not make it worse.

Alright, get some sleep. Tomorrow, we cover new ground!

Well, if it does get infected, there's a great way to separate the ammonia from uri- yeah you won't go for that. There's always fire sterilization.

Tomorrow, we should make a second chamber in our tunnel where we can keep a fire and small ventilation hole where you can dry up after going through the waterfall so you don't catch your death.

But now sleep.

>>269968
considering the pureness os everything, im really willing to say you are either in a simulation or you are on a actualy fabricated planet.

how was the fire? like you "remember" or a bit like a animation? is there dust on this planet?

-- Weasel 2011/01/11(Tue)06:12 No. 270579 ID: 84ebb7
File 129475516018.png - (251.00KB , 1024x576 , PF02-050.png )

I.. like to believe I have my priorities straight, when it comes to choosing between being squeamish or sick.

Heh... You're in a simulation, Weasel.
What's next? Do i start seeing things for what they are, with a blocky landscape colored by an amateur, and my hands being meshed in one big polygon?

This is Land Operative Weasel, logging out.

... hmnph, stuck in a simulator... funny as Hell, its the most horrible thing I can think of.

-- Weasel 2011/01/11(Tue)06:14 No. 270581 ID: 84ebb7
File 129475526113.png - (2.58KB , 1024x576 , PF02-999.png )

[EOF]
Saved as: Persson-5/002-solodays.rec

>>270581
WHAT

yup. mindfuck incoming.

...what just happened??

>>270592
>>270597
>>270671

Relax guys, its just the video file saving.

>>270579
>funny as Hell, its the most horrible thing I can think of.

Where have I heard that before? I've definitely heard that quote. What books have you been reading lately, Weasel?

>>270727
Google says it's what Max Payne said when he found out he was in a comic book while he was dreaming.

>>270785
Oh man, I loved that game! Thanks, anon. I Google-searched it with quotation marks but got no results.

Anyway, yeah, nice reference, Weasel.