2010/11/27(Sat)07:44 No. 260086 ID: 5c8f91
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ID: 6172-531-541
Name: [REDACTED-Private]

Mission Callsign: Weasel
Role: Solo mission
Status: Deceased.

2010/11/27(Sat)07:49 No. 260087 ID: 5c8f91
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Cause of Death: Catastrophic pod failure when entering Persson-4's atmosphere.

Planet atmosphere and gravity deviated significantly from the data published by the People's Department of Astronomical Studies. Satellite observation of the event is consistent with catastrophic failure.

The pod's last five minutes of transmission are unrecoverably corrupted and cannot be used to acess the state of the agent's health. 6172-531-541 declared deceased at 2469-Set-22 19:42:35 by the Reconnaissance Bureau.

2010/11/27(Sat)07:53 No. 260088 ID: 5c8f91
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Identification: Generic white female, red hair, deep green eyes. Age Cat. 21-25. VoiceTalk Implant (FreqBand A) (Modified by Recon Bureau; modification classified). Stitchworm Support Implant.

Background: Clean.

Daughter of [REDACTED-Private][REDACTED-Private]. Born at Clinic #A7225, Vila Brasilia. Custody surrendered to Command. Taken to Our Lady Graceful FCF, Vila Brasilia.

Enrolled at Command Engineering School, Vila Brasilia, age ten to age eighteen, graduated Hull and Structures Engineer (ALS 3.2). 6 optional courses completed (5 unrelated to main degree).

Assigned as Junior Engineer to the Structural Maintenance Crew of Vila Brasilia. Certified for Vacuum Environment Operations, Factory Operations, Hazardous Operations and Planet Surface Operations.

9.442 misdemeanors, 0 felonies

2010/11/27(Sat)07:55 No. 260089 ID: 5c8f91
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Mental State: Sane. No significant phobias. No significant disorders. Distinct preference for green and blue colors.

No remarkable deviations in intelligence tests.
Subject scored low in creativity and initiative tests, but scored average average craftyness. Problems with decisions percieved as 'big'.

How do you get .442 misdemeanors? And what were those 5 unrelated courses?

2010/11/27(Sat)08:00 No. 260091 ID: 5c8f91
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Conclusion: 6172-531-541 is an useful member of Vila Brasilia's crew. Might need constant guidance from her peers in strategic decisions; should be assigned to a menial task under a strong leader.

-- EOF_

[Thanks. Thanks a lot guys.]

Damn she was late for pretty much everything.
Apparently drank a little too.

Dammit, she isn't dead. I refuse to believe it.

[OOC: Love your stuff man.]

>>260094
i do not have trouble beliving she is dead. i have trouble leaving her tomb in a planet where she wasnt supposed to be at. worse, mission failed annoys the hell out of me.

>>260090
its thousands. she had 9442 misdemeandors.

> 6 optional courses completed (5 unrelated to main degree).
a slacker at heart.

>Custody surrendered to Command
shit, a orphan.

>Stitchworm Support Implant.
wat.

>should be assigned to a menial task under a strong leader
so if i HAD insisted, she WOULD have made the fireplace.

i have only one issue left. how exactly were we supposed to prevent the creep from following us, or how to defeat them with "swords" and shovels.

>Stitchworm Support Implant.

Wait! Are there controls for that here? Bring up her vitals screen! Turn that motherfucker on now if it isn't already, come on where is it...

Goddammmit who designed this user interface, ergonomically designed control schema my ass.

>>260100
(It's funnier if I take it like it's a decimal)

>>260101

damm, i know she would be starving and most likely will still be under debris, but if we get another agent there while forcing the stitch to prevent blood loss we could have a chance to save her.

[contact Stitch Worm on Persson-5 belonging to agent 6172-531-541 and get it working]

[Command, what are the possibilities of scanning for a used and dissasembled drop pod in persson 5?]

>>260089
>Licking Lesbians Larro
Is that really related to the case file?

>>260094
Could be skipping or leaving early. I don't see "socially inept" anywhere, so possibly skipped to hang out with peers.

Still, over 9000 misdemeanors? Jesus. Age 10 to 18, eight years is only, like, 3000 days by Earth standards.

>>260116
We don't have much chances, what with Weasel salvaging the wires from the pod the first day. Still, let's try.

Doesn't Stitchworm kick in automatically? Do we even authorized for remote Stitchworm activation.

[Look up Stitchworm in database]

A lot of effort went into these it seems. Kickass, Farmer. Thanks.

>>260119
Lesbians are always relevant.

...I feel dirty now

>>260089
Lembas and Lord?

Looks like she's a Lord of the Rings fan.
All the more reason to get her ass out of that rubble, dead or not!

>>260083
[Call: Operator J. Sullivan]
Command, we have reason to believe that there has been a slight error; the mission for the operative we have been assigned lists her area of operations as Persson-4, but our equipment reads her current location as Persson-5.
Would you be so kind as to check Persson-5 for drop beacons, and maybe send an eyebot down to confirm the operative's ID?
Prompt resolution is a priority as the operative is currently incapacitated and unable to respond to radio calls, and will likely require medical supplies.

>>260168
Weasel! You ok?
Wake up, you need to field medic yourself.

Bloody hell, you're still alive.
Wakey up, report what the hell happened down there.

>>260168
Just sayin, but she's racked!

...you still functional there?

Good news, you're dead! At least, officially.

SHIIIIIII-

>>260168
Oh, thank god. I was so worried.

>>260168
Hey.

Hey there.

WAKE UP!

>>260168
:o

Good heavens, don't scare me like that!
Can you move?

First order of business is to be sure there are no immediate threats. Once you know you're safe, inspect your injuries and attempt to treat them, the most serious ones first.

Weasel! Wake up! You need immediate medical attention!

[request health status of agent from stitch worm]

[panoramic view please?]

[is WH able to send supplies? we may need a doctor if not a automated drone to heal her. medkit, pickaxe, MRE whenever possible]

Weasel please turn around. face your head to the sides and cought. we do not want you to drown.

you are not in kansas anymore. it is not saturday night and there are no beers around nor tolkien books. life sucks, and you must kick it in the balls if you want to live.

If and when you get out of this, we're going to need to figure out better ways of getting rid of those little nasties.

We could turn up the volume again, though that didn't turn out so well last time, this time there's no immediate threat that hasn't been blown up.

-- Weasel 2010/11/28(Sun)04:56 No. 260354 ID: 5c8f91
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[Time: Day 2, Noon]

..... nnngh.

What the.... hurts...

Back... leg... ankle...

>>260354
Holy crap, that's it for your injuries? You must be made of steel or something to have survived that.

>>260359
Could have been the suit. Her organs might still be jelly.

>>260354
Status report, engineer. Are you capable of movement?

drag yourself our of the water slowly. if you ca get the sleeves of your suit out, you should make some bandages.

do not make sudden movement. is you leg broken? is your ankle dislocated?

Okay, you're alive. That's better than expected, going into this. Can you move?

>>260354
Good News Weasel, You 'are' officially dead.

Weasel, paddle to land! Patch yourself up!

Use the CURE option in the Survival Viewer! Apply a Styptic, Bandage, Gauze, and Suture Kit!

Losing a lot of blood there, she might have a spinal injury judging by the cuts.

-- Weasel 2010/11/28(Sun)19:48 No. 260550 ID: 75f5b7
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Owwwwh, I wish my back was broken, my leg's hurt like owwwch....

Ankle... a sprain. No big deal. Leg... left leg... cant hold weight. Something's wrong. With the bone. Like it grinds...

I'm out... no medical supplies. Makes me wish I was really dead.

Focus. Focus. Now what. What to do?

>>260550
Drag yourself up on the beach, then set your broken bone.
You've got a stitchworm, right? Let it do its job on your leg.

>>260550

Splints will be helpful, to.

Get out of that water, all kinds of contaminants.

Wish you had started that fire now.

>>260550
Any idea of what the heck happened there?

your leg may have multiple fractures. or exposed bones.

simply look around and rip your sleeves out. attempt to clean the wound in your back with multiple immersions in the water. cover it asap.

then take some courage and look at your broken leg. if there are no exposed bones, you will live, all we need is a big enought branch to make a splinter with whatever was left of the pants. find a place to set your foot and scretch your broken leg until the bone is set, then tie the splinter in it. you will have issues to do so with multiple factures. failure to do so may cause you to walk funny until a proper doctor re-breaks your leg. if you have a exposed bone, pray to god that the stitchworm was made by a expert surgeon, because if it cant restaure your leg, you will die either of gangrene or trying to saw your leg out.

after all of that is done, find some place to hold the dislocated foot in place while you set it back.

later on we will talk of lizken and dinner. possibly not on that order.

>>260550
Your leg sounds like it's been broken pretty badly. Getting a splint on it is a high priority.

Locate a tree branch and some cloth or string. Fashion a splint.

-- Weasel 2010/11/29(Mon)03:11 No. 260611 ID: 75f5b7
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NNNNNnngh. Leg. No visible fracture. Still hurts. Maybe just cracked. "Just". Owgh.

Splint. Yes. I have my clothes. And branches.

Oh guh, where's my plankpack?

>>260611
What were you floating on top of? The door? I guess your plankpack could be in the water.

she wasnt floating, that was the little lake near where she landed.

id still like that top view =c the plankpack is most likely ruined, considering you had it with yourself at all times. see any trees around?

well ok, im pretty sure if it were a simple fracture you wouldnt feel grinding. im assuming it is a straight bone still, so a splinter will be all we need.

-- Weasel 2010/11/29(Mon)12:25 No. 260666 ID: 174af0
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Oh-nngh! Finally! The pack!

Soon enough I'll have a splint. I'll just have to get used to the pain on my back. Hurts, but I still can move normally. I think adrenaline's kicking in.

C'mon. Now we can think of the bigger problem; exploding swarms. I hope you already Have a plan. If these things attack at night... how did it even find me in the first place?

I don't see the lizchick anywhere. Thats not good news. My belly feels numb.

Does fire repel the swarms? If so, make torches. Many torches.

>>260669
It's highly likely they don't like fire. I mean, you're an insect prone to exploding, heat isn't exactly Your Thing.

Dammit, now the situation has become critical. No food, badly injured, and in an incredibly hostile environment. We've informed command of the mistake, but you know the bureaucracy, there's no way they'll have your bit sorted out any time soon.

>>260666
im sorry weasel. the obvious answer is fire.

if they are chemically explosive, they would have a instinct to stay away from the fire they can ignite in the forest. if it is somehow kinetic, wich i doubt due to how it glowed, fire is still the best way to fight a swarm.

its also possible a low yield torch can ignite them, but its entirely dependant on whenever they see infrared or hunt trhu smells.

Although this is our first time seeing this particular breed of hostile, fire fends off the ones we do know of... This could have been prevented if we had just been more insistent.

-- Weasel 2010/11/29(Mon)16:59 No. 260704 ID: 174af0
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I'm more and more convinced I was sent here to die...

Ok, let's break this problem down.

I need fire to fight off the insects.

Mind you, I wasn't against fire, but without the *means*... it just seems less important. That should teach me.

I could just burn [wood], but thats hardly efficient. I'd have to stay up all night to keep the fire going, maybe, I don't know how well this wood burns.

If I had a kiln, I could make [coal]. Since that's not an option, I'd have to dig mu own coal... with a spade, a stake and a wooden hammer.
Actually, its not as bad as it sounds.

If I had some [cord, string] or something, I could get some dried leaves and make fire the way our ancestors used to. Unfortunately, IKEA does not deliver here, and wire makes some pretty shoddy string. I'll have either to manufacture the cord, or find something cord-like.

The other option is [flint]. Now I'm not a geologist. I don't know where i'd find it. And I didn't see any nodes of flint when walking around. Steel, I have plenty in the pod. It's just not tool-grade steel anymore.

Nnnngh-- and this resolves my leg. At least its not grinding on itself all the time...

I think those are all the options regarding fire.... am I missing anything? What's the plan?

Food and water? And by that I mean do we have enough? Our last hidey-hole was kinda exploded.

>>260704
For coal, there's an exposed vein right over there on the cliff behind you. Not sure how you'd ignite it though.

Also, do we still have our chicken?

>>260708

Well wadaya know, that's some nice coal alright, and right next to a waterfall.

Now home ftw

WATCH OUT FOR GIANT BIRDS :V (or spiders)

also, you gotta find chicken. I miss him.

Well, you are missing chemicals which ignite when exposed to air or water, and electrical fire ignition.

Volatile chemicals may or may not be present in small quantities in the advanced electronics in your wrecked ship, but tend to be quite dangerous to work with.

Electrical ignition on the other hand is easily done with very thin wire and any minor battery. Many years ago, good survival kits sometimes included steel wool and a 9-volt battery, which produce fire in seconds when combined. Check the wreck. It's not a good long term solution, because the wire itself burns up, but it's quick and easy in the short term.

If you want string, well, hate to say it, but you are wearing some.

Oh yes about the string, you could fabricate some the long way.

You know, finding flax, all that jazz.

you obviously are not in condition to dig around like that. we have wood and most likely it will burn for enought days.

now we kinda have to forage for food. those trees bear fruits?

>>260712
Exactly what I'm thinking, we can try rigging up some kind of improvised sparkplug with the parts from the pod (assuming the power supply is still intact).

They likely tracked you by smell. That's a standard Recon Bureau jumper you're wearing, which means it has anti-microbial threads of silver in the fabric's weave. So that, in turn, means they're not tracking you by the smell of bacteria wastes on you, but by your smell: the smell of pheromones from your apocrine glands.

>>260765
Actually, this kind of works, but I have a different theory; remember how when she approached the hive, a few of the small bugs exploded on her? Maybe that 'painted' her with pheromones or something, and they tracked that to find her?

I think you ought to relocate further from the hive, as they now know where to find you.

Actually, do you think there's any way you could build a shelter behind that waterfall?
It should make an effective-enough screen against you and those little creepers while also being in a mountain full of coal and other ores.

>>260779
That's the most likely theory. Greens mark the target, reds kill them.

I say we go for coal.

>>260704
You said your left leg doesn't hold weight. In this case I would recommend against going all the way up to that waterfall. Let's try the improvised sparkplug idea.

We'll have to work with our immediate vicinity for now. Assuming you need a crutch to even go anywhere far, trips can take much longer.

>>260779
>>260786
Well then there's at least one thing we know for a fact: washing oneself doesn't remove the scent.
Maybe if we burn something smelly enough (like some plant, maybe) it will produce a stronger scent that will cover you from the exploders' scent-vision.

Hmm. Weasel, did you wash the suit you were wearing when you got hit?

-- Weasel 2010/11/30(Tue)03:54 No. 260841 ID: 174af0
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Yeah, I need help to walk... Fortunately, I have a long enough log piece to improvise; its awkward, but works. A proper crutch will have to wait.

I'm not sure about the spark plug idea. Like, I have the plasma cell, I have the wire, but I think I'd need a giant spark plug to deliver enough energy for the wood to stay ignited...
... on the other hand, I could try my hand at a wire resistor and bake the wood until it burns. The wire I have isn't very thin, but...
Maybe I can salvage something from the pod.

I'm not seeing any waterfall near here... but the archway under that larger cliff, yea. It kinda looks like a waterfall, doesn't it?

Food... these trees don't bear fruit. Not in this season, maybe never. And traditionally, the energetic value of leaves and grass is nil...
I'm not looking forward to insect meal.

Hmn. The lizken escaped. This thing was chewed. It probably spent all day to clip it.

Yeah, I was thinking how they followed me. I was thinking they marked the path I made here, or followed a cold trail....
... oh the suit oh D'OWWH!. Stupid! STUPID!!!

>>260841
Try salvaging some wire from the pod, then...

Hey, to get to the coal we may need some rope.

>>260841
You were covered in exploded bug. It probably left a distinct scent trail for them.

Re-salvage some of that wire. Maybe it can be used to hold a splint in place, or for some other tool-making later.

Thats a good look for you weasel

>I think I'd need a giant spark plug to deliver enough energy for the wood to stay ignited...

All you really need is wood and enough really dry grass. Any small spark would be enough to ignite it.

Heh, I believe I have left a wrong impression on all the high school science classes out there. When you put thin wire across the leads of a power source that is too strong for the wire, it doesn't produce SPARKS, it produces FIRE. It's not a spark plug, the metal wire itself catches fire and burns.

In the case of steel wool and a battery, it burns like a similarly sized wad of cotton, making fire starting trivial. Science!

If you just wanna make a spark, we can talk about that too. Capacitors spark-plug sized and up are pretty easy to make by hand, as long as you have the materials available.

>>260899
In that case I'd rather avoid your idea, it'd use up resources too fast. Just making a spark would be useful though.

o 2010/11/30(Tue)14:17 No. 260923 ID: 45be60
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>>260901
Indeed. Like I said, it's a short term solution.

You want sparks? Find two thin sheets of conducting material and insulating paste to go between them. Any sort of metal foil will do for the conducting sheets. You can probably scavenge it from shielded data cable, or some kinds of layered thermal insulation, such as you might find in the hull. Common clay will do the job of the electrical insulating paste, though you will want it to be dried out before use, and that is best done by baking it once you have the thing assembled. See above for simple single use fire starter.

Once you have those materials collected, you just make a sandwich. You want the layer of clay to be as thin as you can make it, but you must be absolutely certain the foil layers don't touch anywhere, or it won't work. In it's simplest form, that's all there is. Hook the sheets up to the leads of a battery and it will start building charge. Disconnect the leads and touch them together, you get a spark just before they touch as all that built up charge equalizes. The size of the spark has more to do with the size of your foil sheets than the power of the battery.

The sandwich can be rolled up and wrapped in plastic or something for ease of handling. Charge will slowly dissipate once you disconnect from the battery, but you should have a few minutes at least.

>>260923
Let's make this.

jesus. id like to remember we have a power cell with very little charge.

weasel, if you have your shovel, how hard do you think it would be to start a spark with its mettalic parts?

>>260926
I did wonder about this. However, my impression is that a powercell with very little charge still compares favorably to a conventional AA battery, which is the level of electricity we need here. Is this correct?

-- Weasel 2010/11/30(Tue)15:27 No. 260938 ID: 174af0
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I take maybe thirty minutes crawling to the pod, and just five to retrieve this. This little LCD display should have all the wire we'll ever need to start a fire. The little computer connected to it though, melted into a slag... pretty weird.

The plasma cell surely has enough charge to start a fire. But its high-output. We're talking about tens to hundreds of joules here, minimum. I can try to get a controlled charge.

Your firestarter contraption might have to wait until I can actually bake clay. Pod insulation is ablative, and I'm not sacrificing my jumpsuit.

I'll wait until evening or until I find food to start any fire.

>>260938
so i was kinda right, we wont be able to do that forever.

we should consider sparks from metal next. if you can make fiber from bark or use dry leaves, it should be a good firestarter.

Good god, if it takes that long to move around you need to improve your splint.

-- Weasel 2010/12/01(Wed)05:18 No. 261149 ID: 5e01fc
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The problem here, isn't the splint; it might not look like, but this thing is enough to keep the bone in place with no worries.

The problem is walking about without putting weight on that foot. Sure, I can hop around in one leg barefoot, that works so well. I can also crawl on my knees, which is just as fast.

I need a proper crutch. A straight piece of wood makes a walking stick, but it isn't that much help. And with the tools I have -- a hammer, a spike and a metal spade -- could take the entire day.

Assuming the wood I have can take it.

>>261149
you are wounded and had blood loss. you shouldnt be working.

we still have to feed you somehow. im guessing there arent any fishes in that pond?

>>261149
The real issue is your lack of food. That's a crisis-level problem, since you need to get something useful in your gut right away in order to keep functioning.

[Recon, I'd like somebody to check the status of all active agents on the surface of Perrsons -4 and -5, and do a quick scan for any stray agents or signals. We've got an active agent that we're almost certain is on one of those planets, but we're so far into SNAFU-land that all we know for sure is that the agent is active.

Current location is a little after noon, land, and warm enough to not require protective gear, so that gives about a 30-degree by 75-degree surface area on each. Some of the pod's computer systems are slag so the only signal we can be sure about is our comm connection, but since she's transmitting it should be detectable.

Here, have some shots of the agent in question and her current status:
>>260354
>>260704
>>260841
>>260938
>>261149
]

-- Comm 2010/12/01(Wed)07:58 No. 261159 ID: 5e01fc
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Yeah... I really should go forage.
Just the thought makes me feel ti

Mission One? Sullivan here.

What. Are you. Doing?

I'd like you to stop. Think. And answer me that.

>>261159
Our job, to the best of our ability.

We weren't briefed, we weren't assigned to an officer, we weren't given proper contact information, marauding poodles we weren't even given orders!
If there's something we're supposed to do or not do then you should probably tell us. I'd apologize for breaching opsec, but we know nothing about the sec of this op.

>>261162
Hell I think most of us weren't even given the proper rig controls, this model is completely unfamiliar to me, not at all like the version used at my previous position.

We didn't even know about the stitchworm implants until we had assumed total loss of all assets, and what is this 'modification classified" and all this 'REDACTED' on her origins file?

So far we are just trying to avoid this op being a complete wipe, possibly set up some kind of sustainable survivability and recon operation until we can requisition an assets recovery team.

shhhhh

>>261159
Hi again, Sullivan. We're trying to save a life here, and complete a mission objective. Which makes no sense, by the way, look up the mission assigned to Land Op 6172-531-541 (recently deceased) and see with your own eyes.

And could you send us a copy of her instructions while you're at it?

[Private to RECON]... Oh, right, you can't see my lisence ID in the channel metadata, can you? It looks like the signal is coming from a frat hall or something, I've no idea about that. But here it is: F45-80Y1-24650610-GHQ11.

I hope you're fine with these little bits of RP we've been making, Farmer. Are you?

We're trying to keep her alive!

-- Comm 2010/12/01(Wed)12:32 No. 261188 ID: 5e01fc
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Oh, that again.

Look, I understand. Your mission ended before it even started. This is frustrating for you and your team, was your big debut. We know what's going on. Really. But you need to stop calling about this.

We are aware to what happened to your operative. Its a terrible thing, really. But you gotta let it go. Insisting on this matter may lead to an early retirement to all of you.

I recommend... that you relax. There's lots of work to be done in the Bureau, lots of paperwork to be moved. So, shut down your observation office, I'm sure we can get another mission in the near future. In the meantime, well. Keep safe and do your job.

Do we have an understanding?

Remind me who the Reconnaissance Bureau answers to.

Then what are we getting camera feeds from?

>>261188
Screw this, we're wasting our time here. Command doesn't seem to actually care about us, we're pretty much on our own and no amount of begging will change that.

>>261188
Erh... yessir understood. *scribbles on notepad 'know, stop, this, are, safe?'*

Must have been a ghost reading... I'll just see if I can't set up a filter for that in the future, sorry to have been a bother. I'll see if we can't requisition some ID-10T files for the board report later sir.

We ARE doing our job, sir. If you were in our position, and your operative was in contact with you and everyone else thought they were dead, would you do anything less than try to get them support to come back alive?

If you still don't believe us... Hypothetically, if we were in that position, and completely on our own and unable to convince anyone, what should we be doing?

[shit, it's a cover up, not a botched record.

Better tell the wife to go to her mothers for a while]

>>261188
*sigh* Okay. We'll try. Thanks for your support, Sullivan. Have a good day.

>>261203
(Definitely. Something's fishy and I have a feeling there'll be no more than one last warning if we keep pushing this.)

Weasel, you there? I've got good news and bad news. And good news is also bad.

Fuck...

Weasel, are you there? Look... Dammit... There's no help coming. The bureau has washed it's hands of you, according to them you burned up on entry into the atmosphere. You are entirely on your own.

I'm not giving up on you though. You can survive here, assuming we can find a decent food source.

hmmm, maybe we shouldn't tell her yet.

she might freak out, you know, being stranded on a strange planet and all.

-- 2010/12/01(Wed)17:20 No. 261241 ID: 5e01fc
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I'm glad we're on the same level here. At least with some of you.

Take care, Operators.



... another message from upstairs? They still think I'm dead?

Dammit, we are gonna fight this, but we can't do it yet. We need some dirt.

I'll call in a few favours, see if I can't get anything done.

And yes, Weaver, you are officially dead to them.

We have to get you to a proper shelter.

For some funny reason, I think this has potential to be the best quest ever.

>>261241
I'm afraid there's no 'think' going on here actually dear.

It's more... well lets just say I would rather not be 'intimately persuaded' of your recent unfortunate demise by certain gentlemen in easy-clean painter's suits with a white van full of unsettling amounts of rubber tubing and rusty looking power tools.

>>261241

It's a conspyracy! A corporate cover up! Weasel, find some aluminum, and shape it into a hat! Wear this hat!

>>261246

But... but we're the voices in her head...

Right. Food, water, fire. For food, I think fishing's our best bet; we should be able to cobble together a fishing line with the materials we have on hand. We have some ideas on fire too... Weasel, do you see a source of fresh water?

I... Have an idea of why, perhaps, you are considered dead, and if it is true, then I'm sorry we got you into this mess.

Whoever's covering this up must have some heavy access or must be a rather skillful infiltrator. This shows one of two theories that come to mind.

1: Someone up above is trying to cover this place up. Whether this be because of the wasteful nature of allocation of goods (you're on this planet to collect lava), or they've hidden something here.

2: Someone's trying to shut down the fraternity. Either way we're fucked here. If we help you, then whoever is pulling the strings here can call us on an extreme waste of resources, and get us disbanded from the bureau. If we don't, they'll call us out for manslaughter.

Either way, the one real answer here is that we need you to get back up here. If you complete the objective, there might be some automated way back up. I'm sorry that you had to get tangled up in here regardless.

We know the boss is behind this. I mean, cmon, he hand picked her, there was the mess hall operators terminal. We know he's got it in for weasel. Weasel, what were your 9000 recorded misdemeanors for? And hell, you might as well tell us your real name, now that you are dead in the eyes of the bureaucracy, we might as well call you by what you call yourself.

Gentlemen, now that we know where the higher-ups stand on this issue, we need to take measures not only to ensure Weasel's short term survival, but also to, at some point, get her off this rock, preferably intact.

It they want to be a shadowy conspiracy, we must be the poorly organized collection of basement dwellers attempting to expose them. We're taking this shit viral. Who has a complete record of the mission? We should start circulating the files on the nets, ASAP.

>>261351

Don't worry; I've made several backup copies to an off-site server, as well as distribute a few to the WikiLeaks planet.

Suggestion 2010/12/02(Thu)13:25 No. 261383 ID: 5e01fc
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... high ranks, conspiracies, fraternities, men in black, governmental coverups.

I did not skip enough meals to start hallucinating. Did I?

I should start foraging. This pool is... nice, but way too small to have fish. I don't even know if its connected to a large body of water. But its fresh, perfectly drinkable mineral water. I think. It tastes fine.

Where should I go?

Go uhm... east I think? It's the direction your legs are facing anyhow, farther along the beach I think I see something from the pod.

You should totally set up camp on that island in the middle of the water there. It's a pretty sweet piece of real estate.

>>261351
Sign me up for this. We're not giving this up. Out of plain professional ethics, if nothing else.

>>261369
It's the first time I'm working together with a paranoid and glad that I do.
But WikiLeaks? Uh... I dunno, who trusts them anymore?

As for water source, the pond should do for now. It's freshwater, right? Even considering you took a bath in it, I bet the water there's a dozen times better than anything you can get on Vila Brasilia, or any biodome, for that matter.

Food is our biggest concern then.
What have we seen this far? Wheat, lizkens, nitrobugs (for a lack of a better word)... not much. Lack of berries or fish is unsettling.
As an option of last resort, we could try moving to that artificial-looking cliff and searching for someone who made it. And then praying we're at least on the same level of the food chain as the creators.

Set up camp to the east on a hill overlooking the pool.

If there are any animals large enough here, it is sure to attract them as a watering hole.

List of things to do
-Get new shelter (or see if you can reclaim the old one)
-Make fire
-Make a Dagger
-Make a Bow and some arrows.

While you get started on that, I'll run a scan for wildlife.
[not really, but I'll keep a look out]

>>261383

Well, without knowing the compass points on this planet, it's a little hard to give you directions from our overhead view, but first, do like >>261388 said, and find that bit of debris further past the pod. Then, if feel like some walking, go the other way and follow the water, it looks like it turns a bend, like, behind you (as of right now). If you follow that, you might find a larger body of water.

>>261369

I was thinking a little more proactive than that. Like if you know any journalists, bloggers, whatever, to might be willing to spread the word. Me? I've got multiple copies on various media, of varying advancement, most of which I have labeled to be sent to some guys I know in case something happens to me. I'd like to see Recon try and read a 5'' Floppy.

>>261401
Guys, don't go spreading this shit around until we get her back dammit. I don't want the auditors on our asses faster than anything.

Besides we can't PROVE anything yet. All they've done is declared her dead, they can just saw 'whoops we made a mistake' and make us look like paranoid idiots. We can't proved they've done ANYTHING ILLICIT... yet.

So put a stopper on those leaks becasue I don't want to get 'vanned' a few months after an inconclusive legal probe. Understand?

Yea, we gotta keep this hush hush.

We are using the private channel right?

>>261403

That's kind of the point. I don't know about you, but I can live through a little public embarassment. So if HQ says "Whoops we dun fucked up." and sends someone to bail her out, our mission is accomplished, in a sense. We can't get her off the planet unless we somehow force someone to send a ship out after her. Unless you expect her to build an interstellar craft from stick and leaves.

>>261407
I'm SORRY I maybe you didn't read:
>So put a stopper on those leaks becasue I don't want to get 'vanned' a few months after an inconclusive legal probe. Understand?

...but maybe you don't LIKE having your BONES in their proper orientations.

>>261409

You seem to be operating under the impression I value my self more than I do others.

I am not stranded on an alien planet with limited resources, Weasel is. Anything we have her do down there is a stop-gap measure. So unless you have a better plan (RE: Leaf-fueled stick-ship), we should continue with this strategy as best we can. Besides, its one thing to cover up someone vanishing on a mission in the middle of nowhere. It's another to start rounding up your populace and start "rearranging" them.

>>261409
weasel is that a cave nearby? if so, you think you can forage for shrooms there?

can you make wooden stakes to serve as a crude weapon?

i think a bowl would be nice too, but maybe we should make jars before that.

-- Weasel 2010/12/03(Fri)05:30 No. 261531 ID: 5e01fc
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Let's see...

First, I think the cliff you're talking about is where I used to have a hole to hide. That piece of debris is the pod's door, which, if I may add... was in a surprisingly good condition for something that was just exploded.

To the east, I remember we saw some wheat-alike down that trail. Hmn, maybe...

I come to check the cave, its closer. And... quite small. The air there isn't very moist, its kinda stale. It doesn' seems deep... but its pitch black in there.

... about my file, uh. I just lived five minutes too late from.. everywhere. Yeah.

Weasel, we're trying to ensure your life safe and back into civilization. The least you could do is be honest and give us a couple of embarrassing stories to lighten the mood a bit.

And a torch will work wonderfully as a deterrent as well as a good light source. Just use the spark you salvaged, a nice wooden stick, some bark to get a kindling (preferably one that comes off in sheets), and some roots or a bit of fabric to keep it together.

>>261531

Well, the cave's out of the question unless we can get some light in there. As for the door, how heavy is it, and how thick is it? Could you carry it as an improvised shield?

Either way, follow the cliff off to your left, and see if the overhead was right and there's a gap where the water goes around a bend.

-- Weasel 2010/12/03(Fri)12:03 No. 261556 ID: 5e01fc
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I didn't build a sparkplug yet or anything, I just have that wiremesh from the LCD screen that might or might not be good for more than one burn.

Besides, just wood and fire does not make a torch. It does make a nifty improvisation.

I believe the pod's door is at least one and a half metre by 3/4 of a metre, cushioned on the inside, and made of the best materials to resist reentry.
Its heavy. I can lug it around in the plankpack, but that's as far as it goes.

Hmn, to that direction there's just a pond, and the path to those creepy things... and the square hole in the ground.

There 's a secondary pond too, all part of the same water table.

>>261351
Guys, I just got here, and have been brought up to speed.

Is there any way we can take her rescue directly into our own hands? Unofficially, I'm not above commandeering a craft, and going in to get her.

>>261579
We'll see, but for now we have the more primary concern of keeping her alive and stable before any such attempts should be considered.

The main difficulty being 'food'.

>>261580
We can keep her alive for a week off water alone. That should give the Stitchworm time to get her mobile again. We can see about real food when her leg is healed.

without anything from HQ WH, its unlikely we are to suceed. so far our best bet is radio comm, wich we are unable due to the fact we are eating every circuitry we can get, or a huge forest fire of unnatural proportions. maybe even patterned.

weasel, its time to start a fire unless that cave can be explored without light. can you fashion a stake quickly? its possible most of the wildlife is underground.

>>261582
she is already starving, and her body will not heal on starvation process. let alone forage for food while starving.

That planet is plenty sunny...

Weasel, can you salvage any sort of optics or lenses from the crash? That would be able to magnify the sun's rays?

>>261586
good thinking, the lcd screen can serve as a crude lens if needed be

there should be some sensors on it but they are likely to be radar based. lets hope there's a regular weather camera there, i belive they have wide lens.

>>261586

Please don't tell me you're planning the poor man's laser. That would not be an efficient use of either her or our time.

>>261556

Right, so, food is now our pressing concern. And with their being no fish in either pond, and no source to follow it to, that means you'll need to go foraging a field. We'll leave hunting out for now, unless you've got a makeshift spear or club, though I doubt with your healing injuries that's a good idea anyway. You can't exactly run down down a space deer.

Anyway, I'm rambling. You should start checking nearby foliage for possible edible stuff. Keep an eye for obvious poison indicators, however. Bright warning colors, etc.

>>261596
Look, chances are, there might be something she can use in the cave. She's gonna need fire or some other light source to explore it. And using a lens to start a fire is much easier than the over-complicated wire-battery burn method.

>>261599

Not really. If we're talking just starting a fire, its a lot quicker and easier to use electricity to light something on fire. Problem isn't starting it, its fueling it. Torches aren't just burning sticks of wood, they usually involve rags tied around the end on them to give them more fuel to burn. We lack those at the moment, or Weasel would have already made a torch and checked the cave. Not that I think a cave necessarily holds any more resources than the surrounding vegitation.

>>261608
Still, when you consider how much of her current resources get burned up with the battery (I.e. wires that we could use to repair something) the method I recommend carries much less risk. How are we even sure her power supply has juice?

But since the pressing concern is food, I'll concede for now. Weasel, are there any naturally fallen trees in the area? If so, be on the lookout for mushrooms with a two foot, flat head. Those are edible.

>>261612

Well, we're taking her word for it that the plasma battery still has a charge...

But I don't think we'll be using that material for repairs, seeing as we've probably salvaged all we can from the pod at this stage, and there isn't anything else on this planet to fix. As far as we know anyway. but the conspiracy theories come later.

>>261615
Keep in mind, she woke up half submerged, and her pack was underwater. And she didn't get the battery from the wreck. Just saying.

Also, Weasel? If you do find some fungus, and you're not sure what it is, hold it up to the eyebot so we can identify it.

>>261618

Yeah, but the plankpack is like, extradimensional storage and stuff. Bigger on the inside, y'know?

And actually, Weasel, you should probably try and show us anything you find before you try and eat it. Who knows, maybe one of us is a xenobiologist.

>>261608
torch = stick + rag + oil or fat or possibly wax. The cloth isn't your primary fuel source, it's there to hold the fuel together. Cloth alone would burn up in about 30 seconds. So if we are going that route, we are going to need to kill a large animal to render fat from, or maybe break open an exploding bug hive and see if they produce wax in some form.

The other way you could try is something like stick + fireproof bowl + coal and maybe sawdust. Burning coal glows quite nicely, but it burns very hot. The air it requires to burn has a tendency to cool it off too much, so you need quite a bit of fire. It's hard to make a SMALL coal fire. Mixing it with charcoal (good heat, but not much light) would probably help, and it sounds like Weasel has a handle on how that is made.

>>261599
Having done it, let me say that while a lens is easier to start fire with than rubbing two sticks together, it is only easier than electricity by virtue of already being manufactured. (Hopefully.) It's absolutely great to have around, and doesn't use itself up like many solutions, so yeah, good idea. But only being able to start fires in the brightest part of a sunny day is limiting. It's better to have multiple options available.

>>261612
Remember, there are two electrical solutions on the table. One of them IS highly destructive to materials and guzzles battery power, but is very very easy. The other requires a quite a bit of work to build, but is non-destructive and uses minimal electricity (even with the high output power source we have, which would be wasteful in most situations. Yay for science.) It qualifies as a high tech manufactured good, despite its simple materials.

-- Weasel 2010/12/06(Mon)03:58 No. 262387 ID: 5e01fc
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[Time: Day 2, Afternoon]

I start my trip eastwards... uff.

Well, I know the basics about eating stuff in the wild; avoid anything too colorful unless its a fungus. Believe or not, most of the deadliest mushrooms are white, but that might be because most mushrooms are white period. In doubt, I can always rely on tasting it.

The problem about making a big sparkplug is, making something takes time. Plus the uncertainty -- it still can end up wasting lots of energy, or the entire thing can go off like a big firecracker.
It's not like I've done this before.

Building a lens is not really viable. I don't have glass. And no matter how you twist it, an LCD screen really won't do what you're thinking.

>>262387
Weasel, stop. You're coming up on some trees that have what could be more of those exploding bugs. They're just ahead, on your right. See them? The yellow things buzzing around those trees.

>>262387
[Construct a crude directional antenna out of an old telescope and use it to determine which planet Weasel's signal is coming from.]

That's grain, right?
Harvest some of it, and chew on the grains while you walk. It's not much, but it's something.

>>262387

Yeah, looks like potential hostiles at... 2 o'clock? Yeah, I think that's an appropriate number for the direction.

Check the trees right around you for anything, then if you can manage it, try to skirt around the yellow things and up that hill to your left. If that's to much with you bad leg, we'll have to set off in another direction.

I don't see what you guys are all worried about. That's just the way the OP draws trees, I think.

>>262476
It's what's probably grain that they're worried over, not the floating leaves

Well, if its grain she had better harvest it. Its grain cereals for dinner! Or bread, if we had some way of baking.

-- Weasel 2010/12/07(Tue)15:48 No. 262733 ID: 5e01fc
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I see no hostiles around here, thankfully.
I don't see much of anything, actually.

So far, I've seen no trees besides these small, plain types. The leaves just taste... like leaves, I guess.

Hmmn, bread.. yeah, bread would be pretty awesome.

>>262733
So, that was grain, not creep.

Unprocessed wheat will taste bitter, but you can live off of it. That will take care of your food, for now.

THEN BREAD YOU SHALL HAVE!!

Seeing as you lack yeast, you can have unleavened bread.
Make yourself a nice chizliken Tortilla.

For now though, continue to scout, find out as much about your surroundings as possible.

[Ok look guys, I called in some favours, found some guy that can run a delivery for us. He asks no questions but he ain't cheap.

All we need to do is give him the coordinates and goods.

Anybody got anything left from that starting deposit?]

>>262743
I can provide a level 1 medkit. It's civilian, but it's better than nothing.

[On another note, we should start mapping this, guys. Even shitty scribbles is better than nothing.]

Hey is that coal on the cliff face over there?

>>262743
[I've got some cash to spend, sure.]

>>262777
[And my axe!
I can scrounge up some dog food too, but if you know a guy who can make a delivery then why not just smuggle her back here?]

>>262843

We don't need a delivery guy. We need a small drone to deliver supplies.

>>262733
Well, you might gather the wheat while you're here. It's fairly better than leaves.
Are you okay with walking to that waterfall/sandy area next?

>>262743
Not much, but I'll chip in.
Also, we somehow have to make sure we send it to the right planet. The mission logs say she dies on her way to Parsson-4, and the feed logs state Parsson-5. What do we trust? I'd say the latter, since the former is likely to be falsified.

>>262863
>>262862
>>262843
>>262777
>>262746
>>262743
This is what happens when you allow RP in a quest; the players start taking over. Right now, do you mind this at all? Is this a good thing? are you ready to handle this?

>>262864
It's NOT allowed, which is why I called him on it.

See any trees bearing fruit, Weasel? Or any other possible edible flora?

Do you guys have any idea how hard it is to do orbital drops? Even allowing for a few hours of travel time, you need special drop pods if you don't want the payload to be slag when it hits the ground. Weasel is on her own, all we can do is offer advice and guidance.

-- Weasel 2010/12/08(Wed)03:32 No. 262889 ID: 5e01fc
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No real edible flora so far, only grass and leaves. I'm keeping an eye for nuts and fruits, but nothing so far.

This isn't coal, its more like... a weird type of fossil? Its like something died in here, and time crushed its carapace into gravel. The bits are kept together mostly by gravity and some light cement-like mix.

Mngh. I don 't know how nutritious this wheat is, but sure is bringing my appetite. It's pretty hard too, I'll be chewing this for most of the day. I guess it covers carbohydrates.

carapace? like the green types?

uh oh. we may need to get you digging asap.

>>262889
Step to the side and loosen the gravel. Let's see what's in there!

(flint?)

-- Weasel 2010/12/08(Wed)12:26 No. 262930 ID: 5e01fc
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Right. It's a good time to test the spike too.

After finding a notch to fit the stake, I hit it once and WHAT THE--

what the hell indeed

...what the hell is it? Some kind of larvae? Or a crystal?

what just happend?

Carefully examine the... thing.

>>262930
Poke it with the stick. Does it look like crystal, or a shell, maybe?

Lick it!

-- Weasel 2010/12/08(Wed)15:37 No. 262992 ID: 5e01fc
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Its crystalline for sure. Weights between a hundred and hundred-fifty kilos. Very lightly glossy, mostly waxy. Orange, well.... white lumps with orange veins. It feels like chert, but ... there's just something about it that screams fossil.

I'm not a geologist, I can't get much more in-depth than this. One thing I know, this thing can hold an edge. If I can get some of it, that is. Or find a smaller piece.

If you can find a piece to fashion a knife from it, you're pretty much set. A good survival knife can go a long ways.

>>262992
Chert is just low quality flint, so take any small pieces that you can find (or break off). As for the orange stuff... iron maybe?

EXTRACT IT ALL
LET THE SCIENCE BEGIN

attempt to scratch both the white ish part and the orange part.

if its (hopefully) not organic and you can get a good shard of it with relative ease to extract working blades.

if it is organic, lets hope its edible instead of some sort of explod-o-bug prey remains.

coming to think of it, it could be a egg...

It fell out of the hole in two chunks if Im not mistake, examine both for shards. If neither one is already broke then check the hole they came from before using your chisel on them. Use a piece of rock if the chisel fails.

Just examine it. It's not like you're in any danger.

...except that injury from that broken leg, that will hamper your running abilities.
Not to mention there is a chance that the wound might get infected and kill you through a long and protracted illness.

>>262992
Oh, uh, hm... I'm not a geologist either, but let us see if the mighty Fleet has found this rock before.

[search global database (or analogue thereof), keywords "crystal white orange veins" and "fossil white orange veins"]

-- Weasel 2010/12/09(Thu)05:22 No. 263101 ID: 5e01fc
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Organic or not, it definitely is very very hard.

A wooden stake couldn't do a thing to the rock, naturally.
Trying to chip it with my spade and the hammer made a very bright spark.
I think I can shape this with a hard enough stone, once I find one. But I'd spend a good part of a day doing it, and really should start with a smaller piece.

Scratching it I can feel it's, well, all part of the same stone. Maybe the iron -- assuming it is iron -- is just concentrated where the veins are.

About size, I'm sure I can stuff this in the plankpack.

>>263101

The name Royal Victoria or Imperial Beijing mean anything to you? Anyway, stash the stuff. We don't have a good view of the sky, so how much daylight do you think you have left?

[I think it's that guys crude satellite kicking in.]

Sparks? This could work like flint! Grab some, we can start a fire with it. Just need coal now... and we can have a ward to keep away the bugs.

Of course we also need food...

it cant be obsidian. lets name it "gatestone" because we all know what it will do.

>>263146

No, no, let's name it something classy. Like "Weaselnite".

>>263146
Care to enlighten the rest of us?

Make fire!

>>263174
in minecraft, you had a really difficult obsidian stone to process, requiring diamont tools only. when you make a gate with them, you link it automatically to hell

[survey drone, can you provide pictures of the planets and if the artist is kind, of the ships as well?]

Fire with this method = bad idea.

At least not for an extended period.

>>263101
Weasel, what can you tell us about how our communication setup works? It's not radio.
[Start to looking for her pod's beacon signal.]

-- Weasel 2010/12/10(Fri)11:14 No. 263424 ID: 5e01fc
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Uh... right.

I stash what I dug so far, the large rock, small rock... and maybe a half cubic metre of this fossilized gravel.

What do I do next, besides helping myself to another mouthful of grain?

... how the comm works? Aren't you-- is this some kind of test?

>>263424
Disregard that question.

>>263424
Just answer the question, Weasel.

Next, check out that waterfall. Any fish in it? Also... where does it go? It looks like it just flows over the sand and stops.

>>263424
Some of the Operators don't know how stuff works around here, Weasel. We're teaching them, so don't worry.

So, we have a means of starting fire, but we still need to get you fed. Do you see any plants other than that alien wheat? Something that LOOKS edible?

Use sparks, make fire.

You do know how to make a proper fire, right? Lay wood pieces in a tent-like arrangement over the kindling.

weasel do you know from where you were launched to the planet? the facility i mean.

you will need to cooperate with us. the video feed is live but there are a few discrepancies, you should not have energy for a long range radio feed and we dont know if you are using quantun links or radio relay to FTL comm-sattelites.

-- Weasel 2010/12/11(Sat)13:21 No. 263746 ID: 907423
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No, no fish.... it's just like a pond, the water is sucked down by the sand. No big deal.

... I think we agreed to leave fire making for when the sun goes down? You really think that's important now?

Ok, so its a test. Um.

I left Vila Brasilia and got dropped off at Royal Victoria, didn't even left the docks. There, someone of the Wartrack got me to my pod, and from there...
I only remember the landing. I wouldn't be surprised if they gave me something to sleep.

We're talking in realtime, maybe a few hundreds ticks delay? There must be a sat sitting up in low or high orbit relaying my signal. Maybe... four, five satellites retransmitting with some FTL tight beam method, like turbolasers or MW.
Instantaneous transmission by... quantum whatevers, I think that's still fiction.
And I'm sure the pod itself is transmitting no signals.. that might be a problem...

And really. If we were just on normal radio, my signal would take months to reach the fleet.

Is that enough?

... Um, where do I go look for food next? Or do I just go back to base? Or.. well, what's next?

If it's nearing night yet, gather up all the grain you can get to before heading back.

People cant digest grass, right? Weird thought crossed my mind.

well we cant digest chlorophila. im sure we should work on the grains, but for now, collect all the grains. we should re-work on a shelter.

also im assuming the data we have on you is actualy ok and we wont have any more interruptions because HQ is being dicks or WH wants to give us condolences.

[im calling on you admins. she never left the ship. but im fine with it.]

well, do you think you can take a flint to wherever you want to make a shelter? if you cant, we may need a method to carry fire to your shelter.

after collecting the grains, we will need to dig a new shelter to allow you to rest. since you dont have how to make a door or windows, i think we will need some sort of tent. can you get to the bushes on the top of the trees? it will be crude and windy, but if you can make a hole in the wall, it should last for a couple of days.

A treehouse would be vulnerable to any kinds of win, flammable, probbably unstable, and hard to reach, for both non existing wildlife and for you should you be wounded. a treehouse is not a good option for now.

Just use the wood you've gathered to reinforce the hillfort.

-- Weasel 2010/12/12(Sun)07:08 No. 263888 ID: 907423
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I have maybe an hour before the sun starts to set, at most. I can catch grain on my way to wherever I'll be going.

Starting on a shelter is a good idea, but where?

If I'm making a treehouse, I have some wood. Most trees around here are pretty small, we'll need to pick a real big one to do this. There's one near the pod, I built the fence under it, but maybe we can find an even larger one. I won't be able to build much due to tools, though... and it would be a fire hazard.

... if we're digging another hole, I have some wood. I won't be able to dig much with just a spade, but reinforcing with wood, I can make a nice cozy larger chamber with time. If it doesn't gets exploded again.

In both cases I need a [where]. Just say the word, and I'll do it; we visited plenty spots by now.

>>263888
ooooh oooh

I see a nice bisected sorta hill overthere! Generally, it's easier if you just sorta dig into a hill.

Hobbits had the right idea, yanno?

>>263888
Are those waterfalls in the distance? If you find one with dirt behind it then use the wood to divert the water while you dig a tunnel behind where it flows.
The water will block out any flying creatures, discourage any other fauna from trying to get in, and mask your scent.

>>263890
A fine plan. How about we do that with the waterfall we found right here?

Where the heck are all the small animals tho? We found one straight away but not a single one since.

Find the side of a hill and dig inward, reinforce the tunnel as you go, it doesn't have to be deep yet.

Eventually when you gain the means and have the need for it you can hallow out the entire hill. It makes for a good fort.
The like were used as bunkers somtimes.

whay why? you are in the perfect spot.

theres a renewable water source, trees arent too far and the wheat is somewhat abundant.

dig somewhat far from the waterfall, and if you find stone, dig alongside it, making L shaped rooms.

>>263890
Sounds like a good idea. One thing though: how cold does it get after sunset? If we're doing the waterfall thing, Weasel should start right about now so that she doesn't end up soaked through by the time it's cold enough to pose a danger.

>>263898
More like it found Weasel, not vice versa. Maybe chicken-lizards only crawl out during the night.

>>263917
im still thinking most life forms were ment to be underground because of the bu-

god damm. the trees do not bear fruit or nuts because they are underground. if we ever find the time, dig around their roots, we may find a prize.

>>263889

Create Hobbit Hole.

-- Weasel 2010/12/13(Mon)06:36 No. 264139 ID: 907423
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[Time: Day 2, Sunset]

AAAGHGARBLLBGABL
THIS IS NOT AS EASY AS YOU MADE IT SEEM!
GAFBGABRRLLLGAHBLLLL

>>264139
don't worry overmuch about getting wet. Just keep digging.

>>264139
You could dig a tunnel beside the waterfall, get into the hill, then dig back out to the water before plugging the original hole?

Then you stay dry, too. Don't want to catch a cold.

im sorry, im loling too hard to come up with a better solution asides dig on the side of the waterfall

i can see a entrance on the waterfall collapsing as well. maybe we should save that for when we can set some stone arch to prevent that from happening.

...didn't we say to divert the water flow with the wood?

-- Weasel 2010/12/14(Tue)06:30 No. 264333 ID: 907423
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.. I'm wet, tired, and the sun's almost down.
I dug very little, I know. I've hit rock too soon...

The new hole behind the waterfall isnt' much bigger than the first one, but works. Having wood was crucial to keep the entrance from falling apart, but I should move into something more suited to hold it together soon.

One thing came to me while working this wood. If these trees follow normal rules, they won't bear fruit. Softwoods don't flower.

This is good, don't worry.

See if you can chip away at the stone in the back before you get to sleep.

yeah, no actual digging, just see if it's diggable. if so then you can make it better later.

>>264333
Damn, looks like we are going to have to shape you into a mining, hunting machine then miss. Hope you enjoy meat... still, we will have to eventually find a source of certain vitamins somehow. Perhaps brewing a kind of tea from the leaves of various herbs?

maybe the tree roots will have some edible tubers on them?

-- Weasel 2010/12/15(Wed)11:16 No. 264557 ID: 907423
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[Time: Day 2, Evening]

Hmn. I managed to chip a very small piece with some hammering.

The rock ain't soft. Its grainy, kind of like limestone, but gives in to the wooden tools. And makes quite some dust.

To know if the roots of the trees around have something, I'd have to uproot one. That.. is not simple.

I don't know why I would have a problem with meat, it's like, part of a standard meal. But now you got me thinking about where our meat comes from.
...Hunting means having to make a weapon. And knowing when to hunt. And getting care of not being hunted.

... it's pretty damp in here. And the sun's almost down by now.

ok then, return to old base and make a fire, you can finish fixing up this place tomorrow.

We dont need a fire here, the water will keep us from being found by any bugs.

Get some rest, tomorrow you should see if fire does repell the bugs, if it does, you could use it to scare them away from their hive. It's possible there's an easily accessable "goldmine" of neutrience waiting for you in them.

when, and if, we find huntables we will consider hunting.

for now we need a source of light to explore the cave and possibly a furnance/grain crushing device to bake the grains.

yeah, hunke down in here and get some safe sleep.

Stay in here, it's a perfect shelter.

Hmm. I think you should consider checking out the night wildlife actually. Can you make a weapon of any sort with the materials on hand right now? Stay up a little past sunset and let's see if we can hunt something.

The leaving and fire bit is not to ward of predators so much as getting her and her clothes dry.

Working under a waterfall for the better part of the day then sleeping a few feet behind said waterfall on the cold, damp floor is a great way to get sick, and other than the fact that I don't want her to get sick, she has to meds to help her out.

A cold can kill if not treated, people forget that because of modern medicine.

ah, okay that is a legit reason.

-- Weasel 2010/12/17(Fri)05:01 No. 264901 ID: 907423
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Hmn... the sparks are too cold. Charred the wood a bit, not enough energy to ignite it. Should've brought some dry leaves or something...

Yeah.... I'll watch the wildlife from here. Kinda damp, but I'll be fine. Nothing to worry about.

...safe from those bees...

-- Weasel 2010/12/17(Fri)05:02 No. 264902 ID: 907423
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[Time: Day 2, Midnight]

[oh god we are playing 7 errors again]

Should have made a blanket out of leaves or something.

Arguable Complexity 2010/12/17(Fri)14:44 No. 264949 ID: 3aa0a4
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>>262747
Shitty scribbles, as suggested. Lander pod surroundings are awfully off scale to everything else, and each new site might be as close as depicted or several hours of walking away, it wasn't very clear with the shots we got.

>>264940
Unless Weasel knows magic, I don't think we have anything to hold leaves together. Besides, she just dug up a cave, give her some rest. Without proper meals, she should get every hour of sleep she can afford.

>>264949
I got to thinking about that weird sandy pit we found, the man-made looking one. Maybe it was a cave that collapsed under the weight of the sand?

Perhaps it might be a good, flat place to build a rael shelter when we get around to it? We should explore more that way.

[that sand pit is a error in the mine-matrix.]

[nothing could naturally cause such a perfect cut to the landscape. the sand only makes it worse, as theres literally nothing that could simply turn stone to sand or even from where it would come.]

[save very agressive bacteria, teleport and possibly some form of super advanced energy drainer, there is literally nothing that could explain that. since weasel is still alive, no radio contact were made and no "monolith" was found, we are inside a simulation.]

if we find vines we can make a sleeping net. with leaves all we can really make is fire. the branches could make a bed, but we would need the stuffing still.

[also is it only me or the branch is still quite... green?]

-- Comm 2010/12/18(Sat)04:00 No. 265060 ID: 907423
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[Time: Day 2, Night]
[Target 'Weasel': No change]

Hey Falc. I'm sending you the package back.

Things are a chaos in the Wartrack. Nobody's allowed to take trips to the planets; no drones, no people, no nothing.

Reason's pretty weird too. The guys at Beijing are fucking up hard with the astronometrics; now the data's saying the fourth planet's somewhere around arcminute thirteen eight-hundred; seriously, anyone with a 'scope can see they're at least ten minutes off in that reading. Word's that a girl died when trusting their data.

They say they're readjusting their 'scopes for the fourth time this week. In the meantime, Victoria's not allowing anyone to make a move, even if you're at the space rock's orbit and can see it from your goddamned window.

I don' know man. This is fucked up.

Vizzini out.

[Time: Day 3, Sunrise]

[oh its not a simulation, but actual warp disruption? so the square was made by some sort of matter converter reactor?]

[are we supposed to have a first contact?]

Rise And Shine Miss Weasel...

Rise... and Shine...

so how is the leg, your back and your hunger? ready for some hopping around?

>>265060
[Yea, thought somn like that would happen. Thanks Vizzini]

Let's go Weasel, we need to get you some food.

This is the plan
[Build simple stone oven]

Get flour
[gather wheat]
[Thresh wheat (beat it against hard surface)]
[separate wheat from chaff(throw into air)]
[mill wheat]

Get Yeast
[Put some flour and sugar in warm water]
[gonna take a few days before it's ready (-_-") unless this planet is awesome]

MAKE BREAD
[tell u that later]
[until the yeast is ready you can make crackers or unleavened bread.]

You should have some nice fresh bread by the end on the week. Should take maybe a session per day.

Perhaps a sleep in is in order? Additional rest may help injuries heal faster. Then again, malnutrition will not... Reccomend doing a quick check of injuries and hunger level. If hunger/thirst is at acceptable levels for short-term, then resting till mid-day, or returning and resting as soon as any negitive impact of activity on injuries is detected.

Also, give your splint a look-over, it may have shifted or loosened while you slept.

>>265089

Issue: Where are we getting sugar?

>>265089
Yeast is not required. Going all the way to bread adds no nutritional content and little digestibility. Yeast is temperamental and difficult to work with, and if she has a ready source of sugar it would be better for her caloric intake to eat it herself. This is a survival situation, no comfort work until all basic needs are met. Follow steps for flour, combine with water, eat nutritious whole-grain paste. Later maybe you can work on hot rock baking, and make tortillas.

There should be some foods burried only a bit underground, possibly some in the water. The hives of the bugs should also contain stuff you can eat.

You have a shelter, building a better hide-out can wait, we have to focus on other things.
I personally think we should use a torch or such, if they scare off the bugs it would allow us free and easy access to their hive.

We should sharpen a stick in case we need meat. Gotta get that protein somehow.

-- Weasel 2010/12/18(Sat)13:16 No. 265119 ID: 907423
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Mmmmng~ oh, I think I overslept...

And I agree. Eating grain whole is just too much work. Processing a bunch into something more edible and not worrying about food for a few days sounds great.

Time to evaluate our options. Mmn...

Unleavened gruel or not, to work wheat I'm going to [need a stone surface]. Maybe I can dig out a block of something from a cliff or something... or I could [[/b]dig here[/b]]. I am with my back against some rock. And since I've got wood, I can actually expand the place.

Or, I could go back to [exploring and gathering], maybe find space potatoes, or hunt for game. [Could make a spear]. I'd have to make a tip for it, and maybe I can fasten with wire.

Fighting the bugs... it would at least get me rid of that problem. [Going back there would be a pretty walk.

I don't know. As long as everything works out, I'm game for everything. What's--

... am I seeing this?

Depends, are you talking about how the tree seems to be rapidly growing from just a stick? If so then yes, we are seeing it too. Seems they reproduce by budding.

>>265060
*sigh* There go my vacation plans. Why does it take forever for any news to get here?
Thanks for the heads up, Vizzini.

>>265119
What do you see? I see a splint that rooted down into soil and grew leaves overnight. I don't recall being a victim of malnutrition, so logic states it's real.

Ironic, isn't it? If trees here bore any fruit here, we could have a freakin' plantation in no time.

I suggest we abstain from hunting for now, what with your limited mobility and all. If you can work rock to make a flat surface, then do it, but do it outside just next to the shelter. If we ever start cooking anything on that surface, we want good ventilation.

>>265126
I agree. No cooking indoors.

Well actually you could block the waterfall temporarily while cooking, to let the smoke out. That would work.

Interesting.

Anyways, we don't need to fasten a tip to a spear; we just need to find a sturdy length of wood and sharpen the tip.

In that vein of thought, how does spear fishing sound?

[exploring and gathering]

Between those food options, the grinding of wheat has the advantage of not being risky. We have the wheat already, veggies and meat are far from sure things. Let's look for them when we have some reliable carbs that are easier to eat than rocks to help us do it.

i was kinda right. the whole fauna and flora was adapted to explosive bugs. maybe the strange orange iron stone you got was related to a life form somehow.

the trees breed trhu explosions. this should also means they make poor fire maybe even when dry.

id say we need to make a stone surface. expand your shelter, and make a proper place for a bed as well. how is your leg? you should drop the stick if you are fine, maybe begin a small farm outside.

-- Weasel 2010/12/19(Sun)06:43 No. 265258 ID: 907423
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[Time: Day 3, Morning]

Ugh. There goes a good portion of my day.

Chipping a whole block of stone without letting it fall was a challenge. This stone fragments easier than I thought. In addition to the large block, I collected an entire cubic metre of cobble-sized stone. Maybe one or two are actually tool-grade material here, but really -- Now I can think about sharpening sticks.

Once more, I thank modern technology for the plankpack. Just say the word, and I'll lay this wherever you want.

I don't like to say 'life adapted to explosive bugs', but yes -- that explains why these trees are everywhere. If it tried to root itself in one night... I wonder how quickly it could grow.
...I really don't like the thought of those bugs being the dominant species. They'd displace everything.

My leg's -- ... ... fiiiiiiiine... just need to not put weight on it yet...

the first rule of survival is to obtain more calories than you spend, you're spending a ton carving out solid rock. We need food, easily accessably food, that means anything that grows on bushes and in bunches, or in this case, a hive of insects that, if afraid of fire as we already theorised (and is likely), is free game.
Bread is nice, but it takes too much effort short term.

Get the fucking hive.

One wonders what they produce to feed their young. Creeper honey?

>>265261
Good idea, we should investigate that.

Problem is, they probably don't react to smoke like bees... this is going to be a pain in the ass to test

>>265261
That idea crossed my mind too. However, do you really want to scare them off with a torch?
"Hey, look, it's working! The marker bugs are afraid of fire! Yay! Wait, is that an exploder bug?" BOOM! One fried engineer.

im pretty confident that smoke may set them to explode against what is releasing the smoke.

weaver should pay attention to the enviroment. it is unlikely a type of bug or grass hasnt developed a hunting strategy based on some sort of explosion prevention system. with luck, it will be hormonal and we can make anti explosive spray.

well im guessing you still have some of the wheat. its time to expand the cave and make a workbench as well.

-- Weasel 2010/12/20(Mon)12:48 No. 265456 ID: 4e6b6b
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[Time: Day 3, Noon]
Treshed and smashed. Had to use one of the cobbles to smash it right. We're looking at 20-something blades worth of space wheat flour... kinda tired to know how much...

... I'm tired... and hungry. I know, wasted alot of energy in this... but its something I just needed to do once.

Now, I know you changed your mind and wanted me to go for the bees for a moment. I just wanted to wait until you were sure that's what I should do. Because, I should. You know...

... they're scary.

>>265456
T_T

Don't worry Weasel.
We won't send you over there again for now.

We will find something else.

>>265456
we are not going there until we get a bow, arrow and a means to lit the arrow on fire.

forget the bees, you arent even healed.

go wash your exaustion away. all of it, even the workbench if possible.

later on we should make tools to work on wood, with haste, a axe that can also serve for self defense.

oh you should also try to start a fire.

try the leaves of the tree first, but make a decent distance from your new shelter. if the leaves dont act like napalm, they should have quite a effect on the bugs.

either you get yourself a meal today and in the night check if the bees are attracted or frightend of fire, if attracted, you'll make a nice crater and it'll blow up the hive anyways.
If frightened, you can use it to obtain food.

In the night they should be more capable of seeing it so the result would be clearer. Just carry on doing whatever it is youre doing for now.

>>265456
If trees grow this fast, one has to wonder if the wheat is the same. Lets see if we can't get a little farm going with the rest of the afternoon. Collect a few more grains and plant them near your shelter. Not having to wander around collecting individual stalks will save a lot of time and energy in the future.

Meat protien is better for energy density, but you can survive almost indefinetely on grain and water, and grain doesnt explode or fight back or run away.

>>265464
well id just like to say this is a fine idea

but dont place anything near the shelter. i dont wanna discover the weat is like candy to them and suddenly theres a colony near our farm.

Add some water to your ground wheat. Make a wheat bran porridge. Lots of carbs, and it will clean out your colon.

Don't be ridiculous. We aren't going to go near the exploding insects.

We need to set up a cooking stone, so you can make some flat bread. I'd recommend you do that next.

Hang on, Weasel. We're doing what we can.

[I think it's better to not tell her that our hands are tied due to the lockdown yet.]

Definitely a yes on planting the wheat.

>you can survive almost indefinetely on grain and water
While this is true, let's not forget we already have to deal with a broken leg. Recovering from this requires more than a barely sufficient amount of carbs and vitamins.

>>265461
The problem I see with this is that setting the hive on fire (from a safe distance away) will blow it up together with the bugs and whatever nutrient stuff could be there.

I think our best bet about finding new food is the dark and dank and sinister cave, for which we need a light source.
Bugs could help us with that. If the marker liquid is anything like animal/insect musk we know from other worlds, it's at least partially flammable.

>>265464
oh yah... farming is the choice to make.

-- Weasel 2010/12/21(Tue)06:04 No. 265551 ID: cd2cf9
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Note to self; as soon as we find some kind of fiber, we need to make a sack. Plankpacks can't store flour on the raw, certainly for the same reason it can't just store water without a bottle. For now, what I did was to tie up one of my top's sleeves to use it as a bag.

The leaves around here do not ignite easily... a good sign. Or the flint-alike we found is too cold.
It still leaves them with charred marks. I place a bunch of leaves I pick from the grass on the rock, that'll dry them up until nightfall. Then we can try that again.

Yes, I know a few things about farming. They taught that in Bio-Maintenance. I'll have to produce a hoe, pick, something to turn and clear the dirt. I think I can make something with the wood.

If farming it is, just tell me the where. If we're doing it here at all.
Hmn, now I think of it, I think I'll have to set some kind of irrigation up. I don't think I can count on the rain in this planet. The skies' been too clear for three days straight.

Redirecting the waterfall might not work so well. It'll end my protection.

>>265551
you also shouldnt have it flooded always. i suggest along the sandline, where you can dig in a bit more to make a water stream follow the farm line.

>>265551

>>265555 , and obviously, the farther from the mountainside you plant, the more sun the crops will get, and the harder it'll be tending to them (what with distance being an issue). Find the balance that suits you.

>>265551
Redirect the waterfall BELOW your shelter.

>>265551
>>265578
Plant above the cliff. Make a shunt that could temporarily redirect water to your field until it is wet enough. This will preserve your shelter, water your field, and give it maximum sunlight and minimum distance from you. Optimal configuration.

>>265615
I concur with this fine chap.

Just be sure not to plant them to close to one another.

>>265551
>tree stump on the left
Uh, company.