Colony Planet AU794

[greencloak]

Easing out his cramps as best he could from the cramped confines of the landers' living quarters, Greenberg put on a basic raincoat and made his way to the fabricator. "Better get a move on if we want decent crops anytime soon," he said to himself, struggling to see past the fat raindrops sliding down his glasses.

[Roll to fabricate an organic compound to remove the copper oxide from the soil]

Rolled 2d6: 2,4

[NauticalMongoose]

Lorenzo isn't much for the weather, but it's tolerable enough. He wanders outside, wearing his large sombrero to block out the rain. He gazes at the pile of fruits thoughtfully.

"Greenberg, if you're done with that fabricator maybe we can analyze these fruits and plants we found? You know, so that they don't accidentally poison us." That would be bad, and he would have to take righteous vengeance on the forest by burning some more of it.

"And where the hell are all the animals?"

Send scouting team to look for animals:

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

[Cataphrak]

[[I assume the refiner parts have been fabbed and are awaiting construction?]]

Hossie surveyed the progress on the meeting hall/church from atop the cube. Things seemed to be going well, however, the lack of competence some of the colonists showed seemed worrying. This was no fault of theirs, of course. Hossie had seen it before: enthusiastic amateurs who had no training doing jobs meant for experienced professionals. Every Browning executive knew enough stories of those sorts of disasters, disasters with names like The Chauchat and the Ross Rifle. Clearly, this needed to be rectified quickly. Legs dangling comfortably over the top edge of the cube, the ex-executive brought up his dataslate.

"Now, let's get ouah prioritiehs in ordah..."

Farming was a big priority. That Marras fellah's paperwork said "Seville", which meant, at least, he wasn't an illegal. Besides, he seemed to know that he was doing when it came to farming, if not land clearance. Building was going to be big too. If he wanted Dunham to get things done on time, then Dunham needed trained folk with good, strong arms to get the job done.

Hossie pulled himself up and went towards the ladder, looked like he had some conscripting to do.

Roll to get volunteers, and send them to Lorenzo for training as agricultural workers.

Rolled 1d6 : 2, total 2

Rolled 1d6 : 5, total 5

Roll to get volunteers, and send them to Conall for training as construction workers.

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

[Jfan999]

[[I assume the refiner parts have been fabbed and are awaiting construction?]]

((That is correct. Just a reminder to everyone, we're trying to move everything along faster now, so post your actions for the day instead of individual actions.))

[kultz]

"Ahh. A brand new day! The sun is shining, the trees are singing, and the filthy assistant is looking as spiffy as ever!"

"Time for a physical exam!"

Make my rounds, checking colonists' health as I go. Keep eye out for injuries.

Rolled 1d6 : 5, total 5

Rolled 1d6 : 6, total 6

[Iron Wall]

After determining how much work will remain, Conall sends the men back to work on the hall. He spends the remainder of the day walking around the edges of the work, making sure to check all the work done as he isn't sure how skilled his workers are yet. He occasionally steps in to assist with the work himself, showing the men and women how it's done.

[Roll to GIT'ER'DOOOONE.]

Rolled 1d6 : 1, total 1

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

[Jfan999]

>get mooks to put on tracking beads, and give them alarm beads. just to keep an eye on them should anything go awry.
>set up barrels and buckets etc. for water collection.
>monitor the fabbers.
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Rolled 1d6 : 6, total 6
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Rolled 1d6 : 5, total 5
also, while i'm there: use inorganic fabber to craft machetes, for recon [hopefully] tomorrow.

Your mooks encounter no danger today.
You set up several buckets and barrels they are filled with rain water.
You keep a close eye on the fabbers no one unauthorized try's to use them, you also make several machetes.

Roll to get volunteers, and send them to Lorenzo for training as agricultural workers.
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Rolled 1d6 : 2, total 2
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Rolled 1d6 : 5, total 5

Roll to get volunteers, and send them to Conall for training as construction workers.
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Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4
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Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

you send 5 volunteers to Lorenzo and 4 to Conall.

[Roll to see how much longer we'll need to work to finish it]
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Rolled 1d6 : 6, total 6
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Rolled 1d6 : 3, total 3
[Roll to GIT'ER'DOOOONE.]
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Rolled 1d6 : 1, total 1
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Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

You estimate with the rain it will take about a day to finish the building with your current man power. When Hossie sends you more men to be trained you find that you can not pay as close attention to your original workers as such at the end of the day the meeting, while mostly done, is roofless.

Send scouting team to look for animals: This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

you send the men that Hossie sent to you out into the forest to look for animals, they return hours later rather banged up talking about a large predator that they barely escaped from.

[Roll to fabricate an organic compound to remove the copper oxide from the soil]

Rolled 2d6: 2,4

You fabricate something to remove the copper oxide, but it takes a lot of time, as well as trial and error. You work all day and expend one unit of organic matter.

Make my rounds, checking colonists' health as I go. Keep eye out for injuries.
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Rolled 1d6 : 5, total 5 This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 1d6 : 6, total 6

In the late afternoon several men come to you with minor scrapes and bruises claiming to have escaped from some of the planets natural fauna. You easily patch them up using minimal supplies.

END OF DAY 2

DAY 3
weather: intermittent rain
overnight events: In the morning large tracks are found around the lander.
Current colony stats:

Spoiler for Colony stats::

machinery: Nano fabricator (organic),Nano fabricator (inorganic), Refiner
Structures: standard colony lander, church/meeting hall (in-progress),  farm land (in-progress)
resources: 989 units organic material, 997 units inorganic material, 80 gallons fuel
vehicles: 2 exploration vehicles, 4 heavy construction vehicles, 1 planet crusher
population: 100
fabricated equipment: 50 coffee makers, 10 chainsaws+ fuel, 20 water filters and kettles, 10 machetes.
Day:3

[greencloak]

The next day, Greenberg met up with Lorenzo to discuss the usage of the compound. "Spread it over the soil in small clumps, no need to put too much of it in one spot. In a few hours, the copper oxide should combine with the compound and turn into loose material, in the form of solid white stones - dig those up, and you'll be good to go."
Greenberg nodded thoughtfully as Lorenzo relayed the news of the wild animal that the scouting party had encountered. "Mmm, that might be related to the tracks spread around the lander's perimeter. Odds are, the local fauna that were scared off by our landing have come back, and they're curious. They might be back again soon - keep your patrols together, don't let them venture more than half a kilometer away from the camp. Safety first."
He cracked his knuckles. "Now then, time to get to those fruits and vegetables your men found." Good thing he came to me before they tucked in, Greenberg thought as he headed towards the fruit pile. He's impulsive, but there's hope for him yet.

[Roll to analyze the fruit pile for half the day, then roll to spend the other half examining the tracks around the lander and hypothesize on the fauna that made said tracks]

Rolled 2d6: 1, 3

Rolled 2d6: 5, 5

[captaincommunism]

start recon (self + 2 mooks, leave mook back at base)

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

Rolled 1d6 : 1, total 1

mark trees for future removal.
Survey land for anything of interest (possible food sources, native metals [gold, etc], coal deposits), make note of good ground for construction.

Rolled 1d6 : 1, total 1

[captaincommunism]

...well, it looks like Ralph eated the purple berries.
what do they taste like ralph?
"burning."

[kultz]

"Filthy assistant, I have every reason to believe that the local creatures are terribly dangerous. Come help me test these animal poisons."
Obtain descriptions of local fauna from workers, guess at biological traits, try to make poison.

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

Rolled 1d6 : 5, total 5

[Cataphrak]

Hossie stopped as he passed the open door. Inside were a handful of colonists, obviously scratched up. Quickly, he recognized them as the volunteers he'd sent to Marras.

"Y'all right folks?"

One of the colonists looked up.

"We should be, assuming that crazy doctor guy gets it right and doesn't poison us or something. Just a few scratches and sprains, nothing too serious."

"Ahlraight then. Still, put some fabbah taim intah making some disintectant. Gotta be carehful 'round these pahts."

"Yessir, thank you sir."

"What exactly was it that gaht you folk, aneh-how?"

"Big fucker, didn't get a chance to see it. Size of a cow, maybe a horse. We ran all the way back here, as fast as we could."

Hossie nodded solemnly. Clearly this world was more dangerous than they had thought. Anybody who left the dubiously safe confines of the colony would need more protection.

"Yeh did good son. Y'all did good. Ah'll be back in a minute, got somethin' for y'all."

Roll to fabricate 4x Browning S-Mart Specials and 24 shells each.

Rolled 1d6 : 1, total 1

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

Roll to teach the colonists basic gun safety from that stupid tour he used to give investors back when he was in marketing.

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

Rolled 1d6 : 6, total 6

 

[Iron Wall]

With the rain pouring into the building all night, Conall knew he'd have a massive pain in the ass problem to deal with when he woke up. Sure enough, the ad hoc church/meeting hall was now the home to a low lake which had to be emptied out. Easy work, but a massive pain in the ass, he thought to himself as he scratched his head, coffee in hand. Small droplets still fell onto him from the sky, but hell, he was a Vancouver boy for a good portion of his life - this could hardly be called rain.

He looked over the building as his workers slowly filed out of the lander and got to work on the roofing, the last remaining part. He had purposely kept the crew of workers a bit smaller this time, as he didn't figure on needing dozens of experienced roofers, and it'd be easier to ensure a quality job with fewer people.

"Right boys and girls, we're just about done here. Once we're through we'll fab up some decorations for the place and then have a grand opening or something. I'm sure Hossie will want to say a few words. For now, lets get to work."

He nodded cheerfully to his crew, and scrambled up onto the roof to join them and help out with all the work.

"Careful you don't fall - the roof will be a mite slippery from all the rain, and while the ground is soft, if you break a bone and can't help finish the work I'm not going to be too impressed."

Most of the workers responded to his warning with good-natured jeers and laughter, brought together by the hard work of construction, and he grinned, accepting the friendly mockery for what it was.

[Roll to FINISH... THAT... ROOOOOOOF!]

Rolled 1d6 : 2, total 2

Rolled 1d6 : 1, total 1

[After the roof is finished, Conall will consult with Hossie and fabricate some appropriate interior decoration, trying to keep it sensible and not ridiculously ornate or religious.]

[NauticalMongoose]

Lorenzo starts his morning by talking to the sheriff (or trying to) about the predator problem. "We may need to set up defences," he stipulates. "The governor is already training some of the colonists, but only your men are dedicated solely to security."

After that he talks with Greenberg, very pleased that he's found a solution to the chemical problem. The conquest of this planet for mother Earth can now begin in earnest!

Apply the compound:

Rolled 1d6 : 3, total 3

Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4

Till the soil:

Rolled 1d6 : 1, total 1

Rolled 1d6 : 3, total 3

[captaincommunism]

in relation to Lorenzo's comments, (retroactively) Bones says:
"I'll leave the shotgun with Frank over here. He'll shoot if anything comes a knocking."
((IF predator comes along, rollin' for frank.))
Chk-chk

Rolled 1d6 : 6, total 6

Rolled 1d6 : 1, total 1

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