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Repair the Radio It took some doing, and the casing is shot so it's not safe to pull it out of the cave, but Armo's got the radio working again. He's taken over the project of listening for signals; the signal that Lily had earlier received appears to no longer be broadcasting. 
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Barnaby's March Barnaby and the boys return from their trek, having a stronger knowledge of the lay of the land. In particular, they've located several excellent spots for keeping watch, caves for hiding in, and an old stretch of railroad track that works suitable well as a northern border. Barnaby seems proud, but in private he still walks with a slump. We're safer, but nobody's forgotten the sudden coldness with which he executed the last soldier. 
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Autumn - Week 12quote:The strongest among you dies. What caused the death? We should have seen it coming. There was only a limited supply of ammunition; we couldn't have tested each round, couldn't have known that some had been damaged by exposure to the elements. Maybe Lily would have known, before. She was always so careful, so fastidious. But since her withdrawal, her return... she started missing small details. She may have been careless. She may have just been unlucky. But her gun misfired, and as she was trying to figure out what went wrong, somehow the chamber exploded. The shrapnel went right through her eye. It was... quick. we hope it was painless. Action: Discover Something New: In scavenging some of the possessions that were left behind when the Parish made room on their craft for our food, one of the Wayfarers found an old book, almost pristine. He doesn't seem to grasp its contents, but the old ones remember having faith.   Projects: Abundances: salvageable machinery, weaponry, Scarcities: water, shelter, family, non-perishable food, perishable food Contempt: Tyrannosaurus (1), DivineCoffeeBinge (2), Bad Seafood (0), Liquid Communism (1)
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Autumn - Week 13 quote:Harvest is here and plentiful. Add an abundance.  Action: Start a Project: The holy book discoverd by the Wayfarers is filled with a curious foreign scrawl. Armo can't shake the feeling he's seen it all somewhere before. With the permission of the elders, he takes the book to translate its secrets.  (added those train tracks, finally) Projects: translation (4) Abundances: salvageable machinery, weaponry, warm winter clothes Scarcities: water, shelter, family, non-perishable food, perishable food Contempt: Tyrannosaurus (1), DivineCoffeeBinge (2), Bad Seafood (0), Liquid Communism (1)
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Winter - Week 1quote:Someone goes missing. They're alone in the winter elements. No one ever hears from that person again. Winter has arrived, seizing the island in an icy fist with neither warning nor mercy. It comes without warning, like a wolf in the night, and we awaken to ice on the water buckets and the foreboding grey cloud wall of the first winter storm rolling in across the ocean. In the scramble to get everything stored in the face of the storm, no one thinks to check on Sasha. By the time they do, he is nowhere to be found.  Action: Start a Project: The winter is here. No matter what they tried, we cannot simply watch the Parish slowly freeze on their ship in the harbor. The Elders, weary as they are, wish to seek Peace. Projects: translation (3), making peace (2) Abundances: salvageable machinery, weaponry, warm winter clothes Scarcities: water, shelter, family, non-perishable food, perishable food Contempt: Tyrannosaurus (1), DivineCoffeeBinge (2), Bad Seafood (0), Liquid Communism (1) Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Jun 15, 2017 |
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Winter - Week 2quote:What is winter like in this area? How do community members react to the weather? It's cold. It's always cold. But it's rarely bad enough to shut down the ports. Not that we expect any tourists. Are there still such things in this world? We look to the young ones carrying weapons and despair knowing that there certainly aren't any children here.  Action: Start a project: Not-Mathew wants to help. He says he worked the radio back in the army. He says he can help. Not just finding signals but potentially translating code, too. Nobody has enough energy to be worried anymore.  Projects: translation (2), making peace (1), Working out the radio code (2) Abundances: salvageable machinery, weaponry, warm winter clothes Scarcities: water, shelter, family, non-perishable food, perishable food Contempt: Tyrannosaurus (1), DivineCoffeeBinge (2), Bad Seafood (0), Liquid Communism (1)
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Winter - Week 3quote:An infected outsider arrives, seeking amnesty. The wanderer was dragging the carcass of a deer; they could have fed many of us. But his face was blistered and cracked. No one could trust him. Not after the soldiers, and the islanders, and the Parish. Everyone attacks us, everyone betrays. Even our pillars, our guardians, Lily, Old Taigo, they can't be trusted to remain. Not-Mathew is expected to turn out to be a saboteur any day now. The young threw rocks at the wanderer until he left. The old just praised them for not wasting bullets, and tried to quiet the rumblings of their stomachs.  Action - Start A Discussion: "Why do we go on? Why not just give up?" Projects: translation (1),  making peace (0), Working out the radio code (1)Abundances: salvageable machinery, weaponry, warm winter clothes Scarcities: water, shelter, family, non-perishable food, perishable food Contempt: Tyrannosaurus (1), DivineCoffeeBinge (2), Bad Seafood (0), Liquid Communism (1)
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"Give up what, exactly? The roof? That's stupid. It's snowing outside."
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Jun 15, 2017 17:43
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"What, just lie down and die? World wants to kill us anyway, might as well make it work for it."
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"My father was a preacher before the war. Before he died, he said to me 'Even if there is no God, we should still do good by one another, for that is the only world worth living in.' While we still draw breath, let us struggle together to make something of ourselves. Even if all we create is our own tombstone, let it say that we perished as friends and human beings, not chattel, cowards, or bullies."
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