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[Tech Noir]

Scrap one marriage... minto dumped Heidi, and he got the custody over Demonic

Accepted a scholar

Neat stats, but since she had the same ability as wyzzrd, was worried that she'll develop the same condition

First mechanoid raid

Didn't like that boomalopes were hanging around in the killbox, we may waant to tame them later, but oh well

Only one caught the bullet and went off. The mechs were scrapped.

The Ediots bought a seed of a weird flesh eating tree from a passing caravan, and now it was growing at the area designated for corpse dumping. No need to molotov the stiffs, very convenient.

Bunch of shamblers showed up, but didn't attack. These had a 3 days decomposition timer, so I just confined the Ediots to the fort, no real need for any resources outside of the walls.

A second yttakin raid, dropped in the barracks

Luckily none of them had explosives and they were dispatched easily, only the newly recruited waster prisoner was injured.

I researched and made antibiotics, but didn't designate the regular interval for everyone to take them, so we had to cases of malaria

A pack of enraged elephants, just in time to replenish the dwindling food stockpile.

A distress call was received from a camp owned by the neanderthals, and since the cotton was harvested and armor made, decided to tame 2 alpacas for pack animals, and then sent 3 Ediots to check it out.

The Ediots arrived there, and encountered... flesh. Flesh growing like a tumor and devouring the entire settlement.

And anyone who could have shed a light on what happened here was long gone

The Ediots were attacked by some kind of abominations

Just when they were taken out, another wave of them appeared from a nearby hole in the ground and for a moment the situation looked quite dire

They were taken down, but the ammo was running out

A disgusting sack of flesh that seemed like it was supposed to digest and feed everything around it was blown to bits, another shard recovered from it.

Two holes that were spewing monstrosities were filled in, and not noticing anything else of interests, I sent the Ediots back to the colony. We really need to manufacture some flamethrowers.

 

[Tech Noir]

27 torts, not a problem for Ediots

But they massacred a group of beggars that showed up on their doorstep

So the Ediots had to run a rescue operation

With all the Ediots armed and armored, and 3 fresh recruits, it was time. Heidi was sent out to examine the monolyth.

And this officially sets the Ediots on the path to their next victory goal, what this exactly is, is still unclear, but it has horrors beyond their comprehension or something, idk

Meanwhile, the harbinger tree kept munching on the corpses, and produced more of its species

And year 5 started

There are 4 new Ediots. One of them is baseliner with brawler and psychopath traits, so I took the liberty of renaming him to 'Mr. Gask'. The others are yours to name:
our male genie with a new heart, a kind female waster with farming talent, and a baseliner good with animals.

 

[tasuviyo]

27 torts, not a problem for Ediots

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But they massacred a group of beggars that showed up on their doorstep

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So the Ediots had to run a rescue operation

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With all the Ediots armed and armored, and 3 fresh recruits, it was time. Heidi was sent out to examine the monolyth.

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And this officially sets the Ediots on the path to their next victory goal, what this exactly is, is still unclear, but it has horrors beyond their comprehension or something, idk

Meanwhile, the harbinger tree kept munching on the corpses, and produced more of its species

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And year 5 started

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There are 4 new Ediots. One of them is baseliner with brawler and psychopath traits, so I took the liberty of renaming him to 'Mr. Gask'. The others are yours to name:
our male genie with a new heart, a kind female waster with farming talent, and a baseliner good with animals.

Name the genie Tasuviyo, hater of fats

 

[Tech Noir]

 

[Tech Noir]

Name the genie Tasuviyo, hater of fats

Wait, you were serious before? My apologies, I thought it was just banter. OK.

 

[Tech Noir]

 

[Maysam]

I got a chip on the shoulder for pachyderms.

The soundtrack to the elephant shenanigans is obviously

 

[Tech Noir]

The soundtrack to the elephant shenanigans is obviously

years of forgetting Tom Green exists gone to waste, thx

 

[minty]

female can be sqigur
animal person there waz rodent furry dude from edf2 i think his name was lulzbomb

 

[lurk]

oh i know! have we had a j15m character yet?

 

[Tech Noir]

Accepted a trio of refugees, two women and a child

Some kind of cult showed up

Half of them went for the front entrance, the other 7 approached the back of the fort and attacked the Ediots that sallied forth to meet them

With that half dispatched, the Ediots rushed back to meet the others

Much to my surprise, the ones from the first group started rising from the dead

Neat trick, let's see 'em do it with no head

They don't just rise from the dead, turns out they are full of surprises

Their ideoligion is similar to ours, except it also turns people into joyless robots

All dead, and then killed again. They are not on the faction list, so I guess just like mechanoids, they can't be made peace with, or exterminated

More weird appendages

Fed 'em to the trees

One of the refugees was an alcoholic, and was a bit of a problem when the booze ran out

The Ediots continued studying the monolith

A group of passing shamblers arrived

The Ediots constructed a first entity containment cell

Time to see if beanbags will work on these things. Sent the shotgunners to capture one if possible.

Excellent

Live specimen secured

In the mourning an alert popped up that a ghoul is attacking the colony

"cannot feel pain"... yeah, right, another fine addition to my collection

The anima tree regrew, not ideal, but it's within the walls, good enough. Fort will be expanded later to accomodate it, when we drain the swampy parts

A transport pod crashed near the colony. I think it'll be a long time before we can effectively use it. Maybe store a bunch of corpses near a mechanoid cluster than fire these to create cannon fodder?

At the start of the summer, some 8-9 sightstealers appeared out of the thin air all over the place and attacked the colonists.

They were easy to deal with, only tasuviyo and j1sm got swarmed mid reload, but made it out alive

Captured one, placed him in containment. The rest ended up as the offering to the trees.

Just a day after, the fleshbeasts showed up.

This little ones aren't that tough, one of the refugess with a machete hacked up 2-3

But there was a lot of 'em. Wait a minute...

?

Problem dealt with, but the containment chamber wasn't finished, so no new specimens.

 

[Tech Noir]

A few days later the yttakin mortar crews arrived, and i was unsure how to proceed

Mortar research was completed and reinforced barrels were bought, but we still didn't have enough materials and machinery (or power supply for it) to produce the ammo. So, this required going out and facing the problem head on. But the Ediots were scattered around the map, and by the time everyone is in position, first shells will be hitting the colony.

Decided to equip Heidi with molotovs and have him set the mortar emplacements on fire. Risky, hopefully pyrophobia doesn't fuck him up and he can retreat safely.

Longjump, and then two accurate throws

Perfection, but a nearby shotgunner got him in the shoulder, and it was time to bail

They tried to put it out, but it all burned to the ground, and left them no choice but to assault the colony close range

Which was the the end of them

Thought that I'd got my hands on their mortar shells too, but Demponic had a mental break and...

Sent minty longjumping to put him out with firefoam nades, but he wandered into a nearby marsh

...and then wandered back near the rest of the shells, which were just now starting to go off. Luckily he lived.

The monolith study was progressing quickly

Some kind of suspicious quest, accept, Y/N?

 

[Tech Noir]

I mean, the rewards are good, but the whole "It's a good package, just trust me bro"...

 

[lurk]

A few days later the yttakin mortar crews arrived, and i was unsure how to proceed

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Mortar research was completed and reinforced barrels were bought, but we still didn't have enough materials and machinery (or power supply for it) to produce the ammo. So, this required going out and facing the problem head on. But the Ediots were scattered around the map, and by the time everyone is in position, first shells will be hitting the colony.

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Decided to equip Heidi with molotovs and have him set the mortar emplacements on fire. Risky, hopefully pyrophobia doesn't fuck him up and he can retreat safely.

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Longjump, and then two accurate throws

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Perfection, but a nearby shotgunner got him in the shoulder, and it was time to bail

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They tried to put it out, but it all burned to the ground, and left them no choice but to assault the colony close range

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Which was the the end of them

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Thought that I'd got my hands on their mortar shells too, but Demponic had a mental break and...

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Sent minty longjumping to put him out with firefoam nades, but he wandered into a nearby marsh

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...and then wandered back near the rest of the shells, which were just now starting to go off. Luckily he lived.

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The monolith study was progressing quickly

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Some kind of suspicious quest, accept, Y/N?

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i did one of those once. the dude dropped a strange black spine on me, but i couldnt keep the thing contained at the time and had to destroy it.

 

[minty]

oooooohhhh i want the mystery package!
what if it's like the mystery crate under the stairs in creepshow n it has a man-eating primate?
...what if i could tame it?

 

[lurk]

oooooohhhh i want the mystery package!
what if it's like the mystery crate under the stairs in creepshow n it has a man-eating primate?
...what if i could tame it?
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i promise, there's nothing in there that can be tamed. contained, maybe, but tamed, no.

 

[minty]

i promise, there's nothing in there that can be tamed. contained, maybe, but tamed, no.

the lion does not fear dying in video games

 

[Tech Noir]

I accepted the quest and the package was delivered to the colony. It was a corpse. Male, 21yo, sanguophage, medium build. No signs of the actual cause of death, no traces of sickness or violence. No decomposition either.

Spoiler: The Package

Had to get rid of the local wildlife that wanted to snack on it, though maybe I shouldn't have.

The whole thing was slowly grating on Heidi's nerves.

I was thinking where to move it but in the next moment it was gone

It turns out it teleported inside the colony. Most of the time it staid put, but any time Heidi would put some distance between himself and it, it would teleport again, to be next to him, to keep him company.

Meanwhile, the pachyderms were at it again. A manhunter pack appeared, and the Ediots were on their way to the barricades

But at the same time, the prisoners staged an escape. This is my fault, bought those medical books and neglected to pacify the prison population by having the Ediots practice amputations. Lurk, Squigur and Demonic had to go back and assert order.

This left insufficient numbers at the gates, and the Ediots found themselves overrun, but survived to crawl away from harm.

Only one of the prisoners had the sense to arm himself, but couldn't win a 3vs1. All were pacified, and after that, the rhinos were taken down.

Heidi's doppelganger stiff was being researched.

And constantly had to be returned to the holding area

This was deeply disturbing to Heidi and at one moment he went to destroy the other captured specimens, and killed the ghoul before he was beanbagged.

Day after a pack of shamblers arrived, so I had the Ediots stick inside the fort until they move on.

One of em was some new kind of threat.

A second mechanoid raid showed up at the same time

and soon the two groups came in contact with each other

What was left of the mechanoids didn't make it past the barricades.

Still, most of the mechanoids losses were due to friendly fire, their armor was too thick for the shamblers. Maybe the tactic of dropping off the corpses in mech clusters and turning them into shamblers won't be as effective as I thought.

Epidemic, but only for the prisoners, since the Ediots were on antibiotics.

The investigation was concluded

And Heidi had the pleasure of personally getting rid of his nightmare

A first mechanoid cluster landed, and had a mortar and a shield that protected it from aerial bombardment. Four days until it activates and rains fire upon the colony.

Lurk mentioned we will need a lot of electricity, so geothermal energy was researched, and a first generator was built over a geyser. We now have enough power to refine chemfuel for ammo and mortar shell propellant.

With 2 days left, I decided to try to take out the mortar. Demonic smoke naded the turret, and Minto & Heidi were given AT4 shoulder fired AT weapons.

First hit did good damage, the second one took out the mortar and some of the footsoldiers. Well done, time to bounce and meet them at the gates.

But it turned out it won't be that easy. Overconfidence... I had only Heidi and minty on the barricades, but two of the mechanoids were flamethrower units, had to retreat them to safety and mobilize the rest of the colony

Two out of three down

3 out of 3. minto firefoamed the barricades and manned the MG to take out the remaining two

but snapped due to pyrophobia, and Tasuviyo had to take over and finish off the clankers

After the battle, I got notification that Tasuviyo bled out to death? He looked fine, but I guess that was because he was high on go juice. He was burried next to Wraffles.

After that, two manhunter packs were dealt with, the cobras

and the monkeys

a transport pod crash brouhgt a joiner, a 10yo girl suffering from temporary paralysis. I grudgingly accepted. She'll be tied to bed for the next two months, which will serously hamper her developement.

@tasuviyo condolences. Now, you can get back in several ways if you're still game:



A: it's the time of the year to hold a lantern festival, and if it's good, 50% chances some rando will join, and he can be your representative

B: we have a refugee quest lined up, and one of them may like the colony and apply to join

C: We have an embryo of two colonists, we implant it in a prisoner, when it's born you have a chance to determine the kid's traits. Whether it's born male or female is Randy's call.

 

[lurk]

what the hell is up with all the monkeys? starting to look like detroit.

 

[minty]

man, shame this post wasn't a few days back. being followed by a teleporting doppelganger body seems like it'd be a great april fools joke