The Wreck of the Edmund Fitz-Friday

[Boggit]

Field of Glory with Sauron, Ian C, and Gus (if he deigns to fight my Santa Hermandad of Castile (A sort of Christmassy medieval Spanish side)).
JTS FWW with Cyrano
JTS Vietnam - grinding through the Hue series of scenarios
Making History II as the Germans
Either some Combat Mission (probably go for Red Thunder), or Horizon

[JasonPratt]

Final tally:

Three hours or so this afternoon continuing my Savage Lands test run. Wondered what I had been hearing last time; turned out I had been hearing a dragon haunting a local village. Found the village while hunting, and fortunately while the dragon was occupied elsewhere. I've cut down enough trees I can see the dragon in the distance now when he returns, though. He hasn't spotted my camp on the beach yet. Killed some skeletons and some young wolves; ran up and whacked a number of deer in the ass with a stone axe. I still have zero idea what a lean-to accomplishes: you can't get inside it. Built the lowest grade house, and nearly froze to death in it. Possibly I need more torches. Can't build a firepit in the house, which seems stupid. Came close to dying several times but I've pulled out by the skin of my teeth -- once by going out to hunt and forage berries in the dark of night. Accidentally tore up my starter clothes for rags, but I made bandages out of them. Have started slowly converting leather to my first leather armor set. More than halfway done building my first forge -- in this game, once you have enough materials to feasibly start (not sure how much that is, but evidently less than half), you can place a 'ghost' of the building (or respawn stick for that matter... I have a respawn stick now, too, made of human skulls) and then add materials to it whenever you want as you pass by until it's done. Tools can be repaired by partials, too: say my stone axe is about worn out, but I don't have any sinew. I can still repair a lot of it with other materials.

I won't be starving any time soon, but it's time to go hunting for more leather-and-sinew -- this time with my shiny new bow (and a few arrows).


Two turns of being murdered by Barth's Nazi goons in DC3: Barbarossa. Anyone who thinks mud only helps the Russians, is sadly, sadly wronnnngggg...


One whole day of Empyrion scouting around to find iron to make more ammo and a larger ship with. Unfortunately, the only two (out of five) deposits I found are in terrible places. Recovering will be a chore. Worse, I'll have to hunt more regularly, soon. Should consider researching stronger guns to build.


Zero seconds of Evochron: Legacyorwhatever actually played, but I finished the tutorial.

[Kushan]

Finished upgrading my Asp Explorer last night. Only change I'll probably make before setting out into the unknown is ditching the shield generator for a rover bay. Where I'm going the shields shouldn't be needed, unless I run into aliens but I'd be screwed in that case anyway. Having a rover bay would allow me to mine resources from any planets I come across for replacement ammo for the repair field. Heading out light in terms of armament, just taking the default pulse lasers.



Spent this afternoon collecting bounties in a resource extraction zone. Upgrading my Asp pushed the re-buy cost up too 800k and I wanted a little bit of a nest egg in case something bad happens. Will be heading out on my grand expedition in the next few days.

[mirth]

^that's hawt!