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>>5286089
>Merchants:
“Merchants” is a catch-all term for groups that currently have an abundance of things to trade and have value, while also having strong negotiation skills. They might be the survivors or descendants of groups that were wealthy before all of this darkness started… Or perhaps they were just groups that got to shelter first or scavenged a stockpile first.

They have Good Stockpiles, Good Negotiation, Average Manufacturing Capacity, Poor Research, and Poor Martial Training

Exception: Merchants can recruit other people with martial capabilities beyond what they have "organically", meaning inside their own faction without any help.

>Fundamental Understanding of Value:
When the Merchant faction interacts with another faction, it rolls as “Great” whenever it tries to figure out the other party’s surpluses or figure out the other party’s shortages. At the same time they roll “Great” for Trade/Barter checks, and every time they trade they learn at least one shortage and one surplus of another party.

>Civilian Administration:
This is another vague term, which mostly refers to the descendants of previous government groups or “civil-servants”, along with recently created organizations with similar function.

They have Average Stockpiles, Good Negotiation, Poor Manufacturing Capacity, Average Research, and Average Martial Training

>Legitimacy, Rhetoric, and Politics:
When the Civilian Administration faction interacts with another faction, it rolls as “Great” whenever it tries to “improve relations” or “ask a favor”. The faction also rolls as “Great” when it is “recruiting”.

>>5286094
>Martial Organizations:
You can also just call all these “Militaries and Paramilitaries”. These are the survivors of previous military or paramilitary forces, along with various groups of mercenaries, armed militias, and bands of paranoid “survivalists” who waited things out inside bunkers. Those would be the survivalists who “stack deep” ammunition and firearms, rather than soap, precious metals, and hunting supplies..

They have Average Stockpiles, Average Negotiation, Poor/Good Manufacturing Capacity, Poor Research, and Good Martial Training

Exception: The Martial Organizations have “Good” capabilities for manufacturing or using “Materials”, “Supplies” or “Finished Goods” that are weapons, armor, munitions, first-aid, combat medicine, or rations. Everything else, they are “Poor” at trying to make or use.

>I'm a hero, Tell me of which novel:
When the Martial Organization tries to “intimidate” another faction, it rolls as “Good”. When interacting with a weaker faction, especially one with enemies, the faction can “offer protection”. This faction is now a “Protectanet” and when dealing with them, the faction rolls “Great” when it is “recruiting” or “asking for donations”.

>Scientists:
They generally prefer to be called “Researchers”, “Academics”... but the way things are going… They’re just going to be “Scribes” soon enough. These are what remains of the highly educated and those with access to actual civilian technology, to the standards of a small college or high school at the very least. At the same time, they’re likely to have good populations of mechanics and engineers as well… Sigh, we need to find a better word for these people.

They have Average Stockpiles, Average Negotiation, Good/Average Manufacturing Capacity, Good/Average Research, and Poor Martial Training

Exception: The Scientists can recruit mercenaries with martial capabilities beyond what they have "organically".

They also have “Good” capabilities manufacturing or using “Materials”, “Supplies” or “Finished Goods” that are not weapons, munitions, or armor. The same goes for their ability to do Research.

>Chalk Is Not A Rare Resource:
When scientists interact with another faction, they are “Good” at Negotiation involving “Technology” or “Parts” required. This includes “Barter/Trade” mostly. They also have the ability to “offer to do research”, “rent technology”, or “sell research”.

>Decision Time! First to 3 or most in 24 hours!

>>5286095
>Martial Organizations:

>>5286094
>Civilian Administration:

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>>5286095
>Scientists
Do we have a redhead with a stalking predilection?

>>5286095
>Scientists:

>Scientists:

>>5286135
Suspect.

>>5286146
Aren't you a suspect too?

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>>5286095
Give me
>scientists
Mr Tism
>>5286168
Based

>>5286155
Why did you delete your post?

>>5286095
merchants

>>5286089
this is art from Zona Alfa.
I didnt know anyone played it here.

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>>5286213
I got two other people to play it as well and we agreed that the Krinkov/Suchka was missing. We also ported over three factions over, we had Polis as a faction that had a half discount on basic AND advanced equipment.

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This go is doing considerably worse than ones where I dropped a lot more lore and information on people, so either the timing is all wrong..... or people again "Report they want a 'strong, dark coffee, but consistently prefer the light, milky coffee".

I already have the map mostly finished. There will be no details or explanations for the map until it's time or someone convinces me otherwise.

This style of civ reminds me of the old Genie civ games

>>5286850
That is deliberate. Mechanically, that system is my main inspiration.

>>5286851
Do you have your own factions made or can we make our own?
If our scientists were working on hover tanks do they get hover tanks?

>>5286857
>Do you have your own factions made or can we make our own?
Some things are dependent on the source material (Factions ripped), some thing are dependent on the dice rolls. At the moment, what should be the main focus is that sub-factions are very much a thing.

For example, "The Zone" before the world ended had strong divisions within the "organized" bandit community. Leaders came and went, traveling parties did their own thing, and then there was "The Renegades". Former militaries have splintered as many ways, even in small areas.
>If our scientists were working on hover tanks do they get hover tanks?
Access to the most advanced equipment is dependent on dice rolls, location, local factions (Who might've had the equipment instead), and other factors.

Vehicles are currently in extremely low supply.

>>5286851
Ah! A fellow former player!

Perhaps one I might recognize? That you Strelok? Rust?

>>5286888
forget the old names for now, we got a new one here who needs votes

>>5286888
I played in a /builder/ as "Nay-Tow" years and years ago.
>>5286890
Based, locked in as a regular.

>>5286874
>Vehicles are currently in extremely low supply.
That was just an example. Wondering if your doing the same thing as him, lore can give gameplay benefits.

>>5286888
https://archived.moe/qst/thread/3515310/#q3519585
I finally found the thread and myself, I will be carnivalizing this for ideas and material.

>>5286095
>Scientists:

>>5286926
huh, can't believe I missed this one. Looks awesome!

>>5287139
Looking back over it from the future, I guess it's okay for a builder. It has a lot of typos and it's way more simplified than I remember it being.

>>5286095
All those alarming dice rolls. Damn made me think it was something else. No bandits or survivalists. So I'm gonna vote for the one that is the hardest to kill which is

>Martial Organizations

I would prefer cockroach factions since I don't know what I'm getting into. Otherwise I would prefer merchants since they know how to trade and be diplomatic but I don't know this setting at all so I got nothing to go on. Ergo hard to kill wins to better survive mistakes.

>>5287140
It's a medium for fun and that's what matters in the long run.
Dunno if you're on the old Genie player group discord or if you care to catch up on old times, but consider me an anon vested in playing!

>>5287142
Actually yeah, remember that lesson very well

I'm going to switch >>5287136 to
>Martial Organizations

If there's one thing I recall from such post apoc games, it's all those times we tried cockamamie schemes as anything other than people good at killing were really hard. While when we played people good at killing, it was easier to recruit others to do said schemes

>>5286110
QM I'm pretty sure scientists are samefagged since at one point of the ID's posted a screenshot of every single link being a (you). So i'd say martial organizations win since it's at 3 now.

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I see the thread isn't dead on the first day. God damn.
>>5286099
>>5287145
>>5287142
>Decision Time! First to 3 or most in 24 hours!

Baltic Frontier
An outpost on the borders of the “Baltic Survivor States”, where factions, cities, and salvage sites are few…. But raw materials and open space are plentiful. The area is a good mixture of woodlands, streams, fields, and general nature.
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
An area with more salvage and more factions competing with each other… but still a reasonable supply of timber, wild animals, and most mysterious of all… “artifacts”. Some old buildings from decades long past are in the area, and some recent construction has added to that.
Russian Underground Metro System, Major Russian City
Moscow and Saint Petersburg both have extensive, fortified “metro” systems. They are not as strong and extensive as the complex, bunker system in Finland (A bunker under every house, and a tunnel under every street), but both of these systems are enough to support plenty of people. Raw materials are at a premium in these areas, but there are huge stockpiles of the most advanced weapons and technology in hidden areas and vaults.

>>5287146
I reported that post/image and the posts where they were rotating IPs openly.

I shall simply namefag, to prove I am not a samefag.

>>5287147
Yeah man, bet there's at least a few of us not willing to let someone bring a bit of Genie's work to life and your own ambitions down while at least one person can play.

>Russian Underground Metro System, Major Russian City
More people means more people to be mercenaries for

>>5287147
>Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

I like the sound of artifacts.

>>5287147
>Russian Underground Metro System, Major Russian City

>>5287145
Not really. It's just the dead killy factions and the bandits had the simplest playstyles. Anons manage to successfully master a few other civ types but admittedly they did die a lot in order to do so. Even Genie admitted he never mastered the Bandit playstyle despite it being the simplest to play apparently it was actually the hardest to master.

Obviously, survivalist factions are the best for newbies or if you don't know what to expect cause they are the hardest to kill but they are seen as 'less exciting' than other alternatives.

>>5287147
>Russian Underground Metro System, Major Russian City

>>5287147
>Russian Underground Metro System, Major Russian City

>>5287170
We always did our best with paramilitaries imo

>>5287173
Megacorps would have a word also cultists.

If we are locked scientists then might I recommend we have a focus on something practical? I’m thinking pharmaceutical development, a not-Pfizer lab, famous in the pre apocalypse specifically for making not-viagra, hair loss remedies, and things to help you quit smoking. Only when the apocalypse hit and we were forced underground did we turn our attention to wholesale apocalypse relevant chemical synthesis, things like aspirin, crystal methamphetamine, isopropyl alcohol, and of course boner pills. Unbound by “ethics” and “regulators” there are all sorts of fun things that can be made rather simply by men of this caliber.

>>5287181
I did love a good megacorp

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>>5286089
>>5287170
>>5287161
>>5287156
When it comes to combat units and the first three rolls, you want low. You want low because in the first three rolls, it is the opposition that is rolling to exist.
>Bandit Threat
3, Extremely low
>Faction Threat
40, Reduced
>Extreme Threat
43, Reduced
>Selecting Saint Petersburg Metro

After that, you want high rolls, because we are rolling to see how we are doing.
>Supplies and Stockpiles
Reduced
>Nourishment
Considerable, Nourishment includes healthy reserves, balanced diet, and means of replenishment.
>Medicine
Considerable, Medication is well rounded, Doctors and Medics on hand, alcohol and bandages are plentiful, available replenishment of herbs
>Fuel
Strong. Fuel includes: Firewood, charcoal, butane, liquid fuels, and a large stockpile of expired engine oil.
>Weapons
Critically low.
>Armor
Reduced
>Buildings
Considerable. Underground bunker area is large and has many intact structures.

>Present
The senior leader....something happened to him......Is that the head advisor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bpE1IpXcfs
Red Alert Alarm Sound Effect

"ARMORY HAS BEEN LOST! ALL UNITS TO ARMS! ALL UNIT TO ARMS! ARMORY HAS BEEN LOST"

The junior administrator lifts his head off the ground... Urggg, my head. As he looks around the room with his blurry eyes, blinking a few times, his vision returns to him. The room is incredibly hot and the sirens are blaring, causing his head to pound. His eyes go wide as he realizes he is a few feet from huge flames.... Where the fuck is my bed?. Junior realizes that he sleeps really close to the armory, which.... Appears to have gone up in flames....... There are loud gunshots down a hallway... As he looks around he sees a supply clerk sitting with his back to a wall, next to the door, trying to reload .410 shotshells into a compact shotgun revolver. Thankfully, he is wearing a steel helmet and he has on a 6B3 vest, which likely has steel plates in the front and back.... Enough to stop most assault rifle rounds... Did I get throne across the room into my clothing?. Junior starts fumbling around in drawers to get his own vest and helmet on, before he pulls out his load .410 revolver.

>>5287204
"Private! What the fuck is happening! Who is attacking us!"

"I don't fucking know! Sir! I think the fucking colonel and head advisor have finally...gone to blows...or shots I guess....."

"OVER WHAT!"

"The fucking goddamn Fins! Or it's that religion thing! Who the fuck even knows!"

The junior administrator squints his eyes and thinks about it. Shit, it's really gone violent hasn't?

"Well who are we with?"

"I have no fucking idea! I'm with youuuuu! The head administrator just came by here and I have no idea what side he's on either!"

"Just watch the door and let me think!"

>Decision Time! First to 3 or most in 24 hours!

>Locate and Side with the Tolerance Faction
This faction has pushed for greater acceptance of Finnish people, Lutherans (Finish), and Atheists
>Locate and Side with the Nationalist Faction
The Finnish have been far too lucky to avoid most of the doomsday weapons, AND also have the most extensive bunker network..... They must be crushed
>Locate and Side with whatever faction the Head Administrator is with
And if we can't find him...or he doesn't have a side....... Try not to die and see who wins....Maybe both sides will fuck things up so badly, you'll end up in charge.

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>>5287204
>ALL UNIT TO ARMS! ARMORY HAS BEEN LOST
Lmao the irony

>>5287205
>Locate and Side with the Tolerance Faction
I'd like to think we're in it for the money.
Just in a different way to the merchants.

>>5287205
>Locate and Side with whatever faction the Head Administrator is with

>>5287146
That one was me and i don't samefag.
>>5287205
>Locate and Side with the Nationalist Faction

>>5287220
B3 admitted it was samefagging.

>pick scientists in slav post apocalypse thread
>don't go to chernobyl
Come on anons.

>Locate and Side with the Tolerance Faction
Don't mess with the finns.

>>5287230
We didn't pick scientists, martial got top votes first. I said that twice.

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>>5287227
Someone also said they wanted to fuck with you.

And just because I can.
>>5287244
That still means you're the only person who voted for scientists, the other two people who voted confessed to being the same person. Martial has 3 votes and very legit looking ones.
>>5287204
Junior's .410 revolver was manufactured to be carried by judges, so the story goes. The legends are that judges would be kidnapped, held at gunpoint, and intimated by the criminal underworld of some far-away place. The Americans thought the weapon was a toy.... But.... five .38 caliber pellets....Center mass... A spread the size of a fist....Was something to take notice of...... The gun was not exactly practical....but what about in the instance of an attempted car-jacking.....or if someone tried to kill you while you were sleeping? Just one person....Up close... Who you wanted to die instantly......

The weapon only held five rounds, so it had pretty easy paperwork to obtain, provided you waited enough years and had a clean enough record.....There was also the odds that the pellets would have a harder time going through walls......And so the weapon was decently plentiful....

>.410 Bore Revolver
3 damage
50 meters range

The 6Б3 Vest started production up in the 1980s, but production started up again in the 2000s. It was just cotton and nylon, not even ballistic Nylon. Inside was supposed to be titanium plate that could stop most assault rifle rounds.... But this vest was repaired over and over...and inside was a surface hardened plate....Anything that hit it would fragment and the fragments would bounce off....With the foam layer to try and trap some of that shrapnel, it was 10 kilograms all together...

>6B3 Vest, Steel Plate
-5 Damage

>>5287205
Locate and Side with the Tolerance Faction

>>5287205
>>Locate and Side with the Tolerance Faction

>>5287205
Finally read the thread, now who to pick. I want to pick Head admin for being possible neutral. Yet I think having a target for people to get behind will be good for drive.

>Locate and Side with the Nationalist Faction

I'm thinking our best bet to fix our Critically low weapons after this mess will be protection contracts with a supplier. Unless we get luckily with a undefended vault or stock pile.

>>5287205
Finland isn’t real so.
>Locate and Side with the Nationalist Faction

>>5287205
>Locate and Side with whatever faction the Head Administrator is with

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>>5287209
>>5287230
>>5287282
>>5287307
Tolerance Faction
>>5287214
>>5287786
>Head Administrator
>>5287220
>>5287545
>>5287773
Nationalists faction

Junior had never seen the Finnish or been there, what if Finland was not a real place? What about reviving the old empires and ideologies? What about uniting Eurasia against the Westerners, like the Baltic States? Wasn't The West, the enemy? Someone had to fire the doomsday weapons at Saint Petersburg and Moscow....

The flames began to flicker out at what remained of the armory.... We're going to need a new supply of weapons.... There might be factories or parts on the surface or here underground somewhere.... But Moscow was the biggest and best supplier.

"What do we know about the Fins?"

"The Fins?..... The Clerk tries to think for a moment, before returning his attention to the door. They were prepared for all of this... Something about being afraid of invasion and extremely neutral. There whole nation is one big Metro and they didn't get hit with any doomsday weapons......"

"Wha-Where exactly is all this recent incoming trade coming from? You're sorting it, was it labeled?"

"We're right up against the border and close to two seas...our station certainly..... Its gotta be the Fins.... Or the other stations.... Moscow is just so far away....And the rail-lines to them are all hosted in the south.....

"Do the Fins have weapons factories?"

"I know they had a huge army and lots of suppliers.... If they are not making it, their supplies can be traded for weapons salvaged, repaired, or manufactured from the other stations.......... What are you thinking?"

"We need to side with the head advisor.... We've got big stockpiles..... I'd like to keep having jam on crackers. They'll be the quickest way to rearm.".

Combat Time
https://youtu.be/LuRAq-9USVc
Mortal Kombat Theme (Medieval Cover)

>Loading available friendly units
>Two supply staff (You and the clerk)
>Unit Quality "Conscript" 6/12 (6 or under is success)

Rolling 4d100 for the numbers and quality of local forces for both sides. Flipping a coin privately to decide which faction gets the third and fourth number

>Decision Time! First to 3 or most in 24 hours!

>Stay put, identify factions of nearby moving targets, shoot enemy ringleaders, capture followers
>Find and locate the Head Advisor, try and keep him alive. Attempt to become his second in command in the event he gets killed, but the battle is winnable
>Do a surprise raid of extreme violence on the nationalist faction, trying to hurt and suppress them as much as possible
>Pretend to enlist with the Colonel and then assassinate him.

Be aware that each of these has different rewards and risks, some are more risky than others.
>

Rolled 69, 26, 22, 76 = 193 (4d100)

>>5287846

>>5287846
>Find and locate the Head Advisor, try and keep him alive. Attempt to become his second in command in the event he gets killed, but the battle is winnable

>>5287846
>Stay put, identify factions of nearby moving targets, shoot enemy ringleaders, capture followers

>>5287846
>Pretend to enlist with the Colonel and then assassinate him.

>>5287846
The raid option feel like it will do little with the 2 of us. Staying put lets us build a bubble to work from. Head advisor is good if we want to have an upper level experience piece to use. Assassination mission would be the best for quick end. Assuming the Colonel is the main drive for that faction. I'm overthinking this, but once I get a feel for the path our faction is going that will help.

>Pretend to enlist with the Colonel and then assassinate him.
Going with the thought we are building our "hero" up. Assassin leader could be fun.

>>5288121
>>5288052
Everything else aside, ending conflicts as fast as possible is the best way to minimize wasted resources and suffering of all parties involved.

On the other hand, assassinating the figurehead/leader alone runs the risk of allowing the supporters to fester and resprout again later.

>>5287846
>Assassinate that colonel

>>5288121
>>5288129
>>5288052
Someone roll 2d100

Rolled 34, 3 = 37 (2d100)

>>5288133
Double Nat1

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>>5288134
>34%
>Fail BUT

"Just follow my lead, I got this."

Junior and the clerk manage to get past most of the recruits.....and then even the guards standing around the Colonel. However, as soon as he looks at you, he suspects something is wrong and attempts to shoot you. Either that or he wants to have complete and total control. Luckily for you, you were preparing to shoot him, so you shove him and then dive into cover. Without his shotgun, he is down to his pistol, his training, and his armor.

>Colonel Leader
>Training Level: Veteran 8/12

You are in cover and he is not. You and the clerk also get the first attack. However, you really really need to hit, your weapons take forever to reload!

SOMEONE ROLL 2d12s!

Rolled 3, 6 = 9 (2d12)

>>5288150

Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>5288167
>>5288150
You and the clerk are only moderately trained in firearms, and these are close range pistols with short barrels. However, the lack of accuracy is made up for with their spread. The two of you start firing as quickly and as accurately at him as you can. One, two, three blasts each.... But the rounds are harmlessly pinging off his armor... In a moment of panic, at such close ranges, barely half a second to think, you aim higher for his head. He changes location and you end up shooting him in the thigh, blowing out a chunk of meat. Groaning out, he raises his pistol with one hand to fire back at the two of you.

Rolled 38, 31 = 69 (2d100)

>>5288188
After dumping his entire magazine, he misses both of you entirely, not even hitting your armor or the cover you're trying to take. Opening up your cylinder, you put in a single round, closing it, and then clicking your recover as fast as you can. BANG! The last handful of pellets hits him right in the face, killing him instantly. The two of you quickly start pulling out shells from your chests, trying to force them into your revolvers. Looking around from your hiding place, you realize you are in an empty room with the dead Colonel.

>Decision Time! First to 3 or most in 5 hours!

>Declare that the finding can end now. Everyone who is important and took this position of the issue is dead, it's time for the rest of them to see the light
>Have the Clerk grab the shotgun from the colonel and go into ambush with you, someone is bound to have heard the shooting and will show up to seek vengeance.

>Flipping a coin to see how the battle is going, heads is the first number is friendly, tails the second.

>>5288195
>Have the Clerk grab the shotgun from the colonel and go into ambush with you, someone is bound to have heard the shooting and will show up to seek vengeance.

>>5288195
>Declare that the finding can end now. Everyone who is important and took this position of the issue is dead, it's time for the rest of them to see the light

>>5288195
>Have the Clerk grab the shotgun from the colonel and go into ambush with you, someone is bound to have heard the shooting and will show up to seek vengeance.
We gotta make it out alive or at least hold off any counter attack. If we are lucky they'll go depressed mode on seeing the body or we can bluff and say the enemy went that way.

>>5288195
>Have the Clerk grab the shotgun from the colonel and go into ambush with you, someone is bound to have heard the shooting and will show up to seek vengeance.

>>5288195
>>Have the Clerk grab the shotgun from the colonel and go into ambush with you, someone is bound to have heard the shooting and will show up to seek vengeance.

Rolled 8, 10 = 18 (2d12)

>>5288302
>>5288340
>>5288335
>>5288343
Fucked up the previous roll, rolling again. That was d6

Rolled 11, 12, 11 = 34 (3d12)

>>5288352
Rolling more

Rolled 8, 12, 3 = 23 (3d12)

>>5288353
WTF, okay famalam.

>>5288354
>>5288353
>>5288352
Someone, who you think you recall being an officer or something, stormed into the room. Kicking down the door, he apparently instantly saw the body and took cover by the door way. After that Junior's heart was pounding as he unloaded his cylinder, the clerk emptying the shotgun and then his own revolver. The two youths are hugging their cover as they scramble to reload, they didn't hear the pellets fly over their head as they shot and they don't hear them as they reload. The "elite guard" blindfires his shotgun into the room, but Junior manages to accidently shoot him in both his hands.... at the same time..... Screaming and howling in agony, Junior's panicking blasting away manages to hit him in the face as well.

Once the smoke has cleared, there is fourty .410 shells on the ground, sixteen 12 bore shells, an empty magazine for the PM Makarov....and blood stained on the walls and floors from people getting shot in the face. Panting and looking around, the clerk did not easily recover from the aftermath, and perhaps he won't..... The fear, the carnage....

At the end of the day "Junior" decides to go over the records by himself, with a few of the others.

>Population numbers
Around 200, even after the fighting. 50% of the population is between the ages of 15 and 45. On paper and according to what the head administrator says, there are 100 "military age adults", with roughly half of them being "military age males". Only 30 of the males are listed as "professional soldiers" and they appear to have better training then everyone else, such as the clerk. People like the clerk are part-time and are listed as "support staff". Officially, this community is a Russian internal security company... along with rotated out retired soldiers, people's children stationed on base.

There were a lot of arguments about women being part of the military, but both sides of that argument are mostly dead now. The most conservative are dead and the most militarist are dead too. All in all about 10 people are dead now

Junior writes down in his "master notebook" that he has '2 population units".

>>5288358
>Hero Loaded
"Junior" name not currently important (First to 3, or most in 36 hours)
>Training Level 6/12 "Conscript"
Perk: .410 Bore Revolver Sheriff
This character draws or begins using this specific weapon, before all other units get to act, even units with faster reflexes and/or smaller weapons.

This character also ignores all penalties to do critical hits, inside 10 meters (A room) and "automatically crits" at the bottom half of their success number (3 or less)

Respected
About 60% of the credit for the two kills is assigned to "Junior" and he killed both of them while outmatched in terms of weapons, armor, experience and training.

>Current Domain
This unit current controls two whole stations, which is effectively two "terrain girds" in total size.
>>5287846
The trains mostly don't work, so it's a long ass walk or pushing on the railway pump-cars to get anywhere.

>Buildings

>Nourishment Buildings
Reasonable mushroom farms, reasonable cricket farms (For feeding chickens or grinding into flour, Greenhouse [Sunlight is bounced from the surface], Deep Well, Water Processing Facility (Mostly a room where water is boiled after being poured into barrels of sand and charcoal), Cannery (Place where jars and wax is kept), Mess-Hall, Cafeteria (Really just a soup kitchen attached to the Mess Hall).
>Medicine Buildings
First Aid Building (Behaves more like an ER with combat medics on hand), Attached "Family Clinic"
Herbs are grown as part of the Greenhouse, Alcohol stills are used to clean wounds, Area to wash bandages, Soap production (Plastic bin in a unused bathroom)
>Fuel Buildings
Fuel stockpiles are spread out to prevent them from all going up.
Fuel includes: Firewood, charcoal, butane, liquid fuels, and a large stockpile of expired engine oil.
>Weapon Buildings
Reloading Bench, Black Powder Facility (Spare Room with metal walls and good ventilation, Firing Range (Good Ventilation, 100 meter distances),
>Armor Buildings
Workshop that can cut metal into the shape of a rifle plate, Vest Repair Teams (Babushka's who can sew)
>Living Space
Properly insulated and warm, 25% barracks (Lots of bunkbeds in a room), most people do not live with all their family-members

>Conditions
Quite Good
>Known Threats
None
>Current Political Differences
Minimal
>Sources of Panic
There is a lack of firearms and ammunition currently.

This part is going to make people mad as I am going to run this differently than people are used to.
>>5288370
"I'm what?"

"I obviously can't be the senior leader and the second...senior leader is also dead.

The Head Administrator is one of the oldest and most experienced, most educated and wise of the people in "The Company". He's very clearly too old to be shooting anyone and been rotated out years ago, before Junior was even born.

"As Russians... We used to look to the Romans for ideas...and I think it's time to do it again...... You and I will run the day to day affairs of The Company....as equals.... Mostly in responsibility... You are still an undereducated youth.... But I suppose I will leave the speeches and foolhardy raids to you.....

Junior had left his teens not to long ago, and while he was considered a man about 5 years ago, he was aware there was a time where it would be illegal for him to be part of a military unit... That it would be considered barbaric....

"Okay, so what do you need me to do?"

"I...." The senior administrator puts his own hand on his chest. The two of them stare back at each other through their glasses, obtained from years of trying to read in bad lighting conditions...or trying to read period. "I will be handling the day to day stuff and all the things I did before.... You, will... Do the big, flashy public stuff....and some of the paperwork.....

"Where do I start?"

>>5288378

"Well...." The old man pushed up his glasses with his middle finger, before getting out a small notepad, his own means of keeping reality organized. We have two hundred people....and outside all the stuff they have to do day to day..... They need kind of main focus or goal for the next week.......

1. You could do something about the damage... No wait... We're doing that automatically and we don't have enough components or materials."

"Fuck... I always get all of those things confused."

"We'll worry about that when you find some....

2. You could try to scout in any of the directions from our station.....

3. You could interact with visitors or some other station we have met... Remember to be careful when you 'Negotiate'.

4. Manufacturing...Can't do that... Out of stuff...I forgot....

5. Research....We could try to figure things out....but we're really bad at that.... At least everyone can read....

6. We could train...No wait....Everyone is trained as much as they can be....and we're low on ammunition....

7. We could salvage.... Maybe you could pick that tunnel that opened up recently....Or we could try sending a small team to the surface."

>Decision time, first two in to 3 or most in 23 hours
Pick from one of the numbers above or do a "write in"
You have 2 basic actions per turn to dedicate to whatever you want to get done. Using them both on the same thing provides bonuses.

They have Average Stockpiles, Average Negotiation, Poor/Good Manufacturing Capacity, Poor Research, and Good Martial Training

Exception: The Martial Organizations have “Good” capabilities for manufacturing or using “Materials”, “Supplies” or “Finished Goods” that are weapons, armor, munitions, first-aid, combat medicine, or rations. Everything else, they are “Poor” at trying to make or use.

>>5288383
>Salvage
>Salvage

Gotta get that ammo

>>5288370
Gustav Bloch.
7 and 2.
Get supplies and information.

>>5288383
Civ Action Votes
(2) Scout out far, see what sort of other factions, peoples, creatures or living things are nearby. I find knowing whose around helps dictate civ strategy a bit better.
(3) Salvage that tunnel for stuff. Maybes useful stuff. Maybe it's useless stuff. Maybe its stuff we don't know what to do with until we get our bearings.

Ah, the first civ actions. Feels kinda like waking up after being knocked out cold. Bit overwhelming, you're not quite sure what to do but you gotta do something. Then you figure it out. Hopefully sooner than later.

>>5288383
From another game I've learned scout to get an idea of things, explore for the details, and then we can act with confidence. Info is much needed plus we have visitors who we can ask to help save some time and get jobs from.

>[2]Scout
Best to do a sweep of the tunnels before a poke a sleeping bear. Once we know things are worth putting the man power into. I believe we can then put salvaging teams into action.

>[3] Negotiate
When things are a mess and unknowns to deal with. People will need body guards or places protected. It will be good to hash out things with nearby Neighbors to build good rep, info network, and get needed items in return.

>>5288587
Support

>>5288387
>>5288389
>>5288501
>>5288623
>>5288623
>Three votes for salvage, Three votes for scouting. We are average for both of these, so someone roll 2d100. I will do an update when I am feeling better.

Rolled 94, 27 = 121 (2d100)

>>5288753
More bad rolls!

Rolled 97, 71 = 168 (2d100)

>>5288753

>>5288753
I forgot to mention that the other thing that was locked in was "Scout"
>>5288763
>>5288753
94, Near Critical
>Green, Negative outcomes avoided

"Junior" gave out a sigh and cracked his knuckles as he leaned back into the chair in his new office. His office was in the main command center for the facility, where the Senior Leader had once been.

"Make the first objective.... that we should salvage what we can from that tunnel.........." The messanger wrote this down and turned to leave, before he he heard "Wait...and have the rest of the company's energy devoted to scouting that tunnel....perhaps first or around the same time.... I don't want our security to be exposed or for the salvage teams to be too vulnerable."

>Six days later

Junior was at the location of the tunnel and inspecting it.... Due to darkness and the limited supply of guards.... The was able five professionals here and every member of the crews involved were armed as well as they could be. Batons, Bayonets, pistols, .410 revolvers, 20 gauge pump action shotguns.

"Report!"

A man in his 30s with a cap under his steel helmet, went stiff, clamped his feet together, and saluted him. Junior saluted back and then lowered his arm and hand.

"We have almost entirely salvaged the entire area for materials, Sir! The track has been cleared and we have temporary roadblocks out to this area. I don't like it Sir, our crank-lamps and headlights only can illuminate this area so much. We only got ambushed by...... something...a few times....A few shotgun blasts scared it off...Whatever it was..... We also have a few pounds of dead rats we need to finish soaking clean, butcher, smoke, and store. The smoking process is taking time...."

"Excellent news. Have you found.... fuck.." Junior could not remember the technical terms. ".Is that all you have found?"

"No, we found a large number of mining tools that need to be bent back into shape and derusted....... We found a huge supply of worn out books, used up masking tape, old but not rusted wire, expired sacks of pasta...., and a bunch of cans of lard that is no longer safe to eat."

"If I were to put all of this down as units, how many units do we have? Is that it?"

"We have about 20 deci units or 2 units of this stuff, Sir. We also found 4 units of stone and gravel, but have been only able to harvest about 2 so far.

"This is also good news.....Even with our primitive capabilities, we can convert a lot of this junk and scrap into.... thing again...."

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>>5288979
>In the Past

"Everything that is not a finished good or supplies or equipment, any of that stuff.....is "Materials". There are two or three kinds of materials....

Components
These are things like Duck tape, paper, baling wire, solder, nails, screws..... Even scrap metal might count as components...... animal bones, hides, fat, and skin can be made into glue or soap...so that can count as well......

Resources
resources are the kinds of things you put a name to, such as Wood, Black Powder, Loose Tobacco and Herbs. Anything natural or harvested is resources, so is ore or ingots from ore.

Parts
You have your standard parts, gears, clockwork, and such. You have electronic parts, wires, dials, knobs..... Maybe a broken firearm you can repair counts too...... But that would be labeled as it's own specific thing.

Supplies
This is stuff like canned food, and when I say canned, I mean like put in a jar. The can is named after the process, so there is metal canning and glass jar canning. Bandages are supplies, pure alcohol has to be paired with it though....... Medicine...... Cigarettes .....

-
Junior's Records

>Components
Two units
>Resources
Two units of stone
>Parts
Unit of bent and rusted Mining Equipment
Ten broken 12 bore shotguns

>Decision time, first two in to 3 or most in 23 hours
Pick from one of the numbers above or do a "write in"
You have 2 basic actions per turn to dedicate to whatever you want to get done. Using them both on the same thing provides bonuses.

>1. Construction
This would require both units of stone, additional space, and some of the Components.
Currently the only available building location is between the two stations, which is a fairly wide tunnel.
>Scouting
You can try the same direction of North as before, or try a new direction, such as the surface.
>Interact or Negotiate
You have not met anyone yet.
>Manufacturing
We have about ten 12 bore shotguns that need to be repaired. The wood and stocks are still good, but the magazine tubes, springs, bolt, barrel, and sights need replaced.
We also have the ability to make multiple pounds of black powder at a time. We have a lot of old shotshells, old paper, wax, and other materials. We could make ammunition....

>>5288995
>Research
Firearms Manufacturing Research
We have enough skilled gunsmiths to repair basically any broken firearm that we have the most difficult and expensive parts for. We can manufacture our own barrels, cut our own wood furniture...cast, mill, and stamp our own receivers.. We don't have any refined iron or wood to make most of this
Armor Manufacturing Research
We have not studied what materials and can stop what bullets, besides reading the plates and labels of armor that was standard military issue. We suspect if we could make a plate of steel hard enough, it could be cut into rifle plates....
Munitions Manufacturing Research
We can currently reload steel or brass casings, make bullets of lead, hardcast lead, copper or soft steel. We can reload shotshells and make paper cartridges. We can make black powder and salvage expired propellent, or break down ammunition for propellent and casings.
Civilian Research
We have no really looked into this, so we have no idea what we are capable of

>Training
Everyone is trained as much as they can be

>Salvage
We've salvaged as much of that area north of us in the tunnels. After that point it's too dark and too far away for now. We have three other directions and the surface. Those areas are not explored well, and those three tunnels are mostly already salvaged or decently dangerous.

We have Average Stockpiles, Average Negotiation, Poor/Good Manufacturing Capacity, Poor Research, and Good Martial Training

Exception: The Martial Organizations have “Good” capabilities for manufacturing or using “Materials”, “Supplies” or “Finished Goods” that are weapons, armor, munitions, first-aid, combat medicine, or rations. Everything else, they are “Poor” at trying to make or use.

Poor is 1d100-40
Average is 1d100
Good is 2d100
Great is 3d100

>>5288998
>Manufacturing
Since we found some weapons and anything will probably do at the moment. Fix them up and stock up some ammo with the left over time.

>Scouting
From the sound of things hitting the surface for resources will be for the best. If we find some better light sources and neighbors we can work with even better.

>>5288995
Scout south.
Fix up the shotguns.

>>5288995
>Manufacturing
Fix what we have and make ammo.

>Scout
Search the surface since underground resources have either been depleted or are too dangerous with our lack of armaments.

>>5289118
>>5289116
>>5289095
Three votes already for fixing the shotguns and trying to reload/construct fresh ammo. Someone roll 2d100

The other thing is not locked in yet.

Rolled 8, 96 = 104 (2d100)

>>5289119
'ere we go

Also I'll vote for the scout option

>>5289155
Just realized you might have wanted a specific direction so
>Search the surface

>>5289155
There are two scout options, pick one please. While you do that, roll 1d100 or someone do that.

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>5289118
Supporting

>>5289169
Rollan

>>5288998
-Those areas are not explored well, and those three tunnels are mostly already salvaged or decently dangerous.
Is it known how dangerous the surface is in contrast to the tunnels; is it known the sort of gear and numbers we should bring for the tunnels and surface?

>>5289118
-Search the surface since underground resources have either been depleted or are too dangerous with our lack of armaments.
I would think it would be more feasible once we fix our
>>5288995
-We have about ten 12 bore shotguns that need to be repaired.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>5289095
>>5289118
>>5289119
>>5289154
>>5289155
>>5289167
>>5289169
>>5289194
>>5289202
>Manufacture
Repair the 12 bore shotguns and make extra ammunition if possible.
Critical Success, YES AND AND!
>Scout
Get together a team and scout the surface
>Moderate Success

>Seven days later
Tabak had been in partially in charge for almost two weeks now. At the repair shop, which was by the reloading bench, the powder room, and the blacksmith facilities... He was talking to the person that was in charge of this objective he ordered.

"What is the progress so far?"

The head craftsman, an elderly man pulled up a tarp over a table covered in finished guns.

"We managed to repair all of the 12 bores, so there is enough for all of our professionals to have one...... While we were at it.... We managed to make about 50 pounds of black powder, enough to make over 5000 shotgun shells. We ran out of reusable and repairable hulls, but we managed to make a few thousand from waxed paper...... That's enough to provide what should be a drawn out combat loadout for 100 people..... Obviously, about half the shells we made are .410......"

Junior blinked a few times, before looking around quickly, and then at the head craftsman.

"Why do you look like you've given me bad news?"

"We're completely out of paper, wax, lead, metal, firearms parts, and everything else we used.

>Rolling for scouting loot

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Rolled 34, 2 = 36 (2d52)

>>5289289
There was a couple people in hazmat suits and great coats, lying slumped back in various chairs or leaned against walls sitting. They had their gas-masks on their laps or hanging from their necks. As Junior stepped in, they gave exhausted, tired salutes. A lot of them were fit women or the selection of men not cutout for the professional military life. It was a difficult journey to the surface and back down.

"Report."

One of the women was still panting, and she looked up, tired, before nodding a few times.

"We were not able to get very far on the surface, despite multiple trips.... There is some shattered glass we could salvage...... Maybe enough scrap and random items to be a unit...of umm.."

"Components."

"Yes Components. The wiring might be fried, but we could try stripping it later..... There were some metal drawers and frames we could metal down or repurpose........ We honestly did not get very far...... We're completely out of filters and.... we're not outfitted to reset them...... But we did find 30 homemade double barrel shotguns......"

>Later on

Tabak re-meets with the Head Craftsman and shows him the used up filters, which were carried in a bin by less important people.

"Well......." He says looking them over and his notes. "Half the supplies needed are charcoal, which is procurable from wood or using our stockpiles......The other thing we need is Calcium Chloride"

"How do we get Calcium Chloride?"

"We need to limestone with hydrochloric acid.

Junior is already taking notes of this and trying to wrap his head around what is beginning to sound like an involved process.

"So we need a unit of stone, a unit of charcoal....and.... How do we get hydrochloric acid?"

"We need hydrogen and chorline to mix together." The head craftsmen looks up and sees a blank stare from Junior. We can get the hydrogen from running current into water inside a Secondary School quality chemistry lab..... But hydrogen gas is invisible and highly flammable..... The chorine we can get from some kind of chemical reaction involving salt.....I think we need to run a current through salt...but if we mess up.... Chorine is a chemical weapon....and pure sodium gets very hot and agitated if it gets wet at all......"

"So we need.... one unit of charcoal, one unit of stone, one unit of water, one unit of salt,.....and access to what remains of a Secondary School....."

"It might be easier to find the ingredients or most of them, and pay another station to refill the filters for us..."

>Event! Traveller! Rolling 2d52 for personality, reversing whatever I draw (Meaning if outcome would be dickhead, the person is the opposite of a dickhead)

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Rolled 10, 1 = 11 (2d10)

>>5289307
>Decision time, first two in to 3 or most in 23 hours
Pick from one of the numbers above or do a "write in"
You have 2 basic actions per turn to dedicate to whatever you want to get done. Using them both on the same thing provides bonuses.
>>5288370
See ^ for better descriptions
>1. Construction
This would require both units of stone, additional space, and some of the Components.
Currently the only available building location is between the two stations, which is a fairly wide tunnel.
>Scouting
You can try the same direction of North as before, or try a new direction, such as the surface.
>Interact or Negotiate
You have not met anyone yet.
>Manufacturing
We have about ten 12 bore shotguns that need to be repaired. The wood and stocks are still good, but the magazine tubes, springs, bolt, barrel, and sights need replaced.
We also have the ability to make multiple pounds of black powder at a time. We have a lot of old shotshells, old paper, wax, and other materials. We could make ammunition....
>Research
>Training
>Salvage
We currently know there is salvage on the surface, but we can't get to it.

The traveler has an SKS with a detachable 30 round magazine and a guard of about 9 other men, equipped with a mixture of the same and semi-auto shotguns. They came on three "pump carts". There was a lot of pointing of guns and shining lights into the darkness, but after that things have cooled down with the guards at the northern tunnel.

The leader claims to be from the station just north of you, he says their connection to the rest of the area has been blocked off for years.

>Rolling for his station.

>>5289318
He says he is Matvei Aleksandrov, and his team with him are professional explorers known as "Stalkers". His station is very well rounded and appears to be just a community of survivors with no specific strengths or weaknesses, except that it has his team and a strong stockpile of mechanical parts salvaged from the surface. He doesn't immediately bring up anything his station or himself is desperate for, so you'll have to figure out what he wants and be careful if you want to trade.

His team is also quite armed and armored, better than any of your own guard teams. They might be reasonably or well trained too.

I love that you very clearly dillineate what Components/Resources/Parts/Supplies are in this quest, instead of leaving it vague.

>>5289318
I presume its just a typo that you left the "We have about ten 12 bore" that need repaired given we repaired them all. We also have 30 more home made ones, which I presume are in working order.

>Interact or Negotiate
Try to interact more with the stalkers. Our means to salvage and reach the surface are limited, and they clearly are good at salvaging the surface. Discuss offering our military expertise in manufacturing. If they can supply us components, or even raw materials, they could outsource us to turn them into weapons. In turn, perhaps we can negotiate their services in obtaining materials or exploring. Worse comes to worse, we are extra hands and bodies able to help around just about anything, if its extra musclepower or manpower in said exploration missions. Be a good neighbor
>Scouting
We have already explored north as far as we can safely go, and have salvaged the surface. Let's explore the south underground now. We need to recoup all that stuff we used to make the shotguns.

I kinda wanna do a research action to see what kind of guns we can make but I imagine research requires actually having said materials/components/stuff to test make those things.

>>5289526
Agree. Then I'm thinking, once trust is built up, we can offer training and protection.

>>5289526
Support

>>5289526
Yes, typo
>>5289651
>>5289604
>>5289526
Locked in, someone roll 2d100

Rolled 86, 43 = 129 (2d100)

>>5289989
Alright.

Rolled 16, 3 = 19 (2d21)

>>5289992
>Interact
Strong Success, Yes And
>Scouting
>Moderate Success, Yes

Matvei Aleksandrov, was open to your suggestions, simply based on the reasoning of them. He did not care what your intentions were or what your disposition was. while his team has better equipment, he can easily see the large numbers of armed people and the recently repaired firearms. When he is shown the box of used up filters, he admits that his station and the next over have limited ability to reset filters. His team only has enough time on their own filters for one set of trips to the surface.

Over the course of the week, he is able to go back to his station and then return. He had left saying he couldn't make promises with his station, but he returns with letters and good news. His people have a selection of broken weapons and weapons parts they are willing to sell, and his team is also willing to help you salvage for about a week (+2d100 to salvage), in exchange for a cut (33%) of what they find.

>Need to roll 2 things at once so.....

Rolled 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4 = 30 (8d6)

>>5290023
Rolling more

Rolled 4, 6, 4, 6, 4, 3, 1, 4 = 32 (8d6)

>>5290026
Damnit

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>>5290026
>>5290030
Matvei Aleksandrov says that the station north of him, shot at him at around 100 yards, almost hitting him. His team was forced into cover in the darkness and a large team of about 20 women took him hostage. They had Tactical SKS'es with scopes, 20 gauge Revolver Shotgun Carbines, Bizons, and 5.45 Kalashnikovs. He's under the impression that they are ruled by a woman or women, or have a high female population. His team had to... make certain concessions, but they have a reasonable trading situation now. His team and that station figured out how to reset filters and have been doing that, but they are both low on the materials and it costs extra for labor.

His team has about 30 pipe pistols and 30 damaged 9.6x53mm Lancaster Mosin Shotguns, with the ammunition for each. The pipe pistols were broken for parts and components, casings for the shotguns need to be reloaded with fresh powder. He's willing to sell the shotgun parts and all the materials he has for them, in exchange for Three Units of Components. He will accept a unit of Salt or Stone as having the value of a unit of Components. He will accept charcoal as well, for the same value. Oh, and he says that the required powder could be manufactured by you, the other two stations will supply the materials, but they want 3/4ths the powder produced.

>Scouting South
The scouting team and the south guards report in that they found a side tunnel that could qualify as a source of stone. If the mining tools were repaired, the stone could be mined. Due to darkness and difficulty digging through rocks, they were able to discover a pile of salvage.... but they were not able to bring anything back. They saw what could be tools, parts, or broken weapons. Certainly a lot of components and gravel.

>Decision time, first two in to 3 or most in 23 hours
Pick from one of the numbers above or do a "write in"
You have 2 basic actions per turn to dedicate to whatever you want to get done. Using them both on the same thing provides bonuses.
>>5288370 (You)
See ^ for better descriptions

>1. Construction
>2.Scouting
>3.Interact or Negotiate
>4.Manufacturing
>5.Research
>6.Training
>7.Salvage

Note to Self, we are beginning Week 4

>>5290066
TRADE:
Give our 2 units of stone (we aren't building anything in a while and we need weapons more badly, plus we saw there's still 2 units of stone not collected we know of)
And 1 unit of Charcoal (dunno how many units we have, but fuel is "strong")

For the weaponry. Stone won't help us against enemies in the tunnels outside of our base.

Double Up Action:
>7.Salvage (with the Stalkers, give them 33% as was agree'd upon)
>7.Salvage (with the Stalkers, give them 33% as was agree'd upon)

While we have a good bonus, let's capitalize on it gents!

>>5290092
Salvage what?

>>5290094
Oh yeah.
Uh, there's still stuff at the surface right?
"We currently know there is salvage on the surface, but we can't get to it."
Plus there's also that other 2 units of stone we have left behind.

>surface

>>5290114
If our filters are getting fix, this should do. A little worried about our lighting for going back to the north tunnel. But we do have the south tunnel to work on for hopefully stable supply of stone.

>>5290092
How about seeing if the can fix the mining tools in the trade deal as well? So we can make a long term deal with the stone we get.

After this turn and assuming the tool are repaired. We can probably construct an outpost for the stone in the south side tunnel.

Note to self, for balance and logic reasons I am halfling the price of food. Take mental notes that hungry groups will consider food at double the usual value now.

>Nourishment Consumables
Balanced Meal (2 weeks production and use):
A balanced meal provides slightly elevation in morale, health, and happiness. It is produced daily and consumed daily in proportions suitable for 200 people. It requires 1 unit of Raw Food, 1 unit of Vegetables, 1 unit of Charcoal, and 3 units of Water (Deep Well and Water Cleaning operation is at peak usage). The production cycle runs for two weeks for the Material/Resources provided. It's value is about 12 units of Wood or Components

So I don't have to constantly post what our supplies are and so on, I will have a Google doc people can comment/suggest for.... as where I will keep records for that.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jslqd1c_oAGvYU4TIma5dYu80Er9Z0kfamClOn5bX0/edit?usp=sharing

It's also how we will keep track of what things cost, how to craft things, and perhaps where we are on various tech trees.

If you roll high enough, I will automatically update the thing, otherwise you're stuck keeping track of things by suggesting on your own.

>>5290203
That's fair, though could we not do that after a binge of salvaging?

>>5290391
Yeah. Best to go full bonus on the turn. Since we would have to Negotiate. Just hope if things go well they'll help with the south while they're at it. It will give us extra input on the area.

>>5290092
>>5290114
Sounds good, let's get that loot!

>>5290092
>>5290114
This

>>5290664
>>5290547
>>5290092
Someone roll 4d100

Rolled 29, 53, 19, 81 = 182 (4d100)

>>5290669
Let's go.

Rolled 1, 3, 2 = 6 (3d4)

>>5290677
Strong Success
[Green]Moderate Success[/green]

Rolling

>>5290677
While you update QM, do you prefer us to primarily leave new weapons research alone and just use what is currently listed? Seems you've gone and went to make a more crunchy than fluffy weapons and ammo system.

Rolled 15, 10, 14 = 39 (3d21)

>>5290678
Weapons, Armor, Electronics

>>5290680
Tier 3 Weapons,
Tier 2 Armor
Tier 3 Electronics

Junior had devoted spare and active manpower to salvaging the buildings that were on the surface. Since only the STALKER team could go up there, the people ended up designing pulley, crane, and decontamination areas. They had recovered 30 "Borz" machine pistols (-1 to hit), around the same number of steel breastplates....like worn by assault engineers during WW2, and about the same number of mostly fixable "ham" radios. There was 5 units of Parts and 15 whole units of Components. Matvei Aleksandrov insisted that his men make off with the "ham" radios, but the rest was left for "The Company".

Junior and Matvei go to the local firing range to test out some of the Borz machine pistols, along with one of the "dud" steel breastplates. An uncontrolled burst comes out and then the weapon jams for Matvei, the same happens to Junior after he's emptied half a magazine.

"Hahahah, the magazine barely works at all, but the ammunition still fires!"

Junior looks at his smoking machine pistol, which seems to fire 9x18mm Makarov and have the same range as a pistol, the fire-rate and magazine capacity of an SMG. "I think my people can figure out how to fix these, and then they will be good as new. Perhaps the scrapped parts from the weapons we found last week can be used."

"That's the spirit!" Matvei pats him on the back and smiles, before pointing at the breastplate hanging from a dummy. "The bullet has pinged off at less than 10 meters! So these middle age knights armor provide some protection after all!"

Junior scrunched up his nose and brow, wondering where he would use or sell such heavy and barely protecting armor.

"Hey... You could come by sometime, maybe meet the Ebony Arachnid, leader of the Amazons!..... Oh well, I have to go now. I'll likely be back later."

The group of STALKERs load their cut into their "pump-carts". The radios, the two units of stone, and the unit of charcoal. He's left behind the 30 damaged 9.6x53mm Lancaster Mosin Shotguns and materials, as agreed upon.

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EVENT! REFUGEE CRISIS!

>>5290679
Oh there is a ton of fluff for that, I just didn't want to drown people in it. I already have ideas for all kinds of weird stuff. If you have the materials and the bounds of reason, have at it!
>>5290685
A wave of tired and dirty refugees from the west tunnel have entered into the station. There is no room for them in the stations further north, and so they are moved into the tunnel between The Company's two stations. The people are mostly able to work, after they can be cleaned and fed, given tents or blankets or something...... But now there are problems with resources, space, security, and organization.

>At the "Parade Ground", later that week

"Order! Order! The leaders are about to speak. Shut the fuck up you dogs!" Yells the incredibly old and snarly looking "head advisor".

The room goes quiet, as old women and children stare at the head advisor. A few boys and teenagers chuckle, some older men, adults, and adult women roll their eyes. Considering that refugees means danger and having to be more careful with resources, along with the fact that the settlement has people outside the "traditional command structure"....An actual system of order has to be arranged now.

>Decision time, first two in to 3 or most in 23 hours

Political System

Declare State of Emergency (State of War/Martial Law)
+ Cost of professional and part time soldiers decreases to minimal cost, ability to conscript at will is available.
+ Increased Order, protestors and spies get arrested
+ Walking patrols through the two stations
-
- Automated Organic Production Decreases 25-50%
- Some orders take longer to carry out (1-3 days)

OR

Limited Democratic Institutions
+Automated Organic Production Decreases 25-50%
+Some orders take longer to carry out (1-3 days)
+Decrease to Infant/Child Morality of 50%
+Food production increases 50%
+Food consumption (Mostly waste) drops 25%
-
-Cost of professional soldiers increases noticeably
-Civilian Oversight (Technically you're the civilian administration so you oversee yourself)
-Require Consensus to go to War (You shot the two officers, who would lead anyone in war anyways)

Economic System

Y/N (No means nothing changes and you have ultra simple economic system instead like now)

Increase Oversight of Resources
+Decrease to Infant/Child Morality of 50%
+Food production increases 50%
+Food consumption (Mostly waste) drops 25%
+50% more Industry (1d100 Civilian Manufacturing, 3d100 Military Manufacturing)
-
- Automated Organic Production Decreases 25-50%
- Some orders take longer to carry out (1-3 days)

>>5290685
Let's see
5 Parts - 33% is about 3 Parts
15 -33% is about 10 new Components
30 "Borz" machine pistols (broken but fixable).

A fantastic haul!

>He's left behind the 30 damaged 9.6x53mm Lancaster Mosin Shotguns
I am confused. Is that all the same gun and is that 30 shotguns + 30 machine pistols?

For the scale of the game timespan will pop growth matter? Junior is probably going to die if we're talking multiple generations.

Each turn being a week I don't believe pop growth by babies necessarily more advantageous than recruitment.

>>5290693
By "Organic Production" I presume you mean organically grown non-foodstuffs. Plants for fuels and chemicals or drugs or stuff.

I vote:
>>Increase Oversight of Resources
At this early stage in the game, while we have peace, manufacturing and industry will do us well. We're getting new mouths to feed and hands to work anyway. Increasing our manufacturing means better trade with the Stalkers and also potentially opening up to the Amazons as well, but also means we can arm our new people better even if we can't yet conscript them

>>5290698
They're just taking the radios
>He's left behind the 30 damaged 9.6x53mm Lancaster Mosin Shotguns
The trade discussed earlier
>>5290700
At this time span, not likely.
>>5290703
>Organic Production
It means "automatically, without being asked".

>>5290708
>Lancaster Mosin Shotguns
Just realized you are speaking of one type of gun. A shotgun, of the Mosin Company, firing lancaster shells. Didn't realize Mosin made shotguns. Neato.

Question all three options say:
"Automated Organic Production Decreases 25-50%"
but for Limited Democratic Institutions it's treated as a +. Why is this?

>>5290703
I'm a tad bit worried about the amazons, to be honest. Gotta wonder about what happened to all their men...if the bandit pop was higher I would have been convinced they were a female bandit faction. Instead still rather concerned but they seem to not be entirely hostile and are interested in males...but like I said wtf happened to all their goddamn men? They are also scarily well armed, trained, and even got the drop on the Stalkers. I highly doubt they are going to leave us alone if they are hurting that badly for men and just gained a new exploration option for themselves.

I don't know about the stalkers though. I would think that they are either STALKER as in Anomaly hunters but in which case they are awfully far away from where they should be. Otherwise, are we talking Metro style? Either way, it would mean they are mean sons of bitches. At least they seem friendly.

>>5290700
Yeah, we can't rely upon passive population growth because of that. We also don't exactly have the room for actual recruitment drives. Everyone is living in barracks and has a shared soup kitchen. We are heavily militarized but we have no steady supply of materials or tools to expand. Not to mention as a military faction all we are good for is muscle but...we lost our entire armory and the area isn't dangerous enough that we can offer our services to others easily. The optimum goal would be to find a think tank or merchants and offer our services but in this area would even they even need our protection? All we have to offer is our expertise and we don't have the gear to go with it.

>>5290713
A shotgun, made by Molot and others, that looks exactly like a WW1/WW2 Mosin Bolt Action Soviet Rifle. It has a smoothbore, but technically is rifled in the last 25% of the barrel.
>>5290066
See images here ^
>but for Limited Democratic Institutions it's treated as a +. Why is this?
Fuck
**Increases**
>>5290721
STALKER is term used in Metro series yes.

>>5290724
Metro style Stalkers? Oh shit those guys are badasses. Also, those amazons are some mean bitches too for getting the drop on them. Talk about having some scary neighbors up north. I don't like that.

It would seem the Stalkers intend to turn us into a munitions depot and arms supply station. Makes sense. Enough military guys to protect it without relying upon your own people and they have the expertise to make everything without ripping you off like proper merchants.

>>5290693
Question what skills do the refugees have(as in what types of factions do they originate from)?
As that will have a huge impact on what we should do in terms of reforms. All our guys are grunts and meatheads whose only interest in manufacturing and trade is limited solely to logistics that involve killing things better and staying alive. If they are bandits or fellow meatheads no reason to change or go with martial law.

Rolled 5, 2 = 7 (2d6)

>>5290726
>Question what skills do the refugees have(as in what types of factions do they originate from)?

>>5290727
They are a band of reasonably educated craftsmen, engineers and scientists, just trying to add more technology, equipment, and reason to the world! You can see the old and young among them, the female and male. They clutch at what books and materials they had been able to flee from their homes with.

"We have fled the two stations of The Leningrad Revolutionary Soviet Workers Commune! It's horrible! Horrible! They've banned religion and open trade! We've been blacklisted and beaten under the accusations of being traitors, counter-revolutionaries, and Jews! I think I was even called a member of the 'snobbish intelligensi'! They have armor just like yours, machineguns, rifles, and everything is converted to wartime production!"

Junior ends up spending a whole minute wrestling with an old guy, who is trying to take his revolver from him, so he can commit suicide.

>>5290742
...so everything but merchants and diplomats well that certainly changes things.

>>5290693
>Limited Democratic Institutions
>Y

They are literally all civilian crafters, engineers, and researchers. They won't like military law and we might as well take advantage of the boosts they can offer and throw them a bone. Not like they can beat us anyhow.

>>5290693
Political:
>Limited Democratic Institutions
Economic:
>Increase Oversight of Resources
We rolled good on our starting region. The threats are reduced, and we have a trading partner that could be future ally. As long as we don't go to war prematurely, we can work on improving our overall situation and it might endear us to our fellow bunker dwellers.

They also offset each other well. The loss and gain in automated food production will hopefully even out, we gain 100% in manual food turns, -50% food consumption from loss, and big decrease to child mortality which will be good for morale. Now and again we may need to spend actions to make food, but they will be very effective actions. And that's a very juicy military manufacturing bonus!

>>5290747
>>5290803
Agree with these

>>5290803
+1

>>5290803
I will agree as well. Since I'm thinking we can become a well defend supply base. I did hope the auto production will let us get away with not worrying about some small things.

>>5290721
Understandable worries about the Northern Amazons. Although now we have another threat with the west "The Leningrad Revolutionary Soviet Workers Commune". Get the feeling our siding with tolerance will not agree with their ideology.

I'm glad we at least have a chance for continued peaceful interaction with the stalkers. Would of like it if we got some radios. Those would've been great for outpost making.

>>5290997
Honestly, I'm worried that the auto production won't be able to keep up with the pop influx if we keep getting so many new people, particularly of the undisciplined variety. Not to mention with actual civilian professionals we could probably get better results this way anyhow.

Yeah, commies sound like very bad news. They at the very least have us severely outgunned and out armored. Radios would be nice but thanks to us being underground their range would be shit without constant relays. We would be better off with wire tappers but those could be easily cut.

>>5291086
It almost certainly won't, but I guess we really can do a food action now and again. Plus we can also try and upgrade our organic auto production to compensate.

>>5290882
>>5290803
>>5290747
>>5290837
>>5290997
"Order! Order! The administer is about to talk you scurvy dogs!" The advisor yells out, slamming something like a gavel on a flat wooden surface. Junior steps up and stands behind the speaking pedestal.

"People of the Company and the civilian population within it's too stations." Junior looks down at his notes. He had practiced, but there was not enough time to memorize most of his speech. "The senior leadership of administrators and advisors know that we live in desperate times, where adaptation and change is necessary for survival. We can continue to live like the world has not ended, like we are not living in stations, and there is not threats around every corner...... Or, we can adapt, improve, and become stronger..."

Junior looks around at the audience, the various senior craftsmen, squad leaders, and refugees.

"As such, while this remains a military station, which resolves around our strong, proud, military company.... We are now opening up democratic institutions... We have a shortage of trained, military officers, and I am currently working on improving myself to fill the capability we are missing.... At the same time, we are missing officers, because I shot both of them.."

Junior looks up again, watching each of them. "Now, we all don't like to talk about that week, but we all know that most of the population was behind the faction that eventually won out. I am glad that we didn't lose too many people, and the violence was somewhat brief......."

Junior's eyes move to the senior veterans in the room, not all of them are available as some are watching the various tunnels, in shifts. Some of the younger men can't make it either for the same reason.

"We are shifting to a more professional, more volunteer based military. We will be maintaining our policy of every man and woman being armed, to safeguard our liberty from oppression.... According to these standards... We will be increasing the living standards of our professional soldiers. We will also be giving you increased authority within your squads. I and the other leadership will give the political objectives, we will trust in you to make them happen."

Junior looks down at his sheet of paper and sighs out.

"At the same time, resources are limited and our population is growing. We are giving more control to the most experienced members of each trade, as such, we are going to need to produce some oversight. We know this will create more paperwork, but opening up will create more transparency. The people will oversight us, and we will oversight the people. This is a society of growth, production, honor, stability, and responsibility. Everyone works, everyone defends the station, everyone eats, everyone speaks.

Today we declare the new dawn of The Social Republic of The Company, Honor, Glory and Liberty!"

The motto had been changed. It used to be "Honor, Glory, and Victory". However, Glory came from Victory, it was implied.

>>5291214
GOVERMENT SHIFT, REVOLUTION AND CHANGE! ALERT ALERT!

They have Average Stockpiles, Average Negotiation, Average/Excellent Manufacturing Capacity, Poor Research, and Good Martial Training

With the improvement in oversight and democracy institutions, women have been petitioning for radical changes in how childbirth and childrearing function. Women have also taken over the logistical aspect of the Company. In the process of the weeks passing, the feminist spirit has given way to increased independence, initiative, high morale, and strong loyalty.

The Department of Food and Department of Crafting have already self-organized and are providing suggestions for improvements to the trapping, farming, and hunting system.

>Advanced Trap and Hunting System
4 Wood + 8 Components + 8 Parts + Good Civilian Industry (Amazon qualifies) = ATHS
Requires 1 Unit of Food or Fertilizer/Waste or Expired Food
Produces 2 Units of Fresh Meat in 1-4 weeks (Supports 200 people for 1 week)

>Improved Gardens
18 Components + 9 Wood + 2 Parts + 3 Electronic Parts + Heating Lamps (Already Present)
Requires 1 Unit of Fertilizer/Waste or Expired Food + 10 Units of Water (More than you can purify at once)
Produces 4 Units of Vegetable Food in 3 Weeks

NEWS, TELEGRAM WIRE
FROM MATVEI....STOP
OTHER TWO STATIONS WANT TO MEET... STOP
MORE STRUCTURED AGREEMENTS QUESTION MARK... STOP
CLEARING TUNNELS BETWEEN STATIONS QM... STOP
FOCUSING SECURITY TEAMS OUTWARD QM... STOP

>>5291238
Pick from one of the numbers above or do a "write in"
You have 2 basic actions per turn to dedicate to whatever you want to get done. Using them both on the same thing provides bonuses.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jslqd1c_oAGvYU4TIma5dYu80Er9Z0kfamClOn5bX0/edit?usp=sharing
See ^ for better descriptions

>1. Construction
>2.Scouting
>3.Interact or Negotiate
>4.Manufacturing
>5.Research
>6.Training
>7.Salvage
NEW ACTION
>8. Political Action
Rally Population/Give Speech/Declare Moral or Political Opposition/Proclaim New Principles/Change "Constitution"

>>5291238 (You)
>Decision time, first to 3 or most in 23 hours
Pick from one of the numbers above or do a "write in"
You have 2 basic actions per turn to dedicate to whatever you want to get done. Using them both on the same thing provides bonuses.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jslqd1c_oAGvYU4TIma5dYu80Er9Z0kfamClOn5bX0/edit?usp=sharing
See ^ for better descriptions

>1. Construction
>2.Scouting
>3.Interact or Negotiate
>4.Manufacturing
>5.Research
>6.Training
>7.Salvage
NEW ACTION
>8. Political Action
Rally Population/Give Speech/Declare Moral or Political Opposition/Proclaim New Principles/Change "Constitution"

>>5291266
>3.Interact
With the two stations that want to meet including the amazons.
>2 Scout
North we kinda need materials since we are out of almost everything but fuel and food. Hopefully, we can find something.

>>5291277
Haven't we previously gone as far north as was safe?
We could try east and west.

>>5291266
Question:
Do our North Base allies think another salvage trip to the surface is worth it or have we pretty well cleaned up what's nearby.

Is it better to do a scouting action of an area first before we salvage?

(I'm hoping we do at least one salvage action somewhere, we have two more weeks left of their bonus help)

>>5291284
>(I'm hoping we do at least one salvage action somewhere, we have two more weeks left of their bonus help)
>His people have a selection of broken weapons and weapons parts they are willing to sell, and his team is also willing to help you salvage for about a week (+2d100 to salvage), in exchange for a cut (33%) of what they find.

>>5291289
Oops!
Mybad, I misremembered. Thanks

>>5291279
At this point, all the places that are safe are largely exhausted in terms of loot unless we get lucky but now we got guns and can fight our way to areas with loot still despite the danger. North was the direction we previously hadn't gone before because it was blocked off(it was also where we encountered the amazons who even beat up the Stalkers). Its why we got loot easily there first but now there is no easy loot.

So I wanna find out what dangers are lurking and what loot they are guarding so we can plan to kill them all and take it. Hopefully, in the process find routes to more resources and stations.

>>5291284
We are out of materials to repair shit with. So we got nothing but our dicks in our hands in terms of manufacturing and apparently, the Stalkers are busy clearing the tunnels between stations. As they just sent a message that they are busy.

>>5291266
>3 Interact
I hope it will be alright to work it in this action. I want to ensure we have a presence on the southern stone source/Salvage and at the same time help clear the north tunnels with Matvel.

>2 Scout
Since the new people can from the west. I think it will be best to find choke points or at least areas we can set up defenses from. I think it best not to give the western faction free ground up to the base or at the very least give us knowledge of the area if we where to need to fight back.

---

I get the feeling wood will be a problem resource for a while. Unless we get luckily with new filters to loot floor boards or something.

>>5291331
Nice. I wonder how hard will it be to take over the interchange station there to the south. Leaving the ground floor as the main unknown for people from the west.

>>5291327
>We are out of materials to repair shit with.
Control f is your friend. So is the Google Doc
>>5291327
>3 Interact
>I hope it will be alright to work it in this action. I want to ensure we have a presence on the southern stone source/Salvage and at the same time help clear the north tunnels with Matvel.
I don't understand how this is an Interact action, unless you want to ask Matvel to help clear the north and help defend the south.

Further interactions with either of the northern stations appear to require going there in person, according to the last telegram that came in.

>>5291345
Probably better if I word it has troop deployment. To guard our southern stone scouted area and help clear out the northern area from our end. I wasn't sure if that would be to much for one action.

>>5291350
It can be roped into an Interact action, but Junior still has to go to "STALKER Station".

>>5291330
Eh I will switch to this. We should probably find some hard points to fortify for when the commies come to us. I would like to deal with negotiating with the northern stations though. Both desire the same kind of actions just in different directions.

>>5291350
Need to fix mining tools and find a way to fortify newly mined out areas to prevent collapses. We have engineers now though. Gonna need that stone and gravel to build fortifications.

>>5291266
Just in case the reworded action as a solo post.

>Troop deployment.
Guard our southern stone resource scouted area and help clear out and secure the northern area from our end. In hopes to speed up the meeting and get Junior to STALKER Station.

>2 Scout
Since the new people can from the west. I think it will be best to find choke points or at least areas we can set up defenses from. I think it best not to give the western faction free ground up to the base or at the very least give us knowledge of the area if we where to need to fight back.

>>5291362
>Need to fix mining tools...
True, after the meeting I was thinking we can see about fixing those tools.

>>5291368
>>5291362
>>5291279
>Scouting West
Locked in

>Fortify South and West
Requires 8 Wood/Metal + 2 Components + Skilled Engineer Team (Present)
Provides 1 point of armor, 1 point of concealment, +4/20 or 20/100 to (Perception) Checks, +2/12 to Units Morale Checks (Units all pass on 9/12, and qualify as "Hero" levels of morale. There is no risk of rout till they take 75% losses. Units take no morale penalties for being suppressed or taking wounds. )

>>5291368
Switching to this again.

>>5289265
-This is my most recent thread. All serious players from here only identify themselves and get special treatment (Votes counted as slightly more)
>>5290229 and >>5291312 are both me.

>>5290803
-They also offset each other well. The loss and gain in automated food production will hopefully even out, we gain 100% in manual food turns, -50% food consumption from loss, and big decrease to child mortality which will be good for morale. Now and again we may need to spend actions to make food, but they will be very effective actions. And that's a very juicy military manufacturing bonus!
Even better, because >>5290724
-See images here ^
->but for Limited Democratic Institutions it's treated as a +. Why is this?
-Fuck
-**Increases**
means
->Limited Democratic Institutions
+Automated Organic Production Decreases 25-50%
is instead
->Limited Democratic Institutions
+Automated Organic Production Increases 25-50%
We'd get a double stack if we merged
->Limited Democratic Institutions
and
->Increase Oversight of Resources
Which is what we did.

>>5291327
-We are out of materials to repair shit with.
>>5291345
-Control f is your friend. So is the Google Doc
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jslqd1c_oAGvYU4TIma5dYu80Er9Z0kfamClOn5bX0/edit?usp=sharing
States that we have
-Resources
and 15 whole units of Components. You need to take better notes - Head Crafter
-Parts
Unit of bent and rusted Mining Equipment
5 units of Parts
-Weapons
recovered 30 "Borz" machine pistols (-1 to hit)
30 damaged 9.6x53mm Lancaster Mosin Shotguns I’m keeping track of the broken firearms since you suck at this - Head Serzhant
From >>5290685
-There was 5 units of Parts and 15 whole units of Components.

>>5291368
>+1.
-True, after the meeting I was thinking we can see about fixing those tools.
So it's clear that we'll make contact with the STALKER Station, then use our next turn to fix the mining tools. Fixing the mining tools would fall under >>5291266
->4.Manufacturing
And I don't know the parts we need to fix the >>5288995
-Unit of bent and rusted Mining Equipment
Unless derusting and then sharpening it again would be simple and easy enough, that it would simply take time and one (1) action dedicated to it to fulfill.

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>>5291277
-North we kinda need materials since we are out of almost everything but fuel and food. Hopefully, we can find something.
>>5291279
-Haven't we previously gone as far north as was safe?
>>5288979
>"We have almost entirely salvaged the entire area for materials, Sir! The track has been cleared and we have temporary roadblocks out to this area. I don't like it Sir, our crank-lamps and headlights only can illuminate this area so much. We only got ambushed by...... something...a few times....A few shotgun blasts scared it off...
>>5288998
-We've salvaged as much of that area north of us in the tunnels. After that point it's too dark and too far away for now. We have three other directions and the surface. Those areas are not explored well, and those three tunnels are mostly already salvaged or decently dangerous.
For travelling North, we'd either need stronger sources (more powerful flashlights and lanterns, flares, and glow sticks), more light sources (such as placing torches periodically along the path, or equipping our units with more light sources like the aforementioned flares, glow-sticks, lanterns and flashlights), more transportation (like the >>5288370
-The trains mostly don't work, so it's a long ass walk or pushing on the railway pump-cars to get anywhere.
>>5289318
-The traveler has an SKS with a detachable 30 round magazine and a guard of about 9 other men, equipped with a mixture of the same and semi-auto shotguns. They came on three "pump carts". There was a lot of pointing of guns and shining lights into the darkness, but after that things have cooled down with the guards at the northern tunnel.
>>5290685
-The group of STALKERs load their cut into their "pump-carts". The radios, the two units of stone, and the unit of charcoal. He's left behind the 30 damaged 9.6x53mm Lancaster Mosin Shotguns and materials, as agreed upon.
pump-carts), and faster transportation (getting the trains working again).

Alternatively, we could either ask the STALKERs/Just North Station/"STALKER Station" to supply us some of their gear that they used to travel north, to accompany us while travel north, or tell us how they managed to travel North besides pump-carts.

Travelling north using the railway seems to be less dangerous than salvaging the area and splitting up into other tunnels along the way. To my understanding the limitation that prevents us from going north is for salvaging north, rather than simply travelling north along a used route diplomatically.

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Welcome ManyQuestionsAnon
>>5291394
There was typos, anything that has a positive next to it, should be positive. So plus 20% not minus, and so on. My bad.

You are correct, there was double-stacking and pluses negating minuses.
>>5291394
>-There was 5 units of Parts and 15 whole units of Components.
There was and is 5 units of Parts an 15 units of Components.
>-Unit of bent and rusted Mining Equipment
Basically nothing, we automatically make the required fuel and the tools can be polished, derusted, and bent back into shape... Or reshaped/reforged.
It would take a Manufacturing action, it's like a 100 pickaxes, shovels, and all kinds of stuff (100 items to equip 100 people in total).
>>5291403
>Alternatively, we could either ask the STALKERs/Just North Station/"STALKER Station" to supply us some of their gear that they used to travel north, to accompany us while travel north, or tell us how they managed to travel North besides pump-carts.
>Travelling north using the railway seems to be less dangerous than salvaging the area and splitting up into other tunnels along the way. To my understanding the limitation that prevents us from going north is for salvaging north, rather than simply travelling north along a used route diplomatically.

A single telegram is free (In terms of cost and actions)

>Initiative and Assistance Activated
>Thanks to recent policies

One of the civilians brings Junior's attention to the most recent telegram
>>5291238
According to the telegram: the other two stations are expecting us and welcoming us. There is also mention of "clearing the tunnels between the stations" and "Focusing the security teams outward". This indicates that our the STALKERS are willing to help us get around between these three station areas, and are willing to help us not get mauled while traveling between the stations.

"Focusing the security teams outward", could mean moving guards from the north tunnel to the south, east, and west tunnels. The STALKER station might be able to move it's security teams to Amazon or The Company Station. Amazon might be able to station forces at the north of it's station.

Note to Self, we are half way through Week 5

>>5291408
Thanks civilian for I wasn't thinking it in that way at all.

>3.Interact
So we need to reply to the telegram. Yes to the pick up and protection through the tunnels in-between us. Leaving minimal guards to the north just in case and keep the other directions the main focus for our defenses.

Hopefully not forgetting anything to reply with.

>>5291408
-Welcome ManyQuestionsAnon
Yes, that's me.

>>5291442
>+1.
That would mean modifying your prior action of >>5291368
->Troop deployment
-Guard our southern stone resource scouted area and help clear out and secure the northern area from our end. In hopes to speed up the meeting and get Junior to STALKER Station.
I'd say that change is reasonable for meeting up and linking up with the other two northern stations, now that we know they are capable of doing that.

>>5291453
Are you a third vote for visiting STALKER station?

>>5291457
Yes. The other 2 votes are >>5291368 and >>5291386
and I voted along the same lines as >>5291394
>>5291368
->+1.
-So it's clear that we'll make contact with the STALKER Station,
So it could be considered a switch to utilize STALKER Station's aid instead, and still intent on >>5291457
-visiting STALKER station?

>>5291471
>>5291368
>>5291386
Scouting West, Locked In
Head North to Interact, Locked In
Move Southern Guards South, Locked In

Someone Roll 2d100

Rolled 96, 80 = 176 (2d100)

>>5291476

Rolled 1, 31 = 32 (2d33)

>>5291477
Critical Scout
Rolling

>>5291471
-and >>5291386
I meant >>5291391.

>>5291277
Is also viable with the backing of the STALKER station up north.

Rolled 47, 35, 26 = 108 (3d52)

>>5291484
Rolling personality

Rolled 13, 7, 14 = 34 (3d20)

>>5291492
>Looks at cards
>oh shit.png
Rolling Wisdom Save

File: Saint Petersburg Flag.png (39 KB, 1278x874)

39 KB PNG

>>5291497
The Head Administrator is frustrated. He rubs at his temples and paces, before looking back at "Junior".

"You have been incredibly ambitious and have been making so many decisions on your own.... The Advisor is frustrated because he imagined he would be in charge of things, and I myself find myself relegated to paperwork...... But at the same time.... We're making a lot of progress.... You are loosing up central control....Morale is high.... And our military capacity is growing....."

He taps his fingers against his cane and looks up at you, standing there in his old military clerk uniform.

"I'm going to insist that things go through me first in the future.... But for now I am going to rubber stamp everything so far."

>The Journey North
Interact/Negotiate, Strong Success
"Junior" and a team of the northern guards, along with some extra clerks and support staff have advanced up the north tunnels to meet Matvei and his team of STALKERS. The path between the two tunnels is clear now and Junior arrives via push-cart without too many complications. Some strange beasts had to be fought off, there was an attack of rats at one point when the carts got stuck, but other than that, not too bad. No one wounded, no one harmed, and no trauma so far.

The station appears to be in good condition like the home station, but is considerably less militarized. It has about as many guards as you'd expect facing north and south in shifts. They have 12 gauge shotguns as well and some pistols, along with worse armor and likely worse training. You do a quick check of their research and civilian manufacturing areas, and they indeed were better than yours.... but you feel your civilian manufacturing will really improve due to reforms and new immigrants.

You had decided to bring a whole unit of Alcohol with you, enough to get two hundred people visibly buzzed. You hear quickly that the other two stations will cover the cost of the item, they add enough for 100 "drinks" more and they insist the 300 "drinks" be distributed among the leadership of the three stations. You had also brought a whole unit of Mushroom Tea (Enough for 200 people to drink for one week) and they are providing half a unit of "powdered drink mix, orange". The three stations will be drinking mixed drinks, using each other's materials and alcohol.

"Junior" shakes the hands of dozens of senior leadership of the two stations, men and women of different ages and dress. A "flag" of "Saint Petersburg" is seen over and over, handstitched and waving on poles or by peoples hands. There is a lot of local support and solidarity with current "reforms" over at "The Company Station". Matvei, the various guests, and other likeminded people have "peer pressured" the station's administrators to adopt matching "reforms" to your own station. There is even talk of a "super-stational union", to be known as "The Social Republic of Saint Petersburg".

>>5291525
Scout West, Critical Success, Yes AND!

Junior looks at a telegram sent from his home station.

SCOUTS FOUND 8 SCRAP...STOP
REFUGEES FORT WEST BUSY TWO WEEKS.. STOP
NO SCRAP NOW YOU SAID FORT WEST Y DASH N QM...STOP

>Three Station Leadership Meeting

There is a table that seats 4 people. Matvei is facing you, the "Ebony Arachnid" is to your left, and... some grumpy guy who should be running this station.... is sitting to your right. (I will be using letters to the left, to show who is speaking. I'm not in the mood for speech tags.)
Matvei always keeps his protection mask hanging from him and has a headlamp mounted to a modified aramid combat helmet. He wears clothing that protects from the elements and breathes (Polyester/Wool/Rubberized Fabric?), along with a ballistic vest he complains is heavy. "Ebony" is dressed in...... A dress that appears to be tapered/tailored to fit specifically her. She does not have her vest on, but has a rifle on her back and two holsters on. She's a short-haired blond in her mid-30s, which means she's possibly always been in charge of her station. You heard earlier she's one of the oldest people in her station.

M "I've been hearing you are putting in place new reforms and trying to allow for advancement in your stations, this is wonderous news!"

EA "Indeed... I've been hearing from the women in your congregation that the reforms are exceptionally popular and that your children are thriving."

GG "Who is this... young foal...and why are they in charge of anything?" The Grumpy Guy is dismissing you, possibly. You're having trouble concentrating because something soft is rubbing up against your left leg.

"There was a violent leadership struggle and I decided it should be cut short.... So I shot two members of the previous leadership in the face..... You would've have liked them, they were very domineering.... not very supportive of outsiders..."

EA "I can appreciate a man who is willing to handle things on his own. If you want things done right, you often have to do them yourself." You is possibly sending friendly, possibly flirting signals to you.

"Which is why I am here." Junior acts like nothing is happening, but he gives a small smile to her, before looking at the others for a brief moment. "What is your name by the way?"

EA "You and our exploring friend can call me Kira." She seems quite happy right now.

"Well then.... Kira.... I am Gustav. I am the junior administrator, so some people call me 'Junior'."

EA "I think they should call you John Wayne" No one else but Junior seemed to see the wink.

"Hmmm, well Kira, I think that we should talk about something besides my leadership abilities and accuracy with a revolver. Right Matvei?"

M "Mhmm, Da. Friend Gustav is correct. I think my station should move some of it's guards to both your stations, to help you with security."

>>5291567
Kira "I agree.....I would like to personally send half my security forces and myself to assist John here. Your map says you have three tunnels that you need to secure. I would like to help."

Gustav adjusts his glasses and gets out his notebook, along with a folding map. He checks the notebook, and turns around the map, point to an area.

"There is a two or three station wide communist dictatorship to my west. They have sent about 30 scientists, engineers, and mechanics fleeing. I am currently trying to fortify that entrance to my stations now."

K "Mmmm, you're supposed to be soldiers yes?"

"We are what remains of a company of soldiers. All my people are trained to shoot, and we all take turns guarding the entrances. Everyone works, everyone guards, everyone eats, everyone speaks."

M "We should definitely provide enough forces to assist you. This is a very grave threat, worse than the boars on the surface..... You have high quality training facilities right?"

"Indeed. Likely some of the best facilities you will ever see. I am however concerned with the reported armaments' of our enemies and the current armaments of your two expedition groups."

GG "Well if you want any weapons or repair parts or Components, that will come out of our stockpiles. What do we get?"

"Food production for ourselves appears to be increasing. We discovered a Stone mine and a whole unit of Miner's Tools. We can pay in stone production over time, and if we can't pay our debts...We can sell the repaired weapons back to you.

K "My station's settlers were mostly women and our main capabilities are civilian manufacturing, child-welfare. My team are all experienced fighters, but the rest of them are craftsmen and mothers mostly. We're willing to devote the bulk of our military resources and recruits, along with all further training to you... If you will allow us to take responsibility of the education of our shared children."

M "So the youngest will be at Kira's station, and depending on outlook or community needs, they will be trained further in a specialized station....."

"It would certainly go with my communities increased regulations and transparency... We would all be part of the same whole and all capabilities will be our best possible. My stations are eager to assist your own with matters of security. We have been waiting our whole lives to have others we can assist, in the hopes we could get help with research and civilian manufacturing..... We're very specialized."

GG "If we're going to be one political entity, who is going to be in charge?"

"Each station will run it's own affairs, I will be organizing the military for the south section, Kira will manage it for the north. Civilian Manufacturing, if possible will be Kira's problem, Military Manufacturing will be mine.... Your station can handle finding raw materials on the surface and helping us with research"

>>5291604
QM's/Programmers Notes

The personalities for both Matevi and Kira were "Very Social, Pro-Justice and Welfare of Others". Kira's minor personality was rolled as "moderately ambitious, looks for responsibilities in any organization they are in". Matevi's minor personality is that he's not afraid and won't be pushed around. I rolled for what either of these stations were like (On contact or before any post they were first mentioned), and what they sucked at or were good at.

Junior (The players) decided that Democracy and Regulation would both be good. This caused Junior the character to auto-accept suggestions of further organization, specialization, and sharing power. Ergo, auto-accept agreements of three station unity, power-sharing, and so on. I've also read the player's conversations and generally got the impression they wanted to trade security to others, for various types of help (Be policemen or mercenaries).

Kira's personality is that she's seductive. This was not rolled for, it's ripped from source material. I rolled for the player's Wisdom Save, her roll for Charm, and the players roll for Charm. The Vague Description of What Happened is currently behind lockdown unless someone votes for it.

>Decision time, first to 3 or most in 23 hours
Pick from one of the numbers above or do a "write in"
You have 2 basic actions per turn to dedicate to whatever you want to get done. Using them both on the same thing provides bonuses.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jslqd1c_oAGvYU4TIma5dYu80Er9Z0kfamClOn5bX0/edit?usp=sharing
See ^ for better descriptions
>1. Construction
>2.Scouting
>3.Interact or Negotiate
>4.Manufacturing
>5.Research
>6.Training
>7.Salvage
>8. Political Action

Major Decision, vote mf'ers
Accept Kira's suggestion for consolidation of young children and mothers at her station, further education (For all children) split among the stations.
Reject Kira's suggestion

Major Decision, vote mf'ers
Improve Relations Further With Kira.
Be Paranoid Of Station that is mostly women and highly trained killer woman who has seduced you into bed somehow. (Drinking was possibly a bad idea).

>>5291621
Fuck so she seduced us after all...to be honest I figured she would have sent someone else to seduce us instead of doing it herself goddamn. Sticking our dick in the deadly milf boss of the Amazons who mysteriously have no men of their own...

Goddamn

>Reject Kira's suggestion
Our own faction's women are already dividing themselves to handle internal logistics in our own faction and apparently the amazons really like that fact on top of wanting to fuck us. I really don't trust them at all. At least until I know what happened to all their goddamn men.

Now I'm suspecting that they are actually a bandit faction again.

>Improve Relations Further With Kira.
Alas we already stuck the dick in her...so a bit too late for regrets and she seems interested for whatever reason. Maybe we can use this to our advantage and figure out what is actually going on with her faction. Like seriously. The offer is TOO good and they are TOO dangerous. Keeping boning her and see if we can get her to open up. If she is suspicious about refusing her other offer claim it's because we wish to get to know our potential allies better before we make such a risky decision like transferring all our children away ect.

...Seriously though we haven't heard anything about what happened in her station or how it runs despite this trip? Not even during pillow talk? How quickly did she get us wasted and seduced? I'm actually pretty curious about what happened and if it has any useful clues.

>>5291567
Just case we need to reply to the telegram. Yes to west fort building.

>>5291655
I could see making a day care for the children, but yeah our women do work. So I agree to rejection of moving the mothers.

I hope we can pick a mix of improve relations yet be paranoid for the second option. Cause yeah we did the deed and there is more to learn of them before we can do a leap of faith.

Rolled 3, 6 = 9 (2d20)

>>5291655
>How quickly did she get us wasted and seduced? I'm actually pretty curious about what happened and if it has any useful clues.
>Loading Vague Description of What Happened.
Rolling for outcome.

>>5291661
All our women are trained fighters and moving towards an internal logistics capacity. So I find it a tad bit suspicious but why we should cripple ourselves by transferring over a huge chunk of manpower like that without damn good reason.

I only went with it as despite my paranoia we already did the dirty with her and might as well capitalize on it. Maybe we can discover something useful. If we hadn't already fucked her oh hell no I wouldn't have voted yes on improving relations with her. As is the damage is already done and backing out now will send the wrong message. I would like to find out why she felt the need to get us drunk first. Plus why are she and the rest of the amazons so desperate on the top of their lack of men? If we need to fuck her for some answers so be it.

>>5291662
>>5291655
>>5291670
Rolled 3, 6 = 9 (2d20)

Gustav is a reasonably fit, academic of an on officer...On paper.... He's never had alcohol before and he's never had sex, the guy is 20 and privacy doesn't exist for most of his home stations. Kira is a 33-35 year old woman in great shape for her age. She has two GSh-18's which are both capable of accepting suppressors and her entire loose band of about 10-30 professional fighters are all mostly in their 30s and 40s. Some of the band appear to have pictures of children and grandchildren, the children being from before the world ended. Some of these children are adults now, and you are under the impression that only the females who can fight or are back at the station are in their 40s. You have seen no mention of any males that are not children.

The women you've seen that are not part of her armed band, appear to be wearing revealing or tightly fitting clothing, that had extensions stitched in over the years. Imagine a tank top that shows the stomach, but someone tried stitching in the stomach, shoulders, and sleeves with a different fabric. These other women have tattoos of hearts, lipstick lipstain marks, and various titillating symbols.

Gustav's for some reason could not get his dick to work, but he completely had no idea what he was doing. Kira likely knew, but was also drunk and likely could not remember. Gustav was so undereducated about the process, that he still had a good time. Like alcohol, his tolerance for sexual arousal is basically nonexistent. Gustav wakes up the next morning with a pounding head, and the feeling that his manhood was milked almost to the breaking point. He would be ashamed and embarrassed if he had a reasonably memory of what happened. He just remembers a lot of orgasming and that she at least used a condom....Okay, like multiple condoms, one at a time.

Gustav looks in a mirror and has.......strange red smears running down his chest and along his neck. He has small round bruises that are slightly purple, but which do not hurt him. He has extremely faint bite marks as well, which also do not hurt. His ummm, area around the hips hurts so bad, he's currently trying to put ice wrapped in a bag on it. This station has ice thankfully.

Something doesn't add up.... The fact his manhood hurts so much means they went....what...four to eight times? He recalls his thing not working for some reason.... Perhaps it was an alcohol thing or shyness. So.... How come the condoms fit each time and why does he recall being in her each time?

>>5291684
>Decision Time, first to 3 or most in 24 hours!

>Find your clothing, get dressed and run screaming for Matevi. You need help!
Try and find Kira so you can apologize for giving her the worst sex any man has ever given a woman. Talk her into explaining what the fuck happened.
Get dressed and flee back to your station.
Try and figure out how to seduce Kira into explaining what the fuck happened.

All outcomes involving Kira will involve trying to figure out what the fuck is up with her station not having men. Bonus XP if you can guess right, right now.

>>5291686
I group of women brought together after this mess. Reason for no men is that they were drafted and never came back or these be ladies of the night that worked near military. Is what I got in my sleepy state.

>>5291684
>>5291686
...Snu snu and the condoms were absolutely not used for protection but rather storage for sperm in order to take it back. We got milked repeatedly.

Wait...suppressors...older women. Tattoos. No pictures of men. Only children and grandchildren. They got rid of their older sons but kept the daughters. Absolutely no references to any men at all but unless they are young children. They fucking loved the female empowerment and logistics takeover in our faction. They want dick, women, and children but not men...are they fucking Female Supremacists? Old World Feminists? Former Spooks?

If he wasn't actually hard but still cummed anyway they likely drugged and use penis pump on him to milk him dry. I kinda doubt that though given the soreness of his pelvis.

Getting him drunk was obviously because they wanted to take back the sperm and or intended to use special tools as well...wait special tools...

...the only ones with any kind of special equipment are Think Tanks. Especially considering the short life span of sperm outside proper storage and the time it would take to return to their station without the proper equipment. Are they a fucking think tank masquarading as a civilian station? It would explain their obsession with fucking men and the equipment to properly store sperm. As for not having men...their biotech specialization. Men are more disposable and they are female supremacy. Kira and her veterans are likely former spooks which is why the beat the shit out of the Stalkers who were hired by the Scientists for protection. The problem is their getting older and they got baited by us who empowered our own females making them bite.

The reason they need no men is simple. They have no wombs and their biotech requires wombs for their tech base/research and they can easily restock and store sperm properly with their tech base. How the fuck are they disposing of the men though. Not a very good guess though.

>>5291714
Dam now that is a thought about what is going on.

>>5286089
Kind of a non-related question, but are you guys learning any Eastern European/Slavic language? Any tips?

>>5291621
All right for actions I'm thinking.

>interact for Manufacturing
Work with the new factions to reapir-make missing tools and gear for mining.

Once lights, tools, and what not are ready. They can quickly be put into action. That is after ...

>1. Construction
The new educated people will survey the site for the stone and prepare the plans. I'm assuming we will need supports and what not like lighting to build our mine. Also possable outpost depending on it's location from the interchange.

Dang, we got a lot done I see

>>5292002
Backing.

>>5291875
Learn Interslavic
>>5292127
vote plz

>>5291686
>Try and figure out how to seduce Kira into explaining what the fuck happened.
The vote for this, since I assume we didn't guess correctly.

I think this rout will be better than punching down on our self.

>>5291686
Try and figure out how to seduce Kira into explaining what the fuck happened.

>>5292370
For myself, it has just been a long day. I wanted to vote something ingelligent. But failing that, I shall simply vote something.
>>5291686
>Try and figure out how to seduce Kira into explaining what the fuck happened.

Rolled 7, 4 = 11 (2d20)

>>5292661
>>5292002
>>5292314
Try and figure out how to seduce Kira into explaining what the fuck happened.

Someone Roll 2d20

Rolled 19, 5 = 24 (2d20)

>>5292666

>>5292666
>>5292693
Oh dear, I'm going to need extra time to write this.

>>5292729
...did we fail again or is it more snu snu?

>>5292735
Gustav developed a "fool-proof plan".

Step 1. Obtain data on the vulnerabilities of women
Step 2. Figure out his own advantages
Step 3. Seduce Kira
Step 4. Get answers

Steps 1 through 3 went off without any complications. Gustav was able to obtain a wide range of answers from various females in the area, who either thought they were finally being listened to, or helping someone who was now entering some kind of relationship. About a third of them thought he was flirting with them, so they were a bit disappointed.

Gustav managed to find Kira, overload her sense of danger and arousal, and bring her to orgasm, enough times to get her compliant and to give answers.

The problem was that halfway through the process he had a mental breakdown and said many, many "crazy" things that "did not make any sense". Gustav was healing and resting inside a rail-car, with an actually painful bite mark on his shoulder. He remembered being very angry and being borderline violent, which explains why he was bitten. She had tried to get away from him, managed to do so, and now he was avoiding being seen. In the rush, he had obtained a map and a notebook of her own.

Unfolding the map, he looked at it and realized it was a map of the surface and the station.... The area around her home..... He noticed some word he didn't recognize and would need answers. Trying to "patch himself up" and cover his "injuries", he managed to local one of the older members of his congregation. Showing them a map to them, he was explained what a "Red Light District" is, and what a "Prostitute" is. He also was informed about what a "Paramilitary Company " is as well.

Gustav returns to his station with what he realizes is actually a diary or "log" belonging to Kira. Within it, he realizes several mentions to a "John Wanye", who is "handsome". He is someone she finds "surprisingly exciting" and which has "awoken something deep inside of me". There is ramblings and speculations what this "John Wanye" is like and if he is truly a "poet, gentleman, and courageous soul". There is shaking handwriting that details mixed feelings and desires. There is fear and paranoid about John Wayne and men in general, but also a strong and powerful longing for John Wayne. Flipping back long enough, their are logs about "loneliness" and "coming to grips with the fact that I think I prefer men". There are large, bold, red text that details "Our incredibly inbred gene pool" and a "lack of male figures for the children".

Rolled 15, 72, 67, 67 = 221 (4d100)

>>5292661
I feel for you bro. Just so you know, in terms of the CYOF/TZAR setting going to be updating the faction rules (For all systems), and the faction rules for (Kill or Be Killed).
>>5292002
>>5292314
Rolling 4d100 to get this show off the road.

Rolled 20 (1d30)

>>5292761
>Mining Camp
4 Stone + 4 Wood/Metal = Mining Camp
Takes 8 weeks to construct (Strong Success, 6 weeks)

>End of Week 6
"How long is the mining going to take.....Shesh...... It looks like it'll take six weeks! ..... Hey hey don't worry.... We can get a unit of Stone from this mine a week and with the mine finished we can get about 2 units a week.......Assuming we have proper tools of course....The problem we currently have is that this mine is going to require a whole unit of population to run automatically......

We don't have the refugee people to help us with this, they'll be busy for the next week working on getting the West Tunnels finished and setup..... I've been over there and it looks mighty fine I dare say..... We got a fortified area overlooking two subway tracks.......Big ol'spot lights and what remains of a massive shotgun, about the size of a cannon really...."

Junior had sent the mining tools up north to have them repaired by better hands and to free up his own labor for the construction of this mining tunnel.

Rolled 1, 5 = 6 (2d6)

>>5292777
>Event
Bountiful Harvest

>>5292751
Man I must be tired as fuck I can hardly make sense of this. More questions than answers. Them being whores doesn't explain such high manufacturing or military capacity unless spooks.

Rolled 40, 45 = 85 (2d100)

>>5292778
"Administrator, we've had crazy plant-growth this week! The harvest quality is so good that it's attracted a swarm of rats! Luckily for us, we're all carrying around shotguns and shotgun revolvers.... So we were able to prevent them from doing too much damage..... In fact, I we're going to have extra food that is going to go to waste and attract more pests! We also have a whole unit of Meat from these rats! I highly advise we in the future prepare canning and smoking facilities to store this extra food! We should see about importing Wood from the Fins somehow."

>Faction Actions
North Station:
Send STALKER team to assist security of ally (Company Station), send 10 guards (Conscript Quality) as well
Amazon Station
Accept Mining Tools, fix them, expect portion of mined Stone going forward
Send Kira Team and 50% (10) of our guards (Conscript Quality)
North Station / Amazon Station:
Send spare manpower and actions to ally (Company Station), to help them with the mine. Loan all spare resources in expectation of getting a cut of mined resources.

>Rolling 2d100 Repair Action

>>5292791
About 60 able-bodied men and women arrive from the other two stations, bringing 100 mining tools with them. Based on body size and physical strength, they begin either doing handiwork or getting into manual labor. Together they, paired with the refugees mean that 1 unit of Stone will be produced automatically each week. The spare food just obtained is confused by these extra people.

The new guards who showed up are already training on our facilities and the expert guards are stationed at West Tunnel, which is well fortified.

>Decision time, first to 3 or most in 23 hours
Pick from one of the numbers above or do a "write in"
You have 2 basic actions per turn to dedicate to whatever you want to get done. Using them both on the same thing provides bonuses.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_jslqd1c_oAGvYU4TIma5dYu80Er9Z0kfamClOn5bX0/edit?usp=sharing
See ^ for better descriptions
>1. Construction
>2.Scouting
>3.Interact or Negotiate
>4.Manufacturing
>5.Research
>6.Training
>7.Salvage
>8. Political Action

>>5292801
Probably enough Construction till people are done. Assuming all fronts underground to the west are now being worked on. I think that will leave weapon repair from the last set we got. Finding a path to the fins or a source of wood for us. Which for that we need filters restocked for ground travel/scouting, correct? Unless we got a tunnel to search thought to get closer.

>4.Manufacturing
Finish repairs on the gear we have.

>2 Scouting
east to finish the area near by search or to find fins and/or wood, which ever comes first.

>>5292843
Backing.

Gotta keep scouting those tunnels. Hopefully, we found a route to the outside.

>>5292801
I agree, it sounds like a plan:
>>5292843

But I have a question. Would it be possible to find water or sewage pipes through the tunnels? Having an irrigation system would be useful as the population continues to rise.

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>>5292843
Support

Btw at some point, I am interested in testing what sort of guns we can make purely from scratch via materials. That is, what can we produce industrially rather than just repair old world guns.

We have many shotguns, SMGs, and Assault Rifles but no Machine Guns it seems. Either heavy MG's for static defense, or GMPG's for mobility.

Exactly what can we make reliably and in number? Old hand crank gatlings? Water cooled Maxims? MG3s or M240s? We are able to produce black powder in bulk, but what of Primer?

Same goes for rifles. What can we make from scratch, starting anywhere from Muskets to Bolt Actions to Semi-Auto without relying on salvaged gun parts but what we can make.

It would be good to have the capability to arm our population en masse at a notice if needed, where we may not have the time or ability to just go and try to find more guns to salvage or our stockpile of gunparts is low. That and we just simply do not currently have any machine guns for suppression fire iirc. Just SMGs which are more suitable for burst fire.

>>5293428
Once we find a nice stock of metals and parts or a source to mine the raw from to have excess. I would be down to experiment and research.

>>5293234
Yeah that is something to worry about. I assume we reuse some of the waste. Since it should help with farming.

Rolled 64, 86, 21, 90, 69, 32 = 362 (6d100)

>>5292843
>>5293069
>>5293234
>4.Manufacturing
Finish repairs on the gear we have.
>2 Scouting
east to finish the area near by search or to find fins and/or wood, which ever comes first.
Locked in, rolling

Rolled 6 (1d6)

>>5293776
Rolling more.

Rolled 1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 2, 6, 3, 6 = 30 (9d6)

>>5293780

>Scout East
Strong Success, Moderate Success
Matevi, his team, some spare labor from the other stations, and the people you devoted to the scouting groups.... have all managed to finish as much scouting as they could.

M "Hmmm, we managed to find only 4 units of Wood, 11 units of Components but we found 6 units of Parts, 3 units of Electrical Parts, and 6 units of Weapons Parts. And... perhaps the most promising find of all...... We found an actual, serious, Salt Mine.... It's going to require labor that we can barely spare....Food is going to have to be moved here..."

"Isn't my station currently growing enough for 300 people?"

M "Just about, but each of these mines is going to require 100 people each.... When the mines are finished, their output will double and we can reduce the labor down to half."

Gustav scratches that the short beard that fits inside a gas-mask, the longest a beard is allowed to be outside the elderly.

"Did we get any units of Salt or will that take time?"

M "Oh we found a whole unit of Salt and were able to load it onto the tracks. The filters can finally be reset, assuming our Amazon friends have enough man/womanpower. This salt mine is good enough that the scrapings will meet any requires for meat you have. "

>Repair all broken things available
Strong Success, Moderate Success

The 30 "Borz" machine pistols (-1 to hit) and 30 9.6x53mm Lancaster Mosin Shotguns had all been repaired into an almost "like-new" state. The professional guards automatically had divided the weapons up and trained with them.

Accidental Discovery
Cordite

The team of refugee scientists, along with some of the brightest minds of the Company and Amazon station are excited about a new discovery.

Head Refugee Scientist "This is an amazing discovery. Before were limited to Black Powder, which could be used in shotgun shells, revolver cartridges, muskets, single shot rifles, and the like. It's requires intense cleaning of the barrels and parts, puts out so much smoke, and has such limited energy.

This new discovery allows us to make 'smokeless powder', suitable for rifles and Lancaster shotguns..... I believe that if we have another week to examine our discoveries, we can figure out the processes for making Shotgun Powder and Handgun Powder as well....We figured out how to make and replace primers on the first day...."

Head Amazon Scientist "Your abundant supplies of sulfur and the various industrial/mining waste we have access to make this possible. "

"Once we have enough spare labor and metal, will we be able to experiment with firearms designs? We seem to have anything but a hand-cranked Gatling gun or a machine-gun of some sort."

The various bright minds look at each other, some coughing and others adjusting their glasses.

Head Refugee Scientist "We'd need an intense amount of cartridges for such a weapon."