Originally posted to Medium.com Aug 23, 2020 Huge apologies for the image quality here - I (stupidly) didn’t keep backups of the originals, and all I’ve got is the compressed versions from Medium.com directly. Hopefully they’re legible enough to enjoy the read.
Someone new arrives in the community… interesting.
I’m liking the idea of a complete outsider who knows something that the community doesn’t. Hmm, maybe they were drawn by the object that washed up in Week 2.
I’m going to add a moored boat. Someone has arrived who knows what that metal is, and is doing experiments on it. I ended up drawing it kinda like an oil tanker, which I’m into as well. Who the hell are these guys? Guess we’ll find out soon!
I’m going to skip my action this week: 2 new projects completed and random boats turning up is enough action for a while.
How old are the oldest members? Hmm, good question… Well, the natural answer is “not that old” because, well — everyone has a broken immune system and no food? Plus that’s why the children are so important and need to be so strongly protected.
If people die young, through famine and disease, I’m going to say they can’t even risk burying the bodies. The likelihood of infection is simply too high. I’m going to add burnt out funeral pyres to the top of the map. The closest this community gets to a tangible memorial.
For an action, I’m re-thinking of how important the children are again. I’m going to have the community discover a new, grounded mech and have the community refurbish it’s gun turret. It would at least help defend against whatever the hell is killing people at night… I add a grounded mech with a gun turret near the nursery.
There’s another community on the map somewhere. Oh boy, it’s perfect — more boats arrive. Who the hell are these lot? What do they want with the object that appeared on the shore?
A new project too — let’s get some crops going. Our people are starving, and some workable crops would be so much better than having to manually forage across the whole land for scraps of fruit. I add some fields towards the north of the nursery, and mark it as 6. It’s going to take a while to cultivate seeds, prepare the soil, etc.
OK, a bit of good news, finally — a good omen. What could it be though? Maybe a break though at the hospital? I like the thought that the people living their, led by Alice, have been working on a cure for the immunity deficiencies. And their experiments are showing promising results! I add a little medical tent-thing near the hospital. Science!
I’ll skip an action this week, and decrease our crop project by 1.