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« on: December 29, 2019, 07:40:16 pm »
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Mechanized Warfare: Inithar Thread / Revision Phase, 1939 Hot Season
« on: December 26, 2019, 12:45:11 pm »
M1939 Hunahuea & ‘Aka’ Combat Veil
Having witnessed first-hand the barbarity of the Embralish army on the field and their prolific use of chemical weapons in both offensive and defensive warfare, it became obvious to the Inithari army fellowship that makeshift protection, as had been used in the Homeland war on the rare occasion that much less potent chemical weapons were employed, would be insufficient to combat this new danger. Indeed, it appears inevitable that there would be a constant chemical threat on the battlefield. Thus began a drive to provide troops with protection in which they can remain fully functional.
The Aka line of combat veils are a one-piece overgarment impregnated with an active carbon liner, combined with a breathable and rugged rip-resistant outer fabric. The overgarment comes in the form of a poncho that extends down to the elbows when one’s arms are lowered and with additional fabric serving as the cowl, including a drawcord to ensure a tight fit. The rubber hunahuea is placed on top of the face and fastened prior to the tightening of the cowl to ensure a secure and comfortable fit, as well as make the piece easy for mass production. The mask is distinct for having two contoured screw-on filters to the sides and a two-layer respirator in the center. Active charcoal was chosen as the filtering medium due to its remarkable adsorbent properties and has been chemically treated such as to provide protection against LIE poisons for up to 20 hours, and at least an hour for a wide range of other common chemical species. Vision is provided for by replaceable plastic lenses. A drinking tube is designed into the central respirator and a straw included in regular field equipment. Other ancillary additions include gloves, made from the same rip-resistant fabric and liner, and rugged rubber overboots.
The combat veil is compatible with standard helmets and is included with our regular uniforms; with masks kept in pouches on the hip until needed; or alternatively worn around the neck, ready to be strapped on in a moment’s notice in the field.
Having witnessed first-hand the barbarity of the Embralish army on the field and their prolific use of chemical weapons in both offensive and defensive warfare, it became obvious to the Inithari army fellowship that makeshift protection, as had been used in the Homeland war on the rare occasion that much less potent chemical weapons were employed, would be insufficient to combat this new danger. Indeed, it appears inevitable that there would be a constant chemical threat on the battlefield. Thus began a drive to provide troops with protection in which they can remain fully functional.
The Aka line of combat veils are a one-piece overgarment impregnated with an active carbon liner, combined with a breathable and rugged rip-resistant outer fabric. The overgarment comes in the form of a poncho that extends down to the elbows when one’s arms are lowered and with additional fabric serving as the cowl, including a drawcord to ensure a tight fit. The rubber hunahuea is placed on top of the face and fastened prior to the tightening of the cowl to ensure a secure and comfortable fit, as well as make the piece easy for mass production. The mask is distinct for having two contoured screw-on filters to the sides and a two-layer respirator in the center. Active charcoal was chosen as the filtering medium due to its remarkable adsorbent properties and has been chemically treated such as to provide protection against LIE poisons for up to 20 hours, and at least an hour for a wide range of other common chemical species. Vision is provided for by replaceable plastic lenses. A drinking tube is designed into the central respirator and a straw included in regular field equipment. Other ancillary additions include gloves, made from the same rip-resistant fabric and liner, and rugged rubber overboots.
The combat veil is compatible with standard helmets and is included with our regular uniforms; with masks kept in pouches on the hip until needed; or alternatively worn around the neck, ready to be strapped on in a moment’s notice in the field.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Mechanized Warfare: Inithar Thread / Design Phase, 1939 Hot Season
« on: December 18, 2019, 07:54:54 pm »
While I understand we'll be developing the Makuhine landing craft, I thought I'd post my idea for next turn's design while we wait for MoP to update the game. Below you'll find the theoretical basis for the idea, while the actual implementation in the form of an artillery piece can be found after the horizontal rule separating the two sections of my post.
The basic idea is to slowly accelerate the round as it goes down the barrel, as opposed to trying to transfer the kinetic energy all at once as with the pusher plate concept. The firing mechanism mentioned below can, in and of itself, function at the rates necessary for useful automatic fire (the travel time of the basket being the main limiting factor, but given the length of our barrels that travel is comparable to long stroke gas action firearms) and allows for higher muzzle velocities for our guns, giving conventional rounds the Umph! we need to get some decent penetration and long-distance accuracy. While less silent (though still comparatively much more quiet than the enemies' guns), at the medium-to-long ranges common to engagements in the open, these guns are far superior to our current stock.
This implementation has an advantage when employed in larger caliber weapons due to both the simplicity of the rails' design; the ability to easily adjust the effective rail length and thus kinetic energy of the rounds, and the fact it allows for lower rail purity at the expense of the number of shots available to the armsman. Another idea I had was a helical setup, with a coil wrapping around the barrel which can be wound tighter by the user, to be used with higher-accuracy rifles or simple firearms where-in even shorter barrel lengths can be used and the nickel contact can follow a steeper rifling groove. While a fair bit more complex; for small-arms, it might prove superior.
Quote from: Quick Primer
A Quick Primer on the PACT Method of Firearms Propulsion
During the years following the beginning of the Homeland War, many significant advances were made in the field of refocyte firing mechanisms, most notably the refocyte propellant cap mechanism (RPC) and the refocyte pusher plate mechanism (RPP). Pusher plate operated guns, in particular, possess three important advantages over more conventional projectile weapons:
1. They are almost completely silent, save for the sound of the pusher plate making contact with the round, both due to the lack of discharge gasses coming out of the firing chamber and the subsonic nature of the rounds.
2. They allow for caseless ammunition, as the propelling force is imparted upon contact with the refocyte plate within the firing chamber.
3. They are incredibly compact compared to conventional firearms, with current models only as long as a standard carbine.
However, the pusher plate mechanism is limited by poor muzzle velocity and the subsequent low penetration of conventional rounds. This is mainly due to inefficiencies during kinetic energy transfer between the plate and the round, as the energy discharge happens over a short but significant time interval. Higher power rifles utilizing special refocyte jacketed ammunition have been explored as a solution in the past, but delays during fire and the high purity required of the refocyte used remain significant issues in their full adoption.
Pulsed Acceleration and Continuous Transfer (PACT) methods have thus generated interest due to their promise in attaining far greater muzzle velocities than possible with the basic RPP mechanism while minimally interfering with its other advantages. This is accomplished by using a low-capacity refocyte platelet and keeping the projectile and the platelet in contact during the projectile’s travel within the barrel. Energy for the platelet is syphoned from a kinetic battery and discharges at fixed time intervals, as the platelet’s maximum capacity is exceeded, thereby providing the acceleration for the round.
The result is a powerful, compact weapon effective anywhere between medium and long standoff ranges which could utilize existing rounds of both conventional make and the special jacketed variety, as needed by the operator. Rounds fired by PACT methods would be, by their very nature, less quiet than RPP-propelled rounds in flight due to their supersonic speeds, but would be quieter than conventional arms by a large margin (30-40 dB) and lack the characteristic muzzle flash associated with chemical propellant based ammunition.
The basic idea is to slowly accelerate the round as it goes down the barrel, as opposed to trying to transfer the kinetic energy all at once as with the pusher plate concept. The firing mechanism mentioned below can, in and of itself, function at the rates necessary for useful automatic fire (the travel time of the basket being the main limiting factor, but given the length of our barrels that travel is comparable to long stroke gas action firearms) and allows for higher muzzle velocities for our guns, giving conventional rounds the Umph! we need to get some decent penetration and long-distance accuracy. While less silent (though still comparatively much more quiet than the enemies' guns), at the medium-to-long ranges common to engagements in the open, these guns are far superior to our current stock.
Quote from: Longpact Configuration
The Longitudinal Rail PACT Configuration (“Longpact”)
In the Longpact configuration, a round is seated in a mobile basket connected to two or more parallel guiding rails in the barrel by way of nickel couplings. When the trigger is pulled back, the hammer is released and the basket is struck by a spring-loaded metal pin that provides the initial push into the barrel. As the nickel coupling engages the refocyte rails, the platelet at the base of the basket is charged in a short period of time, while the acceleration jerks the bullet backwards and into the basket – triggering a pulse of acceleration. This continues for the length of the barrel, with the coupling rotating the basket along any rifling and the rails either interfacing with or acting as the weapon’s kinetic battery.
Upon reaching the end of the rails the basket stops and the projectile flies out of the weapon along a ballistic trajectory. Upon slamming into the end of the rails, the basket is sent back into the chamber by the recoil, regenerating a portion of the batteries’ energy, and another round is extracted by a metal tooth from the magazine, if one exists, and forced into the basket. If no mechanism is in place to prevent subsequent fire, the platelet, having already been charged due to absorbing energy from the recoil, is triggered by the firing pin and fires again automatically, assuming the trigger is held down. By varying the length of the rails, the purity of the platelet, and the geometry of the weapon, it is possible to engineer a wide range of possible muzzle velocities and rates of fire.
This implementation has an advantage when employed in larger caliber weapons due to both the simplicity of the rails' design; the ability to easily adjust the effective rail length and thus kinetic energy of the rounds, and the fact it allows for lower rail purity at the expense of the number of shots available to the armsman. Another idea I had was a helical setup, with a coil wrapping around the barrel which can be wound tighter by the user, to be used with higher-accuracy rifles or simple firearms where-in even shorter barrel lengths can be used and the nickel contact can follow a steeper rifling groove. While a fair bit more complex; for small-arms, it might prove superior.
Quote from: 120mm “Laweano” Longpact Field Artillery Piece
M193X 120mm “Laweano” Longpact Field Artillery Piece
While the Inithari Army Fellowship had previously operated a number of foreign artillery pieces, no special effort was made to implement refocyte operated field guns as the refocyte propellant cap mechanism, dominant at the time, had vastly inferior ranges to conventional pieces and was more capable in a howitzer role. Even when naval guns were first drafted, regular propellant charges were used in lieu of a dedicated refocyte drive system to foster a competitive range. Prototypes produced in the 1910s verified these findings and refocyte-driven weapons larger in diameter than 20mm were deemed impractical.
Since the arrival on the Harren islands, there has been renewed interest in the field of refocyte-driven large caliber guns (in part due to the high percentage of engineering staff coming from the Refocyte-smith Fellowship). The adoption of a 50mm RPP gun in the G2 Alanui, while proving mediocre when using conventional rounds, showed refocyte-driven guns had a future on the battlefield. The prototype tanks, in particular, highlighted certain advantages of these weapon systems tied to both increased ammunition loads, safer ammunition storage and the potential for much more rapid-fire with significantly less recoil than conventional guns of a comparable role. Soon thereafter, proponents of the longpact configuration (headed by the inventor of the PACT method, Nikau Manawa) set out to develop a standard field artillery gun with a maximum range of at least 10 kilometers, a vertical arc of fire from 0° to 70°, a variable muzzle velocity in either notched increments or a continual interval, a projectile in the 30 kg mass range, and capable of being mounted on a rubber-tired towed mounting.
The new gun design is to use a 5-meter L41 barrel fitted with two parallel rails running down its length and lying on the horizontal axis. The rails, known as the leads, are attached to a lever mechanism allowing them to be pulled further into the weapon, thus reducing the effective lead length and simulating a lighter charge in a conventional artillery gun, as well as allowing for the leads to be removed and replaced upon expenditure – the used rails to be recharged or recycled as needed. The contact between the leads and the basket couplings is done in the form of a nickel blanket around the barrel surface. The piece is breech-loaded with a lock that opens and closes the breech in a single movement of a lever. The ammunition for the gun is caseless, consisting purely of the shell, and is lifted directly into the basket behind the breech and then rammed into the chamber for the basket to engage the starting position. The firing hammer is implemented as part of the locking mechanism and is actuated by a continuous pull of a firing lever on the side of the gun assembly, at the gunner’s position.
Ramming the shell home is followed by notching the power lever by a given amount, as required by the range, with the kinetic energy varying with lead length in increments given on the side next to the lever position (leading to theoretical maximum range of 25.7 km for a 30 kg projectile at 40° going at 800 m/s, given that’s the muzzle velocity I’d personally cut it off at; assumind Cd = 0.4, h = 500 mm). Once the range setting is set, the leads are locked in place and the firing mechanism unlocked. When obtaining a firing solution, the gunman can quickly calculate the weapon’s range given the use of a manual and the marked mass of the projectile. An experienced crew should be capable of performing this process roughly 17–20 times per minute, if not more, owing to the shorter procedure and smaller weight of the shells used in comparison to conventional cannons of a similar role.
The “vee”-shaped split-trail lower carriage features an integral two-wheel axle and a four-wheel limber supporting the trails for transport (with two wheels per trail, near the end), and houses the suspension for the gun piece. The upper carriage includes the gun cradle, which connects the gun assembly to the upper carriage; gun plate, the side frames for the bearings, pintle mounted seats for the operators, and the azimuthal and elevating gearing that make up the traversing mechanism. When not in use, the gun’s trails can be brought together and locked up so as to be moved manually by the crew or towed by a Wikiwiki transport car.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Above user in a nutshell: Forgotten beast edition
« on: December 18, 2019, 03:55:54 pm »Prolific poster with good taste in literature.Monstrous, beastly, uncivilized, Coffe-drinking betrayor of trust.Prolific, especially so within the User Above You pages.
Wants to be God of dragons.
You don't need context.
Doesn't know I don't drink coffee. Easily offended.
Quote
Got a new avatar.
Blossomed into a moth.
Plays Arms Races on B12. A weeb by any measure.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Above user in a nutshell: Forgotten beast edition
« on: December 18, 2019, 01:41:06 pm »Prolific, especially so within the User Above You pages.
Wants to be God of dragons.
You don't need context.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Your avatar vs the above avatar. Who would win?
« on: December 17, 2019, 07:45:23 pm »Seer is overcome by Padoru Pikachu's cuteness.
The chad NGC 4314 cares not for such trifle things as mortal beings.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: How Well Known is the Person Above You?
« on: December 16, 2019, 06:54:55 pm »10/10, we both frequent the games
5/10 I've watched a few games you've been involved in.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: How Well Known is the Person Above You?
« on: December 16, 2019, 11:49:31 am »8/10 Seen you a few times.
Literally 0/10. You're a person that exists?
PS Your message ID is 8066808. I find the fact it only uses three numbers to be oddly satisfying.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Blood and Sand, A Gladiatorial Arms Race-Like - Pregame 1 [CORE]
« on: December 13, 2019, 08:55:36 am »Quote from: Votebox: (3) Man of Paper, Kashyyk, Thanik
Low Realism: (1) ConscriptFive
Low Realism (w/ Pantheon): (7) Powder Miner, NUKE9.13, Rockeater, C2M, Strider, Doomblade, Thanik
Low Fantasy: (6) TheFantasticMrFox, m1895, SC777, Taricus Frostgiant, Kashyyk
High Fantasy: (0)
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Stand-Off: Jojo's Bizarre Deathmatch. Match 2 Turn 1
« on: December 09, 2019, 06:24:16 pm »Oh, whoops. We got our descriptions from Failbird. I didn't realize yours was new
You were actually against me, as noted in the start of the match.
A shame. I was looking forward to seeing how this'd go. If anyone decides to run something similar, do let me know. I'm keeping my stand secret for now so I can use it later without fear of spoilers. :V
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Mechanized Warfare: Inithar Thread / Design Phase, 1939 Hot Season
« on: December 07, 2019, 08:19:56 am »Quote from: Votebox
Makuahine CLC, for real this time (2): Powder Miner, Thanik
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Stand-Off: Jojo's Bizarre Deathmatch. Match 2 Turn 2
« on: December 06, 2019, 03:09:33 pm »Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Oldlands: Age of Decay
« on: December 04, 2019, 03:34:04 pm »
Adventure
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Mechanized Warfare: An Arms Race/Core Thread
« on: December 03, 2019, 09:09:02 am »
Aboard the Inithari Snow Express
On the edge of what used to be Abbera, away from the crowded ancient core of the city, in what someone back in Inithar would’ve called an outer suburb, a snowplough moved smoothly; silently speeding through the blizzard that had enveloped the landscape along a forgotten piece of railway – its plow sending snow flying to either side of the vehicle as fine mist as it did. From the quiet confines of the beast’s cabin, Atu was cursing the ever-present cold that seeped in even through the thick isolation applied to the locomotive’s walls. The metal body of the Kepuala creaked and groaned as the second railway engine shifted in the storm, to which Atu responded with a few strokes of the command paddles, bringing it back to bear by adjusting its suspension yet again. The command bridge was a clutter of controls and instruments marked by nothing but colorful bands, while behind him were wooden tables on which lay heaped charts and itineraries; mappings of this strange world hand-drawn since the expedition’s arrival months ago. Indeed; the first thing one would notice upon entering the bowels of the mighty Kepuala were not its construction, but the characteristic tang of Inithari tobacco, and the scent of alcohol and treated leather worn by its crew; Atu and his men, Tahwiti and Manoa, whom were passed out on a small couch not far behind – and technically the farwatchers too, though they came from the Navigator’s Fellowship and remained unseen, separated by a sheet of metal and padding in the upper sections. They were as much under his purview as was the time, though they were as accurate.
This mundanity ended at the cab’s windshield, before which an alien world unfolded before Atu’s eyes – scarred by whatever cataclysm was unleashed upon Harren and made its mark. Even after months since the landing, even after he had walked much of it – and even after he had a hand in changing its face once more by building roads, reclaiming infrastructure and constructing a permanent colony – still Atu found it fascinating. But did he ever hate the cold. There were cities turned into fortresses by beings who had lived here, and remade their world, and vanished – blown themselves to bits no doubt!
His thoughts were interrupted when the shriek of the alarms sounded.
‘Not again…’, Atu thought as he made the brakes screech from below. If he was ever in doubt that his crew were awake, he was certain when a silent thud emanated from behind and the usual groans that came with every urgent break reared their ugly head. Of course, the farwatchers had seen the acursed trees blocking the track ahead just in time, despite the low visibility in the storm, but it was a pain all the same, and the engineers cursed the cold season once again as they prepared to exit the relative comfort of the locomotive.
No matter how many times an Inithari walked out into this frigid wasteland- no matter how many layers of clothing stood between him and the frost, the wind always made you feel as if icicles thin like needles pierced your skin from all sides. It was not long after the three men had moved the first of the trees off the tracks and already they felt exhausted – grizzled men that had worked in the confines of Kona Town for months already weakened by the weather, and despite the heaters no less! Atu cleared the snow that had fallen onto his cowl in this short while. The other two seemed even more distraught – no doubt beset by a hangover; he could see by what little of Manoa’s eyes showed through their masks. He yelled to the man so as to be heard through the storm, muffled by a thick scarf.
“You need not squint so much, Manoa!”
“I’m angry, Atu. When I’m angry, I squint!”
“Yes, I know, you also grind your teeth!”
“No I don’t!”, he said a bit more quietly- the three now closer together so as to be heard more easily and, at least among themselves, for warmth.
Tahwiti decided to capitalize on this obvious lie- “Of course not! And I don’t speak Inithari.”
Now Atu reminded them calmly of the issue at hand: “Well whatever the case-“, Atu ignored Manoa’s attempts at a comeback, accentuating the last part of the sentence, “- I understand you’d both love for nothing more than to retire, but for all the grumbling, this is our job now.” A morning of convincing them to join in the affair had soiled his mood, even before the eventual excursions outside, and one would never leave the colony without the other. ’You can’t leave him in the same spot as my Mahake, Atu! And the other… He’s had his eye on my wife ever since the landing, and now he’s leering at my daughter, Atu! I swear, my friend, I swear!’
Manoa replied tactfully, “All I want, chief, is for us to get our asses back to Kona Town before a damn Pact demon blows us to kingdom come. Well if it weren’t for the Engineering Fellowship…” Indeed. Had it not allowed its engineers to ferry along their families, Atu was sure they’d have strangled each other by now.
Tahwiti was the first to break off and inevitably the rest soon followed. Their spirits restored, they had managed to get the rest of the felled trees onboard the train for supplies at their destination – material for everything from furniture to the inside of vehicles – and continued along their way.
The work of Atu and a dozen others like him would prove pivotal for Inithar’s ability to remain in these lands for long. Ever since the landing, the Expeditionary effort has grown exponentially- pressed on by the matters at stake and fuelled by the tight, although cold, at times, cooperation between the Fellowships. Having rightfully identified the danger of ever dropping temperatures, proper snow fences and heating units were placed along strategic railways during the summer to allow for the transport of resources to the factories of the main colony, and makeshift snowploughs like the Kepuala constructed to maintain them through-out the season. Of course- this was the minimum needed to keep the colony ticking, for if the flow of materials were to stop, the flagship and the supplies could only keep them alive for so long. Work was hard out in the wastes, and ever harder as the Cold season advanced.
On the edge of what used to be Abbera, away from the crowded ancient core of the city, in what someone back in Inithar would’ve called an outer suburb, a snowplough moved smoothly; silently speeding through the blizzard that had enveloped the landscape along a forgotten piece of railway – its plow sending snow flying to either side of the vehicle as fine mist as it did. From the quiet confines of the beast’s cabin, Atu was cursing the ever-present cold that seeped in even through the thick isolation applied to the locomotive’s walls. The metal body of the Kepuala creaked and groaned as the second railway engine shifted in the storm, to which Atu responded with a few strokes of the command paddles, bringing it back to bear by adjusting its suspension yet again. The command bridge was a clutter of controls and instruments marked by nothing but colorful bands, while behind him were wooden tables on which lay heaped charts and itineraries; mappings of this strange world hand-drawn since the expedition’s arrival months ago. Indeed; the first thing one would notice upon entering the bowels of the mighty Kepuala were not its construction, but the characteristic tang of Inithari tobacco, and the scent of alcohol and treated leather worn by its crew; Atu and his men, Tahwiti and Manoa, whom were passed out on a small couch not far behind – and technically the farwatchers too, though they came from the Navigator’s Fellowship and remained unseen, separated by a sheet of metal and padding in the upper sections. They were as much under his purview as was the time, though they were as accurate.
This mundanity ended at the cab’s windshield, before which an alien world unfolded before Atu’s eyes – scarred by whatever cataclysm was unleashed upon Harren and made its mark. Even after months since the landing, even after he had walked much of it – and even after he had a hand in changing its face once more by building roads, reclaiming infrastructure and constructing a permanent colony – still Atu found it fascinating. But did he ever hate the cold. There were cities turned into fortresses by beings who had lived here, and remade their world, and vanished – blown themselves to bits no doubt!
His thoughts were interrupted when the shriek of the alarms sounded.
‘Not again…’, Atu thought as he made the brakes screech from below. If he was ever in doubt that his crew were awake, he was certain when a silent thud emanated from behind and the usual groans that came with every urgent break reared their ugly head. Of course, the farwatchers had seen the acursed trees blocking the track ahead just in time, despite the low visibility in the storm, but it was a pain all the same, and the engineers cursed the cold season once again as they prepared to exit the relative comfort of the locomotive.
No matter how many times an Inithari walked out into this frigid wasteland- no matter how many layers of clothing stood between him and the frost, the wind always made you feel as if icicles thin like needles pierced your skin from all sides. It was not long after the three men had moved the first of the trees off the tracks and already they felt exhausted – grizzled men that had worked in the confines of Kona Town for months already weakened by the weather, and despite the heaters no less! Atu cleared the snow that had fallen onto his cowl in this short while. The other two seemed even more distraught – no doubt beset by a hangover; he could see by what little of Manoa’s eyes showed through their masks. He yelled to the man so as to be heard through the storm, muffled by a thick scarf.
“You need not squint so much, Manoa!”
“I’m angry, Atu. When I’m angry, I squint!”
“Yes, I know, you also grind your teeth!”
“No I don’t!”, he said a bit more quietly- the three now closer together so as to be heard more easily and, at least among themselves, for warmth.
Tahwiti decided to capitalize on this obvious lie- “Of course not! And I don’t speak Inithari.”
Now Atu reminded them calmly of the issue at hand: “Well whatever the case-“, Atu ignored Manoa’s attempts at a comeback, accentuating the last part of the sentence, “- I understand you’d both love for nothing more than to retire, but for all the grumbling, this is our job now.” A morning of convincing them to join in the affair had soiled his mood, even before the eventual excursions outside, and one would never leave the colony without the other. ’You can’t leave him in the same spot as my Mahake, Atu! And the other… He’s had his eye on my wife ever since the landing, and now he’s leering at my daughter, Atu! I swear, my friend, I swear!’
Manoa replied tactfully, “All I want, chief, is for us to get our asses back to Kona Town before a damn Pact demon blows us to kingdom come. Well if it weren’t for the Engineering Fellowship…” Indeed. Had it not allowed its engineers to ferry along their families, Atu was sure they’d have strangled each other by now.
Tahwiti was the first to break off and inevitably the rest soon followed. Their spirits restored, they had managed to get the rest of the felled trees onboard the train for supplies at their destination – material for everything from furniture to the inside of vehicles – and continued along their way.
The work of Atu and a dozen others like him would prove pivotal for Inithar’s ability to remain in these lands for long. Ever since the landing, the Expeditionary effort has grown exponentially- pressed on by the matters at stake and fuelled by the tight, although cold, at times, cooperation between the Fellowships. Having rightfully identified the danger of ever dropping temperatures, proper snow fences and heating units were placed along strategic railways during the summer to allow for the transport of resources to the factories of the main colony, and makeshift snowploughs like the Kepuala constructed to maintain them through-out the season. Of course- this was the minimum needed to keep the colony ticking, for if the flow of materials were to stop, the flagship and the supplies could only keep them alive for so long. Work was hard out in the wastes, and ever harder as the Cold season advanced.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Stand-Off: Jojo's Bizarre Deathmatch. Match 2 Turn 1
« on: December 03, 2019, 08:00:57 am »Spoiler (click to show/hide)