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How often do we need to sleep anyway.

I'm going to go with the usual 8 turns (forgot to answer this before).

I doubt Rod does nightly deliveries, right?

I doubt it.

Turn 13
The Colony: (you might want to just follow this link instead since it's a big image: http://i.imgur.com/Qv5SSZg.png)

You start up the wheels of industry again. You have one bot begin manufacturing patrol cords and containers, one bot refining the  materials needed to manufacture the items. The last bot you tell to shave the fur from the dead bullwart and loominate it. The bot only manages to drag the corpse over to the loomery though.

You start reverse engineering the e-mag rifle. It should only take another turn.

You consider designing a laser weapon with a higher rate of fire then the rifles you have access to. The current rifles are only air-cooled so a considerable amount of time has to be left between shots in order to allow the heat to dissipate.  By designing a better system of cooling you could create an almost 'machine gun' type effect.

The clones finish devising an electric lantern design.

The sky fills with orange light as the sun sets.

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You receive a transmission from what you believe is a materials wholesaler operating out of an orbiting station.

Name:	Cost:	Description:
Helitite	5	Helitite isn't really good for anything but it's yellow and shiny.
Grey-Metal	4	Grey-Metal is used for almost everything
Relux	6	Typically Relux is saved for the armour plating of large machinery due to it's massive weight.
Latvium	6	Latvium is as strong as grey-metal but has half the weight making it ideal for aircraft and atmosphere capable spacecraft design.
Linconium	35	Linconium is used in the creation of advanced sensors and electronics.
Resonance Crystals	25	A catch-all term for crystalline rocks that can be used for high-tech machinery, most notably laser weapons, energy shields and anti-grav.
Silicon	12	Silicon is a key component in electronics.
Glass	5	Glass is glass.
Wood	2	Wood is wood.
Plastic	3	Plastic is plastic.
Electronics	22	Electronics are used in computery things.
Advanced Electronics	55	Electronics are used in very computery things.

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1467 Credits | Power: 50/50(+20/-3.2)
Off-site parties:

Research:

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Glossary Posts

The robot's need to charge for 5 turns a day. IIRC, they use 0.5 power.

Pretty sure that's correct, so if it wasn't it is now.

we will need some kind of Lightsource for Nighttime. How about making some Torches or build some kind of Lantern with the Bulb on a Long Stick in the Middle of our Colony.

An electric lantern will take 1 man-turn to research.

The materials required would be 1 metal and 1 Glass/1 Crystal for 3 Lanterns.

Turn 11.8.2 (Coms update)


"Firstly, what's this 'Dawson installation' and why would they shoot you down?"


"Dawson is a former unicorp installation now controlled by an unnamed faction which formed after sapience went live. It was unknown if they would ally themselves with our own faction. They proved to be hostile."


"Oh. Well I do have a communications array so I can send a message to the Kennedy Installation for you. If you want you can return here to send the message or you can give me the details and I can do it for you."


"The message will not contain classified data as you only need to give them our location so you can transmit it..."

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The clone proceeds to tell you the frequency and location you need to transmit too, and the security code that you'll need so that they will believe you. Then you contact the installation.


"This is the Uni- Kennedy Installation."


"This is Hank Rearden, from Reardenburg Industrial and Military. I'm calling to let you know that your diplomatic mission to the Dawson Installation was shot down. The security code they gave me was 'Help-000'."


"The security code is correct. We will dispatch an airlift team immediately. Is there anything else I can help you with?"


"Well there is the matter of salvage rights on the craft."


"One moment please.

This installation lacks adequate equipment to effectively salvage the wreck. So we will not contest the craft if you or any other party decides to salvage it."


"Thank you."

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You contact the clones at the crash site again and tell them that help is on the way. Knowing that you can salvage the craft you have the robots look at the ship and combined with the expertise of Bailey and Barnum you work out what is useful. The clones also see what you are doing and offer to have the rescue team swing by and drop your robots and salvage off at Reardenburg as thanks for saving them.

You will have room to bring back 12 units of salvage. Size is listed per unit
Usable items:

Item:	Size:
3x Medium Thruster	7
Basic Sensor Array	4
Broken Anti-grave system	7
12x Field Rations	0.3
10x Armour Plating (can be smelted into Greymetal(x2 per unit) and Latvium(x1 per unit))	0.5
5x Flight Computer Components(can be broken down into electronics(x5 per unit) or Linconium(x1 per unit))	0.5

Here is the post with the metals if you want to remind yourself what they are.

A while ago some serious stuff went down which really threw me off and I didn't feel like updating for a while (By serious stuff I mean that my dog got bitten by a snake and nearly died).

I'm also not really sure if I want to update this for a few reasons. First is that I made the mistake of setting it in a city. It took me 3 hours to draw Roger's room and I think the marketplace should be a lot more complex, as would pretty much every other location you visit. So the whole adventure would require much more of my time then my other adventures which had less complex environments. Secondly I find myself really feeling like doing build a colony again.

You put on your magnificent hat and contemplate your last job.

You were hired by a man named... John? John Hindsen? John Hicklson? John Henderson! That was his name. He had you repair the ventilation in this warehouse in the north/west quarter. A pretty easy job, albeit a tedious one.

What materials you need vary from job to job. The bigger jobs like the before mentioned warehouse you usually sort out what parts you will need with the client and then have them pay the cost of the materials and then sort it out. Smaller jobs though, ones where you have to make some gadget or whatnot you use what you have in the shop. You think you have plenty of iron, copper, dials and pipes but you think you need some more Swelterstone and Cogs. You can smith your own brackets and frames and such but when it comes to cogs you need the machined parts.

You'll have to go downstairs to take a look at what you have but you are pretty sure you need around 5 Swelterstone and 10 Cogs.

I've been thinking about it all day and I just don't want to do an adventure with Lincoln as a main character. So sorry if you had your heart set on it but I think i'm going to go with:

Name: Roger Stanford
Gender: Male
Favorite Colour: Blue
Profession:
  -Primary Skill: Tinkering
  -Secondary Skills: Metalsmithing and gardening (because we have a hidden elf inside ourselves)

Before Lincoln got that landslide vote I was thinking about how I'd do this and I found some ways to mesh a lot of ideas I liked together to make a steampunky setting and I just think I'll have more fun running an adventure about that.

I think it's about time I got back into the adventure-running game. I've been feeling the itch that only running a forum adventure can scratch for quite a while, the reason I haven't is just that I keep having ideas for adventures and I can't choose between them. I know I want to run an adventure centered around one character unlike my build a ____ games so here is what I am going to do: I'm going to get you guys to suggest a character, them I'm going to build a setting around that.

There isn't any real limit here apart from your character having to be human. Since the setting will be decided in relation to the character you can be a pike-man, deep space engineer or a space wizard.


Name:
Gender:
Favorite Colour:
Profession:
  -Primary Skill:
  -Secondary Skills:(you get two secondary skills)
Other: