Surviving the apocalypse Quest (mutants, zombies and more)
- Thread starter prince84
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Um, let's see.
Complete dismantling and removal in pieces. Then reassembly elsewhere.
Loot a forklift from nearby warehouse (I presume there are some.)
Roll the crates on several metal pipes, like they think the Egyptians might have done with logs/blocks of stone when building the pyramids.
Build a trolley?
Build a ton of handholds on the crates. A dozen people can lift a lot together.
Complete dismantling and removal in pieces. Then reassembly elsewhere.
Loot a forklift from nearby warehouse (I presume there are some.)
Roll the crates on several metal pipes, like they think the Egyptians might have done with logs/blocks of stone when building the pyramids.
Build a trolley?
Build a ton of handholds on the crates. A dozen people can lift a lot together.
Day 9 Morning
prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
Day 9 Morning
When you got up this morning you felt like face palming several days ago you started to set up furniture but were interrupted by the Idiots injury and only finished the medical area. You fell that you should finish some time in the future but right now you have other thing to do.
You start your daily round. The barricades and traps on the doors are untouched so you move on to the fish traps. Once you get there you find that 2 wire traps have been crushed and 1 net is missing. From the rest you gain another day at full rations. You still wonder what had happened to the traps.(lost 1 net trap, 2 wire traps)(no food reduction until day 13)
By the time everyone is up and active the air is sweltering it looks like the heat wave has arrived.
Improvements:
After being followed home yesterday and finding the crushed traps you decide to focus most of your improvements on defence today.
First you send David and an assistant to start setting up a silent alarm on all the doors you decide to check up on him latter to find out just what he has planned.
You then send a team to start making padded arm guards for everyone. This will give them some protection an has less chance to cause heat stroke in this weather.
Lastly the only improvement today that does not focus on defence is trying to figure out how to move or clear the crates you have opened so you can get to new ones. You still think this setup is crazy, you can not figure out how some of the crates got to where they are now.
General Actions:
You decide to have one person try to find a active radio station using the hand cranked radio. It takes a while but they find one but it only repeats a recorded message tell everyone to avoid big cities and to never travel alone or in small groups.
You decide to have both the crate of sporting supplies and the crate of Warhammer product opened so you could take stock of the contents.
The sports crate contained all the gear for tennis and badminton as well as some more lawn darts. The Warhammer crate look like it was going to a new store as it had everything. Tools, glue, paint, set pieces and all the rule books as well as several novels. When you have time and a place set up you now have something to pass the time with.
You start to set traps around the warehouse and realize that you have the materials to pace early warning traps but you do not have the skills or materials to set up more than that so that is what you do. While this does not protect the warehouse you now can be fairly certain that if anything tries to lurk nearby that you will have some warning.(Gained early warning of any Lurkers)
You decide to finish inventorying the piles in the yard next door. This is easily done and some of the piles will be of great use.
1 set containers of broken wooden pallets(can be used for building or fire wood choose latter)
1 pile dirt
2 piles road salt
1 pile road sand
1 set containers of broken plastic sheeting both clear and opaque.
Finally before lunch you settle down to try and figure out what the ambulance driver noticed and was trying to plot in this log book. you spend the rest of the morning flipping back and forth between pages and entries they had made a list of on the last written page. by the time lunch comes around you have notice that over the last 8 months there has been a sharp increas in the number of slash wounds and animal attacks the ambulance has been called to deal with. There is more here but you will have to devote more time to it to find out what.(Log book 55/100)
Pick 4(if you pick the library you can do nothing else this afternoon and lose 1 action for the evening)
[no]Build better lock/barricade on the shorting yard gate(takes two pick)(bard choice)
[ ]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[ ]Raid East Gas station(2 actions)
[ ]Raid library(5 actions)
[ ]Continue to explore the surrounding area
[ ]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[ ]Netting(-1 action)
-[ ]Wire mesh fencing(-1 action)
-[ ]both(-2 actions)
[ ]Try to get news from the crank powered radio again
[ ]Use Primative tailoring(write in what)
[ ]Discuss were to get more fire wood(write in your ideas)
[ ]Write in (careful some options may take more than a hour.)
[ ]Make A tool organizer out of lego
[ ]Write in Lego are not useless I have an idea(what is the idea)
When you got up this morning you felt like face palming several days ago you started to set up furniture but were interrupted by the Idiots injury and only finished the medical area. You fell that you should finish some time in the future but right now you have other thing to do.
You start your daily round. The barricades and traps on the doors are untouched so you move on to the fish traps. Once you get there you find that 2 wire traps have been crushed and 1 net is missing. From the rest you gain another day at full rations. You still wonder what had happened to the traps.(lost 1 net trap, 2 wire traps)(no food reduction until day 13)
By the time everyone is up and active the air is sweltering it looks like the heat wave has arrived.
Improvements:
After being followed home yesterday and finding the crushed traps you decide to focus most of your improvements on defence today.
First you send David and an assistant to start setting up a silent alarm on all the doors you decide to check up on him latter to find out just what he has planned.
You then send a team to start making padded arm guards for everyone. This will give them some protection an has less chance to cause heat stroke in this weather.
Lastly the only improvement today that does not focus on defence is trying to figure out how to move or clear the crates you have opened so you can get to new ones. You still think this setup is crazy, you can not figure out how some of the crates got to where they are now.
General Actions:
You decide to have one person try to find a active radio station using the hand cranked radio. It takes a while but they find one but it only repeats a recorded message tell everyone to avoid big cities and to never travel alone or in small groups.
You decide to have both the crate of sporting supplies and the crate of Warhammer product opened so you could take stock of the contents.
The sports crate contained all the gear for tennis and badminton as well as some more lawn darts. The Warhammer crate look like it was going to a new store as it had everything. Tools, glue, paint, set pieces and all the rule books as well as several novels. When you have time and a place set up you now have something to pass the time with.
You start to set traps around the warehouse and realize that you have the materials to pace early warning traps but you do not have the skills or materials to set up more than that so that is what you do. While this does not protect the warehouse you now can be fairly certain that if anything tries to lurk nearby that you will have some warning.(Gained early warning of any Lurkers)
You decide to finish inventorying the piles in the yard next door. This is easily done and some of the piles will be of great use.
1 set containers of broken wooden pallets(can be used for building or fire wood choose latter)
1 pile dirt
2 piles road salt
1 pile road sand
1 set containers of broken plastic sheeting both clear and opaque.
Finally before lunch you settle down to try and figure out what the ambulance driver noticed and was trying to plot in this log book. you spend the rest of the morning flipping back and forth between pages and entries they had made a list of on the last written page. by the time lunch comes around you have notice that over the last 8 months there has been a sharp increas in the number of slash wounds and animal attacks the ambulance has been called to deal with. There is more here but you will have to devote more time to it to find out what.(Log book 55/100)
Pick 4(if you pick the library you can do nothing else this afternoon and lose 1 action for the evening)
[no]Build better lock/barricade on the shorting yard gate(takes two pick)(bard choice)
[ ]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[ ]Raid East Gas station(2 actions)
[ ]Raid library(5 actions)
[ ]Continue to explore the surrounding area
[ ]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[ ]Netting(-1 action)
-[ ]Wire mesh fencing(-1 action)
-[ ]both(-2 actions)
[ ]Try to get news from the crank powered radio again
[ ]Use Primative tailoring(write in what)
[ ]Discuss were to get more fire wood(write in your ideas)
[ ]Write in (careful some options may take more than a hour.)
[ ]Make A tool organizer out of lego
[ ]Write in Lego are not useless I have an idea(what is the idea)
Pick 4(if you pick the library you can do nothing else this afternoon and lose 1 action for the evening)
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[X]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[X]Netting(-1 action)
[X]Use Primative tailoring(Window Covers)
[X]Write in (Purify some of the road salt by dissolving it in water, straining any impurities and letting it sit in a clean container until the water evaporates)
Good idea Vanestus. Like blackout curtains, right?
I was going to suggest raiding another gas station, (the sooner we raid the more likely we are to get the good stuff,) but maybe not so soon after being stalked and in the middle of a heatwave. Let's get some umbrellas if we find any, they can double as parasols.
I hope we're watering our seedlings...
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[X]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[X]Netting(-1 action)
[X]Use Primative tailoring(Window Covers)
[X]Write in (Purify some of the road salt by dissolving it in water, straining any impurities and letting it sit in a clean container until the water evaporates)
Good idea Vanestus. Like blackout curtains, right?
I was going to suggest raiding another gas station, (the sooner we raid the more likely we are to get the good stuff,) but maybe not so soon after being stalked and in the middle of a heatwave. Let's get some umbrellas if we find any, they can double as parasols.
I hope we're watering our seedlings...
Right.
- Location
- Pilipinas
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[X]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[X]Netting(-1 action)
[X]Use Primative tailoring(Window Covers)
[X]Write in (Purify some of the road salt by dissolving it in water, straining any impurities and letting it sit in a clean container until the water evaporates)
[X]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[X]Netting(-1 action)
[X]Use Primative tailoring(Window Covers)
[X]Write in (Purify some of the road salt by dissolving it in water, straining any impurities and letting it sit in a clean container until the water evaporates)
prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
Not right now but if you raid the libary you might get a book telling you how.
Um, shouldn't that be fairly standard school-level chemistry knowledge? Something anyone who paid a reasonable amount of attention would know? I mean, I certainly don't work anywhere chemistry related and it's been years since I had any chemistry, but could still do it...
- Salt dissolves in water. Everyone should know that.
- Dirt and stuff doesn't. Likewise.
- Dirt etc can be strained off by pouring through a clean cloth. Anyone good at cooking would know this, likewise anyone interested in, say medieval cooking...
- When saltwater evaporates it leaves behind salt. If you live next to the sea you know this. Or if you got a middling chemestry grade or better.
prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
@Eri @butchock
The problem with
[X]Write in (Purify some of the road salt by dissolving it in water, straining any impurities and letting it sit in a clean container until the water evaporates)
is not just getting the sand and dirt out but the fact that road salt is cut with other chemical crystals most of the time.
The problem with
[X]Write in (Purify some of the road salt by dissolving it in water, straining any impurities and letting it sit in a clean container until the water evaporates)
is not just getting the sand and dirt out but the fact that road salt is cut with other chemical crystals most of the time.
Not that often where I'm from, I think? Although admittedly I I think it's sometimes magnesiumcloride and not regular salt. I seem to remember buying a bag of salt last year that was basically just dirty NaCl, so that's what I assumed it was. Anyway. Other types of salt are often toxic, so yeah, we should probably be careful to check exactly what it is. If it's any colour but dirty white, we probably want to avoid eating it.
Pick 4(if you pick the library you can do nothing else this afternoon and lose 1 action for the evening)
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[X]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[X]both(-2 actions)
[X]Use Primative tailoring(Window Covers)
Changed.
But we're definitely getting basic chemistry books (if there are any available) when we raid the library.
Actually... Is there a school nearby? do we know? Preferably a high-school?
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[X]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[X]both(-2 actions)
[X]Use Primative tailoring(Window Covers)
Changed.
But we're definitely getting basic chemistry books (if there are any available) when we raid the library.
Actually... Is there a school nearby? do we know? Preferably a high-school?
prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
Yep chemistry books are in the library and there are not many school in the industrial area, maybe once you are able to travel longer distances or move you main base.
prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
rolling for
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[X]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[X]both(-2 actions)
[X]Use Primative tailoring(Window Covers)
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(55/100)
[X]Make fish traps(only need to be checked once a day)(if pick choose 1 of the following)
-[X]both(-2 actions)
[X]Use Primative tailoring(Window Covers)
Day 9 Afternoon
prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
Day 9 Afternoon
As noon rolls around the heat wave intensifies leaving you very glad that the water is still running.
Improvements:
Half way through the afternoon David tells you that he has finished the silent alarms. This surprises you as he had said earlier that it would take all day. When asked about it he says he had found that the warehouse already had one form of silent alarm and all he had to do was reroute it to a set of LEDs instead of sending a message to the police and he was done. You have a bit of a laugh thinking about the fact that every time you had opened a door you were leaving a message at some police department.(Gained silent door alarms)(+1 action slot this evening)
Work on making padded arm guards for everyone continues. The amount makes this time consuming but not hard.
After spending the morning bouncing ideas off one another you settle down to try and see if you can use any of them. You also go over any limitations you find with the ideas.
One of the ideas is to complete dismantling and removal of the crates in pieces, then reassembly elsewhere. This has potential but also some limits. First is the fact that there are three main types of crates and containers in the warehouse Wooden crates, Light metal crates and metal shipping containers. The wooden crate could be dismantle and rebuild rather easily. The light metal crates you might be able tear apart but you would not be able to put back together creating scrap metal. The shipping container on the other hand are make of thick metal and you have no means of breaking them down right now.
Looting a forklift from nearby warehouse could work presuming there are some. This would work for all the crates but would not work on the shipping containers. You do wonder why there were none in the warehouse when you got here.
Someone suggests rolling the crates on several metal pipes, like they think the Egyptians might have done with logs/blocks of stone when building the pyramids. This might work but first you would have to find a supply of pipes and/or hard wooden rollers.
You might try to build some of the A frame cranes that they think the Egyptians used as well but you would still need some strong materials for thr frame.
Lili suggested building a trolley. looking at the size of the crates and containers you decided that Diana must have given her some pretty strong painkillers for her to think that would work.
Building a ton of handholds on the crates and lifting with a dozen people might allow you to shift the crates. While this might work with the wooden crates you have no way of attaching handles or the like to the metal ones.
General Actions:
For a while you think you are making progress with the log book as you start to map out listed locations only to realize most of them were for Tim Hortons and coffee shop and have to start over. you do get some work done but not alot.(55+18=73/100)
Having lost thee fish traps over night you decide not only to replace the lost traps but also to build as many of both types as the spit has space for. This results in five more of each type giving you a total of twenty traps, 7 net traps and 13 wire traps.
Having gotten tired of having to turn off all the lights at night you set about making some black out curtains. You find you have the right kinds of fabric for this but you also find a problem. The problem is you lack any way to hang them on most of the outer windows and will only be able to hang them in the second story rooms these being the sleeping room and the medical area. This does allow for better heath care and a feeling of comfort but still restricts the use of lights in the rest of the building.
Pick 4
[no]Build better lock/barricade on the shorting yard gate(takes two pick)(bard choice)
[ ]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(73/100)
[ ]Raid East Gas station(2 actions)
[ ]Raid library(5 actions)
[ ]Continue to explore the surrounding area(bards think this might be a good idea soon)
[ ]Try to get news from the crank powered radio again
[ ]Use Primative tailoring(write in what)
[ ]Make make shift pole arms(pick type)(poleaxe, spear, bladed pole)
[ ]Discuss were to get more fire wood(write in your ideas)
[ ]Write in (careful some options may take more than a hour.)
[ ]Make A tool organizer out of lego
[ ]Write in Lego are not useless I have an idea(what is the idea)
As noon rolls around the heat wave intensifies leaving you very glad that the water is still running.
Improvements:
Half way through the afternoon David tells you that he has finished the silent alarms. This surprises you as he had said earlier that it would take all day. When asked about it he says he had found that the warehouse already had one form of silent alarm and all he had to do was reroute it to a set of LEDs instead of sending a message to the police and he was done. You have a bit of a laugh thinking about the fact that every time you had opened a door you were leaving a message at some police department.(Gained silent door alarms)(+1 action slot this evening)
Work on making padded arm guards for everyone continues. The amount makes this time consuming but not hard.
After spending the morning bouncing ideas off one another you settle down to try and see if you can use any of them. You also go over any limitations you find with the ideas.
One of the ideas is to complete dismantling and removal of the crates in pieces, then reassembly elsewhere. This has potential but also some limits. First is the fact that there are three main types of crates and containers in the warehouse Wooden crates, Light metal crates and metal shipping containers. The wooden crate could be dismantle and rebuild rather easily. The light metal crates you might be able tear apart but you would not be able to put back together creating scrap metal. The shipping container on the other hand are make of thick metal and you have no means of breaking them down right now.
Looting a forklift from nearby warehouse could work presuming there are some. This would work for all the crates but would not work on the shipping containers. You do wonder why there were none in the warehouse when you got here.
Someone suggests rolling the crates on several metal pipes, like they think the Egyptians might have done with logs/blocks of stone when building the pyramids. This might work but first you would have to find a supply of pipes and/or hard wooden rollers.
You might try to build some of the A frame cranes that they think the Egyptians used as well but you would still need some strong materials for thr frame.
Lili suggested building a trolley. looking at the size of the crates and containers you decided that Diana must have given her some pretty strong painkillers for her to think that would work.
Building a ton of handholds on the crates and lifting with a dozen people might allow you to shift the crates. While this might work with the wooden crates you have no way of attaching handles or the like to the metal ones.
General Actions:
For a while you think you are making progress with the log book as you start to map out listed locations only to realize most of them were for Tim Hortons and coffee shop and have to start over. you do get some work done but not alot.(55+18=73/100)
Having lost thee fish traps over night you decide not only to replace the lost traps but also to build as many of both types as the spit has space for. This results in five more of each type giving you a total of twenty traps, 7 net traps and 13 wire traps.
Having gotten tired of having to turn off all the lights at night you set about making some black out curtains. You find you have the right kinds of fabric for this but you also find a problem. The problem is you lack any way to hang them on most of the outer windows and will only be able to hang them in the second story rooms these being the sleeping room and the medical area. This does allow for better heath care and a feeling of comfort but still restricts the use of lights in the rest of the building.
Pick 4
[no]Build better lock/barricade on the shorting yard gate(takes two pick)(bard choice)
[ ]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(73/100)
[ ]Raid East Gas station(2 actions)
[ ]Raid library(5 actions)
[ ]Continue to explore the surrounding area(bards think this might be a good idea soon)
[ ]Try to get news from the crank powered radio again
[ ]Use Primative tailoring(write in what)
[ ]Make make shift pole arms(pick type)(poleaxe, spear, bladed pole)
[ ]Discuss were to get more fire wood(write in your ideas)
[ ]Write in (careful some options may take more than a hour.)
[ ]Make A tool organizer out of lego
[ ]Write in Lego are not useless I have an idea(what is the idea)
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(73/100)
[X]Make make shift pole arms(spear)
[X]Discuss were to get more fire wood(Taking apart the wooden crates in the warehouse. Not a very steady source and limited, but it is readily available.)
[X]Make A tool organizer out of lego
[X]Make make shift pole arms(spear)
[X]Discuss were to get more fire wood(Taking apart the wooden crates in the warehouse. Not a very steady source and limited, but it is readily available.)
[X]Make A tool organizer out of lego
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prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
The (write in ideas) is asking for ideas from you. I have several but I am only one person and this is a large group there should be more ideas than I have.
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prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
Yes there is it is mentioned in this update.
Wrote in my idea.
- Location
- Pilipinas
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(73/100)
[X]Make make shift pole arms(spear)
[X]Discuss were to get more fire wood(Taking apart the wooden crates in the warehouse. Not a very steady source and limited, but it is readily available.)
[X]Make A tool organizer out of lego
[X]Make make shift pole arms(spear)
[X]Discuss were to get more fire wood(Taking apart the wooden crates in the warehouse. Not a very steady source and limited, but it is readily available.)
[X]Make A tool organizer out of lego
With our tailoring and carpentry skills we should easily be able to make wooden frames that fit into the windows we couldn't hang anything in and cover those frames with fabric. That's actually often what they did, so they could remove them during the day, curtains weren't foolproof and paint made it dark all day.
Regarding pole arms, I think tridents or boar spears or something would be better than spears, because something tells me that bangers wouldn't hesitate to just push themselves further up the spear just to reach us. So something that stops them frim doing that would be good.
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(73/100)
[X]Try to get news from the crank powered radio again
[X]Make make shift pole arms(pick type)(boar spear)
[X]Make A tool organizer out of lego
Regarding pole arms, I think tridents or boar spears or something would be better than spears, because something tells me that bangers wouldn't hesitate to just push themselves further up the spear just to reach us. So something that stops them frim doing that would be good.
[X]Tray to make sense of the ambulance log book(73/100)
[X]Try to get news from the crank powered radio again
[X]Make make shift pole arms(pick type)(boar spear)
[X]Make A tool organizer out of lego