Captain Ashley: So where we landed there’s no water. All we have is the 300 liters of water we started with and that’s not going to last long.
There’s some snow in the local mountains, about 6 klicks east and south. I think we need to go for it.
Commander Gwen: I’ll go. It’s the least I can do.
Councelor Misha: Are you sure? It will involve mining. With our current tools that’ll be really slow going.
Commander Gwen: I’m not afraid.
Captain Ashley: Okay, take some food and the rest of the water, you’ll need it, and don’t worry about us, only, if you don’t make it back we’re all dead.
Commander Gwen: Got it.
Counselor Misha: Good luck Commander.
Commander Gwen: Thank you, but it’ll be a snap.
Captain Ashley: Tosses the gun, take this.
Commander Gwen: But… won’t you need this?
Captain Ashley: Smiles coyly, we’ll stay high where the wolves can’t get us. Also take the grinder and scrap anything you come across.
Commander Gwen: You can count on me.
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Commander Gwen: Back! I got the ice and now we have more than enough water.
Captain Ashley: You also found carrots and seeds, now we’re golden. We can finally make some space bars and not this nutrient paste.
Counselor Misha: We’re set to start making the mobile base now.
Commander Gwen: I also saw a lake up there so that’d be a good place to set up.
Captain Ashley: I love it when a plan comes together.
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Captain’s Log Day… 5?
Captain Ashley: We’ve been here a while now and things are coming along, I’d say we’re 1/3 of the way to having our mobile base up and running. There’s some tricky stuff to get it perfect so we’ll probably wait until out new overlander is up and running before grinding any more off our pod. Mining is going very slow and we’ve supplemented that with a little scavenging. There are periodic drop pods, don’t know why, but they have some supplies. Good for us, but I wonder who we’ll owe when it’s done.
There’s a lot of annoying traffic on comms but they care calling us scavengers and that’s basically what we are, so yeah. Our current situation looks worse than scavengers, it’s not that we don’t care it’s just that we’re kind of rooted and can’t unroot without a lot of hassle so we’re stuck with this ugly crampt mess. Anyway it’s fine.
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