Chapters tagged simon_silver

Richard Tamarack ('Jedi' Knight, Human); Patchwork Rebels (Various Races, Rebellion); 'AEtherverse'...

Chapter 2

In life you were a 30-something gamer geek, on your way to the grocery store to get food for a barbecue, when this Black Toyota pickup doing 80 in a 40 zone blew a red-light and T-boned your car! It flipped three times and wound up in a ditch, and your last thought before you die...

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Your other unit, with a dead young deer buck...

Chapter 5

You get back to the barn and find your unit of huntresses with a dead deer, a young buck with three points on his antlers, hanging from the hayloft hitch and being crudely dressed with a sharp rock. They have managed to remove the internal organs, which are lying discarded off to...

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'Food and Drink'

Chapter 6

You try an experiment and say "Tutorial Instructions!" And a new screen appears. /===========================================================================================\ ###**_Tutorial Quest 2: Food and Drink_** (50 XP on completion.) You and your Troops and Subjects...

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Set the 'Peasants' to guarding the Carcass, digging a fire pit, ETC: and take the Huntresses out to find water.

Chapter 8

You set the 'Peasants' to guarding the Carcass, digging a fire pit, clearing the grass from around it, and making a Rough Cooking Station: then take the Huntresses out to find water. You have gone in two directions from the barn so far, directly away from the front door and di...

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Well, for starters, yes, they notice. (And Yes, they did...)

Chapter 10

You don't actually quite make it back to the Rendezvous point when you run into the other two 'Fire and Maneuver' teams, you are apparently a tad late from struggling back up that slope, and per your orders they have come in search of you. "Hello:" you pull up their status ba...

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Inside the Meadow

Chapter 12

You back trace and locate the stream again, without encountering any goblins, wolves, or wild boar, then follow it through the woods to the edge of the meadow, then along the edge for about 50 feet at which point it turns deeper into the meadow, where after another 500 winding fe...

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No, but that's not your only option, is it?

Chapter 13

You pull up your sheet and go into the "**(Spend?)**" option next to XP, which you have just over 800 of, and open up Common Advances, Survival Skill Advances, and Jedi Councilor Advances, and start burning points like mad! /====================================================...

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Just some excavation, rock gathering, and fire pit building...

Chapter 14

When you get back to the base you find your other unit has everything ready to cook dinner, having dug a pit into the sandy loam soil to the north of the area in front of the barn to gather rocks, and put the fire pit area about 40' directly in front of the barn doors wide swath...

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Quest Completed!

Chapter 15

You look over the screen and read what it says. /===========================================================================================\ ###**_Tutorial Quest 2: Food and Drink_** (50 XP on completion.) You and your Troops and Subjects require **Food** and **Drink** re...

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Custom Religion 1

Chapter 16

You check the box next to 'Custom Religion', and another screen takes the previous ones place. It's options are even more bewildering, but fortunately there are hover-able descriptions for these. You go through spinning out a faith that matches your personal beliefs, selectin...

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