Shipwrecked Discussion

Outstanding, thanks.

-scribble scribble-

Okay, so it's mid-afternoon on Day 3 (or day 1 for the pilot, heh) and we now have a generator that makes power.

Running water? Wonder if they are sucking water out of the lagoon, filtering it, or if they got tanks. The satellite map doesn't show any tanks that I can spot, unless they're just using smaller ones, they're inside a structure, or they're using rain catchment systems.

In any case, I bet four years of neglect and high humidity (unless Billie has been trying to maintain things?) wasn't very nice to things like piping, wiring, and moving parts.

Chainsaws, lol. Good luck finding good two-stroke gas for them - unless they're AWESOME V8 SMALL BLOCK CHEVY CHAINSAWS. In which case, you need two huge guys to pick them up with, and you would still need to find gasoline...

Living in Hawaii, I see first hand what salt air does to metal things if you leave them sitting around, especially near the beach. It ain't pretty. Rust is called "Hawaiian Lace" where I live for a reason, you know.

4th day begins:

The generator quit. Water is still in the lines in the house.

Everyone is in the house except for myself and Amy, wherever she went, as daylight breaks. Never mind, she found you guys.

edited 4th Sep '10 12:49:06 PM by pvtnum11

The generator problems are due to neglect.

Low oil, low fuel, water in the fuel system, and quite possibly, some corrosion issues in the cooling system and inside the crankcase.

Running it in the shape that it's in isn't good, but beats not having it at all.

5th day, storm has mostly passed.

I need to make up a map of the atoll.

Plus, glad I found everybody again.

Any thoughts on how the thread itself is going?

edited 8th Sep '10 4:13:15 PM by pvtnum11

Okay, here's the plot point I may introduce. I'll need some input on how to pull it off, so if you got some ideas on how to make the following event happen without resulting in a Total Party Kill, here you go.

The two other families were murdured by a bunch of Drug Runners about four years ago. That's why Billie is all wigged out when people yell and get physical, as she saw this go down. So if anyone wondered why she's messed up, there it is. The bodies with all the injuries, the ransaked houses, the blown up generator, the spent shell casings and empty bottles of alcohol everywhere, that was all my attempts of foreshadowing. I already PM'ed Amylove about this (who is Billie) adn she liked it, as it explained why she was so reserved and nervous aroudn the other party members.

The Drug Runners come by from time to time via boat, sometimes to hide out for awhile, to rest up, to bury their dead, or to bury some stuff.

They're just about due to come back.

The simple fact is, though, that the group is in no way shape or form able to handle a large armed group of thugs. Billie has survived the last four years by hiding.

So, open to suggestios: How do I introduce that plot point, without having the entire party getting killed off?

Not a bad idea, but I thought the purpose of this thread was to be a serious, survival thing. Maybe you were a bit too generous with food and stuff, though.

Wait, I have an idea. Maybe the drug runners could destroy our supplies, etc... That would make a bit more of a challenge.

Too generous...?

Never thought I'd hear that, lol. The way I figure it, it's a possibility that there's still stuff left behind that wasn't eaten, raided, or destroyed by a bumch of trigger-happy thugs. Some looking around and scavenging, maybe, and you might glean some useable things.

Th southern-most complex was not hit by raiders, though. The reason it's been picked clean was due to the other two families going over it, but somehow were totally flipped out by how the first family died, so they never took the complex for themselves. Sure, it's dilapitated now, and the generator is finally toast, but after four years, the structure should still be good as simple shelter.

Now if I wanted to be really generous, I'd include a hurricane shelter that hadn't been spotted by the thugs, complete with gobs of all sorts of fiid, water, first aid supplies and other stuff to make the island more bearable. Such hurricane kits are practically required where I live (Hawaii), but it's been 19 years since we've been hit by anything.

Considering that we have (counts fingers) five people with injuries after only five days, we're not doing very well, so I feel that I have to compensate with that by tossing scraps to the party.

You should've seen the island I initially was thinking about using, Baker Island. We would've died as soon as the water ran out - it's pretty much barren. I wanted a struggle, but nothing insurmountable by the make-up of the group. Enough of a challenge that when something goes right, there's a sense of acccomplishment.

But yeah, if/when the raiders show up, life will really start to suck.

I made a works page for the thread.

Shipwrecked On An Island

It has very little information right now, but at least it exists.

Hit Marty repeatedly to make him go into a violent persona to distract the raiders? Course his infection has to be dealt with first.

..precisely. And, the raiders got guns. No sense bringing someone that's Ax Crazy to a gunfight.

Oh, I plugged a few things in the works page that yarrunmace made. Feel free to edit and stuff.

edited 10th Sep '10 11:00:02 AM by pvtnum11

I made the works page!

EDIT: The link is three posts up.

edited 10th Sep '10 3:04:24 PM by Quantumawsome

You did? Where? Can't find it...

edited 10th Sep '10 2:55:03 PM by pvtnum11

The white lab coat may be found on one of the raiders if we are going through with that plot point.

Maybe. I have half a mind to go off and find a white sheet and sew one up.

Heh. I took a third option. Hope you get better.

So, what's going to happen now?

I'll probably be gracious and hold off (for now anyway) on introducing any external threats. We have plenty to deal with right now. If we can keep lacing Marty's food with some old antibiotics, he should regain normalcy, and Charlie needs to do nothing but rest if she expects to survive.

Then and only then, once the party makes lots of progress and hope builds, will I consider pulling the rug out from underneath everyone. If you think about it, we got two basic plot-lines in play right now. Marty's infection-induced insanity, and Charlie's arterial wound. If I introduce a C plot, then the thread will get real cumbersome and difficult to keep track of. I want to resolve at least one of the existing plot-lines before continuing. Does that make sense?

Yeah. I think that as soon as Charlie has a blood transfusion, she should be okay.

Well... Give you a day to stabilize or something, and to regain your strength - where is this thigh cut, by the way? I know of a real major artery that runs along the inner though, so it would make sense that I'd want to find the pressure point up by the groin - not that I'm getting any ideas, mind you.

Were you wearing pants, skirt or shorts?

I'm wearing jeans, and the cut was in the inside of my leg.

Well, Marty has a gun.

...

... WE'RE TOTALLY BONED, AREN'T WE?

I'll have to fast-roll something as Director about that. I was tempted to leave some beat-up discarded firearm on the island (either by the former residence or by the drug runners from one of their previous visits) but decided against it.

If he pocketed it, it's just a pistol or revolver of some kind.

Not much help against thugs armed with assault rifles, if/when they show up...