Here is my second year. Again, if it bothers anyone i will remove it.
Year 52
Mindspear
Population:21
Granite 1. The migrants have been sorted. Now the important jobs are mostly covered. 2 farmers, 2 mechanics, a miner, a chemist, a cook, 2 smiths, and the Elder. Everypony else is in the military.
Military Unit 1 - The Brown Wheats
Captain Love u,f,24.
Private Pine u,f,30.
Private Growl u,f,36,m.
Private Bridge u,f,28,m.
Private Howl u,f,41,m.
Private Music u,f,20.
Military Unit 2 - The Kindled Horns
Captain Lion e,f,31,m.
Private Skunk e,m,30,m.
Private Storm e,m,32,m.
Private Raygrow e,f,39,m.
Security Force - The Rosy Canyons
Chief Entryguard u,f,29,m.
Notes: race, sex, age, marital status.
Chief has her own room and furniture, and Cpt. Lion is married to P Skunk. Unit 1 is training with two riot shields and a training knife, unit 2 and the security force aren't equipped yet.
I changed the maxage value for ponies to[50:75]. My oldest pony in the stable? is the Elder who is 51. She is my main administrator, and my doctor. She has no medical training but likes to help others and very energetic... we have a crapload of batteries to charge... she is going to drop dead in a few years anyway.
Granite 19. The spirits of the caravan guards are howling in the barracks. I imagine they are telling my privates that they are going to die. Well, since my military is freaking out and a few soldiers become unhappy, the ghost have to go. Sadly we can only slab two of them. The third hasn't turned up as a ghost yet, and I fear that her body is going to burn away with the next wave of raiders.
Slate 20. Migrants arrived. A little family, a couple, and a few lone wolfs. Altogether there are ten of them. Unarmed, unprotected. The alarms had been turned on, the sound of the siren should make them understand the danger. I told everypony inside to stay put. We can't help them outside.
The first to get butchered by the ghouls is father of the family, Bush Pull. The second is his one year old son, Sister Tomelung. Chaos erupts, everypony scatters. The ghouls are chasing a puppy, the poor thing didn't get far. They turn their attention to a weaponsmith, and tear him apart. The couple reaches the subway entrance, and get inside. An old mare comes after them. Three are safe.
The unicorn foal goes in the wrong direction, a glowing one is wandering right where she is heading. A carpenter runs between them. The ghoul is raging and is chasing him. I open the south hatch and shout at the filly to move. She walks in confused. Her mother got in from the other side. At least she stops screaming for her foals in the dining room. The last one outside was a woodcrafter. She is already wounded, and got a radiation burst. She is done for. Every entrance is sealed, the siren silenced. Time to make a few more slabs.
In the middle of the chaos Private Howl gave birth in the hospital. The baby is an earth pony male called Raven.
The surviving mother is going to be my doctor. Her daughter can help her out too, (yay therapist) but only with dressing wounds. The old mare got engraving duty and the name Elder Glade. The couple are a miller and a mechanic, so i changed around the jobs for a few ponies.
Well it seems that i can only assign the chief medical officer post to unicorns. I think this is not intended, and i have no idea how to fix it. I will leave the Elders to doctoring until a better option.
Felsite 2. Private Bridge gave birth. The baby is an earth pony female, called Aquamarine Shelljuggle. Well she is going to be called just Shell. She is skilled with hammers.
It seems we can't engrave slabs for the dead migrants. They are only missing at the moment, i guess i have to find their corpses first. Or their ghosts. Like being torn to pieces isn't proof enough for their deaths.
Also Monk the protectapony fully repaired itself. Yay to that.
Felsite 16. A feral unicorn reaver is bashing on the subway security doors. That entrance is going to be walled off.
Felsite 18. I thought that reaver should be walled in. It would give us a way to salvage the surface, and bury our dead. I gave the order and as soon as two ponies left the south hatch and reached the middle of the map, a heavily irradiated cloud has drifted nearby. Thankfully the wasteland just teased me, and the ponies got underground in time. Project neutralize the wildlife is a success.
Felsite 27. We have buried the dead. Sadly this threw both surviving members of that little family to miserable. I don't believe they are going to pull through.
On a lighter note, Private Growl has given birth, to a healthy unicorn baby. She is calling the foal Cradle Lyricgem.
Now half of our unicorn army has kids.
It is now summer.
Hematite 4. Doc Minegrotto has been stricken with melancholy... Why don't we have a depleted battery? Oh kid I'm sorry. Oh the mechanics found one, quickly grab it and knock yourself out. It's all going to be better... And as soon as Sister Tower reaches the flux converter she throws a tantrum, and bucks the machine to oblivion. Then she kicks her mother a few times, and gives up. She goes to her bed and throws stuff around. The charger is slowly rebuilt in the meantime. A little later she is holding the empty battery in the new flux converter, the gas comes... and nothing. I designated a meeting area, hopefully she can make a friend in time, or i can find another battery.
Malachite 4. She pulled through. She became friends with the mechanic who came with them. He has a cat. She likes cats. I even pastured the feline in her room so it could adopt her, but that evil thing adopted this mechanic instead. She is fine now. At least until her mother dies of thirst.
Malachite 8. Migrants. A seventeen year old stallion with his two sons, and seven lone wolves (formed from nothingness just as they arrived on the map. One doesn't even have any deity. Maybe he is an atheist?) They brought two protectaponies with them. Good.
After sorting them out, the Rosy Canyons got a new member, a unicorn with a sniper cutiemark. I made a new military unit for male unicorns.
Military Unit 3 - The Fair Torches
Captain Blaze u,m,17.
Private Plan u,m,16.
Private Bulwark u,m,18.
Private Budbrand u,m,17.
Youngest squad yet. They have no weapons or armor, and they are not scheduled to train yet. We will need a few more pumps.
The kids gets to share a room with my soon to be orphan Sister Tower. Maybe they become friends. One of them even likes cats.
Galena 7. Minegrotto has died of thirst. Her orphan is fine. I guess she already buried her whole family. A mother who doesn't talk to you just wonders around like a brain dead husk is quite scary for a child. Or a grownup.
Galena 8. Miner Volcano and Chemist Tusk have married. We ran out of food, so the party got awkward.
Galena 14. A wastlander caravan has arrived. We traded useless stuff for their salvage and wood. We bought all their tough leather, and a bronze hunting rifle too. The leader of the caravan checked out our camp, and told us we worth around a 120000 caps. I wonder if that is a lot. They will come back at least.
That lonely barbed wire trap we left near the hatch is covered in blood. No corpse anywhere tough.
Autumn has come.
Limestone 12. Merchants left.
Winter is upon us.
Moonstone 2. What a boring autumn. No migrants, no caravan, no invaders. Everyone is -happy- content at least. The underground beautification project is on it's way. The two subway tunnel is cleared from the rocks, which yielded a few useful gems. We almost made our first paper, from silk no less. Another Arcane terminal had been assembled, but not yet built into anything.
We are kind of unlucky with salvaging as the best thing we found was that one ministry of peace create a year ago. Other than that only broken(4) and undamaged civilian creates(3). Although we only gone through two or three dozen low quality salvage logs, and a handful of mediums.
Apparently i made a mistake when scheduling training as two members of my unicorn -death squad- soldier wannabes learned exactly nothing. They are going to be transferred to the male unicorns, who didn't even started training yet. My earth pony squad is on the same level as the male unicorns. We needed haulers.
Obsidian 1. The winter is similar to the autumn. Two Scroll of basic restoration were successfully made. Now we need another arcane terminal and my unicorns can start to learn magic. (We have the hologems too.)
Obsidian 17. Fire on the right side of the map. We started collecting the leftover clothes on the surface a few days prior, plus salvaging a few scraps. I guess the raiders got our smell, or they were waiting for us.
No enemy sighted yet but the alarm has been turned on.
Everypony got inside safely. Time to let in the Protectaponies. And just as they walk up on the ramps they walk into a raider earthpony, especially crazed for flavor. My first living enemy on the map, other than ghouls.
Obsidian 25. Our Elder Lion Transcribed and learned our first spell, the healing spell(tier1). Yay.
Spring has arrived.
A few pretty little pictures, and an ugly big one.
The mental picture of this little filly... she is calling her little brother her sister, because she doesn't know any better yet... she is traveling to an unknown place in this unforgiving wasteland with her family... then watching his father and her 'sister' torn apart in front of her... running off confused... her screaming-crying mother when is safe, then watching her going mad and slowly fade away... I wonder how much she understood from what was going on...
When the drug system will be implemented can we get something similar to what i did with the batteries? Morphine or something to knock out the really unhappy ones. Or a reaction to get really drunk at the bar. The unconsciousness could come from the alcohol poisoning to justify it.
This map hasn't got any high quality salvage(HQS), not even in the caverns. Can i get all creates from medium salvage, or do i have to trade for some HQS to get all tech trees?