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[LordPorkins]

(There are tons of Oil-Like substances that can do. They just are scarcer/harder to access then raw Oil)

[Gwolfski]

{{ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergius_process  = Coal to oil}}

[Amperzand]

{If you want, you can develop the Bergius Process. Take a while, and I'd recommend finding alternative heat sources, but you can certainly do it.}

[Chevaleresse]

See if Fish could use help setting up decon and such. CAn you relieve radiation sickness? Try to find something to help out the general population.

After all that, start work on a smallish zeppelin prototype. Should wow the masses and maybe provide a decent way to check out what the hell's going on Out East in the end.

[Amperzand]

{Hey, I'm sorry about the gap in updates, I've been doing a ridiculous amount of robot-stuff, takes up a lot of time.}

[chaotic skies]

Spoiler: amp (click to show/hide)

Begin attempting to figure out what this "odd" feeling is.

Help with the creation of machining tools if needed. As soon as possible, begin attempting to make some very simple logic circuits, similar to early computers.

<<sorry for the post gap, got distracted with Christmas and stuffs.>>

[Amperzand]

{I will hopefully be awake enough to update tonight. I've mostly just been eating dinner and going to sleep.}

[MoonyTheHuman]

(could someone recap what happened, and where I would be at the moment?)

[Amperzand]

(A whole army showed up from the dwarf government and are now training in the fortress. Something really weird happened and all of the player characters woke up in a room together. That includes you. The others are now having a meeting and dinner in an adjacent room.)

[MoonyTheHuman]

"Ughhhhh... What the hell? How'd i get in here?!"
Get up, look around, find out what is currently happening.

[chaotic skies]

<<shameless bump>>

[Amperzand]

(I now have what amounts to a 4-day weekend, so if I don't have a writeup today or tomorrow y'all get to call me pathetic in overly dramatic voices.)

[Gwolfski]

((Ok))

[Amperzand]

{To simplify RP and gameplay for the time being, you can all be working from a single large council chamber/research lab thing unless you specify otherwise. You don't need to leave and lose communication to work on projects, physical action should mostly be taken by NPCs at this stage.}

The fluid enchanted by Fish's flask does seem to be effectively reducing the symptoms of those who drink from it. All of those who were above the surface at the time of the Dancer's death suffered significant exposure, but having been all injured to some extent, were given shots of the potion. It is likely you could effect some kind of project to distribute small doses widely. It can only produce perhaps four liters of enchanted fluid a day, but it's better than nothing.

The engineers assure you that they can construct and loft a test balloon within three days. An airship large enough to serve as long-range reconnaissance will take rather longer by simple virtue of the scale of the thing, but they will eagerly begin preparations for the assembly of the frame and production/storage of lifting gas in quantity immediately.

Other engineers bring the issue of arming the Battalion to the table. There are some options with regard to the focus of development and production efforts. It is assumed that gunpowder in both varieties and nitrate explosives will be produced in the greatest quantities possible, but the arms to use them will need some work. The fortress can likely produce reliably functional repeating weapons at this point, but they will be unavoidably expensive and difficult to keep supplied. Muskets or crude rifles seem to have proven themselves at least dependable, and can be arsenaled in great quantity as they are, but are plainly inferior to the more sophisticated designs. There are also a variety of even more expensive, or more specialist technologies which can be produced to aid an army. The flare guns which so effectively aided the forty or so dwarves of the Settler militia require hazardous and expensive chemicals to supply. The submachine guns of which some half-dozen have been produced seem pathetically unreliable and are very expensive indeed, but have great potential if they can be made usable in some format. Cannon, especially shell-firing artillery, is also of great use, and seems more immediately practical to produce, but will take up a great portion of production capacity both in steel and in explosives to supply. All matters of chemicals, mechanics, and metallurgy aside, small units could potentially be trained in the use of magic! Decisions and developments, all in all, must be made.

The teams working on machine tools are eager to accept help from Chaotic Skies in their work. It appears they have made great progress, already having good experience with complex gear mechanisms and rotary machinery, but with his help will be able to start production of lathes and drill presses by the end of the day. More complex machinery will follow in short order.

The presence both of Patham and of a great influx of workers will allow more effective decontamination systems to be in place rapidly. Complex machinery will be somewhat difficult, but warm baths, water filtration, zeolite rock scrubs, and a full cleaning of the directly contaminated tunnels should largely forestall any further poisoning among the population by the end of the week.

Spoiler: Chaotic Skies (click to show/hide)

Something seems subtly off, the almost-familiar psychic buzz out of the East seems... Clearer. You feel very strong and fast. Something about your physiology seems unusual, but you would probably need an MRI or something to get a look at any changes.

Spoiler: Everybody else (click to show/hide)

As he eats, and goes to work on the development on machine tools, Chaotic Skies looks somewhat unusual. The rest of the Homelanders are somewhat pale and weakened by your week spent comatose, whereas he looks both severely emaciated and in resonant good health. The emaciation is almost-visibly fading as his food disappears.

[TheBiggerFish]

Is the limiting factor on the enchantment the available magic or...?