"Come on people! This whole situation is quite mad! It's perfect time to play mad scientist and build a weapon capable of destroying those monsters!"
Upon noticing the problem with the fuel fabricator Professor sighs.
"Oh great... Now this."
Shut down the water pump, I have enough water in the converter already. Collect the intake pipe into the truck and quickly analyze what went wrong.
Load as many bullets into MWP as it can take. Speech!
"Okey people! It's time to continue. We don't want to be sitting here unarmed and unprepared when the monsters finally reach us! Let's move on and alert the people in the city!"
It looks like the the rods used to drive electric current into the water corroded, causing the machine to malfunction and start evaporating the water rather than splitting it. Luckily, it just broke the tube, and the parts are easily replaceable. It looks like Ozark/Newton wants to move on, you warn the city of the issue, and receive a response of disbelief, they consider locking you up, saying you must be insane. You leave with the rest of the group, heading to New Manila.
The people give you a glum response, some just ignoring you.
"Hrm," PFC Fridge says, not feeling like articulating further.
Let's move. Into the city or onward to New Manila, but let us just move.
You all head off to New Manila.
To New Manila. I thought that was a given or my character at this point, and that we were still on the move, not idling.
Anyway, to repeat: Head straight to a starport. Hmm, preferably one with civilian or poorly guarded military shuttles or ships we can steal. We need off planet ASAP.
Ah well, I assumed you all did not wish to move yet. We'll have you all head to New Manila...
Main Group:You all head off to New Manila. Some of the village survivors come, others stay, hoping that some others survived and will stream in.
It will take 3 turns (including this one) to get to New Manila. You are part way through your voyage when you begin to hear troubling police reports from Eastmire on your relay. Apparently a strange "disease" has appeared, causing black growths to form on people, and extreme aggression once the disease matures. Before then, it causes great pain, and hallucinations.
You all guess that the main horde has not yet arrived, just that the one man who entered the city was indeed infected.