Food:
(7) Continue half rations for all except the sick: Cnidaros, eS, King Zultan, Piratejoe, blueturtle, NAV, Kot
(7) Continue all boats/raft dedicated to fishing: Cnidaros, eS, King Zultan, Piratejoe, blueturtle, NAV, Kot
Expeditions:
(7) Send two hunting expeditions with half of the expeditionary supplies each, in opposite directions: Cnidaros, eS, King Zultan, Piratejoe, blueturtle, NAV, Kot
Shelter:
(5) Smooth out the floor of the pit-igloo to prevent puddles forming: Cnidaros, King Zultan, Piratejoe, blueturtle, Kot
(3) Build a raised sleeping platform out wooden planks in the pit-igloo: NAV, Kot, King Zultan
(5) 50 people to continue mining out and expanding the pit-igloo: Cnidaros, King Zultan, Piratejoe, blueturtle, Kot
(4) Line the insides of igloos with wooden planks (with an air layer between) for insulation: Cnidaros, King Zultan, Piratejoe, blueturtle
(1) Line Igloos with sheet metal: eS
(3) Build wooden huts, then cover them with snow as insulation: NAV, Kot, King Zultan
Fuel:
(3) Dry out dung and use as fuel source: blueturtle1134, DoubloonSeven, Kot, King Zultan
Industry:
(6) Make crab traps using five cot frames and screws/nuts/bolts: Cnidaros, eS, King Zultan, Piratejoe, NAV, blueturtle
Morale:
(5) Found the Church of Kot as state religion, with Kot as its leader: Cnidaros, eS, King Zultan, TFF, Kot
(3) Found the Church of Kot, if he can repeat his previous miracle and recover something useful from the shipwreck: NAV, blueturtle, Urist
(5) Put the Church's headquarters in the pit-igloo, name it Kot's Chapel: Cnidaros, eS, King Zultan, TFF, Kot
(2) Don't alienate all the Orthidox and Liikanenists and form no new religion: Piratejoe, blueturtle
(3) Establish "Divine Encouragement and Altruism for Team Health" squads to help keep up morale: TFF, Kot, King Zulan
(3) Confiscate all weapons and ammo not in use for expeditions to prevent Suicide. They will be guarded by DEATH squads: TFF, Kot, King Zultan
(1) All Great Ideas Come From the Kotzar: eS
Sunday BestThe council in the Kotzar's igloo is mostly concerned with various ways to get food, but the Church of Lost Colonists is also a concern. It's clearly a threat to order in New Vlanlados, the leaders decide. They also decide that the best way to combat this, is to form their own church.
One cold morning, the surviving Vlanladosians emerge from their igloos for their paltry breakfast of what little fish was caught the day before, cooked on the frozen cast iron stoves sitting out in the snow. A colonist known to many as the Evicted Saint, though nobody knows where he earned his ominous nickname, calls the people to attention. "People of New Vlanlados! The Church of Kot will convene tonight, for readings from our holy new testament bible and sermons preached by our esteemed leader, Kot. Your attendance is mandatory. Our Divine Encouragement and Altruism for Team Health squads will help anyone who has trouble reaching the meeting. Thank you."
The day continues with fishing, construction of crab cages, and attempts to dry out poo next to a fire, [1d6:5] which goes better than expected, yielding a small amount of unpleasant but flammable material. Lacking any proper building or amphitheater to host five hundred colonists, Kot stands in front of a small makeshift pew (an empty oil drum, actually) with a small bible which was already on land when the
Crabby Wench collapsed. Most of the pages are stuck together or otherwise illegible, because it was stored in the corner of a damp igloo, so he's mostly just pretending to read it and making stuff up. The colonists are in the process of cooking and eating their dinners, and pay half attention as they stand in line or pick apart krill. "It is written that on the sixth day, god made a sail boat," he paused and flipped several pages, "so that the Jews could flee from persecution. ...but it hit an iceberg! And the Romans... no, the Jews, they were woeful! But God made fish rain from the heavens, and they were happy!" The colonists don't seem very impressed, and the man who leads the Church of the Lost Colonists scoffs (but says nothing, as the Divine Encouragement squads are wielding rifles.)
[1d6:6] But even though it was not obvious yet, his words would carry far.
Another StormThat night, there is a mighty storm- perhaps worse than the one which destroyed the ship the colonists came in on. [1d6:1] More than half of the igloos collapse. But, in the morning, there is a miracle: Laid out on the snow, right in front of the Kotzar's igloo, fully a hundred and fifty meters from the shore, is a blue whale! Just like in the sermon! It's a miracle, it's a blessing from God, it's definitely
not just a freak weather anomaly (as criers from the Divine Encouragement squads repeat for fully an hour in the morning.) Immediately, led by the expert hunter (whales aren't strictly his field of expertise, but there's nobody else better for the job). More than a hundred men set about carving the whale and collecting its oil. In truth, they make a bit of a botch of it, but even so, over the course of the week they gather 20,000 ration's worth of smoked meat and blubber, and 20 barrels of oil. The food problem will be solved for months. Kot's pew is adorned with whale bones. For the common Vlanladosian, this (literal) windfall of food is a blessing from (literally) above, and Kot is the instrument and speaker of God's will. At every meal, they sit enraptured listening to Kot's sermons, now that his holiness has been proven by a life-saving miracle.
The looming veil of death by starvation has been lifted from New Vlanlados, but that's not to say all is well. After the storm there's not enough shelter for a few days, especially with many people preoccupied with carving the whale and the sick unable to work. Dozens of the ill colonists die, and dozens more fall ill. [1d6:1] The Church of the Lost hasn't given up their hold on the colonists either. Though he's been careful not to say it in front of the Church of Kot's leadership or their "Death squads" (a horrible slander on the good name of the armed Divine Encouragement and Altruism for Team Health squads), rumor has it that's he's accused Kot of having struck a faustian deal. "Witchcraft!" says one of the women running the stoves, stubbornly refusing to eat any whale meat and consuming kill instead. "There's no way God would speak through someone like him! No, he made a deal with someone else... a deal with the devil! And this
blessing comes along with the deaths of all those people who froze overnight in the storm! That was the price he paid- blood!"
This time, the dead colonists are properly buried. With all the excitement of butchering the whale and replacing the igloos, and perhaps some of the Lost colonists are refusing to work as well, not much fishing gets done, although five crab traps are still made. The project to line the walls of the igloos with planks only gets as far as a couple of test igloos, they're better insulated and probably less likely to fall down in a storm but still don't resolve the discomfort of sleeping on snow. [1d6:2] The Church of Kot also resolves to strictly control the colony's supply of guns, which amounts to putting a door with a lock on the igloo in which they're stored. It's not serious protection though, someone could easily break into the igloo by smashing a wall down or tearing the door-frame out of the snow entirely.
[1d6:5] There's some more good news, as well: The expedition team sent to recover the excavator and tractor has somehow managed to get both working again, by shoveling out the excavator and using it to lift the tractor out of the water. They've managed to get both vehicles near the coal seam so work can be done, but they say they'll need more men, shelters, and food. On that last note, they're ecstatic to come back to the camp and find a surplus of food.
-509 Individuals (Hungry!)
-1 Mechanical Manufacturing/Repair expert
-1 Agriculture Expert
-1 Electrical/Radio Engineer
-1 Theoretical Physicist
-1 Expert Hunter
-1 GLORIOUS KATZAR KOT
-1 Katzarin
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55 Assigned to Cooking & Cleaning
12 Assigned to Nursing
340 Available
100 Sick, 2 Crippled
New Vlanlados
-19,000 Food rations (Consuming about 2000/week, mostly whale meat supplemented with fish and krill)
-20 Barrels of Whale Oil
-Four tons of whale bones
-20 Chicken Coats
-18 Warm Coats
-240 sets of fishing tools
-200 sets of construction tools
-100 sets of farming tools
-150 sets of hunting tools (spears and traps)
-6 3-man tents
-4 small sleds
-96 VL-41 "Dove" Semi-Automatic Rifles
-9,900 rifle bullets
-0.4 Tons of Coal (enough for about 2 weeks, also burning poo lol)
-1 Wrecked steam-turbine
-1 Wrecked boiler
-1.5 tons of planks, mostly damaged
-200 small wooden boxes
-200 sets of silverware
-20 boxes of screws/nuts/bolts
-87 hammocks
-82 cot mattresses
-30 cot frames
-5 Crab Traps
-100 backpacks
-0.65 Tons medical supplies
-400 feet of rope
-100 feet of chains
-200 lanterns
-60 stoves
-1 set of signal flags
-1 Vlanlados Flagpole
-600 Colonists' worth of igloo-space (some used for storage)
-1 Pit-igloo, housing 7 colonists
-10 Colonists' worth of igloos are wood-lined
Boats at Shipwreck Camp:
-11 Lifeboats, holding 20 people each
-1 raft, labeled "Ovechkin Helmsman Did Nothing Wrong"
Coal Mining Site
1 Large sled
Tractor
Excavator
0.1 Tons of Coal
It is Day 48The food shortage is over! You're technically still consuming food faster than you're producing it, but it will be well into spring before that becomes a serious issue, with the stockpile of food you've built up. The coal shortage is becoming more pertinent, since a lot of coal was used up smoking meat, but at least you have a real hope of solving that issue now.
You're also going to want to do something about the Church of the Lost. Although the majority of the colony is now absolutely fanatical about Kot, there's no telling what damage the other church might cause. In fact, it's not even clear how many of the colonists are loyal to them.
Shelter is an issue as well. Clearly the igloos, as they're being constructed now, aren't going to be reliable in the long term, and besides colonists complain that they're damp, crowded and cold. Once the immediate needs of colonists such as food are met, comforts like this are going to be a big issue.