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2022-Dec-05, Monday 14:20![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
The subject line is actually inaccurate because there's a tileset now.
Having finished Squeak Squad the next game on my list originally was Battletech: the Crescent Hawks' Inception but instead I've gotten distracted by Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, a very in-depth post-apocalyptic game about a multimodal disaster. The dead are rising to eat the living, but there are also killer robots on the loose, portals to other dimensions opening occasionally, aliens taking advantage of the chaos to colonize parts of the planet or kidnap people for experiments, the works. And I've modded it with working magic (I'm playing a druid so I'm casting a lot of Vegetative Grasp so the zombies can't get to me) and a few other disasters, so there's a lot going on.
But there's just a lot going on. Like, I spawned in a government shelter, set up before the government completely collapsed, with a lot of rations and bottled water, but I needed to get more water. To that, I had to do this:
So far I'm doing pretty well, though I haven't worked through the shelter supplies yet. I've studied my few spells and I'm slowly clearing the zombies out of the giant mansion that's near the evac shelter and which apparently (judging by the clothes the zombies were wearing) was hosting some kind of costume party when they all got zombified. I run up, lure a few zombies away, use my spells to kill them, smash the bodies (so they don't reanimate again), rest to get mana back, repeat. It's slow going but I'm very excited to see what kind of loot is going to be in that mansion. At minimum, there'll be a bunch of appliances I can take apart for raw materials and I'll finally have my brazier so I can make pure water indoors!
I just found a wrecked car in front of the mansion, so that's probably a good source of sheet metal, fiber (from seatbelts), glass shards, plus I can siphon off the gasoline! Things are looking up in post-apocalyptia.
Having finished Squeak Squad the next game on my list originally was Battletech: the Crescent Hawks' Inception but instead I've gotten distracted by Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, a very in-depth post-apocalyptic game about a multimodal disaster. The dead are rising to eat the living, but there are also killer robots on the loose, portals to other dimensions opening occasionally, aliens taking advantage of the chaos to colonize parts of the planet or kidnap people for experiments, the works. And I've modded it with working magic (I'm playing a druid so I'm casting a lot of Vegetative Grasp so the zombies can't get to me) and a few other disasters, so there's a lot going on.
But there's just a lot going on. Like, I spawned in a government shelter, set up before the government completely collapsed, with a lot of rations and bottled water, but I needed to get more water. To that, I had to do this:
- Smash some benches, lockers, and other parts of the shelter for raw materials.
- Turn those materials into makeshift tools--hammer, crowbar, and screwdriver
- Go up on the roof and disassemble the water tank
- Drag the smaller tanks down to the shelter, then take one into the woods and fill it with water
- Drag the enormously heavy water tank back to the shelter, which took most of a day
- Disassemble a locker to get metal to make a brazier so I don't burn the shelter down, end up with the wrong kinds of metal, just drag the tanks outside
- Build a campfire and use two tanks to boil the water and purify it
So far I'm doing pretty well, though I haven't worked through the shelter supplies yet. I've studied my few spells and I'm slowly clearing the zombies out of the giant mansion that's near the evac shelter and which apparently (judging by the clothes the zombies were wearing) was hosting some kind of costume party when they all got zombified. I run up, lure a few zombies away, use my spells to kill them, smash the bodies (so they don't reanimate again), rest to get mana back, repeat. It's slow going but I'm very excited to see what kind of loot is going to be in that mansion. At minimum, there'll be a bunch of appliances I can take apart for raw materials and I'll finally have my brazier so I can make pure water indoors!
I just found a wrecked car in front of the mansion, so that's probably a good source of sheet metal, fiber (from seatbelts), glass shards, plus I can siphon off the gasoline! Things are looking up in post-apocalyptia.
