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I want to be a band of nomadic midgets forever searching for more purple juice.

MegaCorp Remnant: Bonus to research and industry, starts out with mildly advanced weaponry and a fortified location. Major Penalty to population.

Military Remnant: Bonuses to Combat and starts out with a fortified position and an armory. Major Penalty to Population.

Tribals: Bonus to exploring, get to pick starting position. Good at guerilla style tactics. Penalty to research and industry. Starts out with some firearms and fairly primitive weaponry.

Civilians: Bonus to agriculture and population, penalty to combat. starts out with a decent armory.

You get to pick one, and only one group. to start as, choose wisely!

>>21489538
Tribal midgets.

>>21489538
MegaCorp: being the guys who probally started all this sounds fun.

>>21489538
MegaCorp

As the remnants of a megacorp, can we have wield pseudo-business like practices. Like our tribal leader being called the CEO or something. Because I can support that.

MegaCorp!

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Oh right. 3 votes will lock us in. Thought I should mention that.

okay that was easy we're a Megacorp.

Lemme dig up my megacorp tech chart...

Rolled 3

1: Weapons Technology, specifically personal arms and armor.
2: Agricultural Technology, and other food related technology
3: Robotics Technology
4: Media Technolgy, information and its storage and distribuition
5: Medical Technology
6: Vehicular Manufacturing.

alright lets roll up our megacorp type!

Rolled 1, 3 = 4

1: City
2: Desert
3: Plains
4: Swamp
5: Forest
6: Mountain

>>21489700
Robotics! What we lack in numbers, we make up for in numbers.

>>21489700
Food, he who rules the waist rules the west

>>21489762
I am assuming we get three right?

>>21489700
can our village actually be on the back or a giant robot?

>>21489700
>>21489731
Is it your rules that count, or do we need to vote?

>>21489788
rolls.

dear god why did i do it

Okay 200 years ago your ancestors were the members of a Massive Corporation that provided robots of all shapes and kinds to the rest of the world. They rode out the impace and ensuing resource wars in the 500 story sky scraper that dominates the city ruins deep in the heart of the Dayglo plains.

The city ruin itself is home to savage gangs and horrible mutated animals. Thankfully you don't have to venture out into the city, The Tower has an automated Hydroponics Facility that supplies all your nutrient requirements.

The City Ruins are surrounded by plains, these are fairly standard looking plains, fields of long grass, the occasional tree, wild pigs and dogs yadda yadda. Thing is its also home to massive collections of crystals that glow with every color of the Rainbow. These Are geddonite crystals, a strange alien mineral left over by the impact. Anyway... I'll give you your turn 1 status report in just a moment.

First order of business. Begin design and production of Warbots to be sent out into the city and reclaim it from the gangs and savages. If this requires that we destroy them entirely, so be it. If they are willing to fold themselves into our corporation, all the better.

We need wage slaves for our cubicle farms.

>>21489899
I second this.

Week 1:
Population: 250
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Basic Automation, Basic Comms, Basic Anti Ballistics, Basic Firearms, Hydroponics.
Weapons: Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives.
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor
Soldiers: Gun Rovers, Security Guards.

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E Make a Suggestion.

Okay we take turns in weeks. We get 1 action per week with a maximum of 4 actions per month. This week will be your first action. I'll make use of whatever the obvious consensus is. Feel free to ask questions before making decisons. I'll now answer any questions that I see have been posted after this post.

In the meantime please vote for your first action!

How do we reclaim this wasteland while simultaneously maximizing profits?

We are General Foundries, founded as Fabrique Generale, a cooperative of engineers and scientists specializing in remote systems, databasing, and out-designing the competition all the way to the bomb. And then dropping it on them. What do we make? Anything we damn well please, after we build the tools to make it...though that can take a while.

Our Equity Lords are appointed on the basis of merit, and have guaranteed all junior stakeholders a fair and beneficial portion of the Enterprise ever since the fires of the world cooled to mere cinders. We emerged far less broken than many, and now will do anything to maintain the structure that allows us our mechanical and technological edge. And in the wastes, that can mean anything - but at least we have our drone-assist forward teams.

Let the nuclear winter and the dust storms and the acid rain tear at us. We've dealt with worse.

Hostile takeover eminent

Lets work on our image first, if make our base look like oasis then these savages will flock to be slaves on our farms.

>>21489926
Send a robot team (we have robot killteams, dont we? if not sec guards with assault rifles and anti ballistics) to explore the immediate surroundings of the Skyscraper, with an emphasis on retrieving some Gedonite. I'd like to fine out if its any use.

A: Explore

>>21489950
I shall serve my corprateship. I motion that we start clearing out the tower, if need be, and getting a precence on the ground.

Yes, after all, image is everything. Ensure that our tower is as well defended as we can, and then broadcast throughout the city that we are the masters of this little oasis. Food is plentiful, water is clean, and yes, our weapons have ammunition. Let's try and make the takeover as stress free as possible. They are our newest employees after all, and they wouldn't want to get... fired.

>>21489915
>>21489899
you don't have the resources for something of this scale. You do have gun rovers though., Basically 100 pound 4 wheel robots with basic AI, radio communications and a built in Assault Rifle. They act as support units for your goon squads. Standard secuirty personel led by Chief Security officers, who use riot armor.

That said exploring your surroindings is probably a good idea.

>>21489788
please roll 1d100s when voting, I will take the highest of 3 rolls. High is good, low is bad. There are no crit successes or failures in this quest. Just failure and success.

That said I felt rolling for loction and tech was the best option, would've taken too much time otherwise.

>>21489986
Explore, we have to know what we really have to work with.

Seconding these:
>>21489915
>>21489899
Construct robotic units to be sent into the city and begin securing it. Fit them with public address systems to tell the locals they can join us, be pacified, or die. If they capture assets, so much the better.

Rolled 39

>>21489926
E/D
Improve Technology, either AI or Automation.
If we want an army of Warbots as suggested we need some more advaned than Basic AI and Basic Automation.

Rolled 52

>>21489980
I'm this guy. Rolling for it.

Rolled 71

>>21489986
>A: Explore

Rolled 60

>>21490006
rollin' for >>21490025

>>21490036
Backed

Rolled 46

>>21489899
herp

I would like to know what kind of ideas people have for things to research, develop, and produce.

My ideas include accessing the existing sattelite network, establishing a moon base, and creating a large production facility aside from the obvious, which includes powered exskeletons (power armor) and airships.

With Gun Rover Support General Fabrication Security Forces fan out into the Streets. What they find is quite disturbing. No one has left the tower in 200 years and things have... degraded.

People fight with animals (mutated cats, dogs, and rats) for food in the streets, gangs exchange a variety of drugs and poorly made food along with sex and shoddily made weapons as a form of currency. A few of them are stupid enough to attack your Security Teams but some of the crude firearms they use actually explode when put into use, some simply jam. Though the ones that are usable appear to be effective enough when it comes to killing.

Thankfully GenFab weapons are top notch and more than enough to deal with the half assed gear the Gangers are packing. Your men decide to bring in the corpses and the weapons they're using after doing a general sweep of the area.

The City Stretches out roughly 250 miles in every direction before giving way to a ruined suburb, and eventually, the Geddonite Plains.

continued->

>>21490174
The gangers are subjected to an autopsy in GenFab HQ. They appear to be part of a culture that encourages heavy drug use. There are traces of opiates, amphetamines, hallucinagens, and THC in the systems of all of the autopsied gangers.

The firearms and knives brought back by the Sec teams are very crude, made either by hand, or with the help of primative machines (the most advanced sign of construction being the use of a soddering iron, and very shoddy soddering at that) and the weapons, despite their general simplicity of design, arn't well cared for.

It appears the culture outside the tower is primitive in nature, illiterate, and violent.

Of course that's judging from a fw coked up nobodies with guns. You might want to talk to some people before you make any fast decisions.

>>21490169
Aerial drones to scout for resources and such

>>21490169
We should look into designing swarms of mind-control nanobots that can be dispersed among any tribals that prove hostile.

>>21490243
Same options as before?

>>21490254
Well they like drugs, if we give them some then they might like us, plus opiates are a hella of a drug for people you want to manipulate.

Week 2:
Population: 250
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Basic Automation, Basic Comms, Basic Anti Ballistics, Basic Firearms, Hydroponics.
Weapons: Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives.
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor
Soldiers: Gun Rovers, Security Guards.

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E Make a Suggestion.

Keep in mind you're going to need some resources before you want to do any major projects. Thankfully you're in a city so getting ahold of scrap materials should be pretty easy (assuming the local gangs don't get in the way...)

>>21490249
A) birds eye view, seems like a wise idea .

Rolled 66

>>21490314

>>21490314
Thank you, your corporateship

Rolled 81

>>21490283
Research improved automation systems for our drones.

Rolled 35

>>21490283
C) Synthesize some drugs we can use to pay the gangs to give us metal. BUISNESS! If there is a market gap, its our job to fill it!

>>21490283
Savenge for supplies! We should get some geddonite for testing as well

Rolled 27

>>21490283
D: Research New Technology
Lets get cracking on designing those railguns.

>>21490325

>>21490254
near future, mind control nanobots aren't an option at all.

anyway that would make things too easy even if I felt like opening up the can of worms that nanotech contructors would bring up in general.

You get props for initiative at least.

>>21490350

Rolled 47

>>21490370

>>21490325
what part of resources wasn't I clear on? You can't make aerial drones if you don't have the resources to make them with.

Rolled 65

>>21490283
E
Recruit people from the city. Promise a secure home and food. Accept people who have useful skills (good with guns, engineers, maybe even a wandering scientist?). Don't accept junkies.

Rolled 11

>>21490391
scavange then is my vote

>>21490342
You don't know anything about the gangs, synthesizing drugs is pointless until you actually have someone to sell them to.

Though to be fair you do have the resources to make something, probably opium based.

>>21490174
>>21490174
If we can find out which groups have the largest chance of creating unmutated children with the minimum of birth defects once given enough assistance to stop being fucking ferals, we can give them slightly better arms than they have and organize them in such fashion that they can take down their enemies. This is assuming they'll pledge their alliegance to us. We'll need food, slightly less crappy weapons than the ones they have, and basic medical care to win them over.

I say we spend next week putting together our first Contact Task Forces. These are to be trained in recruiting the locals and helping them to consolidate a power base, and also in safely extracting orphaned and unwanted children and bringing them back to base.

And it would help if the weapons we gave the locals didn't work too well without us maintaining them regularly, so that those who didn't join us eventually wouldn't get fancy guns and then run off without holding up their end of the bargain.

Finally, the contact teams should have a supply of purer, less damaging drugs to give the locals that cannot be induced without them. 5-MeO-DMT has been successfully used to get people off heroin in the real world, and things like buprenorphine are used as opoid blockers to keep addicts from wanting to go back on the drug. It's not even terribly unpleasant, apparently, your average junkie won't feel the physical cravings anymore.

Rolled 35

Well lets clean up the area around the building, litter never is a good thing, and think what the fumbaling masses might think we remeber to reduce, reuse, recylce

B)

Rolled 76

>>21490430
Rollan. In case people want to throw their weight behind this, please second and roll. I will gladly adjust this if you have suggestions.

Rolled 42

>>21490423
Well duh, we know what drugs they use because we cut some of them open. Establishing first contact comes afterwards, when we actually have something to give to them. At least that was my plan.

>>21490430
>>21490442
Okay these are both solid plans, its near future scifi with alien minerals brought in by a giant asteroid so drugs developed by R&D to help people kick their addictions isn't beyond the pale.

Also stripping the area outside of your tower of garbage would net you some plastics, glass, metal, cloth...probably biological waste in the form of corpses...

Anyway developing a sort of armed diplomatic corp is totally within your means. My advice would be to go out there and talk to people, what happened the firt time around is some stupid junkies trie yto kill your guys and take their stuff. You still don't know much about the real culture of the city.

So whats it gonna be guys? Diplomancer training? Scavenging.... what?

>>21490510
I like that you're planning to engage with the population, but our drawback is a lack of people. What do you think of giving them the kinds of drugs that'll stop them from being organ damaged, useless, crazy fucks in time and maybe even get them off the stuff so we can make more use of them rather than less?

>>21490430
We're a little far away from all that. The city's gangers really shouldn't be trusted, at least not until a thorough regimen of detox and indoctrination programs

>>21490510
You saw the standard effects of some very destructive Amphetamines and highly Addictive opiates as well as some hallucinagens and other fairly nasty substances.

if you wanna make drug trading one of your businesses that's fine. I just want to point out that Junkies make for shitty employees and allies so you won't be surprised when they betray you at the first opprotuinity,

>>21490569
I agree they should not be trusted.

That's why I think we should make some Contact Task Forces - groups of armed individuals (forces) who are to be tasked with finding out more about the people around us and getting in the good with them without giving away too much.

That's why I also want to go orphan-snatching - their kids probably don't have the best lives ever.

Also, it's why any weapons we give them will be beyond their means to maintain or reproduce long-term, keeping them from using what we give them against us even if they're completely irrational.

Rolled 97

>>21490536
My shares are put towards renovating the outside, because all rational people should support this.

>>21490610
Do we have the resources to manufacture opoid blockers, DMT derivatives, etc to give the junkies to get them off trashy formulations of meth, black tar heroin, and jenkem?

Rolled 49

>>21490550
Those guys cannot be trusted to be responsible. Their mindset is likely completely different from ours from 200 years of scavenge and murder. I doubt we can convince them to help us if we do not pander to their baser instincts. They are using drugs as currency, we can supply that. Using drugs as medicine is intriguing, but i doubt it is possible without ridiculously extensive research (remember, even today medicine needs literally years to develop, and we spec in robots)

>>21490610
I doubt we can convince them to lay of the drugs when theyve been high for 200 years. If we are not going to find a non druggie tribe we will have druggies as allies. Is at least my reasoning. But your the GM.

>>21490674
They are still an unknown, actually. The ones that cannot be trusted can be shown the end of a gun and got rid of. There are, however, likely others.

>>21490632
supporting this.

>>21490632
Your roll is becoming of a corporate officer.

I will put my plan on hold for a turn to renovate and clean the outside of the building for the sake of getting some goddamn resources t build things with.

>>21490648
JUNKIES MAKE SHITTY EMPLOYEES. If we're going to get any use out of these people other than test subjects or target dummies, we have to get them clean, no drugs, made by us or otherwise.

>>21490648
yes, making the devices to mass produce a line of antiaddiction chems is a different story. In the meantime scavenging...

You send some workers along with Sec teams to beautify the area outside your tower. Things are quieter than they were during your first outing. Mostly the streets are full of unusually large vicious animals (which are shot and brought back to HQ) Along with cleaning up The Tower the streets are cleared of Debris and garbage which, when processed in the manufacuring division, proves to be a minor source of resources.

Your men bring in a variety of mutated animals mainly 150 pound dogs, 50 pound cats, and 25 pound rats. They're larger and more intelligent than preImpact animals but otherwise show no noticable deviations from preImpact animals.

>>21490409
You, our plan for arial robots can't happen with additional resources, something my plan would do this.
>>21490396
If want people to come here we need this place to look more like something people would want to come to, well people of good standing anyways.
>>21490335
Yet another thing that would benifet from more reasources.

Isn't easy to see what we should all work togather on, making a better work enviroment for all.

>>21490736
You're right, they do make shitty employees.

You get them off the kinds of shit they're on by first switching them onto less serious stuff (some of which is downright harmless and can take them out of the junkie mindset) and giving them opiod BLOCKERS, which stop the cravings.

This is how you get junkies clean in a modern drug program. In time, they will come off everything.

>>21490777
*without...

Rolled 11

>>21490727
agreed my lord

Rolled 17

>>21490753
so aerial drone time?

>>21490786
if they want to, and drug abuse hasnt become some kind of cultural phenomenon.

We should find out. First contact, ho!

Week 3:
Population: 250
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Basic Automation, Basic Comms, Basic Anti Ballistics, Basic Firearms, Hydroponics.
Weapons: Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives.
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor
Soldiers: Gun Rovers, Security Guards.

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E: Make a Suggestion.


Okay A: if you want to make getting clean employees easier Detox chems are a must. B: if the city is overrun with chemheads Drugs are going to be a vital tradegood BUT you're going to have to maintain a balance between the use of drugs to get things and staying clean.

I'm just saying this so no one will be surprised when you get hit with a junkie betrayal.

that said its week 3 and you've got some project resources now! You've got plenty of organic materials to make drugs (harmful or benficial) and plenty of processed materials to make mechanical stuff.

Oh, and exploring the city is a good idea.

>>21490777
A better work environment requires the room to work in and the tools to create it.

We've been sitting in the same space for two centuries. We don't have space to work in; the city or a district of it would be good.

We've been quite nearly resting on our laurels aside from survival-related nonsense. We need to develop these tools.

However, a larger bottleneck is people and the greatest detriment to our work environment is the shitshow outside the doors.

We should cobble together a solution to that. My plan offers the beginnings of one.

After we get a grip on the locals, we can try to tie ourselves into whatever's left of the internet and satellite network. Might give us our own eyes in the sky and camera access quite quickly.

Rolled 36

>>21490835
Resources are essential to expand and we do have to take care of that shit show....Improve robotics for the cam drones and combat drones

Rolled 77

>>21490829
I think we should try to make first contact with as many gangs and groups as possible. Find out what they want, whats going on in the city, how we can pander to their interests. Try to be nice.

Rolled 60

>>21490829
Rolling to put together Contact Task Forces complete with initial doses of beneficial anti-addiction chems.

Rolled 81

>>21490858
>>21490859
Seconding

Rolled 93

>>21490858
thats not a bad idea. Seems good

>>21490835
Let's get a better view of the city, be it old satellites or aerial drones, we need to see what we kind of market we are dealing with before we start production.

>>21490859
again, first find out if they want to get down from the drugs. I can easily imagine that they are completely fine with using drugs since they die so fast that the more dangerous side effects are ignored.

Rolled 17

>>21490753
>>21490829
not that different from preimpact animals. Hmm.
That means it's possible to try and tame the super dogs, they sound useful.

btw, I believe there is a couple of clean guys around, maybe we can try to find them.

Rolled 87

Can we all agree though that we need to see whats outside our tower before we focus on druggies?

>>21490889
Since we're at the top of a 500-story tower I imagine you mean something other than a good physical view of the city, fellow executive?

>>21490858
A survey a lot more cumbersome, but i like it, we need to make sure we show are here to be friends while maintaining a little fear to prevent to much ladder climbing.
>>21490926
A man can dream can't he, but very true perhaps we can wait.

>>21490946
It's all about that market research

>>21490946
>>21490905
Look, the people we send out can do exploration better than a camera in the sky for everything other than taking aerial photos. We can explore and meet people, but let's not sit around bitching about how to do it. We can develop drones, etc later but let's start engaging with the environment ASAP.

>>21490976
Indeed. I am only worrying that showing our presence too fast and far reaching may lead to attacks on company property by violent hoodlums and scavengers. I hope our security teams are on high alert.

>>21490996
I think that's what we're all saying. I second the motion. Lets get boots on the ground.

Rolled 75

>>21491021

You get together your security forces and carefully choose the more diplomatic members of your Sec forces for a mission. You need to find people who can be trusted not to steal everything that isn't nailed down for their next fix. You manage to get together a team of men and women, armed with Rifles, Shotguns, SMGs, Pistols and Accompanied by GunRovers they venture out into the city.

There's some minor resistance from a few gangers, mostly men dressed up in raggedy purple clothing but they don't prove to be much of a threat. Eventually you find yourself at a large barricade. Over the walls of the barricade you can see the spires of a church.

After some effort your men eventually find themselves at an enormous gate made from junk. Men wearing makeshift metal armor and tabards that bear red crosses on a field of white stand on the junk wall. They have old, but well maintained bolt action rifles and most of them have Javelins as back up.

continued->

>>21490996
ahh hem, maybe i should clarify,
survey and market research now,
more office security cameras later
Our new plan has my full support

>>21491039
Javelins the rocket launcher or the javelins you throw?

>>21491060
I hope the throwing spears. Rocket launchers would be... shocking, to say the least.

>>21491135
it would make things interesting.

Occ: got to go guys i hope i can make it back in time

>>21491039
>>21491054

Tell them you come in peace and ask them who they are.

This week, we take the PLASTICS we found in the garbage and other lightweight electronics, and HYDROGEN from electrolytically separated water and we make our FIRST-GENERATION RECON DRONES, which are cheap, disposable, and stay afloat with small, light motors and lighter than air gas. If a few of them burn up because lolhydrogen, who cares, we'll make a hundred and this is just Mark I anyway.

Send them out over the city with lightweight cameras and radio frequency transmitters (cell phone circuitry, basically) and give the Contact task Force in the field access to their feeds.

What do you say, colleagues?

>>21491161
I shall clean your office while you are gone your corprateship

>>21491166
Rollan for diplomacy and cheap-ass plastic mini-blimp drones.

>>21491039
You've seen this area from the air, its a large compound, several city blocks kept seperate from the rest of the city by a large wall of metal junk. From the looks of things it was welded, glued, and hammered together with whatever its makers could find.

Eventually your men approach the gate and one man holds out his hand. "Lord Bishop Harlan has decreed that no one be allowed to enter the Parish, especially not the sinners who infest this city. However you obviously are different from the rabble so if you swear before god to obey our laws we shall allow you probationary entry to The Parish."

Your Team Led Chief Jack Suede asks what the laws are.

"Thou Shalt Not Murder, Steal, Fornicate, Drink To excess, or Deal In Vile Concotions." Chief Jack asks for claification on "Vile Concotions."

The Other guard, who so far has been quiet speaks up. "Smack, Dope, Angel dust...Y'know...chems."

Chief Jack thanks the man for his answer and sends back to the Tower for orders.

continued->

>>21491166
brilliant!

Rolled 18

>>21491166
Good, good. Our first steps into the skys. And diplomacy is nice

captcha: Olmoqu 1000. Sounds like a good name

>>21491190
i think its worth a go

>>21490859
Seconding the move to found and train a Contact Task Force. As an addendum, suggest a name that will resonate more with the locals, or at least appear more diplomatic. Diplomatic Contact Corps (DCC) submitted as an alternative name.
Also submit that we spend an additional further week after training the DCC to an acceptable standard, including developing drugs that assist their charisma.

>>21491166
I find your fixation on aerial recon disturbing, and think it would be to much of a tax on our resources at the moment.

I personally prefer finding out what the customers want and then custom tailoring a product to their taste.

I like the thing about radio transmitters though, that could be very useful.

>>21491039
>>21491190
Chief Jack Suede and his team have some jewelry, basic weaponry (such as knives and crossbows) and a variety of food stuffs and weak liqour on hand for trade goods.

He wants to know if he should enter the compund or head back to base.

>>21491258
my vote is we go in and find out more

Rolled 82

>>21491166
Rolling.
>>21491190
Tell our guy on the ground to inform His Lordships representatives that the Equity Lords will abide by his law whilst on his ground, and that you would be interested in establishing a consulate within the Parish if someone with the appropriate rank will permit it.

>>21491258
Enter the compound, talk to the dudes, find out if we can help them somehow.

You know, do the whole the customer is the king thingy.

Rolled 12

>>21491290
The potential allies are always right

>>21491166
you live in the highest standing structure in the city. There is literally no reason to build aerial recon drones at the moment.

I mean you can if you want and consensus supports it. But its way easier to just go on the roof with a pair of binoculars.

>>21491233
The drones are for our use to see what the customers want and if they are ameiable.

>>21491258
Submission: Enter the compound, look into establishing trade connections. More importantly, ascertain the character of this Bishop. A reclusive community means a fantastic marketing opportunity for us to break into, a dogmatic preacher hell-bent of aggressive expansion is much less so.

>>21491281
Since when are we governed by Lords? I thought a bureau of execs would work better for a megacorp.

Also, Equity Lords doesnt roll of the tongue. I dont like it. No offense.

Rolled 54

>>21491232
DCC can be a division, with multiple CTFs within it. A CTF is just a template of some guys who have certain kinds of gear for certain kinds of work. I expect there will be medical CTFs eventually, for example.

>>21491233
Cell phone curcuitboards and cameras, plastic bags, and enough electricity to separate some water chemically would not tax our resources, and radio transmitters are ubiquitous as is.

However, we can do some research later as well. The thing is, the customer-provider profit-generation model may be as outdated as the divine right of kings after the impact. We are a cooperative, not a simple profit-generation engine.

>>21491334
Submission: Agreed, the less feudal our corporation appears the better.

>>21491321
They are still a waste of resources in my humble opinion. Resources that we will need to consolidate our position. Is our tower even adequately secured and fortified?

Room for one more?

Rolled 24

>>21491318
You have a point there.

>>21491324
Seconded and added to own suggestion here.

>>21491334
Equity lords? Since >>21489950

I expect they're like the ones in the Diamond Age - proven executive officers granted a large portion of stock (or 'equity') in the General Foundries cooperative - they are in essence a bureau of execs. However, if you don't like the phrase use whatever you want instead. I find it rolls off the tongue just fine.

>>21491379
It's survived two centuries of this shit, as well as the initial bombardment. Drones will be useful when our lines of sight are obscured, but we can hold off on mass production until there is a need.

>>21491407
Welcome, employee.

>>21491360
>CTF
Affirmation: This is an acceptable approach.
Request: To clarify, are our CTF's essentially ground squads and, depending on the division, tailor-suited to react to specific situations?
Submission: Given that we owe much of our success to Robotics, it would make sense that cybernetics feature heavily in our personel.
>research
Affirmation: Seconding the motion to hold off research until later. More essential groundwork required.

>>21491420
Hm, what about Equity Officers? Or Equitarians? Equity Holders? Just leave the Lord out, it sounds so feudal.

Chief Jack Suede and his men swear to abide by the Lord Bishop's laws and ask if they can meet someone of authority. They are quickly ushered into a small red brick building near the gate. Its old, and repaired by liberal applications of plaster, caulk and sheet metal but its servicable enough. A man in a business like outfit made from white cloth with a large red cross on the suit's chest meets Chief Jack and his team.

The man's name is Brother Antonini, and it is his job to oversee the items in the possession of outsiders. After some quick back and forth Chief Jack makes his interest in trade goods and items required by The Parish and what t would take to meet Lord Bishop Harlan.

Antonini states that they would have to be people of importance. He also states that The Parish needs more ammunition for its Rifles, Fuel for its generators, and that sacrimental wine and exotic foods are always welcome.

With that info Jack decides to return to base.

Rolled 18

Well lets get those men some trade good, start building alliances.

>>21491453
Ammunition is basic, i am not sure we can produce fuel... But exotic foods and maybe even wine would be producable by our Hydroponics. Now its only a matter of securing a route to the Customer.

>>21491453
Submission: It would easily be within our ability to begin to manufacture ammunition and/or fuel within a few weeks. However, investigating other forces within the city seems the more appropriate move.
Note: Still not satisfied with the nature of the Bishop's community.

>>21491516
>>21491453
Depending on what sort of yields the Hydroponics are making we might have the materials to make some shitty fuel.

>>21491446
Our CTFs are at the moment groups of individuals equipped with whatever equipment is relevant to their task. If we need them to go air cavalry later, we can do that.

Cybernetics as in sticking implants in people are a maybe (requires extensive medical support, and if they have a firmware problem and need to be torn out of our best soldiers one fine day a non-implant approach becomes very attractive, so power armor and non-implants for a while). Cybernetics as in waldo units, sure.

There's a definition of 'cyborg' that means 'organism assisted by fabricated implements used to create a system of control that exceeds the organism's biological limitations.' Meaning, every time you wear glasses or use a phone or a can opener, you are a cyborg. No crude shard of silicone or frankenstein-style neck bolts required. So I'd rather roll with a minimum of that and a maximum of genetic alteration and bio-nanomachines and shit. The risk of having to tear an implanted insulin pump out of current real-world diabetics alone is kind of bad news, and a pacemaker is crapper than a specially-grown uber-heart.

>>21491516
>>21491496
Request: Do the members of the board wish to concentrate on Bishop at the moment? This member votes for further exploration, identifying all markets before making a move would be ideal.
Note: If Exploration is not favored by the board, this member votes for Research into manufacturing rifle ammunition.

Rolled 47

>>21491520
Big things start small, while this community might be a bit difficult, they know the lay of the city and whats going on.

Week 4:
Population: 250
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Basic Automation, Basic Comms, Basic Anti Ballistics, Basic Firearms, Hydroponics.
Weapons: Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives.
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor
Soldiers: Gun Rovers, Security Guards.
Contacts:
The Parish: Nuetral

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E: Make a Suggestion.

Your Tower is fine, the buildings around your tower however could easily hide enemies.

Drones will be of no help in looking for objects obscured by your line of sight unless directly over those objects, making them will be the same as mass producing them for ease of use. I suppose they could be useful if you got them very close to a problem area but any rifle with a decent range will destroy them.

CTFs are acknowledged as a Template with certain kinds of Training with a mind for responding for to certain kinds of situations.

>>21491516
>>21491520
I agree with a little further scouting before committing to trade with the Parish.

In addition I have concerns over supplying them ammunition. While initial reports seem favorable, we might have to kill these guys further down the line.

I assume we haven't decided on an internal mission statement yet.

Rolled 82

>>21491520
Seems about right, searching the city for other groups.
I say start manufacturing ammo anyway. If we don't end up trading with these guys, ammo is always useful.

>>21491537
Affirmation: This member accepts the Equity Lord's explanation.

Rolled 97

>>21491581
Statement: I am okay with this

>>21491537
you specialized in robotics, specifically automated systems customized for various purposes. The GunRovers are a primitive soldier alternative and have been adapted from bomb squad bots.

You don't have the tech or know how to make uper hearts or nanotech anything. A prosthetic heart or pacemaker isn't ut of the question though.

>>21491574
If we trade i'd say trade in surplus food. Harmless, and if they consider it luxury it is likely to fetch quite some price. Though its likely further exploration will help us out even more. I think both options are fine.

>>21491581
I second, or perhaps third, the motion for continued Exploration this week.

I do, however, think that we should very soon spend time Scavenging/clearing near the Tower.

>>21491581
Submission: Research Rifle Ammunition this week, Exploration next week. We can build up the resources to trade with Bishop, but we are not in any haste to establish firm connections just yet. It is unlikely that we have a competitor in the immediate area.

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>>21491452
>>21491452
Remember that we're talking to a Lord Bishop - 'lord' has its uses, and originates from the House of Lords in the parliament. In a society where the savage and feral survivors have no structure, some strict social standards may not go amiss. Personally I just like the setting Stephenson created where your pocket supercomputer rested in a pocket watch but you kept the pocket watch anyway.

However, you can refer to them as Equity Holders if you want.

Rolled 39

Can we all agree that exploration comes this week and manufacturing trade goods comes next?

>>21491683
Concur.

>>21491643
Justification: Providing ammunition, as opposed to weaponry, seemed to be their immediate concern. Any foodstuffs they accepted were noted to be exotic, not essential.

>>21491683
I think so. After >>21491648 's suggestion i would also like to ask OP if we can produce ammunition or if we would need to research it first?

>>21491683
Affirmation: Motion is Thirded.
Inquiry: Motion carried?

>>21491711
Well, i think exotic luxury articles should fetch a good price, and cannot be used to shoot at our away teams. Even better if it wine to be used in religious ceremonies.

It is the better option in my opinion if we arent sure to trust those religious fundits.

>>21491516
>>21491516
>not sure if produce fuel
>hydroponics
Biodiesel.
>>21491520
>not satisfied with nature of community
Me too.
>>21491568
>Further exploration?
Yes.
>>21491574
>We might have to kill them, don;t give them ammo!
We can limit their supplies, and while they have rifles we can make fucking robot tanks.
>Mission statement
What do you have in mind? The last two centuries have had only one mission of note: survival.
>>21491581
We have enough munition fabricating capacity for ourselves, a stockpile is just a big bomb unless we actually need the ammo.
>>21491638
>No tech or know-how to make x
We can work up to that.
>>21491643
excellent idea.
>>21491646
The tower's surroundings are clear, how much more do you want to do?
>>21491648
We can trade surplus food to them, it's less risky unless their survival is threatened.

>>21491717
The motion for exploration appears to be carried.

anyway you already have SMGs, Assault Rifles, Shotguns, Pistols, and Revolvers, all in common calibers, all with automated ammo production facilities. (You lack population but your automated manufacturing capabilities are the real prize of your origin. big industrial boost.)

anyway The Lord Bishop's men gave you a list of the calibers their weapons use and you can manufacture ammo for them quite easily. You just need to collect some scrap for the ammo.

>>21491754
>>21491717
Then it seems we need to know what we can produce. Is ammo even possible right now? Do we have the ability to produce wine?

It could be that while we have the knowledge, we don't have the facilities to create such things, and if so we need to create such facilities. Or vice versa.

>>21491732
Motion supported.

Someone can drop off a radio with the Parish ASAP. We can talk to them in the meantime, and explore for more factions. We can also ASK THE PARISH ABOUT OTHER GROUPS OR CONTACTS.

>>21491570
>>>21491783
Your Tower is fine, the buildings around your tower however could easily hide enemies.

I think we're interpreting this statement differently.

As for mission statement, I don't know. I'm Custodial. Survival is probably good for the moment though.

>>21491813
This is genius. Someone increase that guys shareholds!

>>21491783
>Ammunition
Justification: Better that they become dependent on us for ammunition needs than becoming self-sufficient.
Example: If we establish relations with another power in the city, and the Bishop wishes to attack and/or expand, we can massively hinder them by ceasing trade.

Rolled 59

>>21491806
Attempting Exploration roll then? Sorry if I've misunderstood how this works.

>>21491845
Submission: Rebuild the city to pre-downfall standards. With General Foundries at the head.

>>21491868
We actually don't want to be the lynchpin of a long list of groups that cannot get along without us. That leads to getting targeted.

Your men assemble a CTF team and set out into the city. They decide to head in a different direction this time. They encounter heavier and heavier resistance from drug addled men and women who dress in baggy purple clothing. These people wield poorly made fire arms and use garbage as weaponry. They don't pose much of a threat but your men are using ammunition up at a rate that they did not aniticipate.

Eventually they come across a fortress that appears to be one part apartment building, one part junkpile. From the looks of things slaves, haggard, watsed people linked together by chains assemble weapons, clothing, and make food for the gangers in purple under the close eyes of men with scoped rifles. The gangers in this area look healthier and dress in a combination of purple rags and shoddily made metal, plastic, and wood armor.

From the looks of things this area has roughly the same amount of people as the Parish (500.) After expending half their ammo your men decide to call it a day and head back.

>>21491868
Your point is valid. I would still prefer to trade in non warfare goods until we develop some trust to them. Better safe then sorry.

>>21491942
Tsk. Slavery. How inefficient and barbaric. Lets see if we can buddy up with the Parish (full trade), build more efficient combat drones and start on a campaign to abolition slavery once again.

>>21491913
That's a good goal but it's going to take a whole lot longer than a week. Also makes my baby-snatching, junkie-curing program kind of necessary.

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>>21491942
>>21491960
Submission: One more week of Exploration, in a direction perpendicular to Bishop and the Purple Gang.
Affirmation: This member concedes the point, at least until Bishop's character is more established.

Week 5:
Population: 250
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Basic Automation, Basic Comms, Basic Anti Ballistics, Basic Firearms, Hydroponics.
Weapons: Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives.
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor
Soldiers: Gun Rovers, Security Guards.
Contacts:
The Parish: Nuetral
The Vice Lords: Hostile

A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E: Make a Suggestion.

Judging from the cries of "THE LORDS OF VICE WILL GET YOU!" the men in purple are called the Vice Lords.

You can make all the ammunition you could possibly want, supplies are the issue, not manufacturing capacity.

Wine is fermented grapes, you just need time and wine still...or however they do it in the post apocalypse.

>>21491942
Does the Parish know of other contacts?

>>21492005
Abolishing slavery's in line with the traditions of a cooperative business model. No wage-slaves and no peasants in the era of mechanization.

Rolled 84

>>21492063
Hm. Well, if we cannot give them foods (or they dont give us much in exchange for food) i think we should try ammunitions. We need to get a trade running, especially for scrap metal. With a steady income of supplies we can start more ambitious projects.

Also, give them a radio and question them about other factions.

>>21492005
Inquiry: This member sees nothing to be gained from ending the slave trade, at least not immediately.
Submission: Slavery, drug-use and other actions that would normally be considered immoral by Bishop and the like should not affect the decisions of this board. Strong advise against an abolition campaign.

>>21492018
Affirmation: This member is in favour of the idea. Young children otherwise discarded would make ideal additions to our security forces, given time and proper education.
Submission: The program to be called the Juvenile Reclamation Project (JRP).

>>21492063
Send a CTF team with a shipment of food and an executive council representative to the Parish to attempt to establish steadier relations. Bring a radio transmitter so they can stay in contact with you.

Inform them of the following:

-Pending a meeting with the Lord Bishop, you might support them materially.
-You can supply them with food and medical care, preferably at a favorable rate that allows their people a good chance at a much better standard of living.
-You have a need for information, starting with other groups in the region they know of, the demeanor of these groups or contacts, and their relative locations. A map would be nice.
-You want to create a consulate within the Parish to ensure a diplomatic presence and communications link.

Suggestions welcome. Second this if you like it, please.

Rolled 61

>>21492067
At present I concur with the idea of general hostilities with the Vice Lords. Their business model presents a more immediate destabilizing factor to City operations, and leaves a bugger-all mess for me to clean up.

Second motion for one more Exploratory jaunt, but we're probably going to need to be careful. It sounds like we might have stirred the hornet's nest a bit with that last one.

>>21492153
Please ignore this roll. Forgot to remove tag.

Rolled 96

>>21492063
B - Scavenge supplies. Try to find metals for ammo, and the materials needed to build some kind of wine still. Wine should be even rarer then ammo in this city, so we can fetch quite a price on that.

>>21492176
Thats not bad either.

>>21492142
It'll be more like the Foundling Project. I suspect we're going to get a huge, overwhelming majority of infants and toddlers - the juveniles will likely be fucking junkies and gang members by age six, and likely dead before twice that age without good parents. Worse was reported in the Soviet Union circa 1990, and in the 1600s there were shitloads of alcoholic women on the streets of london selling the swaddling clothes of their infant children for gin. This will be worse.

>>21492133
>>21492067
Reiteration: Slavery should not concern this board, certainly not at the moment.
(OOC: Goddamnit /tg/, why always with the white-knighting?)
captcha: Paymaster ulopsyn
Submission: Scavenge Materials. In future this member suggests research in recycling or the like, anything that will provide us with steady resources.

>>21492149
>>21492153
You can actually see some activity heading your way from the Vice Lords region of the city. Having a height advantage is nifty,

Oh and The Parish looked reasonably clean, no piles of garbage or discarded corpses. It also looked pretty quiet. Apparently just about every patch of dirt available was turned into farm land and people there spend most of their time either farming, drinking sacrimental wine (or some other available booze) at the end of a hard work day, attending a sermon, praying, or guarding the wall.

Oh, and you'lll have to ask them if they know anything about other factions.

*juveniles. Gah.
>>21492142
>>21492153
>slavery
>hostility to vice lords

The biggest threat is that without contrasting ourselves to something our people will not follow us.

We need to run an internal marketing survey asking our people what they think of the vice lords and the slavery. The largest risk is that if our members hate it and we do nothing, no propaganda campaign on our part will convince them that they're following the right people.

In a cooperative, that has consequences. Hell, it even has consequences in a crappy profit-extraction wage-slave megacorp - but those are for the likes of Henry Ford and his goddamn work-camps in south america.

>>21492199
As i think should have been visible from my... Fuck, my brain is full of corporate speech.

Anyways, i think getting the slaves is a good mid term plan because it would address our worker problems, and those dudes likely arent on drugs.

>>21492199
ending slavery isn't white-knighting, slavery is just a gddamn inefficient answer to a need for labor and if we have robotics on our side then all it is is a population we could put to better work after educating

unless we have AI, slaves are future knowledge workers that will willingly join you doing jobs best reserved for tractors and combine harvesters and factory bots

>>21492243
Clarification: This member strongly supports General Foundries becoming a stabilizing force within the city, but ending slavery is not a necessary step in doing so. CERTAINLY, not anymore necessary than anything else. This member reminds the Equity Lord that we are members of a board, not crusaders seeking to end what may be a socially-accepted practice.

>>21492266
Acquisition and indoctrination of slave workers does have its uses, and will need to be discussed more thoroughly in the future.

For the moment with the visual info on increased activity coming our way, I ask the Board if we know how we want to handle it? This is a potential opportunity for establishing some Shock among the Vice Lords.

>>21492287
>slavery
OOC: Okay guys, just becuase slavery is viewed as an abhorrent practice now in the western world doesn't mean it always was, or even still is 200 years later. Granted slaves were treated a lot better in 200BC than they were in the 1700's.

>>21492287
You have very basic AI, this AI was only ever meant for BombRemoval bots and was hastily modified for the GunRovers (which, whilenot teribly intelligent are good at following orders) So yeah recruiting the slaves is probably a good idea.

>>21492243
While your people have lived under the slogan "We're all in this together!" for like... 200 years they still don't like the idea of slavery and barbaric behaviour in general. You still run under a corporate model, only now you have a member of the workers union and security branch on your board of directors.

Your government model is roughly 1/2 traditional democratic and 1/2 corporate culture.

>>21492334
We'll show them that we are a bulwark, but we won't show them our full strength.

Have our commanders put together a plan that works to minimize risk to our operatives and maximize odds of turning them back without showing them every toy in our arsenal.

Have the sharpshooters or the robots or whatever do their best to eliminate commanding officers and inform the rest that we'll let people join if they want to voluntarily enter our service, then test the anti-drug program on them.

With our height advantage we should easily be able to observe them and identify their commanders.

>>21492334
>>21492368
Speaking of the GunRovers, I think they might be key to any reception we might plan for Vice Lord forces. While there is the obvious trade-off in showing a part of our hand, I think the gamble for further establishing a 'mystique' about our capabilities is worth it.

>>21492341
Note that while its lkikely that Indentured servitude or bronze age style slavery is probably practiced in the wasteland the Vice Lords are quite literally working people to death.

I would suggest applying a case by case basis to the forms of slavery you encounter, tolerance for efficient slavery, intolerance for barbaric slavery.

But I'm just the GM. Take or leave my advice.

>>21492368
Affirmation: So the majority of our employees and board members view slavery as a bad thing in and of itself, fair enough.
Submission: A campaign to end slavery should wait, far more pressing matters at hand.

Rolled 66

I hereby vote to establish radio contact with the Parish for a more permanent relationship.

I also vote to begin another scavenging mission, near the tower, clearing the nearby buildings of debris and such. Initially, these buildings can house enemies, but if we wish to establish some sort of secondary class of defense interns, it would be best to keep them outside the Tower itself. In this regard, I suggest we not destroy them, but survey them.

>>21492389
I do not think this engagement is the time to spread propaganda. There is still little reason for any receivers to think we could offer them a better deal than the Lords, and besides which I fear spreading our forces too thin.

>>21492409
Affirmation: Seconded, deploying our GunRovers will instill a fear in the Vice Lords regular forces would not otherwise be able to achieve.

>>21492368
>Your government model is roughly 1/2 traditional democratic and 1/2 corporate culture.

This is called a cooperative, basically.

Cooperatives are a form of public or private company that have been around for centuries. You might have heard of them: Ocean Spray, Best Western, Land'O'Lakes, the FTD florists, R.E.I., and Sunkist are all corporate co-ops. The workers have shares in these, they vote on working conditions and other matters.

>>21492341
If it wasn't so easy to get people to flock to our banner by ending slavery, and if we needed people for grunt labor, I'd be juuuuuust fine with it. However, it's good for business to end it, free the slaves, and turn them into knowledge workers in a company town or just get them to tell their neighbors about how awesome we are.

>>21492418
I like this idea, and second the motion for official radio contact with the Parish. Or maybe third, I've lost count.

>>21492439
Affirmation: Seconded.
Submission: No prisoners, must be made clear to the Vice Lords that General Foundries is not an approachable target. Exceptions would be junkies for testing purposes, if that.

Oh, and as Humanoid Relations Officer, recruiting children = good. We can educate and train them, our population will grow. We must think long term.

Slavery = bad. If our image is tarnished once, it will be over. Marketing Guy will agree with me.

>>21492449
Corollary: We cannot neglect R&D for very long. Escalation will occur.

>>21492439
They're coming for us with guns.
>>21492490
What if they start off with slave and child soldier human wave attacks that could yield us a large force?

What if the only outcome of approaching us was that they lost strength and we gained it?

>>21492527
((OOC: Stepping away a few minutes. Do as you do do do.))

>>21492418
I agree with this post as well, Although after this or in the near future could we demolish the buildings around our tower for material and to prevent spies or raiders from hiding in them?

>>21492533

We should take a firm stance, but I fail to see how we will collect prisoners in a defensive scenario effectively.

>>21492533
Justification: The only slaves spotted were near their base of operations, unlikely slaves are utilised as frontline troops. Likely more base use.
Furthermore, CTF's have not reported any incidents of child soldiers.

The Vice Lords very intelligent. Brutal and merciless, yes. But not intelligent. Your commanders were prepared for an attack from the sewers or night assaults. SOMETHING involving stealth. Instead the Vicelords marched into your territory with the younger, weaker members at the head of their army.

They wound up facing an unexpected opponent. Gunrovers weigh 100 pounds, are powered by a biodiesel engine and are equipped with an assault rifle. They have a radio for communications and six optical lenses. While many of them were heavily damaged or flat out destroyed by the vice lords they proved to be enough of a distraction that sharpshooters were able to kill any bvious "officers" Within 15 minutes of engagement the Vicelords assault fell apart.

You managed to capture about a dozen junkies after the subjects in question had nervous breakdowns in the street. They vary in ages from 12 to 17 and are an equal group of males and females. They're clearly addicted to amphetamines and opiates.

>>21492549

Yes, but that's dependent on if we need to move into those buildings for low-level expansion or not. Clearing an area around the base of the tower for defense is very reasonable.

Long-term defensive idea: Radially out from Tower: Cleared area 1. Wall. Cleared area 2.

Cleared area 1 is completely empty. Tunnels lead from the Tower to the Wall for movement of troops. This area is only used for recreation and remotely operated mines that are used in case outer defenses are overrun.

>>21492176
Well, I'm going to sleep guys, try not to bankrupt our corporation while I'm gone.

btw, I got an awesome roll, use it.

>>21492572
Spot and target and kill the leaders with sniper fire, offer everyone else the chance to switch sides after seeing their leaders murdered.

>>21492614
Submission: Research the anti-addiction chems mentioned earlier. First though, have we'd have a psychiatric officer around somewhere here. Make sure they take a look at these kids. Any outright pyscopaths are to be detained indefinitely rather than recruited.

Jumping in because why not.

Rolled 11

>>21492614

We should query these subjects for information after their drugs have run their course. A week should be sufficient for them to at least be cogent, yes?

In the meantime, explore+scavenge surrounding buildings.

>>21492680

As HRO, I'm confused about why you're here. I thought you were fired?

Week 5:
Population: 250
Technology: Robotics, Basic AI, Basic Automation, Basic Comms, Basic Anti Ballistics, Basic Firearms, Hydroponics.
Weapons: Assault Rifles, SMGs, Shotguns, Semi Auto Pistols, Revolvers, Combat Knives.
Armor: AntiBallistic Vests, Riot Armor
Soldiers: Gun Rovers, Security Guards.
Contacts:
The Parish: Nuetral
The Vice Lords: Hostile

Prisoners: 12 junkies.


A: Explore
B: Scavenge For Supplies
C; Construct Something New
D: Research New Technology
E: Make a Suggestion.

The junkies are malnourished, missing teeth, and one is suffering from an advanced case of syphilis (she's 14.)

It is still week five. The Vice Lords have been routed and are returning to their stronghold. Examination of the casualties indicates that 90% of the junkies killed were around 12 to 20 years of age (the same could be said of all the junkies and soldiers that you've been fighting since day 1.)

While you have lost some GunRovers, the numbers are not large enough to impact your supply of battledrones.

>>21492695
Nnnnnnnope. They keep meaning to fill out the forms but then some disaster gets in the way. Last one was a whiiiiile ago.~

(lolnames, I'm gonna be semi-serious with this, no worries.)
>newances and
Nuances and...? What, Captcha. What do you want to tell me?

>>21492680
Clarification: Weren't you fired?

>>21492614
Put the junkies through a detox program and see how receptive they are to the idea of a better life. Give them food and medical care and a taste of better standards. Maybe the teenagers will enjoy a solid meal and a safe place to sleep.

Undertake an effort to check them for mutations.

Clear the area around the tower, recycle everything, deconstruct the buildings, etc. Establish a perimeter and build a wall if possible, preferably something that can take anti-material fire. We'll put up watchtowers soon enough.

>>21492720
I vote for C! Because constructing new things is always good. We can use our knowledge of Semi Auto Pistols with Hydroponics to make biofuel, which in turn leads to fire bullet firing, pistols! WOO!

>>21492695
He's here because we have jobs for people that show a unique capacity to do the unthinkable, so long as they know who pays them.

Think of him as an asset to the company.

>>21492695
((OOC: Back))
Fired? He's been with us working the boilers. I thought you sent him.

Rolled 60

>>21492720

Woah woah WOAH. Syphilis? For Morale, I'm going to have to recommend a removal of this potential disease threat through surreptitious means.

Also, still voting for A+B of nearby buildings. And "questioning" of cleaned junkies.

>>21492720
Submission: E. Psych Evaluation on the junkies for possibility of recruitment.
Submission: Given the nature of our enemies, we cannot let the youth of an armed opponent dissuade us from using lethal force.

>>21492753
Do us a favor and read the thread. We already have a source of biofuel.

>>21492772
Submission: We should concentrate on these prisoners first in my opinion, it will found the groundwork for future procedures for outside recruitment.

Rolled 21

>>21492791
Source of biofuel plus guns equals fire bullet guns.
Also, forgot to roll for gun making.

>>21492738
Possible objection: I am unsure that the prisoners should have any direct access to the Tower at this time, more than is necessary for testing. I move that they be quartered as much as possible in one building within the proposed Clear Zone, for now at least.

>>21492816
Clarification: The junkies are prisoners within the Tower, no? They do not ave 'access' as such, anymore than a convict has access to his prison.

>>21492816

Second.

>>21492778
Evaluation is a good idea, but is it a good idea to do so this moment, while they are still hopped up and combat-traumatized? Will these factors interfere with the data too strongly?

>>21492772
>>21492778
>>21492682
>>21492674
>junkies

We have access to existing anti-addictives, opium blockers, etc. All we have to do is give them to the prisoners.

We will likely need to standardize a process for detoxing and debriefing them, but let's give them anti-addictive chems, let them detox, do psychological evals, and debrief them. And provide medical care, obviously.

>>21492772
Serruptitious means like giving her penicillin? It's so easy to fix we can literally give her a tablet infused with a certain kind of mold. When did you stop reading your medical memos?

>>21492720
Clarification: What is our current approach for employees breaching company guidelines (breaking the law)?

>>21492816
We've got to have holding areas. Preferably we'll have one underground in the clear zone, but it is not that likely we don't have some kind of jail in the tower, y'know?

>>21492866
Good question, I might need to know that later.

>>21492838
I am unsure as to current prisoner location. You are probably correct.

I suppose that my thoughts lie that, in general, admittance to the Tower for future immigrants needs to be throttled. They serve their time in the Buffer Zone before they gain citizenship. Perhaps I am thinking too far ahead.

>>21492778
Well they're very worried about being killed, but so far you've just kept them quarantined (Especially the girl with syphilis, in between the drugs, her disease, and what appears to be the results of a miscarraige she's quite fragile mentally.) Aside from that they're more than happy to do whatever they're told if it means they won't be tortured or executed.

They don't appear to be heavily mutated, though there's a predominance of unusual hair colors that don't appear to be the result of dyes. (Blood red hair, blue hair, indigo hair, green hair...) as well as unusual eye colors (usually a match for their hair) and they have unusually large canine teeth. Aside from that, normal humans.

>>21492864
Submission: Using this week to standardize the process has my vote.
Inquiry: Are all other members of the board willing to wait until these potential recruits are dealt with before looking at expanding into unclaimed buildings?

>>21492891
We should build some company towns after we've started clearing land, etc, outside the exclusion zone.

Eventually the Tower will either be our forbidden city, with a wall and open fields separating it from our (also walled) local community, or the center of our new settlement. I vote for the former.

We can also dig out a large subterranean installation surrounding the tower - gives us the benefit of easy access to underground facilities without compromising our defenses and line of sight.

>>21492864
Funfact: The curative agent penicillin is not the mold. It's produced by the mold.
>>21492876
True, 200 years or whatever it was sequestered in the Tower would mean we have holding cells of some variety. Wasn't thinking.
>>21492866
I imagine death comes up uncomfortably often.

>>21492898
Inquiry: Do we have psych officers? As a corporation we surely must.

General Admission: I think in future we'll be spending a LONG time rehabilitating outside recruits before we accept them into the corporation. Possibly a matter of months of intensive care.

>>21492963
Nope not yet. Why do you think I~~'m still here?

>>21492909
More or less, though the degree to which they're potential recruits is, well...They might need years of education, so bear in mind that that's a whole other thing.

Hey GM, do we have any Adult Basic Education kind of facilities? The sort of thing where adults are taught to read and do math and etc?

>>21492971
Justification: I didn't say our psych officers were particularly good at their job...

>>21492909
Given new data, I am willing to defer immediate Exclusion Zone work one more week.

>>21492932
Sewers were mentioned earlier. Our security forces probably know a little bit about them after preparing for the Vice Lord attack. We'll definitely need a report within the next month on what we know about the underground around the Tower.

>>21492935
Death? In a fixed population of post-apocalyptic survivalists that need to maintain genetic diversity, it would be very undesirable.

>>21492971
That's not why you're still here. Don't make me beat you to death with an inkblot test booklet.

>>21492982
Clarification: Given that we are all literate 200 years later I think its safe to assume we do.

>>21492982
I imagine we'd have to, though considering our robo-industrial roots immigrants/detainees will probably need training in how to interact with our facilities before anything can happen.

>>21493016
The ink tastes like candy.

(Wonder where OP's at. Taken a bit longer between posts, and I already made my suggestion: Fire Guns. Only got a 21 though on the roll, so I dunno.)

>>21493016
Justification: It is also unlikely that we would continue to support unproductive and even dangerous members by imprisoning them and draining our resources by feeding them.

Rolled 35

>>21492864
Rolling to do this, standardize process, and treat the prisoners with a velvet glove while we check them for sociopaths.

>>21493073
Submission: New roll.

>>21493046
((I imagine it got lost. ALso we're makinga ctual decisions sort of slowly maybe. I mostly like what we've got going on so far, but am willing to speed my own decision-making up if there's a consensus that we should))

>>21493092

Rolled 64

>>21493092
okay then

does Op have twitter account? would like to know so i can follow.

god i hope i can get an android waifu soon...

>>21493109
Confusion: So for some reason I can't roll...
Submission: Someone else take a crack at it.

>>21492982
Had computer issues. Anyways, you have adult eduication facilities, and child education facilities for that matter, 500 stories 250ish people...

Death is usually reserved for murderers or rapists, people who can't be trusted.

and yes you do have Shrinks for a variety of purposes. Gimme a moment to write up the next post...

>>21493119
Affirmation: Roll is to acceptable standards.