Rimworld Episode 38: The New DLC Comes Out In Like 5 Hours And My Mods Won't Be Compatible Anymore

[A Chinese opium den]

@A Chinese opium den btfo

This is all wrong... it wasn't supposed to go like this.
I will reclaim my honor

[WhiteShark]

@Oyster Sauce

► Character

Name: White '頬白鮫' Shark
Sex: Male
Age: 30
Appearance: robed, pale, somber, brown hair
Body Type: Stick
Favorite Color: Red
Behavior: Prefers to avoid manual labor, especially anything relating to animals and injuries, but likes shooting; wants to be a psychic

Skills:
Shooting - 5
Melee - 0
Construction - 0
Mining - 0
Cooking - 0
Plants - 0
Animals - 0
Crafting - 0
Artistic - 2
Medical - 3
Social - 10 (2 passion points)
Intellectual - 10 (2 passion points)

Aspirations:
Become a Leader
Gain the Highest Level Psycast
Create a Legendary Work (unless this is some manual labor thing)
Defeat Faction Leader

Childhood: Bookworm
Adulthood: Translator

Traits:

Academian
Ascetic
Fast learner
Kind
Optimist

Insomniac
Hates dumb labor
Squeamish
Sickly

Psychically sensitive
Animal hater

[Tweed]

Does it take brains to pilot a warcasket? We could just shove our veggie friends into one if not.

[Stack of Turtles]

Does it take brains to pilot a warcasket? We could just shove our veggie friends into one if not.

We CAN do it even if it does!

[Jordy]

Does it take brains to pilot a warcasket? We could just shove our veggie friends into one if not.

We CAN do it even if it does!

And then put them in the fight pit.

[Tweed]

Does it take brains to pilot a warcasket? We could just shove our veggie friends into one if not.

We CAN do it even if it does!

[Oyster Sauce]

Does it take brains to pilot a warcasket? We could just shove our veggie friends into one if not.

Good question. I've never actually used them before.

[Jordy]

@Oyster Sauce's pfp keeps making me think Red7 has joined the group.

[Oyster Sauce]

@Kalarion rolled a 13 on the D20 of Heaven and Hell and gains 6 skill points (anything over 10 still costs 2)



@A Chinese opium den foolishly rolled a 2 and will now be given a random negative trait based on his next 46 roll EDIT: he got Sucker

► traits

Abrasive
Annoying voice
Anxious
Big boned
Brown thumb
Claustrophobic
Clumsy
Cranial nerve palsy
Cowardly
Creepy breathing
Delicate
Depressive
Disturbing
Distractable
Dunce
Gay
Greedy
Hates dumb labor
Heavy sleeper
Inept
Impulsive
Insatiable
Insomniac
Jealous
Kleptomaniac
Lazy
Low pain tolerance
Lush
Mood swings
Nervous
Non-committal
Nudist
Poor medic
Pyromaniac
Recluse
Recluse
Schizoid
Sluggish
Sickly
Slob
Slow learner
Squeamish
Submissive
Sucker
Technophobe
Uncouth
Ugly
Wimp
World Weary

[A Chinese opium den]

@Kalarion rolled a 13 on the D20 of Heaven and Hell and gains 6 skill points (anything over 10 still costs 2)



@A Chinese opium den foolishly rolled a 2 and will now be given a random negative trait

► traits

Abrasive
Annoying voice
Anxious
Big boned
Brown thumb
Claustrophobic
Clumsy
Cranial nerve palsy
Cowardly
Creepy breathing
Delicate
Depressive
Disturbing
Distractable
Dunce
Gay
Greedy
Hates dumb labor
Heavy sleeper
Inept
Impulsive
Insatiable
Insomniac
Jealous
Kleptomaniac
Lazy
Low pain tolerance
Lush
Mood swings
Nervous
Non-committal
Nudist
Poor medic
Pyromaniac
Recluse
Recluse
Schizoid
Sluggish
Sickly
Slob
Slow learner
Squeamish
Submissive
Sucker
Technophobe
Uncouth
Ugly
Wimp
World Weary

Anything but gay

[Oyster Sauce]

Episode 17: Everybody Gets Shot In The Head


Chuck forms a bond with an injured wolf and names it Crybaby <3 EDITOR'S NOTE: Crybaby would soon go on to die from a liver infection



Sold most of the junk we weren't using in the armory for a set of chitinphract armor.



A cool new friend arrives and joins us.



He makes himself at home by moving in his stuff.



The next tier of mechanoids require subcores created by scanning brains. The process takes a few hours and leaves the subject feeling sick for days afterward, so slaves are a perfect choice.



Chunks of an infested space ship crash down nearby. Lot of these going around lately.



The radar lights up. It's the biggest swarm we've ever seen.



Manning the fortifications has become routine for our group though.



Hoss has killed so many bugs with his rifle that it'll one day become known as a mythical item for future generations. That's a Turtle Coin.



Fuckin' swarmlings get to the watermill generator. Probably not worth maintaining it.



We easily defeat the horde (and then I tab out and install a mod that makes them more aggressively target walls that people are hiding behind because somehow nobody has died yet)



頬白鮫 shows up outside the walls and offers to join us. I wonder what kind of cool and exciting things will happen to 頬白鮫 today??



Dio spends some time in his special room.



What a friendly guy!



Raviola suffers a heart attack while sleeping. Luckily for her, our best doctor happened to be right outside her door.



It's time to expands our outside territory and erect a great wall to defend it. Construction projects take forever right now because there's so much to do and so few skilled people. It seems like most guys who show up only want to be social and read books.



Speaking of which, Musa is writing a book to pass down his knowledge to the less intellectually gifted among us.



Oh good, 120 of these things we've never seen before start retardedly charging.





Todd Howard has taken an interest in the dark arts





Boon claims the first kill with a lungshot using his new Hecate II rifle



The mass reaches the bridge



There are a shitload of them but they have basically no armor and our bullets just ******* shred them apart



(This mess still isn't cleaned up several real life hours later)



Dio drags one of the injured ones inside of the base for study. It's tied up and safely locked behind a wooden door so there's nothing to fear.



We received a request to clear out raiders who've been sheltering in an abandoned factory.



They said we could take whatever we wanted so long as they were all killed, so why not?



We forgot to bring the pack turtles so we only have enough room for one of the mining machines and two batteries. Whoops.



Some pilgrims show up to see the HQ Platinum in all its glory. They thank us for the opportunity and then leave.



Thank God we have this river for dumping corpses. Wouldn't even feed these things to the wolves.



頬白鮫 gets gut worms, presumably from eating raw fish.



Vitya demands more microchips for upgrades and calls another DIabolus. The first one we fought was really easy so they should be pretty simple to farm.



This time we get to see its AoE fire blast ability. Would be very threatening if it was anywhere near our base.



Dio gets dinked in the skull and becomes a trauma savant from the resulting brain injury. He'll effectively be a deafmute social ****** but super effective at working with his hands. Not the worst outcome! He gets a Turtle Coin for walking it off.



Some sort of scary marker shows up where the Diabolus is targeting and everybody scrambles to get out of there.



Followed by a white hot fireball.



A few go getters rush out to take new positions outside to finish off the mechs and 頬白鮫 bravely gets 5x50mm caseless brain surgery.



While rushing him to the hospital, Captain notices Raviola collapsed on the floor choking on toxic fumes. He barely pulls her out in time.



I have no idea what the **** a crescendo anole is but if we take care of a bunch of them we'll be rewarded with an amazing helmet, which we clearly desperately need/



Turns out they're iguanas.



While treating the wounded, Musa discovers that Dio is none other than Vergil in disguise! Well, he takes shots to the face like a champ so there's no harm giving him a second chance.



Right?



As for 頬白鮫, he wasn't so lucky. His brain is too scrambled and he's been left permanently comatose as a result. Poor kid, have a Turtle Coin!





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Turtle Coins™
Black Dog = 1/3
Boon = 1/3
Boot = 1/3
Captain = 3/3
Chuck = 0/3
Duke = 0/3
Elias = 1/3
頬白鮫 = 1/3
Hoss = 1/3
Kalarion = 0/3
Musa = 0/3
Raviola = 3/3
Rusty = 3/3
Stack = 2/3
Vergil = 2/3
Vitya = 3/3
Zoth = 3/3


Gain a passion point - 1
Summon pet turtle - 1
Romance attempt - 1
Fistfight someone - 1
Supply drop of 2 simple meals per colonist - 1
Roll the D20 of Digit Destiny - 1
Summon rabid tortoises (automatic next enemy raid) - 2
Remove negative trait - 2
Get inspiration relevant to skills - 2
Decide fate of a prisoner (execute, release, organ harvest, arena fight, enslave, etc) - 2
Respec expertise - 2
Roll the D8 of Time - 2
Gain positive trait - 3
Miraculously beat an otherwise fatal infection (automatic) - 3
Recruit slave - 3
Roll the D20 of Heaven and Hell - 3

[Jordy]

I see Duke got a downgrade to his armor. This isn't going to end well.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

rip 頬白鮫

[Oyster Sauce]

I see Duke got a downgrade to his armor. This isn't going to end well.

We can start making power armor helmets once that dang devilstrand finishes growing.

[Oyster Sauce]

rip 頬白鮫

Just realized we should move him to the bed that's hooked up to an insect paste nipple so nobody has to feed him by hand. It's not like he'll know what he's eating.

[Jordy]

rip 頬白鮫

Just realized we should move him to the bed that's hooked up to an insect paste nipple so nobody has to feed him by hand. It's not like he'll know what he's eating.

Is that two vegetables we have now? Is there anything in game that can bring them back?

[Oyster Sauce]

rip 頬白鮫

Just realized we should move him to the bed that's hooked up to an insect paste nipple so nobody has to feed him by hand. It's not like he'll know what he's eating.

Is that two vegetables we have now? Is there anything in game that can bring them back?

He's the only one. BD has just enough grey matter left to stumble around. Who knows what wondrous technologies we may research in the future?

[A Chinese opium den]

I shall spend my coin on another roll, I will clear my name.

[A Chinese opium den]

Fine, I spend my coin to fist fight oystersauce.

[Oyster Sauce]

Fine, I spend my coin to fist fight oystersauce.

I'll duel you in the arena instead. 3 coins if you win, another negative trait if you lose.

[A Chinese opium den]

Fine, I spend my coin to fist fight oystersauce.

I'll duel you in the arena instead. 3 coins if you win, another negative trait if you lose.

Can't wait to spend those 3 coins rolling and get a negative trait when I win.

[Tweed]

insect paste nipple

This is a sentence I didn't know I would ever read.

[WhiteShark]

A fate as pitiful as his ambitions were grand. Do traits like the dislike of physical labor still apply if he ends up becoming some sort of brainless cyborg or abomination?

[Oyster Sauce]

@A Chinese opium den roll

[A Chinese opium den]

@A Chinese opium den roll

Enjoy life thumbless.

[Oyster Sauce]

@A Chinese opium den roll

Enjoy life thumbless.

"negative"

[Oyster Sauce]

Episode 18: Somebody Dies For Real And It's Very Sad (Was It You???)


Going to expand the hospital to accommodate more people and more machines like that handy cockroach slurry dispenser.



Sending out a squad to disperse another cult in our neighborhood. Allegedly some of these guys are innocent villagers, but they're hostile towards us so weapons free.





Killing people feels really good!



Yet another battle where it would have been nice to bring an extra guy or two.



Stepping over corpses to continue fighting. Some occasionally come back to life and need to be put down again.



Finally made it to the town proper. Boot clears a building by cutting down four cultists with his monoblade. It's a truly powerful weapon.



The squad hows the town square while Boot checks all of the building and bisects holdouts.



A shed full of soybeans. Might toss them in the nutrient paste hoppers to infuse the chitin smoothie with bioavailable xenoestrogens.



Work work.



頬白鮫 contracts muscle parasites and his precious little immune system is finally overwhelmed. Why, oh why did God give him the Sickly trait?



It's a nice little service in the unfinished mausoleum. It hasn't really been a priority until now.



Carved into his tomb is a depiction of him laying waste to one of the mutants who attacked us a short while ago. We'll never forget the one cool thing he did before meekly slipping away in a coma. @WhiteShark can bequeath his 1 Turtle Coin to whomever he pleases, even going over the limit of 3.





In cooler news, a raptor crash landed outside our base and Duke finally puts that taming inspiration he bought to good use. It was bred for nobility and increases the impressiveness of any room it's in by 15%. Neat!



At the other end of the base, an evil black creature materializes out of nowhere and begins stalking Kirsten as she flees for her life.



Captain and Stack were hanging out in the rec room nearby and spring into action.



Captain unleashes a barrage, but the creature has an incredibly tough exterior. All the while, its eyes are glowing as it glares at Kirsten.



She collapses to the ground and rambles incoherently as her hotdog gets cold and gross on the floor.



The creature then dashes past Captain and literally fades away.



The boys go to check on Kirsten, and discover a hunk of flesh that was shot off on the ground.



Dorfleet witnesses scratch marks appear in the stone tile around him and takes off after them.



At the end of the trail he asks Vergil to spray white foam all over to see if they can reveal it. Unfortunately, it must have slipped out by now and we're left with nothing but a mess to clean up.



Raviola analyses the flesh. With the trail cold, there's nothing we can do now except wait for it to strike again and bring it down.



The first tier 2 bot has gestated and it's a beast. Although it's meant for tunneling, those diggers can probably beat the **** out of most things if it comes down to it.



Vergil's Anakin arc continues.



This probably has nothing to do with the constant toxic fumes we've been pumping out of the trash compactors.



Dorfleet gets a bionic spine after his natal one became frail with age.



Those pilgrims from before send us a psytrainer. 1d100 if you want it.



A small army shows up and wisely begins to set up artillery to shell us out of our hidey hole.



...and then three squads of unrelated pirates in warcaskets orbital drop and prepare to attack us as well.



These are the most heavily armed and armored enemies we've encountered. If only one of us had volunteered to be entombed in a warcasket!



Vergil ticks off an aspiration to become disliked by 10 people.



And then the pirates clash with the Super Muslim camp.



Someone gets a little trigger happy with a flamethrower in the kerfuffle.



And then a third problem emerges. The revenant is back and this time it's targeting Raviola, who's currently having a dementia induced breakdown and is unable to resist being hypnotized just like Kirsten.



Stack tries to head it off and spew fire to catch it, but you can see it's invisibly opening the door on the left to escape.



Rusty hurls a molotov from the battlements, but only manages to torch a turtle to death.



This squad of 3 pirates continues to rampage and wipe out the entire camp that had 50 Super Muslims while remaining basically unharmed in their nearly impenetrable armor.



But we've got two guys with armor-piercing .50 BMG rifles.



They manage to take out the first and smallest squad without much trouble, but the second and third are making their way into range.



Lesser calibers are being completely deflected. Maybe one in every fifty shots leaves a small bruise or a welt.



A blast from a handheld cannon hits just outside our wall and sends shrapnel everywhere. If one of those lands inside we're going to lose a lot of people.



The sandbags eat the next one and a terrified Dorfleet hits the dirt.



Only Elias and Boon are capable of taking these guys out. Everybody else is just practicing shooting.



But they run out of AP and need to grab more from the armory. Boot bravely sallies forth to buy them time.



And he manages to wedge his monosword in the gap between the body armor and helmet and pry this guy's head clean off.



Feeling emboldened he challenges the next pirate wielding a power hammer...



And ******* does it again!



Everybody watches in awe, surrounded by hundreds of spent and wasted casings.



Boot's unstoppable. He rushes the last two entrenched members of Pirate Squad 2. He's dodging every shot!



And then one pulverizes his ballistic goggles and takes out his left eye. He's down for the count.



The pirate named Boomer closes in to finish him off. There's nothing anybody can do but watch.



Then, to everyone's surprise, the pirate throws him over his shoulder and orders his squad to retreat.



The third squad also falls back once our anti-material boys get into position and put one of them down



But Boot is gone. We may never see him again





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Everybody will be getting 1 Turtle Coin per update to encourage reckless spending.

Turtle Coins™
Black Dog = 2/3
Boon = 3/3 (+1 for not being useless against the pirates)
Boot = 3/3 (+1 bonus for going out in a non-gay way like 頬白鮫 did)
Captain = 3/3
Chuck = 1/3
Duke = 1/3
Elias = 2/3 (+1 for not being useless against the pirates)
頬白鮫 = 1/3 (RIP)
Hoss = 1/3
Kalarion = 1/3
Musa = 1/3
Raviola = 3/3
Rusty = 3/3
Stack = 3/3
Vergil = 3/3
Vitya = 3/3
Zoth = 3/3


Gain a passion point - 1
Summon pet turtle - 1
Romance attempt - 1
Fistfight someone - 1
Supply drop of 2 simple meals per colonist - 1
Roll the D20 of Digit Destiny - 1
Summon rabid tortoises (automatic next enemy raid) - 2
Remove negative trait - 2
Get inspiration relevant to skills - 2
Decide fate of a prisoner (execute, release, organ harvest, arena fight, enslave, etc) - 2
Respec expertise - 2
Roll the D8 of Time - 2
Gain positive trait - 3
Miraculously beat an otherwise fatal infection (automatic) - 3
Recruit slave - 3
Roll the D20 of Heaven and Hell - 3

[WhiteShark]

Is there a list of which character belongs to which HQser? Not sure if some of these names are just recruited NPCs or what. Also, may I submit a new character? It seems my dreams of a comeback have been thoroughly crushed.

[Jordy]

Not sure how vital Duke is for keeping the group fed but if we can take it, I can volunteer him for the warcasket if no one better suited wants it.

[TKVNC]

I'm sure Musa would roll a D20, that's pretty high IQ behaviour.