The RimWorld Diaries (Entry 8)
Entry 8
Dusk
Man, I can’t wait until Yumi completes our rooms. I understand we sleep on different schedules and she has to work on it at some point, but can she really not wait until I get up? Her work gets quite loud sometimes. It looks like she’s gotten a fair bit done at least. The entire section that will eventually be the cooler looks to be about half way there as well.
Speaking of halfway there, I need to go and check on the rice after breakfast. It was looking pretty close yesterday. We may finally have a bit of fresh food that isn’t gecko meat!
Middle of the Night
We got more visitors! This time a whole group of them. They apparently call themselves combat suppliers. They were also able to answer a bunch of our questions, not all mind you, but we certainly know more now than we did before. Starting with the currency for this world. It’s fairly simple, they trade in goods and silver. No coins or paper money here. They also gave us the days date, the 14th of Septober, 5500. I’m not sure if they use the same year system as we did back home, but that’d put us several hundred years in the future. Our trip was only meant to last a hundred or so, I can’t imagine our ship would have lasted nearly that long.
That’s not all of the good news! The rice was ready! At least most of it appears to be. Jon came out and grabbed some to make us some simple meals. We also got some rain while I was out there. That was unexpected, we are in a dethousandsert after all. I can’t wait to sit down and have a real meal. Even if it is just some barely seasoned rice.
Morning
We got some sort of psychic call from a Maurice Cydones. He says he’s from The Fallen Empire. First I want to know how the hell he was able to call us the way he did, and then I’d like to know how he even knew who we were. Regardless of that he’s asking for us to save him from a wild jackalope. Apparently his guards were killed and now he’s on the run. He gave us two days to answer. Says he’ll just know if we decide to help or not. I don’t really understand myself. I think I’ll have a talk to Yumi and Jon before I make any kind of decision.
Midday
After Jon finally woke up we all decided to go through with helping the guy. After all, we hope someone would do the same for us if we were in need. And just like that, not even an hour after deciding to help him, he shows up at camp. I think I’m going to try and get a bit of rest before the showdown.