After tramping around in the mud all day, the team is less enthusiastic about conserving fuel. They’ve been brewing with a pair of small stills, which have a combined maximum yield of 40 liters per day if operated around the clock [and if everyone makes successful Tech rolls]. Having a larger, more reliable source of alcohol is a priority on which everyone can agree. The entire team piles into the 2.5-ton truck and trundles down to the railyard to spend a day sifting through parts suitable for a larger still.

With the help of the village’s brewer and the former high school chemistry teacher, Red, Minka, Zenobia, and Arkadi spend the next two days banging together a larger still. Pettimore, Leks, Miko, and Magda focus on the harvest and other food supply-related tasks.

Not much of note happens during this time, but at the end of those three days, the tech crew proudly hoists glasses of mead over their new fuel still.