Only a couple of days of downtime, as events are about to overtake the team.

While Red, Magda, Minka, and Zenobia were away making friends, the rest of the team tested the new still and continueed with the harvest.

The day after that is 07 August, a full downtime day. Pettimore, Leks, Minka, and Zenobia take the 2.5-ton truck out to the hog farm construction site and recover the concrete premix and lumber. It’ll take another couple of trips to bring in the roofing materials, but this is a start. Minka works constructing a paddock for the stallion [the player has named the horses and set out Minka’s agenda for training each of them]. Miko heads out to meet up with Ellis for a bit of reconnaissance and possibly sabotage [to be detailed separately]. Fuel brewing continues.

On 08 August, Red, Zenobia, and Arkadi throw a bunch of parts and tools in the 2.5-ton truck and drive out to the vehicle cache, meeting some of Von Bahr’s crew who are doing similar work. They get the BTR-70K into working condition (Reliability 2/5), convert its engine to run on alcohol (it was still set up for gas when it was abandoned), and bring it back. Its radios are trashed and its mounted KPV is out of ammo at at 0/5 Reliability, but it’s a start. Minka finishes the paddock with surprising speed (perhaps faster than any reasonable person should have been able to without help…) and puts in some horse time. Miko returns from whatever he and Ellis were up to. The harvest continues.

It’s also worth noting that 08 August brings a heat wave to central Poland, with brutally high temperatures and a stiff wind that does nothing to cool people working outside (or at a forge).