{"id":195,"date":"2023-03-05T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T19:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=195"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:09:21","slug":"downtime-09-12-july-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Downtime (09-13 July 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

09 July is a day of several projects. At the top of the list is saving Jacob’s life. Red and Minka sedate him as best they can and spend all day removing dead tissue and cleaning out infection. At the end of the procedure, the prognosis is mostly positive. He’ll need to stay under observation for a couple of weeks before Red is comfortable with him traveling, but he’ll most likely be able to heal in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zenobia, still rattled by weirdness in the village by the railyard, busies herself with setting up the still that the team brought back. This doubles Ponikla’s fuel production capacity, and a day of test brewing assures her that she got the work right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellis leads Pettimore, Leks, and Miko back to the highway maintenance shop<\/a> to retrieve the drilling rig, which he wants to put to work on a well. They also take the opportunity to hook up the trailer-mounted air compressor and jackhammer and drag that back to Ponikla as well. Miko insists on a side trip to check out an abandoned farm and returns with 35 liters of lamp oil and an antique set of leatherworking tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Have I mentioned my random loot generator<\/a>?]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magda has had quite enough of whatever is going on with the lack of written records. She spends her day in the hostel’s common room, carving the beginnings of a regional map into one of the tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The team spends the next couple of days down at the railyard, coaxing the four remaining kids out of their collective shell and doing the heavy lifting necessary to relocate the drill press and lathe to Ponikla. Minka and Zenobia have plans <\/em>for the shop equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Malvina sends notes back with the team, ostensibly to provide updates on Jacob’s condition. Ellis, who is practiced in his tradecraft, notes that she’s almost certainly slipping codewords in there to reassure the others that she hasn’t been sold to slavers or something of the like.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 12 July, the team splits up. Leks, Minka, Pettimore, and Miko make another run to the railyard to recover the locomotive traction motor, as there’s been some discussion around ways to convert that motor to electrical generation via windmill or waterwheel. Ellis, Red, Magda, and Zenobia get to work on the drilling rig, restoring it to operational condition and doing a couple of test bores before trying to figure out the best site for a well. There’s also some fuel brewing to do, as all of this local travel is chewing through the team’s methanol reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional salvage during this time :<\/p>\n\n\n\n