Official word was drones this round only, debt wiped clear if you survive.
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The entire Community Bank Lending strategy is based on the assumption that surviving the drones will effectively clear the unizone debt.
As for the Unizone malware, I would assume that if you take an Ella mission, you get the retrofit. It’s not like the repair mechs in Ella’s docks have suddenly forgotten how to do this. But I suggest you explicitly state this you mission orders.
About those orders – The Bank is inclined to extend you a loan, but I need an explicit request to which I can post “APPROVED.” The Clock is ticking. I suggested above that you borrow b50 for 20hp of repears and choosing mission 2, but we’re open to other possibilities.
– David Falkayn
Treasurer, Commnity Bank
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Goood point, fleshed out my orders a bit, would hate to have unizon come back and dead-pilot my ship
I humbly request b50 for 20hp repairs, and request retrofitting at Ella’s for mission 2.
APPROVED
transfer b50.0 to Captain Newlireconstructed @newliminted
expected payment off b55.0 upon completion of mission 2
The current Community Fund balance is b38.9
Is anyone else still looking for loans?
OK. Final Answer. I get 20hp repairs and sign up at Ella’s for mission 2 and refitting.
###FINAL SUMMARY AND ORDER MANIFEST
load of b4.3 from community bank gives me
Repairs (2xb20),
Hull Plating (b30)
Machine That Goes Bing (b30)
Signing on for Mission 2 (b10)
In lieu of anything else to say today, I’ll just share with you the latest HiveBook photo of my cousin Howie that my Aunt Al Arlissa sent:
It’s cold and lonely out there in space, and I know we can all get crusty and cranky and cantankerous. But sometimes it’s nice to remember that we all started as sweet, innocent babies, like this.
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~spit take~
Your cousin is…er…impressively, uh… large… for his age. What delightful coloration and… I think I left some soup on the galley stove and have to run away shrieking (with admiration for the robustness of your people) like a seven year-old now.
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“Chee, thanks for all the hard work on the Comms console. Co-ordinating the Community Bank while being one of the first ships to leave has been a helluva lot of work, but that is mostly done now. Now you can focus your attention on your preferred job – weapon’s officer.”
"David, you keep getting stupider. I’m an ambush predator, not the prey. It’s not enough that you have us making such an obvious bee line that we’ve got a 53% chance of being jumped by pirates. Hell, even bees arent’ that stupid. When we do get jumped, it’s even money we don’t survive because we didn’t do any repairs. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. What the hell ever happened to Stay Alive?
“Look Chee, you know why. Nicolas van Rijn sent the Muddlin’ Through to Charybdis to build trade contacts and look for big payoffs. That’s what we’re doing. Meeting up-and-coming Space Lizards on Sandfish V. Being one of Ella’s first new couriers. Renewing our old, old acquaintance with Don Mondo. Befriending Space Lobsters and Space Moose at the community bank. You know Nicolas’ old mind is racing with the possibilities for the Bee-man. Now – finally — a mission with a big potential payoff. This is excactly why we’re here.”
“If I may interrupt, I think we are earning merit with these mission choices. This is the fourth mission we’ve chosen to meet people as equals rather than attack them”
“Azdel – shut up you four-and-half ton oaf. No amount of Buddhist mediation is going to see us through a Pirate Ambush.”
“Chee, with love and kindness we may be able to set these Pirates on a better path. And if they do fatally damage the Muddlin’ Through, Buddhism will certainly see us through the change.”
“Okay, enough. Chee, keep a the weapons at the ready. Azdel, between the asteroid and the pirates, I expect the Muddlin’ Through to take a lot of damage. This mission will be a very near thing. We’ve invested heavily in Engineering; make sure that investment sees us Muddle Through.”
b76.7 starting balance
b33.6 loan from community bank
-b 0.3 Marketing for Community Bank (black flags for drinks)
-b100 Mission 1 Long Haul
-b10 transfer to @daneel for use of 4 EN for the second round.
b0.0 ending balance
Note: this is only my personal funds. The accounting for Community Bank will be done separately with a post over at Duck’s Pond after the missions lock.
–David Falkayn
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I got b5 left in the tank, stick it in the bank.
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I.M.V. Carcinogenic Denture orders, by authority of Captain Sssir Galaxy:
Beginning balance b158.8
give @messana b68.8
Purchase 4x Hull Repairs for b80 (HP now at 64)
give @penguinchris b10 for long-outstanding familial debts dating back before the Martian Diassspora. Capt. Nguyen may not remember, but a Lizard never forgetsss.
Mission Choice - 4 “A Pirating We Go.”
The Jolly Raptor is hereby hoisssted at lassst. Prudence dictates I should take on no more than three dronesss, but Prudence is a toothlesss and namby-pamby name for a Reptile. Sssir Galaxy hereby commitsss to take on FOUR, count 'em, 4 shipping drones, and damn the risssksss.
Avassssssssssssssssst!!!
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wow… thank u…
i was having a hard time coming up with a decent plan here, and sir patrick drank so much honeywine he’s practically frozen solid (the honey thickens in his lobster veins and stiffens the muscles)
i almost needed to request an extension on my community bank loan… even though it is only b1.6…
but now, i will be debt free
now if I can get sir patrick’s claw print to register so we can get our orders in…
“And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King.”
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Captain’s Log: “Honeywine. Thas all”
-b100 to @penguinchris
-b50 Billiken (+8 LK)
Mission 4 - three (3) drones
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+b10 from Sir Galaxy
+b100 from Sir Patrick
-b100 Hull Repairs x5 (+50 HP) (HP to 86/101)
-b3 to @bizmail_public (loan repaid with interest)
Mission 4 - one drone
that’s right… no drone is safe
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Chee, when the pollen from this dust-up is over, let’s you and me have a little talk, mano-a-mandíbula. I’d like to have some words with you. Words like “respect”, “tolerance”, and “I-am-totally-willing-to-disembowell-myself-to-shove-this-stinger-up-your-own-bowel”.
Alternatively, we could have a dance off.
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I look forward to paying protection money making donations to the UAW in future rounds.
One of these?
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