AMALTHEA

[soulping]

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a run-down one-room shack, with the distinct feeling that the people around you are your family, if you didn't already have such a bond with them.

You're wearing raggedy versions of your uniform, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in Cathay, on the fifteenth anniversary of the day the company Lupus' Secret Stash led a coup and established their own government. In fact, you can now remember why you came here - to escape the misfortunes of your own country - because this is truly the land of opportunity and freedom. ]

Comments

YEAR 1

[soulping]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[soulping]

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300

LUXURIES: NO RECOMMENDATIONS

Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Tobacco (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Smooshables (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Automobiles (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Foodguns (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -

CURRENT JOB - COAL MINER. YEARLY INCOME - 1825 MONIES.

Will you pay taxes this year?

BUDGET TURN-IN

[soulping]

EVENT 1

[soulping]

It's so, so cold. ROOK will find himself unable to speak coherently, mumbling and shivering constantly, as he fumbles in pain at trying to complete the simplest of tasks. He now has HYPOTHERMIA.

EVENT 2

[soulping]

The extra money you have lying around results in an ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN.

You manage to fend off the assailants, but LEO is SHOT IN THE LEG. Do you take him to a doctor or attempt to take care of it yourself?

EVENT 3

[soulping]

While working in the mines, you hear the sound of rushing water on the other side of one of the cavern walls. It seems distant. Do you attempt to use dynamite to break through?

EVENT 4

[soulping]

You all become horribly emaciated as you use up the last of your food stores. You're barely eating enough to make it through the week, and at almost all times the pangs of hunger strike you almost unbearably.

Your family is STARVING.

EVENT 5

[soulping]

There's a man seeking asylum in your home. He tells you there are headhunters after him, but if he can just hide for awhile they won't be able to find him. What do you do?

EVENT TURN-IN

[soulping]

Events 1 and 4 do not require a turn-in!

YEAR 2

[soulping]

SET YOUR BUDGET.

[soulping]

STATUS:

ROOK's HYPOTHERMIA has PROGRESSED to SEVERE HYPOTHERMIA.

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300

LUXURIES: Due to a robbery, the price of SMOOSHABLES has gone up.

Alcohol (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Tobacco (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Smooshables (costs 300 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Automobiles (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -
Foodguns (costs 100 per unit, adds 20 happiness per year) -

CURRENT JOB - MINERS. YEARLY INCOME - 1825 MONIES.

Will you pay taxes this year?

BUDGET TURN-IN

[soulping]

EVENT 1

[soulping]

ROOK begins to recover from his HYPOTHERMIA.

EVENT 2

[soulping]

While working in the coal mines, another worker knocks a bundle of dynamite down into a crevasse on accident. You could probably retrieve it if you climb carefully. What do you do?

Re: YEAR 2

[soulping]

Someone is at your door, with FREE ALCOHOL. Do you accept it?

EVENT TURN-IN

[soulping]

YEAR 2

[soulping]

STATUS:

LEO is MISSING AN EYE.


RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300

LUXURIES: Due to more robberies and an epidemic of the plague, luxuries have shot up in price and lost effectiveness.

Alcohol (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Tobacco (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Smooshables (costs 500 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Automobiles (costs 800 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Foodguns (costs 1000 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -

CURRENT JOB - CRAFTSMEN. YEARLY INCOME - 3650 MONIES. + 200 NO TAXES.

Will you pay taxes this year?

BUDGET TURN-IN

[soulping]

[codecmoment]

[ Immediately begins to fashion Leo an eyepatch. ]

Come here.

Re: YEAR 2

[powerpunch]

...So much for luxuries...

We can meet the budget now at least. ...And in the end I guess we didn't really need to skip out on taxes.

[ Having a hard time looking at anyone though. ]

Re: YEAR 2

[menially]

[more money doesn't necessarily make for happiness

god i feel like an idiot LET'S NOT LOOK AT SPARK]

Let's sell those bottles we just got. If the prices have shot up like this, we might make a profit.

Re: YEAR 2

[unguilded]

[ Woo, no more hypothermia. He still looks a little worse for wear, but w/e. ]

... we have more income, so let's buy at least one Smooshable along with everything else.

[ Looking at Leo when he says that. :( ]

Re: YEAR 2

[whoslaughingmeow]

..Since we have enough, we should buy the budget for everything, and maybe a car.

..And maybe one thing of fancy clothes.

Those seem to have the most utility..

EVENT 1

[soulping]

Contact with infected persons in the line of duty has led to SWOOP contracting the PLAGUE. He is now feverish and covered in incredibly painful, blackened boils.

YEAR 4

[soulping]

STATUS:

LEO is MISSING AN EYE.
SWOOP has THE PLAGUE.
TECHNIC is MANGLED.

RECOMMENDED NECESSITIES:

Housing - 1000
Food - 900
Medicine - 200
Clothing - 300

LUXURIES: NOTHING TO REPORT.

Alcohol (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Tobacco (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
FANCY Clothes (costs 400 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Smooshables (costs 500 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Automobiles (costs 800 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -
Foodguns (costs 1000 per unit, adds 10 happiness per year) -

CURRENT JOB - SECURITY. YEARLY INCOME - 5475 MONIES.

BUDGET TURN-IN

[soulping]