u/Hoomanomaly

A wedding and a funeral

A wedding and a funeral

I'm playing a tribal colony, and am just barely past researching electricity, so half my colonists still have bows.

Transport pod crash. Out drops VV, the sister of colonist Ambcam. She's a member of a friendly civil coalition (decent tech)--and a Wild Woman.

So, can't do anything with her besides patch her up and let her run around the map until she gets hunted by a warg or something, unless I want to capture her and get regular raids by people with better guns than I'll see for the next couple of years.

Instead of rescuing her, I leave her out there to die, but she manages to recover. After wandering around the map for a year and a half, occasionally coming inside to raid my 'fridge, we get a farming trader from the rough outlander union--who happens to be antagonistic towards VV's faction.

Just as the traders are leaving, the last one catches sight of VV having a snack in the dining room and fills her full of holes with his bolt-action rifle. He eventually leaves, following his caravan off the map. I figure, problem solved, just let her bleed out.

However, two other colonists, Leatherback and Carer decide now is a great time to get married! In the dining room.

As the ceremony finishes, we're hit by a high psychic drone, females.

VV's last dying experience is watching these strangers get married while everyone, including her brother, mill around, along with the screeching of a million ancient voices in her head. She bleeds out just as the wedding reception draws to a close.

She didn't even get the positive buff from attending the wedding. At least she died with her brother having a fine meal next to her.

u/Hoomanomaly — 1 day ago