radioactivism | EVENT #1

[ a serious, clinical-sounding woman's voice will be broadcasting on all radio frequencies sometime in the middle of the afternoon. it starts with a businesslike clearing of her throat. just to make sure she has your attention. ]

Greetings, settlers. I hope you've found yourself comfortable. We have had the... honor of your presence for quite some time now, and the time has come for you to earn your place. In your respective towns, we've placed bulletin boards listing some tasks you may elect to do in exchange for pay and other necessary supplies. While these aren't mandatory... [ there's a slight sneer to her voice here. ] ...we do advise you to select at least one that you are qualified for.

Employer's names and locations can be found on their respective flyers. Please direct all inqueries to them.

[ there's a momentary pause, but the transmission doesn't quite end yet. ]

Please keep in mind that supplies are limited and will come on a first come, first earned basis. Simply put, if you want to survive this environment, there is no leeway for slacking off.

Good luck.

ORSA

Cook, Kitchen Staff
Pay: $5/h for cooks, $3/h for other positions
Acquisitions: Meals and a limited supply of water are free. Cooks receive some portable kitchenware for preparing food outside the workplace.

Town Cleanup, Street Sweeping, Housecleaning etc.
Pay: $3/h
Acquisitions: Raw materials for building and crafting.

Babysitting
Pay: $5/h
Acquisitions: Spare clothing.

Supply Gathering (food, water, weaponry, etc)
Pay: Dependent on the materials gathered, typically $10-$15 for a good haul.
Acquisitions: Some collected supplies yours to keep.

ORSUN

Water Collection
Pay: $50 per gallon
Acquisitions: Some collected water yours to keep along with a small purifier.

Food Collection:
Pay: $35 for every pound of edible vegetation, $60 for every pound of edible meat
Acquisitions: Some collected food yours to keep along with a set of hunting knives and several books of matches.

Monster Hunting
Pay: Dependent on the size of the monster terminated, but can go as high as several hundred dollars a head.
Acquisitions: Weaponry and light armor.

Cleanup, Street Sweeping & Waste Collection
Pay: $1/h
Acquisitions: If you find something useful it's yours...

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

This is some prime horseshit right here, plucked straight from the prize winner's paddock.

They want us to get jobs?

[ are you kidding it's like a million degrees out. ]

[ kanaya's voice sounds a little strained, like there's a thin barrier between some panic she's holding back. her breathing's a little too fast. she's hungry and she's trying to hold it together. ]

We've been left unsupported already, why should it be any surprise that our assignments reflect that? At least the yields look somewhat promising, assuming we can fulfill them.

[ trolls are weird. ]

Yeah, you've got a point. Issue is that I'm pretty sure we've got some non-combatants in the area that will be annihilated if they aim for anything higher than shit collector.

They were stated not to be mandatory, whether it was meant or not. If they're going to abandon us, I don't see why we should do anything more for them than what we absolutely must.

[ she's not making tavros sweep no dusty streets unless he really wants to. but then you never really know with tavros. ]

[ It's not like they're paying rent or anything but food and water are pretty scarce here. Most of the cash is filtered to monster prevention and from what he's seen, it's something they need. ]

Got a preference?

[ she pauses to take a deep, shaking breath. ]

I need to eat. Simple gathering tasks won't fill that need.

Did you expect us to get handed everything here, Princess? We're strangers to these fuckers, anyway.

Aaahn, I remember you. The hell do your kind eat anyway.

Ya think? I smelled worse a'fore.

All of these look really dangerous...

She sounded like she was smelling something pretty rank, so yeah.

Wha'd she eat! I hardly seen any hay 'round in a while. Not feedin' the ole gal veggie burgers or nothin', right?

Well, no, but... [ well ok. ] I just think it's a little crazy that they'd drag us here and then say that!

Really? They sounded kind of—lame to me.

There aren't any others quite my kind, not anymore.

You'd do best not to worry about it.

I doubt street-sweepin's dangerous.

Nah. Flesh of her enemies from the sounds of it.

[ ... ]

Monsters, or food collection?

I'm just convinced as ta why they'd pull in "soldiers" an' make us do remedial stuff. 'Less it's like a chain-a-command kinda thing. Earn your keep by stirrin' slop.

...Actually, I could get behind that.

Monster hunting sounds boring to you? [ what kind of girl is this? another magical girl?? ]

Sexy horse.

Of course. They started by requesting soldiers, and now they show their true colors. We're apparently here only as cheap labor.

Street sweeping? [ oh that sounds easy she could do th

...

!???!? ] Th-that only pays one dollar!

Hunting.

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