Day 1c

I'm stickin' with this style on numbering things. This way, it's easy to tell if I make more than one entry in a single day, and what order they were in. And if I make them a day or more apart...well, you get the idea.

So yeah, we had just finished killing the giant shrews. They're really not too bad if you're quick, and you know what you're doing. More dangerous in a group, though, especially for novices like these farmers. They might've known everything about getting crops to grow in this blasted soil, but they weren't fighters. So, I naturally expected them to thank me for my help, and likely hire me to make sure there weren't others nearby.

I wasn't disappointed.

Turns out they knew of a nest nearby. A couple of the guys had gone in to clear them out, thinking they could handle it with little more than bravado. Yeah, it didn't go so well for them. They didn't have much to offer, but were willing to offer a sack of their crops, and the Bio-Comp unit.

Oh, let me just pause for a sec. I don't know when you're listening to this, or if you're still using Bio-comps at all, so might not know why I was willing to risk my life for one. It's a relatively simple device, created before the Cataclysm. It's about 3 inches long, jointed for flexibility. You set it on the back of your neck, and it clamps onto your spine. They come with a small reader that hooks onto your belt, and the Bio-Comp sends it your blood pressure, heart rate, general health, and so forth. It also has a Geiger counter, voice recorder, all kinds of useful things. And they're made with nuclear batteries or something, so they last nearly forever, it looks like. So, I went into the ca-...

Ooo, looks like I see my dinner. To be continued. Sorry.