| Sales Assistant | I went and looked at that empty lot. The foundation is already there, three of the four walls are down, and the one still standing can carry weight. If we build it to the plan, my tools will cover it. If we are short on hands we just go slower. | |
| Sales Assistant | The first shed has a roof on it. Heavy rain today and nothing came through. | |
| Sales Assistant | I've counted heads. Still two bunks short. We need two single iron beds, and a pack of something that burns on top of that — gas canisters or alcohol count too. | |
| Middle-Aged Customer | Phase one is nowhere near enough room. I ran the numbers - with this many people coming, phase two has to be twice as wide, or we end up packed together and colder for it once winter hits. I am going over to help this time. | |
| Old Farmer | Phase two is standing too. I walked through it today. Brighter than my place. | |
| Sales Assistant | That gap outside has to be closed off first. Two Sandbags and one Spike Barrier, plus fuel worth two barrels of diesel. | |
| Hoarding Middle-Aged Man | I made a list for the last phase, everything we are short of is on it. Do not wait until we are standing there to notice something is missing. | |
| Customer | Roof is on. Three months teaching myself out of a manual, and today it was finally worth something. | |
| Sales Assistant | Once it gets dark, nothing gets done. Still need a Small Fuel Generator and a Large Stove, and fuel worth three barrels of diesel. | |
| Sales Assistant | Sent over everything I had spare. It is still growing out there, one run will not hurt. | |
| Middle-Aged Customer | Kept a few of today eggs. The rest went out with the drone. | |
| Old Farmer | All those vegetables I've got stored are just sitting there. Take them. | |
| Customer | I do not have much to spare. Whatever I can send, I send. | |
| Sales Assistant | Somebody has to call it. Where the materials come from, which room goes up first, who moves in first - you have been deciding all of that anyway, so keep deciding. Nobody objects. | |
| Sales Assistant | One less of us. I'm keeping the name on the list. | |
| Sales Assistant | No objection to the platform at your place. Supplies at the door beats moving house. | |
| Sales Assistant | I can still hold out here. Count me in on the transfer work. | |
| Sales Assistant | If people get covered without moving, I'm for it. | |
| Sales Assistant | You've been running the delivery routes anyway. It makes sense to leave it with you. | |
| Sales Assistant | I've stored up plenty. Setting some aside for the camp won't hurt. | |
| Sales Assistant | Food isn't a worry for me. I can lend a hand at the camp. | |
| Sales Assistant | The food's just piling up at my place. Bring it to the camp and we all eat. | |
| Sales Assistant | I've got enough spare food for two. Count me in for the camp. | |
| Sales Assistant | Whatever you say we build, we build. I'm with you. | |
| Sales Assistant | You're the one who kept sending supplies all these weeks. Whichever you pick, I'm on your side. | |
| Sales Assistant | I don't know much about the rest. You decide, I'll follow. | |
| Sales Assistant | I'm nearly out of everything. I don't think I can hold up the transfer work. | |
| Sales Assistant | Let me feed myself first. Things are tight here. | |
| Sales Assistant | If you need hands, I can't help right now. I can barely eat. | |
| Sales Assistant | The camp needs us to chip in. What little I've stored won't cover it. | |
| Sales Assistant | Before moving over you'd need a proper stockpile. I'm nowhere near. | |
| Sales Assistant | Things are tight already. If I pour more into the camp, I'm afraid I'll be the first to go down. | |
| Sales Assistant | The votes are in. The transfer hub goes at your place. Say in the group if you need anything. | |
| Sales Assistant | The votes are in. The camp starts now. I'll post the job list later. | |
| Sales Assistant | Not enough votes. That's the end of it; it won't come up again. | |
| Sales Assistant | The votes are in. Everyone wants you to lead this. Say the word and it's settled. | |
| Sales Assistant | The horde is finally gone. If we want to last, someone has to make the calls. | |
| Sales Assistant | Makes sense. Let's pick someone. | |
| I agree. Let's set a time and vote. | |
| Sales Assistant | We can't even eat our fill. Why pick a leader? | |
| Sales Assistant | Let's just get through the days first. | |
| Sales Assistant | Everyone's here, so let's vote. One vote each. We'll see the result first thing tomorrow. | |
| Sales Assistant | The votes are too scattered. Nobody got chosen. | |
| Holding out alone is too hard. I propose we build a camp together. Vote if you agree. | |
| Sales Assistant | My vote is yours. | |
| Sales Assistant | You've been running things all along. No objection from me. | |
| Sales Assistant | Count me in. | |
| Sales Assistant | Materials are all in. We break ground first thing tomorrow — anyone with time, come lend a hand. | |
| Sales Assistant | Made a group. Everyone here has traded with each other before. If anything comes up, just say it here so we don't have to message one by one. | |
| Sales Assistant | With this few of us, a lot of things are hard to get done. Let's see if we can bring more people in. | |
| Sales Assistant | Half the houses in my neighborhood can't be reached anymore, and the whole street is dead quiet at night. I want to keep a few pigeons, for company, and for food if it comes to that. Could you catch two live ones? I'll thank you with a pot of Oat White Dye. | |
| Sales Assistant | The doors and windows are boarded up, nobody's been outside in weeks, and there's just one emergency lamp left in here. I'd like two white mice to pass the time. Can you catch live ones? I have a roll of Grey Oak Grain wallpaper to trade. | |
| Sales Assistant | We don't dare turn on a light after dark in case it draws the zombies, so we sit in the dark till morning. There's an old record player here with the casing rusted through; I want to patch it and play a few records quietly at night. I'm three sheets of fine metal short. I'll trade two eggs, two packets of onion seeds, plus a Lightweight Wheel Set for robots. | |
| Sales Assistant | All we've got left is a few cans and half a bag of rice. Haven't seen meat in weeks, and people go light-headed while working. I'd like a wild rabbit. I have two cans of coconut juice to trade for it. | |
| Sales Assistant | The heating's been off for ages. Once it's cold, nights in here are about as cold as outside, the blankets never warm up, and we've got chilblains on our hands and feet. I'd like two electric heaters. I'll trade a notebook on ochre-red dye. | |
| Sales Assistant | A few nights ago someone pried my door open, took some of our food, and split one of our heads open. I'm afraid they'll be back. I want a security door, and a security window too. I'll trade a jar of honey, a carton of milk and a bag of sugar. | |
| Sales Assistant | The fuel ran out long ago. It's been cold cans and soggy crackers for days, and my stomach keeps acting up. I just want one hot meal: braised dove in rice wine, ordinary is fine. I have two bottles of dry red. | |
| Sales Assistant | That rooftop patch is the only fresh food we have, and now it's crawling with snails and bugs. The leaves are chewed down to the veins, and the pesticide's long gone. Could you get me a hedgehog? I'll give you a box of frozen short ribs and a bottle of sake. | |
| Sales Assistant | Someone here has a birthday. Food's rationed by the day and nobody's seen anything sweet in ages, but we all want to mark this one no matter what. Could you make two fruit puddings? I have a roll of Orange Square Tile wallpaper to trade. | |
| Sales Assistant | A few days ago I took in two people who fled from the south side. One of them keeps coughing and running a fever, and I don't know what it is. I want to put up a partition to keep them apart, and I'm short one stainless steel sheet and one acrylic sheet. I'll trade a notebook on purple dye and throw in a toy-brick lighthouse. | |
| Sales Assistant | I haven't had an egg since it all happened. It's compressed biscuits and cans every day, and I keep thinking about the onion and ham omelettes I used to make. If you can manage it, could you make me one? I'll thank you with two pots of Ochre Red Dye. | |
| Sales Assistant | The radio can't pick up any station anymore. Apart from taking turns on night watch, we just sit there, and some of us can't sleep at all. I'm repairing a gramophone to get some sound in here, and I still need three electronic components and two rolls of wire. I'll trade two packets of bell pepper seeds, two packets of matsutake seeds, plus a Fast Charge Module for robots. | |
| Sales Assistant | I risked a trip to the outskirts for a batch of wild fruit, and it'll rot in a few days. I want to brew it and keep it to trade for food come winter. Could you make me a brewing barrel? I still have a bottle of pre-disaster whisky and a plant-dye notebook to trade. | |
| Sales Assistant | We're out of high-proof alcohol. The stove needs it to light, and someone here got their calf cut open on barbed wire; it's festering now and has to be cleaned every day. Could I get five bottles? I have a spare household UPS and a Compact Battery Pack for robots to trade. | |
| Sales Assistant | Last time I went scavenging, zombies cornered me in a supermarket stockroom and I hid there all night before I got out. I want two shots of adrenaline in my pack, so I've got a chance if it happens again. I'll give you two craft beers. | |
| Sales Assistant | We haven't heard a thing from outside in ages. No idea where in the city there are still people, or if rescue's still coming. I'm building a radio to listen for the shelters' broadcasts, and I need one integrated circuit and two iron parts. I'll trade a pot of Dusk Blue Dye, plus a DC Motor Unit for repair robots. | |
| Sales Assistant | The few households here have been living on thin porridge, and the ones who haul supplies can barely stand. We want to put together a meal of meat to get them back on their feet: ten meat dishes, enough to go around. I've got the drinks: dry red, sake, beer, yellow wine and whisky. You get a bottle of each. | |
| Sales Assistant | Our food's shrinking by the day, and every place in the city worth searching has been gone through several times. I want to try raising animals for food, starting with a few to see which can survive indoors. Could you catch me four live ones? Anything but rats. Squirrels are fine too. I'll trade seeds: cauliflower, beet, shaggy mane, sunflower and cucumber, two packets each. | |
| Sales Assistant | It's been frozen meat every day. Several of us have bleeding gums and sores at the corners of our mouths, from lack of vitamins. Could you put together five different vegetables or fruits? I'll trade a pack of frozen stew meat and a bag of frozen chicken thighs. | |
| Sales Assistant | Every day I haul water and fuel back from several streets away, two-plus hours a trip. I wrenched my back moving sandbags a few days ago, there's no medicine, and now I can barely bend over, but the work can't stop. I'd love a massage chair. I have some Grey-Blue Concrete Slab flooring to trade. | |
| Sales Assistant | At night the windows are stuffed with quilts, and zombies keep shuffling past the door. A few of us just sit there getting more on edge, and two of us came to blows over nothing the other day. Got any playing cards? One deck, and a dartboard would be even better. | |
| Sales Assistant | Once it got cold, half my seedlings outside froze. What's left is the only fresh food we'll have this winter; lose those and it's cans till spring. I want to build a glass shed: two sheets of tempered glass, a wood strip, and an electric heater to keep it going at night. | |
| Sales Assistant | Someone here has had a fever for three days. Can't even keep water down, and they're getting confused. The clinic and pharmacies nearby were cleaned out long ago. Can you get fever meds and antibiotics? One box of each is enough. | |
| Sales Assistant | My throat's been swollen for days, I can't swallow anything dry, and there isn't a single anti-inflammatory pill in the house. I'd like some soup, three different kinds. Ordinary is fine, and you can send them in separate trips. | |
| Sales Assistant | At night it's pitch black in here; a few days ago someone broke a leg going downstairs in the dark. The radio's dead too, and we've missed several rescue broadcasts. My roof faces south and gets plenty of sun during the day. I want to put up a large solar panel and a UPS unit to store the power, so the lights and the radio can stay on at night. | |
| Sales Assistant | Our food's almost gone, and the veggies in the cellar are all we've got to count on. But the cellar never sees light, and the seedlings have all turned yellow. I'd like a large plant grow box and a compost bin. My own compost isn't ready yet, so send five basic fertilizer for now. | |
| Sales Assistant | Nobody on the nearby streets can reach anyone else. You could be trapped at home shouting yourself hoarse and no one would know; last week a household across the street didn't make it before anyone came. I checked out the cell tower at the corner. A whole row of boards in the cabinet is burnt out, and rats chewed through the cables. Need four integrated circuits and five rolls of wire. Once it's fixed, walkie-talkies across the next few streets can reach each other. | |
| Sales Assistant | Everything nearby's been picked clean. Walking out of the city and back takes two days, and some who went never came back. I found an electric tricycle. The frame's fine, but the motor and controller are shot. Fixing it takes two integrated circuits and three rolls of wire. There's nowhere to charge on the road, so I'd also like a power storage station to carry along. | |
| Sales Assistant | The doctor at the corner clinic went out looking for medicine and never came back. The cold room still works, and inside is the last batch of vaccines for the blocks around here. It needs power at night: an extra large power storage device and two rolls of wire. | |
| Sales Assistant | Our area's been without power for ages. Some of the old folks cough all night, and the houses are as cold as an icehouse. Over a dozen households on our street set up a generator room together, we just don't have a generator. Need an extra large fuel generator. We're almost out of fuel too. Anything that adds up to 9000 burn value will do: diesel, alcohol, wood, whatever. | |
| Sales Assistant | Rats got into the storeroom and chewed open several sacks of grain in one night, and something big has been digging by the wall. That grain is the whole street's food for the winter. I'd like an extra large rat cage, three iron animal traps and four simple mousetraps. | |
| Sales Assistant | Heard the roads close once it snows. Nobody'll be able to go out, and anyone without stores will just go hungry. I want to stock up for winter now. I need a ration press to press food into blocks that keep. Food totaling 500 satiety, anything goes, plus eight seeds to plant in spring. | |
| Sales Assistant | The water's been off for weeks, and the well nearby has a film of oil on it. Can't drink that. I want to catch rainwater on the roof deck. I need two containers, plus two plastic sheets to rig a slope that runs the water in. | |
| Sales Assistant | A few houses on this street have been silent for a long time. The doors are all locked, and there might still be food and medicine inside. I want to go take a look. I need one crowbar and two lockpicks. | |
| Sales Assistant | Every day we have to fetch water from the end of the street, and there are always zombies wandering along the way. A few days ago someone got chased and had to drop the bucket. I want three noisemakers to throw and draw them off. | |
| Sales Assistant | I was at the supermarket the day it all started. When the zombies burst in I ran for it, and a family photo fell out near the checkout. I still haven't heard from my family, and that photo is all I have of them. Could you help me get it back? | |
| Sales Assistant | A roof caved in overnight on a house across the street. Someone's leg got crushed, they can't walk, and that place is still shedding dirt. I want to make a stretcher to carry them over here. Need two wooden planks and a bandage. | |
| Sales Assistant | Zombies keep slipping into the narrow alley behind the house at night. They find the back door and start banging on it, and the frame's already loose. I want to wall off the alley mouth with sandbags. Need three bags. | |
| Sales Assistant | Since the power went out, the pump in the basement's stopped. Water keeps seeping in at the base of the walls, and the grain sacks on the floor have mold spots. I want a small rack to get the food off the ground, and two bottles of disinfectant spray. | |
| Sales Assistant | When it all started my kid was in the hospital. It was chaos getting out, and the plush toy they always sleep with got left in the ward. These nights, any noise outside wakes them up crying for it. Could you check the inpatient ward for me? | |
| Sales Assistant | A few of us take turns keeping watch, and whoever has the late shift keeps nodding off. The day before yesterday a zombie almost made it to the door. Got anything to drink that'll keep us awake? Anything's fine, two's enough. | |
| Sales Assistant | One of us here is out of asthma meds. There's a pharmacy across the river nobody's hit yet, but a gang has set up a checkpoint at the bridge. You have to pay to cross, and they only take booze. Could you spare two bottles? Any kind. | |
| Sales Assistant | Last night zombies smashed a window on the ground floor and bent the frame. We've got a wardrobe shoved against it, but it won't hold for more than a few days. Need two window repair kits, plus two repair parts to fix the frame back in place. | |
| Sales Assistant | In the first few days the school was a temporary shelter, and one of the old folks from our place helped hand out food in the kitchen. Then zombies stormed the school, everyone scattered, and their hearing aid got dropped in the kitchen. Without it they can't hear a thing, not even something at the door. Could you help get it back? | |
| Sales Assistant | The camp you proposed in the group has the votes. Everyone's going with your call. Give me the word and I'll hand out the work. | |