puzzlesontherim - Tumblr blog

puzzlesontherim · 6 months

Text

A brief catch-up on the first ten days of Little London (from memory aided by the history tab, hence why it’s sparse):

1st of Aprimay, 5500

Layton, Luke, Flora, and Clive made planetfall together on the shores of a huge river, just east of where it entered the Quaistia Marsh. Disoriented and unsure of themselves, the four of them patched holes in an ancient burial structure built into one of the few nearby hills to find shelter together before the sun began to set.

2nd of Aprimay, 5500

No time was wasted in sowing the first fields and setting up the basic furniture they had lacked the night before.

3rd of Aprimay, 5500

To celebrate their rapidly-stabilizing situation, Flora threw a party out by the rice field. It was a modest affair, of course, but it did everybody some good to relax and mingle.

4th of Aprimay, 5500

A maddened squirrel pursued Luke as he was hauling stone chunks, and Clive quickly proved himself handy with a bolt-action rifle by dispatching it. Later in the day he further took it upon himself to bring in some meat by hunting small game. Being useful didn’t stop him from getting on the others’ nerves, though - he managed to deeply insult the Professor’s intelligence. Truly, his presence was a mixed blessing.

5th of Aprimay, 5500

(Tbh I can’t remember but the carrot and green bean fields were probably sown around this time, if I had to guess lol)

6th of Aprimay, 5500

The relative peace they had so far experienced came to an end today at the arrival of a raider from the Tribe of Cambor. Nude and carrying only an abysmally-made knife, Clive was overly confident in his ability to handle the desperate attacker, who forded the river and charged up to him without having been so much as grazed by one of his bullets. By the time Layton arrived with a knife for backup, Clive had already been stabbed several times, and was bleeding heavily. However, together, the two of them dispatched the raider.

Luke arrived late to the scene to patch up Clive’s wounds. The raider was still alive and writhing in pain on the ground, and Layton and Luke at least agreed that it wouldn’t be right to just leave them to die. A makeshift prison cell was constructed out of another ancient ruin, and Luke bandaged the raider’s wounds before escorting them to their cell.

7th of Aprimay, 5500

Now that the prisoner was stable, the crew wasn’t entirely sure what to do with them. What was more sure, though, was that the group would survive if Clive took some time off to recover from his wounds. Luke and Layton took on the task of caring for both of them between their other duties.

8th of Aprimay, 5500

Clive’s wounds had healed significantly enough to let him return to work, and return to work he did. Much of the day was spent harvesting wild plants and expanding their fields - it was beyond time to get some healroot and cotton growing.

9th of Aprimay, 5500

Luke spent some more time in the morning getting to know their prisoner, who was still quite heavily injured, when he brought them food in the morning. He learned that her name was Daisy Debelle, and the two of them began to build up a positive rapport.

10th of Aprimay, 5500

The pouring rains of the previous day kept coming down, and unfortunately it began to short out the battery near the wind turbines. Two separate fires needed to be put out.

At around 10 in the morning, a radio transmission was received from Dimitri. He is a prisoner under armed guard at a prison camp not far to the west of Little London, beyond the edge of the Quaistia Marsh, and is pleading for rescue. The only possible choice in the face of this distress call is to go help; the real question is how what preparations they can afford to make before they move out. Given the travel time, the team plans to take no more than ten days preparing to save him.

State of the Colony (late morning of 10 Aprimay 5500)

Currently building muffalo pasture. Next project, workshop.

#professor layton #rimworld #puzzles on the rim #little london logs

5 notes · View notes

puzzlesontherim · 6 months

Text

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to puzzlesontherim, a blog all about my current game of Rimworld featuring characters from Professor Layton as pawns. This blog will chronicle the day-to-day life of the residents of the colony of Little London as they build towards creating a warm, welcoming, and hospitable settlement out on the Rim.

Very important thing to start! I have not played or beaten the entire Layton series, so there’s a lot of information I’m missing and a lot of spoilers I’m not privy to. Please assume that I only know of events from Curious Village, Lost/Unwound Future, Last Specter/Spectre’s Call, and Eternal Diva, and refrain from discussing spoilers for the rest of the series or making suggestions based on said spoilers. (This list will update as I continue to work through the series. Currently, I am playing Diabolical Box.) Pawn builds and relationships are subject to change as I learn more.

And speaking of pawn relationships, I will be taking a fairly hands-off approach to romance within the colony. Canon relationships will be edited in as new characters are added, but beyond that, what romantic relationships form will be dictated by R.N.Jesus. Don’t lambast me if the Rimworld Gods decide to canonize a ship you don’t like.

Current residents of Little London:

Professor Hershel Layton (as of 1 Aprimay 5500)

Luke Triton (as of 1 Aprimay 5500)

Flora Reinhold (as of 1 Aprimay 5500)

Clive Dove (as of 1 Aprimay 5500)

Daisy Debelle* (prisoner as of 6 Aprimay 5500, recruited 10 Aprimay 5500)

*Daisy Debelle is not a Layton character, she is loosely based on my Layton OC/sona.

Additional members of the Layton cast will be added to the colony over time, through a combination of the Character Editor and Reunion mods.

Characters currently slated to join (on Reunion mod Ally list):

Claire Foley

Dimitri Allen**

Don Paolo

Emmy Altava

** - Available now through a quest

Due to a combination of my general inexperience with the game, not wanting to see the Layton gang get torn to bloody shreds before my eyes, and really wanting to play around with the Hospitality mod and its add-ons, this is going to be a fairly low-difficulty playthrough. Currently, the difficulty is Randy Random on Community Builder. Also, I don’t have any DLCs, although I do have a metric shitton of mods.

Brief tag guide followed by modlist in load order below the cut. (The modlist is long lmao and also subject to change.) Tag list updated 10 November 2023. Modlist updated 10 November 2023.

Tag Guide

#puzzles on the rim - general blog/AU tag.

#little london logs - textposts outlining events in the colony. Not every single day will be covered.

Modlist

Harmony

Hugslib

Vanilla Expanded Framework

[SYR] Set Up Camp

A Dog Said… Animal Prosthetics

Allow Dead Animals

Allow Tool

Animal Tab

Animals are fun

Bad Can Be Good (Continued)

Bionic icons

Cash Register

Character Editor

Clean Pathfinding 2

CleaningArea

CM Color Coded Mood Bar [1.1+]

Common Sense

Defensive Positions

DontBlockDoor

Door Mat

Gastronomy

Hospitality

Hunt for Me

Interaction Bubbles

Not My Fault

Pick Up And Haul

Predator Hunt Alert

Replace Stuff

Romance On The Rim

RT Fuse

Simple sidearms

Tainted Renaming

Trade Ships Drop Spot

Vanilla Books Expanded

Vanilla Brewing Expanded

Vanilla Brewing Expanded - Coffees and Teas

Vanilla Cooking Expanded

Vanilla Fishing Expanded

Vanilla Outposts Expanded

Vanilla Plants Expanded

Vanilla Plants Expanded - More Plants

Vanilla Traits Expanded

[DN] Bundle of Traits

Wall Light

LightsOut

While You Are Nearby

Windows

Friendly Hostile Factions (Continued)

Reunion

Vanilla Apparel Expanded

Vanilla Social Interactions Expanded

MendAndRecycle

Victorian Era Apparels! (Modified version of the genderless version so guys can wear dresses without a mood penalty and also so dresses can be worn with jackets)

Follow Me

Hospitality: Casino

#professor layton #rimworld #puzzles on the rim #intro post

2 notes · View notes