The Deathtown Saga

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Kathrin Unger was an entrepreneur who is scared of fire. She isn't brilliant at anything really, but is quite good at making friends. Stephan Eckman, who prefered to be called "Wedge", was a hacker who became an agent. Great at science and shooting, Wedge comes in handy whenever somebody is threatening his friends, but is useless at moving things around. Tarquin McBeard was once a slave in a medieval world, but escaped to follow his dreams; he became a janitor. Good at building and OK at mining, Tarquin is a useful person to have around.

This is the story, not of them, but of the place they landed.

This is the story of Deathtown.

The three of them escaped off their broken spaceship and landed together on a small moon. Together, they decided to find ways to survive. They scanned their surroundings to see what was there; they saw that they have landed next to a mountain, with some metal and a limited supply of food. Off in the distance they saw a steam geyser, but it was too far away, and they decide to stay close to their landing site. Together they collect the items they can see together, until they have a small stockpile of useful things. Wedge soon found a lee-enfield, which he claimed to be his own. The others equipped pistols.
They started building a wall around the area they have claimed to be "home", and placed down some solar panels and batteries to start getting electricity. When they finished that, they placed a food dispenser. Their metal had nearly gone by then, but they decided to sleep and worry about that later.
The next day, they started to mine a chunk of metal when they saw a man was approaching. They quickly built a small room to house him in, but they were too late; he had almost got away! Luckily, a mad squirrel started to attack him and slowed him down, so Wedge ran up to him and shoved him in the prisoner room. Before they knew it, another person was spotted in the distance! Wedge ran after her so they could take her prisoner too. Once they got back, they slept.
The next day, against all odds, Wedge managed to recruit the man, who was called Ben. He learnt a lot about him: He was once a farmer, then a cook. He was scared of fire, and was good at nothing, really. He than helped Kathrin start a farm. It then was night. They slept.
The next day, they started on a defence. Tarquin started placing sandbags everywhere, whilst the others slept. Then a solar eclipse happened! They would soon run out of electricity, they thought. They survived the day though, and they had placed a turret and started researching blasting charges.
Soon came day 5. They ran out of power and metal, and food wasn't far behind. Things were looking grim. They still had no trouble getting through the day, and they even managed to get a few more turrets down. Things were starting to get repetitive.
Suddenly, on the next day, they got a stroke of luck! They recruited Hermine, the prisoner, the eclipse ended and they found more metal! But then bad things started to happen. They ran out of food, and Kathrin went mad and started attacking everybody. Wedge managed to stop her and take her prisoner, but they still didn't have any food.
The next day, they finished researching blasting charges and started building a wall around the place. They gave the place it's name: Deathtown.