Rimworld: Side Hustle
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Link to series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNWGkqCSwkOHA4YJ3KMWJf-Rv48LpuN16
Production Notes:
Series started on Feb. 28, 2021, and ended on Mar. 19, 2021 running for 20 episodes.
Episode 1, "Perfectly Legal Stonks Plantation" released on Feb. 28, 2021
Episode 2, "Mechanoids Filled with FIRE" released on Mar. 1, 2021
Episode 3, "Fat Larry's Fat Oil & Walls of Pure Drugs" released on Mar. 2, 2021
Episode 4, "Greatest EVER Rimworld Construction?" released on Mar. 3, 2021
Episode 5, "Feds Hate Legitimate Crop Farms" released on Mar. 4, 2021
Episode 6, "God Punishes Fat Larry for His Sins" released on Mar. 5, 2021
Episode 7, "Legal Lee's Fresh Prison Labour Camp" released on Mar. 6, 2021
Episode 8, "Pirates Prisoners Forced to Grow Drugs for Mad Mustard Suited Man" released on Mar. 7, 2021
Episode 9, "Gluing Our People Back Together" released on Mar. 8, 2021
Episode 10, "Fat Larry's Fat Caravan's Fat Profits" released on Mar. 9, 2021
Episode 11, "Prisoners OVERDOSE Their Way to FREEDOM" released on Mar. 10, 2021
Episode 12, "A Stronger, Fatter Larry" released on Mar. 11, 2021
Episode 13, "Quest for ULTIMATE Bees" released on Mar. 12, 2021
Episode 14, "Restaurant that Kills People and Fat Larry's Golden Shower" released on Mar. 13, 2021
Episode 15, "Larry's Warriors VS 5 Raids Simultaneously" released on Mar. 14, 2021
Episode 16, "Mustard Minigun Luciferium Lords" released on Mar. 15, 2021
Episode 17, "Mammoth Profits" released on Mar. 16, 2021
Episode 18, "Pirates Leave Restaurant Bad Review" released on Mar. 17, 2021
Episode 19, "Skooma! Animals Can't Resist the Great Taste of Pure Skooma!" released on Mar. 18, 2021
Episode 20, "1 Million Actual Silver in a Safe? [You Won't Believe What Happens]" released on Mar. 19, 2021
Plot
Making as much profit as possible, selling to drugs to just about everybody, whilst exploiting whoever the colonists can capture as slave laborers, working the fields in a rain forest.
Important Mods/Theme
A series based on “pure stonks”, “big high profits for big, high people”, no trade ships where everything is hand-delivered by Fat Larry and his crew with a smile. This series features the Empires mod and a whole bunch of drugs-related mods. No embrasures, no kill boxes, no fancy turrets, and no security mods. The return of Semi-random research and Rim-bees.
Scenario
1) Make fuckin’ stonks with drugs.
2) Have all the characters from the side series on the second channel.
3) A really tall fence, and a rainforest to stand between Legal Lee’s drugs and the Feds.
Goals
1) “Make $1,000,000 Rimworld dollars.”
All Characters
Characters introduced in order of appearance:
1) Dong Excellente1 (make character page, make character name a hyperlink to said page)
2) Caius Cosades1
3) Larry “Fat Larry” Potter1
4) Slowna Benanius1
5) Lee “Legal Lee” Perrins1
6) Crack Joris1, we don’t talk about Crack Joris
7) Mushinto Takamu, 7th of Jugust, 5500. Killed 9th of Decembary, 5500.
8) Minyoung “Min” Kim, 4th of Decembary, 5500.
9) Ralph “Humps” (Renamed Twinbornmink) Brock, 1st of Jugust, 5501
10) Zachary “Zebo” (renamed Firbael) Edson, 3rd of Septober, 5501. Killed 6th of Aprimay, 5503.
11) John “Blitz” Kriegsler, 1st of Jugust, 5502. Killed 6th of Aprimay, 5503.
12) Theophact "Truzzie" Laskaris, 7th of Septober, 5503
13) Nanami "Chicken" Houston, 7th of Septober, 5503
Factions
1) Legal Lee’s Legal Bees
2) Dominion of the Sun
3) The Agency
4) Teddio
5) Allnotcolium
6) Cangada Covenant
7) Coastal Townsfolk of Night River
8) Coffer Shore
9) The Razors
10) Automated Disposal Mechhive Kilo
Series Summary
Where some unnamed YouTube channels raised $1,000,000 in Rimworld via “the American way through cold, hard industry, unfeeling, uncaring monopolies, and most likely an underpaid working class”. Legal Lee and the crew did things “the good ol’ fashioned British way, by peddling drugs to nations, and destroy their society, all for profit.” sips tea ;)
Summary by Episode
Episode 1 “Perfectly Legal Stonks Plantation”.
1st of Aprimay, 5500, “Legal Lee, lawyer, businessman, and all-around stone-cold killer, turns his attention to bigger and grander pursuits, with bigger and grander profits. Having hired a hit squad of seemingly random and unrelated characters, the team heads to the deepest rainforest in a relatively unguarded and quiet Rimworld. Big drug, big stonk, big Legal Lee.” Some moments that Legal Lee recalls are when Fat Larry calmed down Slowna and stopped her from pigging out on food. “No unreserved water sources of the highest available quality.” “Fat Larry has damaged wooden bar stool (good 41%0 due to their weight or strange posture.” “Disappointing baboon.” Lee established “Lee’s Lawn” on the 13th of Aprimay. The crew finally planted the first crops of “product” on the 3rd of Jugust. Legal Lee was taken aback when he heard the Slowna had pursued Caius as a lover by “exaggerating her own leg hair”, to which Caius responded well. The first successful harvest of “product” was on the 9th of Jugust. Then, the Power Rangers arrived…
Episode 2 "Mechanoids Filled with FIRE"
We rejoin Legal Lee and crew on the 10th of Jugust, 5500 as the Power Rangers begin to setup their siege of the colony. Lee was astounded by the irony that the mercenaries intended to use artillery constructed of hemp, having to “fight drugs with drugs”. However, Lee was pulled back from his disappointment when realizing they intended to use napalm on the colony. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Lee was taken aback once more as Fat Larry decided to put on a dead man’s cloth waistcloth but then went over to inspect the remaining mercenary. Minyoung “Min” Kim was taken back to the colony by Caius to be recruited into the colony. On the 3rd of Septober we were attacked by the Mechanoids, they immediately attacked Mushinto before we could regroup and cover him. Other than Caius’ right middle toe, there weren’t many losses we couldn’t recover from. Legal Lee was confused one day as he couldn’t find his trademark yellow suit. On a more positive note, I saw Caius propose to Slowna on the 9th of Septober, I can’t wait for the wedding, but I don’t know where they’ll have it. We got a new arrival at the camp, a massive rhino, much easier to say than uintatherium, called Destruction. The other wildlife is becoming a bit of a nuisance, panthers won’t leave Caius alone and a gorilla went after Slowna! We may need to go and place some fences around the crops, we got a neutrolope that came down with the flu, but they were also high off magic mushrooms. On the 3rd of Decembary, we began work on researching how to drill for oil in order to diversify our sources of income and make the fronts look more legitimate. The next day, we were able to bring Min into the colony and a few days later became Legal Lee’s lover. On the 9th of Decembary we were assaulted by the Mechanoids again, but these looked different, when Fat Larry shot and destroyed one of them it blew and killed Mushinto along with it. Later on the 1st of Aprimay, 5501, we established the Internship Mines where we can send our “interns” to generate some wealth for us. The next day, we began work developing the infrastructure for our big oil division. Some outlanders from Teddio decided to attack us, they didn’t give us too much trouble if anything trying to fight while that fog machine the pirates put down was more of an issue, but we did manage to capture one of them to put to work later…
Episode 3 “Fat Larry’s Fat Oil & Walls of Pure Drugs"
Dong appears to enjoy his new role as colony nurse. Caius also seems to be very diligent in watching over the mercenary that was captured in a previous raid. The colony is immediately beset by raiders but a few days later we were able to build the oil tanks, once we have enough power we can begin to drill. Legal Lee and Min shared their marriage ceremony on the 14th of Aprimay, 5501 and that day would be the happiest for either of them going forward. Legal Lee sent Fat Larry, Dong, and Slowna to take out the fog machine setup by the pirates, Dong suffered a grievous injury where his leg was cut off by a knife. After the group returned, the colony was assaulted by another group of Mechanoids where Min suffered multiple injuries. We were raided by the Feds on the 12th of Jugust, once again they planned to use artillery, but it didn’t work, in the end though we captured one of them to put to work or at least hold as a hostage. On the 3rd of Septober, we recruited the hostage name Zachary Edson, nicknamed “Zebo” who had a very fancy hat. We officially kicked off Fat Larry’s Big Fat Oil division on the 6th of Septober, where the motto is “Fuck Nature, but not all of it, some of it is very acceptable”. 3 people crashed into the rainforest in a space pod that Dong began to tend to, whether we send them to the mines or hold here will be to the future to decide. They were in fact, all sent to the mines. We established a hamlet called Slowna’s Loaner in a temperate forest area in the mountains on the 12th of Decembary, 5501 where they were tasked with sending hempcrete blocks as a tithe. Chapo the rhino hasn’t had the best luck with health lately, first suffering a heart attack and now they’ve come down with the plague. On the 2nd of Aprimay, 5502, we set out to destroy a crash-landed Mechanoid ship that was causing environmental destruction and was nearing the colony where for the most part we didn’t suffer any major casualties, except for Min who lost a leg. At this point Min is barely holding themselves together, having lost their right arm, right lung, and left ring finger previously. Between the arrival of 15,000 hempcrete blocks and being able to place solid fields down for the products, things were looking pretty good around Fat Larry’s Litterbox.
Episode 4 “Greatest EVER Rimworld Construction?”
We return to the colony, witnessing a marvel of nature’s partnership with humans, a Chunky carrying a Chunkie, while riding on a Monkey. Then quickly torn away to a raid by Teddio where the colonists kill the faction leader and the colony suffered its greatest loss to date, a dragonfly died, and also Min continued to suffer more damage. The raiders did retreat in the end after setting fire to some of the oil pipelines at the opposite side of the base. Fat Larry developed an infection in his leg, taking the efforts of Caius and Dong, mostly Caius, to save him. Upon the first, noticed, delivery of diamonds from the Internship Mines, the creation of a colony-defining item was born: Legal Lee’s solid diamond toilet. Fat Larry leads the charge against the Pirates, who for some reason continue to get their hands on world-effecting technology, to destroy a psychic suppressor. Legal Lee was shocked to find random animals that had self-tamed, including two large anacondas, bringing the total of large snakes in the colony to 3. One night, another Mechanoid ship crash-landed on the outskirts of the colony, leading Lee to begin to research more options for defense. Fat Larry attempted to lure the Mechanoids into a group of raiders from Teddio, but it did not work out as intended but the colony fended off the raiders and saved Fat Larry, leaving just the Mechanoids to contend with, and Min is continuing to fall apart bit by bit. Legal Lee took the time with the impending Mechanoid attack to research a very important technology that would save the colony without his knowing, Smart Toilets. Fat Larry begins to bait out the smaller Mechanoids and does well until losing an arm and to a lesser extent, an ear. Sadly, that wasn’t the end of Fat Larry’s woes as he lost a leg and a lung while retreating to cover. The rest of the colony went to rescue him, also taking damage as they grew desperate to fend off the death bots. In the end, the colony triumphed over the Mechanoids and destroyed the ship that was poisoning their crops.
Episode 5 “Feds Hate Legitimate Crop Farms”
Legal Lee wakes up one morning to the smell of smoke, but this wasn’t the smokeleaf or dream flowers he had known, but it was the smell of catharsis brought on by Dong making a flamethrower for Fat Larry, and Fat Larry using the flamethrower to release his anger and stress on the stockpiles of wood and a little bit of chemfuel to burn it all away, almost burning up Blitz in the process. On the 2nd of Aprimay, 5503, Legal Lee took stock of what remained of his crew and of his wife Min. To help Fat Larry avoid any complaints from HR, and to try and provide him some clothing, Dong makes Fat Larry a masterwork corset, however Fat Larry was not appreciative of the gesture, nor the dress that was made for him afterwards. In the end, Fat Larry settled for a cloth mesh shirt that he was forced to wear. Legal Lee was able to research mortars to help defend the colony and began taking stock of all the “product” he had on hand to begin planning the production facilities to process them. Then, the Dominion of the Sun attacked, Fat Larry was immediately taken down as he tried to start a fire in the forest to distract the imperials. In the attack, Blitz is killed while trying to get to cover and after fighting off the initial wave of raiders the colonists pushed forward to drive out the rest. While fighting off the remaining raiders, one of them missed shooting Twinbornmink and killed Firbael with a shot to the brain. After burning down the oil drill and stealing what they could, the remainder of the raiders retreated, leaving the colonists to regroup, and treat their wounds. After acquiring some new equipment there was a double raid, including the Dominion of the Sun and the Mechanoids once again, but this time Legal Lee had a mortar, that missed a lot. After tricking a group of the imperials to attack the Mechanoids it nearly reduced the Mechanoid cluster to nothing and killed that group of imperials off while the colonists fought off the remainder of the imperials. Caius performed an experiment to see how functional using bionics for animals would be on humans by replacing limbs on Min. Legal Lee spent the next couple of days taking out another crashed Mechanoid ship single-handily. After watching Caius place animal limbs on his wife, he researches human bionics. A slave trader visits the colony and Fat Larry makes a deal for two new colonists, Nanami Houston and Theophact Laskaris along with more medicine. Then, another raid by the Dominion after hearing about Legal Lee’s diamond house but with the combined strength of Lee on the mortar and the slave traders, they were fought off. The crack den was refurbished into an actual recreation room after dealing with all the stress and Blitz and Firbael had graves prepared for them inside a mausoleum.
Trivia
· The main characters of this series were comprised of characters that had appeared across numerous series on the second channel. These included: Morrowind OpenMW, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, TES: IV – Oblivion 2021 (Bevilex Modpack), and Saints Row II 2021.
· The randomly generated faction name was “Laverwado Non-technologist Accord”, and the randomly generated community name was “Sprayberry”. These are changed to “Legal Lee’s Legal Bees” and “Fat Larry’s Litterbox”, respectively on the 9th of Aprimay.
· Destruction the uintatherium was not as intimidating as one would hope for.
· In two episodes, the colony wealth exceeded the colony wealth from the penultimate episode of the previous series.
· Neutrolope 2 gave away Min at her wedding to Legal Lee.
· At the time of this series, there was no dedicated Egyptian style mod.
· Bees do not, in fact, work in the rain.
· Zebo and Pablo the gorilla does not, in fact, have the best working relationship.
· Crack Joris is strong enough to carry Fat Larry.
· Fat Larry does not have the upper body strength, nor the proper cardiovascular health to help prevent fires.
· Chunky = Fat Larry, Chunkie = Stone Chunk, Monkey = Monkey.
· Pablo the gorilla is an aspiring Apiarist.
· Caius is also a budding apiarist, starting up Caius Cosades Pious Honeybees.
· The Crypto-armor that was purchased along with the medicine to save Fat Larry would later form a backstory-changing aspect to his character.
1 – denotes starting party of colonists