RimWorld

RimWorld

More Faction Interaction
Watershine 11 Aug, 2018 @ 5:42pm
Suggestion: Surgery & Gifting
This is Appren.

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Appren is a proud Member of the Faction called Entomaellum. At first, Entomaellum was at War with us, but thanks to the possibility of more faction interactions, we got the chance to improve our relationship and by now we're proud and happy allies. And thanks to this, everyone from Entomaellum can now savely travel through my Colony and pay me a visit, say Hello and Trade with.

Even ol' Appren here. Why he was send out by his Faction in the first place will forever stay a mystery, and how he even made it to our colony should be among the greatest wonders of our RimWorld. But if not for the sharp eyes of our allmighty Godess, Appren would've surely not survived his journey.
When we found him, collapsed right next to a Generator, he was at the brink of death. His weak hands wern't even able to hold onto his weapon anymore and now he was an easy prey for the harsh climate of the Tropical Rainforest we called our home. But we got a sign from our Godess that led us to Appren. We snatched him right of deaths doorstep and brought him to our Hospital to ptach him up. Surely Entomaellum would be grateful to us for this heroic deed.

But Alas... under closer examination we realized very soon that Apprens chance to make it back to his home-town were pretty much 0%. Because you see, Appren was already very old. And the unforgiving life on the RimWorld had taken its toll on him. Plainly spoken: He was ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up.

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But it took us just a look into his old but wise eyes that he wasn't ready to die yet. I mean, common, how do you think he made it to our colony in the first place? His bones were still full of adventurers spirit and his eyes as curious as a childs! How could we possibly let him die? But no, that wasn't even the biggest problem... whenever he was back at full health, he dragged himself towards the exit of the map, just to collapse again not far from our doorstep... starving...

We looked at each other, puzzled, worried. Sure, we had some prosthetics in our stockpile to improve his physical problems somewhat, but Entomaellum surely wouldn't thank us for putting extra effort into one of their sickly colonists. The other, and probably even worse, problem was that Appren was absolutely out of food. We had a good amount of 200 packaged survival meals in our freezer, but no matter what we tried... Appren simply didn't want to take any charity from us.

In the end, we agreed to drop him off at the edge of the map, only 5 short steps seperating him from the exit of our colony... we watched him leave and wished him all the best. Entomaellum surely thanked us for rescuing Appren, but if he actually ever made it back home alive we'll never know...

And thus i wonder if it might be possible to add two features:

1. Being able to Gift to people you usually couldn't interact with. Thus improving your reputation with the belonging Faction (depending on the value of the Gift) or simply helping someone out who's in a pinch, like poor Appren.
2. Getting some bonus reputation if you not only fix up people, but actually cure or improve permanent health conditions like replacing a missing leg with a prosthetic one or better. Repuation is evaluated depending on the value of the prosthetic ( mods treats installing protestics or giving certain medicine to someone, like healer mech serum, like a gift given to the person maybe? )