by Ashlie Minamida » Tue May 03, 2016 3:20 pm
After gathering some supplies (mainly some food for Tosh) the two of them make their way to the cave where they parked the jeep. After some debate about the probabilities of someone spotting them they take off across the Irish countryside. Between the need for materials and Tosh's unfortunate tendency to require food they decide to find a place that is at least somewhat close by to a settlement where they might be able to trade things. The abandoned water mill is nestled between the foothills of a mountain with a stream of water running through (or probably even having created) the small valley.
It takes them a couple of days, especially with Ashlie still missing an arm, but between the two of them they manage to patch up most of the building and even set up a crude furnace in what used to be a stone oven that Ashlie sets to work melting down non-vital parts of the jeep. In the meantime one wall has been set up as the dedicated planning board with lists of components and materials needed to upgrade the temporal anchor as well as potential sources. Mainly ores and gems but the occasional color pigment or plant for chemical reactions that Ashlie refuses to call 'Alchemy' in spite of Tosh's jokes.
The barely functioning power core is temporarily retired to avoid wearing out irreplaceable compounds (liquid Helium would probably be impossible to replicate should the coolant circuit or even just the isolating mantle spring a leak). Instead they hook up an induction coil to the water wheel to charge an array of capacitors from the electronics store haul. The amount of power is pitiful in comparison to the power core, so Ashlie spends most of the time trailing a cable behind her to reduce battery drain and powering down to minimal levels during the night to recover some charge.
After a week most of the jeep has been reclaimed, with the exception of some electrical pieces and the seats that have been turned into a make-shift bed for Tosh, which are probably still significantly more comfortable than most actual beds from this time period. The remains of Ashlie's arm have been either set aside as precious circuitry or repurposed to make some of the more intricate tools they'll need while Tosh has been working on turning some of the steel and aluminum ingots (previously a car door) into a replacement arm.