Well, that depends. It's 75 days each way to the Astral Border, you think. That's 150 days round trip, and 1200 man-days of food required, as you say.

I don't promise the future: It may take longer on one leg or the other if something comes up, and there is the time in between. I can't/won't comment on what happens there, nor how long it will be.

But yes, you would appear to have a surplus if all goes as you hope. About 5 weeks worth for a full crew.

Plus, we have our own rations, if necessary.

I am going to assume that everyone has read about the frustrations of the DM regarding engagement with the game. Even though no one has really addressed it or posted a response.

I am also going to assume that everyone has made a resolution to be involved, post regularly and keep the game active and enjoyable for all.

Worst comes to worst, Jed will have to perfect his scavver recipe.

Already working on it... LOL

Fresh fruit is like quotation marks: you don't seem to be able to find any.

Please use them.

Actually, no salt fish, and the salt beef tastes funny to everyone but Callvyn.

It's space. Aqua farming isn't really possible on asteroids. Ceres is the breadbasket, and all it has is the one lake. No oceans.

Plenty of salt pork. And even pig's wings at many asteroid restaurants.

 I'll edit accordingly. I was expecting Space Fish^(tm). ^_^

 From what I can see of the spell description, that'll stop us from getting food poisoning... When/if we eat the rotten food. Oh, and I don't think it'll keep weevils out. You want 'gentle repose' and it'll only work on the meat. ^_^

It makes it safe to eat, so then the weevils become protein.

"All nonmagical food and drink within a 5-foot-radius
sphere centered on a point of your choice within range is
purified and rendered free of poison and disease."

The active word there is "purified"

Purify: "remove contaminants from" and "extract something from"

Internal fauna are contaminants. And they are extracted.

In reply to DM (msg # 928):

 That right there is a big can of worms. The spell doesn't remove spikey bones from a fish (for example) and I don't think a lizardfolk or gnoll PC can use it as budget remove poison on a player character...

 ...but my main point wasn't that weevils were a problem (that's what you tap your biscuit on the table for, to shake them out!), but that 'purified' food doesn't actually get any fresher. So if you purify a rotten apple, it's still rotten... It's just not going to poison you or give you a disease, any throwing up is entirely on you.

 Kind of how a paladin is immune to fear, but nothing stops one from looking up at a a gargantuan dragon and going 'yeah, I'm scared of that'. ^_^

Actually, the rotten parts are removed, and the food gets smaller, most likely. If you purify a rotten apple, you get part of an apple. Possibly a very small part.

But the ship's food stores have already been preserved. The spell merely keeps insects out, thereby extending shelf life, and any bacteriological decay is stopped as the bacteria is removed.

Truthfully, I suspect that it would, in fact, keep preserved food from decay if used daily. Simply because most forms of decay couldn't start in the first place. The bits starting them wouldn't be present.

Also, I don't consider living things to be food, yet. That should put your mind at ease regarding cure poison/disease. Illithids eating habits not withstanding.

Oh. the bone issue.

Bones are not impurities, they're part of the critter. Also, they can be food items. Birds are cooked whole, generally, and bird or beast, portioned bits are frequently bone it. Bones can be boiled down for stock, and bone marrow, if you eat that sort of thing, is generally cooked in bone.

So, no, a Purify spell wouldn't remove (native) bones from fish, or anything else. You'd need a Butchery of Food preparation spell for that.

Now, if the animal has poison glands, the contents WOULD be removed. The spell specifies poison, same as it does disease.

A tauric space squid? With a person head, chest, and arms... or is that not available info as yet? Is it doing a lot of swimming type motions? Did the space whale seem to swim?

More accurately, can my character remember if it did?

Not tauric, really. And no, it doesn't need to swim. It's flying. It really IS a kraken. On the encounter chart and everything. It is a sea creature of immense power taken to space.

The kindori probably DO swim, if slowly and gently. Or maybe they just have restless tail syndrome. It's not a motive force (as far as I know) but that doesn't mean there isn't movement.

It was eye opening to play strictly by the rules. I'll remember it for a long time I imagine. Thank you for running it!

Yeah, I'm not forgetting this game any time soon, either.

Agreed.

 Fair enough.

 In all honesty, thank you for your efforts DM. I did not like the style of play you prefer, but I'm not the guy putting their time and energy into setting a game up and running it, so kudos for that.
 For future efforts, I think I'd recommend something very slightly less stringent when it comes to a couple of items:

 Inventory.
 I'm not sure whether you might want to simply decree that 'X man-days of food' includes 'assorted small non-adventuring sundry items as needed so we don't need to piss about' or otherwise gently hand-wave some, but we did seem to spend more mental effort than was necessary worrying about small things.

 Movement.
 You're right that you can't ping around a ship willy-nilly and shout through walls. On the other hand, in non-combat time that's not hugely important and it seemed to be a stumbling block. Maybe implement some sort of fuzzy-time 'You can do one or two significant things before a fight' guideline? I'm not sure, because PBP is a pig for initiative and action economies.

The short answer? Because crafting is expensive. By design, I assume. Hand waving away material costs is rather a lot to ask.

And I did provide free alternatives more than once. No one paid any attention, but I did do it.

Deletion? So the game is over?

In reply to Brian O'Brien (msg # 940):

I reached my limit of the silly arguments. I need a short break.

Uh, well, I get back to this. Well, nice playing with you folks. Hope to see you out in rpol land.