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Number 2 looks vaguely blueberry-ish, so I suggest we keep that one. Other than that, I don't trust my own botanical knowledge enough to identify the others.
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Those pictures of berries have triggered an ancient font of grade school knowledge within me. Throw away everything except 4 .
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May 14, 2019 01:16
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Great thread, joining late and my gut says keep 2 and 3, throw away 1 and 4.
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May 14, 2019 01:45
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IllegallySober posted:Great thread, joining late and my gut says keep 2 and 3, throw away 1 and 4. Keep them all, God would not hurt His children
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May 14, 2019 01:48
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As I didn't vote formally before, Throw them all away. We have plenty of food and if we need more we can hunt and kill some meat. Berries and leaves are for animals, not people. (Cornbread's still good though.) (Reasoning inspired by The Dinner of Cathcart Zen.)
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May 14, 2019 01:58
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Keep 4 and toss the rest. It's the only one that doesn't look scary.
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May 14, 2019 02:10
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In case these votes seem to come quickly, it's because the game actually doesn't let you save on this screen! I need to keep the game running as you vote and tab back in when you're done, which locks my computer into 640x480 resolution. I was fortunately able to leave it running while dropping off some posters for my show. Our current vote: Keep 1: 1 Keep 2: 3 Keep 3: 2 Keep 4: 5 Throw away 1: 2 Throw away 2: 3 Throw away 3: 4 Throw away 4: 3 Balancing the keeps vs. the throw aways, we will keep 2 and 4 and throw away 1 and 3.   Blue-bead Clintonia, or blue-bead lily, is a perennial plant that produces blue berries. They're not poisonous but they taste quite foul. Fortunately for us, "foul-tasting" is just as good as "awesome-tasting" when it comes to edibility. Hopefully we can use some of our sugar ration on them... Currants are a small, seedless wild grape cultivar commonly dried to make raisins. They have a sweet and intensely grapey flavor, making them popular for pastries.Don't forget to vote for how to cross the river! chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 02:21 on May 14, 2019 |
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May 14, 2019 02:17
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Pretty sure 4 looks like one of the ones that is edible for birds and poisonous to people. As for the others, I don't know. 2 isn't fat or shiny enough and the plant doesn't look like nightshade. 1 Keep 2 Keep 3 Keep 4 Chuck Edit Whoops, beaten. And hungry.
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May 14, 2019 02:18
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The really fun part of this minigame is that there are some plants that are really obviously edible (like sunflowers), but there are also plants that look extremely similar to poisonous ones. In the actual game you can immediately look up any plant to be told its properties so there's really no point in guessing, but when you have to rely on just your own knowledge and intuition it becomes surprisingly easy to accidentally poison yourself.
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May 14, 2019 02:23
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Can't wait until we think hemlock is queen anne lace
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May 14, 2019 02:29
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I could've sworn those currants were winterberries. Yikes, I would've been crazy dead on the trail.
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May 14, 2019 02:36
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Regarding the river crossing, it’s time to try the always-reliable caulk and float. 
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May 14, 2019 02:43
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Oh yeah, Caulk and float. Yeah, I would be toast. I thought the currants were holly or fire thorn. The only one I really remember is deadly nightshade, which has these shiny tasty looking berries, that are full of atropine. That might come in handy if the Glanton gang douses our ferry with Sarin?
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May 14, 2019 03:26
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We floundered in shallower water, so caulk and float. What's the worst that can happen? 
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May 14, 2019 03:56
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Looks a tad deep for fording across, so Caulk and Float. Hopefully with less loss of coffee then before...
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May 14, 2019 04:08
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Real pioneers ford. Every. Single. Time.
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UED Special Ops posted:Looks a tad deep for fording across, so Caulk and Float. Hopefully with less loss of coffee then before... Your arguments sway me and my gimmick posting. Caulk and Float.
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May 14, 2019 04:27
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You need some caulk in that there wagon son!
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May 14, 2019 05:43
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Amazingly, we cross the river on the first try!.png) While it's possible to take the wrong trail here, it seems a bit obvious which way we're going. .png) Oh poo poo! We have our first disease! What do we do?
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chitoryu12 posted:While it's possible to take the wrong trail here, it seems a bit obvious which way we're going. So many times I've accidentally gone the wrong way there when I wasn't paying attention. You should *get advice* about cholera, you haven't been showing off the silly costumes enough. Bonus points if you record some of their voice acting.
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May 14, 2019 06:00
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If Seinfeld taught me anything, it's the healing power of Junior Mints. Administer peppermint.
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Some nice Peppermint should deal with that nasty Cholera, surely.
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May 14, 2019 06:06
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Question: Just how much laudanum do we have? I'm tempted to use it to solve every problem, but I don't want to run out.
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Vavrek posted:Question: Just how much laudanum do we have? I'm tempted to use it to solve every problem, but I don't want to run out. One 4 oz. bottle.
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May 14, 2019 06:19
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I’m willing to try peppermint as our first attempt at a cure.
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May 14, 2019 06:37
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chitoryu12 posted:One 4 oz. bottle.  Try peppermint. Cholera's caused by bad odors, right? Maybe we can override them.
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chitoryu12 posted:One 4 oz. bottle. This is something that's always bugged me: every unit of medicine is always used a bottle at a time. Laudanum dosage is measured in drops, a 4 oz bottle would probably kill you. Similarly using an entire pint of alcohol to disinfect wounds.
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May 14, 2019 07:47
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Ask for advice. I asked this before but it might have been missed. What does the "See who else is here" option do?
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May 14, 2019 07:54
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Apart from taking a stupid route, the Donner party was also super unlucky and were trying to cross in historically snowy year. This is the statue in Donner State park. The base of it is the snow depth that year.
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May 14, 2019 08:25
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Well, cholera is an intestinal disease and mint is good for the tum-tum, so I say peppermint that poo poo. Science!
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May 14, 2019 11:32
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Continue as usual you lazy sods. Stop trying to weasel out of it. 
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May 14, 2019 11:42
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Cholera causes massive diarrhea dia = 'though', rhea = 'flow' and opiates cause constipation. Therefore, we should guzzle laudinum to balance out the cholera.
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May 14, 2019 11:50
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With peppermint administered, we continue on. It'll take a while before we know whether it's done anything to work..png) A thunderstorm slows us down slightly, but we continue on. .png) The Narrows is a section of the trail that passes through a narrow valley in the flood plains. And here's where we start to see the first problems with the Montgomery kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crtvstt6IRs
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May 14, 2019 13:33
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Well SAINTS ALIVE.
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I thought you were not supposed to suck out the venom, or is that the bit that's a misconception?
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Not one of those kids is making GBS threads uncontrollably, 3/10
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Poil posted:I thought you were not supposed to suck out the venom, or is that the bit that's a misconception? It doesn't really do anything to prevent the spread of the venom is the main thing. Neither does the tourniquet, coincidentally. Once you're bitten, it's in and your options are either antivenin or ride it out/die.
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May 14, 2019 14:36
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The solution to cholera is quite simple, but wasn't on our list. Which is historically accurate, so it's all good.
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Yeah, all Jed accomplished was sucking on a kid's leg https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20020802/dont-suck-snakebite#1 quote:Snakebites are most common in the spring and summer, when people are outside camping or hiking in the snake's natural habitat. But researchers say most bites are a result of a deliberate attempt to handle or disturb the snake. Alcohol intoxication also plays a role in many of these cases. Jimmy found Jed's adult drinks RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 14:58 on May 14, 2019 |
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