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Vavrek posted:Well, at least we aren't dying of thirst. How's our crew looking anyway?
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Bootcha posted:Let's check our Diary and see if we haven't missed any hints. Perhaps even write an entry praying to our Broken Lord of Misfortune Lowtax for safe crossing. The diary is just a place to write your own stories about the journey and read randomly generated ones.
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May 23, 2019 13:35
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Write "peperony and chease" into the diary
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I'm so disappointed GrandmaParty hasn't died of dysentery yet. We must rectify the situation Caulk and float. Hope that Grandma drowns
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paragon1 posted:Write "peperony and chease" into the diary I always found that deserts were pretty miserable no matter how much of a water supply you have. I assume it's to simulate the rest of the wagon train being less prepared compared to your group, but getting a popup every thirty seconds reminding you that people are thirsty sucks.
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I assume that if we wait we'll get a message saying "Another group of emigrants built a suspension bridge." Keeping my fingers crossed.
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HiHo ChiRho posted:I'm so disappointed GrandmaParty hasn't died of dysentery yet. We must rectify the situation I'll bury you
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GrandmaParty posted:I'll bury you Oooh, what will you use to get us, skeleton power? 
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Caulk the wagons and float The most powerful move in all of Oregon Trail, aside from perhaps overhunting entirely out of spite.
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May 23, 2019 19:09
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.png) Despite the rain coming, waiting for two days actually makes the river decrease in depth by two feet, allowing us to cross it much easier. .png) Right on the other side of the river is the appropriately named Big Hill. This is one of the steepest descents along the trail, certainly the most difficult we've encountered so far. .png)
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May 24, 2019 02:20
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Anchor the wagon. No sense in taking unnecessary risks.
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May 24, 2019 02:23
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Use ropes or chains.
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May 24, 2019 02:46
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That actor has convinced me! Continue down the hill!
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thiswayliesmadness posted:That actor has convinced me! Continue down the hill! 
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thiswayliesmadness posted:That actor has convinced me! Continue down the hill! 
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Commander Keene posted:Anchor the wagon. No sense in taking unnecessary risks. This
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thiswayliesmadness posted:That actor has convinced me! Continue down the hill! 
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May 24, 2019 03:47
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Throw down the anchor
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UED Special Ops posted:Use ropes or chains.
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thiswayliesmadness posted:That actor has convinced me! Continue down the hill! What, indeed, could possibly go wrong?
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.png) Continuing down the steepest hill we've encountered as if nothing's changed is not the best solution. Using ropes and chains gets us down safely. .png) This trading post was founded by Thomas "Pegleg" Smith, who amputated his own leg about 20 years prior after being shot in the knee by an Indian. After failing to start a farm, he started a trading post for the Forty-Niners and made a ton of money (to the tune of $100 a day, or roughly $3300 a day in modern money). This was a big upgrade from his last job, which was kidnapping Native American children to sell into slavery and stealing horses. .png) Uhhh, there's Pegleg Smith I guess. Definitely not the mountain woman actress with an edited peg leg and mustache. .png) Because it's so cheap relative to our current money, I buy all his water barrels for the journey ahead. .png) Soda Springs, ID is a city of about 3000 people now. There are hundreds of naturally carbonated springs around this area; in 1934 the city accidentally drilled into a high pressure chamber and created a geyser that was capped and is now intentionally set off every hour. .png) Choosing to celebrate doesn't seem to do anything except play a sound clip of everyone whooping and firing guns into the air. .png) We get another cutoff! The Hudspeth Cutoff was created in 1849 as a more direct route for Forty-Niners to get to California before everyone else. It saves about 25 miles at the cost of limited water supplies (which we now have barrels to counteract) and difficult ridges. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 06:59 on May 24, 2019 |
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We have water now, so as long as folks in the thread can avoid recommending the most suicidal course of action each time, we should probably go for the shortcut.
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Nope, I’m still not sold. Continue to Fort Hall.
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I feel we should have bought wagon spares at that trading post, but let's go for the cut-off
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chitoryu12 posted:
Questions: What's Saleratus? Why is whiskey so cheap and why aren't you buying all of it? Also, wouldn't another spare wagon tongue be a good idea, now that we've used ours?
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Steeper hills means less of them, right? Go for it!
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Continue to Fort Hall. I don't trust your fancy short cuts. How do we even know these water kegs work properly? Did they come with the latest software update this far out?
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Yeah, hills seem to be this wagon's bane right now, so lets avoid them as much as possible. Take the road to Fort Hall.
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Vavrek posted:What's Saleratus? It's another name for potassium bicarbonate, which was used until people switched to sodium bicarbonate. Baking soda, in other words.
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Fort Hall. We're going to California, remember. Unless water kegs can go bad, I think we'll need every keg we can for that leg of the trip, and more ridges mean more chances for things to go wrong.
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Vavrek posted:
We're getting to the point in history where basically anyone with a farm and a grain surplus can and will distill it all into very potent alcohol. This plus no quality control or licensing means supply is high and prices are low. Combine that fact with plenty of misery and you'll get why everyone in America at this time was pretty much constantly drunk.
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May 24, 2019 13:40
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We've rolled sideways down every hill we've come across so far, therefore on to Fort Hall
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chitoryu12 posted:Choosing to celebrate doesn't seem to do anything except play a sound clip of everyone whooping and firing guns into the air. It's a free one-time morale boost, which you didn't particularly need anyway.
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paragon1 posted:We're getting to the point in history where basically anyone with a farm and a grain surplus can and will distill it all into very potent alcohol. This plus no quality control or licensing means supply is high and prices are low. Though it's important to note that whiskey is only "cheap" because we're pretty rich right now. The average wage of a farmhand in 1850 with room and board provided was $7 to $15 a month (or a gigantic $60 a month in California), so we're carrying around more money than an average American would see in 5 or 6 years.
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Um, why haven't we been robbed yet? Do we keep our money in our goony socks?
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Poil posted:Um, why haven't we been robbed yet? Do we keep our money in our goony socks? Because we have guns and are in a wagon train full of other people with guns, most likely. Contrary to popular belief, the Wild West (which the Oregon Trail period is an early version of) wasn't particularly lawless or crime-prone.
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Shortcuts lead to shallow graves. Road to Fort Hall. Were workers still being paid in whiskey at this point in history?
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chitoryu12 posted:Though it's important to note that whiskey is only "cheap" because we're pretty rich right now. The average wage of a farmhand in 1850 with room and board provided was $7 to $15 a month (or a gigantic $60 a month in California), so we're carrying around more money than an average American would see in 5 or 6 years. True, that was a major reason for the gold rush. You had the potential to make decades of wages in a couple weeks of work. To add some more numbers to the conversation, in 1850 the per capita consumption of alcohol in the US was about 8 liters of ethanol. Almost all of that was spirits of some kind. We're at similar levels now, but a lot more of it comes from beer https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption paragon1 fucked around with this message at 21:11 on May 24, 2019 |
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Cythereal posted:Because we have guns and are in a wagon train full of other people with guns, most likely. 1 Not a significant source of wildness
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