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lofi posted:Let's stop and rest on quicksand, nothing could possibly go wrong! This.
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lofi posted:Let's stop and rest on quicksand, nothing could possibly go wrong! Agreed, voting this.
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.png) We wait for 3 days and take another day of travel. We're now at one of the hardest parts of our journey: the Forty Mile Desert. There's no water or grass for our animals along this stretch. As of 1850, there were 953 noted graves and nearly 10,000 draft animal skeletons along this desert.
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Jun 1, 2019 01:51
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Oh, excellent! Southern Pacific has a railway that passes through here, we should just follow that and get out of here as quickly as possible. *whispers from off screen* I'm being told the transcontinental railroad wouldn't be built through here for another ~35 years and lingering around in a desert that long is likely to prove fatal. In that case lets wait until sunset and cross the desert at night. You know, like normal people who don't want to cook to death.
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Jun 1, 2019 02:14
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Psychotic Weasel posted:In that case lets wait until sunset and cross the desert at night. You know, like normal people who don't want to cook to death.
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Jun 1, 2019 02:36
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wait for sunset so we can travel by night, and warm ourselves during the frigid wee hours with the exertions of travel and also whiskey
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Jun 1, 2019 03:12
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Yeah, lets not roast in the desert. Wait until sunset.
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Jun 1, 2019 03:18
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SatansOnion posted:wait for sunset so we can travel by night, and warm ourselves during the frigid wee hours with the exertions of travel and also whiskey
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Jun 1, 2019 03:41
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Waiting until sunset lets us make some time with no problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8-bQsOxkc We're closing on the end of our Montgomery interludes. As Jed talks about, the Whitman mission near Walla Walla, WA was massacred in 1847 due to fears of white encroachment on Cayuse land and a measles outbreak that killed half the local Cayuse population. 13 settlers (including Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman) were killed, resulting in the US military battling the Cayuse for 8 years; their population as of 2010 was 304. If you pass down the Oregon Trail prior to the massacre you can actually meet the Whitmans. .png) And another river!
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chitoryu12 posted:Waiting until sunset lets us make some time with no problems. I've actually been to the remains of the mission. I did not meet the Whitmans. Fortunately.
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Jun 1, 2019 04:25
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Caulk and float never fails. It can only be failed.
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Jun 1, 2019 04:47
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Also voting for Caulk and float.
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megane posted:Caulk and float never fails. It can only be failed.
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Jun 1, 2019 06:19
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Yup, time to caulk and float this bad boy.
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Jun 1, 2019 06:24
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megane posted:Caulk and float never fails. It can only be failed.
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Jun 1, 2019 07:37
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Give us more caulk!
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Jun 1, 2019 11:57
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.png) Not sure how this happens when we're floating, but double-teaming the animals gets us unstuck. .png) Unlike last time, we're able to clear the path and move forward. .png) Truckee Meadows is a valley where the water from the Truckee River drains. We're back to territory with water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKo-CBuq6U I really like that their plan for keeping the wagon up was "Put the skinny teenager right on the edge of a cliff and hope he can hold the 2000-pound wagon up in case anything goes wrong." .png) Oh. That's why they played that video.
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Jun 1, 2019 17:41
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Same as before, I suppose - double team to go up and rope'n'chain to come down. It's worked so far.
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Black Robe posted:Same as before, I suppose - double team to go up and rope'n'chain to come down. It's worked so far. 
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Black Robe posted:Same as before, I suppose - double team to go up and rope'n'chain to come down. It's worked so far. Sounds good to me.
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Black Robe posted:Same as before, I suppose - double team to go up and rope'n'chain to come down. It's worked so far. 
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Jun 2, 2019 00:45
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I know it's meant to wait until other people come along to clear things up for you, but it's kinda funny to me that one of the options for dealing with fallen rocks is to "wait for conditions to improve". Like the rocks are eventually gonna just walk off on their own.
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.png) That's a disconcerting name for a place. This is where the Donner Party wintered and nearly died out. Cold Stream Pass is a relatively easy shortcut, unlike the others we've skipped. It's longer than the main route but the steepest part is much shorter.
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Jun 2, 2019 08:01
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drat the torpedoes, full speed ahead! We'll sacrifice the kid to get over the mountain okay!
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We should see who's around.
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chitoryu12 posted:
 Anyway, let’s go for Cold Stream Pass.
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We just went through a desert, therefore a place named after a water feature makes sense. Cold Stream.
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.png) Taking Cold Stream Pass, we hit an uphill portion through a canyon. Double-teaming like usual gets us up it. .png) Definitely better than a desert! Let's see who's around. .png)  "Some folks is all worried, afraid we might get caught in the winter snows. But we still ought to rest. Rome wasn't built in a day, and one more day on this trail isn't going to make a bit of difference. Take the hurry out of your step. We'll get there soon enough. Trip won't get any easier for all our rushing along.".png) This is one of those places where you want to look at your map. While I could be mean, I'll let you know that the path to Truckee Meadows is literally just going backwards. .png) Johnson's Ranch is the last stop before Sutter's Fort. It was used as the base of operations for the rescue of the Donner Party after the seven survivors of the Forlorn Hope party staggered in to get help. Here's our inventory if you want to buy anything: quote:Current Weight: 2459 lbs.
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Jun 3, 2019 02:09
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I note a disappointing lack of grandfather clocks in the inventory. Also more bullets.
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MagusofStars posted:I note a disappointing lack of grandfather clocks in the inventory. Also more bullets. We also need more whiskey and laudanum.
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Jun 3, 2019 02:15
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We should buy any missing spare wagon parts, bacon, coffee, and laudanum.
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Jun 3, 2019 02:26
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Water kegs, spare parts. Seriously, guys. I know very little about this game, but I know there's plenty of desert between the Sierra Nevadas and Sacramento. We'll need as much water as we can carry.
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Jun 3, 2019 02:29
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Buy up any wagon parts they have. If something breaks that we can't fix, it could be disastrous.
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Cythereal posted:Water kegs, spare parts. This here. Don't mess with deserts.
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Jun 3, 2019 02:57
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Cythereal posted:Water kegs, spare parts. This, strongly, but also: COFFEE. You cross deserts at night and need coffee to stay up late, right?  
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Water kegs, spare parts for wagon
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We still have 0 mills.
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Jun 3, 2019 06:28
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Parts, water, coffee mill Maybe a spare ox or two if that's something we can do
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chitoryu12 posted:
The numerous places this happens bug the hell out of me. There's already a button in the menu to turn around that you can use any time, they didn't need to make trail options that do it too. chitoryu12 posted:Here's our inventory if you want to buy anything: Buy more bullets and gunpowder, then wipe out every living thing west of the mountains.
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We should have turned around and gone back to Independence, Missouri for more grandfather clocks.
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