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CirclMastr posted:Let's set out in April of 1850 because it's more amusing to me if we're late to the Gold Rush. Voting for this. That or we're hoping to get rich off the 49ers instead of being Rushers ourselves.
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MagusofStars posted:Sacramento Seconding this.
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May 11, 2019 15:50
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Ford the river.
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May 12, 2019 03:19
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ultrafilter posted:Anything that gets wet is potentially contaminated and has to be thrown out. Hazardous as rivers are in this game, this wagon train's going to California. Water will be a precious, precious thing if we get that far.
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May 13, 2019 00:03
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Ferry. We're a gunsmith, we have cash.
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May 13, 2019 17:18
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Take the ferry.
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May 17, 2019 13:58
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Three crossings.
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May 18, 2019 13:16
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Yeah, we've been making good time so far. Better safe than sorry with the water supplies. And since we're heading to California, I get the sneaking suspicion we're going to need as much water as we can fit in the wagon.
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May 19, 2019 17:48
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Also kind of worth noting, for this run our protagonist has gunsmith as his occupation, so he or she makes at least one of those kinds of guns in that post. Coming late to the Gold Rush, they're probably intending to get rich selling guns to the new settlers in the boomtowns.
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May 19, 2019 18:46
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Agree to the deal. No idea if the game tracks it or not, but I like the idea of being nice to the Native Americans.
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May 20, 2019 13:33
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Yeah, avoid the Mormons. We don't want to walk into a Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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May 21, 2019 01:57
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PizzaProwler posted:The Mormons are still very suspicious of outsiders at this point and the Salt Lake Valley is a miserable place. To the point that in 1857, just seven years after this LP's trip, a Mormon militia massacred a wagon train passing through Utah. I've heard from ex-Mormons that the church denied the massacre happened at all for a long time, and even now tries to downplay what happened whenever it's brought up.
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May 21, 2019 16:53
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To Fort Hall.
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May 22, 2019 18:53
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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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May 24, 2019 13:28
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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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May 24, 2019 15:06
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Commander Keene posted:The Wild1 West The classic Wild West period isn't until after the Civil War, whose start is still 11 years in the future from this particular trip. Like the age of knights and chivalry in England, or the era of samurai and bushido in Japan, the Wild West is a romanticized and largely imaginary period of the past inspired by a few famous and heavily mythologized incidents and fables. I'm sure Chitoryu's more knowledgeable about the subject than I am, but from what I understand most violence in the Wild West were bar fights and shootings, not banditry.
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May 24, 2019 18:30
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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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That was an anticlimax. Still, kinda nice to see a run of Oregon Trail go as well as it possibly could have.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:Did we even have anyone get sick, let alone maimed or killed? A couple bouts of cholera, which goons intelligently treated. And an ox got hurt once, but it recovered on its own. I think it's just down to RNG, and the dice gods smiled on this trip.
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CirclMastr posted:Everyone is so unhappy that I survived. Not exactly great for the ol' self-esteem here. It's Oregon Trail. Losing is fun.
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