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Take a wisely-recommended pre-made loadout. Thank you kindly.

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We can do better by ourselves! Get in the wagon loser, we're going SHOPPING.

8 (80%)

Total Members Voted: 10

[birdy51]

I'll take whatever spot you can give me on the caravan as Birdvig Krauss, age 42.

[hector13]

    Level of Play:
    Adventurer: (5) SC777, Egan_BW, Enemy post, King Zultan, hector13

    Profession:
    Pastor: (2) SC777, Egan_BW

    Artist: (1) Enemy post

    Teacher: (1) Hector13

    Skill Set:
    Riverwork, Farming/Animals, Botany, Spanish: (1) SC777
    No skills!: (2) Egan_BW, Enemy post.
    Musical: (1) hector13

[mightymushroom]

Ah, Oregon Trail. 2. I think it was 2, I had a fairly successful strategy based on pickles. Barrels and barrels of pickles, because its the only veggie that lasts a decent time.

I say be a farmer, if'n yer can't take care of yer animals yer ain't gettin' even half-a-way.

    Level of Play:
    Adventurer: (6) SC777, Egan_BW, Enemy post, King Zultan, hector13, mightymushroom

    Profession:
    Pastor: (2) SC777, Egan_BW
    Artist: (1) Enemy post
    Teacher: (1) Hector13
    Farmer: (1) mightymushroom

    Skill Set:
    Riverwork, Farming/Animals, Botany, Spanish: (1) SC777
    No skills!: (2) Egan_BW, Enemy post.
    Musical: (1) hector13
    Tracking, Musical: (1) mightymushroom

[Naturegirl1999]

Are we still voting? If so,
Teacher
Tracking

[heydude6]

I'll vote for
Farmer

Skills:
Tracking, river work

As fun as it would be to be completely useless as a teacher, I think we'll be able to get into crazier shenanigans if we live longer.

[King Zultan]

I vote for Banker, so we can throw our fat stacks around and buy all the whisky, then die in the woods because hostile animals don't give a shit about money.

[Naturegirl1999]

I'll vote for
Farmer

Skills:
Tracking, river work

As fun as it would be to be completely useless as a teacher, I think we'll be able to get into crazier shenanigans if we live longer.

Ah, my thoughts behind teacher was that we would possibly have background knowledge about some things and be better at talking to people. Changing my vote to farmer, then

[Dunamisdeos]

You do only pick skills and such for the main character.

Everyone else just gets a name and age, sorry

Anyway posting starting situation shortly. Looks like we have a full caravan.

EDIT: I flipped a coin 5 times to choose profession, we are a Pastor. Also, it looks like being good at farming provides immunity to smallpox. Neat.

Will update the OP and a post below once we begin today.

[Dunamisdeos]

THE JOURNEY BEGINS!

Spoiler: The prologue for our journey (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Pastor Urist Twelvebay, Adventurer Caravaneer! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Urist Twelvebay's skills (affects party) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: THE MAP - We are located in INDEPENDENCE (click to show/hide)

DORFS:
HEALTHY - Urist Twelvebay - Fearless Leader (The sum of all votes)
HEALTHY - Estrava Rodriguez - Age/65 - Egan_BW
HEALTHY - Enemy Post - Age/5 - Enemy Post
HEALTHY - Birdvig Krauss -Age/40 - Birdy51
HEALTHY - Urust McDwarf - Age/30 - Hector13
HEALTHY - Mr Dabber  - Age/20 - Shadowclaw

As per our vote, we are going SHOPPING.

We have 456$ after buying 4 oxen, which is not all that much. Thoughts on what to buy? We've got two general stores, a pharmacy, and a gunsmith in town. We currently have nothing but our wagon and our oxen. These stores have a ridiculous DF-level variety of period-appropriate goods ranging from multiple kinds of firearms, clothing, miscellaneous items, foods, medicines, (including lol-reliable things like old-time "elixirs"), and musical instruments or furniture. I included a shot below of the first page of food prices so you can get an idea of what things cost.

Oh, also we can set pace and rations for the group. Paces range from 8 hours to 12+, and rations range from bare-bones to filling. Filling is the maximum, and also the default.

Spoiler: Shopping price baseline (click to show/hide)

THE BACON OF EVIL.

Spoiler: View of the Town of Independence (click to show/hide)

[mightymushroom]

We are the Twelvebay family. We must talk to the cat. Unless it's a dog, I can't really tell at this angle.

I recall basing my expeditions on pickles and ammo. We MUST have whatever seems to be the most common rifle, so we can easily pick up replacement ammo in trading down the line. Although we didn't pick up any tracking, shooting, or even foraging skills so living off the land will be that much more challenging. Look for preserved foodstuffs with a good price-to-weight ratio, like that bacon (although without seeing more pages I can't say it's the best). We need a protein and a fruit/vegetable for nutrition but variety within groups is a waste of money. "Plump helmets for everyone!"

I think the most effective way to heal sickness is rest/moving slow and extra rations (meaning more than the half meals I mandate when starting out); but I think you can set out in April? May sounds late to my recollection, we won't have as much trail time to spare.

Spare wagon parts can save a lot of hassle, but let's try not to need more than two wheels and an axle, and that much only if food budget allows.

A musical instrument I think helps morale? Maybe a fiddle or a harmonica? Something lightweight.

[Enemy post]

I don't know what kinds of guns there are, but I want a shotgun.

[Dunamisdeos]

Unfortunately we have already set out in May. The game has no time limit, you can literally camp out in the middle of the Rockies if you feel like it until everyone starves or dies of old age.

The animal in question is most certainly a dog. It barks when clicked. It seems to be warning us nervously about the terrible dangers along our path, and begs us to stay here, in human civilization, where it is safe. The blood-mad wolves of the untamed wild haunt their dreams nightly. It also asks for walksies.

We now have 500lb of bacon, and some 20 sacks each of dried vegetables and fruits. I selected a banjo and a harmonica for maximum home on the range power. I also found that the dry goods store sells entire whole-ass horses for 82$. I did not buy one. There are many, many options for food and medicine, whatever you can think of there is certainly some kind of analogue I can draw and purchase.

I also found that there are options for eating and cooking utensils. I'm not sure if not buying them means you eat all the bears you kill raw or not, so I got some. They were quite cheap.

We bought a standard rifle, 10 boxes of bullets, and 10 kegs of gunpowder. We also bought a shotgun with 10 boxes of shot. This was the most expensive purchase.

We have $255.71 remaining I found that 100 lbs of pickles cost like 4$. Did that. 500$ starting money stretches a bit further than I expected.

$251.31 remaining.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Spare Wheels. All of them.

You have no idea the angst I have had over my wheels breaking midway through the journey.

[Enemy post]

Yes, spare wheels. Also tongues and axles, if those are still in this game.

[Dunamisdeos]

We have acquired 3 each of wagon wheels, axles, and tongues. This necessitated the purchase of two additional oxen to pull the wagon, which now weighs well over a ton.

$135.26 remaining. Will be setting out in a couple of hours, unless someone wants to blow our cash on more goodies.