Ah, now this is the Oregon Trail we all remember.
Ok so we made it the distance from Fort Hall to a single landmark, or around 50 seconds of real time gameplay, before total disaster. T'would seem we were unknowingly teetering on the edge of ruin.
"Hey, Estrava, watch this!" To be fair the only thing to drink for a few hundred miles was gallons upon gallons of whiskey. I'm surprised this did not happen sooner.
Note the last treatment option at the bottom of the list.
It seems that Estrava has contracted some manner of Trail Ebola out of spite for being given less food and made to walk an extra 2 hours a day. We know from out now-expert experience with Cholera (It's probably some kind of super Cholera let's not kid ourselves) that epsom salts are the treatment for things like the shits, so we administered our last box of them.
Additionally, the health of the entire party has plummeted rapidly, in a general sense.
Turns out this is the only thing we didn't pack extras of. Luckily someone traded us a replacement for like 100lb of game. We have 550lb of it, so that's no big deal.
We continued on for the space of maybe a quarter of a second, only for Urist's Twelvebay's woulds to become infected. We administered antiseptic. I forgot to get screenshot of this, as well as the "turn for the worse" he took right after. He was listed as "Near Death" for a time. Notable: If the main character dies, the game ends.
I literally did not have time to click "Oh no go back to the previous settings" before all of these things happened in succession. Settings have been changed to normal. As an emergency measure we rested for a solid 10 days until Urist Twelvebay's condition improved. He is still bleeding and in pain, but is not longer near death.
It seems that periods of bed rest improve health faster than a gunshot wound is able to kill a person. Therefore Urist Twelvebay's woulds have been cleaned and dressed and antiseptic applied to the would to combat infection, but he lives as long as we rest frequently. I've also traded for some healthy foods such as fresh fruits and potatoes and vegetables to give the best chance of recovery to all concerned.
We have been delayed into November as a result of frequent rests, though we have made some progress to another river. Winter is coming, though it remains warm for now. We are currently camped at Rock Creek. Due to all of the rest and fresh food, Morale is in fact somehow high, probably because we've been parked next to a river to delirious with fever and whiskey to have any idea how dire our situation is.
We continue to hunt in order to stockpile food for the possible upcoming terror that is a pack of 6 seriously ill and/or bleeding settlers in the middle of the woods in winter.
Extra Note: I just realized the only antiseptic we have is probably the whiskey.
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