I love some of the stories you can get out of this game.
Just now I had an extremely tense moment. I'd recently managed to kill a Stag that had been wandering around my cabin for the past few days with the help of some spiked pit traps. It's been a day or two and I'm in the process of smoking all that meat. While I'm going to my cellar to grab another batch to smoke, I hear a trap go off. So I investigate. A bear had stumbled into one of my pits! It's hurt, but not seriously. It is mad, though, and rushes me. I barely manage to fend it off, and it escapes. Ok, lucky break. Maybe it'll run into another pit trap and I can finish it off later. In the meantime, I'm quite tired and decide that it's best to leave well enough alone.
The bear disagreed, and attacked me in my sleep! Apparently they can open doors. Not a huge shock, I guess, but I wasn't really expecting it. Anyway, I manage to fight the thing off and eventually kill it, all without getting a single wound!
I now have a bear to skin and smoke. Which in addition to the Stag I killed, and the Forest Raindeer I caught in my traps a few days before the Stag showed up. I don't think all this meat is going to stay good through winter, so I should probably take a bunch of it down to a village to trade for something. Does anyone have any solid numbers on how long smoked meat lasts?