Okay, we'll go with caulking. As Mephansteras says, there will be plenty of excitement down the road. No need to kill everyone off right at the start.
River crossed with no troubles, but food is very low now. Time to hunt! We're in a lovely meadow with plenty of deer. At 50 lbs of meat each, Urist takes down 4 and brings home the meat.
Whoops, looks like one of them was a runt. Oh well, this ought to hold us over for a while anyway.
Not one day down the trail and we hit good fortune! Looks like someone gave up early. Maybe they tried to ford the Kansas River and then the last remaining passenger died of Cholera? And apparently it was so long ago that the entire wagon has rotted away except for 2 of the wheels and some bullets. And no one else has passed this way since then.
But in true OT style, part of the abandoned wagon breaks while Monkey is hauling out the goods, and he slips and breaks his leg.
So what to do now? We've got a broken leg but we're only 83 miles to the Blue River crossing - shouldn't take more than a few days to get there. Should we rest now, or head to the crossing, keeping in mind that food on this side of the river will probably be scarce now that we've hunted once - but we can't hunt while we're at the crossing?