a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
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Eve Giovanni begat a girl and named her Bearslayer, but Bearette is what stuck. While Bear never learned how Eve arrived at this abandoned village, it was quite large and impressive (though a mite dilapidated). As she grew up she heard chatter about a legendary car, the pinnacle of human achievement at the time. Even into old age she never laid eyes on it, but her mother's last words revealed the likely reason: "Make car cus some noob lost it. Good luck"
In any case, once she was old enough to tour the village, she noticed no compost operation, so she slowly set about gathering the supplies needed and learning where materials were - between sessions of sustaining the berry bushes with existing batches of finished compost and water from the diesel-powered well. Some of the aged farm plots from the former residents hadn't completely wasted away, so she used those to begin planting wheat meant for making baskets and more compost (the straw was the real resource here, there was plenty of old wheat laying around).
Somewhere along the way she had some children, the first two being stillborn. The third survived. Bearette named her Wisdom, and she lived to a ripe old age. The fourth was born just as Wisdom grew into childhood - an idiot who ran away from her mother at full speed and died. (Is this why real babies are born helpless?)
Wisdom was very keen from the time she could talk on the idea of finding or building a car: In fact, there was reasonable suspicion that this child might have been Eve Giovanni reincarnated, but communion with Eve's spirit in the afterworld has since determined this to be false. Alas, lacking the knowledge to build a car and knowing compost would be needed, Bearette opted to continue focusing on that for the time being. She succeeded in growing one round of wheat and getting the next started, in addition to starting a couple compost piles. She knew she was slower than others, but proud of the achievement, knowing she had taken up an important task.
In old age, satisfied, she took leave of her work to announce to the others the need for a new wheat farmer as well as a carrot farm for continued compost. At the end of her life, a cousin of some strange kind asked her to follow him for a sacred death at the monolith he had discovered amidst some trees. So she followed him down the road and stood behind the monolith. At the end of her long life she said "Peace", and died.
Her own line, through Wisdom, lived to the seventh generation. The Giovanni family lasted to the seventeenth.
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Had planned to maybe post this story anyway, but was pleasantly surprised to find that Eve had already started a thread (linked above). Hope you enjoy.
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