a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
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I've said before that I haven't played on bs2 since July. For some reason, a few days ago I thought about logging on and just running. Running all my life. I got birthed to a mom who had just killed someone and had a knife in her hand near a fire. I had a man feed me by his hand while she was on killer cool down. Then my mom fed me later. I told her that I loved her. My uncle and my mother were kind enough to clothe me with a straw hat, a sealskin coat, a reed skirt, and wool shoes. I found a tophat shortly after that. I didn't think I needed it (or the clothing for that matter), but I took a carrot and I was off. Running south. By the time I was 200 tiles or so south I saw an undug or wet spring.
Multiplayer survival: What? Lineages have been doomed since Monday morning, because the update process kills them off. By design. It's only a matter of time. What sort of "multiplayer survival" game is this? Individuals can't survive and neither can families. Not a chance. Multiplayer death game is more accurate. We would soon be dead no matter what I or anyone else did. One might say that my parents, me, and everyone else is dead 'now' in the sense of 'The Long Now'. But, I digress.
Parenting: I did feed my children. The ones that stuck around. I guess I provided them with the wilderness experience. I held them in my arms as I was running. My first child was a boy. He said to me around 2 or 3, "MOM ARE U BAD?" and "DO U GRE FE" or something like that. I didn't really know how to answer, since I'm not so sure that such running is griefing. Maybe it is. This might be clearer if we could answer what the spirit of this game is, but I'm not so sure that's so clear when all lineages are doomed to die, no matter what they do, by design. Maybe we should call the spirit of the game empty? Again, I digress.
I also didn't want to slow myself down. So, I replied to my boy with a '?' mark. I gave my boy my hat and made him a reed skirt.
I had three sudden infant deaths total.
My second child was a boy. He also asked if I was a griefer. He said to me "U CAN JOIN MY GANG" or something like that. Well, I guess it's good that I didn't end up raising him in a village. I think I gave him one of my pieces of clothing also.
Both sons died at 6. One to yellow fever and one to a hungry grizzly bear.
Civilization building: ??? I didn't know what to do here. I thought about a 20 minute run trying to get tools up, and passed. I also thought about making some letters. Eventually, I just decided to build one road tile.
Around 6k south of my birth spot I saw rabbits with families. How, how did that happen? Did someone on a horsecart end up out as far as I was? I don't recall any signs of players before that.
I use Hetuw mod, and it said that I ended up some 9190 tiles south of my birth spot.
Is this an interesting story? Well at the very least, it couldn't have happened inside of some confining Rift.
For the sake of completeness here's the lineage: http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=5802999
Last edited by Spoonwood (2020-01-16 04:28:34)
Danish Clinch.
Longtime tutorial player.
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Reminds me of the time I went looking for other towns on a horse cart. I was super far out in the wilderness when I started having kids. I talked with my kid to explain what I was doing and asked if they wanted to travel with me, start a new town, or go back to my home town. They all voted for a return to my home village, so we set off on a 1.5k walk across raw wilderness. I gave some of my clothing to each child and grandchild. I ended up having three girls that lived to adulthood and started having babies of their own as we traveled. We did our best to stick together while traveling steadily southeast. Most of the babies /died but my three daughters all had living children during my lifetime. Clothing was definitely scarce, although we did supplement my original rabbit gear with reed skirts. I died along the road, about 0.2k from home.
I have no idea if any of them made it, but it was an interesting life. Probably won't try that again. It was way too far on foot with babies.
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