Because it's NEVER been done. Let's Play Oregon Trail.

Obsidian_Stray

We did win. :D

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Cool. I'll most likely start a new one in late January/early February.

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Obsidian_Stray

Yay. :D

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Hm. The weather's weird, school/work are irritating. Sounds like the perfect excuse to travel.

First six to post are in the wagon! Gimme your desired name and age, first reply picks the career, skills, and wagon.

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Original Sin

I'll be in the wagon. My name will be Steve-Dave, age 29. I don't know what the career choices are.

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They're in the first post.

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Original Sin

Okay, get this:
Our wagon leader (could be someone besides Steve-Dave, or you could just make S-D older) is a crazy trapper with a thing for guns. Lots of guns. He should have skills in sharpshooting, tracking, cooking, and sewing (he's gotta do something with all those hides, doesn't he?) The wagon should be large. The trapper isn't a big fan of vegetables and eats them only rarely.

Addendum: A better name would be Big McLargehuge, but I don't know if you could fit that into the name field.

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Ilpala · Number of posts: 284 Age: 22 Registration date: 2007-10-12

His name is Max. For Sgt. Max Fightmaster.

I am Arthur and I am 42.

r1nn

Lil Betsy, age 12. XD

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Obsidian_Stray

I vote that Sin's proposed wagon leader be named John Locke. He'll need lots of knives as well, if that's even an item in this game.

As for being on the wagon, I want to be an ox named Gotama.

Franziska von Karma

I'd like a Tony as a Blacksmith please.

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1: Steve-Dave/Big Mc Largehuge/Sgt. Max Fightmaster/John Locke the trapper
2: Arthur
3: Li'l Betsy
4: Gotama Ox (because I don't think you can name the ox :/)
5. Tony Blacksmith
Room for one more!

Also,
- are we going to Oregon or California?
- what year?
- what month?
- leaving from Independence, St. Joseph, Council Bluffs/Kanesville, or Nauvoo?

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Franziska von Karma

- are we going to Oregon or California?
I vote California to make things different.

- what year?
1849

- what month?
Let's leave in December cause traveling in winter is fun.

- leaving from Independence, St. Joseph, Council Bluffs/Kanesville, or Nauvoo?
Council Bluffs

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Wraith

Can I get in on this?

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You got the last slot. Pick a name and age.

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Wraith

I will be Doctor Lando.
Age 28.
He has no skills other than medical, just for the purpose of randomly shouting "Damn it John, I'm a doctor! Not a [insert job here]".

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1: Steve-Dave/Big Mc Largehuge/Sgt. Max Fightmaster/John Locke the trapper
2: Arthur
3: Li'l Betsy
4: Gotama Ox (because I don't think you can name the ox :/)
5. Tony Blacksmith
6. Doctor Lando

Remember, only the party leader gets any skills. I've got several projects I need to take care of, so it'll be a few days before we hit the trail. Feel free to cast your votes on starting points and times in the meantime.

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r1nn

I like Drache's ideas. My character will probably die within the first few days though, lol

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Kamineko

nah, you can't kill the kids in the movie!! :O

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All right!

For some reason, the other screen didn't show their names. So here.

So. I fail. Council Bluffs isn't an option till 1854, and we can't leave later than August. So...August 1854!

After the proposed skills, we had 90 points left. So I picked random ones.

Let's go shopping!

This seems like a good idea. Therefore, we're not doing that.

Meat and weaponry. GO TIME.

Or not.

Side note - for some reason, I can't save the game at certain checkpoints, so I'm going to want to move this as fast as possible. So I'll likely be taking the first response.

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