GAME: Oregon Trail!

Here we start, THE OREGON TRAIL!

Players:
@Chronicler
@EvilLobsterKing
@Booster_Gold
@SmilingArinTurnip
@MiraculousPrime
@Marendex_T17
@David_John_Tennant

If you decide to speak spanish in this topic, you will automatically get typhoid. /s

You start in Nauvoo Ill., and go around town, shopping to get ready for the trek. You can buy:

Oxen: $50 each. 2 required to move wagon.
Cayenne pepper: $10 each. Can get rid of cold
Fishing gear: $10 each. Can gain 1 weeks supply of food.
Riffle: $20 each. Can gain 2 weeks supply of food, if you have ammunition.
Ammunition: $10 each.
Milk cow: $50 each. Lets you have something to drink when there is no water.
Water Keg: $20 each. Lets you carry 1 weeks supply of water.
Dog: $10 each. Can prevent thievery, and animals wandering off.
Blacksmith Tools: $20 each. Increaces chance of successfully repairing wagon parts.
Spare Wagon Parts: $10 each. Can be wheel, tongue, or yoke.
Snakebite Kit: $5 each. Can heal a snakebite.
Horse: 40 each. Can be used to move a wagon, but requires three. + 1 weeks supply of food from hunting. Only 1 horse bonus per hunting trip, per person.

Crooks: all 1 of you You have a chance to steal 2 objects from the stores. Choose wisely. The 50% thing still counts.

Good Luck!
-Yuedom

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Do we reply with what we want to purchase?

Yes, please do that.

I’ll take three, one spare.
$150

I’ll take three.
$30

I’ll take three
$30

I’ll take two
$40

I’ll take five
$50

I’ll take two
$100

I’ll take three
$60

I’ll take six
$60

I’ll take one
$20

I’ll take ten
Four wheels
Three tongues
and three yokes
$100

I’ll take four
$20

I’ll take two
$40

Total cost: $710
Leftover: $190

How much is an ammuntion?
Can fishing gear, blacksmith tools, and snakebite kit be reused?
Can water kegs be reused too?

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That is a good question, can we get an answer for this, it may vastly influence my decisions…

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-I want 2 oxen. (100)
-2 Fishing gear (20)
-2 Cayenne pepper (20)
-3 rifles (60)
-10 ammunition (100)
-2 Milk Cows (100)
-2 Water Keg (40)
-2 Dogs (20)
-2 Blacksmith tools (40)
-10 Spare Wagon parts (100)
-10 Snake-Bite kits (50)
-2 Horses (80)

Total: 730 Dollars.
900-730= 170 dollars left!

Always good to be prepared!

Also, just a question: if someone in my family gets bitten by a rattle snake, would I be allowed to suck out the venom and pour whisky on the wound? I did this in my 4th grade Oregon trail simulation for my “wife” and she wound up living.

Let’s see, I’ll take…

Four of these ($200)

Two of these ($20)

One of these ($10)

One of these ($20)

Five of these ($50)

One of these ($50)

Three of these ($60)

One of these ($20)

Four wheels ($40), four yokes ($40), and two tongues ($20)

Six of these ($30)


All of these purchases come to a total cost of $560.
Subtracting that from my funds results in a remaining balance of $340 left for purchases later on.

Each ammunition is good for 1 hunting trip.

Fishing gear and blacksmith tools can be reused. The snakebite kit can’t, and neither can the pepper.

Yes.[quote=“Chronicler, post:7, topic:10075”]
if someone in my family gets bitten by a rattle snake, would I be allowed to suck out the venom and pour whisky on the wound?
[/quote]

Why not?

Please note, the money will be rather useful out on the trail.
-Emerald

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YES. This will be fun, then!

I just have a few questions before I submit my list. Hopefully you can answer them.

Do animals (Oxen, Cows, Dogs, Horses) impact our food and water supplies?
Is there options to barter/trade with other players on the trail?
Can I eat dead animals?

No.

Yes. also there will be a trade that will be given like so.

someone walks up to you and says "I have 1 spare wagon part. I want 1 week supply of food."

take trade?
You may take both.

Yes. if any animal dies you gain 1 week supply of food, but not if it wanders off.
-Yuedom

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Okay then. I purchase:
2 x Oxen - $100.
1 x Fishing Gear - $20.
3 x Dog - $20.
2 x Milk Cow - $100.
6 x Cayenne Pepper - $50.
6 x Snakebite Kit - $30.
3 x Water Keg - $60.
1 x Blacksmith Tools - $20.
6 x Wagon Parts - 2 of Each type - $60.
Total - $480.
Remaining - $420.

4 oxen- $200
5 cayenne peppers- $50
2 fishing gear- $20
2 rifles- $40
10 ammunition- $100
1 milk cow- $50
1 water keg- $20
2 dogs- $20
1 blacksmith tool-$20
3 spare wagon parts- $30
5 snakebite kits- $25
1 horse- $40
Total- $595
Remaining- $205

On round 3, there will be a deadline of 72 hours (or three days). The buying round counts in the round countdown.

@Marendex_T17, you know you are the crook, so you can steal 2 items from the wagon, right?
-Yuedom

That I do know.

I figured it was best to save the thievery for later, when security might be more lax.
…
However…

  • stealthily moves towards the ammo *
    I heard that they have a “Grab one, get one free!” discount on ammo today.

@Marendex_T17
You were caught, and thrown out of the shop. Good thing you had already bought the 5 packs a couple of hours earlier.

@Booster_Gold @Chronicler
Please define which wagon Parts.

-Emerald

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We have to DEFINE them? I don’t know all the parts of a wagon, I don’t think Booster_Gold knows them either. Can’t they just be spares and not be so definitive?

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Yuedom overruled me. He says that they should be generic spare parts.

I don’t think that putting a yoke on the axle will work very well, but he’s in charge of this topic.

-Emerald

Does this mean that I have to change my order to say “Ten spare-parts ($100)” instead of “Four wheels ($40), four yokes ($40), and two tongues ($20)”?