Mroz4k

Back to the Voyager time!

So, last night, I paused the game while in the cave with blizzard raging on, then fell asleep after a long IRL session of cooking, now I am continuing on!

After warming up a bit in the shelter, Ive decided to press on through the blizzard, regardless of the condition hit. Ive reached the other cave, by my favorite hunting spot, and seeing as how my meat reserves have been almost depleted, I decided to wait with my "return" to Camp office, and instead spend two nights and whole day in the ravine cave, hunting, processing my hunting spoils, cooking up some extra steaks and preparing for a more stationary survival from now on. For that, I will need to have some supplies of food, fuel and of different hides.

This place is always teeming with deer that are fairly safe to hunt, and should not be that big of a problem to carry over to camp Office, if I clear the road from all the predators that would othervise interfere (and incidentally, add them to my food & hide reserves as well). This is going to be my plan after I have finished my stay in this ravine cave, resting up & sorting through the hunts.

It is first night of my stay here at ravine. Ive got out of practise, I must say... although in the end, I managed to get all three deer living here, the last one was quite elusive and took 2 graze shots before I was finally able to hit its heart and finally put an end to the chase. I have also caught a couple of rabbits - while I dont need them per say, I will need to spend whole day here in the Ravine to rest next night and then on the morning of second day, get on my way towards the Camp office and during my travel, clear all the predators out of the way so that I can proceed in carrying my hunt spoils over.

Day 49

I woke to a loud crash at what I assume was around six or seven in the morning. I grabbed my hunting knife and yelled “WHO IS THERE!” in a loud and deep voice.

I unzipping my bed roll and jumped to my feet looking around with what little light was coming through the window’s, moving to the main shop part of the gas station from what I could see it was safe... “So what was the sound” I said to my self while putting my hunting knife back in my pocket.

 I then walked back to my fire barrel and grabbed my hatchet and started making my way to the front door grabbing only a Nut’s and Stuff bar and a Summit soda on the way out. I opened the door slowly with a loud “CREEECK” peeking my head out. Hhmmm look’s clear to me. I said in my head while walking out the door and closing it behind me.

 I start to walk to the small wooded and hilly area behind the gas station. Keeping my eye out for the wolf that attacked me the other day. After several minutes of walking I could see a clearing with tree branches scattered all around. I pulled my hatchet out of my bag and got to work hacking and chopping away at wood.

blah blah blah several hour’s later
I was done, with about enough wood to last me four day’s at most. loading the freshly chopped wood into my bag the wind started to pick up. So I start making my way back to base. and then I heard it...

 that sound I wish I would never hear again... “GRRAAAWL” I slowly turned around to come eye to eye with the same wolf that attacked me the other day. Then I did the only thing my brain was telling me to do at the time RUN! I turned and sprinted back in the way of the gas station all while looking through my bag “AHA!” I said while ripping out my road flare I found when I first moved into my base.

 I looked back, the wolf was gaining on me, I then opened the cap to the flare and sparked the flare and chucked it behind me hoping it would scare the wolf away, it didn’t, but it did buy me some time, at this point I can now see the back of the gas station. Running as fast as my leg’s can carry me.

 I looked back again only to see the wolf closer then before. next thing I knew I was opening my front door and slamming it shut and locking it only to hear a few seconds later scratching and howling at the other end of the door. I backed away from the door and heard the wolf run off.

After several minutes of hyperventilating and pulling myself back together. I walked to my fire barrel and set my log’s into the fire barrel along side a old news print I read about 20 times. I lite my match and tried to start the fire  and what to you know the fire started first try.

I started walking back to the shelf that I left my lantern on. I grabbed a tin of coffee, and walked back to the fire and with a old empty can of peaches I started to brew a hot cup of joe, as that was brewing I walked to my food self looked around a little bit and grabbed a can of bean’s walk back to the fire barrel and put that on to cook to.

 I passed the time until everything was ready. I pulled off my nice warm cup of coffee and took my first sip. I then looked at my cup and said “Foul me once shame on me, foul me twice shame on you" I said with a sigh. then I drank the rest of my coffee, then went to my can of bean’s and opened it with my lucky can opener, taking my first bite I said to myself “Man what I would do for some salt right about now.”

After a few minutes of chomping down on bean’s. I looked out my window to see it was already at least noon. Then I remembered that loud bang I heard earlier, I looked around again but this time I could see that a old tool tray had fallen of one of the cabinet’s in the garage. I went back and spent the rest of the day eating,drinking and finishing my hunting book... Honestly it was a good read, I learned how to skin a quarter a animal... sadly I have no weapon yet to kill any animal’s, but I have seen some deer body’s that wolfs killed. they still had a good amount of meat on them. So that book will definitely help me in the near future.

 It was that time of day again, the fire was starting to die and I was tired so I got nice and comfy in my bed roll and made a vow that I will get that darn wolf one day... I said in my head. then  “ One day...” I said out loud with a yawn. I closed my eye’s and drifted off to sleep.

To Be Continued?

Way home progressing worse then expected. When I reached Coastal, a blizzard broke out. In my confidence I started walking towards where a fishing cabin Id expect to be... but I got lost on the ice and kept walking in circles. When I finally got my bearings straight and aimed properly at the hut, the blizzard died out... but most of my clothes were getting frozen, and my condition was at half. No time to wait - reached the cabin, made a fire using up all I had left (including all my coal reserves) and drank a tea for condition recovery. Then, 6 hour sleep. My fire was about to go out, but I was dry and well recovered. 2 more hours for good measure.

Spent the rest of the day, slowly sludging from fishing cabin to cabin, looking for the fishing book. Found it in the 4th one. Short stop by Jackrabbit´s to drop off all the high condition processed food inside, and went on for more looting. Wanted to loot a car at the other end of Highway because of a chance for Frontier´s book in there. But stopped right in time... and backed away quickly... as from behind the hill of the highway out came up a big, bad bear... so I diverted around, looted the cabin above Fishing village, turned back for the car (no book), and now I am slowly sludging up the Bear´s creek, with intention to spend a night in the cabin at Rabbit grove above the campsite. Tommorow will be my route up the route, over the Trestle and through the ravine home to the Office. If all goes well, by tommorow´s evening I shall be back home in the safety of my main base.

So did a couple more runs of Voyageur, moved forward a little bit.

After passing through the coal mine, I got up on the other side. Found a skill book there. It was still a blizzard so I decided to push through to the Lookout. Lookout had nothing of significance. I quickly climbed down to the level of highway, and headed straight for gas station, taking advantage of the blizzard. Inside I found another sewing primer book! Next was Misanthrope. There I also found a skill book, and Ive decided to try and loot the Desolation point next. The Commuters lament had the car as per usual, there I dropped off all the unnecesary gear, and by the evening I have entered the crumbling highway.

Dettered a wolf on my way through, Ive managed to get into the basement. Another book there, another Sewing primer. The night begins and I push onward to the coal mine, with intention to rest there. And so it happens.

Next day I drop extra gear at the mine (I will pass through here on the way back anyways, so I can pick it up then) and go loot the DP. I spend next three days here, searching through DP for valuables. Amazing finds! Frontier book, a book on fishing and another sewing primer. During my search through Rikken, a bear suprised me, so I went through the ship on board, and shot it from the safety of higher ground straight into the head. It ran off and I decided to read a book to let it bleed out.

I didnt check my statistics, because for some strange reason, this bear survived... my arrow broke on contact with its skull. Yet, the bear was nowhere to be found. Later on, when I looted through the other locations, I heard bear sounds a couple of times, but not knowing the bear survived, I chalked it to my imagination. Didnt see it again afterward. I paid a visit to the Wolf den, hoping for a book, but no luck there. Suprisingly, there was no longer that skull with antlers there... There was just a single inhabitant in this time. I saw it for a glimpse of second after entering the second hall, and it went back into the main hall. I realized following it would not be wise, so I made a fire, picked a stone up and threw it at the end of the corridor straight ahead of me. Wolf was baited in, when it saw me, it charged. 

Thump.

One shot straight in between its eyes, the beast perished into the long dark. 


After almost three days spent in this forsaken place that is Desolation point, it was time to pack up my belongings and leave back for home. The next plan is to slowly move my way over to the Camp Office in next two days, after I checked a couple of more places that could still hold some survival knowledge. This last few checks will conclude the "soft loot" of the entire world, where I mostly focused on looting just the items found outside the containers, focusing mostly on survival knowledge.

Day 49

I woke to a loud crash at what I assume was around six or seven in the morning. I grabbed my hunting knife and yelled “WHO IS THERE!” in a loud and deep voice.

I unzipping my bed roll and jumped to my feet looking around with what little light was coming through the window’s, moving to the main shop part of the gas station from what I could see it was safe... “So what was the sound” I said to my self while putting my hunting knife back in my pocket.

 I then walked back to my fire barrel and grabbed my hatchet and started making my way to the front door grabbing only a Nut’s and Stuff bar and a Summit soda on the way out. I opened the door slowly with a loud “CREEECK” peeking my head out. Hhmmm look’s clear to me. I said in my head while walking out the door and closing it behind me.

 I start to walk to the small wooded and hilly area behind the gas station. Keeping my eye out for the wolf that attacked me the other day. After several minutes of walking I could see a clearing with tree branches scattered all around. I pulled my hatchet out of my bag and got to work hacking and chopping away at wood.

blah blah blah several hour’s later
I was done, with about enough wood to last me four day’s at most. loading the freshly chopped wood into my bag the wind started to pick up. So I start making my way back to base. and then I heard it...

 that sound I wish I would never hear again... “GRRAAAWL” I slowly turned around to come eye to eye with the same wolf that attacked me the other day. Then I did the only thing my brain was telling me to do at the time RUN! I turned and sprinted back in the way of the gas station all while looking through my bag “AHA!” I said while ripping out my road flare I found when I first moved into my base.

 I looked back, the wolf was gaining on me, I then opened the cap to the flare and sparked the flare and chucked it behind me hoping it would scare the wolf away, it didn’t, but it did buy me some time, at this point I can now see the back of the gas station. Running as fast as my leg’s can carry me.

 I looked back again only to see the wolf closer then before. next thing I knew I was opening my front door and slamming it shut and locking it only to hear a few seconds later scratching and howling at the other end of the door. I backed away from the door and heard the wolf run off.

After several minutes of hyperventilating and pulling myself back together. I walked to my fire barrel and set my log’s into the fire barrel along side a old news print I read about 20 times. I lite my match and tried to start the fire  and what to you know the fire started first try.

I started walking back to the shelf that I left my lantern on. I grabbed a tin of coffee, and walked back to the fire and with a old empty can of peaches I started to brew a hot cup of joe, as that was brewing I walked to my food self looked around a little bit and grabbed a can of bean’s walk back to the fire barrel and put that on to cook to.

 I passed the time until everything was ready. I pulled off my nice warm cup of coffee and took my first sip. I then looked at my cup and said “Foul me once shame on me, foul me twice shame on you" I said with a sigh. then I drank the rest of my coffee, then went to my can of bean’s and opened it with my lucky can opener, taking my first bite I said to myself “Man what I would do for some salt right about now.”

After a few minutes of chomping down on bean’s. I looked out my window to see it was already at least noon. Then I remembered that loud bang I heard earlier, I looked around again but this time I could see that a old tool tray had fallen of one of the cabinet’s in the garage. I went back and spent the rest of the day eating,drinking and finishing my hunting book... Honestly it was a good read, I learned how to skin a quarter a animal... sadly I have no weapon yet to kill any animal’s, but I have seen some deer body’s that wolfs killed. they still had a good amount of meat on them. So that book will definitely help me in the near future.

 It was that time of day again, the fire was starting to die and I was tired so I got nice and comfy in my bed roll and made a vow that I will get that darn wolf one day... I said in my head. then  “ One day...” I said out loud with a yawn. I closed my eye’s and drifted off to sleep.

To Be Continued?

Day 49

I woke to a loud crash at what I assume was around six or seven in the morning. I grabbed my hunting knife and yelled “WHO IS THERE!” in a loud and deep voice.

I unzipping my bed roll and jumped to my feet looking around with what little light was coming through the window’s, moving to the main shop part of the gas station from what I could see it was safe... “So what was the sound” I said to my self while putting my hunting knife back in my pocket.

 I then walked back to my fire barrel and grabbed my hatchet and started making my way to the front door grabbing only a Nut’s and Stuff bar and a Summit soda on the way out. I opened the door slowly with a loud “CREEECK” peeking my head out. Hhmmm look’s clear to me. I said in my head while walking out the door and closing it behind me.

 I start to walk to the small wooded and hilly area behind the gas station. Keeping my eye out for the wolf that attacked me the other day. After several minutes of walking I could see a clearing with tree branches scattered all around. I pulled my hatchet out of my bag and got to work hacking and chopping away at wood.

blah blah blah several hour’s later
I was done, with about enough wood to last me four day’s at most. loading the freshly chopped wood into my bag the wind started to pick up. So I start making my way back to base. and then I heard it...

 that sound I wish I would never hear again... “GRRAAAWL” I slowly turned around to come eye to eye with the same wolf that attacked me the other day. Then I did the only thing my brain was telling me to do at the time RUN! I turned and sprinted back in the way of the gas station all while looking through my bag “AHA!” I said while ripping out my road flare I found when I first moved into my base.

 I looked back, the wolf was gaining on me, I then opened the cap to the flare and sparked the flare and chucked it behind me hoping it would scare the wolf away, it didn’t, but it did buy me some time, at this point I can now see the back of the gas station. Running as fast as my leg’s can carry me.

 I looked back again only to see the wolf closer then before. next thing I knew I was opening my front door and slamming it shut and locking it only to hear a few seconds later scratching and howling at the other end of the door. I backed away from the door and heard the wolf run off.

After several minutes of hyperventilating and pulling myself back together. I walked to my fire barrel and set my log’s into the fire barrel along side a old news print I read about 20 times. I lite my match and tried to start the fire  and what to you know the fire started first try.

I started walking back to the shelf that I left my lantern on. I grabbed a tin of coffee, and walked back to the fire and with a old empty can of peaches I started to brew a hot cup of joe, as that was brewing I walked to my food self looked around a little bit and grabbed a can of bean’s walk back to the fire barrel and put that on to cook to.

 I passed the time until everything was ready. I pulled off my nice warm cup of coffee and took my first sip. I then looked at my cup and said “Foul me once shame on me, foul me twice shame on you" I said with a sigh. then I drank the rest of my coffee, then went to my can of bean’s and opened it with my lucky can opener, taking my first bite I said to myself “Man what I would do for some salt right about now.”

After a few minutes of chomping down on bean’s. I looked out my window to see it was already at least noon. Then I remembered that loud bang I heard earlier, I looked around again but this time I could see that a old tool tray had fallen of one of the cabinet’s in the garage. I went back and spent the rest of the day eating,drinking and finishing my hunting book... Honestly it was a good read, I learned how to skin a quarter a animal... sadly I have no weapon yet to kill any animal’s, but I have seen some deer body’s that wolfs killed. they still had a good amount of meat on them. So that book will definitely help me in the near future.

 It was that time of day again, the fire was starting to die and I was tired so I got nice and comfy in my bed roll and made a vow that I will get that darn wolf one day... I said in my head. then  “ One day...” I said out loud with a yawn. I closed my eye’s and drifted off to sleep.

To Be Continued?

Here are the "lyrics" to Elegy, the visual poem of Long Dark, pretty sure yall know what I am talking about. I needed to write them down for a reason I wont say right now  
 

Do you remember?

The steady thrum of the city´s heartbeat.

Technology
Always pumping lifeblood to thousand, now dead industries

Industry,
now erect husk on a long forgotten shore

Remember the sky?
The light with beautiful fire,
Skies so bright that you forgot stars even existed,
But the stars, they didnt forget us.

What kind of survivor were you?

Did you walk the expanse of the nature, feel the wind burning your soul?
Did it remind you who you were?
Did it shape you?
Did it break you?
How did you keeo breathing when it took everything you knew and loved? Did you survive with compassion? Did you remember truth of humanity? Did you survive for yourself alone? Did you revel in the solitude? Did you hunger for connection? 

Did you seek out others, and could you save them? Could you save yourself?

Did you hold under the promises of old men after their fires died out?
Did you hear their voices echo in your head as you face the wrath of nature that they ignored? Unleashed? 

Did you settle into the silence?

Did you crawl into it, whimpering?

Did it crush you? Did you embrace it?

Did you remember the power you could summon?
It flowed through the wires
A ghost in the machine, a Trojan Horse
Our glory, our servant
Our doom

Did you stare at the sun, the moon, the wind, your constant companion?
Do you remember yesterday? What is tomorrow?
How will you face this quiet apocalypse?
Where were you, when the lights went out?

How far will you go, to survive...

The long dark...

I will be playing more Voyager, but I think Im gonna stop writing about everything. Just in case something interesting starts happening.

I will be playing more Voyager, but I think Im gonna stop writing about everything. Just in case something interesting starts happening.

I will be playing more Voyager, but I think Im gonna stop writing about everything. Just in case something interesting starts happening.

Voyager continues! 

Not sure where I left off, but at day 52 Ive spend most of that, running through the PV, trying to reach the mystic campsite and the cavern, because I believed it might have a skill book for me. The morning I started at the Radio tower, and since I brought a rope with me from the Ravine´s train, I deployed it on the rock behind the tower and climbed down. Normally a futile task, but there is a corpse mid-way there usually, and sometimes has a backpack with a skill book in it. No luck this time. Ive traveled up the road to the long curve, but nothing of interest there. Ive heard a bear as the wind picked up, but could not see it - so I quickly removed myself from that area. After a brief stop by the lonely cabin, I made my way up the other part of the path towards TWM. I was nervous because of the bear that resides there, but luckily, a blizzard took off and i was able to pass with relative safety, altough a bit of a discomfort. Sadly, in the low visibility I lost my bearing and didnt find the point of dissagreement. Ive reached the mystic cave, though - another bow, an arrow, but no skill book, and a rifle outside. Havent seen many rifles this game but I know of a few in case I need to go grab one. Spend the night in a cave by the nice fire. Got jumped by a wolf outside in the morning. Damn, these bastards bite... took down about 20% of my condition, not bad for the fact I have pretty sturdy clothes on... (by not bad, I mean it hurt quite a bit). I stopped by the Preppers hatch to drop off some heavy items there, and continued on. Took a short nap, too, to regain some extra fatigue and condition in case I got into more struggles as I continue on.

Day 53 is now ongoing. To shorten it up - I found the rope by the Skeeter edge, but I laughed at the prospect of climbing it down. I instead expertly climbed down the ledge next to it - took me less time, no fatigue drain and I took no fall damage. For once, I didnt even sprain anything.

The weather got windy, but no worries. Heavy snowfall, gotta be carefull. This soon turned to Blizzard. Eventually I got into the Barn. I decided to take advantage of the blizzard´s savety and visited the "bear country" - the birch forest behind the barn. Then I cut through to the Derelict cabins as I started losing condition from the freezing. At Derelicts, Ive build a fire to warm up. I put on two hours worth of fuel, and I dropped a can of peaches NEXT to the fire (not actually on the top). Then I went for 2 hour long sleep. When I woke up, I have a toasty can O peaches waiting to fill my stomach.

The plan now is to get to the car at the End of the road, and then make it to the mine connector to Coastal Highway, where I plan to spend the night and recover a bit.

On continues my Voyager journey. 

Last time, I bagged a bear with a single arrow headshot, processed it and prepped for a move back to my main base of operations at Camp Office. I loaded up on the gear I brought from the Milton park office, both bear rugs, one which was now cured and the other quite fresh, and a good chunk of bear meat, too. I knew Id look tasty to all predators but figured I could get by and shoot whatever comes my way.

Despite seeing the wolf well in advance, I lost a sight of him, and as I was prepping to deal with him, he ambushed me from behind. Took the most chunk out of me... makes me wonder if predators do more damage the smellier you are... could very well be... more "motivated" to kill you, I suppose. Either way, some swings win a hatchet and it runs off, but not before damaging ALL of my clothes by a significant bit, and taking out about 30% of my condition. Considering I had highly protective gear on and was at full strenght, this was odd.

Made it to Office without other altrications, except for spraining ALL the limbs, even the ones I did not know I had... 

Next morning after, I reorganized my bookshelf collection of survival knowledge, that I have acquired so far: 

On the left are books, already finished. I like to keep them anyway for nostalgia reasons. On the right are the ones I am working on right now. All in all, the early quick-run through the majority of world´s locations is paying off - I can obtain this knowledge from books mostly, without having to ruin a lot of game´s tools and wasting the fire materials on practising them. 

I have yet to visit some locations in Pleasant Valley with possible book treasures, then the Coal mine, all the coast regions and the train trestle ravine connector. Meaning there is still a potential of obtaining some 20 more books out there. There could also be more books in Forlorn Muskeg or Milton region, but I am unsure if I discover those before reaching level 5 with most skills already. Might require deeper dive to find those.

I am not satisfied with my amount of rifle books yet. I would ideally like to obtain the level 5 skill without firing the rifle once. For that, I will need more advanced gun books. Luckily, I believe Coastal region, Desolation point, and maybe even the bottom of Ravine in connector might hold these valuable texts. I hope so, for more Frontier guides is not going to help me much, past level 3 they do not offer any more insights into firing a rifle.

That said, I never really use rifle, so I can wait till Ive properly looted the entirety of the world anyway.

On continues my Voyager journey. 

Last time, I bagged a bear with a single arrow headshot, processed it and prepped for a move back to my main base of operations at Camp Office. I loaded up on the gear I brought from the Milton park office, both bear rugs, one which was now cured and the other quite fresh, and a good chunk of bear meat, too. I knew Id look tasty to all predators but figured I could get by and shoot whatever comes my way.

Despite seeing the wolf well in advance, I lost a sight of him, and as I was prepping to deal with him, he ambushed me from behind. Took the most chunk out of me... makes me wonder if predators do more damage the smellier you are... could very well be... more "motivated" to kill you, I suppose. Either way, some swings win a hatchet and it runs off, but not before damaging ALL of my clothes by a significant bit, and taking out about 30% of my condition. Considering I had highly protective gear on and was at full strenght, this was odd.

Made it to Office without other altrications, except for spraining ALL the limbs, even the ones I did not know I had... 

Next morning after, I reorganized my bookshelf collection of survival knowledge, that I have acquired so far: 

On the left are books, already finished. I like to keep them anyway for nostalgia reasons. On the right are the ones I am working on right now. All in all, the early quick-run through the majority of world´s locations is paying off - I can obtain this knowledge from books mostly, without having to ruin a lot of game´s tools and wasting the fire materials on practising them. 

I have yet to visit some locations in Pleasant Valley with possible book treasures, then the Coal mine, all the coast regions and the train trestle ravine connector. Meaning there is still a potential of obtaining some 20 more books out there. There could also be more books in Forlorn Muskeg or Milton region, but I am unsure if I discover those before reaching level 5 with most skills already. Might require deeper dive to find those.

I am not satisfied with my amount of rifle books yet. I would ideally like to obtain the level 5 skill without firing the rifle once. For that, I will need more advanced gun books. Luckily, I believe Coastal region, Desolation point, and maybe even the bottom of Ravine in connector might hold these valuable texts. I hope so, for more Frontier guides is not going to help me much, past level 3 they do not offer any more insights into firing a rifle.

That said, I never really use rifle, so I can wait till Ive properly looted the entirety of the world anyway.

So just this past week I decided to try my hand at interloper as I was nearing my 100th day on a Stalker run. So my first run was 16h, spawn in PV which died to a wolf cresting a hill, no noise, as I was just about to crest it as well...

But second attempt is going well, even considering I spawned on TWM near dusk!

I spawned in a had to get my bearings as I was not 100% sure it was TWM, thought it might have been HRV. I figured out I was near the waterfall and climbing rope. So I gathered some sticks, until a wolf got too interested and climbed down the rope making my way to the Mountaineer's hut gathering more sticks along the way.

I make it to the Mountaineer's Hut, but not before find a wool toque in the fishing hut, find some matches logs, a vest, AND A HAMMER! So I throw down all my sticks and head over to the bunny grove nearby for dinner. Snag two bunnies and a bunch of sticks. By this point I also was in need of water so started a fire and made a ton of water and cooked up the bunnies. I knew the fire wouldn't last all night so I ventured out again in search of more sticks until I had enough for 8h of fire. I ate the food then went to bed. 

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In the morning with some light snow I managed to make it down the mountain into PV as the wind was picking up. I make into the bunker and start looting as I hear a blizzard outside pick up. So I hunker down for a few hours, managing to repair the wool toque I found and gathering some tinder from the boxes. The blizzard ends up being about 6 hours, I sleep thru half of it. I venture out in the freezing night. I loot the Point of Disagreement to find nothing but a lone Chocolate bar. I then sprint as fast as I can, goating down part of a cliff, to the barn. I manage to make it inside and start a fire just before frost bite hits, saving me permanent condition loss. I warm by the fire and make more water and loot the building to find some driving gloves! Say goodbye to frost bite risk! I sleep thru the rest of the night.

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I head out to the farm stead in the morning and loot the basement and main house finding some more cloths and another hammer. I then hunt some more bunnies and repair some clothing I found from all the cloth in the house then eat and sleep. 

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The next day I make it up to the signal hill and don't find anything of note. So I warm up in the bed for an hour and a blizzard hits... a bad one. I go back in but soon realized I am at around 40% condition and don't have food on me, I have to leave as if I stay I am dead. So I spirit out into the Blizzard and try to make it to the cave leading to the Carter Dam. To the amazement me to myself and my wife watching me, I make it to the cave! (I attribute the success to the Hunted Part 1 challenge and the dozen or so times I traveled this path) Inside, I carve some meat from the dear, warm up by a fire, cook the meat, and make my way to the dam. But encounter a wolf in the narrow part of the river right before it opens up by the dam. Luckily I had seen him from afar and had some gut on me, so dropped that and gave him some space and was on my way. 

I looted the entire dam as night was setting in, using some torches I pulled from the fire in the cave. and sleep in a bed inside the trailers outside the dam.

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The next day I make my way to the camp office looting about 25 cat tails along the way, using the 'safe' route over the hills between the railway and small river that leads to the lake. I make it into the camp office and drop off all my stuff and organize everything I had looted along the way.

I give up. Time to make some pasta to satisfy my need to feed, tortillas tommorow  

Succesfully I reached the den, as the fog began to lift, I finally dared to look over my shoulder, to learn if I was about to die. The bear was nowhere to be seen. My distraction must have worked, then.

I progressed over the tree trunks, nervously looking over at the den. No bear. Muskeg bears, it must be something that makes them just so... evil. What if that spawn of hell decides to cut me off?

In the end, I could not handle the idea the the bear will be waiting for me at the Spences - so as I passed by the broken radio tower, Ive diverted into the cave to spend the rest of the night there.

In the morning, on my way to spence I was jumped by a wolf. No bait, so I missed my arrow on approach. Still, took one strong swing with the hatchet and the wolf ran off. As I reached Spence, the wolf accompanied me, and died right by the entrance. So I took its steaks, they will be a welcomed snack for when I return here to forge more arrowheads one day.

After a short pause at Spence and a quick nap, off I go by the barrel shack. Destination high blind. Stopped by the peanut butter rock - and was rewarded by peanut butter. The high blind had a very used bow, and an arrow - a welcomed change. The cave earlier had a skill book, and so did the spence... which puts my overal amount of survival knowledge very high... I will have to take it easy in the Camp office again for a while, read up on all of it. Not to mention the extra books, waiting for me in Milton park office.

All in all, life is good!

Please stop following me, You are creeping me out. I asked you nicely, several times, to stop sending me mail, after sending me rude mail when I just came back after a long absence. You kept sending mail, telling me how I should feel, and what I should think and post, so I put you on the "ignore" list for messages. I really do not want to put you on "ignored" for everything on these forums, but you are a bit overbearing, rude, and seem to like to try to tell people how they should think, feel, post, write, use forums, ect. Please, dearie, I am a middle-aged woman, and really don't like you writing me mail telling me how I should post here on a public forum, or how I should think, or use forums.

Please, kindly, go away.  

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I have done a very bad thing earlier today. Ive done something awful, like in the past. I deserve a punishment. If I am no longer active, that is what happened - it would mean I have gotten myself banned once again, for my big, unwashed mouth.

But I have faith everything will go well.

I have done a very bad thing earlier today. Ive done something awful, like in the past. I deserve a punishment. If I am no longer active, that is what happened - it would mean I have gotten myself banned once again, for my big, unwashed mouth.

But I have faith everything will go well.

Gonna be probably quiet for next couple of days. Visiting family in a neighbour country, not sure how much access to the internet I shall have.

Hey mate.
Noticed on this thread that you thought this forum doesnt allow signatures. It does.
There is an option for "account settings" in the top right corner where your name is. 
To speed things up a bit, here is a link:
http://www.hinterlandforums.com/settings/signature/
It is pretty limited which I think is a good thing, but yea, you can set up a signature if you want it.
Thought you might want to know.