Mroz4k

Well continues my Voyager journey. I have stuff to do today so I wont be playing for much longer, I think, but still wanted to play for a while, got really into it lately.

Made my way from Grey mothers to Park office where I dropped most of the good items from my Hushed river valley run. I can recover it later when I interrupt my travels to rest up for a while at Mystery lake. Then, I make my way through the blizzard to the farm below Milton.

Its locked. Dammit. Cant find the key. Ok, decision time - made a fire next to the truck and spent uncomfortable night, sleeping in said truck. Found the dead farmer in the morning - dead behind the farm, with the key in his pocket. Never even occurred to me to look for him there.

Found new small gun book. Roped down to the basin. Moose there - good to know. Spend most of the day looting up the basin area, then climbed down to marshes.

After a night spent in the cave there, Im moving over straight for the Broken Railroad. Lots of meat in my pockets - bear steaks from the bridge troll, and some deer meat I found on a carcass in Marsh ridge (never seen 2.4 kg of meat on a ravaged deer before).

Currently I am in Broken Railroad, its evening, and Im about to rest up by the rope so I can rope down and spend the night in the ravine. Hopefully something bad wont spoil my plans.
 

Killed the bridge troll. Was a big one, too, even though in the end was only worth 35 kg of meat.

Knew that I would had to deal with him first before I could cross the bridge. So, after leaving Hushed, Ive gathered some stones on my way toward the bridge. It was time to hunt a bear...

I have decided it would be best to set up an ambush. Ive climbed the stones by the entrance of the bridge, and waited for the bear to show up. And sure enough, slowly he trudges over the bridge to exact his toll on me...

Used the stones to lure it into a position - and as I was right above him, Ive uncrouched, drew my bow, thump... right in the noggin. 

Then I sat down for a 2 hour card game, waiting for a head wound to do its job...

Im my meditation, I crapped my freshly washed snow pants once again because I heard him run right by me two times, as I assumed I was safe, high up on the rocks... but no mauling took place.

After snacking on two wolf steaks, Ive decided to go search for my new rug.

On the bridge, one of the cars blessed me with the advanced guns book.

Then I saw it from the bridge. Damn.

Getting to it was not that difficult, and I was gonna loot the bottom of the lake anyway, but after processing it, of course the Aurora had to happen.

Right now, Im roasting my bear steaks over a fire, waiting for this hellish time to pass so I can continue on in peace  

It is the eve of the 32nd day of my Voyager experience... and I am finally ready to leave the Hushed River Valley. The bear encounter rattled me a little bit... because I know that the next part will have me, walking over the Highway bridge above Milton... which is from my experience a death trap... with that long, narrow bridge, and the bear always patrolling it.

If I want the Silent hunter achievement, I cannot shoot it with a distress pistol. Which means sneaking close to a car, shooting it then ducking into a seat. Ugh.

Decided to take a little breather, listed through the journal. Day 2... a grim reminder of how fragile life can be, even on Voyager... as I´ve fell down to 3% condition due to my own arrogance.

Climbed a small rock incline, only to be greeted by a bear, staring me down some 5 meters away from where I just climbed up. He reared up, I crapped my Snow pants, he charged me and I just enough in time managed to back away and fall down the rocks before he could give me a bear hug.

Damn, that was close.

But I do need to wash my snow pants now.  

I will take this as a sign that I have overstayed my welcome here in the Hushed River Valley  

Yes! On my Voyager run for achievements, Ive visited the Hushed River valley, about 50% done with the major locations and I have already found both of the biggest treasures of this region  

Now I just wanna see if I can maybe find that special carcass Ive heard about before... now THAT would be an awesome win.

Also found 3 caches so far, one had a skill book in it, then another skill book (sewing primer, yey!) in a backpack in a cave.

Now just a couple of nice good locations left, I might spend two, three more days before moving on back to the Mountain Town to finish some major locations there, might even try to kill the Bridge troll (errr, I mean bear) for its hide.

Damn, had to go buy a new mouse, my old one´s stopped registering all the clicks, got jumped by a wolf because my bow wouldn't draw. Sad to see this old one go - had it for literally 4 years of daily use. Doubt I will ever have a reliable mouse like that again.

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.

Doing fairly well on my Voyager Achievement run. Day 24 just started, already got most of the game essentials down. Got two bows and 8 arrows, Cooking, fire starting and archery already on lvl 3, plus several books-left-to-read on how to process carcasses and on shooting, of course. No point in reading those till Ive looted whole world, anyway. So far been on TWM, part of PV, most of Mystery Lake locations and now Im deliberating whether to go Mountain Town & Hushed river valley or Forlorn Muskeg and Broken Railroad. I like HRV better plus wanna get that satchel up there, so probably going there first.

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.

Trying to put together some of my past ideas and see if some were still relevant today, maybe re-posting them once again to get the feedback of people, currently around these forums

So far most of what I remembered and found seems to still be relevant.

I am hungry. I should go and make some pancakes... but the kitchen is over there, and this bed feels so damn comfy...

I am sick. : /

I need a hobby. All I do is sit on the forums, even though there is nothing to do for most of the day, since most people are from Canada and US. 

Probably will go make a bow soon.

Currently working on a comprehensive Forum functions guide.

On my "to do" list:
-Formulate suggestion on "customizable mode and what settings it should have".
-Formulate suggestion on improving First Aid system in the game, according to the feedback I got in the Bandage thread.
-Formulate my long-term project - a suggestion that would be generally a major update idea for Sandbox mode, called "determined homesteader" - which would be mostly an update that would add some more craftables, and just generally more options for the end-game fun. 

Random fact people probably didnt know about me. 
I love singing. Pretty decent at it too - not as good as most people you would see on talent shows, at least not yet, but probably better then an average person. I hope.

Would like to one day be succesful at it too, music is one thing that I know is going to be my passion forever, but too hard to make it so. Still, practising a few days every week, slowly getting to the point where I am confident enough to sing in front of other people.

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.

Some thoughts on what I would like to improve in the future:

I will do my best to write less. I know long texts are generally obnoxious. Im not very good at this, I was taught English in a manner that claims "the more rich text, the better" - I will attempt to moderate this a bit.
Less arguments with people. I feel like it really just served to discourage topics when I got into it with other people. 
More constructive criticism, less arrogant prick responses. This is a nasty routine I am still trying to drop, that I brought with me from Town of Salem forums.
More posts for fun. Again a routine from ToS forums - the forums there required people to have some quality of posts for them to be legitimate. So there was not much room for jokes. I want to change that. Hopefully people will then realize I am not always such a serious person with a stick up my butt.
Post two posts in row rather then one huge one. Again a routine from ToS, where you could not post multiple posts in a row. Have to drop that routine.
Less mood swings. I might just leave the forums for a day if I have a grumpy mood. Many times I will pity what I wrote in angrier state, and quite often I have to edit out things like swears and other nasty behaviour. 

If there are any more things you would think I should improve, let me know. I would like to self-improve through this as a person, and it would help if I had an honest opinion of third parties that I could build on.

Recently I have been getting into arguments with a couple of people. To the point some might actually feel a personal grudge against me. If you are one of those people, I am sorry for upseting you, in any way. I tend to be vocal sometimes, I can be obnoxious, even stubborn. I like to argue points too, but dont like it once the argument turns into a personal vendetta or just argument for the sake of arguing. 

I believe that arguing about a particular topic can be sometimes beneficial in a way that it encourages people to learn more about the subject in order to "outsmart" the other one... but maybe that is just me.

If you read the "about me" section of my profile, you will know that I value constructive criticism. And recently, I feel like I ventured away from that. Getting back on track with that is something I would like to do in the future.