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The quiet snows

This just happened to me! Playing a PC custom game.  I was at the dam fence and was about to go out when i heard a wolf.  I tossed a stone over the fence to bait it the other way but it quickly turned back around and walked toward the fence.  I backed up several feet because i have seen in the past they can stick their heads thru before getting stopped and I've read about people getting attacked because of that BUT I've never seen it come straight thru the fence before.  The gate was definitely closed.  I really wish I had a video. Thankfully, i booked it back to the dam before it got to me.  

I'm really mad at how bad I am this. 

I must've missed something.. very confused for a moment after reading the posts behind mine!

I wish I had a girlfriend that played the long dark and asked thoughtful questions like that.

I wish I had a girlfriend that played the long dark.

I wish I had a girlfriend.

1 hour ago, SirSharper said:

i think you got the wrong impression. I wasn't mocking the challenge, I am smiling (dying=laughing) thinking about it. 

Oh my fault.

It's hard to tell sometimes, ya know

52 minutes ago, SirSharper said:

I'm dying. I cant read? I can craft an entire Wolfskin coat, but i cant sew a hole in my shirt LOL.

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That's correct.  

Feel free not to participate.  I was trying to think of a fun way to limit some use of the massive amount of loot.  If it's not your thing, that's fine, carry on, my friend.

To make this a bit more interesting:

Start a new save of Winter's Embrace.  Random spawn.

The premise:  You are very adept at bushcraft and surviving in the back country.  You can hunt, craft, and self-medicate with natural remedies.  HOWEVER,  you is a bit dumb when it comes to other things.  (Got dropped on your head as a baby..)

You can't read, you never learned:

• No skill books
• You also can't read medicine labels (no painkillers, no antibiotics, no antiseptic, no stims)

You don't know how to sharpen, clean, repair, or mend anything and you never will. (You can craft but not mend.)

You got food poisoning once and are TERRIFIED of getting it again, and thus, you are extremely paranoid about old food items:

• You can't eat any food item that is below 50% condition.  
• Tea, coffee, and the Go! drink are not included in this restriction.
• This is still true when you hit Cooking 5. 

LASTLY, you love maple syrup! You love it so much you are on a mission to enshrine a bottle of maple syrup in these locations:

• The front porch railing of the Hunting Lodge in Broken Railroad.
• In the picnic area in Mountain Town.
• At the top of the lighthouse in Desolation Point.
• Behind the waterfall in the Misty Falls cave in Pleasant Valley.
• Next to the Mysterious Signal Fire in Hushed River Valley.
• On the edge of the plane at the summit, Timberwolf Mountain.
• In the cannery in Bleak Inlet.

This last location, I'm not gonna lie, I don't know BI very well and I've never been in the cannery yet.  If there is a place there, more appropriate to "enshrine" something, I'm open to suggestions.

Do it all in one save, and let's just say no intentional starvation.  There is still plenty of food.

Post pics (or it didn't happen) of your maple syrup at these locations with the number Day you took your picture.  Reply with any fun stories or mishaps!

Happy Embracing, you dum ppl!

Edit: added random spawn

Boom! HRV signal fire in the backpack.  Also the satchel was there.  

I actually did get to signal fire, to find maple syrup and the satchel too! The signal fire spawned at the top of the map and not the lower right part, not sure if that means anything about the loot. 

8 hours ago, SirSharper said:

I remember when this post first went up; I was thinking: "It seems awfully early to be complaining about maple syrup spawns."  

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If the internet has taught me anything, it's that it's never too early too complain. 

I was honestly wondering about HRV .  I was currently exploring it when last I played.  But I don't have high hopes and I'm not sure I'm gonna find anything at the signal fire or down in the valley.  Honestly getting bored of this might just bail on the whole idea.

So I found zero Maples in FM.... but

One in Farmhouse in MT

One Grey Mother's in MT

One in a back pack at the plane crash where Ep 1 started pre-redux.

Dead hunter down the rope in BR.

2 hours ago, ManicManiac said:

I don't think the events (4DoN as well), are made or intended to be just for the elites.  I think they are made for the wider audience to be able to play and be a little challenged by.  The folks who have dedicated their time to mastering interloper or tuning custom settings to be even harsher... then naturally those folks are going to find the standard challenges and events to be easy.

*If you are one of those folks... then I'd suggest adding your own extra rules & provisos, and turn the event into your own personal challenge.*
Player choice is very powerful at the changing the experience you have in this game.

I got so bored with Nomad because of the sheer amount of loot especially food, part way thru I decided to go vegan. Anything that was meat or had meat in it I ignored.  

30 minutes ago, Serenity said:

Found on in the hydro dam safe

I think that's where I got the only one I've found.

8 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

The challenge is to consume 25 across all saves, but my impression is that you'd be hard pressed to find enough within a single save file. If you're hunting the badge for prestige, it's probably faster to just start a new game, run to the closest likely spawn, drink the syrup and then start a new game. If you don't care either way, just play for fun and see if you get a happy surprise.

Oh man are they that rare? Getting it with multiple saves is way less fun. I'll prob loot the map and see how many I get and go from there.  I'll post back here and try to list how many and where they were..

Is there ONLY 25 on the map? I've looted about 80% of ML and the maintenance shed in BR and only found one so far.  I'm swimming in chips though! 

See that's the challenge of WE. Finding all the maple syrups. 

After spending a lot of time on Interloper its nice to have a reason to play with Voyaguer settings because you forget about all the good clothes! Mukluks?! Double ear wraps?! Its like you win the lottery every time you loot a building. Plus I can mess around with rifles again. And craft ammo which I haven't done yet.  Without an event, firing up Voyageur just feels like a giant waste of time so I never do it.  

I'm definitely playing this out until I find 24 more maple syrups. 

2 hours ago, Stone said:

I play Loper but this is my first 4Don (somehow missed it other years). I take it we all spawn in CH? Loot a few places, including the gas station. Now heading for TWM. Got hacksaw, bedroll and coffee. So many matches! Hope to summit while animals are missing. Quite liking not knowing what will come next.

It's only CH ML MT and PV