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It was great! Although being asked if I was new (as Jack) because I was struggling to tell someone I needed a bowl and a basket to farm the berries was a bit frustrating. I was your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, Grandma, I helped build this farm. I remember when those wells were shallow, not deep!

Unfortunately, someone dog-griefed us and the mean pit bull killed just about everyone. By the time I found the bow and arrow, it was an old pit bull and I couldn't kill it. So sorry. I set up the farm so all the berry bushes were alive, compost was ready, and seeds were planted (but not watered) for carrots and wheat; if someone finds it, they should be able to get it going just fine. I died foolishly running for the berries to eat one, even though I had a carrot at my feet. Still, I spent my life caring for the berries... dying next to a berry bush just seemed appropriate.

EDIT: The only worry I have is that someone will think I killed the town; I had a knife in my bag (I found it on the ground and took it to keep it safe) and almost everyone else was murdered. I promise, it was the doggo that killed everyone.

Well. I don't like when my children die on me... especially when they don't let me explain the situation. If I can, I'll tell you what's going on; even though I'm naked in the wilderness, it doesn't mean the situation is hopeless. If clothes are scarce, I might have given stuff to the kids and am heading to get more rabbits.

On the other hand, this morning I hit the 'Get Reborn' button out of a desire to see what's next, and then realized I had to go take the kid to school. Sorry... I didn't have time to explain. At least I wasn't a girl. And I had to 'suffer from depression' (i.e., go afk) and later suicide the other night; at least I had a daughter that survived to weaning. I hope I didn't have one while I was afk.

My thought was: rabbit fur shawl + rope = baby sling

Baby sling puts baby in carry position but mother has her hands free. You cannot wear a baby sling and a backpack at the same time. Adds a slight amount of heat, as the baby and mother are in skin-to-skin contact (which is good for cold biomes, not so much for desert).

But using more fur and thread is good too.

A boy has no name, but will keep his knife safe. I remember you, Xavier Boop, trying to get me to give you my knife so you could kill my mother, Shiny Shekell. Shame on you.

I found Sakai's bones. He had a knife, and a file. Seems like intent to harm the village. I brought the file back to the forge, gave his remaining clothes to the village, and kept the backpack with the knife. Exploring south and west a bit, I found a large plain with many rabbits and much wild wheat; I cut wheat, threshed it, made baskets. Caught rabbits, took them to town, skinned them and made clothes. And that was pretty much my life; I stayed out of the drama (and the village) as much as possible.

As I was dying, I found a cousin who was working to keep the kitchen going. I gave her the knife... I hope it doesn't cause more trouble.

Thank you, cousins, for letting a poor nameless Shekell boy make a contribution. I'm happy I could help.

Server cap is what, 300? Even if full, you'd need 1/3 of the players on the server to agree to use their curses on a single person.

I realize that curses follow you. It's just that your options for interaction are so limited in a single lifetime, you'd have to do something really evil - or unpopular, I guess, since morality is a social construct - in order to accumulate the kind of curse time you're talking about. 19 was given as the 8th highest total, and I'm pretty sure Jason won't tells us more - he said it wasn't a precedent when giving that info out.

I know 10 hours might seem like 100, but really... hyperbole doesn't further the discussion. It leads to people setting up and knocking down strawmen, not to resolving the issue.

If you don't like it being called Donkey Town, call it Coventry. In fact, I'd prefer that - it gets the point across better if you know the stories. Donkey Town was really a trap laid by Pinocchio's clever, layabout friends; they would tempt children into 'living the good life' - i.e., being wasteful and lazy - and then, when they changed into donkeys, they sold them into servitude. It was all for their benefit.

Coventry, on the other hand, was for the benefit of society. Those individuals who refused to honor the social contract - i.e., the basic rules of their society - could either be 'adjusted' (i.e., given therapy to bring them into line with the majority) or they could choose Coventry. This was a land beyond the wall, outside of society, where a person lived by the sweat of their body and brow. If you choose Coventry, the society will give you survival gear, rations, even a vehicle - then they put you through the door, and you are no longer their problem. The hero gets robbed, finds his feet, discovers a plot by Coventry to invade the society, and warns them - not because he was treated badly, but because it was the right thing to do. At the end, he is welcomed back into society, because he's let go of his wrong opinions that being an island unto himself is the proper and necessary - indeed, only - way to live.

The latter is the lesson that OHOL's Donkey Town is trying to impart - it's better to be a small part of a society, instead of being alone or surrounded by people who want to destroy things.

I was in that line! Lily

How long in purgatory is too long for the one who kills a thriving, peaceful village?

Curses are limited. You can't just go around sentencing people to time in Donkey Town. You get one in your life, so don't spend it frivolously.

I realize your post is intended to be hyperbole, Dodge, but let's assume it is factual. In order to get 100 hours in Donkey Town, you would need to accumulate a minimum of 93 curses in a single life assuming you had just returned from exile. That's a TON of curses. It would need a major city, with an organized news guild, to arrange that kind of curseload... so yeah, if you were to get that, you'd probably deserve it.

It's pretty simple. Curses follow you. If you get 8 or more, you go to Donkey Town. Each hour in DT burns off 1 hour of curses. Once you get down below 8 points, you can rejoin society. I'm not sure if time spent in society without accumulating curses burns off curse time, but I'd think it should.

That being said... perhaps a /cursetime command could be implemented, allowing you to see how many curse points you have remaining. Maybe it could even be phrased in terms of how many game years you have left in limbo.

Amen. I'll let you know when to feed me. Constantly juggling babies is a waste of food.

In addition, if I run to a tile near where you left me, I'm probably trying to adjust my temperature. Either that or my mouse got stuck.

To my family, the Wests:

I'm sorry I wasn't more fertile, and I'm sorry if the family was harmed by my actions... but I think I left the place a little better. Farming in my youth (to stay close to food), as an adult I went around and explored. I found a good spot and began a milkweed farm, although I never got around to watering it... it's a bit north of the old graveyard which is just north of town. I hope someone finds it. There were also many seals nearby which I clubbed and skinned, and someone had left a mouflon dead, so I brought that skin back to town as well. I hope there are many happy children in the future.

Sakura West

P.S. To my last two children, I'm sorry you came when I was working on the milkweed farm. There was a great village not far away, I wish you hadn't run off (son) or died of despair (daughter). I didn't even get a chance to name you.