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Well shit, I went tyrant public service last life and killed a family in a little fence along the path for the road.

They refused to move... let the drama ensue.

Would the owner please strike a deal with me? I will gladly make a new fence area with well and ponds nearby to replace what you have there. I just want the road to go through.

No hard feelings?

Glad you all like that town.

Sorry I http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=5236668 didn't start closer to oil when this arc began, but after the last arc, I noticed some of the really beautiful cities had ancient walls around them instead of simple fences, so, rather than spend my first 20 lives or so working on the X Road connecting the four corners to the monument, I took the opportunity I was given when I was working on the northeast corner of the road in the last arc, and instead decided to box in six springs, a fair amount of soil and an iron mine.

I could have taken another life or two to search the other four corners for 4, 6 or even 9 springs that would include an iron mine, oil, and enough other resources, mostly soil, for a town to get off it's feet and really distinguish itself from the surrounding area. I think I spent about 8 full lives yesterday working on the walls (while doing anything else that I felt necessarily needed to be done) and another 4 working on the flat stone road from the gate towards the center, as well as around the inside.

I just didn't want people to feel as trapped as they did in a 1, 2 or even 4 well sized town, and, having 2 of the 4 sides be the rift, that just means I could make the other two sides twice as big.

Many thanks to Mercury, Venus, Terra, Luna, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, all the other astronomical bodies I have birthed while working there and all the friends, families and Eve's who, didn't just help, but, made it possible. Let me just thank all of you; each and every one of you, for playing this game at all. I also want to apologize, to those of you who cared for me yesterday, who I then ran away from at 3 years old to go work on the walls, roads and gather resources for that growing town. Maybe if you have been born there since, you have enjoyed the fruits of my labors, as I yours.

Things I'd still like to see for that town:
- I'd like steam engines (charcoal fuel) on most of the springs.
- I'd like people farming branches, maybe some nice parks with wood, stone, brick or concrete paths working their way through them, so harvesting and gathering branches for kindling is convenient.
- Any project you'd love to work on.

The place is already so beautiful thanks to all of you, keep up the good work.
Today I'm going to try and work more on the Monument Road Network; the X from corner-to-corner, so that people can once again continue to move, a little more freely, across the map, whenever I am born outside the town. And when I am born inside, I'll mostly be admiring everything, all of you have done, while contributing what I can to your projects, here and there.

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I realized the value most of you diesel-engine-focused players put on oil, and I did what I could to get a road to the well near the closest oil patch. I'd decided early I just wanted one main gate for the town, but someone went and made a second one anyhow. ...I wish the walls were only there for looks, and that they didn't serve to host the fence gates or anything else to prevent people from flowing into and out of the town, but... who knows...

Who knows? Jason doesn't care about our happiness or content. He doesn't care what we are interested in, only in the stories he wants people to make for his sake.
He wants epic villains, which create epic heroes, but let's do our best to see he gets neither. I care about all of you. It's too late to not care about all of you. I'll remember all of you, the more you contribute to the game and the forum; the more of your lives you share with me, the more we become a part of one another. I think that's pretty much the goal, of all this. All of your systems. Everything that makes getting resources, and information, around to each other, faster, better, and more efficiently. We're a great being; call it life, call it Earth, call it what you like for now. Maybe, once enough of us have fully realized that, we'll be ready, to turn other worlds, into similar beings, and then, this whole process can begin to occur again, on the next great scale. We're on the cusp of it now. You're all a part of it, simply, by being. It's been a pleasure to love you all, along the way.

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Thank you so much, for the screenshots Rheianos, I'd love to see more, in this and other posts, from any, and every one, wanting to share.

And nobody called this person out?
Nobody tried to 'cool their jets' and remind them that people need to be shown kindness, and empathy, in order to see that that is how people are to behave?
What fucking psycho comes into the forum for a game about parenting, asking people how to kill their family?

That was my first post. I was convinced by this community within the first month of gameplay, that in order to get things changed, you needed to break them.
Yet, I never went on to trigger one apocalypse. Once I got back in game, and was picked up by my mom, how could I keep such a horrible idea in my mind?

It is a shame that that was my first post in this forum.
It is a shame that that first post, might have inspired others to do similarly horrible things, people like Tarr for instance, with his sword rampage that probably turned dozens of people away from the game on it's own. People we could have learned lessons from, people we could have loved, even if just for an hour, here and there.

It was a similar problem with people being given children at hard times, that decided rather than to care, and give their children the last shot at life that they had to offer, would sooner abandon their babies. Then that practice become abandoning boys, regardless of the state the family was in foodwise. Then players just started killing themselves, as babies, to cycle through families.

ALL terrible actions that should have never been seen as acceptable or even permissible, by the community.

But what did people do?

What didn't enough people discourage, before it caught on?

What lessons did we fail to bring, from our our experiences as children in the real world, into this game?

Instead of getting sicked by it, Jason just proclaimed it as "Interesting" and went on to encourage other "Interesting" behavior.

Imagine, if you will, Jason inviting all the girls in the neighborhood to one of his daughters birthday parties, and then raping, and killing them all. That's basically what he did to us. He fucked over the community he invited to play with his creation, and now he is killing this community.

And he sends me an email saying he's worried about me? Jason, I'm not the one finding it entertaining that people are killing their moms and children. You're a sick mother fucker.

Find that interesting.
I'm sure there are plenty of REAL psychologists and psychiatrists that would.

But you won't know they're REAL till you see them.

SICKO

Imagine if they had moderated Jason's post-Arc introduction rants by banning him from the forums.

PS The "Flint Chip Death Throw" in the title was the moment she was starving, trying to grab a berry from a bush, but realized too late, that she had a flint chip in her hand, and, as she threw the chip, she died.

It's a very common occurrence for new players, usually a result of picking up a needle or a piece of thread, and then forgetting they have it in their hand as they go to pick a berry. Sometimes they already have a berry in their hand and forget, but then when they go to pick a new one, they don't get that notification sound or see the berry disappear from the bush, and try to pick again and again, before they die, never even knowing that what they wanted most, was already in their hand.

It's ok, the hardcore folks are turning away the ones that just want to play the game they were tricked into buying by the commercials, so, there will come a time soon where there will never be 35 players in the game, for there to be 35 eves.

Then you hardcores can fuck off, and maybe people who want to care for kids can play the game again.

monument 19.08.06.01.03 EDT

just stop using that word
stop using it completely
you don't want this experience to be about that
stop making it about that

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I, found the picture interesting because all of the little bears made me think of meat, food and warmth.
Things that any band of people, any little village, would make the most of, in the real world.
Yet, there was no one here.
No kids, to feel the warmth of the fur.
No women, to prepare the bears meat.
No men, to sit proudly by the fire, seeing their women and children, warm and happily enjoying the risk they took, to kill all those bears.

So many opportunities missed.
So little satisfaction, to be gained.

Then there is that bear outside, that, unlike us, can't be taught a lesson from history.
It's not so different from us though, the machines of instinct that we are; hurt, initially, by a broken promise, we live on to destroy that which brought about our displeasure.

Have fun, kids.
With whats left,
have fun.