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Using The Oregon Trail Deluxe, we're goona make a story of our vibrant journey from Missouri to that other place...uh...hm....uh....Oregon!

The Game has nothing for Character development, but we can still have fun, because that's what we do. We have nothing else to DO with our lives anyways.

So, other then me, there can be 4 Players in our wagon. We'll need to decide what kind of supplies we'll start off with, such as oxen, bullets, cloths, etc, and then hit the trail :D

CHARACTERS (Our "family" of immigrants heading west. We'll Have to pretend what our background is first.)

Backgrounds; Banker, Blacksmith, Carpenter, Doctor, Farmer, Merchant, saddle maker, Teacher.

That goes from the highest amount of starting money, banker, who starts with $1600 to lowest, teacher, who has $400. Obviously how hard the game will be is quite apparent, as a teacher, cause we'll have zilch for starting money!

Caravan Head; Fubbles

Story: It is 1848, and once again tons of ~~idiots~~ brave people are heading west to Oregon in search of fame and fortune! Ahead of us lies a trail of so treacherous and full of ~~Indians n' stuff~~ dangerous animals and other people, such a journey will seem like a suicide attempt (and in our case it probably is) but we will try anyways, and establish the town of Abandonia, far yonder, over 2000 miles away! Hazah!

How the game will work; We will always have ~~useless banter~~ character building conversation in between stuff, but also we will have to decide important things, such as where to go when we reach a fork in the road, whether to chaulk or ford a big river (for the most part if it's a small river ill just make us ford it, like the Kansas) and whether to buy supplies and what kinds to get. But first things first...

after we get our characters...

WHEN DO WE LEAVE?

March April May June July or August?

If we leave to early it'll be cold and our oxen may not have food, but if we leave to late we're goona get stuck traveling in WINTER which is 10 times worse im sure. never tried it, don't wanna either :p

SO COME ON PEOPLE, JOIN UP!