Khan_Drichthyes

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  1. Night 3: Music and toil. Aurora time means Music time. I go downstairs to turn on the radio, and I'm greeted to the melodies of Bach's Goldberg Variations once again. Once the wolf hides finished curing, it's off to the crafting table. Many cups of coffee later, and I have a wolfskin coat. After a brief stroll down to the lake's edge, to watch the Aurora wolves prowl around, I return home and wait out the clock with Bach.
  2. Night 2: Let the hunt begin. Last year, I avoided the demon wolves. This time, I sought them out. Starting on lake, I crept up and lured them in with thrown stones. Two wolves killed and one wounded to bleed out somewhere. Meat, pelts, and guts go to my refuge in the Camp Office. After a cooking break, I return to the hunt. This time, I travel to the derailed boxcars. Three pairs of glowing eyes await me in the distance. One senses me early, but is frightened, and runs off. One goes down with a single shot. The third is wounded but runs around the area before finally bleeding out, nearby. By now, the frightened wolf has found its courage. It approaches... It charges... It gets shot in the face. I make several trips to ferry everything home and then get busy cooking. I've got plenty of food, water, wood, and coal to get through the event. The pelts should finish curing soon, so I'll be crafting a Wolfskin coat during the aurora.
  3. I looted every house and trailer in CH. I now have enough coffee to sell to the wolves, so they really get active later on. Along the way, I found both Jack-o-lanterns in the same places as last year. I almost took the mine route to PV, but changed my mind, and opted to grab 16 pieces of coal. With the looting complete, I moved on to ML, just as I did the last time. This time, however, I chose the Camp office over the Forestry Lookout. It's much darker, but easier to collect wood. After dropping my loot, I'm off to find Jack-o-lanterns. ...or rather, just one, as I saw and looted one along the way. I visited the Lookout to loot and get a good view of the old Lookout location, where a Jack-o-lantern was, last year. It wasn't there, this year. It was by the current Lookout! How convenient! Several wood gathering trips later, I'm ready for day 2. I have a rifle, good clothes, a flare gun, 2 flashlights, hatchet, knife, plenty of food and wood, amongst other things. I am ready.
  4. Khan_Drichthyes

    4DON 2019

    Oh no! I was going to start, once I get home, in about 45 minutes. I hope Steam gets fixed by then.
  5. So that's what happened to the original tower in Mystery Lake.
  6. I know. However, I do remember how it was, when I started. Plus, discussions about sprains always reminds me of this post by Carbon. 🤣
  7. You sprained your luck. Take pain killers.
  8. Rather than harvest tinder plugs, I'd rather be able to set the bales on fire. They would then serve as an energetic, but rather brief, bonfire. Any nearby wildlife would flee, you would briefly get the warmth of a well fed forge, and at a fairly easy chance of successful lighting. The downside would be that it can't be maintained with anything less than logs, and even then the heat would eventually diminish back down to campfire levels. Also, due to the size of the flames, cooking isn't practically possible. This would have been a nice feature to have on my 1st Interloper attempt. The cold really took its toll on me, back then.
  9. Long ago, I suggested that we should be able to attach a moose hide satchel to a deployed mountaineering rope. The satchel would then function as a container we could raise or lower. This would allow us to drop up to 5 kg of inventory items before a climb/descent. In my case, this came to mind after finding my 2nd satchel at the signal fire in HRV.
  10. Caribou! Yes, that sounds like a good, woody, sounding word. No. Caribou down there, by the lake, dear. Oh! *BANG* Caribouuu... gone...
  11. Offer him a tin of milk? *condition too low. Wolf gets food poisoning.*
  12. Several days of hunting nearly ended in disaster. It started off well. Harvested bunnies in the snares, followed by driving a deer toward a wolf. While I did hit the wolf, he ran off. -Probably bled out by now. With plenty of meat cooked and stored in the snow, I should have stopped there. If I had done so, I would have been better off. But, as an old co-worker often said: "If 'if's' and 'but's' were candies and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas." I came to a bridge, crowded with broken down cars and trucks. -Undoubtedly from people caught out on the road when technology died. At the opposite side: A bear. I carefully approached, keeping a car nearby if he charges. I fire! A hit, but he doesn't go down. He runs around in pain as I leap into the car. He eventually runs down into the river valley below the bridge, and I loose sight of him. After waiting in vain for him to appear again, I set out to see if he bled out. He didn't. As I climb a boulder to get a better look into the valley, he roars. I can't get another shot off before he knocks me to the ground. The less said about that experience, the better. I lay there, bleeding out, as he leisurely strolls across the bridge. Thankfully, I had plenty of Old Man's Beard and bandages. A single stim also helped, as I just couldn't let him go after that. I slowly creep behind him, waiting to get near another car before taking my shot. He turns towards me, just before I squeeze the trigger. I'm not sure which sigh was louder: The sigh of relief from me, or the sigh of his last breath? I had enough daylight to quarter him, before carrying his pelt back home. -The meat had to stay, for now, as I hadn't the strength to carry any after the stim wore off. With the new day, I will be retrieving what I left behind.
  13. Hello, and great work on the game! If Episode 3 winds up not being released before Halloween, has there been any consideration of Timberwolves making their big debut in the next 4DON?
  14. While molds do exist for the .303 Enfield caliber, any cast bullet would just be lead, and you wouldn't be able to give it a copper jacket. If implemented, the condition of the firearm would decrease more rapidly as lead fouling builds up in the barrel's rifling. Also, while it may be possible to find reloading supplies, you can't just make primitive black powder and use it in a modern firearm, as the necessary pressures are far different. To make modern "smokeless" powder, you'd need appropriate chemicals (such as H2SO4 and HNO3), the appropriate lab equipment, and knowledge of what to do. Now, on the other hand, I would certainly welcome a black powder rifle. -I even suggested it a long time ago. For example, there is a double barreled one, called the Kodiak rifle, sold in a few places. It comes in different configurations: 2 rifled barrels or 1 rifled and 1 smooth for buckshot. The large caliber of the rifle would make it a total moose-stopper.😁 Additional...Link to that suggestion:
  15. To add a risk factor, consider these three words: Brain eating amoebas Not sure if they even survive in hot springs. It just popped into my mind (see what I did there?), after we've had a few cases reported in North Carolina in the last few years. Of course, this would open the possibility for.... BRAIN EATING AURORA AMOEBAS!!!!🤯
  16. Absolutely. While the fluid is volatile, it still needs an ignition source to ignite. I meant to explain why the fuel evaporates off over time. I hope I didn't give the impression of randomly exploding Zippo's. 😆
  17. Lucky category: Hunting the Old Bear in the original Episode II. After several encounters where he runs off after getting shot, I find him near the old logging camp. The 1st shot makes him rear up and charge. 2nd doesn't phase him. It's looking like he'll reach me before I can get off a 3rd. I get off that 3rd shot, when he is seemingly inches away, and he falls at my feet.
  18. I would like to thank everyone for bestowing upon me the title of, "Captain Obvious." 🤣
  19. Concerning the Zippo: An unfill option wouldn't be feasible. Zippo's don't use a sealable tank or reservoir, like the butane lighters do. Instead, it is filled with a cotton-like material that you saturate with the lighter fluid. It may be possible to remove the saturated material and squeeze some of the fluid out, but you wouldn't be able to retrieve all of the fluid. There's also a downside to Zippo's, compared to butane lighters, that involves the aforementioned unsealed reservoir. The lighter fluid is very volatile. According to Zippo's MSDS on their brand of lighter fluid, the flash point is less than 73°F (23°C). While I've not used my Zippo in a long time, I do remember that a saturated reservoir would eventually evaporate on its own by the start of the next day, even if I never wound up using it. True, the temperature at Great Bear Island has come nowhere near that temperature. However, your character is likely carrying it in a pocket, and body heat it providing the sufficient heat to reach its flash point. This doesn't mean I wouldn't like having a Zippo available. I would just have to be more mindful of my fuel consumption and plan ahead, to minimize fuel waste. And, on a side note with Zippo, I would love to have one of their hand warmers in the game. I've got one, irl, and it gets nice and toasty.
  20. Not long after surviving 4DON, I started jumping around different games I had. In February, I got addicted (not in a good way) with Star Trek: Fleet Command. I had to quit (and delete the app), as it was affecting my personal life. Back to hopping around between Kerbal, TLD, Skyrim, and Fallout 4, but not obsessing over them. I'm hoping Episode 3 is released close to when I finish Episode 2 Redeux.
  21. I have not returned to Mystery Lake yet. I've lost track of the days (or was it months?), but I've been residing in the trailer between the old church and the Hushed River Valley tunnel. I remember taking a few trips, ferrying supplies, but everything I wanted to pack out of that Valley is now here in the trailer. The deer hunting and rabbit snares have been good to me, so food hasn't been an issue. I've also ventured out to see more of the countryside, and returned with more loot. This may be home for a while, before I return to Milton and beyond.