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[CYOA] A Peaceful Time
Endless_Serpents
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This sorry looking figure arrived by train tracks, though no train comes this way any more. After a short hike up a dusty hill they reach for a weapon they ain’t carrying.
Mayor Truly: You must be the new farmer! Did you see the shooting star last night? You must have, bright as a button and right over our town!
Mayor Jacobin Truly is a little man who holds his belt when he’s feeling proud; he’s usually feeling proud. The town behind him isn’t much of a town at all, if it ever was.
Mayor Truly: How fortuitous I saw you coming in! I’ve got the key to your cottage right here!
Our intrepid wanderer blinks.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5KRykTGrDc&list=PLiweTiMV-1EFI7fiYnOrZHzpZdVuCCecO———
Welcome to A Peaceful Time!
This is a Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) game about running a little farm. Rather than a roster of players that are expected to turn up on time, you are all participants, be it once only or often—that’s up to you. Every day or so I’ll post an update that ends with a few options. Together by voting and dropping fun ideas you decide what happens next. Think of it like being a voice or impulse inside the characters head.
It’s not my intention to go especially deep with this one, so any game mechanic I cook up will be explained in advance, but for now there is no rolling dice or moving parts. It’s just a story without a break peddle and a lot of hands on the wheel!
Let’s get to it!
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The wanderer has been mistaken for a much needed new farmer... How will they handle that?
A. Sure, I love... farm.
B. I’ll take that key.
C. Why do you need a farmer?
D. No.
The highest vote count wins.
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Beyond that, what do they look like? What are they wearing?
Your answers for this will be arbitrated arbitrarily to create the best result.
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I don't know much about this new farmer, but they're definitely wearing a plaid button-down. Hence being mistaken for a farmer in the first place.
totally agree with Jedoc on attire
Or if the music is not canon then A.
I'm not the expected farmer, but I might be convinced to pick up a plow share and pull my weight.
We've lucked out here. A blind mayor is handing us a key to somewhere we can lay low for a while. Anybody else would have recognised the black and white striped jump suit for what it was.
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Option A won with the highest votes, but all your opinions have been added to the Farmer’s psyche!
Likewise your thoughts on their design, from clothes to their potential past have been clumped together to make their portrait. He’ll be gendered male in the text from now on.
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Joining in with a friendly game of cards seems like a good way to get to know the neighbors. Hopefully, this gold coin I wear around my neck is sufficient to buy my way in.
Let's win ourselves some livestock
Get some of the locals to recognize our face as this "new farmer," maybe learn some names... So when the real new farmer comes callin' they'll be more likely to take our side however it goes down.
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Time to take the rubes to school.
We know all the card games.
Old Maid, Snap, Uno
That's it, that's all there is
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For lack of cards, I’ll use dice—highest wins.
Geth roll 5d6 for Farmer
Geth roll 5d6 for Lucky
Geth roll 5d6 for Chance
Geth roll 5d6 for River
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Later on the Farmer will finally reach his bit of earth, so for now it’s time for free play!
Tell me a fact about the town, and I’ll work it in reasonably, with tweaks as needed. Plus anything else you want to comment on.
The clock itself doesn't work, and hasn't worked in the memory of the townsfolk. The hands are stuck at 1:13.
Edit: Walking towards the farm, our Farmer ponders what the Mayor of this town was doing awake so late at night as to have seen the shooting star. It doesn't seem like a town this size would have enough to do for a Mayor to fill a day with, let alone work into the early hours of the morning...
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Over time we’ll get this farm running as you best think it should be. There’s no animals yet, as far as we know, and there’s probably some crops gone wild out there, but what exactly is as yet unknown.
Cottage (L1)
Cabin, shack, wooden box with a door. Call it what you will, right now it’s the barest bones of a home (let’s call that level 1). The better the cottage, the more energy the Farmer will have to work the farm, yielding better results.
Garden (L1)
Spices, flowers and other such things go here. The Farmer has no idea why you’d want a garden—do you?
Unmarked spaces
This can all be converted into proper farmland; rows of wheat, pens and barns, all that the Farmer will need to succeed.
Blue symbols
Weird, engraved, old chunks of stone. The Farmer does not know what these mean, but they’re not completely alien to him.
The rest the Farmer will investigate in due course.
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The Farmer only as enough energy left to do 1 thing before getting their head down, so...
A. Clean up the cottage some, and patch up those three bullet holes in the eastern wall.
B. Check out _______ (named location).
C. Go hunt some game, so there’s breakfast ready for morning.
I've played Oregon trail, I know you always go hunting.
It's quite clear we need a nice cup of herbal tea before we go to bed. It's been a busy day of escaping the law, stealing a farm and some cards.
On the one hand, some tea does sound like a good way to end an eventful and confusing day, on the other hand, there's an ominous hole marked on the map that I would love to see explored some.
So, I'll go with neither and pick A. Let's clean up what may be a grim reminder of the previous farmer's resignation from the post and patch those bullet holes up.
More energy today means a more productive tomorrow.
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Gotta clean up that cottage, specifically to make sure no unruly critters have already claimed the place before we try to lay our head down for the night.
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The Farmer’s cottage is now level 2! That’s all he can do to improve it for now without new materials. From now on he’ll have 2 energy per day—basically the second highest vote for what to do will still get done on the farm.
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Until the dawn comes, the Farmer will dream. So...
What does he dream about?
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Once he wakes, he’s got work to do!
A. Hunt and/or gather food.
B. Grab a bunch of wild herbs and transfer some to the garden.
C. Head into town to make new connections.
D. Build some kind of cattle pen and a shed with the scraps.
E. Gaze into the hole.
F. Search across the farm for crops like wheat that still remain, then set up a square of crops.
Feel free to offer up alternatives, but you’ll have to convince others to vote that way too.
It may mean something, but it may be just a dream.
A. Can't be expected to build a farm on an empty stomach, can you?
If I know my Harvest Moons, solid investments in our produce *immediately* will provide the backbone of our farms economy, and make it much easier later to rule this town through our ruthless monopoly on Pale Ale and Strawberries
B TEEEEEEEA
A table, piled high with meat, and bread, and ale. There is a feeling of warmth and satisfaction. No one else seems to be there, but the Farmer feels the presence of many others, looking up to him, HIM. He has plenty, and is looked upon well. It is happiness that the Farmer hopes will never end.
In the dream, the coin is speaking to him.
"Idiot," the face says, winking its one eye derisively. "After all we've been through. The price you paid for me. You give me up, for what? For a trio of dustsuckers to not be afraid of you?"
The coin spins, and the Farmer can see a brief reflection of a better time in the glint. "We'll see if you miss me."
It begins to roll away, down a table that stretches infinitely out into the distance before being lost in darkness. The sound of the metal bouncing along the rough wood continues for a while after it is out of view.
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gotta eat and gotta make money
fortunately our farmer knows a few of the more desirable herbs and wild edibles and harvests some ramps and fiddle heads to sell
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The Farmer is sustained!
The rest of the day is spent acquiring enough food and herbs to make that a nonissue going forward (for a while, at least).
More importantly, the Farmer has found a rare, unknown red herb. Time to vote:
A. Make tea with the red herb.
B. Smoke the red herb.
C. Eat the red herb.
D. Leave it to grow in the garden for now,
The coin is... a unique object, no doubt it’ll come into play. @Bursar
The Farmer has a cup of tea once a day going forward. I’ll draw this at some point, but If I don’t expressly say so just imagine I mentioned it. @Mojo_Jojo
For the rest of you, thank you for participating so far!
Added bonus: non-zero chance of getting to watch intoxicated animals falling into things.