a multiplayer game of parenting and civilization building
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Live an entire lifetime within the course of one hour as you rebuild civilization from scratch and raise your fellow players as babies to continue your work.
Yes!!!
One thing I would change is the text as “Adoptive Sibling” rather than “(Adopted) Sibling” since parenthesis aren’t available in the game.
Hello brother! In the photo in my first post, your grave is the one directly to the right of Mama’s. I’m happy to hear all of you are on the forums! This was one of the best family lives ever. Thank you all for the experience.
The ratio of birthing a girl should definitely be increased if a woman is aging and hasn’t birthed one in a while.
@startafight
Hello nephew! I’m so very glad to hear from you. I hope you were alright on your own for so long. During your life, you were so kind to your father and I. Eagan loved you so much, he always talked about you and treated you like his son by blood. And of course, thank you for helping me find out how to mark Mama’s grave. Without you, I would have died without accomplishing my goal. You were such a kind person and I hope to see you in another life someday.
@CarrotPies4Life
Hi Mama... Well, I suppose I called you Mother in my dying years, when I too was withered and grey. I had grown up, but you’ll always still be my Mama. Sun and Eagan helped me try to find roses, but I couldn’t find them anywhere. They didn’t have any luck either. I know you said it was okay that we didn’t get you any, and that we were your roses, but you deserved a beautiful rose to honor your kindness and beauty.
I missed you so much. But I was foolish, spending so much time out of town, finding things for your grave, that I left the town unattended. I wouldn’t take it back, Mama, don’t get be wrong. But I’m probably the reason they all died. Nobody took care of the berries and the beans and the carrots. Only one pie baker remained, and she was too old and committed suicide. The rest of them had no food and they died. So... oops. At least you got what you deserved after death, though. Please don’t feel bad. The town wasn’t the same without you anyway, I think your death is partially why everything stopped.
I wish you had me as your first baby. Then we could have spent more time together. But everyone was thankful for Alpha and Eagan. In fact, they were the only other survivors (excluding Sun and pie lady) so you can brag about the fact that you raised a strong, resilient family. It’s fitting for a strong, resilient woman such as yourself.
I loved you so much Mama. They did too. We missed you terribly but we did all we could for you. You were the best mother and grandmother we could have asked for. Thank you for everything.
— joey
I loved you too much to post this in Missed Connections, where some of you don't even check.
Mother, I had been murdered four times in a row and was really beginning to feel down. I had been innocent in every life and I vented to you as a baby, saying "PPL / IN / BIG / TWN / ARE / MEA / N" and you understood perfectly, agreeing with me. You gave me a little mouflon hide and told me the sweetest things before asking me to berry farm in my great uncle's place.
You went grey shortly after I turned four, and came to visit me in the berry farm often. You kept feeding me and reminding me to eat, which I found so sweet. I called you "Mama" as if I was still a child, even as I grew into my late teens. I switched to bean farming while the berries grew, and you told me to do whatever made me happy. I told you I would dye your shirt, but I saw your hunched back and began to worry. Your age was increasing by the literal minute. Would I have time?
I gave you a snakeskin boot I found in the wilderness. You kept trying to give me all of your clothes since I gave my mouflon hide to a child in need. We argued about this, playfully of course, and eventually you won with the "do it for me" trick. You were such a kind person.
I went on farming and as your age progressed, I ceased my work to care for you. I placed berries in bowls and carried them over to your withered form as you sat by the fire and rambled with my brother and his adopted son. You kept feeding us even in your elderly age. I loved you.
"Mama, please don't die!" I sobbed. I would miss you so much -- it would be too much to bare.
You sighed. "It's part of life hun," you told me. I knew it was coming but I didn't expect it so soon. "Live long and prosper," you told us. "Fly high!"
"I'll try, but it'll be so hard without you," I cried. But you couldn't respond. You just didn't have the time. So instead, you shouted "Fly hiiiiiigh!!" at the top of your lungs before perishing.
Devastated, I picked up your bones and moved them next to my great uncle, the man you had spent your late life on, attending his grave. I made you a grave quite quickly and set off to find roses.
Years. Years melted into decades. Savanna after savanna. Screen after screen. No home marker to guide me. But I had a sense, I could tell, and I would always return to your grave.
"I'm sorry Mama," I whispered to your grave. "I cannot find a single rose bush." By this time, my hair was balding. I knew I didn't have much time, and it seemed that mere minutes ago you had perished.
So I settled for the next best thing, making you a marked grave. Now, let me tell you, you have to travel far as all fuck to find a skewer when you're born into a massive city. And I wasn't looking for one, I was looking for three. That's a hell lot of skewers in the first place, but in a huge town like ours, there was almost no hope of me finding three, an far lesser chance of finding a rosebush in the wild, and we didn't have any luck there, did we now?
My hair had greyed by the time I found skewers. Two in the badlands, far North of the city. Another equally far South. I cut some flint into chips and formed the skewers into letter stocks.
Two V's and an I. Then a W and an N. Finally, an M. I headed back to camp with my food meter half decayed.
Took another five years for us to figure out how the frackle dackle to mark a grave. Letter M and chisel on grave. Then mallet, right? Nope. We tried over and over, moved your bones, exchanged the mallet, nothing. Then Sun, my adopted nephew, brought a different chisel over and it worked. Huh.
Then my older brother emerged, Eagan. "Only us," he delivered the bad news. The town had died out. Well, that's probably not good, considering we're all elderly men. We decided to all die of old age and set home markers so we have a chance of respawning as an Eve.
And we did. I died next to you. I hope Sun was alright on his own for so long. That kind of isolation would have driven me to madness.
I love you, Mama. You were by far the best Mama I've ever had. I'm so privileged to have had you in my life. I love you so much, you are so sweet and kind. Keep doing the sweet and kind thing. Even if you're murdered four times in a row.
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Family Tree:
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … &id=345687
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Why feed your babies to a bear? It’s just provoking it to go and destroy a city.
Let them starve if you need to get rid of them.
I mean, it’s their loss for being impulsive. It’s frustrating, but they won’t get to play in the big city for three hours just because they were born to you, who didn’t get Granny’s backpack and clothes, outside of town.
They’re just screwing themselves over if that’s their motive. But when you need a girl and the girl suicides, it’s especially frustrating.
I’m either The Mom as a female or The Crazy as a male. There’s no in-between.
It should require teamwork. Three hits by three different players within the timespan of five minutes to avoid trans-generational griefing.
Thank you for the tip. Unfortunately, I’ve played so many lives since then that this particular experience is buried under many others...
I don’t know much about the new crops but
Beans work just like carrots.
Berries were considered the “prime” food for a couple weeks but then they got nerfed and now it’s pretty much everything.
Eat different foods to get boosts in hunger.
Thirty units of soil in each deposit (correct me if I’m wrong here) which can be transported three at a time in a basket.
Water is much less finate now. Not sure of the precise amounts, but regardless of whether something is dry, one unit of water regenerates every thirty minutes. I think ponds have 10 water, shallow wells have 20, and deep wells have 80?
Water in deep wells must be collected with bucket
You can bury someone by using a shovel on their corpse and adding a flat rock to make a gravestone
Small items can be placed on graves
Letters “M” “B” “U” “S” create templates Mother, Brother, Uncle, Sister on graves accordingly
Bell towers appear in big cities and set the home marker for anyone without one when rang. Every three hours another layer can be added.
Mouflon -> Mouflon lamb -> Domestic lamb
I know there’s more but it’s nearly midnight
And I’m writing on a teeny phone so it’s hard to type much more
Probably edit tomorrow
Hope this helped in the meantime
Their loss.
Happened to me yesterday. Kid said “B / Y / E” and took off in the direction of the town. Once he got there he just kept walking around, but I think he knew that I wasn’t going to feed him after that. The way he moved around told me he was saying “damn” IRL.
To Boy West -
You were murdered by May West the moment I was born simply because I existed. I saw her shoot you with a bow and yell at you before you died. I couldn't do anything but cry as I said "L / U / V" to you before you died, your last words being "You bitch!"
My sixth cousin Alan took me in after your death and fed me, but May was still insane. Alan said he saw two more corpses, and I witnessed her holding a bow and chasing me and several other people. Betty was the only fertile female now, and May had basically doomed us by killing the only other female. Eventually, I was handed over to Betty and told to start a milkweed farm for rope. The plan was to make a bow and arrow so we could get rid of her and end the murders. I made fletching and found a skewer, but it took a long while to find milkweed seeds.
May kept turning my yew shafts into kindling; she knew what we were planning. She hid the bow and any arrows, but we managed to create an arrow. She kept chasing me with a bow and arrow, but I lost her in the desert, and that was the last time I saw her. I looked her up in the family tree at a later date, and she had killed herself to "not give me the satisfaction of killing her" judging by her last words. She knew I was coming for her but was too cowardly to do the time for her crime.
But guess what, May? When I told everybody the news of your death, do you know what they said? They said "HAHA, FUCK HER!" They laughed and celebrated and WERE satisfied. No, they were HAPPY. They were happy that you didn't exist in their world to corrupt it. And so was I. You may not have given me the satisfaction, but you sure as hell made all of us really happy. So, I guess your little plan backfired, huh?
Anyway, I decided that Mother needed to be honored. Without knowing it, when she bore me, she had made a sacrifice, one life for another. My life for hers. I was so grateful, but I knew that she deserved something more than being left in the sun in the middle of town to rot.
I dedicated the rest of my life to honoring her death. I buried her in a special spot, planted her a rose bush, made her a gravestone, made a letter M, a chisel, a mallet, and marked her grave. Mother, you may not have gotten the life you deserved, but you certainly got your share in death. I told anyone who would listen your story and I told them to honor you.
My life's purpose was complete when your grave was, so I starved myself next to you. I didn't want to make my life impure by going off-track from my mission of delivering you justice after-death. So thank you, Mother. Thank you for sacrificing yourself for me, even if you didn't mean to. I hope I made the afterlife worth your while.
Love,
Nameless
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Family Tree:
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … _id=335126
Thanks YAHG! I never realized this.
Now if I can remember which of the eleven emails I have OHOL attached to...
Almost every life I have is weird... can’t complain though!
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Dogs being tamed from wolves in a similar fashion to sheep being tamed from mouflon?
What makes me sad is that this thread has more views and replies than some threads get after being up for five days.
Love the story, almost feel like you "stole" the title from a post I made a while back tho xD
What post? I can change the title to something different
Liked your story, made me think though, it would be interesting if she left the game open and you just fed her until she had children, and then you or your boys fed them to keep the lineage going... wonder if anyone's done that, kept their children on life support as breeding machines lol
That’s what i offered her, but I suppose she didn’t want to waste power or something.
It was a different one. I died of old age and my brother died at about fifty. The rest of your children died during infancy or early childhood.
To Eve West—
I’m sorry. I was your only surviving girl and one of two surviving children. You were my mother, and my brother was my only companion. We’d spawned into a large town of unnamed folks. Towards the beginning of my life, I was a milkweed farmer. But as I became a teenager, I switched from odd job to odd job, mostly baking and farming.
I had my first child, a baby boy! I named him Rain. He was a good boy, smart, capable. But his flaw was exactly that; he was a boy. If only he had been born a girl...
My Rain survived past infancy and immediately went to work. He was an extremely hard worker. He made his mother very proud. Soon after this, I had my second child, whom I didn’t get the chance to name because she kept jumping out of my arms. She survived until five but was unable to feed herself, so she perished.
At this point, I was desperate for a girl. I was middle-aged. My only surviving child was already in his teens. And then I was blessed with Snowy.
Snowy... my little girl. She was such a kind soul. But she too had a flaw.
While I was raising her, I was AFK for extended periods of time due to someone wearing a perfume which triggered my allergies and gave me repeated allergy attacks. But she managed to survive despite my AFK state, never jumping out of my arms. She survived past infancy and I had high hopes. While raising her, my baby boy Castle was born, and things were looking up for the West family.
But as I recovered and resumed the game, I saw my baby girl repeating “Mom I’m sorry” over and over as I held her.
I asked her why. There wasn’t anything to be sorry about.
“I have to take my car downtown.”
Her real life called her. But I couldn’t let her die, she was my baby. It wasn’t about being a female anymore, I was genuinely attached to her. I had held her for her first five years of life.
“No!” I cried. “No, my baby, don’t die.”
“I’m sorry, I have to,” she told me. “This is tough.”
“But I love you...”
“I love you too.”
I knew I had to let her go, I just didn’t want it to be so soon. And the longer she stood there as I stalled her death, the more I grew to love her. I tried to convince her to stay, that I could feed her while she was AFK, but she wouldn’t have it. She ran off to die.
I didn’t know what to do. I stood there as my hunger trickled into starvation. But I knew I couldn’t give up yet, I could still have a girl. I ate and told my Castle that I didn’t know what I would do now. Then my Snowy emerged from the woods.
“Snowy!!!”
“I’ll die here so you can pick up my remains.”
My heart sunk. She was going to die stjlll. I had hope that she would survive and live with me, give me grandchildren, be the hope of our family. But no, her real life still called her. Despite it being selfish, I wanted her to stay with me.
“I’m going to miss you so much...”
“I’m going to miss you too.”
We had grown extremely attached to each other in just a few minutes. I felt real, genuine love for my sweet daughter. It was as if we had a connection in the real world. Perhaps we did. I don’t know.
“It’s time, bye Mom,” she told me. But I panicked. Not yet! I scrambled and shoved a berry in my daughter’s mouth.
She was furious. She didn’t even talk to me. I cried and told her I was sorry, but I just couldn’t let my baby die right before me, knowing I hadn’t done anything about it.
But she did. “Love you,” was the last thing she said to me. Then she was gone.
I picked up her remains and buried them under a beautiful maple tree. I knew she would love it. I buried her and marked her grave, and then I had my fifth child, a little girl!
I named her Snowy in honor of her sister. But she was nothing like Snowy. She lacked the light that Snowy had, she was cold and bore no love for me, or her siblings. She did not survive past infancy because she ran off.
I grew depressed and visited Snowy I every day. It was extremely strange how attached I’d grown. I planted her a rose bush which took a large chunk of my life. I have her the first rose, placing it across her grave.
During this time, I had my sixth child, River. He survived into toddlerhood but perished because he could not feed himself. And my hair grew grey, my face grew withered, and my hopes diminished. My family was doomed. I had failed as a mother.
I spent the rest of my life burying the ones I loved. I buried my brother next to Snowy and left his wool boot on his grave. I passed my stuff to a girl named Kim, including my knife after a girl named Aaban rudely declined when I asked her if she had a second. When she realized I was giving my stuff away, though, she followed me around but knew I wasn’t going to give it to her after that.
I’m sorry Mother. I failed the West family. I tried hard, but I’m the end, I blew it. I’m sorry.
And Kim, I hope you did well. You told me you were new and I asked you to bury me next to my deceased kin, the last of the Wests.
This is awesome! I can’t wait for this!
One suggestion; Maybe keep the hunger going down. This way, if it’s a griefer, people won’t feed them. Chances are, if it’s a good guy, they’ll get fed. Or leave them at three-five pips.