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I've decide that anytime I am named Ben or Benjamin I will smile using in game expression the whole life in homage to this creepy guy

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmrXakd_r6I]

If he can sit and smile for four hours, then I can at least smile using the happy emotion for one whole hour when playing this! My lives haven't been unproductive by any means while doing it.

The first night, last night, I built a working pen from basically scratch for the first time (still one thing I need to work on) and had the sanders family give me a nice sendoff at old age. Glad they got to almost 50 gens after I was gone!

And tonight I was born Into a Tarr family for the first time. Didn't get the last name unfortunately. Got them two horse carts, replenished the wood supply twice, and turned my hat I dyed red into a santa hat. Then gifted an almost misplaced knife to a good shepherd and distributed my backpack clothes and boots to the multiple childrens right as i got old and died.

Say hi to Smiling Benjamin if you see him running about

So I've seen topics on clutter, and I have seen topics on the goose cult and I feel like this touches on both.

One of the things that clutters late game villages are eggs in the open, and geese in the sheep pen. In two of my lives while composting today I killed two birds with one stone and solved the problem and can make you both happy.

Geese dance parties.

We all know the locked goose disco rooms in a town, but you can also just bring your geese to a very tiny biome just far enough from your town where they usually wont make it back from someone bringing them back to the village. You and passing travelers can always enjoy the sight.

bonus points if you bring them to a circular biome like this as they almost seem to do coordinated passing circles around each other.

I try not to have story time that often, but there are certain lives that I feel deserve a retelling. So is the case with my last life, which has to be one of my favorite to date.

I kinda created another gang unintentionally again..

My story begins as a young boy born to a small town mother, who had probably been given a backpack and immediately made a dash for the big city and its fancy bells. I have no idea what she tried to name me but it ended up coming out to Ganiyah Groot. While I could tell mom wasn't the most experienced long traveler, she was not the worst by any means.. She had gotten us 1.3K away from the bells of the main city when i was born. I communicated just enough to tell her that Id be ok when I was old, and as soon as I was, to go ahead and leave without me. Got old enough and said our goodbyes and see you there stuff.

Ok time for Gani to face the world for himself!... All by himself...

Everything was going well, found some old camps on the way and got geared up. Had a close call with a hidden mosqito patch but made it by the skin of my teeth. Got close enough to where the home needle stopped showing distance and was confident i was going to make it, and maybe even find mom!

Out of nowhere the bell marker changes to a endtower chime and the compass has now changed directions... and its close.

Well.. maybe I should go check it out. I mean its close to these bells, so lets see whats going on.

I arrive to a scene of utter chaos. Someone has buried that end base in a forest and a group of 8 individuals including myself have converged on the location. We all arrived in the same general treeless spot. I was probably the last to arrive, but when I got there, there was a full blown snowball war taking place in front of me. I was trying to stay on the outside and just watch when I guess somebody noticed the knife I had found earlier in my basket. I thought i was far enough but someone pelts me and i drop the basket. They then thanked me in the middle of the snowball war and then go knife someone in the center.

Me and one other person I didn't catch the name of were the only survivors of that skirmish. It happened all so fast..

The other person flees and I stand there the only remaining. I quickly take a backpack and leave.
This was my first meeting with members of the Uranga family, but i would meet them again.

Immediately after that battle I headed south and ran into a horseman. He was surprised as I was about the end bell and I told him it was just a blood bath up there. He told me It was pretty far from his town and I decided to get a tipped horse-cart I had traveled past just prior.

I got the horse-cart up, and made it toward the main hub. When I arrived Looked for any Groot relatives and asked around about them but they had never made it to the city. I decided to check out the 1.6 long road going west (my last topic) and then decided to follow the road east which i had never done. The bell marker was now showing that way too. I arrived to Sand Town and was actually warmly greeted by the remaining townsfolk. They had the last name Uranga like the ones in the battle, so I kept my guard up but they turned out to be really chill. The king Lola told me about them loosing most women(maybe in the battle?), and then his right hand man Garry had to kill the last girls who were a greifer duo. We Thought a girl had come into the town and we were saved, but she ended up being too old.

Lost, distraught, and looking for meaning we milled around for a moment when I found out the king had never been to the main city. The king had a new glint in his eyes and said we should go raid the city, either for riches or women! He called upon Garry and the three of us headed into the main hub to plunder to our hearts content as a marauder gang.
We raced to The city as fast as we could with a pretty remarkable pace and formation. The ride was on!

Unfortunately the dying Sand town was more alive than the main hub when we arrived.. There was nobody to raid rob or force to comeback with us. We decided it was a sign and that maybe we were not meant to be plunderers after all. We were all getting up there in the years and we decided to just ring the bells at the main city as a last hurah. I must have missed a part between the king and Garry but I came back to the horse pen to meet back with them and the king had stabbed Garry!

I think Garry asked for it as he was asking go join the victims of his hands and couldnt handle the guilt. They were sharing their love for eachother right before Garry passed.

The king then asked me for one final favor. In our talk about the main town I had also mentioned the town far west of it and how it is sort of hidden yet connected. He wanted to see it as the last goal in his life. We made the trek both pretty under supplied and older in age, but determined. We made it halfway.. then 75% of the way. We both stopped one last time and I told him we were close. We were about only 200 tiles away! I mad dashed it the rest of the way to the village and made it into the main square and looked back waiting to welcome the king.

He never made it.

He starved right at the final stretch of road, and everything he had on him and his body disappeared. It might have been behind a group of trees near his horse-cart, but i couldn't find. In a mad frantic I tried finding an axe and basket to find his body and bring it into town so he could have technically made it, but it was a fruitless endeavor. My final piano started playing and my time was up. I left a last thank you note to my mom in my last words and died at the center of my favorite town.

I love this game