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I've lived many lifes and I had a couple once that I really enjoyed. Unfortunately, I can't really remember my past names or the family names, since I didn't wrote anything down (shame on me), so I apologize in advance !
If you do remember me or you recognize yourself in my stories, please feel free to add a link to the family line if you still have it, that would really make me happy.
________________________________ The time I was married to a corpse _____________________________
I was born as a boy to a very kind mother in a very big and busy town. While still depending on my mothers breasts, I noticed my grandmother asking - well no, demanding her daughters to marry their sons to her youngest daughter.
When I was able to eat by myself, I went to my grandmother and with the little vocabulary that I had, I volunteered. Why ? Well, she was my granny after all and I didn't want granny to be upset in her final years.
Shortly after that, Kiki was born. I don't think she had a family name, I just remember that she was very beautiful and that I wanted to be her friend.
As I grew older, I second thought my decisions. Firstly, because after all, I would be marrying my AUNT ! But granny assured me that she was about my age and that it didn't matter at all. And secondly, I had started to fall in love with Kiki.
Granny noticed my blushing and shyness around her and didn't like that at all. She reminded me every day that I promised to marry her daughter. And I always keep my promise. So I asked granny where her daughter was, so I could finally meet her and marry her.
Maybe forget Kiki, who didn't notice my advances and probably didn't love me back.
I followed Granny, who went east of the town, passed some wells and headed to the cemetery. She stopped near a grave and said : "Here."
I was confused. Was she hiding behind a tree ?
"Where is she ?" I asked.
"Here", granny said while pointing at the grave.
"Oh."
Granny married me to a dead person. Of course she was his age, she probably died when she was seven and never aged since ! Clearly granny had lost her mind but I played along. After all, she had a knife. And who knows how far her madness could go ...
Yes granny, I will love her. Of course I will care for her. Yes, I will stay by her side. And she made sure of that. Every time I was tending the berries, day dreaming about Kiki and trying to get her attention, granny was there, scolding me because I wasn't by .... was it Ophelia ? I wasn't by her side and she was lonely and I would cheat on her.
She forced me to go back to her grave and to stay there. Her knife pointing at my belly was a pretty good argument so I stayed next to a grave with my little berry bowl, not moving. I just had to wait it out until granny would pass away and I could finally confess my feelings to Kiki.
But that was not meant to be.
While granny was telling me that I should never leave her daughters side, Kiki came by and saw my desperate face. She asked me if I was okay and I answered that no, nothing was okay. I was married to a corpse, not allowed to move from her grave and controlled my my grandmother. I shouldn't have talked to her.
Granny took her knife and stabbed Kiki, right in front of me.
While holding her, I blurred out all my feelings for her that I didn't dare to tell her sooner. But it was too late. Kiki was gone. And so was my grandmother who was yelling over and over again "He made her sad!"
People who had seen what had happened, tried to cheer me up. They even buried Kiki for me. But nothing what they said could pull this sadness away from my heart. My Love was dead. All because of me. It was all my fault.
No. It wasn't my fault! IT WAS HERS! I let all of my anger and sadness out at Ophelia's grave. It was because of her that grandmother forced me to marry her. It was because of her that Kiki died. All what was left of her was the knife with her blood. So I picked it up and held it close to me, making sure not to loose any of her blood.
Years passed and so did my mind. I was walking around town with a bloody knife, telling people that Kiki had returned to me and that she loved me as well. They tried to tell me that I was just holding a knife, not walking hand in hand with my love. And that I was scaring people. But I didn't believe them. After all, Kiki was there. She believed me.
I even stole a little girl and adopted her because Kiki wanted to have children. I named her Sara I believe and she was the sweetest little girl I ever had. My little sapling. Years went on and the townsfolk just accepted that there was a harmless maniac running around with a knife, telling everyone that it was his wife. They even tried to heal me when I was attacked by a bear even though I was close to die of old age.
That was a fun life !
___________________ The time we had a paralyzed woman in our town _______________________
It was in a big city, the one with the horse stalls or the dye room next to the sheep pen. There weren't a lot of people around and we were trying to repopulate the place. I was running around, cleaning, tending farm, making some sweaters, etc.
I came down to the kitchen and I noticed that the woman hasn't moved since I last came here. And neither did the guy next to her.
"And why aren't you moving ?" I asked
"I'm bugged. Can't move" she answered.
"She's paralyzed. I'm feeding her." her companion added.
We talked a bit and every time I had a child, I would go back to them and introduced my kid to the paralyzed lady and that they should all be nice to her. Another lady and me fed her every time we passed by but she was in good care anyway. The boy never left her side.
She asked to be killed, so she wouldn't use so much food but neither of us wanted to let her go. We had plenty of food and we enjoyed our time together, standing around her and chatting. I jokingly said that she was our baby machine and we couldn't put her down just yet. She laughed and answered that she was happy to help.
But we had to say our good byes once she turned grey. Her now lover was sad letting her go but it was for the best for her. He followed her shortly after her death. And life continued.
Thanks for the amazing time !
__________________ The time with Herbert, my random married husband and my stolen kid ________________________
Remember the city that was populated by different Eves after the update ? With Tarr's and other Families, one starting with S... I think ?
Well anyway, I was reborn there for the sixth time I believe. My life as a toddler wasn't very exciting and I had a lot of suicide babies later on.
One of the kids who stayed was Herbert. Herbert .... well .... he was never happy. Since his birth, he always made an angry face. Every attempt on making him smile didn't work, not even his grandmother or my knife could persuade him to smile.
But one guy could. He came to me and made the same face as Herbert. And Herbert was very pleased and finally showed a smile. That's when it hit me ! It was his father. I mean, they had the same expression and the same hair ! So I told Herbert that he looks exactly like his dad, which made him even more happier, and told the guy that he is now my husband. He didn't protested.
Since my husband was always somewhere running around, doing some random job, I was left alone most of the time, with no child to take care of. So I went to the fire and watched the women putting down their child, grabbed something to eat and came back to put their child back in their arms. I was jealous. I wanted that too.
So I waited there and after a lady parked her child near the fire and went away to eat something, I grabbed the kid and declared him as mine. I gave him a name and showed him around town, ignoring the lady that demanded me to give her kid back.
He later died in my arms, even though I could still breastfeed. That's when the lady found me again and angrily said to give her her son back. I grabbed a basket, put his bones in it and handed it to her with the words : "Here, you can have him back. Don't need him anymore."
I wish I could have seen her face, but I left as fast as I could, laughing.
I never saw that woman again until I was an old woman. That's when she appeared again, this time with a knife and the goal to kill me. She didn't manage to stab me and everyone was left confused. I hope she didn't got in any trouble for that.
But it was so much fun and I really had a good laugh !
I was Hope West ^^
Almost died because mother had stuffed me in all those clothes and had put me on a wooden floor tile that was in the desert. Luckily, she managed to feed me just as I hit one food bar.
My first daughter vanished after promising me to try and survive. Didn't go that well.
My second one stayed for a while but passed soon after her younger sister, my last girl, died while dancing around the berry farm. Since I was already grey and dry, I had to run after her with a berry in my hand, trying to feed her. This didn't go well either.
I was devastated, so much for the name Hope.
But I had a fun time ! I wanted to build a fertility church, so future women could go there and pray to the mother of fertility to have more children. I went to my brothers and told them my idea.
My brother, Lucky West I believe, was very confused.
"Is this real ? Do you really get more children when building this church or are you rping ?"
"Of course it is real!"
"Oh cool"
Never laughed this much ^^
Some man tried cheering her up, as he showed her his lambs she cried that he's "strangling them". When we wanted to bring my wife some puppies she told us shes allergic to fur...
Oh no ...
I had two kids - a wonderful daughter and son (who were hated by Ugochukwu's mother too) because I named them Ugochukwu to honour my wife. My love wasnt happy about this and cried, remembering how kids used to bully her because of her name...
As I got infertile, I started getting sad. I felt like my wife didnt care about me anymore... And I asked her:
"Do you even love me?"
And the words she spoke have broken my heart. "I dont feel anything anymore."
OH NO !
Crying, I told her Im going to kill myself - and I ran into a bear in tundra. With a wound in my chest i crawled back into the village, seeing Ugochukwu run to me, and everything faded to black....
That broke my heart how sad !
About that, your dead mom here, clearly I did die and didin't kill you by bear.... But i respawned, and fortunately wiped that town off the face off the earth
. No more girls or women after I unleashed two bears onto the town. And then, the end XD
You do know that, those kind of actions don't make you a lot of friends and will give you a golden ticket, first class, to donkey town ?
My siblings and I helped our mom, Eve Cuomo, to get this place started. She found the perfect place and worked so hard for her future grandchildren. And so did everyone else who was born in this town and made it this beautiful place that is now.
And then you come around and "fortunately" killed of the city ?! Shame on you ! >:(
Your mother seems like she was a kind person
I have found your note, next to a grave with a gravestone. I'm not sure if it was the right one but I thought, Zack should have a nice grave, that no one could destroy so easily. So I wrote "Mother" on it and placed the note there. I also planted a tree behind it and made sure that it will be watered, so it'll look nice later on.
I hope you will get so see it one day.
Starknight_One wrote:It sounds like an ideal situation. I'd have liked to be part of that, but I've only been playing a week. Ah well. I'll try my best for all my children, but in certain situations, I'm going to favor the girls. Sorry boys.
A week really? I'm surprised you can eve in your first week. In my first week, I still took five minutes to build a fire. Good job Starknight_One.
It makes more sense that you would favor girls now. Eveing is hard for new players, especially with a large family to feed.
He/She is a special little snowflake
"xD" is getting used more and more ...
So we can't have the name Garfield but my son can run around with the name Babyboy ?
F followed by H
I also would like to have the possibility to carry my child around while working let's say on the farm or forge. The kid could have a look of the town while I carry on my task.
Tea wrote:Sakai was a very kind man who was working at the pen, feeding and sheering the sheep, his whole life. When I gave him his blue hat and blue shoes, I can't remember him having a backpack, let alone a knife or a file.
Your mother told me that he took the backpack from a toddler, that had a knife in it, so she assumed that he was a griefer. I highly believe that the file was with the knife in the backpack all along and he simply didn't notice.
She was angry at him because he took the backpack of her toddler and killed him for that. And since she was lying when telling me that he attacked her first (seriously, he didn't. I was there when she stabbed him first), I was scared that she might attempt to kill another person who we couldn't heal, given the fact that all the pads were dirty.
In the end, she tried to kill me twice but neither of us died. She and I died of old age and so did the "drama" with us ^^
Then I'm sorry for his death, and the trouble that was caused. I kept the knife from being used for anything until I passed it on to a Boop girl who was running the kitchen, when I got old. I didn't see any other Shekells at the time, so I felt a cousin who was cooking was the logical choice to have it. I even told her where there was much wheat to be gathered, near where I made baskets.
It was a fun life, and I'm pretty sure I contributed much more than I ever took from town. I hope we run into each other in a better life, though.
I'm glad that you had a fun time ! I wish I could have given you a nice blue hat as well but that will be for the next life
Also to my other eve kid: its OK! It happens to the best of us!
http://lineage.onehouronelife.com/serve … id=1254203
That was me ^^ I got a mini heart attack when the boar jumped at me out of nowhere. Sorry I couldn't manage to keep the family line going !
Tea wrote:Hey Sakai Boop aka Blue Hat Guy!
I tried to kill that Lady who murdered you. But I was so laggy and didn't manage to do it ...
She told me that you were a griefer because .... you took the bp with the knife from her kid. That you wanted to kill her first. Sigh. She denied to have dirtied all of the pads but I didn't believe her. I would have healed you ...
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed your hat ! Next time we meet again, I will make you a new one.
Xavier Boop
A boy has no name, but will keep his knife safe. I remember you, Xavier Boop, trying to get me to give you my knife so you could kill my mother, Shiny Shekell. Shame on you.
I found Sakai's bones. He had a knife, and a file. Seems like intent to harm the village. I brought the file back to the forge, gave his remaining clothes to the village, and kept the backpack with the knife. Exploring south and west a bit, I found a large plain with many rabbits and much wild wheat; I cut wheat, threshed it, made baskets. Caught rabbits, took them to town, skinned them and made clothes. And that was pretty much my life; I stayed out of the drama (and the village) as much as possible.
As I was dying, I found a cousin who was working to keep the kitchen going. I gave her the knife... I hope it doesn't cause more trouble.
Thank you, cousins, for letting a poor nameless Shekell boy make a contribution. I'm happy I could help.
Sakai was a very kind man who was working at the pen, feeding and sheering the sheep, his whole life. When I gave him his blue hat and blue shoes, I can't remember him having a backpack, let alone a knife or a file.
Your mother told me that he took the backpack from a toddler, that had a knife in it, so she assumed that he was a griefer. I highly believe that the file was with the knife in the backpack all along and he simply didn't notice.
She was angry at him because he took the backpack of her toddler and killed him for that. And since she was lying when telling me that he attacked her first (seriously, he didn't. I was there when she stabbed him first), I was scared that she might attempt to kill another person who we couldn't heal, given the fact that all the pads were dirty.
In the end, she tried to kill me twice but neither of us died. She and I died of old age and so did the "drama" with us ^^
Unfortunately no
It will still show as "No Relation".
Petition to have Dads and Adoptive Parents !
Hey Sakai Boop aka Blue Hat Guy!
I tried to kill that Lady who murdered you. But I was so laggy and didn't manage to do it ...
She told me that you were a griefer because .... you took the bp with the knife from her kid. That you wanted to kill her first. Sigh. She denied to have dirtied all of the pads but I didn't believe her. I would have healed you ...
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed your hat ! Next time we meet again, I will make you a new one.
Xavier Boop
When I first started to play, I had at least 5 children who survived till adulthood. Even as an Eve I had at least 3 daughters and a couple of sons who stayed and survived. In one life, I had ten kids and only two suicided.
Now, I'm lucky to have at least ONE girl staying and living, while playing as an Eve or in a big city.
I just finished a life, where I was the daughter of Eve West. I was the only kid that stayed, every one else ran away even though we were living in an advanced town with another family. The place was great, but not many kids stayed. The other women were struggling as well, every kid they had suicided as soon as they were born. With my only daughter killed by a bear and the last woman of the town going grey, the town died.
Suiciding as soon as you are born is a dick move, even more if you are a girl. And if you suicide right at the forge, you my friend are a jerk!
I know you really liked the life you had before and you want to go back to that town but there are a lot of great cities that you might like as well. Being born as a kid to an Eve or a mother in a big town, it is your job to stay alive and to keep the place running, doesn't matter if boy or girl. And if that place suck, just find a better spot.
I would ask those suicide kids if they want to be stabbed but most of them don't even stop and just run until they die. And running after them is useless and might get me killed by an idiot. But I have no idea what else to do. You can't force them to stay.
I suggested once to have an option when you start playing :
Either as
- an Eve
- a kid of an Eve
- a kid in an advanced family tree
If you don't want to be reborn in that town over and over again, just ask to be stabbed. And please die far away from town. Those damn bones that those suicide kids are leaving are really annoying and are taking so much space away.
I was your mom, Robin Furry ^^
How sweet making me a grave, thank you darlin ! When people told me that there was a bear south east of town, I took the bow and only arrow we had to shoot the bear and maybe lead him away from town. But then I came across the pen and there a saw the bear, captured. It was a great idea capturing the bear in the pen ! Too bad he didn't want to learn any tricks ...
You were my favorite child, your sister was very distant to me and didn't talk much. But shhh don't tell her
FeverDog wrote:TrustyWay wrote:As an european, this kind of thread about races are always funny. This is such an american problem, but you extended your problem world wide. Where I live racism doesn't exist except if you are dumb and believe everything.
Well racism doesn't exist either in the U.S. "except if you are dumb and believe everything."
If you think racism doesn't exist in Europe, you're nuts. It also exists in South America, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and, yes, Africa. The particular form it takes in America is obviously specific to America but try visiting Southeast Asia as a Pakistani. Try visiting Eastern Europe or China as an African. Try visiting Japan as anything other than Japanese. Try coming in from the countryside into urban Africa. Try finding a spouse if you're a dark skin Indian other than another dark skin Indian. Tell an Arab from the northern suburbs of Paris that racism is only an American problem.
Racism takes many different forms and is highly specific to context, country, the people being racist and the people being shit on.
Well i live in South America, and no, racism is not the same here, as it is in the Usa, here the word nigger is not offensive, in fact it doesnt mean anything. Then i ask you, why should we adapt to whatever social rule there is in the Usa?
I feel realy offended that you think you have the right to censor us, since you do not own the universal truth.
Like FeverDog says, racism comes in every different shape and every country has them. They might be different for each of them. Even every individual sees a thing as racist or not, they might be offended by it or don't even care.
But just because we don't see something as racist, doesn't mean another person does too. That someone might be hurt and be offended by your words or actions.
I don't think that it's a form of censuring a word that for you isn't a big deal. It is a big deal for a lot of people and we should respect that.
If the Japanese take off their shoes before entering their homes, you should respect that and do it too when visiting. If the people of an island in Indonesia have a tradition that on a certain day, no one is allowed to leave their houses during a certain time, you should respect that and stay at home. If your friend gets hurt because you called them fat, you should respect their feelings and stop calling them that. If a group of people doesn't want you to use the N Word, you should respect that.
This game isn't very different from the world we live in. We all come from different countries, with different believes and cultures, hopes and dreams, with only one goal in common : playing this beautiful game and rebuilding civilization, together and with respect for each of us.
Just because you can't SEE the person playing your uncle, doesn't mean you can through all your respect for them overboard and call them names that might hurt them.
Oh wow, good for you dealing with that kid without getting killed yourself ^^
I agree, too many knifes are a common problem in big cities. Either there is one person holding all of them or toddlers who can't use them yet.
Yes, knifes a important. The Baker needs one, the shepherd needs one but do you really need seven knifes in one city? If your really want to have guardians in your city, find a handful of people who are hardworking and who you trust, distribute the knifes to them and there you go.
But by looting a corpse and taking their knifes is not the only way to get them. They are easy to make in advanced cities and frankly, I don't often see a smith who sticks to the forge and has an eye what tools are being made. I was once born in a big city and was given the crown. With the help of another lady, we made sure that pads were being made and no one took the needles from the medic station. While helping the towns people, I saw a guy with an unfinished knife in his hand. I managed to grab it from him while he ate something.
There were no smith, people came to the forge and made their own tools that they needed. So no one noticed that guy using the ore for a knife. We had at least four to five knifes and on my question on why he made a new one, he answered "For Hunting."
"You don't need a knife to hunt. Use a bow."
"I want to hunt rabbits."
"Use a snare then."
"It's to get the skin off."
"You can use a flint chip for that."
I decided not to kill him and melt down the blade that he made. He might have been misinformed or he really intended to kill someone. Now some of you might tell me that I should have killed him, but letting him live seemed to me like the right thing to do.
He starved shortly after and no one got hurt.
Always keep and eye on the forge. Tell your people that you have enough knifes and that new ones shouldn't be made. Distribute your knife to the baker, the smith, the doc, the shepherd and if you still have too many, hide the remaining one far, far, far away.
A penguin in the desert ... he looked very suspicious !
Have the same problem ^^
Where you Eve Echard ?
Update : It only shows you a hatchet but it stays a berry bush. You can continue to pick berries and after you picked two or three, it will go back into a berry bush with only one berry missing.
All the berries will disappear once you've picked two berries out of the magic berry bush.
I think it'll be fine.
Sure, the first weeks will become a bit chaotic, but I have faith that all the kind and amazing people here on the forum will guide and teach those new souls.
Don't forget, you too had your first hard weeks in OHOL, I surely did a lot of mistakes in my first lifes.
Yes, there will be some players who will take the dark path, killing everyone and destroying everything, but there will be kind players who really want to learn and become better at this game. Take them under your wing, teach them, give them tips and tricks, show them a great time and they will never forget that player who was kind and patient with them.
Had that too, my "twin brother" was born just a moment later. Never had a twin so was confused why this random guy got to be my twin. Almost got me killed because they didn't want to feed twins.
I also don't feed kids, who instead of saying H demand to have a BP or jump out of my arms to show me that they want the seal coat on the floor. Be polite, say at least H and I might give you that coat if no one else needs it.
I'm glad to hear that ! Let's hope they don't start stabbing each other later on ^^