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Via radio!

Today I lived couple lives. I was ginger lady Demetria, who convinced white guy to borrow me a horse, so I could go make some kero (S-E from our town). While doing it I stumbled upon abandoned town, with neat stuff, nice foods, and a radio...

When I did my job as ginger, I came back in another life for the radio parts. I installed it in brown family, but they died out. So I took it to Tarr family. Then, as white guy, I watched how things get escalated pretty quickly. First, somebody start some show, then someone started to arguing with the radio hoast. I observed how more people started to gather next to radio, there were groups of 4-5 ppl in both towns.

After some time I lose my interest in that, so I made a journey to seek new brown family (north-west, far). When I was coming back, I spotted murdering (!) to the east. Finally I came across ginger guy, who was stealing our radio! In a short conversation I convinced him that I bringed that parts, he let me take it back and keep it, if we cool down with that trash talk.

These are my thoughts after that experiment - radio is a dangerous thing and conflict can escalate very quickly, war is in the air. It just need a spark. It's either boredom and trash talking, or stealing stuff from others. But! 'Radio' conflicts involves bigger group of people. I don't think stealing would provoke war, and recently I saw that kind of conflict between browns and gingers.

Also I am curious - some people shouted about declaring war. Why we can't declare war, as elders, through radio?

Not long ago, Jason appeared in gingers town. He built a fence and stored diesen engine there, along with a pump valve.

The fence wasn't a long-therm solution, so I built stone walls instead.

See that ginger inside? He was locked there, using kero on the car (fortunately not all), while owner wasn't in town. I was black, so I don't know how it happens.

On the next day people was still using the property. Then, the gate falls during my life, so I made new one. I was waiting to see if my kids where capable of owning, but they wasn't even responding to 'hi'. When I was going for iron with an engine, some guy interested in my actions. I explained myself and that we're keeping things there. He said there is no such as 'we', so I proposed (because he was so curious of town goods) I'll give him the gate. He said I should give it to family, I did. Minutes later I started to think about it.

Yes, family needs it, but there are griefers in family. Couple days ago, I saw a guy who took a radio (daniel cells), in front of everyone, from gingers bb room and carried it outside of town. I asked wtf he is doing, no response, so I cursed him. So, I thought we need to keep radio behind the gate (receiver was already there, visible from bb room).

After I gave ownership to fam, the radio was stolen the same way. I catched my daughter on doing it. She was suprised and wanted to kill me xD, I cursed her too.

Because of that, I am SURE that giving gate to whole family is a mistake. See, that guy was right - there is no such as 'we'. There is a collective of family who's working, doing nothing/not so much or griefing in a town. There is also a group, not big, who's making diesels, oil (1% of players bringing it, right?) and radios. These valuable things should be stored and the gate should belong to two types of people:

- someone who you observe for some time, so you know that person is working for town
- someone who knows how to make oil, or radio, and can prove it by explaining it

I'm not saying there won't be failures with this approach, but it will reduce losing valuable stuff.