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futurebird

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Registered: 2019-02-20

Posts: 1,553

Auntie French Fry, and mysterious population declines

I was born a guy in a mid-sized town. I checked on the berries and sheep and compost as I normally do and all seemed in order.  I planted a little wheat and milk weed and was trying to decided what to do when I noticed a woman with six bowls of palm kernels in the bakery.

"Can I help you make rubber?"

She said yes and asked me to bake, water, re-bake and skim the kernels --so I did. I also noticed some raw potatoes so I baked all of those too. Job done! Why waste kindling?  She seemed happy with my work but then she says:

"save two bowls of palm oil for fries"

ohhh! Oh no. Very "helpful" of me to have baked them all. I am a smart person. Yes.

So, *that's* why there were so many potatoes in the bakery area. Oy. I admitted that I'd baked them all and I think she was kind of annoyed. (Both baked potatoes and fries are a bit underrated. You can put them in your bag! And eating fries makes a munchy noise. I guess fries are bit more efficient? If you get economies of scale and boy did we...!)

Gladly, there were some potatoes growing in a decayed fenced area to the east. A lot of potatoes. Maybe it was a tater shop once. But, the farmer was long gone and the fence in ruins-- so we got all of them and the fry project went on! Disaster averted!

On the edge of town she got the fry cookery going and made enough fries that that town will have a serious cholesterol problem. I delivered the fries to every part of town. (Delivering the fries was more work than it needed to be because you can't put them in a cart. I was so sad not to be able to roll up on people with six plates of french fries like "get your fried here!") I showed a few people how to eat 'em and stash 'em in your bag. Nothing like finding an old lint-covered french fry from weeks ago at the bottom of your book-bag. Yum yum.

Making rubber, then french fries is a good pair of jobs for a life even if I was mostly just tagging along. But, then auntie french fry died. I was really sad...

So, I decided to bury her. Struggling trough my tears, I placed a single french-fry on her grave and as the music swelled I thought about all the happy munching and carts with rubber tires she brought to our town.

Thanks for letting me help! (I think I got in her way more than helping, but it was still a lot of fun.)

On another note: the population of the town seemed to be falling, but there were no murders or food issues. I could not tell the reason for the decline and encouraged some of the women to yum. They didn't seem to think this was needed after all it was a big town and it looked like there were a lot of people around... but the population went from 7 fertile women to just 3 in my life, I found it alarming... In my way of looking at this game that decline meant I was doing somthing wrong.

But I was a guy, and the town had food, was not a total dump, milkweed gardens, lots of iron... what could I do to address the falling population? Maybe make a yum station? I think they will be OK. 3 is a lot, but a nice town like that should have an *increasing* population with every woman having more than two kids who survive to be adults. I think it might have just been time of day, and most of the people not really thinking about it as a problem because the town didn't seem empty, but we all know how fast that can change.

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CatX

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Registered: 2019-02-11

Posts: 466

Re: Auntie French Fry, and mysterious population declines

I was there about the same time, if it was the Aaberg family!
I had two daughters, but I later found their bones. They died as kids. Probably should have asked them if they were new...

A bear was loose north of town in my old years.

I don't play with the mod, so I have no way of telling for certain if a big town is on the decline.

Thank you for the fries, I had a taste late in my life

Spoonwood

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Registered: 2019-02-06

Posts: 4,369

Re: Auntie French Fry, and mysterious population declines

French fries do give you more pips absent yum than baked potatoes.  A french fry fits in your backpack, but I'm not so sure about a french fry with ketchup.  A whole baked potato gives you more yum for space, but it's not much.  So, fries before potatoes might be the better idea.

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