How many oil kiddies did you train today?

futurebird · 2019-05-09 19:34:30

I was born into a town that had seen better days, someone made all those buckets, the lovely milkweed farm, the oil well that was oh so close to the town center... but my mother and some others were huddled around a little fire set up far too close to the kiln (probably in a rush after the main fire went out) running out of wood and munching the half eaten pie of generations bygone.

They were talking about how there was no water. No one knew how to run the kerosine pump! When I was old enough I discovered 4 baskets of charcoal sadly dumped by the pump from the people who had tried to light it and failed. There was also no kerosine ... but the oil was close and by the time I had my first kid I'd made some. I show her as a baby all of the steps to getting it running.

Then I did the same with my next kids.

Soon the nursery was moved to a better location, the berry bushes blushed with orbs of sweetness and the happy sound of pumps and oil being refined filled the town.

My point is no one knows anything about pumps, the main player-base is still catching up, but making oil is fun and one of my sons went nuts doing it while his sister smithed tanks for him to fill.

What even fewer know is about the diesel engine. By the time I was old the town had one, though sadly it was rather far from the town center. I think the kerosine pump will be used till it breaks for that reason alone.

So, if you know of these things now is the time to teach the little ones. I was pleased that every kid I had in this life stayed! And nearly all of them took up one of the things I showed them.

MultiLife · 2019-05-10 03:49:36

Were you Mini? Two of her kids didn't stay though so maybe not...? Maybe you were that one old lady who talked about the fire and how we shouldn't have two.

Almost went crazy due to people sitting at the fire. Knife holders weren't killing sheep, pies were running out with nobody baking and backpacks were decaying. Berry bushes started to languish.
One man explained how the pump needs to be lit up, so I tried. "Kerosene tank with full boiler" it said, so it sounded like it's ready, but nope. Would've been a great life to learn everything about running kerosene pumps, but I became busy holding the cluttered town together by doing all the jobs the people at the fire didn't do.

I cleaned the place as a kid, then got rabbits (some made to pies, some I grilled, made lots of clothes/backpacks), started to get kids, smithed stuff like shears when asking thrice where they are and nobody helping, crafted a knife to shepherd and finally got mutton, made a smithing hammer when nobody answered to my question if we had one, made two tanks for kerosene when I was asked to, cleaned the tiny sheep pen, then hauled emergency soil for bushes. Fished a bit to get rid of the worm clutter.
There were old twin women who came to make pottery in the smithy when I was trying to smith, it was just a terrible timing with them in there. One had the only round stone closeby and she just held onto it as my forge fires and steel is cooling (smithing hammer in the making). It was very unfortunate. And ofc their heads were in front of the smith's flat stones.. ouch.

A man also tried to shoot me with a bow. I noticed him eyeing me and sneaking towards me. I walked around some dug up rocks and moved in odd patterns, stopping here and there. He clicked a tile where I just had been and his character swapped the bow with the rock and he started to move slowly with the rock in his hands. I grabbed his bow (still had my knife too but the town had pads) and shot him.
I think it might've been Nirvana who tried to feed my babygirl born in the snow on my 'murder slow-down' (hi Nirvana, if you're around; thank you for checking my hunger need and trying to keep the baby alive. I'm glad I got the guy. I was the same lady who sat with you in the nursery fire, recapping my life in my late fifties. Forgot the whole killing thing when recalling my past. )

Anyways yes, thought it'll be a crappy life with the snowy town (sheep partly in snow, farms extended towards snow), and my mom (Mini) leaving me behind as I was born. Glad the "rp moms" around the fire were there for that moment. Would've been awesome to practice oil and kerosene but yeah, someone gotta fix the place up.
- Emberlynne

Last edited by MultiLife (2019-05-10 05:30:47)

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#1 2019-05-09 19:34:30

How many oil kiddies did you train today?

#2 2019-05-10 03:49:36

Re: How many oil kiddies did you train today?

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