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entrancelogs2014-08-31 10:42 pm
vates) wrote in entrancelogs2014-08-31 10:42 pm
here lies kevin tran
Who: Kevin Tran and YOU.
Where: The Oregon Trail obviously.
When: All during the event.
Rating: PG probably.
Summary: Kevin only makes it to Day 2 before he breaks his leg, which rapidly gets infected, leading to his death on Day 3. And after he dies? What else does he have to do except heckle and critique everyone else?
The Story:
Day 1: Kevin spends the first part of the day grappling with the weird nostalgia that is being plunked down in apparently Oregon Trail Town, combined with the fear that they're about to go and live out, he guesses, the Oregon Trail. How screwed are they? And how many pounds of food is it per person again? How do you even prevent dysentery? Do they sell bottled water anywhere?
Day 2: They have to cross a river, and Kevin votes to caulk the wagon and float it across, all the way, thouh the guide is tempting, honestly. He never did it that way in the game because he has some self-respect, but maybe that's different in person.
Even though Kevin survives the river crossing, he manages to trip and break his leg, and it promptly gets infected. The infection's actually moving pretty quickly, and by the end of the day, he's not just in pain; he's shivering with a fever and chills and not able to keep any liquids down.
Days 3-5: Overcome with infection, Kevin passes away soon into the third day, and mostly he's just really freaking annoyed. At least he has some experience at being a ghost, and he figures out the new rules of ghostdom so he can visit his friends and survey (and critique) their attempts at traversing the trail. Actually, being a ghost is pretty fun. It's sort of like playing the game, except he doesn't have to make any actual choices and he just gets to heckle people to their face instead of to the computer screen. Though it does suck watching people actually get dysentery.
Where: The Oregon Trail obviously.
When: All during the event.
Rating: PG probably.
Summary: Kevin only makes it to Day 2 before he breaks his leg, which rapidly gets infected, leading to his death on Day 3. And after he dies? What else does he have to do except heckle and critique everyone else?
The Story:
Day 1: Kevin spends the first part of the day grappling with the weird nostalgia that is being plunked down in apparently Oregon Trail Town, combined with the fear that they're about to go and live out, he guesses, the Oregon Trail. How screwed are they? And how many pounds of food is it per person again? How do you even prevent dysentery? Do they sell bottled water anywhere?
Day 2: They have to cross a river, and Kevin votes to caulk the wagon and float it across, all the way, thouh the guide is tempting, honestly. He never did it that way in the game because he has some self-respect, but maybe that's different in person.
Even though Kevin survives the river crossing, he manages to trip and break his leg, and it promptly gets infected. The infection's actually moving pretty quickly, and by the end of the day, he's not just in pain; he's shivering with a fever and chills and not able to keep any liquids down.
Days 3-5: Overcome with infection, Kevin passes away soon into the third day, and mostly he's just really freaking annoyed. At least he has some experience at being a ghost, and he figures out the new rules of ghostdom so he can visit his friends and survey (and critique) their attempts at traversing the trail. Actually, being a ghost is pretty fun. It's sort of like playing the game, except he doesn't have to make any actual choices and he just gets to heckle people to their face instead of to the computer screen. Though it does suck watching people actually get dysentery.
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But for now, he's content to just rub shoulders with his fellow ghosts whenever he encounters them.
"Right, I never thought I'd say it, but being a ghost is really not as bad as I thought it might be, at least when compared to the alternative." He nods in agreement with Kevin. "Not a bad life, all things considered."
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At least, he assumes that isn't going to happen here, but that isn't really how Oregon Trail works. Maybe he shouldn't trust the system that much, but so far he hasn't seen much that would make him think otherwise.
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If being a ghost here is limited to floating around and occasionally frightening people (whether on purpose or by accident), then the Doctor's decided he can resign himself to that. If it were anything like what Kevin's just described, then he'd have no other choice but to find a way to cease to exist as a ghost, because killing people is not something he's inclined to do, not again.
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"How did you die?"
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"I wouldn't say I'm an expert on the illnesses from this time period, but I know enough to be reasonably certain I contracted dysentery. Not pleasant, let me tell you." Although, he supposes that in the grand scheme of ways to die, it's better than drowning while crossing a river or being accidentally shot by someone else.
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"No, definitely not. I broke my leg pretty badly, and it got infected. No dysentery, though. I drank a lot of alcohol."