Whelp, That's a Paddlin': Let's Play Oregon Trail!

[Bob The Mercenary]

Alright, need five able bodies to make the trek west. Who's ready for the trail?!

Need player name and age. Also I always have trouble deciding on an occupation because I don't know if I want to be realistic or strategic. I know being a doctor or blacksmith helps gameplay, and banker starts you with the most money...I'll think of something.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/BobtheMercenary/ot1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/BobtheMercenary/ot2.jpg

[rpgdemon]

I'll play, and I demand to be a carpenter.

[Krylo]

Cholera Jim. Maximum Age.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

What Krylo said.

Also, the only rations that will be allowed are bullets and bacon. Anything else we need we can just scavenge.

EDIT: Set all the other party member's ages to the minimum allowed. ENTIRE WAGON IS BABIES!

[Krylo]

Also, the only rations that will be allowed are bullets and bacon. Anything else we need we can just scavenge.

EDIT: Set all the other party member's ages to the minimum allowed. ENTIRE WAGON IS BABIES!

+1

[Bob The Mercenary]

So everyone's babies or everyone but Krylo?

Also I can only choose a profession for myself.

[Thadius]

Kiiiiiiinda thinking you shoulda put this in the 'Playing Games' forum, but maybe that's me.

Requesting a spot, and since I know nothing of how to beat this game, I might very well find it amusing to watch me die due to various things.

Or I could be evil and say that you have to make it to your destination with EVERYONE alive, and any time someone dies, you have to reload.

Yeah I think I'll do that.

[Krylo]

So everyone's babies or everyone but Krylo?

Not Krylo. Cholera Jim.

[McTahr]

Kiiiiiiinda thinking you shoulda put this in the 'Playing Games' forum, but maybe that's me.

Let's Plays are in Playing Games. Forum games are specifically things like caption contests, werewolf/mafia, whatever. Moving etc.

[Fifthfiend]

I totally want to make a thread now called "Fuck Oregon Trail, Let's Play 'Fuck Oregon Trail, Let's Go Find El Dorado!'"

[Kim]

I'm thirding everyone babbies but Cholera Jim.

[Flarecobra]

So Cholera Jim is a Pedo?


And I nominate Derps McHuchins.

[Solid Snake]

Dammit I wanted to join in the fun but I'm sure as hell not being a baby.

New Idea: NAME THE CHARACTERS AFTER PONIES

Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle and the gang can go on another adventure!

[Kim]

So Cholera Jim is a Pedo?

naw he a babbysatter

sit on dem babbies jim

sit right on dem

[Solid Snake]

Also I'm glad to know that Bob owns the superior version of the Oregon Trail.

[Kim]

http://i56.tinypic.com/alt1f8.png

[Flarecobra]

So was Herbert the Pervert from Family Guy.

[Solid Snake]

Stop making a cohesive argument against the inclusion of PONIES, NonCon

You are a traitor to the cause

[POS Industries]

I nominate this gentleman:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o159/posindustries/1284156180944.jpg

His name is Frances "Horsecock" O'Binarystarcluster III.

[Flarecobra]

Must have gotten his name from a shetland pony.

[POS Industries]

Yeah, that ain't all he got from it.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

I nominate this gentleman:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o159/posindustries/1284156180944.jpg

His name is Frances "Horsecock" O'Binarystarcluster III.

I used to have an image I believe was also of this man.
He forded his way through a river, while other saner gentlemen looked on from the absolutely free ferry.

[Solid Snake]

Oh man I can't believe I wasn't the only one who bought several grandfather clocks and transported them west for grins and giggles

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Alright, maybe don't start out as babies, but run into some shennaniganry along the way that does it. Maybe on the way to El Dorado you stumble upon the Fountain of Youth...

[Flarecobra]

Or everyone dies and are reborn as babies?

[mauve]

Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle and the gang can go on another adventure! ....but people randomly DIE in Oregon Trail, Snake!!

"PINKIE PIE has died from SNAKE BITE." "FLUTTERSHY has died from CHOLERA." "TWILIGHT SPARKLE has accidentally been shot during a HUNTING ACCIDENT." Is that what you want, Snake?! IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT????

[Melfice]

Now we really gotta do it.

BOB! I hereby charge with the task of naming all the characters after MLP characters!

[Bob The Mercenary]

So...Oregon Trail: Friendship is Magic then?

[POS Industries]

So...Oregon Trail: Friendship is Magic then?
No.

Cholera Jim and Horsecock O'Binarystarcluster. And whatever Flare said, I guess. Can we please just be funny on our own without dragging pony bullshit into this? Please?

[Nikose Tyris]

I'd love to see "Nikose died of Dysentery" at some point in this. Just throwing that out there.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Cholera Jim, max age. Rest babies named after famous action heroes. No ponies. That is all.

[Solid Snake]

Can we please just be funny on our own without dragging pony bullshit into this? Please?

What do you have against friendship and magic? =/

[Nikose Tyris]

It does get a little old to see it spread everywhere. And I love ponies. Why ruin the magic by making them common and memetastic all over the place?

Does Pinkie Pie REALLY deserve that, Snake?

[POS Industries]

I'd just like to see the originality of the forum community in action. Just tossing ponies in and calling it a day diminishes the lasting charm of the LP. We might get a chuckle now, but later on, when the internet is no longer so pony obsessed, we'll look back on it and the whole thing will be terribly dated, only entertaining in the context of the time it was made.

[Solid Snake]

Does Pinkie Pie REALLY deserve that, Snake?

YES

Is there ever a party Pinkie Pie would not attend
Is there ever a memetastic meme she would not love
I'm ashamed of you Nikose, it is clear you possess no element of harmony

EDIT: POS this forum had better never not be pony obsessed
Do not speak such sad slanders

[Nikose Tyris]

I'm going to throw a vote counter-pony on this one.

And I'm also going to throw Snake's vote counter-pony on this one too.

Yes I can do that.


Just throw together something original and funny- you're a Radio DJ, Bob! You can totally be original and funny!

[Solid Snake]

And I'm also going to throw Snake's vote counter-pony on this one too.

Yes I can do that.


Like hell you can brah
I will stand alone, the one true defender of ponies, the one and only knight of friendship and magic, even as you all desert those who you once respected adored and kneel down to false idols
Even as your hearts are corrupted with the passage of time I shall be valiant
FOREVER

[Revising Ocelot]

Like hell you can brah
I will stand alone, the one true defender of ponies, the one and only knight of friendship and magic, even as you all desert those who you once respected adored and kneel down to false idols
Even as your hearts are corrupted with the passage of time I shall be valiant
FOREVER

Yeah, I'm saving that post somewhere. I'll see if it holds true in a year's time (under the vague assumption that my life hasn't expired/drama-bombed by then).

[Meister]

Yeeeah it's kind of going from cute in-joke to seriously unironically annoying now very rapidly. Ponies are awesome and all but let's stick to the old Oregon Trail from here on out.

[Bob The Mercenary]

Here, I'll compromise. I'll buy you guys a pony as a pack animal.

The journey begins tonight.

[shiney]

YES

Is there ever a party Pinkie Pie would not attend
Is there ever a memetastic meme she would not love
I'm ashamed of you Nikose, it is clear you possess no element of harmony

EDIT: POS this forum had better never not be pony obsessed
Do not speak such sad slanders

It's perfectly fine for the forum to be pony obsessed within the proper pony obsession freedom speech zones. This thread is about Oregon Trail however, which most decidedly shares very little in common with magical friendship or the ponies featured therein. Please do not infest the forum with pony madness. Thanks.

[Marc v4.0]

I have a relevant picture, one that I have been saving for this very moment.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4549162/1372.png


I also like the sound of Cholera Jim and Horsecock O'Binarystarcluster

[Osterbaum]

Count me in if it's not too late yet!

[rpgdemon]

EDIT: POS this forum had better never not be pony obsessed
Do not speak such sad slanders

Managed to just make me not want to see them again for awhile.

[Solid Snake]

Boy, the excessive dog-piling reaction from mods and everyone else was unexpected.

Take a joke, guys! I mean I guess it's sort of 'my fault' that I appear to completely lack whatever gene folks like Nikose and Fifthfiend possess that make it obvious that I'm just foolin' around and being snarky, but it should have been a lot more obvious that I was in fact half-joking and I am not in fact holding secret pagan pony rituals while watching pony marathons, and that I would not in fact require Rob and everyone else here who ever started a project to include MLP references to satiate a rabid fanboyism.

Gosh someone like Fifthfiend needs to open lessons so I can learn his style of wit, because every time I've tried to be playful in a similar dry manner it's backfired on me.

EDIT: Not really pony-specific anymore, just me sad that I apparently have that uber-serious Type A personality type who can't ever goof off without everyone disbelieving that he's actually goofing off.

[Marc v4.0]

It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with god damn some of us are sick to fucking tears of ponies, on every forum and imageboard and all over the goddamn place everywhere we fucking turn it seems. It is Chuck Norris all over again.

[Krylo]

Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked Lauren Faust. The next day she created MLP:FiM.

[rpgdemon]

Boy, the excessive dog-piling reaction from mods and everyone else was unexpected.

Take a joke, guys! I mean I guess it's sort of 'my fault' that I appear to completely lack whatever gene folks like Nikose and Fifthfiend possess that make it obvious that I'm just foolin' around and being snarky, but it should have been a lot more obvious that I was in fact half-joking and I am not in fact holding secret pagan pony rituals while watching pony marathons, and that I would not in fact require Rob and everyone else here who ever started a project to include MLP references to satiate a rabid fanboyism.

Gosh someone like Fifthfiend needs to open lessons so I can learn his style of wit, because every time I've tried to be playful in a similar dry manner it's backfired on me.

EDIT: Not really pony-specific anymore, just me sad that I apparently have that uber-serious Type A personality type who can't ever goof off without everyone disbelieving that he's actually goofing off.

I think it's that you've been uber-serious Type A personality type about similar things before, so it's hard to tell when you're not serious. Granted, I figured it was a joke. Instead,
It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with god damn some of us are sick to fucking tears of ponies, on every forum and imageboard and all over the goddamn place everywhere we fucking turn it seems. It is Chuck Norris all over again.

People do not like having entertainment/recreational stuff forced on them.

[Bob The Mercenary]

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT PONIES IT IS ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM AND BACON AND NIKOSE DYING OF UNCONTROLLABLE DIARRHEA CAN WE GET BACK ON TOPIC PLEASE?!

[Fifthfiend]

Boy, the excessive dog-piling reaction from mods and everyone else was unexpected.

It wasn't so much a dogpile as a bunch of people repeatedly saying "this is seriously getting super annoying, and also kind of threadjackey, please stop" and you being like "nuh-huh! PINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPI NKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINK IEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIE PINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPI NKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINK IEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIE PINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIE"

Like, Snake, you know I would totally, totally have your back if people were unfairly getting on you about shit, much as I have done in the past, right? So please, please believe me when I say that people are totally not-unfairly getting on you and you really need to chill it out.

[Krylo]

We will get back on topic when Cholera Jim and baby Nikose set off on the Oregon trail with nothing but grandfather clocks, along with O'Binarystarcluster III.

[Flarecobra]

No.

Cholera Jim and Horsecock O'Binarystarcluster. And whatever Flare said, I guess.

So Cholera Jim is a Pedo?


And I nominate Derps McHuchins.

And I bet Derps dies of an animal attack.

[Bob The Mercenary]

So Cholera Jim, Horsecock, Derps, Osterbaum and Nikose? Then we're all full unless someone wants to be trail guide. I guess rpgdemon as a carpenter would be good.

[Melfice]

If you've got room for any random person, throw me in.

[Kim]

Can you buy hard liquor in this game? Can you buy nothing but clocks and hard liquor? Can we make this happen?

[Krylo]

So Cholera Jim, Horsecock O'Binarystarcluster III, Derps, Osterbaum and Nikose? Then we're all full unless someone wants to be trail guide. I guess rpgdemon as a carpenter would be good.

FTFY.

Also, I second adding hard liquor to our list of things to buy along with the clocks.

[rpgdemon]

So Cholera Jim, Horsecock, Derps, Osterbaum and Nikose? Then we're all full unless someone wants to be trail guide. I guess rpgdemon as a carpenter would be good.

I have guided many trails in my time. They all reach their destinations.

[Solid Snake]

and you being like "nuh-huh! PINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPI NKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINK IEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIE PINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPI NKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINK IEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIE PINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIEPINKIE"

I'm not sure where you got the impression I was that annoying, but if it seriously sounded anything quite like that then I failed in my attempt to be humorous and that's my fault.

Admittingly, part of my difficulty is kind of distinguishing the greater whole of NPF from the minority of individuals who participate actively in the FiM topic. Based on the FiM topic I was honestly of the opinion that pony lovin' was tolerated and to some extent encouraged here because seriously, even Moderators and other notable personalities have gone on "I love pony" binges, and so I've kind of assumed NPF was my go-to place for acting excited about ponies in a half-joking manner that apparently does not actually come across as not-entirely-serious.

My bad, I'm sorry, etc. etc.

[Bob The Mercenary]

Can you buy hard liquor in this game? Can you buy nothing but clocks and hard liquor? Can we make this happen?

Yes, we would probably all die of hunger and or thirst within the first week, but yes.

Or we could just hunt everything and drink alkaline water.

[Ravashak]

Yes, we would probably all die of hunger and or thirst within the first week, but yes.I approve, unless there are better, more horrible ways to die ;)

[Kim]

Yes, we would probably all die of hunger and or thirst within the first week, but yes.

I fail to see how this would be anything but the best Oregon Trail LP yet.

[Solid Snake]

I'm going to disagree with the consensus because having an LP cut short due to immediate death really isn't all that fun.
I mean by all means, purchase tons of alcohol and lots of clocks, and make poor decisions; just make sure to do just enough to survive long enough to have legitimate fun with it. We don't have to make it to Oregon but it'd be nice to not to die horribly within the first three updates.

[Bob The Mercenary]

...approved.

Though we would at least need two to four oxen to drag our asses. And a gun and bullets. And some cash leftover to get us out of our inevitable desperate straights.

[Nikose Tyris]

CHALLENGE TIME:

*Do whatever it takes to make sure that everyone lives but Nikose
*At least one person breaks all their limbs
*If possible have me die, and then break my leg. In that order.
*Your main trading supply is grandfather clocks. You may obtain other things in game, but beyond a small amount of essentials in the beginning, bring GRANDFATHER CLOCKS.
*Leave while the grass is too frozen for your buffalo.
*Make Babies. At least 2 babies.

[Bob The Mercenary]

I was going to say, purchase oxen and hay to feed them, alcohol, bacon, guns, and whatever money we have left on clocks. We make it a goal to see how many clocks we make it to Oregon with.

If we leave in the winter without clothes though, we're fucked. Especially the babies.

[Solid Snake]

What I want to know is whether it's technically possible to have only a baby survive and progress through the trail
That would be a fairly amazing story

[Bob The Mercenary]

What I want to know is whether it's technically possible to have only a baby survive and progress through the trail
That would be a fairly amazing story

Trail guide dies the game ends. And the guide can't change ages.

[Osterbaum]

Make my name "Kille".

[POS Industries]

I was going to say, purchase oxen and hay to feed them, alcohol, bacon, guns, and whatever money we have left on clocks. We make it a goal to see how many clocks we make it to Oregon with.
You know, I actually think this is a good compromise and a fine challenge.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'm a little concerned that the harsh nature of the trail will break our clocks, rendering them unable to tell a fine time.

[Flarecobra]

Perhaps one of the non-babies can be a clock repairer?

[synkr0nized]

I totally want to make a thread now called "Fuck Oregon Trail, Let's Play 'Fuck Oregon Trail, Let's Go Find El Dorado!'"

This should happen. It's pretty hilarious on its own, and I suspect you driving such a thread would be quite entertaining.

[Bob The Mercenary]

http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?p=1131678#post1131678