Welcome, my little critters, to Tales from the Crit Season 2, The Level Up.
We're an actual play podcast with an ever-changing cast of players making our way through a bunch
of different RPG systems, from micro-RPGs to some of the more well-known role-playing
games out there, and the occasional highly narrative tabletop game.
Content warnings can be found in the episode's description.
My name is Riley Groves, and I am the Crit Keeper on this episode of Tales from the Crit.
Welcome to Season 2 of Tales from the Crit.
Very excited to start this season after our extremely successful award-winning first season.
We are back.
And this time, we're going to play a quiet year.
This game's a little bit different than all the ones we've played before.
It's a bit more narrative, and we're not actually going to be taking the roles of characters.
So I will be playing as well.
And at the table, I have Connor.
Hello.
Derek.
Hello.
And Rebecca.
Hi.
And as always, we're going to get to know each other just a little bit better, even
though I found out a lot about you people in Season 1.
We're going to keep doing this.
So our question for today, before we get started, is name something on your to-do list that
never gets done.
I can start.
It's like any home project for me.
I need to reroute in front of my front door.
I need to finish my bathroom, which is, you know, half painted one color, half painted
not.
And I have like a vanity to go in there and all this stuff.
But that's not happened yet.
It's been years now that we've had all the stuff.
So that's mine.
What about the lights in the kitchen?
Lights in the kitchen.
I've got lights to replace in the kitchen.
I've got some drywall to finish up.
It sounds like all you got a lot.
Home projects are never done.
They're just in progress.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
I'm in the same boat.
I've got a list.
Mine is specifically the basement.
I'm like, all right, I'm going to organize this basement.
I got a lot of stuff in there, going to organize it.
And you know, I make progress every now and then.
Like, okay, good.
Got the tool corner all organized.
And then I clean another part of the house or another room.
I'm like, oh, hey, look, the rest of the basement is just covered in all the stuff.
I moved from somewhere else again.
So that's what we do.
It's either this room or the office that is clean and never both.
Just move the shit back and forth, whatever.
Mine is pretty much moving stuff back and forth from the game room to the office.
I can't even use the office right now.
It's terrible.
Yeah.
But I don't know.
I don't throw away stuff very good.
Yeah, it's where all the wayward fitness equipment has ended up.
It's sad in there.
Yeah.
You'll find the motivation eventually.
You've got to...
No.
When you do, if you don't have it, then you're going to have to get it again.
That is what happened.
By the time it comes, then motivation's gone.
Yeah.
So I've recently been wanting to buy more workout equipment and I've been holding off.
My justification is I can't get myself to work out three days in a week.
I shouldn't buy anything new because I have plenty to accomplish three days a week with
now and I don't think just buying new stuff is going to motivate me to do it more.
So I figured as an incentive to working out, I could get more stuff if I could prove to
myself that I have a track record of using any of it at all.
Oh, if you use some of the stuff you have, you're like, okay, I've used all this stuff
now.
I deserve to buy this new piece.
Exactly.
It's a better system than doing it first.
Please don't buy more stuff.
Please get your things should be you have to get rid of one thing before you can get
another because that giant punching bag over there is ridiculous.
Yeah.
Well, it sits next to the rowing machine.
Whoa.
And I did buy that, but you loved it.
You used it a lot.
Yes.
I'm blaming you for it.
That's why I bought the punching bag.
Only one punching bag?
Oh, no, I bought a new punching bag.
Okay.
It's way too heavy to get down the stairs.
It's huge.
And I had nowhere to put it.
So it stayed in the living room for a while.
I hated it.
Until thanksmas one year and then it got moved.
And never came back again.
Never came back again.
Banished.
Banishing.
Again, same boat.
Ah, the human condition.
All right.
So let's get into A Quiet Year.
This game is quite a bit different as I alluded to before.
It is a map drawing game.
We're going to collectively explore the struggles of a community.
And for our purposes, that community is going to be setting up a new community on an uninhabited
planet.
It's a game about the community and difficult choices and landscapes.
And we're going to make decisions about the community and for the community.
Parts of the map are literal cartography.
So we'll be making a map that people can follow along with as we make our way through the
seasons.
And other parts are a bit more symbolic.
So we're going to work together to create the community.
But we're also going to kind of be benevolent in that.
And the whole idea is to kind of make decisions not based towards the good or the bad of the
community.
But kind of just benevolently make choices that seem the most interesting or the most
logical or the most fun.
And so we're not actually going to be really taking the part of an NPC unless we're going
to start a conversation.
So it's really open to our imaginations.
And I'm really looking forward to this one.
So we're going to start in spring.
There's four seasons that we're going to get through.
And each season is represented by a different suit of cards.
I believe spring starts with the suit of hearts.
And so we're going to pull a card.
We're going to read the corresponding choices on that card.
And we're going to make decisions and make stuff on the map and all that good stuff.
Before we do that, I'm going to read a little bit of an intro so we know where we're at.
And then we're going to start putting some things on the map.
Sound good?
Sounds great.
All right.
After decades of trying and failing to find a new planet to call home, the human race
now stands at the brink of extinction.
In a final effort for survival, the last remaining humans set their course for XP 676, the most
recently discovered planet and speculated to be the most promising ever found.
But eerily enough, it was discovered in our own solar system, appearing suddenly from
behind Saturn in the human's most desperate time.
We followed the crew of the final transport ship, the Exodus, as it lands on the rocky
surface of XP 676 and prepares to create the final community for the human race.
And as such, we find ourselves as a community standing on the rocky surface of a new planet.
So, before we get started pulling any cards, what we're each going to do is we are going
to each select a feature to be on the map.
So a geographical feature, something to do with the landscape.
So this can be trees, water, a house, you know, whatever, whatever we feel like it being.
Connor, you're going to go first.
Okay.
So, you know, when we land on the surface off far in the distance, we can see a large
crater, you know, kind of far off a large one.
And it looks like there might be some more, but we can definitely probably see quite a
large one.
All right.
And where do you want that to be?
Can I ask a question?
Yeah.
Volcanic or impact?
Impact.
Scary.
Is our landing vessel like just a space shuttle?
It's like a large craft we've crashed into.
It's a landing pod.
It is a ship that is equipped to land and carry a community of 60 to 80 people along
with resources and supplies to create a community and inhabit a planet, you know, as long as
the people get along and, you know, it's a habitable planet to begin with.
So we will call that camp.
Picture a ship there.
I'm not going to draw one necessarily.
So then the impact crater is just going to be on the far side from there.
Is that a good indication of a crater?
Do you want to figure?
That looks great to me.
Okay.
Let's just remember that that's the crater.
Okay.
Derek.
About from the center right to the center bottom, there's a meandering river.
So kind of splitting the land in half.
Starting over on the side.
Meander.
Meander as best as I know how.
Meander, meander, meander.
All right.
Look at that.
Jagged edges and all.
Boom.
Like the fractal tool.
Perfect.
All right.
We have a river on the planet.
And Rebecca.
I think that on the islandy part of the map now that we've made, there's a cave system.
A cave.
Okay.
Like right there?
Yeah.
Closer to the water though.
Closer to the water.
Beautiful.
All right.
We have a cave.
Cool.
And for me, I'm going to add a small forest.
Nice.
And I would say all the trees are pretty stunted, you know, with none really being larger than
20 feet tall.
No sequoias.
Put them on the far side of the map.
So we have some geographical features here on our map.
And so the next thing we need to do is to establish some starting resources.
So we're each going to declare an important resource for the community and we'll collectively
decide which one is in abundance and which others are in scarcity.
Are we going in the same order every time?
Yeah.
Why not?
Connor, ready player one.
Sure.
I'm going to go with iron ore.
Okay.
All right.
Who's keeping track of resources?
Derek, you're on resources.
Connor, you'll be on NPCs.
Rebecca, you're on everything else.
Gotcha.
All right.
Okay.
So our first resource, he said iron ore.
Yep.
Iron ore in the resource category.
All right.
Derek, what resource would you like our community to have to have an abundance?
Or a scarcity.
So we're going to name them now and then we'll decide which one is in abundance and which
ones are.
Okay.
We'll go with fish.
Fish.
Okay.
Good one.
That's good.
So that's like a food.
Rebecca?
I was thinking that the crater probably has some type of like foreign metal to it, which
would probably make it scarce.
Okay.
So unknown metal ore we could say.
Unknown ore something.
Yeah.
I don't know what you would call it.
Alien ore.
Unknown space ore.
There we go.
Okay.
And for me, I'm going to, I'm going to put out oxygen.
That's a good one.
Yeah.
All right.
So as a collective, which ones do we think should be in abundance and which ones, which
one should be in abundance and which three should be scarce?
I really feel like oxygen should be our abundance.
Yes.
Because we, you know, it could make a lot of other things for our community quite a bit.
Yeah, easier.
I agree.
If everything, only one thing can be in abundance.
Yes.
Yeah.
Then I think it should be oxygen.
Derek, any thoughts?
Yeah.
I think oxygen is probably the best one.
Okay.
I wanted to go with like iron or something, but.
Fish was my second choice.
Fish was my first choice, but.
Oxygen would definitely make our progression a lot easier.
It's the logical choice.
I tend to agree too.
So also if we're like, assuming we're on a planet with a oxygen rich atmosphere, which
we can breathe that are having to carry out radishes with us, it makes the most, you know.
Yeah.
It makes it a lot.
We don't have to worry about space suits.
Yeah.
You know, everybody just dies.
I forgot my oxygen tank.
So luckily the river is actually liquid oxygen.
You can just go drink it to breathe that.
Oh, that's cool.
So that was a good thing.
If we didn't have an abundance of oxygen, I was going to be like, that cave's got dry
ice in it.
All right.
So at this point, each week is going to be represented by one flip of the card.
So every time we do something, a week is going to tick by.
Obviously there are four seasons.
There are 13 weeks to each season with the exception of winter.
Winter things change up a bit and we'll get into that a little bit more.
Things are much more difficult in the winter and winter could come and the game can end
at any time during the winter.
So big things there.
So we really want to get our shit together before winter sets in because winter does
make things harder.
So during your turn, everybody's going to take an action and those actions can be to
discover something new, hold a discussion or start a project.
So the first thing we're going to do is to flip the card to find out what affects our
community and then you're going to take an action on your turn.
Sound good?
Yep.
All right.
Five of hearts.
All right.
So there's a disquieting legend about this place.
What is it?
Or alarming weather patterns destroy something.
How and what?
Okay.
I'm going to go with there's a disquieting legend about this place and it's that there
was a race that lived on the planet before and you know, there's people talk about the
signs they see, but they think that they've been driven underground in the entrance of
a nearby cave that many people know where it is.
And this is backed up by sometimes they can hear strange sounds coming from within the
cave and strange sense sometimes at certain times a year.
No shit.
Cool.
All right.
Creepy as fuck.
So what do you want to do on your turn?
My turn, I'm going to discover something new.
Awesome.
And I'm going to discover a ruin in between our village and the forest.
All right.
What kind of ruin?
What's it look like?
It's a couple old disheveled buildings and like just one large building and some containers
inside some pots and some crates maybe.
And that's all that we've discovered of it so far.
It was just reported.
Cool.
All right.
Ruins have been added to the map.
Derek, it is your turn.
So first pull a card.
All right.
Three of hearts and that gets us someone new arrives.
Who or two of the community youngster member younger members get into a fight.
What provokes them?
I am going to say I want to go with the youngsters get in a fight.
Okay.
What provokes them is a berry patch just north of the cave next to the water.
Were they fighting over who gets to take credit for finding it?
No, they're fighting over the berries.
Oh, okay.
Do you happen to know the name of the children that got into a fight?
We will go with Stan and Danny.
Okay, or Stanny for short.
Stanny and Danny.
And would that work as discovering something on my turn?
No, they're separate things, I think.
Yeah, so you can still take an action.
I put the berry patch on the map.
I think we should start a project.
Okay.
And I think it should be a stone wall around our village for protection.
Okay.
So mark down that you're starting a project wherever you want to do it.
And then going to take a D6 and that's going to be your project marker.
As a group, how long do we think building a stone wall around the camp would take?
These count as weeks?
Yes.
Three to four weeks.
I feel four.
I was thinking like six, but...
I think four if you've got people dedicated on it.
So give yourself a four when that reaches completion.
We'll have you narrate what that looks like at the end.
So yeah, you can put like a spooky ghost next to the cave.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, why not?
That also works because sometimes there's funny smells coming out of the cave.
That's right.
So now at the mouth of the cave, we have a symbol of the cave.
Of both a ghost and a stinky trail of weird smell.
All right, Rebecca, it is now your turn.
Oh, I got the seven of hearts.
Where does everyone sleep?
Who is unhappy with this arrangement and why?
Or what natural predators roam this area?
Are you safe?
I think that there are natural predators in the area.
I think they live in the little forest.
I think we're safe for now.
Okay.
What kind of predators?
I think they're like those tiny little dinosaur things.
Those little tiny raptor guys in Jurassic Park.
The compies?
That is what I thought of when you said it.
The chicken sized?
Right?
Yeah, because they have to match the size of the trees.
So they got to be little so they can hide in there.
I think they'd be a good source of meat if we didn't get eaten by them first.
Make sure we build our walls at least.
They can jump.
Yeah, build them high and smooth.
Perfect.
We're going to use a stegosaurus to symbolize them.
We're going to put them at the edge of the forest.
Do you know what that is?
Yes, it's like the outline of a stegosaurus.
No, it's the one with the bulby tail thing.
I don't know, it looks cool like a cave drawing.
That would be an anguillosaurus.
Because the assets are pulled off of several different types of maps, they don't all look
the same.
All right, Rebecca, and on your turn, do you want to start a project, hold a discussion,
or discover something new?
Discover something new.
I want to discover something new.
This might be controversial, but I think that there's a volcano.
At the bottom of the map, between the trees and the water.
No, I lied.
At the bottom right corner of the map.
Okay.
There is a volcano.
It's not active right now, but you never know.
How big is the volcano?
Big.
Real big.
Alarmingly large that no one's seen it before.
Yeah, but it's not active, so maybe we just thought it was a mountain.
Okay.
We have a volcano on the map.
Does that look good?
Yeah, it looks great.
Sweet.
Let's flip the next card.
I'll take this one.
I got the Queen of Hearts.
What is the most beautiful thing in this area?
Or what's the most hideous thing in this area?
I'm going to say the prettiest thing in this area is ever since the ship touched down,
even though the ground is very rocky and it doesn't seem to be covered in grass, all around
the ship and the community, grass and wildflowers have began to grow only around our ship at
Osno.
And on my turn, I am going to start a project.
And the project that I'm going to start is to begin construction on a bridge to cross
the river.
With access to the forest and I feel like that would be a three week project.
We have a team.
Yeah, three.
Yeah, two or three.
Three.
I'll take three.
Awesome.
And thus ends my turn.
Okay, I've drawn the Nine of Hearts.
A charismatic young girl convinces many to help her with an elaborate scheme.
What is it?
She joins her endeavors, start a project to reflect.
Or a charismatic young girl tries to tempt many into sinful or dangerous activity.
Why does she do this?
How does the community respond?
Dang, that's a pretty heavy one.
So this charismatic girl in the community, Sally, has been trying to tempt as many of
her fellow community members to go on an expedition down into the cave because she believes in
a doomsday theory that, you know, took all these people underground that we need to follow
them and that's the safe place because she thinks that the nearby volcano is going to
erupt again and cover everybody.
That's what she believes is connected with the ruins.
And she thinks everybody's gone underground and that's where we need to go.
Cool.
All right.
And most of the members of the community are not very happy with Sally.
They're telling her she needs to calm down and then she's being an alarmist and she should
get back to like not doing that.
Okay, solid.
So on your turn, do you want to start a project, find something new, or have a discussion?
I'm gonna start a discussion.
Okay.
And what person will you be taking the role of?
You can create new people too in case you don't want to be Sally.
Yeah, I'm just gonna be in another concerned townsperson named Georgette and she wants to
call a discussion about the cave and Sally's antics.
And she says, we shouldn't be going to this cave.
We need to leave that alone and someone needs to quiet Sally down.
I'll take the position of a man named Roy.
I'm not with Sally in terms of the doomsday deal here that she's got going on.
I do think we should go down into the caves because they could wield some materials that
we're going to definitely need before winter sets in.
I'm gonna take the position of Lisa who thinks that we should definitely go into the caves
because that volcano is definitely going to erupt.
Sally's onto something.
I am gonna take the opinion of a member named Rodek who is all for going down in the caves
but not sending down the superstitious weirdos who think that there are spirits and doomsday
stuff down there.
He just wants to get the resources out.
Yeah.
Right, Rodek, we gotta get the resources out of the mine so that we can thrive up here.
I don't think people were made to be without sunlight.
We tried that before on earth.
It was just a recipe for disaster.
We don't need the same situation happening over and over again.
I think Lisa's gonna take a contempt point for being called a weirdo.
And then I guess we can just put a little dot next to the cave.
I feel like that's where the discussion was primarily about that.
Yep.
Sounds good.
Anybody have anything else to add to the discussion?
Nope.
I think you should leave your cube over here though so I can see it and remember that you've
got some contempt going on.
Okay.
If only it was an arrow to point at Derek.
Is that the last week before your...
My project is done on my turn once this turn is done.
Okay.
So Connor, anything else to add to your turn?
No.
All right.
That is the end of the discussion.
So Derek, our first project finishes up.
Tell us about that wall that goes around our ship and our community.
We finish a wall after four weeks that goes around the ship and leaves a little bit of
room, enough room to build a couple of little buildings to fill in.
Cool.
So good size.
Yeah.
Not to scale, but yeah.
They're all representations.
Cartography.
Yeah.
I feel like my imagination atrophied a little bit since last time.
Yeah.
It's been a while.
That's connected in real life.
No, that's perfect.
Okay.
So now go ahead and pull your card, Derek.
All right.
I got the Jack of Hearts.
You see a good omen.
What is it?
Or you see a bad omen.
What is it?
Hmm.
I'm going to go with we see...
I just love to split the difference and just be like, you just saw an omen.
I'm going to go with you see a... we see a bad omen and it is a fireball streak across
the sky.
Oh, okay.
Scary.
Which direction does it go?
We will have it streak from southeast to northwest.
So almost like it comes from the direction of the volcano.
And across to where the impact crater is.
Does it land or do we...?
It does not.
Okay.
It just streaks across the atmosphere and then disappears.
Doesn't explode.
It doesn't land.
So we put that in the corner with a trail symbolizing the direction where it came from.
So do you want to start a project, hold a discussion or find something new?
I want to discover something new.
Okay.
And I want to discover reeds down towards the southern part of that.
At the bottom.
Yep.
Part of the map.
That can be used for like rope and stuff like that.
Or thatch like plants.
Alright.
Like a big patch, does it go on both sides of the river?
Just on the one side is fine.
Okay.
Yeah, that's good.
Like a big patch of reeds at the southern part of the map.
Pretty sweet.
Yeah.
Rebecca, it is your turn.
Um, I got the two of hearts.
There's a large body of water on the map.
Where is it and what does it look like?
Or there's a giant man-made structure on the map.
What is it and why is it abandoned?
I'm going to go with there's a giant man-made structure on the map.
Okay.
And I'm thinking it's going to be, I know no one saw the movie Eternals, but you know
how the guy comes out of the ocean and gets all stone frozen?
He's one of those.
He's huge.
Okay, so it's like a giant hand.
Humanoid, robot-y looking statue?
We assume it's a statue.
A colossus?
Okay, so tell me how big is it and where exactly do you want it?
Oh big like it was.
Oh like super big.
Yeah.
Okay.
Where do you want it?
Right in the middle is good.
Right there?
Yeah.
Okay.
Cool.
Um, I would also like to start a project.
I want to start building a fishery just south of the community in the river.
I think that'll only take like a week.
Okay.
Um, so south here?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
So we'll put like a net?
Yeah.
What's your fishery look like?
Mostly a net.
I guess some type of dock situation that you could like get out over the water.
That perfectly coincides because my bridge project is done right now.
Just finished.
Your project's also done, Derek.
My project is also done.
Oh, you already moved past that.
So I will put that kind of attached to my bridge if that works for you.
Beautiful.
All right, so we have a fishery.
It's done at the end of your turn, I guess, so let's start at Connors.
So at the end of, after my turn, if all goes well, then we'll have a fishery attached to
the bridge.
Sweet.
I got the Four of Hearts.
What important and basic tools does the community lack or where are you storing food?
Why is this a risky place to store things?
Okay, so what important and basic tools does the community lack?
What we lack is weapons to protect the amount of people that are on the ship.
So with some of the expeditions finding predators in the woods and stuff like that, we are at
risk of attack.
So not having our own way of producing those is a pretty big scarcity on our end.
So you could add that to the scarcity list if you don't mind.
Weapons.
And then on my turn, I am going to start an expedition, or I'm going to start a project,
and that project is going to be led by Roy, and he is going to go search the caves.
How long do we think?
I would think an initial recon of it would only be a week.
But depends if he gets captured by the underground people.
Yeah, let's do two.
Yeah, so he's going to do an expedition.
He's going to go kind of find out the caves.
So I would even think two or three, because it's probably a better distance than it was
indicated on the mail.
I'm going to do three.
Okay, sounds good.
And with that, the fishery is done.
Yep.
Right?
Yeah.
In fact, we'll say it's a two-man expedition, and it's going to be Roy and what was the
other guy?
Roderick.
Roderick are going to be the two that go and explore the caves to see what resources are
down there.
And Rebecca, you're a fishery project.
It's done.
All right.
Yep.
So we've got that on the map so we can move fish to an abundance.
We have fish.
All the freeze-dried food we brought with us is starting to run out.
Okay, so I've got the Eight of Hearts this week.
An old piece of machinery is discovered, broken, but perhaps repairable.
What is it?
What would it be useful for?
Or an old piece of machinery is discovered, cursed and dangerous.
How does the community destroy it?
Oh shit.
So after being chased out of the town previously for being a little nuts, Sally had been hanging
out in the ruins where she had discovered an old tablet that had lots of just strange
markings on it that she feels reinforces her position that there is a curse on this land
from the volcano and that the answer to it is for us to retreat into the caves.
And she brings it back to the town again, standing up on her soapbox and yelling at
everybody to run for the caves.
Okay.
So it also says how does the community destroy it?
So actually, when Sally is on her way back to the community carrying this tablet, she
runs into Roy and Roderick on their way to the caves and they destroy the tablet that
she's carrying before she actually makes it back to the community.
Alright, let's see, where do you want to put it?
We'll put a cracked tablet symbol.
Where do you think would be most appropriate?
Yeah, just anywhere in that like arc between the...
Okay.
There is a broken tablet symbolizing where Sally was... Sally's hopes and dreams were
dashed.
When the tablet was cracked, there was a poof of dust and a scream that might have came
out of it or it might have been Sally screaming.
There is a spooky poof of black smoke above the broken tablet.
And what do you want to do on your turn?
Oh yeah, I've got to do something else on my turn.
Yeah, I'm going to hold another discussion.
What's the discussion about?
What does everyone feel about these flowers and grass that's sprouting just where we have
been hanging out and making our home?
Did anyone bring seeds or did this just happen because we're here?
I think that's strange.
A woman named Marina.
I think they're lovely.
I think that they are lovely.
I think it's a symbol that we should be here.
I also think it's lovely and fortuitous, but kind of weird.
A woman named Rhiannon agrees that they are beautiful, but she seems to be a little off-kilter.
A gardener named Sam decides that it's springtime and it makes sense that there might be flowers.
Well, you see, that's just how it works in the spring.
I sure am glad that this has four seasons just like Earth does.
Fortuitous.
Definitely think we found the right place to go.
I wonder how all the other people in the different ships ended up if they've made anything of
themselves.
Well, we'll never know because our radio was knocked out when we landed so roughly in this
flower patch.
I guess we'll have to add communication as a scarcity to the list.
That's the end of my week.
Any projects, Dawn?
Your turn doesn't count, right?
So then three would go to two at the end of Connor's turn for the cave spawning.
Correct.
So mine went down by one now.
I drew the Ace of Hearts.
What group has the highest status in the community?
What must people do to gain inclusion into this group?
Or are there distinct family units in the community?
If so, what family structures are common?
I think I'm going to go with the first one.
What group has the highest status in the community?
And I'm going to go with the ship's original crew.
Not the passengers, but the actual like captain and so the actual crew members.
And you have to be hand selected by the captain to get into that group.
Can we call him Captain Jamal?
Yeah, you can call him whatever you want to call him.
Okay, and we are going to use this purple tapestry thing and we will put it kind of
just in the town there.
And that will symbolize the crew member status as being elevated.
Anyone who is in the space flight union.
There you go.
They could be the only ones that have the weapons too.
And I'm going to start a project to go to the woods and hunt some of the little dinosaurs.
Alright.
I think that should take probably three or four weeks.
I'd say four.
That's a pretty long walk.
It's a pretty good distance.
So, okay.
Alright.
Dino Hunt is on the forecast.
My turn.
It is your turn, Rebecca.
I got the six of hearts.
Are there children in your community?
If there are, what is their role in the community?
Or how old are the eldest members of the community and what special needs do they have?
I think we've already established that there's children in the community.
So I'm going to say how old are the oldest members and what special needs do they have?
Well, Gladys is 87.
And her knees don't work so good, so she has a walker.
And her husband, I don't know her husband's name, Henry, is 89.
He doesn't have his teeth anymore.
So eating is very difficult.
And then I'm kind of torn.
I think I want to start a project.
What project do you want to start?
There's a lot of expeditions going on, but I think I want to do an expedition to the
crater to investigate what type of like medals or resources we might be able to make from
the crater medals.
Alright.
I think that would take...
So it's a pretty decent ways to travel.
I mean, if it's taking four weeks for Derek to get out there.
Yeah, I think it's going to take like six.
Yeah, especially if you're trying to mine ore and stuff and the resources.
I would say six, sure.
Okay.
And that is my turn, which means that your project is done.
Okay.
The expedition to the cave led by Roy and Roderick, they returned to the community.
And upon doing so, they have found nothing in the cave, nothing that they could figure
out how to make into a resource.
They found no sources of anybody.
But they have indicated that the cave system is so vast and large that they only actually
got to explore a very small portion of it.
And they're convinced there may be stuff down there, but they weren't able to find any of
it.
Cool.
Interesting.
So the 10 of hearts.
There's another community somewhere on the map.
Where are they?
What sets them apart from you?
Or what belief or practice helps to unify your community?
Okay.
I think that Sally and the crazier members of the community, they leave and they go set
up a camp with some of the resources in the old ruins.
So Sally and Elisa, Lisa was on board with Sally.
Yeah.
How many?
Actually, she wouldn't go to the ruin.
She would go closer to the caves.
Right?
Yeah.
Okay.
How many do we want to say?
Would we have 80 people with us?
Yeah.
How many do we want to say went with them?
10 to 20, probably.
I'm going to say like a fifth to a third I would go with.
Yeah.
Like 20 to 30.
Yeah.
So let's say they took 15 people with them and they're going to set up their camp right
on the outside of the cave.
And what sets them apart is they're all a little wackadoo and they don't believe what
Roy and Roderick said about the caves when they came back.
They think they're hiding something.
And then on my turn, I am going to, I suppose I'll start a project and that project is going
to be getting a smelter and a forge set up so that we can do something with the local
ore that we know is here and hopefully have something prepared for when the other folks
come back from the crater.
Good idea.
That was my next project.
Yeah.
Two weeks?
Yeah.
A week for each.
They're fairly simple.
A forge and a what?
Smelter.
Especially after building a stone wall.
Everybody agree with two weeks?
Sounds good to me.
All right.
Cool.
Okay.
I'll draw my next card.
It's the King of Hearts.
A young boy starts digging in the ground and discovers something unexpected.
What is it?
Or an old man confesses to past crimes and atrocities.
What has he done?
So a young boy, call him Edmund.
He looks like a cat.
He's digging around in the ground just outside of our protected walls in the direction of
the ruins and he discovers a large mosaic floor tablet.
Very large thing.
I mean he doesn't know how large it is because he just discovered a little bit when he was
digging.
But after he showed it to someone else, they uncovered a pretty sizable mosaic floor tile
with a bunch of owl patterns on it.
A bunch of owl?
Yes.
Well, I mean that's the closest thing that he knows of.
And so how big is it?
Is it in the ruins or near the ruins?
You said near the wall of our... and how big would you think it is?
Like a quarter of the size of the ruin.
Yeah.
So I guess not that large.
Boom.
That was awesome.
All right.
It doesn't look anything like owls, but there's a pattern there.
That might be what it looks like to Edmund though.
Might maybe to Edmund.
All right.
Awesome.
So that's the traumas.
Everything looks like owls now.
And so on your turn, what do you want to do?
How many projects we have going right now?
Three.
Lots of projects.
Okay.
So on my turn, I'm going to discover something new.
And after further investigating near the tile work that Edmund has uncovered, him and the
rest of his friends have found a spot where after they were digging some more and trying
to see if they could get into the tunnels, it actually caved in to an underground shaft
and tunnel system, perhaps.
They haven't explored this enough to see how far, but there was a cave in and they've discovered
an underground tunnel system.
Okay.
And we now have a hole near the tile system.
Is it accurate where you would like it?
Yep.
All right.
Sick.
Any projects finished after Connor's turn?
No.
But Derek's and yours have one week left.
Okay.
And now we're going to enter the next season.
Oh boy.
Did we just pull the first card?
Oh yeah, that's diamond.
That's a diamond.
Okay.
With the first card of summer being pulled, we are going to leave the spring behind.
And along with the spring goes this episode.
We'll pick up right in summer and we'll find out what happens to our community.
Awesome.
Can't wait.
Me either.
Good job, guys.
I think the really cool thing we have so far is-
Good start.
Yeah.
All the seasons get progressively harder and worse.
So all the good times of spring, hope you enjoyed them because they're long gone.
They are.
Things are going to get weird.
All right.
Great.
I thought living was supposed to be easy in the summer.
Yeah.
Maybe it is.
Maybe it's not till fall that we start.
So until we hit summer, I guess I will-
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Oh, it's really big.
It's a lot bigger than I thought.
That's what she said.
All right.
Clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Anti-clockwise.
Depends.
Not all of us have the same clockwise.
So what?
Yeah.