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Welcome to the Oregon Trail!
A couple notes before we begin though. Whenever I want you guys to start giving me choices, I'll underline the word for you. I'll bold things to make announcements like ailments, diseases, deaths, and the like. Also, during the trip I'll post screenshots of us travelling so that you can see our status and food supply. That way you guys can tell me whether we should hunt or not.
Another couple of notes. How hard do you want me to make this? Do you want all decisions to be made by yourselves and work together as a team to stick together. You guys can ask me how we're doing the entire time and I'll put up a status screen showing how we are and you guys can act accordingly.
Or do you want some of my help, which'll include hunting as I see fit, trading as profitably as I can, and changing our pacing and our food consumption.
Finally, do you guys want me to save as we go along? This means each time we reach a settlement, I'll save the game. So if we encounter a death, we can revert back to the save. In my opinion, that kinda sucks the fun out of trying to survive, but it's your choice. And it's not like I'm only planning to do this once. If you guys so wish it, I or someone else can host a new game if we lose.
But enough of that. I'm going to bore you with some boring history lessons that the game so kindly provided us with.

Now this is where I want to ask you guys something else. Do you actually want me to post up the information that the game provides us? Whenever we get to a settlement or a landmark, there's a guidebook that can give us some real history on whatever it is. Same goes with diseases and such. If I get a majority ruling on this, I'll post it as I update. If not, I'll just send whoever wants it a PM of the information.

So here we are at the beginning of our Trail. I'll take suggestions of our happy trailing companion names, as well as our Group Name.
Also, here's the help screen for our occupations:

So here's what I'm asking for right now: Our group name, the names of our companions, and our occupation.
The count so far: 0/8 for everything.
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