I started a tribal game and shuffled the members until they were all gay men. We started with a cat, a roided up wolf, and a Yorkshire Terrier named Tequila. We worked hard to build a place in a nearby cliffside with some wide open space and then a few choke points where we could fend off raiders. So far I've just got the house, but it's growing slowly.
Research into new stuff took a long time, and I imagine it will take even longer to build useful electric machinery, because I need components and apparently have no way to get them. I'm on 4/5 difficulty, I think, but I chose Phoebe Chillax mode, so not that much happens just yet, but what does happen is pretty exciting.
The first or second raid on my place had three armed nasties, two of whom had pretty good guns. So I gathered my whole tribe and huddled them up at one entrance, and then ambushed the fuckers up close. We killed all of them and took their guns, which made defense and hunting a lot easier.
I think before that encounter, I let in a traveling nudist shaman named Orange Olga. She has good social and research skills, so she spends a lot of time with the chief, who also does wardening and research stuff, but they've managed to piss each other off. Two other tribe members fell in love and fuck each other most nights.
The weakest link is some old guy named Red Cat, who mirrors real life old gays as envious and not accepting of reality. He's become so pissed so often that some other guy wouldn't allow his repeated advances that he has fits and runs around naked outside like clockwork. This has continued after the guy who was rejecting him died.
A wolf killed Tequila, so I beat up the wolf and tamed it to take Tequila's place. Before it was successfully tamed it ran around in circles all night in the room where those two guys were fucking. I also tamed a rat and a grizzly bear and maybe something else.
Unfortunately the winter is taking its toll in the boreal forest, and everyone is depressed because that one guy died. There was also a period wherein I forgot to hunt for more animals, so we're currently low on food, but I think we will recover. I expect maybe one or two more losses due to disease, but mostly we may be alright. After that, though, I'm not sure what we'll be able to do. I'll have more time to plant crops and more space to store stuff, but the slow pacing of random events is making it tough to make any progress. After all, it seems like I can't make any components on my own, and nobody is around to sell them to me or drop them from the sky. But life goes on.
This game is a lot of fun.
