Opening Post Biographies: (active characters) Greg Preston (Preston house) Greg was born in the year 2669. Greg was raised in the Mountain Village “Ent”. He was the son of a restaurant owner, ...
Greg Preston’s Diary 23th of September 2725 AD I sold a few items I brough with me at the market square (*) Yesterday I met with the other six members of the Ent Council. A very interesting experience. We all discussed what have happened in the community since the spring meeting. Basically, the only difficulty the mountain village have is to produce enough food. There was a massive interest from the Council to discuss how we could deliver more and faster.
Jenny Richards Diary 27th of September 2725 AD With Greg traveling, I took the responsibility to guide and teach the students, this was actually a very fun period for me, spending more time with them.
Greg Preston’s Diary 29th of September 2725 AD Yesterday I had a meeting with Queny Wilson, the Council member responsible for production and food supply in the village. She suggested that her department of the council could set up a trade station in the river settlement. The benefits of the Mountain village were obvious, with a monthly pickup of good in “The River Settlement” they would get fresh delivery of fish, eggs and other good we could supply. For us this would mean a job for the person working at the trade station and often better prices. I immediately agreed. The trade caravan and thereby the station would have to close down if there was snow, so we expected 8-10 deliveries a year.
I will leave today, with four workers sent with me to construct the station.
Greg Preston’s Diary 3rd of October 2725 AD Just arrived back today. Jenny came over and told me that that everything was fine in our settlement and that the students have behaved perfectly in my absence. Later we had a brief discussion about the trade station and we agreed that it would be best to let Charles get the job, at least the first few months. We feared how they could otherwise survive the winter.
Extracts from “The Wilderness” by Michiko Vaughan The builders have left our settlement and Charles has opened the trade station. I am very glad Greg have given this opportunity to my son. The first job Charles got was packing a shipment of fish from Greg’s household. The students carried the fish over, then Charles salted some, other would be delivered fresh in sealed river water containers.
Extracts from “The Wilderness” by Michiko Vaughan I really came to like Greg a lot, maybe I’m getting a bit attracted to him actually. Don’t really know if my feelings are mutual. Greg is a very serious man, hard to read his feelings.
From Greg Preston’s Report to St. John’s Educational Foundation – October 2725 Just wanted to make a quick note that the two girls Elea Helsby and Myra Frances is now getting along much better than before, sometimes they even share a meal together at the patio.
Economy after this episode: Greg Preston household: Cash 7.639 – Net Worth 27.926 Jenny Richards household: Cash 8.365 – Net Worth 16.203 Michiko Vaughan household: Cash 986 – Net Worth 7.683 (Charles get 160-200$/month working at the trade station)
Goods sold in the Mountain Village. Greg’s household sold 4 gem stones and 2 furs, most expensive a diamond worth 182$ and a Chipmunk fur worth 121$, total sales about 440$ Jenny sold a book worth 40$ Michiko sold a book and some salted fish combined worth 63$
The trade station is a consignment store. Interactions will not be auto as I want to control what and when they sell. “The community Elders” will also control who will work there. If someone will no longer be allowed to work there, I will give the person the previous occupation back - typically during winter close down, but also If the “Elders” prefer to change who works there.
Charles fixed the typewriter but kept the laptop. Still no reacted to the plants in the community lot.
The two scenes in Ent was staged, everything else auto.
-------------------------------------------------- The trade station is a two-store stone building, the first stone building in the settlement. Upstairs is a small bedroom, in case the trader what to stay the night before returning to the mountain village.