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Update.

After getting to Mongrel, Dinner and Lunch were approached by Beep. I initially had them send him away but ultimately decided to let him join us.

Meanwhile, I decided to use Dinner's high stealth to sneak into the death yards to get Fog Prince heads. I learned that if you put unconscious or dead fogmen on the steel posts, Princes and Heavies will come and eat their own people. I was able to snag a decent a mount of heads and make enough cats to buy the only larger building for sale.

Eventually, I stumbled across a bunch of Escaped Servants tied to posts in a death yard and decided to free them. Three of them followed me to safety. Once we got clear, one ran away and the remaining two decided to join up. Decided to name them Breakfast and Brunch in keeping with the theme.

Did a Cannibal Hunters playthrough.

The squad, dubbed Meal Team Six, consists of a Greenlander named Lunch and a Shek named Dinner. Clearly, I didn't have to much faith in their chances.

Right out the gate, they start out surrounded and I just had them book it. Lunch was able to get pretty far ahead of the cannibals while Dinner was immediately swarmed. He put up a decent fight but ended up getting dropped and caged. I had Lunch make a break for it only to end up trapped on a cliff. I spotted a group of cannibal hunters passing so I sent Lunch to try to at least make it to them. He took a few hits but managed to make it to them. He fought alongside them for a bit before getting dropped. It looked like he was going to die before one of the cannibal hunters healed him up before leaving him behind surrounded by unconscious and dying cannibals.

Meanwhile, Dinner was in a cage and just all beat up. Luckily, Lunch and Dinner started out with med kits with Dinner getting a splint kit as well. I had him mend his wounds while picking the lock on the cage. Dinner had the higher lockpicking and stealth stats of the two so I had him get out and slowly sneak closer to the entrance. A massive fight between cannibals and shrieking bandits was happening and the cages were getting filled up. After popping into a cage closer to the entrance, I decided to try and wait until nightfall.

Lunch on the other hand was still unconscious. Most of the cannibals near him had died so I was hopeful that he'd just manage to not get seen until one of those little cannibals came up and grabbed him. This was a way from the village so while I was trying to keep Dinner alive, I'd check back in to see Lunch being slowly carried back to the village.

Eventually, a group of Tech Hunters and Cannibal Hunters showed up and just started cutting through everyone. I had Dinner escape and run to the guy holding Lunch. After a quick fight, Dinner picked up Lunch and tried to make a break for it. A limping cannibal showed up out of nowhere and dropped Dinner again. They end up back in a cage.

Finally, Lunch regains consciousness and starts picking the lock to the cage. His lockpicking skill is low so it takes longer but he manages to get out. He also manages to pick the lock on Dinner's cage. At this point, the entire village has been pretty much carved out. I have Lunch free a couple of the Tech Hunters that had been caged and then sneak away.

From there, they had a couple of close calls including:

Getting attacked by a baby beak thing. Getting attacked and dropped by a broken Skeleton. Getting swarmed and dropped by Shrieking bandits after I picked the wrong dialogue option. Heading into the Foglands, making close enough to discover Mongrel, and then getting swarmed by Fogmen.

Lunch was able to run but again, Dinner got dropped and carried off. Once I saw Lunch make it through Mongrel's gates, I switched back to Dinner. Luckily, he was conscious when they set him down because the Fog Prince immediately started chewing on him. I managed to pick the lock and have him get far enough to sneak as it was night time. Somehow, he managed to slowly sneak towards Mongrel.

While this was all happening, Dinner was dangerously close to starving and we had no money so I had Lunch quickly collecting Fogman weapons to sell so I could at least buy some food. While doing that, I come across a Fog Heavy. A Fog Prince must be close so I search through the bodies, find the Prince, and collect the head. Just as Dinner makes it to the gates. After selling the head, getting food so Dinner wouldn't starve, I had them grab beds at the bar so they could finally fully heal.

I'll be honest, that was super stressful. I didn't expect either of them to make it so to have gotten both of them to safety was a W I will happily take. It only came down to several lucky breaks but what a brutal game start.

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Mongrel is a decent city if you can ignore the distant screams of people being eaten alive in the death yards.

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Did a Cannibal Hunters playthrough.

The squad, dubbed Meal Team Six, consists of a Greenlander named Lunch and a Shek named Dinner. Clearly, I didn't have to much faith in their chances.

Right out the gate, they start out surrounded and I just had them book it. Lunch was able to get pretty far ahead of the cannibals while Dinner was immediately swarmed. He put up a decent fight but ended up getting dropped and caged. I had Lunch make a break for it only to end up trapped on a cliff. I spotted a group of cannibal hunters passing so I sent Lunch to try to at least make it to them. He took a few hits but managed to make it to them. He fought alongside them for a bit before getting dropped. It looked like he was going to die before one of the cannibal hunters healed him up before leaving him behind surrounded by unconscious and dying cannibals.

Meanwhile, Dinner was in a cage and just all beat up. Luckily, Lunch and Dinner started out with med kits with Dinner getting a splint kit as well. I had him mend his wounds while picking the lock on the cage. Dinner had the higher lockpicking and stealth stats of the two so I had him get out and slowly sneak closer to the entrance. A massive fight between cannibals and shrieking bandits was happening and the cages were getting filled up. After popping into a cage closer to the entrance, I decided to try and wait until nightfall.

Lunch on the other hand was still unconscious. Most of the cannibals near him had died so I was hopeful that he'd just manage to not get seen until one of those little cannibals came up and grabbed him. This was a way from the village so while I was trying to keep Dinner alive, I'd check back in to see Lunch being slowly carried back to the village.

Eventually, a group of Tech Hunters and Cannibal Hunters showed up and just started cutting through everyone. I had Dinner escape and run to the guy holding Lunch. After a quick fight, Dinner picked up Lunch and tried to make a break for it. A limping cannibal showed up out of nowhere and dropped Dinner again. They end up back in a cage.

Finally, Lunch regains consciousness and starts picking the lock to the cage. His lockpicking skill is low so it takes longer but he manages to get out. He also manages to pick the lock on Dinner's cage. At this point, the entire village has been pretty much carved out. I have Lunch free a couple of the Tech Hunters that had been caged and then sneak away.

From there, they had a couple of close calls including:

Getting attacked by a baby beak thing. Getting attacked and dropped by a broken Skeleton. Getting swarmed and dropped by Shrieking bandits after I picked the wrong dialogue option. Heading into the Foglands, making close enough to discover Mongrel, and then getting swarmed by Fogmen.

Lunch was able to run but again, Dinner got dropped and carried off. Once I saw Lunch make it through Mongrel's gates, I switched back to Dinner. Luckily, he was conscious when they set him down because the Fog Prince immediately started chewing on him. I managed to pick the lock and have him get far enough to sneak as it was night time. Somehow, he managed to slowly sneak towards Mongrel.

While this was all happening, Dinner was dangerously close to starving and we had no money so I had Lunch quickly collecting Fogman weapons to sell so I could at least buy some food. While doing that, I come across a Fog Heavy. A Fog Prince must be close so I search through the bodies, find the Prince, and collect the head. Just as Dinner makes it to the gates. After selling the head, getting food so Dinner wouldn't starve, I had them grab beds at the bar so they could finally fully heal.

I'll be honest, that was super stressful. I didn't expect either of them to make it so to have gotten both of them to safety was a W I will happily take. It only came down to several lucky breaks but what a brutal game start.

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Five starving bandits ambushing one decently leveled Shek is like that 'call and ambulance... but not for me!' meme. You really need at least ten to do any kind of damage.

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Tried a Holy Nation Playthrough

I made 10k cats in the first 2 days, got beat up by starving bandits, got caught stealing from an unconscious Slavemonger and enslaved, escaped while the slavers got attacked by bonedogs, and bought a farm house only to get killed in a fight with a near dead river raptor.

Sounds about right.

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After living in Mourn, I decided to let the Great White Gorillo out and see if my people could fight it. I had Stone on a turret who had turned more than a couple beak things into pin cushions so I thought, this won't be too bad.

Wrong.

Those harpoon turrets did so little damage. Like maybe 20 or 30 something when it was hitting Elder Beak Things and doing 120 damage. It ended up taking so long and so many of my people got dropped. At least one guard got dropped and the one member of the party with a robotic part's leg dropped all the way to zero.

Luckily, the turret caused the gorillo to bleed like crazy because he eventually dropped from blood loss. The entire group and some of the guards were completely unconscious except for Stone and one of the Shek party members. Everyone else ended up needed to rest for nearly a full day.

But nobody died and we got over 10k for the skins and teeth.

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The whole time I lived in Mourn, I never really shifted the camera high enough to see what the metal around the city was until now. Wild.

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Since moving my group here:

An Elder Beak Thing approached and then walked away from the gate giving me a small heart attack. I was crafting something only to see the beak thing's head slowly poking over the wall walking toward the gate and thought that was going to be it. I swear I heard AoT music.

A pack of 18 bonedogs ran through town and attacked a bunch of people.

A pack of skin spiders came into town and while focusing on them, I failed to notice Elder Beak Thing thing returning. The skin spiders and EBT fought which wasn't as one sided as I thought.

During that time a bunch of Band of Bones guys randomly ran into town and ended up fighting the EBT. They got destroyed. It then fought the guards before running off.

Another group of bonedogs happened to run nearby and ended up fighting the EBT. They also got destroyed. It came back into town briefly, almost killed Blue Eyes and a couple of the NPCs, and then ran off before disappearing.

Lastly, four boneyard wolves attacked the already injured guards. My group saved them but got a little chewed up.

I managed to heal all of the guards and NPCs but now all the guards are barely able to walk.

If that group of 11 beak things shows up, it might be a wrap for this place.

Maybe I should have set up in Catun instead.

Maybe moving to Mourn was a mistake.

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Maybe moving to Mourn was a mistake.

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And with my excursion to Drifter's Last, I've been to every major city on the map. It only took me nearly dying to two different groups of beak things getting there from Catun.

I was just curious because I'd never really played much in the south with the exception of heading to the Ashlands.

Only took me over 1000 hours.

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Southbound

Had my group make the trek from The Hub to the southern cities because I wanted to live in an area I've rarely played in during my other playthroughs.

We made it all the way down to Mourn with barely any trouble before getting spotted by two beak things right outside of the city. They chased us through the gates and just started demolishing us. We won, but got pretty chewed up. Had to buy a small shack and extra sleeping bags just so people could heal and avoid another beak thing attack.

But honestly, I was expecting at least one person to die so this wasn't that bad.

We live in Mourn now.

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I wanted to get a screenshot earlier but I forgot.

I got this game fairly early on during the pandemic. I just wanted something new to play and it looked like it would scratch that itch.

Boy, did it ever.

1000 hours stretched out over years and four very different playthroughs (I died too quickly to get a pic of the first one). This game grabbed hold of me like very few games have in a long time. Even after all of that time, I'm still finding new places and things to do.

I have no plans to buy a new console (probably a PS5) for at least a couple years but if Kenshi 2 got announced tomorrow, I'd go buy a new PC.

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I don't know why but walking into that bar outside of The Hub after it's been attacked by bandits and having him greet me normally with bandit corpses all around never gets old.

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Every now and then, animals that come with big groups or caravans get left behind and just kind of hang around cities. There was this bonedog at The Hub that must have got left behind by the Slavemongers while eating a corpse or something. Not really doing anything, just kind of standing around and occasionally eating the corpse of a bandit that died around the town.

After going to do something, I returned to find the dog bloodied and unconscious next to a couple of bandits. I was going to heal him but I guess they'd already taken the meat because he was dead.

I'd just built a corpse furnace so I took him to get incinerated rather than just rot and attract flies.

RIP bonedog. You didn't bother anyone. Just ate corpses and hung out at the entrance.

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I got Dwarf Fortress which I'd never played before but thought I'd give it a try.

I have no idea what's going on, half of my dwarves are upset about something and I'm barely able to keep up with the population growth.

But somehow we made it through the first winter and the only death was a child who got possessed, went insane, disappeared, and died.

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I don't really need much to improve for Kenshi 2 but if they make it so your group doesn't randomly split up while traveling long distances, I will be very happy.

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TFW you break out of Rebirth, start a group, and get stronger and stealthy enough to sneak people out only to watch the last person you break out run from The Hub to Stack and put themselves in a cage. Then you break them out again just to watch them run all the way back to Rebirth.

I was genuinely amazed watching the little green dot move up the map, turn red, and then just slowly move back toward Rebirth. Some people don't want to be free, I guess.

Damn.

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