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More adventures of Arthur Morgan, Infamous Outlaw.
(Context is that one of the very first missions of the game involves you and NPC Javier riding out to save John Marston, protagonist of the first Red Dead Redemption game, from wolves, and John comes out rather the worse for wear after that encounter.)
06/20/2019
Arthur Morgan: slaughters an entire camp of O'Driscolls, and then wanders into the wilderness and picks flowers and berries for two days.
Then I got attacked by wolves. And now I'm going to go back to camp and give Pearson four wolf pelts and an entire wolf carcass, and I fully intend to be making an uncomfortable amount of eye contact with John Marston through the entire transaction.
Because that's the kind of brother I am.
...assuming I don't fall off a cliff.
Oh it just got better.
I ride into camp, pull the timber wolf carcass off my horse... I'm in luck! I hear John! That means I can go say hello to him while I have a wolf slung over my shoulder! John is in the random camp conversation where he's thanking Javier for saving him on the mountain, and saying "I owe you. For life. You and Arthur." Doesn't seem to notice me until just then, and then he turns around, and there I am, wolf in hand.
HI, JOHN.
06/20/2019
Went searching for a thoroughbred mare to tame. Found a lovely grey one, but she literally ran down a cliff to escape me, and then I completely lost her and she ceased to exist. :| Bad luck.
Figured I'd do something else for a bit, then come back and try again. Went hunting with Charles. Ended up murdering a bunch of poachers. Turns out, one of them had a grey thoroughbred mare.
...free horse!
06/21/2019
...so, Javier told me to bring him some oleander so he could teach me how to make poison stabbities. Fair enough.
I go hunting for oleander. Oleander, the Compendium handily informs me, is found on the banks of the Kamassa River. You know what else is found on the banks of the Kamassa? ALL THE ALLIGATORS IN AMERICA.
I do a pretty good job of dodging the alligators! Manage to pick a bunch of oleander and not get et. Then I whistle for my horse, and my horse is... out of range? Weird. Didn't think I'd gone that far. And then I check the map, and it turns out that my horse has gotten spooked by all the alligators, and has run to LITERALLY THE OTHER SIDE OF LEMOYNE.
SO I HAVE TO RUN TO THE OTHER SIDE OF LEMOYNE. ON FOOT.
DURING WHICH ADVENTURE I DO ALMOST GET EATEN BY AN ALLIGATOR.
Horse is still panicking when I catch up to her, so I have to run around after her, calling for her to calm down. I finally get her calmed, look around to see where I am, and I'm basically ten yards away from a cabin I have read enough about to know that I do not want to go near.
So then I quietly crept out of Bayou Nwa, hoping that no people or alligators would notice me; I go home... and Javier will not accept my oleander because now he's fixated on robbing a homestead.
I love this game.
06/22/2019
The more I look at Ambarino, the more its outline looks like a moose head.
Also: I had a talk with Karen, and Arthur angstily admitted to killing animals for no reason, and to killing innocents.
Arthur. My boy.
You have killed three civilians in this playthough, and all of them were actively in the process of shooting you full of bullets because I'm bad at the controls. As for the animals you killed and didn't harvest, here is an exhaustive list of the reasons you did that:
1. You shot them several times, but they ran away without dying immediately, and vanished over some terrain feature you couldn't follow through.
2. You killed them, but their corpses vanished into thin air.
3. Your horse killed them and you didn't go back for them.
4. You killed them and were about to skin them, but Dutch teleported you back to camp with the power of his mind.
06/22/2019
Duuuutch just called himself an angel of God. In a long, impassioned rant about dreams and monkeys, which he just delivered to absolutely no one.
06/22/2019
"We should really throw these smaller fish back. Give 'em a chance to grow up a bit." ARTHUR THAT FISH IS FIVE POUNDS. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I COULD EAT ON FIVE POUNDS OF FISH?
I caught two smallmouth bass in a row, fishing with Jack.
It was pretty weird! I'd assumed you were scripted to get small fish there, because of the dialogue, but apparently not.
Also... Arthur Morgan, outlaw, gunman, outdoorsman, has now spent at least three days of his life on the hunt for the perfect squirrel.
(I still have not found one. But I did pick up the track for a three-star raccoon! ...and while following the track, not once, but TWICE have I gone over a blind ridge and wound up face-to-face with A BEAR.)
(Fortunately it's a black bear, so it just runs the fuck away, but... Arthur? How sure are you about these raccoon tracks?)
06/23/2019
I'm sorry, John, I would have been here sooner, but it was very important that I hunt several squirrels and then pet all the dogs in Valentine.
The best part is that, at this moment, John can see me ignoring him in favor of petting this dog.
(Context is that one of the very first missions of the game involves you and NPC Javier riding out to save John Marston, protagonist of the first Red Dead Redemption game, from wolves, and John comes out rather the worse for wear after that encounter.)
06/20/2019
Arthur Morgan: slaughters an entire camp of O'Driscolls, and then wanders into the wilderness and picks flowers and berries for two days.
Then I got attacked by wolves. And now I'm going to go back to camp and give Pearson four wolf pelts and an entire wolf carcass, and I fully intend to be making an uncomfortable amount of eye contact with John Marston through the entire transaction.
Because that's the kind of brother I am.
...assuming I don't fall off a cliff.
Oh it just got better.
I ride into camp, pull the timber wolf carcass off my horse... I'm in luck! I hear John! That means I can go say hello to him while I have a wolf slung over my shoulder! John is in the random camp conversation where he's thanking Javier for saving him on the mountain, and saying "I owe you. For life. You and Arthur." Doesn't seem to notice me until just then, and then he turns around, and there I am, wolf in hand.
HI, JOHN.
06/20/2019
Went searching for a thoroughbred mare to tame. Found a lovely grey one, but she literally ran down a cliff to escape me, and then I completely lost her and she ceased to exist. :| Bad luck.
Figured I'd do something else for a bit, then come back and try again. Went hunting with Charles. Ended up murdering a bunch of poachers. Turns out, one of them had a grey thoroughbred mare.
...free horse!
06/21/2019
...so, Javier told me to bring him some oleander so he could teach me how to make poison stabbities. Fair enough.
I go hunting for oleander. Oleander, the Compendium handily informs me, is found on the banks of the Kamassa River. You know what else is found on the banks of the Kamassa? ALL THE ALLIGATORS IN AMERICA.
I do a pretty good job of dodging the alligators! Manage to pick a bunch of oleander and not get et. Then I whistle for my horse, and my horse is... out of range? Weird. Didn't think I'd gone that far. And then I check the map, and it turns out that my horse has gotten spooked by all the alligators, and has run to LITERALLY THE OTHER SIDE OF LEMOYNE.
SO I HAVE TO RUN TO THE OTHER SIDE OF LEMOYNE. ON FOOT.
DURING WHICH ADVENTURE I DO ALMOST GET EATEN BY AN ALLIGATOR.
Horse is still panicking when I catch up to her, so I have to run around after her, calling for her to calm down. I finally get her calmed, look around to see where I am, and I'm basically ten yards away from a cabin I have read enough about to know that I do not want to go near.
So then I quietly crept out of Bayou Nwa, hoping that no people or alligators would notice me; I go home... and Javier will not accept my oleander because now he's fixated on robbing a homestead.
I love this game.
06/22/2019
The more I look at Ambarino, the more its outline looks like a moose head.
Also: I had a talk with Karen, and Arthur angstily admitted to killing animals for no reason, and to killing innocents.
Arthur. My boy.
You have killed three civilians in this playthough, and all of them were actively in the process of shooting you full of bullets because I'm bad at the controls. As for the animals you killed and didn't harvest, here is an exhaustive list of the reasons you did that:
1. You shot them several times, but they ran away without dying immediately, and vanished over some terrain feature you couldn't follow through.
2. You killed them, but their corpses vanished into thin air.
3. Your horse killed them and you didn't go back for them.
4. You killed them and were about to skin them, but Dutch teleported you back to camp with the power of his mind.
06/22/2019
Duuuutch just called himself an angel of God. In a long, impassioned rant about dreams and monkeys, which he just delivered to absolutely no one.
06/22/2019
"We should really throw these smaller fish back. Give 'em a chance to grow up a bit." ARTHUR THAT FISH IS FIVE POUNDS. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I COULD EAT ON FIVE POUNDS OF FISH?
I caught two smallmouth bass in a row, fishing with Jack.
It was pretty weird! I'd assumed you were scripted to get small fish there, because of the dialogue, but apparently not.
Also... Arthur Morgan, outlaw, gunman, outdoorsman, has now spent at least three days of his life on the hunt for the perfect squirrel.
(I still have not found one. But I did pick up the track for a three-star raccoon! ...and while following the track, not once, but TWICE have I gone over a blind ridge and wound up face-to-face with A BEAR.)
(Fortunately it's a black bear, so it just runs the fuck away, but... Arthur? How sure are you about these raccoon tracks?)
06/23/2019
I'm sorry, John, I would have been here sooner, but it was very important that I hunt several squirrels and then pet all the dogs in Valentine.
The best part is that, at this moment, John can see me ignoring him in favor of petting this dog.
