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Post by Attero Dominatus on Aug 21, 2009 16:24:56 GMT -5
Just like in the Texas Journal, the leader is an incompetent braggart with no organizational skills. Wagons break down, supplies run low, water barrels unfilled, people jump n ponds and rivers and start takinf baths before water kegs can be filled. There are quite some messes along the way. There are deserters and everything else. Its a hot, dry and mostly uninhabited area. In the Texas Journal there were common indian raids from the Oklahoma Territory that left people dead and crops burned. What will the region of Tejas have to match that? I do not know a thing about the Indians who raided there, but I do have one suggestion for villains. Maybe one of the Earth Governments had a prison ship that malfunctioned and crashed or deliberately dropped some prisoners there. In the isolation, they resorted to cannibalism to sustain themselves and reproduce by raping women abducted from the settlements and convoys they raid. A raid would be a great chance for someone more qualified to lead to relieve the expedition leader of his command, though I do not know if that happened in the journal.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Aug 21, 2009 17:20:58 GMT -5
The Texas expedition never got raided by Indians but there were attacks not too far from them. They also did come across abandoned farms and forts that had suffered Indian attacks.
As for the story, I m sure I can think of something. Yours is not a bad idea.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Aug 25, 2009 20:02:20 GMT -5
In the Texas Journal at one point their leader had tied a black man to a wagon wheel or tree or something and was saying he was going to execute him for desertion! The incompetent fool was barely stopped from doing this, some of the laborers were leaving because of the conditions and lack of leadership.
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