This is a story about a fifteen year old pirate-turned-colonist named Nick.
One day, Nick decided to attack the colony of Rosewood. It was a fairly new colony, with only two members, one of them an older woman and one of them a male nudist. It should have been fairly easy. He chose a poor day to strike, however, becase they had some friendly visiters who retaliated harshly against Nick and left him for dead on their way out of the settlement. As Nick lay there, dying and alone, the older woman appeared over him. She saw him, saw how young he was, and took pity. Surely, he couldn't truly be so evil. And so, another room was constructed in their tiny home and Nick was taken prisoner.
Nick was nursed to health, and for about a month, the woman and the nudist fed him for nothing in return and urged him daily to join their colony. Nick refused for some time, but eventually, he gave in. The woman removed his shackles and turned his cell into a shabby bedroom. It wasn't the best of the best, but Nick couldn't complain.
His day were filled with menial labor, some days chopping tree, some days helping the woman build extensions onto their home, and other days gathering up the rice the nudist had planted. The nudist, he noted, really loved to farm. Oftentimes, they chatted in his fields. Nick was happy.
One day, a terrible thunderstorm broke out. Lightning struck around their home and created raging forest fires. Nick and his new family could do nothing but sit and watch as the fire crept closer and closer. It was too far, the woman claimed, to do any real damage. Their wood supply would be damaged, but they would survive.
Out in the distance, a beautiful creature appeared. A rare Thrumbo. Its horn and fur was very expensively priced. It would be profitable for them to kill it, but with the current outdoor conditions and the known hostility of the beautiful beast, they decided against it. Nick watch the beast graze from afar.
He noticed that the shimmering blue fur of the Thrumbo was very quickly being taken over by dancing flames. He and his companions watched in horror as the Thrumbo ran around, spreading flames wherever it went, coming closer and closer to their home at a startling speed.
The nudist grabbed a gun. If the Thrumbo didn't die, their home would go up in flames. Nick and the woman insisted they accompany him, but he wouldn't let them. His gun was the only gun they had, it would be suicide for the others to go out there. And so Nick and the woman watched with bated breath as the nudist, with his junk swinging about and his♥♥♥♥♥glimmering from light rainfall, aproached the beast.
A shot rang out. The Thrumbo let out a chilling shriek. The battle was short, and Nick couldn't take his eyes away as the nudist fell to the ground.
The Thrumbo was thankfully extinguished during the battle, but now it was enraged. They realized with a shudder that because of their recent renovations, there was a hole in the back of their home that they wouldn't be able to patch before the Thrumbo arrived. The woman, wanting to protect Nick, ran out with a club to meet the beast. To Nick's horror, she quickly fell, but he could tell she was only unconscious. Sneaking around the house, he retrieved her and brought her to her bedroom, locking the door and doing his best to revive her. The Thrumbo continued to sulk outside.
After sitting in the room for hours, Nick heard a cry. The Thrumbo had fallen from bloodloss. He unlocked the door and grabbed food for himself and the woman. Thankfully, he was able to bring her back. Things would be hard without their gallant nudist, but they would get by.
A day passed. It began to rain heavily. All of the remaining fire were extinguished. The woman was back on her feet, and they started to clean up after the wreckage. A grave was dug for the nudist, but as they searched for his body, the horrifying realization that his body had burned completely to ash was made.
As Nick was about to fill the empty grave with dirt, the air started to grow hot. A heat wave. He and the woman hurried into the refrigerator. It was dark and they had to sleep on the floor, but there was plenty of rice for them to make it.
Days passed with no change in the weather. Nick watched as the woman snapped, and started wandering aimlessly around the large space, refusing to respond to what she said. She came out of this after awhile, but Nick couldn't shake the effect of it. The events of the previous week were started to hit him, and he had nothing to distract himself except endless amounts of rice. His mood grew darker and darker.
Finally, the day came that the heat wave ended. The woman emerged from the refrigerator first, and said something cheery to him. What she said, Nick could not even register, but he snapped. He pulled out his club and struck her repeatedly, until she was in an unconscious state. His rage was still not sated. He went out unto the world and started slaying animals with no true purpose, just to feel in control of his own life. Finally, he came out of his rage, and collapsed in the rice fields the nudist had sown so lovingly, the fields where he and the nudist had sat and talked endlessly. He was too weak to continue, and he knew he would die there. He heard the woman crying for help, and knew she would die there.
And that's where I got really sad and closed the game.
This game is an incredibly fun and unique experience with every new game. I've only play about thirteen hours, and it's already worth the thirty dollars I paid. At the surface, it's a survival management game. Looking deeper, it's endless stories of survival.
Absolutely, positively, I recommend you buy this game.