From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Was camping in the woods just an excuse to do some field research in "how much can someone really carry?"
ReplyDeleteI like it. How do you see people using the flask dots?
ReplyDeleteI make one torch per slot though because 1) torches are bulky and more importantly 2) if you can carry 10 per slot I doubt you will ever see much resource pressure on light.
I'm doing a mega-dungeon, and assuming "1 turn per room" so 1 torch per six rooms average. But you're right, at that rate 2 items of torches do the whole level... I'll probably change that now.
ReplyDeleteFor flasks, 1-5 of each kind of potion/oil/whatever takes a slot.
Barry Lovseth we almost reach carrying capacity on the boat. On our way out we couldn't go fast until we'd burned some gas and lightened the load.
ReplyDeleteFleeing the trolls of Minnesota random encounter table no doubt.
ReplyDeleteEdited to 3 torches per 1 item. We'll see how that works.
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