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...
That does look like a good afternoon. :)
ReplyDeleteIt pairs well with a brown ale.
ReplyDeleteWait, are you reading LotFP books at the wursthaus?
ReplyDeleteI was! the one by my place in Golden Valley. The Western burbs are hip.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. I've always entertained the idea of formally pairing games and booze. What goes with AD&D 1e? Call of Cthulhu? Traveller?
ReplyDeleteHuh. Let's see...
ReplyDeleteAD&D: Miller High Life
Call of Cthulhu: Bathtub gin
Traveller: Syrian Panther Sweat
Fun exercise, isn't it? AD&D is definitely beer. CoC just begs for Prohibition-era stuff, though sherry or port also seem fitting when your character is a neurasthenic New England scholar or dilettante in a library, perusing ancient tomes. For Traveller I'd play up the "Age of Sail in space" angle, so rum it is.
ReplyDeleteOf course, this is mostly theoretical, as at my table we default to beer and/or soda.
call of cthulhu is probably absinthe for me. for traveller, I don't see how you'd have cargo space for anything but everclear and tang.
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