Gah, why won't Carrie die already? :)

Paul, Jeremy, and I were poking through an old hard drive tonight when we came across an Apple ][e emulator. So we popped in Oregon Trail and had at it. Paul was the party leader; the other passengers were Kate, Jeremy, Matthew, and Carrie.

The game went something like this:

(1.) Leave July 1.
(2.) Carrie gets dysentery right away.
(3.) We cross a river, in which we lose 535 pounds of food and two of our wagon axles.
(4.) A thief comes in the night and steals 10 sets of clothes, leaving us ... naked?
(5.) Jeremy gets measles. Jeremy dies the next day.
(6.) Carrie gets typhoid.
(7.) An ox wanders off.
(8.) Matthew gets typhoid (presumably from Carrie). Matthew dies two days later.
(9.) We run out of food and find out that Paul's a really crappy hunter. He gets no beaver.
(10.) Carrie gets a fever.
(11.) Kate gets exhaustion. Kate dies.

At this point, the party's down to Paul and Carrie, she's got three diseases, she's eating up the 100 pounds of food we got by killing a bear ... and she just won't die.

The wagon breaks down. Carrie won't die. We trade for wagon parts. Carrie won't die. We hunt for food and come back with a one-pound rabbit. Carrie won't die. We eat the rabbit, leaving us with no food, no bullets to hunt for food, and no clothes. And finally ... she dies.

The room erupts in cheers. Finally, the diseased-ridden tramp is dead. ::grins:: Then Paul dies of starvation and gets to write his own epitaph ... in which he memorializes the woman who caused the demise of the entire party.

Gee thanks, Carrie.