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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9546321" data-attributes="member: 7737">Interlude time.Earlier, we learned that Wendel gave us the shepherd's hut two years ago. So what have we been doing for sustenance all that time? Where'd the bread and cheese come from? Did we grow our own grain and milk our own cows? We surely didn't buy food from the village of Delmer, because they were willing to murder us rather than let us in.Yes, I'm nit-picking, but this kind of stuff bothered me as a kid, and still does.---Regarding the journey from Delmer to Freeton: some quick web searches tell me that the average person can hike about 8-15 miles per day, depending upon terrain and other factors. If we go with the low end of the range, given it's been established that Seagate Island is mountainous, we'll say a week of hiking took us about 56 miles. For reference, Manhattan is about 13.5 miles long and about 2.5 miles wide at its widest. Grand Bahama Island is about 95 miles X 15 miles.So Seagate Island is about four times longer than Manhattan (at least in one dimension), and maybe about half the size of Grand Bahama overall. Or we've hiked across the "short" part of the island and the rest of it is 500 miles long. Who knows, really?Seagate Island must have extremely steep terrain that drops right down to the waterline, because we emerge from the mountains into Delmer and five minutes later we're on the wharf at Wendel's house; and now we're about to do the same thing in Freeton: emerge from the mountains and head down to the wharf to look for Uncle Beldon's house. (Also why does everyone live near the wharf?)---Regarding the money: I can distinctly remember that when I played this gamebook as a kid, I had 4 gold-colored coins that I kept in my cloth dice bag to represent Carr's gold pieces. I'm assuming foreign (to me) coins because no U.S. currency is gold-colored.</blockquote>

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