A passive aggressive nonverbal way of showing your disapproval of the community’s direction. Jasmine took a contempt token from the pile.
A project was started to build a bridge to the island of tiny swine. To advance your community and the story of your year you can start projects. Just like real life, these community discussions are messy and without conclusion. The group was divided on milking vs slaughter. Everyone was given 2 sentences to sum up their feelings and no follow up. The only time you are allowed to talk freely about the community and your thoughts is when someone takes their turn to pose a question. This is what instigated the group’s first discussion. “We discover an island of micropigs,” Jasmine declares. You can then do one of three things, start a discussion, start a project or discover something. They pose questions and problems to help expand your world “What natural predators roam this area, are you safe?” read the first card. The game takes place across 52 turns, 1 for each week of the year and 1 for each card in the deck. Like scientists introduces problems and dilemmas for them to work through. I guess you’d call it a role playing game, except you aren’t playing the role of any character your group is playing as the community itself. These great mysteries were offset by the island of micropigs, which was the first place our group and community found disagreement. Ancient ruins sat beside it and former skyscrapers peaked out from the ocean miles off shore. To the north of the island, a great crystal prism of mystery. Setting the tone of our hipster world, though, was our other great scarcities: we were very low on cucumbers and yoghurt! We had harnessed the great fiery volcano for its geothermal energy but had a deep shortage of boats that left us stranded. Our world was flooded and our community of 80 was left stranded on a small volcanic island.
It shows the final state of our world before The Frost Shepherds came. This is the only remaining artifact we have of our community – a map we created together. It has made me debate the ethics of child labour, I’ve fought off a strange clock tribe and watched the melodramas of a mountain community who couldn’t decide if pigs were for milk or slaughter. The Quiet Year is a game about struggle, ethics and drama.
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