survival · pioneer · historical · resource management · 1980s · strategy · adventure · dysentery · oregon trail
A dry wind carries the scent of dust and distant rain across an ocean of grass. A faded wooden sign, nailed to a splintering post, reads: 'Oregon Trail.' Before you lies a ledger, its pages blank but for column headings. With eight hundred dollars in coin, you must outfit your party at the general store for the two-thousand-one-hundred-mile ordeal. The clerk watches, ledger open. Name your five travelers. Their lives, and yours, will turn on the supplies you buy and the path you chart.