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The rest of the weekend was fun and relaxing, but nothing to write an adventure game about. You did find a few hours of free time while Alex was busy at work. During those few hours, you ...

You ... Researched the artifact

You grab the artifact and fire up google.


What do you want to know?

You what is a Shabti?

Shabti or Ushabti (Egyptian language) is a funerary figurine which served as a dead man's deputy in order to do labor for him, mostly agricultural, in the afterlife. They existed between the Twenty-first dynasty of Egypt and the end of the First Intermediate Period.
You grab the artifact and fire up google.


What do you want to know?

You why is Anubis depicted in the corner?

You find the following information about Anubis. However, you cannot find any examples of him being depicted on Shabti statues. That's a bit odd ...

Originally, in the Ogdoad system, he was god of the underworld, and his name is frequently thought to have reflected this, meaning something like putrefaction. He was said to have a wife, Anput, who was really just his female aspect, her name being his with an additional feminine suffix (the t), who was depicted exactly the same (though feminine). His father was originally said to be Ra, as he was the creator god, and thus his mother was said to be Hesat, Ra's wife, who later was identified as Hathor (who her identity was remarkably similar to). As lord of the underworld, Anubis was identified as the father of Kebechet, the goddess of the purification of bodily organs due to be placed in canopic jars, during mummification.

As ruler over the dead, he was given titles such as He who is set upon his mountain, in reference to his sitting atop desert cliffs to guard multiple necropolis, and Chontamenti (also spelt Khentimentiu, and Khentamenti), meaning Lord of the Westerners, in reference to Egyptian belief that the entrance to the underworld was towards the west, since that was the direction in which the sun set. As ruler, he was also said to have been victorious over the dark forces (described as nine bows), which also, naturally, lurk in the underworld, gaining him the title Jackal ruler of the bows.

As king of the underworld, he was also considered to be the one who weighed the heart of the dead against the feather of Maàt (the concept of truth), gaining him the title He who counts the hearts. One of the reasons that the ancient Egyptians took such care to preserve their dead with sweet-smelling herbs was that it became believed Anubis would check each person with his keen canine nose. Only if they smelled pure would he allow them to enter the Kingdom of the Dead.
You grab the artifact and fire up google.


What do you want to know?

You what's with the headdress?

You can't really find anything of note about this figure's headdress. From what you remember, you don't normally see a statue with a headdress but no beard, especially from this time period.
You grab the artifact and fire up google.


What do you want to know?

You what does the inscription mean?

The inscription is very difficult to make out, and you can't translate it at all. Normally, spell 472 from the sixth chapter of the Book of the Dead is inscribed in full on Shabtis:

Illumine the Osiris NN, whose word is truth. Hail, Shabti. If the Osiris NN be decreed to do any of the work which is to be done in the Khert-Neter, let everything which standeth in the way be removed from him - whether it be to plough the fields, or to fill the channels with water, or to carry sand from (the East to the West). 'Here am I', you shall say, 'I shall do it.'

The only word you can make out in the inscription is Burden.
You grab the artifact and fire up google.


What do you want to know?

You enough Research ...

How time flies when you're researching. Before you know it, it's Sunday night, and time for bed.

As you and Alex get ready for bed, Alex complains that two of the fish died.
After Reed and Herron leave the Donner Party's situation continues to deteriorate. Indians shoot arrows at William Eddy and William Pike when they are hunting away from the main party and both are lucky to escape unhurt. Louis Keseberg irritated by his elderly wagon-driver Hardcoop's increasing complaints orders him out of his wagon and snaps at him to walk. Hardcoop manages keeps up for the first day but increasingly begins to lag behind. Without James the Reed family have to abandon another wagon and now many of the Party are on foot: a dangerous situation to be in with so many hostile Indians about. At noon you see Hardcoop, now a long way behind, collapse and crawl under the shade of some bushes.


What do you do?

You grit your teeth and press on

That day's journey is a difficult one and that night Hardcoop fails to rejoin the group, William Eddy and another man do go out to look for him but return without him after a few hours. Without food and water and surrounded by hostile Indians there is little chance that the old man is still alive. Louis Keseberg is criticised by most of the group for forcing Hardcoop out of his wagon and Keseberg responds by angrily challenging anyone who doesn't like him to a fight. The Party is beginning to tear itself apart.


Moving on the next day you come across the skeleton of a settler killed by Indians, more horses are stolen and that night nineteen cattle vanish, stolen by Indians who occasionally fire arrows at your group from hiding in the rocks all around. Keseberg steps on a spiked tree stump and seriously injures his foot, making him more disagreeable, Indians make off with no less than twenty-one oxen the next day and William Eddy is forced to abandon his wagon.


A week after Hardcoop's death another wagon owned by a German called Wolfinger falls behind. Two other Germans called Joseph Reinhardt and Augustus Spitzer go back to help him. They are mean-looking fellows and for some reason both take their rifles with them when they go back. You don't like the look of this but the other members of the Party appear not to see and continue struggling to get their remaining wagons to the Humboldt River.


What do you do?

You go back to help Wolfinger

Leaving your wagon you walk back on foot towards Wolfinger's wagon. As you approach you hear the boom of a gunshot and see Wolfinger fall from his wagon to the ground. You cry out and both Reinhardt and Spitzer, their rifles raised, turn and see you. As you turn to run they both open fire with deadly accuracy. A bullet hits you in the back of the head, killing you instantly and you fall to the ground, murdered like Wolfinger for your money.
That day's journey is a difficult one and that night Hardcoop fails to rejoin the group, William Eddy and another man do go out to look for him but return without him after a few hours. Without food and water and surrounded by hostile Indians there is little chance that the old man is still alive. Louis Keseberg is criticised by most of the group for forcing Hardcoop out of his wagon and Keseberg responds by angrily challenging anyone who doesn't like him to a fight. The Party is beginning to tear itself apart.


Moving on the next day you come across the skeleton of a settler killed by Indians, more horses are stolen and that night nineteen cattle vanish, stolen by Indians who occasionally fire arrows at your group from hiding in the rocks all around. Keseberg steps on a spiked tree stump and seriously injures his foot, making him more disagreeable, Indians make off with no less than twenty-one oxen the next day and William Eddy is forced to abandon his wagon.


A week after Hardcoop's death another wagon owned by a German called Wolfinger falls behind. Two other Germans called Joseph Reinhardt and Augustus Spitzer go back to help him. They are mean-looking fellows and for some reason both take their rifles with them when they go back. You don't like the look of this but the other members of the Party appear not to see and continue struggling to get their remaining wagons to the Humboldt River.


What do you do?

You keep moving

You keep going and that night Reinhardt and Spitzer rejoin the Party without Wolfinger. In grim tones and with lowered eyes they tell the group, which includes Wolfinger's young wife Doris, that Wolfinger was killed by Indians who pilfered his wagon. Many in the group quietly express doubts among themselves that the pair are lying but no one is willing to go back and investigate so the matter is dropped but the mood in the group plunges even more.


The next day William Eddy and Patrick Breen (a wealthy settler and dedicated Catholic travelling with his large family) nearly get into a fight when Breen refuses to give Eddy any water for his thirsty children and Eddy threatens to kill him, the matter is only resolved when the Donner Brothers intervene and persuade Breen to give up some of his water. As the Donner Party struggles slowly on, suffering now from lack of provisions along with everything else.


You reach Truckee Meadows near the Humboldt River and here the Party halts for a rest. A small hunting group is prepared by William Pike and William Foster (a tough young man travelling with his wife and infant child). They are loading various weapons and drying wet gunpowder packets near the fire when William Eddy walks up to you and suggests that you join the pair in trying to shoot some animals for food.


What do you do?

You join Pike and Foster's hunting expedition

You join Pike and Foster by the fire where they are loading their pistols. Someone yells for Foster to put some more wood on the fire. "Here hold this for me" he says passing you his pistol. As you seize the weapon it accidentally fires, the bullet piercing your heart and killing you instantly, victim of a tragic accident.
Pressing on you initially make good progress, reaching the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains after one day's travel. Charles Stanton who has been exerting himself a great deal in making the snowshoes begins to suffer from snow blindness and fall behind. By the fifth day there is very little food left and everyone is exhausted. Stanton declares he is unable to walk and sitting by the fire calmly smoking his pipe he tells the rest of your group to go on without him. After a few moments hesitation the group resume their journey.


What do you do?

You head on with the others

Charles Stanton is left behind and you continue to resolutely press on for another three days, William Eddy finds his wife has secretly packed some bear meat in his bag and shares it with the rest of you. After that there is nothing to eat and soon the talk is becoming increasingly wild, people proposing that some members of the group be killed for food or that they turn back to the camp. All the women and William Eddy are determined to keep going but all the rest want to stop.


As you are arguing a snowstorm catches you all out in the open. Immediately you and your companions gather together for warmth and wrap yourselves in blankets but it is no good. The young Mexican teamster Antonio dies first, perishing without a sound. Franklin Gardner, in his late fifties, succumbs next. He lies very still, barely moving and Eddy tells him he is dying. Gardner replies he does not care and urges his daughters Sarah and Mary to eat his body after he dies. He expires soon after. As the cold increases you feel an increasingly irrational urge to run out into the snowstorm and hunt for food.


What do you do?

You leave the group to search for something to kill

There is nothing you can do. Losing all control of yourself you race out into the snow. Immediately you lose sight of your companions and never find them again. You stagger on until you collapse and half-buried by the fast-falling snow you never get up again.
Charles Stanton is left behind and you continue to resolutely press on for another three days, William Eddy finds his wife has secretly packed some bear meat in his bag and shares it with the rest of you. After that there is nothing to eat and soon the talk is becoming increasingly wild, people proposing that some members of the group be killed for food or that they turn back to the camp. All the women and William Eddy are determined to keep going but all the rest want to stop.


As you are arguing a snowstorm catches you all out in the open. Immediately you and your companions gather together for warmth and wrap yourselves in blankets but it is no good. The young Mexican teamster Antonio dies first, perishing without a sound. Franklin Gardner, in his late fifties, succumbs next. He lies very still, barely moving and Eddy tells him he is dying. Gardner replies he does not care and urges his daughters Sarah and Mary to eat his body after he dies. He expires soon after. As the cold increases you feel an increasingly irrational urge to run out into the snowstorm and hunt for food.


What do you do?

You sit tight

It is a miserable Christmas. All day the snowstorm rages and you are convinced that all of you will die out here. Patrick Breen's friend Patrick Dolan goes next. He becomes delirious with hunger, tearing off his clothes and racing out into the storm: it is with great difficulty that William Eddy gets him under control and physically forces him back. He is held down until he becomes increasingly quiet and eventually dies. Poor Lemuel Murphy dies next: he showed great courage and endurance for a boy of twelve. Like Dolan he becomes delirious and his sister Sarah Foster tries to distract him with a story about the moon, tears in her eyes. Eventually he too slips away into the endless night.


The cold is overwhelming you and you want to do nothing but shut your eyes. It occurs to you that if you can just get some sleep you will feel stronger when you wake up and better able to handle the cold, which is piercing your bones like a knife.


What do you do?

You shut your eyes

The darkness overwhelms you but you couldn't care less. Everything is numb, faded and blurred and all you want to do is sleep. So you shut your eyes and drift down, down into the darkness and escape from this world of pain and terror.
It is a miserable Christmas. All day the snowstorm rages and you are convinced that all of you will die out here. Patrick Breen's friend Patrick Dolan goes next. He becomes delirious with hunger, tearing off his clothes and racing out into the storm: it is with great difficulty that William Eddy gets him under control and physically forces him back. He is held down until he becomes increasingly quiet and eventually dies. Poor Lemuel Murphy dies next: he showed great courage and endurance for a boy of twelve. Like Dolan he becomes delirious and his sister Sarah Foster tries to distract him with a story about the moon, tears in her eyes. Eventually he too slips away into the endless night.


The cold is overwhelming you and you want to do nothing but shut your eyes. It occurs to you that if you can just get some sleep you will feel stronger when you wake up and better able to handle the cold, which is piercing your bones like a knife.


What do you do?

You force them to remain open

Finally the snow storm at Camp Death dies down and you and the other survivors emerge from the snow-covered blankets, moving stiffly and more dead than alive. You join the remaining men in setting fire to a pine tree and you all lie around it, so utterly indifferent to the heat that William Eddy, Sarah Foster and Amanda McCutchen all get burned. You spend three days in the camp, drying the bodies of the dead which you then carve up with a knife and begin to eat. The meat you dry on the fire and without thinking about it you just eat. Some of the men and women have tears frozen on their faces, each being careful not to eat a family member.


Finally you resume your journey, packaging the human flesh you have not yet eaten so you can take it with you. Struggling on you clamber over rocks, your feet numbed and bleeding as your snowshoes begin to fall apart. When all the flesh is eaten a week later someone proposes you kill the two Indians who are with you. As the suggestion gains favour in the group the Indians, understandably terrified, flee from the rest of you. The next day Jay Fosdick collapses and his wife Sarah stays with him. Eddy causes unrestrained joy when he manages to shoot down a skeletal deer which is quickly butchered for food. You have stayed back with Jay and like Sarah you try to tell him to hold on, that Eddy has just shot a deer, but it is no good. Jay expires and Sarah, telling you she wishes to die too, lies next to him. The rest of the group walks away.


What do you do?

You try to persuade Sarah to rejoin the group

With a broken voice you whisper at Sarah to hold on but seeing her lying there tranquil make you want to rest too. You lie down near the couple and remain still. Slowly the coldness creeps through you, overwhelming you with weariness and almost gently you slip out of this world.
Finally the snow storm at Camp Death dies down and you and the other survivors emerge from the snow-covered blankets, moving stiffly and more dead than alive. You join the remaining men in setting fire to a pine tree and you all lie around it, so utterly indifferent to the heat that William Eddy, Sarah Foster and Amanda McCutchen all get burned. You spend three days in the camp, drying the bodies of the dead which you then carve up with a knife and begin to eat. The meat you dry on the fire and without thinking about it you just eat. Some of the men and women have tears frozen on their faces, each being careful not to eat a family member.


Finally you resume your journey, packaging the human flesh you have not yet eaten so you can take it with you. Struggling on you clamber over rocks, your feet numbed and bleeding as your snowshoes begin to fall apart. When all the flesh is eaten a week later someone proposes you kill the two Indians who are with you. As the suggestion gains favour in the group the Indians, understandably terrified, flee from the rest of you. The next day Jay Fosdick collapses and his wife Sarah stays with him. Eddy causes unrestrained joy when he manages to shoot down a skeletal deer which is quickly butchered for food. You have stayed back with Jay and like Sarah you try to tell him to hold on, that Eddy has just shot a deer, but it is no good. Jay expires and Sarah, telling you she wishes to die too, lies next to him. The rest of the group walks away.


What do you do?

You keep walking

Despite her wishes Sarah Fosdick does not die. Her sister Mary Graves returns for her and the pair cut up Jay Fosdick's body for food. Somehow Mary helps her sister rejoin the rest of the group and you silently eat the cold meat, the dead man's wife watching with tears in her eyes before silently accepting some flesh and chewing. Jay Fosdick's death means you, William Eddy and William Foster are the last surviving men along with the five women and Foster is beginning to show alarming signs of derangement. Drawing you and Eddy to one side he quietly whispers that at least one of the women must be killed to feed the others.


William Eddy's temper snaps and throwing a large stick to Foster he draws his knife and barks "defend yourself Foster!" You restrain Eddy while Foster stands motionless staring at Eddy before quietly walking away. For the moment danger is averted but the next day you come across the two Indians, Luis and Salvador, lying near death in the snow. Foster declares that the two Indians must die. When Eddy protests against this Foster draws his pistol and calmly shoots Luis in the head.


What do you do?

You intervene to stop Foster killing Salvador

As you step forward to stop William Foster killing Salvador he turns the pistol on you. The first shot hits you in the throat and you fall to the ground, stepping forward Foster fires twice more into your head, his eyes wide with hunger and madness.
Each member of the Snowshoes Party is given enough food for six days (at least enough for a few bites each day) and a pair of snowshoes. It is quickly discovered that William Murphy cannot keep up and he is sent back to the camp with Dutch Charley Burger, a little chunky man who is not built for this sort of activity. If you want to turn back now this is your last chance, otherwise you'll have to risk the dangers of the snow-filled passes.


What do you do?

You turn back to the Alder Creek Camp

You make yourself as comfortable as you can in the Teamsters Tent but it is very crowded there: not only are there too manypeople in too small a space but one of the Reed's Teamsters Milt Elliott is visiting you as well. A snowstorm blows over the Mountains and it brings death with it. Jacob Donner is the first to succumb. He dies while sitting at a table, his head bowed in his hands, the very picture of despair. Donner's death is just the beginning.


Samuel Shoemaker, a teamster for the Donner's dies next and he is soon followed by Joseph Reinhardt. Knowing he is dying Reinhardt confesses in front of you, Doris Wolfinger and George Donner that he shot and killed Mr Wolfinger but that he regrets it. He never explains why and the confession is of little comfort to the poor widow. James Smith, a teamster who actually works for the Reeds but has somehow wound up at the Donner Camp dies of the cold too. That night with the winter breeze piercing your body to the core you are struck by the urge to walk out into the cold and end it all rather than suffer this slow and lingering demise.


What do you do?

You walk out into the cold

There is a fifth victim of this snowstorm. Numb with cold, pale with hunger and wrapped in your blankets you stagger out into the snow. Quickly the relentlessly falling white ice overwhelms you: cold permeates every part of your body and your body is found the next morning.
After much begging the members of the First Relief let you join them in travelling on to California and safety but the going is hard. Most of the children are so weak the rescuers have to take turns carrying them while you and the other adults stagger on as best you can. One morning John Denton, an English wagon-driver who has been of great assistance around the camps, is unable to continue and insists that he is left behind at the fire. Finding him unable to walk the other settlers agree and he is left behind.


What do you do?

You press on with the others

Leaving John Denton behind you keep going but things continue to worsen. In particular Phillippe Keseberg's infant daughter Ada is almost unresponsive and her mother desperately offers a gold watch and money to anyone who will help her keep her child alive but it is no good. By nightfall the infant is dead and her crying mother buries her in the ground. The wind that night is relentless and chills you to the bone, you are tempted to move away from the camp and try to find a better spot.


What do you do?

You search for a warmer location

Rising to your feet you stagger away from the camp. In the flurrying snow you lose sight of the camp completely and wander round helplessly calling out names. Finally you can walk no more and have to lie down where you gently expire.