Medieval churl JSON

[karlnp]

A friend (who provided the lovely Middle English descriptions) was playing a conduct game as a medieval transplant, so I thought it might be a fun addition to the game proper.

Future work: make chat with NPCs unintelligible.

[drbig]

Maybe add some seeds and a pitchfork/shovel? Like you were teleported straight from the field :)

[Coolthulhu]

Do we have a pitchfork?

Hoe would probably be more fitting than shovel, though.

[drbig]

Yeah, some seeds and some farming tool.

[karlnp]

How about I do a separate PR for a medieval farmer profession? That way we still get the bare-bones challenge intended here, and we can have a more agrarian approach if we want.

[drbig]

Just throwing ideas around. This looks good as it is.

[karlnp]

😊

[Night-Pryanik]

Oh, I expect some difficulties translating this Middle English descriptions.

[drbig]

@Night-Pryanik I'd assume the translations for stuff such as this should be more about the 'spirit/idea' preservation. E.g. for Polish something that looks like Old Polish would probably do. It's a game after all and the point here is 'snatched from medieval straight into future post-cataclysm'.

[chaosvolt]

And very belatedly, I should point out that, concerning the scenario, shouldn't forcing the Illiterate trait ALREADY prevent taking Fast Reader and Slow Reader? o.O

[karlnp]

They cancel each other out, so it's possible to take Fast Reader and undo the Illiterate trait while keeping the bonus points. IIRC - it's been a weekish since I was writing/testing this.

[chaosvolt]

Ah, odd. O.o

[chaosvolt]

One other thing I noticed. Briefs and loincloth? o.O

[karlnp]

nobody wants things dangling in the apocalypse

[chaosvolt]

Riiiight. Smells more like a modding fail to me. Why would a medieval peasant have briefs? :V

[Rivet-the-Zombie]

Why would a medieval peasant have briefs?

[chaosvolt]

Is always dem aliums. :V

[karlnp]

because we don't have rough-hewn stockings and nylon seemed more objectionable!

although i know now i could have used long underwear, but i hadn't seen that then

[chaosvolt]

Huehuehue. Maybe I should've mainlined the fur leggings from More Survival Tools. XP

EDIT: Also, not sure whether it'd be more fitting to have both a loincloth AND long underwear, or just one. Might suggest just dropping briefs entirely.

[chaosvolt]

...ignore that, I done derped. Real one will exist in a moment.