Still on my first play through... 29 days in and I lost just Marko and Pavle... Things are going really bad. about 25 days in, a stupid, stupid misunderstanding got Marko in a knife fight with a priest and he barely survived. Got him home and bandaged, but had to send Pavle out for supplies while Marko healed. Sent Pavle back to the chapel where Marko got in trouble to see if he could get to the abandoned structure behind the building... and he found the priest, but the Father was way worse off than we were... he was pitiful... cowering, injured, begging Pavle not to kill him. he didn't know Pavle was Marko's friend. He didn't know we were good people and we never intended to rob him in the first place. But I guess when you see a hooded figure digging through your supplies, and you choose to lunge at them with a knife, there's no time to figure out intentions. Marko shouldn't have fought back. Regardless, Pavle fell that night to another scavenger, and Marko went cold a few nights later at the hands of a cruel rebel who was faster than him. Bruno and Anton are keeping things warm back home, but a raid that happened on the night Marko died left Bruno seriously wounded. We accepted Zlata, a homeless musician, into our home the night after Pavle died, but she is very sick, and despite her encouraging words keeping Bruno and Anton from ending their lives, I can't ignore the fact that I'm about to lose her, too. Now the radio, animal trap, workshop, stove,and water filter we had built to sustain our house lay untended- a near mockery of our hope for survival. All we can do is cower in our beds and pray the war ends before we do... any miracles welcome!
10 hard-fought hours into this game. Feels like 100. Love it.
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