AES Journal: Tatiana's Farming for Fortune
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Bright and early the next day I headed out to the public farm , an essential area for those of us sans coin or crops of our own. Here you will find all the resources necessary for survival including a well, stove, mill, forge, distillery, drying racks and probably a few other items I haven't located yet. The wheat was tall & golden, waving in the field and enticing me to harvest it. I cheerfully cut down one field and then another. BIG MISTAKE (but we'll talk about that later). I used the mill to grind the wheat into flour, drew some water from the well, and baked my first loaves of bread. It was oh so satisfying.
I then headed off to investigate the possibility of starting my own small garden. It was at this point, much to my dismay, that I learned that every crop must be re-seeded after harvest and therefore the wheat I had harvested actually belong to someone else. Egads! Only one day into farming and my name already was mud. I was a wheat thief! I hurriedly purchased some wheat seeds and went back to replant the fields. All six fields in the area were fallow so I re-seeded them all thinking I would donate them to the community as a way to apologize.
Things were about to go from bad to worse.
Louis happened to wander by and mentioned that he had to change the fields so that only the person that had planted it could harvest it. Apparently there were complaints that wheat was missing (blushes profusely)! So now, not only had I taken someone's crops but I had managed to monopolize the remaining fields. Fortunately, Louis was able to reset the fields again and I was saved from a mob of torch-bearing peasants. Live & learn!
