A Time for Harvest Gameplay - Chapter One

The students arrive at Cobb's Corners at about 1.30pm. Your first day will be for settling in so there will be no investigating or digging work to do but Blaine asks that no-one strays too far from the group as he's responsible for you.

Your place of lodging, the Maclearan Farmhouse is a two story unsightly eyesore surrounded by thigh high grasses. Behind the farm, large Sugar Maples grow. Within the house are a few unbroken chairs facing one another before a brick fireplace in which cold black ashes lie. A large window looks out on what was a front yard.

Misk U have been good enough to run a phone line to the house. but unfortunately the dwelling has neither electricity nor gas. The layout consists of a front room, a large kitchen area, and what must have been a parlor downstairs, as well as two large bedrooms upstairs The place is dusty and obviously could do with a clean. Oddly enough, the place doesn’t really feel abandoned, as if someone or some thing still visits here from time to time..... waiting.
Hanging on the wall above the hand pump in the sink is a faded yellow and blue hand stitched plaque that reads "God bless our happy home" Below the window looking out on the backyard stands a large insulated metal box into which ice can be poured and used to keep food cold. Through the rear window can be seen a decrepit outhouse that sits like an wooden island amongst a sea of grass—a collapsed barn, some fifty feet behind and surrounded by the Sugar Maple forest.

Clarissa, as the only female student, elects to take one of the rooms upstairs, while the men make do with cots downstairs and the second bedroom. Blaine chooses the parlor as his own private sleeping space.

Arrange who sleeps where.

Mathis and Angel wander off outside leaving the rest of you to unpack. Thomas tries to hide his delight at getting the upstairs room to himself.

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Once everyone has chosen their sleeping arrangements, Blaine says he's taking everyone to Jim's Grill to buy everyone a late lunch. You all get into your three vehicles for a short drive to the diner.

Cobb’s Corners is a place of great scenic beauty, a Rockwell painting come to life Small shops line the unpaved Main Street leading to the waterfront district consisting of a couple of warehouses and a few short piers Spread out behind the stores are a collection of homes, a public library, the town hall, a local sheriff ’s office, the office of the Cobb’s Corners Gazette, a one room schoolhouse, and an assortment of other buildings.
Access to the valley is by a two-lane road that meanders through the surrounding mountains.

Beyond the town proper lies the Gismend River Bridge (great for bass and trout fishing) Farming covers hundreds of acres of tilled soil bursting with a variety of crops, such as sweet corn. Any inch of land not used for farming boasts a cluster of trees, with thick forests of elms, oaks, and hickories in danger of taking over abandoned farms Standing majestically in the background, the Green Mountains rear up like a bulwark against the rest of the country.