Frostbound

Chris

It took Sarah a while to tame one of the horses and after seeing how long it took, I looked for a way to speed things up. I think the reason she was able to tame one at all was because they had been domesticated before. Without that, I didn't think her abilities would've been able to bridge the level gap. One had to remember that she had no Laws or anything else to boost her power, only the skills her Class gave along with the ones she had been able to upgrade.

Someone came up with the idea of separating the horses so she only had to focus on one and that sped up things dramatically.

It was a mystery why I hadn't thought of it before but it was nice to have that idea early rather than after we were most of the way through the herd.

Separating them out was difficult but I left that to others. They had to work in groups and multiple people had to be around to put up walls quickly in case something went wrong, but they managed to wrangle them fine.

After that, things sped up for a different reason.

Sarah gained 2 levels from successfully taming her first horse. She was despondent about it taking so long at first, but after some encouragement, she went back at it with vigorous enthusiasm.

Her pace steadily picked up as she leveled and she even reached the threshold for an evolution and acquired multiple new skills. Sarah kept what she picked secret, but whatever it was worked wonders.

As Sarah raced through the levels and the number of tamed horses grew, we ran into a different issue.

We had no yokes pre-made for them.

Looking back, that was a planning failure on my part and I should have thought of that, but there wasn't anything I could do about it now.

Sam and Ashley got to work with the only other Leatherworker in our Caravan pumping them out with Vincent's help.