#HISTERA PFEFFERNEUSSE CRACKER#

The world knows that men love bacon and they are cashing in on it. If you have ever checked the “Man” section at a gift store (an awful section of any store that reduces my gender to a group of bourbon drinking, sports watching, bacon eating buffoons), there’s always an area devoted to the love the of bacon. The world knows this and cheers for bacon at every chance it gets. It’s pretty versatile and it will always make whatever you are eating better (ok, maybe not if you were eating Jell-O or something like that). You can wrap anything in bacon and make it better.

#HISTERA PFEFFERNEUSSE CRACKER#

Just a plain old Townhouse cracker with a little bit of cheese. But if you really look at what I served – it was essentially a cracker. On Christmas, I served bacon covered crackers that were a big hit. It makes anything it attaches to more tasty as well. Salty, fatty, crispy and oh so flavorful. It’s everything you want in a meat product. So, all biomes continue outside of it, creating the illusion of a larger world.There are few foods in the world that are celebrated more than bacon, and rightfully so. We didn’t want to limit our thinking within the boundaries of the dome. Birds flying overhead, large insects in the forest, swarms of flies and mosquitoes in the swamp and the looming shadow of dinosaurs in the distance. Not just the forest, but the entire map is filled with creatures that make the world feel alive. In some areas the ground has sunk a couple of meters in the ground creating naturally shaped trenches resulting in interesting height differences. The ground is either covered with vegetation, dark soil or mud. Some trees have been uprooted or fallen over, creating interesting cover options. We decided on using a mix of deciduous and coniferous trees, with as much thick ground cover as possible using ferns, moss, grass types etc. Large patches of overgrown grass create cover, and the shin-high water in the swamp slows you down.

Going down the mountains, you enter a strip of heathery meadow and a swampy areas. Around the village you can see the beginnings of civilization small altars, stone cutting tools, hunting equipment, pottery etc.

Houses are made of leather or strips of bark, with wood and bone functioning as support. Further in you can see small living quarters being built on the side of giant trees. The huts are located in a small, deforested area. The gatherers have created a small village deep within the forest at the other side of the dome. On the walls both in- and outside of the village are primal cave paintings in the tribe’s style and color. All of this is set dressed with primitive furniture, hunting equipment etc. This is the start of the mountainous area in which the hunters have transformed caves to create somewhat a comfortable shelter. The hunters live in the rocky cave area of the map. Every now and then glimpses of civilization peek through the dense jungle through totems, small altars or landmarks which guide the way. A waterfall spreads out into small creeks that wind their way through the forest and out of the arena on the other side. They are separated from the forest with its village of gatherers by the different swamplands and heathery meadows. The hunters reside in dark caves in a rocky terrain.

Both sides of civilization, the Hunters & the Gatherers, are pushed back to their respective edges of the map. The world looked much more lush thousands of years BC.

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