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Jump 106: Prehistoric Earth

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  1. Jump 106: Prehistoric Earth
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  3. Location: Central Asia, 50,000 B.C.E.
  4. Era: Standard, Upper Paleolithic
  5. Drawbacks: [+400] The Greatest Butterfly Net, A Longer Stay: 47,000 Years
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  7. [150/1400] Reputation Boost
  8. [Free] Patient -1
  9. [Free] The Gift of Fire
  10. [250/1400] Robustness
  11. [350/1400] Bounty Of The Hunt
  12. [Free] Big-Game Hunter
  13. [450/1400] Paleolithic Knapper
  14. [750/1400] Our Brothers
  15. [850/1400] Nomadic Hunter
  16. [1050/1400] Mesolithic Knapper
  17. [1150/1400] Agriculture
  18. [1350/1400] Neolithic Knapper
  19. [1400/1400] Knapper's Tools
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  21. In the age before sorcerers, there were shamans.
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  23. In the age before monsters, there were mammoths and megafauna.
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  25. In the age before heroes, there were hunters.
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  27. There are a number of myths lost to time. But myths often have a backing in truth, even if they may be distorted from being retold after dozens of lifetimes.
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  29. In those most ancient of times, there were those who tried to pass themselves off as more than they were. At times, they were exposed for the frauds they were. But at other times... a cult of personality would unite his people and turn them to heinous ends. A madman would cut a swath through his kin. An enraged beast would endanger an entire tribe.
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  31. In those times, it took more than just any person to deal with such. It took a special kind of hunter. Such a hunter did, of course, exist; many of the scattered tribes of mankind spoke of him. A hunter who was so old that his hair was the color of snow, yet kept it trimmed in a way unlike known tribes. A hunter who struck so hard that his very weapons would shatter - whether they were rough stone, as they were in the earliest retellings, or flint and polished obsidian, as they were in the later years. A hunter who appeared in times of need, clad in roughly hewn attire, who did what must be done, and then disappeared once more. No matter where one might travel, similar tales were told.
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  33. Without the benefit of survival outside of oral tradition, nearly all of this has been lost or passed into myth. But that makes him no less real for those whose lives he affected. Hunters whose parties were overwhelmed by their prey, or who were ambushed, saved by the hunter. Victims of would-be warlords who sought to bring men under their sway, freed, the warband violently halted. Tribes ravaged by diseases, finding an outsider bringing them untainted meat, tending to their sick until they're well enough to take care of themselves. Occasionally, for those tribes that could not be helped, their remains found having been treated in accordance to their traditions.
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  35. Such a myth would likely have been dismissed if this hunter had not been a constant through all of prehistory, only fading into mankind's collective memory as writing began to emerge.
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  37. It is truly a pity that modern man will never know of this myth, only reflected in a handful of cave paintings across the globe, and broken tools scattered through the archeological record.
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