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Each month we post one of the true stories, that we used to create Welcome To Elk. If you follow them, playing Welcome To Elk will be like hanging out with old friends. Reading the stories will give you no hints on how the game will end or how we will use the story in the game





We already told you about how Anders died three times. This is the story about how Anders’ sister Beth “died” too.

When Beth was not working she would hang with the rest of the people at the Hermit bar.

The Hermit bar was where everyone met, they did not spend time hanging out for Sunday dinners, going hiking or other activities you might otherwise do with friends you’ve known for 20 years. They always just met there, sometimes they wouldn’t even bother talking.

After Anders’ death, for the first time in 20 years, Beth stopped coming to the bar. It didn’t take long for her friends to notice and start talking. They were worried for Beth – she would always show up after work or in the mornings, whether rain or shine.

Beth was probably in grief after losing her close and dear brother, not to mention years before that losing her beloved husband George. “Give her some time and she’ll be back”, her friends would say. But Beth did not come back to the Hermit bar and soon the rumors and stories started to take form. Beth must’ve missed her dear brother so much that she had decided to follow and reunite with both him and her dear husband George.

At the Hermit bar, people are like family and they look after each other, so it was soon decided that Beth should not die forgotten, therefore they all sat down and wrote Beth’s obituary to the local newspaper. Life then continued at the bar and the guests would always speak highly of the times where both Beth and Anders were still alive.

Beth would never know that she was supposedly dead. With both her husband George and her brother Anders gone, she decided it was high time to focus on her own life. So on a fateful day, driving her usual route to the Hermit bar, Beth didn’t stop to meet her old friends but instead just kept on driving. She drove and drove until she reached a bar in a place called Elk. After 20 years it was time to change the scenery and Beth soon found new friends to hang with and feel at home at her new bar.

Beth may not have ever known she was declared dead, but she knew she felt reborn at her new place.

Story Teller: Lauge Christensen

Stroy Writer: Astrid Refstrup

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Each month we post one of the true stories, that we used to create Welcome To Elk. If you follow them, playing Welcome To Elk will be like hanging out with old friends. Reading the stories will give you no hints on how the game will end or how we will use the story in the game





It was before George went to prison when Sue and him were still young. They were each other’s best friends and siblings too.

The two of them would spend most days hanging together at the Hermit bar. They did not have much else to do other than drink and play cards with the rest of the people there.

Sue and George looked tough and would sometimes get themselves into trouble, not because they wanted to, but cause getting by in life meant sometimes doing things that would result in local police attention. In general, they were good people, helpful to their friends, George was a bit of a romantic too! If they were ever fighting it would only be with each other, when really drunk and mostly because of playing darts. In those situations, their friends would stay away and leave them too it, because both were strong and fearless when fighting and no one wanted to get caught in the crossfire.

One day, a group of bikers arrived to the Hermit bar. The bikers made a lot of noise when parking, you could hear they were drunk and people at the bar instantly got the feeling that the bikers weren’t there to make new friends.

The mood at the bar immediately shifted when the bikers entered: everyone tried to make themselves look invisible, no one in doubt that the bikers were there looking for a good fight. And no one at the Hermit bar thought fighting the bikers would be particularly fun.

Sue and George did not take much notice of the bikers, they continued their card game, which clearly provoked the bikers.

One of the bikers tipped over one of the guests’ beer, so it smashed against the wooden floor with a loud crash and a splash. Sue and George stood up from their table and all the bikers started walking towards them, of course with the boss in front.

The guests at the bar started to liven up a bit, excited to see what Sue and George would now do.

The Biker boss picked up a bottle and weaved it from hand to hand inviting Sue and George to take the next step. “Be careful” George said, “I think he might well hit you with that bottle Sue.” Sue quickly also grabbed a bottle from the bar, looked at George and said “I wonder if that would hurt?” And then, without blinking, Sue smashed the bottle against her own head, shattering it, whiskey running down her face, smiling “Nope, didn’t feel a thing.”

The biker boss silently put his bottle back on the table and one by one, the bikers all sheepishly left the Hermit bar.

Story Teller: Lauge Christensen


Story Writer: Astrid Refstrup

Each month we post one of the true stories, that we used to create Welcome To Elk. If you follow them, playing Welcome To Elk will be like hanging out with old friends. Reading the stories will give you no hints on how the game will end or how we will use the story in the game





Bobbie and Sue lived up the road. They were very much in love and could go hours without speaking, enjoying the quiet company of one another.

The couple would spend most of their days walking to get beer. They would drink so much beer that they didn’t really ever need to eat food. If they felt hungry, they would just eat a biscuit.

(I guess some people can be so alcoholic that they can live from only beer, never be drunk and never feel hunger. This was at least how Bobbie and Sue lived.)

Bobbie and Sue used to own an old pickup truck. Each morning they would drive to the general store to pick up their ration of beer for the day. Finally one day, a sane person, maybe a new police assistant, confiscated their car or maybe the just sold it?

Not deterred from losing their automobile, Bobbie and Sue would instead walk down to the general store, each and every single day. The journey was long, meaning their days were now predominantly filled with walking to and from the store. Of course, all this exercise required energy, which would mean getting the right amount of beer to keep them going.

So, Bobbie and Sue came up with the beer depot system.

A sufficient number of beers would be too much to carry on such a long trip. So each day when they bought their beer at the general store, walking back they would hide half the beers in small depots. They worked out to hide them at a distance of one beers drinking time between each depot, so then the next day they could keep drinking while walking to the store.

So yes, Bobbie and Sue loved their beers.

If you were ever at a party with them – you know one of those parties that lasts into the early morning – you better make sure you have enough beers left. Cause when you’re smoking your last cigarette, scrambling for whatever is still left to drink: either some bad wine, dregs of vodka or anything else you can find to keep Bobbie and Sue from leaving, it won’t work. When all the beers are gone and no more is to be found, they’ll simply say “Out of beer, out of here” and the pair of them will walk home.

Actually Jan even told me about a time, him and Sue went fishing out on the river. Jan had bought what he thought would be enough beer for the two of them that day. (Tuborg of course.) When Jan had finished his second or third beer, and reached for a new one, he saw that the rest were already gone. “Oh, we’re out of beer” he said without much thinking. Just like that, Sue stood up and said “Out of beer, out of here” jumped out of the canoe and swam to shore. “She probably walked all the way to the general store through the forest to get that next beer.

Story Teller: Lauge Christensen

Story Writer: Astrid Refstrup

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