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The scarecrow was guarding strawberries.
The farm grew four diamonds.
He did nothing.
Wild Harvest opened.
Strawberry Land had apparently discovered gemstones beneath the fruit and decided this still counted as agriculture.
Four blue Bonus diamonds were sitting across the six reels.
Behind them, the red barn remained a barn.
The windmill continued turning.
The scarecrow kept both arms stretched out beside the field, fulfilling his contractual obligation to frighten birds while absolutely nobody dealt with the mineral deposit.
Ten Free Spins arrived.
I had started with €100.00 at €0.80 per spin.
My balance was €88.80.
Whatever agricultural plan had brought me there was already obsolete.
The farm itself had looked almost aggressively harmless.
Blue sky.
Green hedges.
Red barn.
Windmill.
White butterflies.
Old water pump.
A scarecrow in a straw hat looking cheerful enough to suggest the crows had unionised and stopped coming.
Then the reels supplied the produce.
Strawberries.
Lemons.
Oranges.
Watermelons.
And letters.
The watermelon bothered me immediately.
This was Strawberry Land.
Not Fruit Land.
Not Seasonal Produce With Flexible Branding.
Strawberry Land.
Yet an entire watermelon had apparently crossed the border and been given a premium position in the paytable.
The strawberries themselves were better behaved.
Three along one of the twelve lines paid.
Four paid more.
Nothing strange there.
Then the Wild appeared.
A basket completely full of strawberries.
Not a strawberry plant.
Not a berry still attached to anything.
Harvested strawberries.
Already picked.
Already sitting in a wooden basket.
And the basket carried x4.
It substituted into a small line and lifted the spin to €3.20.
So the strongest strawberry on the farm was the one that had already been removed from agriculture.
Useful information.
A few spins later, another Wild basket landed with x2 and did nothing.
It sat among a lemon, a J and a watermelon.
The fruit had assembled without any respect for crop planning.
The balance moved slowly.
€96.
A small orange line.
€94.40.
Strawberries across four reels pulled some back.
Then a run of nothing took me through €92.
The feature-buy cart remained untouched.
The farm was already producing diamonds naturally.
I saw no reason to start purchasing imaginary agricultural emergencies.
One Bonus diamond appeared alone.
Gone.
Later two landed together.
Nothing.
They were brilliant blue gemstones floating among citrus fruit.
Nobody on the farm reacted.
The scarecrow still faced forward.
That became increasingly difficult to justify.
If I owned a strawberry field and a diamond the size of a watermelon appeared between the rows, bird control would no longer be my immediate concern.
Then came four.
One.
Second.
Third.
Fourth.
Wild Harvest.
The fruit disappeared into the feature.
The farm had finally acknowledged the mine.
The first sticky Wild arrived almost immediately.
Basket of strawberries.
x6.
It landed in the middle of the grid.
And stayed.
That was the important part.
Next Free Spin, the symbols changed.
The basket did not.
A lemon landed beside it.
Orange underneath.
J on the other side.
The x6 strawberries simply remained planted in the same square despite having no plant, no roots and no obvious reason to survive multiple harvests.
The farm had replanted the basket.
A line crossed through it.
Small symbols.
Useful multiplier.
€2.40.
The next spin began.
Same basket.
Same x6.
New fruit.
I stopped thinking of it as a Wild.
It was now a piece of agricultural infrastructure.
Then a Bonus diamond landed during the feature.
It did not disappear into an ordinary payout.
It went above the grid.
Collected.
One.
The farm had started saving gemstones.
Naturally.
Nothing says strawberry cultivation like putting diamonds in storage until something happens.
Another Free Spin brought a second Bonus.
Two.
The x6 basket remained in place.
A new Wild landed farther right.
x8.
Sticky too.
Now two baskets of harvested strawberries had become permanent fixtures in the field.
One x6.
One x8.
Fresh fruit kept arriving around them.
A line of low symbols managed to cross both.
The Wild multipliers joined the same payline.
x14.
The actual symbols involved were not impressive.
The strawberries in baskets were doing most of the work.
The farm had discovered that picked berries were more productive than growing berries and immediately committed to the idea.
Then the third Bonus diamond landed.
The progression above the reels filled.
The game responded by adding two more Free Spins.
And three Wild baskets appeared in random empty positions.
Three.
At once.
The farm had collected three diamonds and spent them on strawberries it had already harvested.
There were now five sticky Wilds on the grid.
x6.
x8.
One new x5.
Another x7.
And a x10 near the lower middle.
The reels looked less like a field and more like somebody had parked baskets of strawberries across every useful path and told the fruit to work around them.
The scarecrow remained outside.
Completely obsolete.
There were no birds.
There were barely crops anymore.
The field was being occupied by containers.
Fresh symbols dropped around the sticky Wilds.
Strawberry.
Orange.
K.
Lemon.
Watermelon.
The watermelon remained suspiciously comfortable for an outsider.
A line started with an orange and crossed two Wild baskets.
Another route used a low symbol through three sticky positions.
The multipliers added along the individual winning lines.
The payout climbed.
Not enormous.
But the geometry was changing.
Every permanent basket made the next spin less dependent on the actual fruit agreeing with itself.
One line needed an orange.
The Wilds became oranges.
Another needed J.
The baskets became typography.
The strawberries had achieved total agricultural flexibility.
A x25 Wild landed several spins later.
That changed the field.
Basket of strawberries.
x25.
Same visual object as the others.
Nothing about the fruit looked twenty-five times more nutritious.
No golden berries.
No ceremonial ribbon.
Just an ordinary basket apparently containing strawberries with severe financial influence.
It landed near the centre.
Sticky.
Now I had a square.
That was the one.
Every fresh spin became an attempt to send something useful through the x25 basket.
First try.
Wrong starting symbol on reel one.
Nothing reached it.
Second.
A line of Js crossed a lower route and missed the x25 by one position.
The most expensive strawberries on the farm watched typography pass nearby.
Third.
Three strawberries themselves started correctly.
The route reached one sticky x7.
Then the x25.
Connected.
The basket of strawberries was now substituting for strawberries.
Agriculture had folded in on itself.
The line paid €14.40.
The x25 stayed.
No ceremony.
No clearing.
The basket remained exactly where it was, ready to impersonate more produce.
Then another Bonus diamond landed.
Fourth collected.
A few spins later came number five.
The feature had already been extended once.
The sticky Wilds had not moved.
The centre was becoming ridiculous.
A x5 basket beside x10.
The x25 nearby.
x6 higher up.
x8 farther right.
A line of low symbols crossed three of them and paid several euros despite beginning with something worth almost nothing.
The symbols were becoming paperwork for the strawberries.
All the real power was sitting in baskets.
Then the sixth Bonus diamond arrived.
Second level-up.
Two more Free Spins.
Three more Wilds.
The farm planted another trio of already-picked strawberries.
At this point there were so many sticky baskets that the normal fruit looked temporary.
Which it was.
Spin ends?
Lemon gone.
Watermelon gone.
Orange gone.
Strawberry gone.
Baskets remain.
The harvested crop had greater tenancy rights than the living crop.
A new x9 Wild landed on the left side of the middle reels during the expanded run.
Another was x5.
The third from the level-up carried x7.
The 6×4 field was now threaded with multiplier baskets.
Fresh symbols arrived into the gaps like visitors attempting to cross a strawberry barricade.
One spin started with K on reel one.
The route hit x5.
Then x10.
Then x25.
Reel five supplied another K naturally.
The line connected.
Three sticky Wild multipliers were involved.
x40 in total.
It was only a K line underneath all that agricultural machinery.
Still, the payout jumped to €12.80.
The windmill continued turning in the background.
Of course it did.
The farm had discovered diamonds, converted them into permanent multiplier strawberries and built a x40 route through a K.
The windmill was not going to be the strange part.
The x25 basket stayed for the next spin.
So did everything else.
A strawberry line found x6 and x8.
An orange route caught one x5.
Small pieces kept adding.
The feature total moved past €30.
Then €40.
No giant 100x Wild appeared.
No five-diamond Strawberry Bonanza had been necessary.
Wild Harvest had simply allowed the field to become progressively less like a field.
The last few Free Spins were almost overcrowded.
There were normal symbols, yes.
Technically.
But the sticky Wilds had claimed enough territory that I was looking at the gaps between baskets rather than the baskets themselves.
A lemon landed in one.
Watermelon in another.
A strawberry appeared beside the x25.
One final useful line crossed x25 and x7 for €6.40.
Then the feature finished.
Total: €49.60.
Balance: €138.40.
The grid returned to the base game.
Every sticky Wild disappeared.
All of them.
x5.
x6.
x7.
x8.
x9.
x10.
x25.
Gone.
The farm had spent the feature gradually covering itself in permanent baskets of strawberries and then cleared the entire harvest between frames.
The scarecrow was still standing exactly where he had been.
I gave the farm one more €0.80 spin.
A small orange line paid €1.60.
€139.20.
Another.
Nothing.
€138.40.
One last spin.
The reels stopped.
No Bonus diamond.
No Wild basket.
No multipliers.
On the square that had held the x25 Wild during the feature sat a lemon.
Just a lemon.
The most powerful patch of Strawberry Land had been downgraded from twenty-five-times permanent berry infrastructure to citrus.
€0.00.
I stopped at €137.60.
Four diamonds had opened the harvest.
Six more diamonds during the feature had caused six extra Wild baskets to be planted.
The strawberries had occupied half the useful farm.
A x25 basket had become more important than the barn, the windmill and the scarecrow combined.
Then the feature ended and one lemon inherited the land.
Strawberry Land had completed crop rotation.
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