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Feminina O'Ladybrain

Sep 27

Vague spoilers for some collectibles in Horizon: Burning Shores

Butch:

OK, did some, but didn't do enough because I spent too much time doing stuff that turned out to be not stuff. Yet. Or something.

Decided to follow your advice and ignore the cauldron and the flight path and headed towards the general part of the map you mentioned. Landed, ran some, came across some corpses. Scanned them. "Delvers. Out here. Wonder why. A mystery for later." Aloy said "A mystery for later," which is gamese for "later." So, I trucked on and saw a map icon I had not seen: A big scroll thing. "Ooooooooo!" said. "Let me at that!" It screamed "Important!"

You find that?

Anyway, I spent the better part of forever trying to figure out WHY it was important. I searched and I searched. I went back to the corpses. I took out a WHOLE site of fire clamberfuckers site nearby which took forever because those bastards are bastards.

I could not figure out why this was important.

This took a lot of time.

Trucked on.

Found the shop with the figurine in the parking garage. "I'll do that!" thought I. Trucked north east like it said. Found a ramp with some cars and firegleam and a stalker. Stalker killed me a bunch. Then, thought "This MUST be the place. Cars, firegleam, weird lights, stalker, this MUST be the place." So, I searched and I searched and it wasn't the place, now, was it?

This took a lot of time.

Finally found the actual right place.

It was rotten with stalkers.

This took a whole lot of time. Like, a whole lot of time.

But, got it. Evelyn sure was a bitch, wasn't she? I kinda felt bad for her. Pounding on the door trying to get the code, dying alone. Now, they've gone and made it complicated. Nice job, game.

Found the ruin! Perched. Thought, "I am tired, for that all took a lot of time."

Hit save.

Thus, all that work for a figurine and finding a place that must be important but fuck if I know how or why. Do you know?

Not a productive session. It happens sometimes.

Feminina:

Well, you have a figurine! And a sad tale of dying alone.

Which reminds me, these aerial capture images we see are interesting because they're very much like the images we got from those towers in the main game, but those were sort of touristy landscapes and things showing the past, while the current ones are scenes of robot destruction. This is the first time we've really seen images of the machine apocalypse, I think -- we've read plenty about it, but I don't recall pictures. Here we have Los Angeles on fire and GIANT ROBOTS looming over the Hollywood sign.

Kind of a "just so we remember, the end of the world was a terrible tragedy and billions of people died horribly" thing, I guess.

I know the scroll icon you mean, by the dead delvers? I also wandered all over the area but can't figure out what the heck it means or what to do with it. I did find another mention of that group, Tindertoes or whatever, in another place nowhere near this, so maybe they traveled all over and we have to find all the sites before it will become clear.

And I also fought hard in the 'fake' parking garage before finding that it wasn't even the right place, and then had to go fight a bunch more stalkers in the real parking garage. Sigh.

But that's all right next to the ruin, so you can go check that out. It's a nice puzzle, you can talk to someone, good stuff.

I mostly ran around looking for map icons. Found some campfires, made some unknown machine sites into known machine sites.

Butch:

Three figurines total! Yay!

I do think this is the first time we've seen pictures of the robot wars. Yes, read about it, heard some recordings (remember the flight recorders?) but no pictures. Aloy did say "She has a story to tell...I should learn more" or something. Maybe there will be a payoff.

On that... what exactly ARE these pictures? Are they there for just the player or can Aloy see them? If Aloy can see them, what ARE they?

That's the one. I did find a dead delver who had a collectible on him. Maybe we have to find the whole set before we know what's up? Seems odd, though. This game is pretty good at putting Things That Matter on a quest list. The flight patterns are a quest on the quest list. Game hasn't really pulled a "This is important but we won't tell you why." Usually, in this game, it's "This is important. May not look important but it is. DO IT!...OK, wasn't that important. But you did it!"

Glad it wasn't just me having issues with all those stalkers.

The ruin is next! Ah, talking to someone! Since Seyka stormed off, game has been quite light on that front. I thought, given that side quest early, that we'd be in for some talking to dudes! There have been precious few dudes. No dudes, in fact, since Seyka stormed off. We need a few more dudes.

Any idea what one does with all this brimshine? I do not, as there are no dudes.

Feminina:

I think these aerial images are meant to be pictures that pilots took on their doomed runs in the last days of the Old World. (Well, I suppose not entirely doomed, or doomed but at least not entirely pointless, as they did apparently give Zero Dawn -- "whatever it is" -- time to be completed.) Presumably stored as data that Aloy's Focus can piece together through [cough, techmumble] once she recreates their flight paths.

I haven't met anyone who cares about brimshine, but they do keep pushing it. Maybe we'll finally meet some surviving Oseram traders who want it?

Butch:

Ah, yes. Techmumble. I forgot about techmumble.

Well, we know that the woman that made them wants "the truth to get out" should she die (which I'm guessing she did). Maybe they're holding back some of them by way of killing us if we try to do them to save the "and now the TRUTH!" moment for later and drama and stuff.

They sure are pushing brimshine. Aloy all "I can get a good price for this!" From whom, Aloy? That peccary over there?

Feminina:

Peccaries LOVE brimshine! If only they had pockets to carry metal shards to pay us for it...

Butch:

You never know, man. If we can carry 20 weapons and 15 suits of armor and still jump around, no doubt those peccaries are carrying at least ten, twelve fish each.

Poor little guys. Their last thought before I shoot them is likely "Hey, man, wanna trade?"

One of them probably would've traded me my brimshine for a device that would kill Nemesis and save the world. Oh, well. He was tasty.

Feminina:

Peccary Pockets is either a delicious meat pastry, or the secret to transporting vast quantities of materials with almost no effort.

Butch:

Peccary Pockets sounds like a character in a Dickens novel.

I've been hearing a voice that sounds like Angela Lansbury say "Hello! I'm Peccary Pockets!" for a couple hours now.

I blame you.

Feminina:

HA!

Sorry. My bad.

Though in fairness, the creation of this character was really a joint effort.