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[Dunamisdeos]

So, some easter egg spoilers for RDR2. Don't read ahead if you're planning on grabbing everything in the game and fully expect to be able to do this thing on your own without tearing anyone's hair out.

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So, there's a 'vampire' in Saint Denis. I found the first couple clues, tried to figure out a pattern, found a significant location and tried to see if they were in a radius around that point, staked out a few suspicious coffins in the graveyard at dusk and dawn, tried following a line from the clues I'd found, tried deciphering the clues as though they were riddled pointing out the other locations... And got a whole lot of nothing for the effort.

I'd already spent a couple days running around Saint Denis and staring at the walls, but eventually got a bit fed up and realized I didn't even know if I was "allowed" to solve it at this point in the story. Ended up caving and looking up some hints (perfect star my goddamn ass).

Surprisingly, after finding all the clues he actually showed up on the first night. Had the whole dramatic little cinema moment with this dude who couldn't decide between a southern US and a Transylvanian accent, and then told him he was an eejit.

I'd seen other people talking about what a rough fight Mr. Vamp was, and to be very careful so he doesn't hand your ass to you.

So the fight started, and I took out my lasso and punched him with it, which is an instant takedown.


Now I had a hogtied and very angry vampire telling me all the awful things he was gonna do if I didn't release him that very instant.

So I sat down and did some light crafting while I waited for dawn. Dawn came, the sun rose up... And nothing happened to him. I thought maybe we were in too enclosed of an area, so I risked pissing off the cops and dragged him out to the street. I flopped him down in a nice patch of sunbeams (and manure), and watched him... stare at me expectantly.

I was a bit disappointed that he wasn't disintegrating in the sunlight, but I could manage. Especially seeing as the random bystanders didn't have any problem with me kidnapping this fellow. I guess he counted as hostile to them too?

With this discovery came new opportunities. I changed plans and strapped him onto my horse, then rode down to the police station. I calmly walked into the holding room and tried to hand this maniac serial killer over to the cops, but while they didn't mind my manhandling him, they also weren't interested in taking responsibility for the rather dapper gentleman (I'd really like that coat...). I had to excuse myself for a few seconds because they didn't appreciate my "loitering" there, but I went back inside right afterwards and managed to pick the bloodsucker up off the floor again.

Plan C, then. I took him along to the graveyard, put him down in a nice central area, gloated a bit in the lovely morning sunshine, and shot him with a fire arrow. Crispy bat. And he finally relinquished his fancy dagger for me to twirl around!


...And apparently you can pick up and reuse ultra-flammable fire arrows? Okay, whatever.

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Red Dead Redemption 2

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Obviously only vampires are that flammable. You are doing God's work.

[CABL]

Finally completed the Pagan Reformation achievement: It was a long and frustrating road, but now the whole world shall tremble before incestuous Balts!

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Crusader Kings 2

[Dunamisdeos]

I got a Tidal Talisman in FFXI-Nasomi.

There was an event, it required not only a bunch of tomfoolery in my home city, but then 5 trips to Jueno and back. I completed it and now can just teleport me and some buds to Jueno. Super useful.

[Teneb]

Finally managed to win a match in Endless Space 2 despite my mediocrity in 4X-type games. Got a Science Victory as the Vaulters.

[Kagus]

Received a new treasure map, with directions starting from a shallow cliff that looked vaguely like the profile of a person's face. The location didn't ring any bells, but I started snooping around likely areas based on the vegetation indicated. Looking more closely at the rough grass shading and the tree sketching, I had a little thought in my head say "Hmm... Kinda looks like some of the trees down around Lemoyne", so I headed off in that direction.

Later on I was delivering a fish to a post office in Lemoyne, when I noticed one of the posters decorating the inside of the office:

"See: FACE ROCK the natural mystery
and other famous Lemoyne landmarks!
Experience YOUR HOMELAND'S beauty by rail!"

So I actually noticed one of the subtle little clues they throw around in the game, which is pretty impressive for my distracted ass! From this, I managed to work out that not only was it definitely in Lemoyne like I'd hypothesized, but it must logically be somewhere visible by the railroad.

...that's when I pulled out my map to check the surrounding terrain for potential locations, and noticed that there was actually already marked and written out "Face Rock" on the map, because I'd already been there at least once... While my attention to detail may be on the up-and-up, my memory still clearly isn't all that great. Ah well. Managed to head over there and get the treasure in any case.

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Red Dead Redemption 2

[Akura]

I've got good news and bad news from my current campaign. Bad news, in the span of about 10 minutes I lost three major strongpoints: a city, a factory/power plant, and a resource pile.


Good news is, I hijacked a frigging tank. And brought it back to base.

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Arma 3: Antistasi. Even better, I used that tank to kill another tank taking only minor turret damage in the process.

EDIT:

Got roped into a commission I can't actually complete. 4 days left, and in order to make the two items I need, I need to:

This? Not only did I manage to pull it off, I did it with time to spare AND completed a number of other commissions in the process.

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My Time at Portia.

[Loud Whispers]

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I AM BECOME TIBET
DEVOURER OF WORLDS

This was the 6th attempt. The only thing keeping me from annexing the entirety of China was infamy & truces. Besides the glory of Tibet, I am incredibly pleased with how I managed internal affairs to ensure rebellions were an increasingly rare occurrence despite being transitioning from a theocracy -> absolute monarchy -> fascist dictatorship. I'm more accustomed to rebels falling from the skies like raindrops, to have everyone pleased with my administration whilst I cull millions of them and repurpose their states for tank manufacturing is a first for me. Thus while I fell short of my two goals of turning China Tibetan (the % of Tibetans in the total population was still just 2%, or just under 900k men), or uniting all of China under Tibet, I am happy and complete with this enduring challenge. From a mountain Kingdom of 180k sheep herders the Qing Empire was incinerated

[CABL]

Oof, man, Author's Dream's some tough shit even without any Idols, but somehow, I've made it with 5 idols and got an achievement. I can't imagine how tough it'll be with 10 idols.

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Bastion

[EnigmaticHat]

Karl Franz headed east to stem the tide of vampires into his stomping grounds rightful lands, with a full stack of medium tier units and a light mage with exorcism.  He first attacked the Von Carstein faction, taking over a minor settlement with 0 losses to his army.  This put him in a settlement for the rest of the turn, meaning his army would die if he was attacked and lost.

The Vampire Counts and Von Carstein had a defensive alliance.  The Vampire Counts reacted immediately, with about 30 units, the majority pretty advanced like blood knights and grave guard.  At their head was Mannfred von Carlstein, their legendary lord.  What followed was a bloody pitched battle that saw pretty much all of my units pushed to the edge of routing and an Empire Captain killed, but in the end they broke before we did, collapsing into dust.  My unit's health bars were pretty low, but the actual losses were "only" a quarter of my army, which would indicate more soldiers were wounded than were killed.

Then the Von Carstein faction sent their legendary lord, Vlad von Carstein, with a full stack that was half black knights.

Now that battle was a clusterfuck.  I set my crossbowmen and muskets in a line, put my halberdiers in a second line basically inside those units, and pretty much prayed their calvalry charge wouldn't annihilate us.  It didn't, but in the scramble to intercept all the knights my pretty line lost its cohesion and several ranged units ended up melee fighting on their own.  Much like before, my men's will to fight lasted longer than the enemy vampire's ability to maintain his undead and they all collapsed.  However unlike before, we were pretty much losing when that happened.  Two thirds of my army died.

800 men entered the swamps.  In one night (one turn), all but 250 were killed.  Around them were the remains of a couple thousand undead, as well as two legendary lords.

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Total War: Warhammer 2

[Jopax]

Clear the first floor, got two blanks left so I enter a random chest room to check for secrets (since I don't have a gun that can reveal the passages it's pretty much blind luck). First one I check is empty, second one gets me a room with 1 brown, 2 blue and one gold chest, all of them unlocked, two great guns, one good passive and a passable active, have a feeling this might be a good run.

[Mephisto]

Killed a whole load of wildlife, some of which were intelligent-ish, and stole their things. Which they had stolen from us shortly prior. It was amazing.

You look at My Time at Portia and what you don't see is a dungeon-delving boss battling game. But it handles a light version of that super well. That one dungeon with two bosses was possibly the most fun I've had with the game.

[Akura]

You look at My Time at Portia and what you don't see is a dungeon-delving boss battling game. But it handles a light version of that super well. That one dungeon with two bosses was possibly the most fun I've had with the game.

It does slightly annoy me that you actually have to go dungeon-diving for certain things. Probably because the sole music track for combat gets very grating after a while. For much of the game, valves, for instance, come only from the Chemical Dropout boss, and he only drops two. There's other places later on, sure, but for several early quest that you need them for, it's one of the more irritating grinds to go through. It's not even hard, you can easily no-damage the fight once you figure out his attack patterns.

It's also rather interesting how much the Research Center is like the WH40k Adeptus Mechanicus minus human cyber-augmentation. They basically spend all day trying to recover ancient technology from Data Disks(which operate very much like STC fragments), and seem to be utterly incapable of creating anything new for any situation whatsoever - you need some kind of new old-tech to fulfill a request? Hand over some disks and we'll see if there's anything on them that will help. That said, Petra is bae as hell. They also have a significant respect for machine intelligences.

I'm also finding it pretty funny about how a lot of people are screaming about how they recently nerfed fishing income. I've barely touched fishing at all, and I have no issues with money. If all you're doing is sitting on your ass waiting for a fish to bite, you're missing about 95% of the game's content.


EDIT: Handed the mayor my contribution to the upcoming Day of Bright Sun holiday - basically this game's version of Christmas except it's in Spring. The gift was worth the second-best amount of town-wide friendship gain(+10, best is +15). This caused a massive cascading explosion of relationship points, since reaching certain milestones of relationship points will give you bonus points with people related to that person, thus making friends with people can help you make friends with the friends of your friends. So much so, the game scrolled through it too fast for me to see, probably the entire town and then some.

The best part was the mayor's opinion on the gift: "A lot of people will be wanting this. Let's see who the lucky one is."

I gave him a triple-barreled shotgun that shoots poison darts. One that is banned by the church. Firing it for the first time loses -20 relation points from the pastor, Lee, and -10 from Nora, his assistant.

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My Time at Portia.

[Dunamisdeos]

I beat Ifrit solo after 4 tries in FFXI.

Ifrit, I'm here to bargain.

[Akura]

Took the tank out for a joyride. Drove pretty far behind enemy lines, decided to shoot up the AAF's airbase near Therisa. Surprised by the announcement of actually capturing the airbase. War level went from 7 to 9, skipping 8 entirely(this is... not exactly a good thing). And gained a bit of aggro from CSAT(definitely a bad thing). No armored vehicles appeared, and there wasn't any kind of aircraft stationed at the base. Maybe their endless flock of assault helicopters finally gave out, eh?

I was about to get out of my tank to examine the base's lootbox, when I get missile lock warnings. I tell the driver to move it, and somehow dodged multiple AGMs from a jet doing an airstrike. I(as the tank gunner) turned the turret around and fire a burst from the coaxial MG, which I know hit because I saw a tracer ricochet off. I did not see it turn around, and a short while later hear a distant explosion.

Unfortunately, I died trying to secure an MRAP, meaning I lost the lootbox(had some nice stuff), but not before I stashed the tank away. Shortly after respawning, I get the message that the town of Therisa also joined my side.

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Arma 3: Antistasi. Taking an airbase is significant. Not only can you spawn captured aircraft here, you actually have to capture all the airbases to win the campaign, in addition to getting at least 50% popular support throughout all of Altis.

[CABL]

Looks like Paradox have changed some shit regarding banishing/ransoming prisoners: I've successfully spied on several subjects of mine, and not a single one of them has changed their court, resulting in me drowning in money very early game.

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Crusader Kings 2