The Adventures of Peaches, Part Eight
Jul. 26th, 2022 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingYesterday Peaches attempted to visit the Frenzied Flame Village. "Frenzied Flame" is a concrete status effect that makes you go crazy. If your "Madness" meter fills up - and it fills very quickly, especially if you have low Intelligence like Peaches - you go so crazy that your eyes literally explode from your head.
The Lands Between are filled with people this has happened to, by the way. You can collect these exploded eyeballs, which are called Shabriri Grapes, and feed them to a visually impaired woman who wants to become an oracle. She doesn't know what she's eating, and it's supposed to be really fun when she finds out. Her voice performer apparently had a field day with retching sounds, and I've heard that the full performance lasts for more than a minute. So that's something to look forward to.
Anyway, the Frenzied Flame Village isn't a place you can casually visit. Peaches went mad and died a few times before I gave up and moved on.
Peaches then rode south to Jarburg, a secluded village filled with peaceful Jars tending flowers. Jars are animate beings who are created by sealing bits of one or more corpses into a pot, the idea being that the pot will then possess the warriors' skills. This is not what happens. What happens is that the Jars just sort of amble around slowly. They appear elsewhere in the game, and you can attack them if you want. I never have, because I'm not a monster, and also because I met one of them named Alexander who shares Husband status with Smithing Master Iji. I'm delighted that they have their own little village.
I think some people might say that Jarburg is more effective as environmental storytelling because it exists in the same world as the Frenzied Flame Village, but I disagree. Jarburg is beautiful and magical no matter what.
The Lands Between are filled with people this has happened to, by the way. You can collect these exploded eyeballs, which are called Shabriri Grapes, and feed them to a visually impaired woman who wants to become an oracle. She doesn't know what she's eating, and it's supposed to be really fun when she finds out. Her voice performer apparently had a field day with retching sounds, and I've heard that the full performance lasts for more than a minute. So that's something to look forward to.
Anyway, the Frenzied Flame Village isn't a place you can casually visit. Peaches went mad and died a few times before I gave up and moved on.
Peaches then rode south to Jarburg, a secluded village filled with peaceful Jars tending flowers. Jars are animate beings who are created by sealing bits of one or more corpses into a pot, the idea being that the pot will then possess the warriors' skills. This is not what happens. What happens is that the Jars just sort of amble around slowly. They appear elsewhere in the game, and you can attack them if you want. I never have, because I'm not a monster, and also because I met one of them named Alexander who shares Husband status with Smithing Master Iji. I'm delighted that they have their own little village.
I think some people might say that Jarburg is more effective as environmental storytelling because it exists in the same world as the Frenzied Flame Village, but I disagree. Jarburg is beautiful and magical no matter what.
