The Adventures of Peaches, Part Seventeen
Oct. 16th, 2022 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingSo it turns out that the snowy area of Elden Ring is not optional after all.
Also it sucks. There's nothing really up there on that part of the map, and the theme seems to be "low visibility."
It took Peaches two days to fully explore the region and arrive at the next plot-central battle. I think winning this battle results in burning the big magical golden tree that acts as the sun in The Lands Between. Although I suspect it's probably evil, I'm quite fond of that tree, so Peaches is going to do a few other things first.
I'm very interested in the "Subterranean Shunning‐Grounds" in the sewers below the abandoned royal capital of Leyndell. No one on the internet will give me a straight answer about what order you're supposed to do things in terms of level of difficulty, so maybe the area is extremely hard. But whatever, I really like sewer levels. Give me shadowy tunnels filled with filthy water and creepy monsters and I will be happy.
Anyway, speaking of the snowy area, Peaches straight-up murdered his first NPC. It was Shabriri. Shabriri has a long and complicated story, but the only part of it that matters to me is that he killed another NPC who saved Peaches' ass a few times during some (scripted) invasion battles early in the game. When I saw that Shabriri killed this NPC and possessed his corpse, of course I was upset. That being said, the real reason I attacked him was that there was nothing else to do in the snowy area. On top of that, I think it's amusing for a secretly plot-central supervillain to be randomly killed by a random traveler out of sheer boredom. Fuck that guy.
Also it sucks. There's nothing really up there on that part of the map, and the theme seems to be "low visibility."
It took Peaches two days to fully explore the region and arrive at the next plot-central battle. I think winning this battle results in burning the big magical golden tree that acts as the sun in The Lands Between. Although I suspect it's probably evil, I'm quite fond of that tree, so Peaches is going to do a few other things first.
I'm very interested in the "Subterranean Shunning‐Grounds" in the sewers below the abandoned royal capital of Leyndell. No one on the internet will give me a straight answer about what order you're supposed to do things in terms of level of difficulty, so maybe the area is extremely hard. But whatever, I really like sewer levels. Give me shadowy tunnels filled with filthy water and creepy monsters and I will be happy.
Anyway, speaking of the snowy area, Peaches straight-up murdered his first NPC. It was Shabriri. Shabriri has a long and complicated story, but the only part of it that matters to me is that he killed another NPC who saved Peaches' ass a few times during some (scripted) invasion battles early in the game. When I saw that Shabriri killed this NPC and possessed his corpse, of course I was upset. That being said, the real reason I attacked him was that there was nothing else to do in the snowy area. On top of that, I think it's amusing for a secretly plot-central supervillain to be randomly killed by a random traveler out of sheer boredom. Fuck that guy.
