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Where tf are the other 3 holds?

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That goddamn Bosmer merchant’s face in the IC until I help him.

“Welcome to my shop!”

*radiates intense hatred*

“Come again!*

*hopes you trip and die on your way to the door*

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I came out to my car today to find someone had left this TUCKED UNDER MY WINDSHIELD WIPER.

To be fair...

My car is literally covered in Skyrim bumper stickers and my custom license plate is a Skyrim reference... But still. I have no idea who left this. I'm feeling both loved and threatened. I love this game.

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Lmaooooooo I found THAT library entrance while looking for an out of the way place to smoke, and the sign did me in.

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"Lion statues, huh? Great way to scare the kids." ~ MacCready

"Look out. There's crazy robots inside there. Or were they in the library in your day, too?" ~ Deacon (fyi, no robots)

A moment of silence for all my protectron bros who never made it as far as this hallway.

Looks nice without the blood and guts everywhere.

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Last few pics before I leave Boston.

Amphitheatre, minus the cultists:

Fenway, minus the annoying reporter out front:

Freedom Trail & marker, minus the vicious dogs in the way:

The Gazebo, minus the radiation:

Boston Public Library, minus the dead super mutant:

Trinity Church, minus the meat bags:

Swan’s pond, minus Swan:

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First of all, the start of the Freedom Trail is not easy to find. It starts inside Boston Common, but there’s no signage to let you know this and Google Maps has no idea what it’s doing. It starts at the visitor information centre, but I couldn’t be bothered to look for it and decided to hand over my fate to the many playthroughs in which I booked it to Goodneighbour to get MacCready via Park Street Station.

I head toward where the cemetery should be and bazinga, I am on the Freedom Trail and not getting attacked by ghouls.

The financial district has more coffee shops than super mutants. Almost walked right past the Old State House. Turns out when your brain is wired to look for dead bodies and neon signs you get tunnel vision. I only noticed I was there when I turned around wondered why the subway station was under this old building and realized I was pretty much standing right where Hancock gives his Institute speech.

I went through the old state house, almost broke my ass coming down the spiral stairs in a long skirt and frankly how embarrassing would it be to die where the triggerman tells you he’s a lover not a fighter?

I decided not to bother with the rest of the freedom trail because I was getting hangry and I wanted to do Fenway, plus the lack of super mutants was disappointing.

However, I think this sums up why I did the best part of the trail:

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Currently in the Commonwealth seeing the sights. While I’m walking the Freedom Trail tomorrow, I took a peaceful moment today to visit the location where first accidentally blew myself up with a missile launcher. MIT/CIT in the distance.

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"you can just sell her firewood to make her marriageable" listen. Read too much into an obscure one-note NPC with me for a minute. Of course Gilfre Mixwatermill thinks the dragonborn chopping wood is the hottest thing she's ever seen. All her workers left to go die in a war or whatever. Her only neighbors are giants, whose herds are threatened by goddamn dragons. And she goes on running the mill by herself bc people still need boards and shit. World's ending, but we all gotta make a living.

You happen by and need some travel money, so you put in a day's labor. After all that hard work, you can crash in the old workers' house but it's been empty for a while, it's a wreck, maybe the animals have been at it. You're already tired from slaying the dragon that encroached on her neighbors. You need a good night's rest before you move on, because there's another dragon waiting half a day up the road. Too bad tho. You're not gonna get any sleep, because Gilfre Mixwater Mill has invited you up to her house to get your back blown out.

And of course she has! Maybe because you're the propecied savior come to deliver us all from the end times, but mostly because you did some work to keep her mill going. And you were sweaty and shirtless and grunting like a fucking bear about it. Who among us would deny that, I ask you.

I know we love to joke about bethesdas ~environmental storytelling~ bc of all the skeletons with nearby books on How To Become a Skeleton, but they are good at it sometimes. Her fucking environment!!!!!!! bethesda give me a new game I can't keep living like this

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someone should make an alarm clock that plays the nirnroot sound because it would wake me up in a cold sweat without fail

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Um. My cat just gave me this?

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All right, bear with me. I have a book rec for Fallout fans.

So this is about Jack Parsons, and to put simply he was a self-taught rocket scientist who was also in a sex cult and has a crater on the moon named after him.

I won’t get too deep into it, but this is definitely a must-read for folks who like the weird aesthetic of Fallout. I first learned about Parsons long before I got into the Fallout games when The Unexplained podcast dedicated a few episodes to Jack’s story.

So where does Fallout come into it? Again, I won’t get too deep into it but if you read this you’ll see the parallels between the world Fallout is set in and the world Parsons was trying to build. And then there’s the direct links: Parsons Insane Asylum is apparently named after Jack, and Jack Cabot’s appearance was based on Jack’s friend, co-worker and fellow cultist Grady McMurty. And I think the most satisfying link to Jack is the dragging that Scientology gets in the Nuka-World expansion - Jack has an infuriatingly sad link to the invention of Scientology.

Long story short, read this. You’ll absolutely love it.

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I’m booked in for a trip to Boston next month and so I’m obviously back in FO4.

Spectacle Island has been turned into Spooky Island. Two pet deathclaws and I’m populating it with settlers who wear the craziest shit that ends up on my inventory, all packing the baseball launchers for those pesky mirelurk attacks.

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Breton is such a silly race for TES

"Oh, we're so magical we've got elves and cat people and, uhhh, a lil French dude"

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I am trying so hard to stay away from this game because I always feel duped when I finish a DA game, but this one is getting me like Dorian got me.

:)

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If this isn't romantic, I don't know what is.