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Bratty half-pint Angler has finally given up the Weather Radio. Now I have the Cell Phone!

The walls are a lie.

Castlevania speedruns can be absurd in all the right ways, some days.

Friggin TASs. I love ones like these.

I thought of a game, perhaps similar to Animal Crossing, where you play as a person with some kind of illness, and the doctor declares you have 100 days to live, but offers you a chance to be placed into cryostasis, and then unthawed for one day every year, so you can see the future elapse very quickly, with one day representing every year, and get to see how everything you know evolves over time, then on the dawn of the new century, you finally succumb to the illness and die, with the three or four generations of people you got to meet throughout the course of the game getting to see you off, or perhaps other people that have taken the same cryo-deal as well having to say goodbye.

I think the theme of the game would be about the inevitability of death, but perhaps more importantly about how no matter how no matter how much things superficially change, even over such a long period of time, things stay the same. "The more things change, the more they stay the same" as it were.

I find it a little hard to believe that absolutely no progress would be made towards a cure, even a partial one, in a hundred years. Especially if medical science is advanced enough for cryogenic freezing to be effective for humans.

((Yep. Sorry if you had something else planned, but I figure this
A: is in character for Rusty, and
B: provides an easy way for Steven to hook back up with the team.

Plus a confrontation with Master Meatbag! I have only good feelings about this.))

Running around in hard mode makes me realize just how weirdly-generated this world is.

I have found two sky islands. Both are lakes.
No giant living trees.
No pyramids.
The dungeon seems oddly extensive.
The jungle takes up a good fifth/quarter of the surface, and extends all the way to one of the oceans.
Despite extensive digging and exploring I have found neither hide nor hair of the lizhard temple.
The vast majority of the (explored) underground is tundra, despite the surface tundra being relatively small.
Thus far, no underground crimson has been found. I'm sure it must exist, but none of my explorations and excavations have found it. Thus, no souls of night.

The Angler gave me the Super Absorbent Sponge and the Bottomless Water Bucket in two successive quests.

Still won't give me the goddamn Weather Radio, of course.

If Aloisturm noticed the ranger's wink, the construct failed to apply any meaning to it. It returned to the blacksmith's forge, determined to get a little more work done before the meatbags' evening meal.

Last night showed some success! A couple of lucky Mimics have resulted in a Philosopher's Stone, which has been crafted into the Charm of Myths. So that'll help. I also took the advice of making my own Hallowed Mimics, which were indeed a hell of a lot tougher than the norm - no one told me that Hallowed Mimics could jump straight through the walls of the small arena I built for the purpose of killing them safely! - but it was worth it for the Deadly Daedalus Stormbow that dropped.

Unfortunately, my old anti-Destroyer bunker is now a liability thanks to how the Stormbow works. However, I'm come up with a new solution, involving a long line of platforms in the air - above what the Destroyer can reach, so right about the level of my sky lake bunker - and a box of solid blocks for me to hide in. If the box is just barely big enough to contain me and a fireplace, most of the Stormbow's projectiles should miss it completely as they rain down on the Destroyer the next time the bastard spawns. I'll just have to worry about those damn probes phasing through and hitting me in passing, but at least the lasers will be nullified.

If I can find a Cross Necklace and fish up enough Titanium for a full set of armor, even that contact damage might well be survivable. For now though, I have to start crafting as many stacks of Holy and Hellfire arrows as I can manage. I also need to build more housing so that brat of an Angler can respawn...