Helena Athena Isabella
@helabella
Will definitely probably write that novel some day maybe. she/her transbian
See, I have a very real problem here. These are all the characters I don't yet have. I organize them in five categories: first is characters I love vibes-wise. The most important one. Second is characters that plug big holes in my lineup. These two categories are priority picks. See my problem?
Watching the livestream and this mention of 'the' Girtablullu stuck out to me. It would've regardless, but it also reminded me of this thread. I thought it was just 'Girtablullu', but the definite article implies... something?
This is your new play pen. This is the area in which you will expand New London. And in this one opening second, the message is clear: The scope has widened significantly. FP1 you held together a village with chewing gum and duct tape. FP2 has you maneuver a small nation towards the future.
Frostpunk 2 is a direct sequel, set several decades after the first one. After finishing a short prelude scenario, you move to the goings-on in New London, where you are greeted with this view. Everything you did in FP1 is the inner few rings. All of it together? Is one object: the central district.
And you will end up filling that pit to the brim. By the end of the main story, your population will (ideally) be between 600 and 700 people, mostly from taking in other refugees and survivors. Almost every bit of usable ground will be covered with one building or another.
Frostpunk 1 opens on this screen. The world has frozen over, buried under a thick layer of ice. Here, in a pit in that ice you find a massive generator (people in the second picture for scale). You will lead a group of 80 survivors into building the city of New London around this generator.
I think I'm arguing with a bot. Gonna go and not do that, I think.
Here's a few. You probably can tell which one was before I started using ReShade.
which would still be a significant amount of space. If the green area was the safe zone before the pushback, and the red line represents the 37km, then the orange area is the total space that was reclaimed. How much is that? That depends on how much there was to begin with.
Eventually it could have reached a state roughly like this, where it subsumed almost the entire planet. They say the Dark Wall precedes the founding of Eridu, which means that as the livable land shrunk, people naturally converged on the remaining area, founding the city there.
then, as it absorbs more and more Hollows, it grew larger and larger, quite possibly surpassing the size of the planet, and engulfing an increasingly huge portion of its surface.
When small hollows cluster together, they merge into larger hollows. If the Dark Wall is such a super hollow, it well could have started like this, assuming the world ZZZ takes place on is a spherical planet, which I have no reason (yet) to doubt.
Not to be homosexual for the most obvious shipbait character in the game or anything, but fuck is Ye Shunguang's dynamic wallpaper pretty.
Now this is extremely flimsy, and very stupid, and rests entirely on 'well their hairstyles look kinda similar if you squint'. But Dracaene reminds me of Caesar. And now that I know that Dracaene reminds me of Caesar, I just cannot shake that thought.
When I first saw this kid, she reminded me of someone. Like yeah, she's a Sunbringer, but she felt familiar aside from that. But I couldn't quite put my finger on who that someone was, though. Until I went down this particular train of thought...
Apparently the guy from the Marcel Group who showed up in the Bootopia event drives around in this car. Nothing Marcel has done has thusfar managed to make me take them seriously.
This bit right here. I'm sure I could cook up a heterosexual explanation for what's going on between these two, but that'd be reaching.
Randomly remembering playing Timesplitters Future Perfect with @ela-bambust.bsky.social back in the day, windmill slamming Amy Chen every single match, and not questioning that decision at all for at least a few more years.
If this is the brand of horrors awaiting us in Roscaelifer, maybe I'm less excited about season 3 than I thought.