Arnold's tally

Christmas got you down? Your todo-list won't get shorter? Rest your eyes for half an hour:
 
 

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Yamiken Hori: Junk Head

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This map is not new

In fact, it is quite old. It has aged beautifully during the last few years, taking on that special patina that is difficult to simulate. Some locations, which only have been discovered during the preceding years, have been added. Enjoy the newly fotographed, well-worn worldmap in the scorched earth materials post!

On a related note: Everybody loves inventory. Nobody dare to tell me otherwise. Innawoods is a website that makes tracking your post-apocalyptic gear fun and easy. Alas, the site has been dormant for some time, so, while many nice doodads can be added to your backpack from the "others" category, and you can burden your character with dozens of jars of pickled olives, and it is finally possible to put a rifle-sized scope on your favorite revolver, this is possibly as good as it's going to get.

But then, that site is hardly the only one the drop the ball for few months, is it?

Five Rules

If you need a new gun, or new guns, or ammo to feed your guns, Five Rules is a good place to be. It might be a bit out of the way, though. An addition to the Scorched Earth materials post, in German.

Big Bohlen

Der Fun ist ein Stahlbad!

Climate does its thing

Climate is strange today. Normally, these would be the days for serious indoor activities, the three-day Feast of the Shut-In: I got some modular stuff from eBay just for the occasion, it's time to construct a high-ranking member of the Adeptus Mechanicus. But now climate sits on the couch, it has a strangely sunny disposition and the mood just is not right. "Everything ok?" I ask climate. Climate fidgets and beams at me. Its eyes are all over the place. I want to say something, but I keep my mouth shut. We all have heard the stories: Climate has turned volatile. It misses whole days on the job, and when it finally turns up, its frantic over-zeal does more harm than good. Climate is no longer dependable. Climate is having a difficult time right now, it is turning or turned manic-depressive, that's what people say who know it really well. There are other stories, darker ones. Climate was involved in a home invasion. Climate has had so many "unfortunate accidents" recently its insurance premium went up, up, up. Some say that, one of these days, climate is going to kill somebody.

Climate gives me a warm smile. "Not to your liking?" "Nah, it's cool." I say. Climate's face turns clouded at once. I really hope I didn't say something wrong.

Merry Christmas!!

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