Part 16: HORSE!

Still so much to discover, as I have found...

Thursday, Summer Day 25, Year Two

Illy is dumb. She saw Robin yesterday and forgot to get her to move the mill then (thanks Maru's electricity...) So that can't be used for another couple of days...

Oh, hey, Gunther! Illy doesn't Gunther outside of the Museum, like... Ever...

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Part 9: Winter is Coming

It's getting chilly in the chilling-out game...

Saturday, Autumn Day 27, Year One

Hardwood, honey, fibre. Well, that's not too unreasonable for a farm warp totem. Illy has a fair bit of honey now...

After chores, which include harvesting all the pumpkins, Illy's first job is go find that basket!

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Part 11: Hard to Sum Up

Shortish one today...

Tuesday, Winter Day 23, Year One

Apparently, the rain totem makes it more likely to rain the next day. Stands to reason...

Leah's birthday is today... First job, then, is to give her a gold crocus.

SERIOUSLY, Marnie?

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Part 7: Heavy Things

Onwards...!

(Oh, I should note that this breakneck update pace will abate at least briefly, in about another week, since I'll be away!)

Monday, Autumn Day 15, Year One

Mayor Linkara has left Illy a note to bring nine items to display for the fair tomorrow.

Illy's new corn around the sprinkler has come in, and she finally has enough gold corn to complete the bundle!

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Four:

Okay. 3.5 skull urban battle for the pirates to distract some Capellans. The same lance as before: Zuranna in the Overload, Mylassta in the Fair Marauder, Natasha in the Bull Shark and Summer in the Annihilator.

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Part 12: This is a lot of work...

So this will be the last one for a little bit, since I am out for a week or so, so you can breathe a little!

Sunday, Winter Day 28, Year One

Wow, Mercury just laid an iridium-quality egg!

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twenty-One:

Short one today.

The next mission on the list was a 3.5 skull polar base capture mission, to deal with a Kuritan research station.

Shelat would take the Decapitator, Scarlet the Bull Shark, Vey the Stalker Barrage and Natasha the Catapult Hammer.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirty-Six:

(So, after a LOT of reloads to get some anti-Kurita contracts - not helped by the fact that my new BT toys came today and I got very distracted and was doing stuff like starting to get the profiles sorted in HeavyMetalPro - we were ready to carry on!)

The paladins arrived at Flintoft. There was nothing aside from a 0-ton arm mod in the store, so time to get on with the Double Agent flashpoint.

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Thirteen:

The Catapult Hammer and Stalker Barrage were done!

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Nine:

(Welcome to "Ambush Convoy" theatre! Let's see how many of these I can get through before I'm well and truly sick of them!)

The paladin waited a day for the Enforcer to be repaired, and started on the first one-skull convoy mission. Lynessa decided that it was worth just doing these for max cash.

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Part 8: Getting the Cart Before the House

Is a mine cart a sort of mine craft? Let's find out!

Thursday, Autumn Day 18, Year One

Today, after her chores, Illy has three things planned. Get a kitchen, finally and turn in some geodes. But first...

Check the mine carts!

WOOHOOOOO!

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Since the site was down, and neither is a particularly long part, here's parts three and four together.

Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Three:

So, as would have been posted on Friday:

Uhuh. So, yeah, my grandmother died this morning and one of the three places that is one of my regular haunts is down with hardware problems (no ETA), because that first one alone wasn't enough of a brutal rebuttal by 2020 to "gee, I hope things are better soon..."

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Part 22: Iridium Ore Bust

The end-point creeps ever closer...

Sunday, Winter Day 7, Year Two

Illy learns how to cook poppyseed muffins off the telly.

The last large batch of starfruit has grown. Illy harvests it. She won't replace them at the moment because - as Illy has neatly timed, all her ancient seeds have sprouted. All fourteen go into the seed maker, and give her twenty-eight more.

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Part 15: Summer Daze

Onwards through summer of year two, which now seems awfully close to grandpa's return...

Friday, Summer Day 5, Year Two

Challenge accepted, Mr Qi, whoever the frack you are. You know, in a good while, Illy probably needs better weapons.

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Part 5: This is Illy's Jam

On through summer!

Sunday, Summer Day 16, Year One

It's raining again today. Well, if Illy can get her pickaxe back... It'd be another good go at the mines! So, Illy will leave Robin about the coop for another day.

Illy will have to find Jodi first, though...

Illy checks her crops - the wheat is done, as are more tomatoes and hops.

Illy runs into Penny on the way to the blacksmith's. Apparently Pam really doesn't like squid.

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Part 4: Water lot of effort farming is...

Another big one, since I have been playing basically every night and will be for all of today, like as not. Fair cop to it, it IS as addictive and relaxing as folk have said. (And would functionally work as a "I only have an hour to kill" game...)

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Part Fourteen

ALL CHANGE! With 106.3 hours logged in, and increasingly the management portion becoming difficult to deal with, I felt it was time to add in a few more mods.

EdB Prepare Carefully
(Not that it will affect THIS game...!)

Common Sense, Pick up and Haul, Hospitality

Wall Lights, Autocleaner, Doormats RT Fuse

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Part Thirty-Seven

Day Three-Hundred and Seventy-Six.

Right, then let's actually look at Lightcaller.

...

So, what does it... Do...?

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Twenty:

(You would not believe how much time I spent trying to get a decent set of missions, after the end of last time and today. I never managed more than four Davion, and never more than three verses the Capellans. (On one instance, all seven missions were pirate...) In the end, I settled for what follows as it wasn't too awful and at least didn't have any escort or base defence missions...)

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Bleakbane Plays BATTLETECH, Part Eleven:

So, with the abrupt shutdown apparently a new intermittent issue (might have been CPU heatsink clog, might have been power lead, might be motherboard, might be PSU, only thing to do is keep using it a log time between failures).

First mission - max cash battle against the Taurians for the planetary government.

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