Gaming

I'm off on another Assassins mission in old London.
"Do not kill anyone."

"Knock out a royal guard." OK, then.

I've scanned the area and there are a few royal guards with those big bearskin hats but... there's also about 50 policemen here too.

"Do not kill anyone." Yes, I know. I remember.

So I spend about half an hour hanging off various ledges and watching and memorising the movement patterns as they patrol around the palace and I think I've worked out a window of opportunity if I take out that one policeman first at that gate then sneak through and follow this guard (only after that other policeman turns away) and then I can knock him out under this archway without being seen by any of them.
And it worked!
Loot the body? Done. Obviously.

"Hide the body in a carriage."
Er... What?
"Hide the body in a..." Yeah, yeah. I understand. But I'm looking around and there's no carriage around here.
You expect me to pick up the body, chuck it over my shoulder and casually walk past 50 policemen whilst carrying a naked, unconscious guard out into the street until I find a carriage?
How the hell am I gonna-
Oh, they've already seen me anyway.

Time for a new plan...

No, I need to fail a bit more with the same plan first.

And I managed to get the body out on to the street by knocking out a couple of other policemen.
I then went up to the first carriage and... it was one of those open ones without any doors so you can't hide things in it.
Kept on running along the street with the body over my shoulder to the next carriage. It was the same type without any doors. And so was the next one. And the next.
Where is there a big carriage with doors??

There!
I ran over there, across another street. I get up to the door and... there's one of those mouthy, sweary, cockney gangsters next to it.
"Why don't I come over there and smash your f***ing head in!"
Just leave me alone. I'm doing something here. Something important.
"That's it! You'll regret you ever f***ing came round here!"
He starts shooting, which I wouldn't normally care about cos I'd just kill him but I remember the instruction "Do not kill any one" so I pick up the body again (cos I can't open the carriage door during a fight) and throw it over my shoulder and run away. And the gangster follows. "Don't think you're getting away from me, you f***ing..." He shoots again and all that shooting attracts all the policemen and guards that I've just successfully sneaked past.

Anywaaaay...
After all that I did change the plan and first of all, before any sneaking/fighting/knocking out guards, before all of that... I hijacked the right kind of carriage and parked it right where I needed it to be.

That's what I'm talking about (that last bit, I mean, about getting a carriage FIRST)

Well well well, Val... You just might have to upgrade to SSE:

www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/130494

I think this was made for you

Edit: Unless there already is an LE version...  

Fallout: New Vegas works like that.
The last time I played it I had to wear a specific outfit to go into one faction's base to talk to someone. Then when I returned to relay that information I forgot to change back and the person who sent me on the mission didn't recognise me and attacked me.
I ran away, hid behind a rock and changed into a different outfit. Then when I went back... he still thought I was an enemy and killed me.

Stoopid NPCs!

And stoopid me for wearing the wrong clothes.

Been playing quite a bit of Palia today as it was the last day of the current Maji Market (though from now on it'll return every month instead of twice a year). Shooting chapaa balloons* and chasing escaped chapaa... 

* At one point I was wondering why someone kept firing fireworks at the balloons until I realised it was me. Later I wanted to use a flare arrow and realised I was all out in spite of having had a whole bunch just a couple of days ago... So I figure I must have wasted those at the balloons too...  

In between markets (which happen at night and night happens once an hour) I have been decorating my newly built uhm... I can't recall what they call it. It's not quite a greenhouse I guess? Orangerie? No, I think they call it conservatory? Anyway, I did that, changed garden pathways and moved my veggie garden to make room for the conservatory building and then I tried using the fairly recently added building blocks to add some more fun. These can be used to "cheat" and place things outside of the normally buildable area... But I found it all rather clunky and the pieces a bit too big for most of what I'd have liked to do. I ended up with a sun deck just above the water surface (the alternatives were either having it suspended in air or rather too high up for my taste) and one very clunky astronomy tower which took forever because the pieces would not snap together logically... It doesn't look great and I might not keep it around but I wasted an awful lot of wood making all those boxes and ramps that I needed for it...  

 

Astronomy Tower?
Can you look through the telescope?

I've been struggling through Guardians Of The Galaxy trying to get past that difficult chap that I couldn't get past before in a previous post. I died and died and died and died and...then I thought I'd died but actually... I... or we... had somehow killed him.
So I proceeded to the next area and couldn't get through a locked door. There was nowhere else to go so this had to be the way but nothing was happening.
I messed about there for about twenty minutes getting confused until I gave in and googled.

Apparently when I thought I'd died I had indeed died but I died at the exact same time that the difficult baddie died and the game had glitched out and brought me back to life but neglected to play the cut scene where that locked door opened.

So I reloaded and... I have to fight the difficult guy again.


EDIT: Then I had a drive around trying to find those dinosaurs again but with no luck. I may have to try that long race again and pay more attention to the landmarks. I did find some other things to photograph and almost ran over a cat!
Get out of the way!!!
 

It's OK. I didn't hit it. Phew.