#witchetty grub

[tastesoftamriel]

You know those cheesy pasta dishes with all the fancy add-ins like heavy cream and garlic so we can all pretend to ourselves that we aren't just eating mac and cheese like overgrown children? What sort of equivalent dishes do the people of Tamriel enjoy, that are basically just dressed-up "kid food" dishes?

Who doesn't love a cheeky meal that brings back memories of childhood? Across Tamriel, you'll find all manner of simple, hearty foods that will make you feel like a kid again!

Altmer

In Summerset, young and old alike enjoy mochi, a tasty sweet snack made from chewy glutinous rice flour. Mochi comes in many varieties, with fillings like sweet peanut or black sesame paste. However, almost everyone's favourite is a cold mochi filled with soft gelato of various flavours. My favourite combination is matcha mochi wrapped around a moreish azuki bean ice cream centre.

Argonians

Is there anything that makes you feel more like a kid than some snacking? Argonians are huge fans of anything that packs a crunch, both sweet and savoury. Whether it's spicy and sweet crickets, dark saltrice sauce-coated mealworms, or just good old prawn crackers with some dipping sambal, be prepared to snack your way all day long in Black Marsh.

Bosmer

If you're one of those people who stands in the kitchen gnawing a block of cheese at midnight, you're in good company in Valenwood. A popular late-night treat served at street food vendors across the Province is a simple cup of grilled witchetty grubs slathered in timber mammoth cheese sauce and topped with pulled pork. The grubs are meaty in flavour, and the pungent timber mammoth cheese complements the pulled pork when mixed all together, as the locals enjoy it.

Bretons

Pain au chocolat? Yes please! These deliciously buttery puffed pastries are essentially rectangular croissants enveloping delicious dark chocolate. Served warm, they're sure to make any breakfast or teatime a happy one! To really satisfy those chocolate cravings, pair with a classic Breton hot chocolate, complete with marshmallows and whipped cream.

Dunmer

Marshmerrow cake is the ubiquitous Dunmeri dessert that has gained popularity far beyond the borders of Morrowind due to its mild flavour and unique candy aroma. A soft sponge cake, which is sometimes soaked in comberry brandy, is layered with sweet marshmerrow crème patissiere, caramelised marshmerrow crumble, and maraschino comberries. Sure to knock some years off your age and put a couple more holes in your belt (it's impossible to stop at one slice. Source: me).

Imperials

There's nothing quite like homemade gnocchi with ragout for Imperials when it comes to comfort food. While this homey dish is prevalent across Cyrodiil, every household cooks the dish differently. In mine, my mother pan-fries the gnocchi in an obnoxious amount of butter, and tops it with her top-secret slow-cooked lamb and red wine ragout. While I cannot give away the secrets to her ragout, I highly recommend trying this delicious dish a try when you need to warm yourself, body and soul.

Khajiit

If you think you can turn away cinnamon and cardamom churros with a cup of moon sugar caramel dip, you're deluding yourself. This delicious treat can be found across Elsweyr and is considered one of the Province's most famous foods. Khajiiti churros, which are made from a mix of rice and tapioca flour, have a moist and chewy texture beneath a crisp, golden brown outer layer. They're served hot from the wok, with a cup of moon sugar caramel syrup. A truly divine pairing!

Nords

Spätzle is something I've written about in the past, and it's one of the best things I know (ask any resident of Skyrim and they'd tell you the same). These chunky egg noodles may look unrefined compared to Khajiiti vermicelli, but make up for it when liberally doused in a creamy cheese sauce and topped with fried onions. I like spicing mine up, quite literally, with some chili powder I purchased at a Sentinel bazaar.

Orcs

Nothing screams comfort food (and mess) quite like a good old echatere sausage hot dog. The echatere sausage, rather akin to Blackwood chorizo in flavour, is grilled over hot coals and served in a sourdough bun, served Wrothgar style with a good amount of horseradish mayo, fried radish chips, caramelised onions, pickles, and crispy dried baby shrimp topping. I'd say you can't stop at just one, but it's a hefty meal you can eat with one hand!

Redguards

I have probably written about gulab jamun in the past, a delicious, albeit cloying dessert popular throughout Hammerfell. An iconic dish at festivals and parties, gulab jamun is prized by dessert-lovers for its velvety, syrupy texture. These fluffy balls of cardamom-scented cottage cheese are fried and soaked in a fragrant saffron and rose water syrup, and topped with crushed pistachios. So simple, so good, and so moreish. Just be sure to stop at three, because any more and the sugar rush will send you to Aetherius!

#the elder scrolls #tes #Asks #food #cooking #worldbuilding #world building

[quitealotofsodapop]

Bug eating part 2:

All referencing this previous bug-eating post.

First time Wukong picked a stray bug off a wall/tree and ate it in front of the gang, Pigsy nearly had a coniption. Not just because gross, but also he saw it as commentary on his cooking.

Pigsy: "I HAVE NOODLES RIGHT HERE!"

Wukong: "Your noodles don't have grasshoppers in 'em. We all have our culinary strengths."

Wukong had to deal with similar grossed-out reactions from the Pilgrims (or mournful from Ao Lie - guy ate horses but cried over bugs) and Celestials back in the day, so he's used to it. More for him then!

The two monkeys keep mentioning weird bug-eating facts around the gang; Wukong out of casualness/trying to encourage MK, Macaque to torment MK and Pigsy.

Tang, at the bug-house of a zoo: "Oh! These guys are cool! They build their own little mega-city using a natural herbicide!" Wukong: "Yeah! These guys are delicious!" MK & PIgsy: *glare of disappointment* Wukong: "What? They're literally called Lemon Ants for how they taste! Man, I should't have come here on an empty stomach..." Macaque: *loudly eating a bag of dried locusts* "Thats why we skipped the butterfly room." *tosses a locust at Wukong like a piece of popcorn*

At the start of the main series, Wukong is trying his best to subdue any instincts around MK to make him feel comfortable, and to not get attached. But within minutes Wukong is picking through MK's hair and giving him worldly advice - total monkey parent behavior. In the Slow Boiled au, Wukong more likely drags MK's head down instead of climbing on him.

He does manage to get MK to at least try out "sausage-shaped" bugs like Witchetty and Sago grubs that are extremely clean and easy to cook. Wukong is fine eating most bugs raw, but he understands that MK is a little ick'ed out by the thought, so he goes out of his way to find recipes to help his heir tackle the occassional craving.

Note: one of the monkeys has eaten a bee/wasp before on accident and the result was hilarious. Mei has pictures.

#bugs tw #sun wukong #qi xiaotian #slow boiled stone egg au #lmk aus #lmk hcs #lmk headcanons #six eared macaque #liu er mihou #lego monkie kid #lmk

[voyagerprobe]

bionicle 🤖 presents the annual bionicle 🤖 buffet 🍱 a three day event 🎊 featuring an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord 🤩 of pies 🥧 and pastries 🍰 and pizza 🍕 and grilled salmon 🎣 and ussal crabs 🦀 and dumplings 🥟 and cakes 🎂 and sandwiches 🥪 and protodermis 🟦 and stuffed peppers 🫑 and mutton 🍖 and brisket 🥩 and rusty nails 🔨 and coins 🪙 and disc 💿 launchers and meatballs 🍝 and fresh squeezed lemonade 🍋 and lithium batteries 🔋 and cigarettes 🚬 and fingernail clippings 💅 and deviled 😈 eggs 🥚 and bicycle 🚲 chains ⛓️ and cone snails 🐌 and acorns 🌰 and scorpions 🦂 and cactus needles 🌵 and rubber bands 🖇️ and pencil shavings ✏️ and grilled salmon 🎣 and eggrolls 🌯 and spoiled yogurt 🤮 and staples 📌 and witchetty grubs 🐛 and paint chips 🎨 and rotten cheese 🧀 and battery acid 🔋

[astercrash]

#don't be a wimp have a go

[advosart]

put the witchetty grub on your cock

#rick and morty #bushworld adventures

[blubushie]

are there any kinds of "bush medicines" you've used, whether by yourself or under the advice/provision of your marrkidjbu? Can you share those stories?

What are some(I say some but really I mean: tell me all about it please) medicinal plants found in Australia? Are there some specific to regions like NT or are they relatively widespread?

I don't know how to word this properly but hopefully I'm getting my message across. I am deeply deeply curious about medicines you can't just go down corner shop to get.

Here's a list off the top of my head of bush medicines I've used. I've also added where you can find the necessary ingredients involved (that I'm aware of, anyway.

Allowed maggot therapy when a cut on my heel got infected. (Flies are fucking everywhere in Australia.) Once the maggots cleaned the wound out I dumped them and left them in a pig I hunted. You're welcome, maggots. Breed and prosper. This wound then had an emu bush poultice applied for antiseptic and it was wrapped until it healed. Scarred but I didn't need to have my food lopped off so I'm considering that a win. [WIDESPREAD]

I've drank red gum kino for my cough. It worked for about two hours before I had to drink more. [WIDESPREAD, I used Sydney red gum but it seems most if not all red gums are so tannin-rich that this works]

Banksia nectar for cough syrup. Holy shit does this work. [NEAR THE COASTS, especially the southeast and southwest]

I've made poultices of paperbark leaves and applied them to wounds. In my experience the wounds heal better and scarring is lessened if you do this. You can also steep the leaves and drink to treat coughs and sore throats. [EAST COAST SOUTH OF BRIZ]

Emu bush, emu bush, emu bush. Whether it's steeping and using it as mouthwash/to gargle or steeping and flushing wounds with it or applying it to wounds as poultices, I've used it. Emu bush is naturally astringent and antiseptic. If drank, it helps remedy headaches and induces sleep. I've used it to treat my insomnia. Treat this plant with the respect you'd show wattle, as it's sacred and is used in ceremonies. [WIDESPREAD EXCEPT TOP END AND FNQ]

Witchetty grub poultice. Hear me out. It works for burns well. You have to cover it with something or it'll dry out though (I've used gauze but cotton cloth with also work). [RED CENTRE, however "witchetty grub" is a general term for the larvae of certain species of moths and I reckon any species with the moniker of "witchetty grub" would work]

Goat's foot. Crush and cook the leaves, then apply to whatever part of you is hurting. It's a topical pain reliever. I use it for burns (and sometimes sunburns) and animal stings. [COASTLINES]

Wattle blossom: hung in the sleeping area to help promote sleep. This is more a "folk" medicine than a bush medicine--in the sense that I have no idea whether or not it actually works or how--but I'm personally convinced of it working. [WIDESPREAD]

Common sneezeweed: drank as a tea for coughs, colds, or chest infections. I used it for my cough. It didn't work very well (not as well as gum kino) but my cough is also because of an allergy which may be why. [WIDESPREAD BUT ESP QLD AND VIC]

Varnishleaf: applied to stings. Chew up the leaf and juice, then apply to the sting. I'm not sure if it has some osmotic effect or if it outright neutralises the venom, but it works. [WIDESPREAD EXCEPT TOP END AND FNQ]

Australian Sandalwood: chew nuts into a paste and apply to small wounds like scratches or scrapes. Leaves can be ground into a poultice and applied to irritated skin. The wood can also be burnt, with the smoke being a mosquito repellent. Like emu bush, treat this plant with the respect you'd show wattle, as it's sacred and is used in ceremonies. [SA, SOUTHERN WA]

Eucalyptus tea: used for treating fevers, chills, and general body pains. Tastes very fucking bitter and you can't drink a lot of it because it's also toxic in high quantities. Back in Oz I would start my mornings off with a cup of eucalyptus tea when I ran out of coffee. [WIDESPREAD]

Broad-leaved paperbark: Chew new leaves to treat head colds. Steep and drink to treat headaches and chest colds. [EAST COAST]

Maidenhair ferns: Astringent and emetic. Steeped as tea and drank to induce vomiting, or leaves eaten raw. Roots also eaten to induce vomiting. [TOP END, FNQ]

Zamia palm: Nuts are eaten raw to induce vomiting. [SOUTHWEST WA]

Indian beech tree: All of tree is poisonous. Leaves are ground and steeped in hot water, then strained and the water is drank to induce vomiting. Additionally bark may be steeped for the same effect. Extremely bitter. This is used before certain ceremonies to purge the body and stomach. [TOP END, FNQ]

Wild cowpea: Roots are eaten to treat constipation. They're better cooked. [EAST COAST, TOP END]

Pale turpentine bush: Steep and drink to help minimise symptoms of tuberculosis and fever. I've used it for fever. [SOUTHERN SA, WESTERN VIC]

Rosary pea: Roots are eaten to induce abortion. I've never seen this used in a person but I'm aware it works. I have however seen it used in a dog that would not have survived if the pups were carried to term. [COASTAL QLD, TOP END]

There's other's I've heard about--Coelospermum decipiens decoction used for contraceptive, the juice of young sandpaper fig roots used to treat skin wounds and blemishes, etc, but the above is what I've seen personally be used, or have used myself. :]

#blu whos #bushman #true blu #code blu

[bluebellhairpin]

if u don't know what it is, don't look it up - go off first instinct, makes it more fun!

#polls #cw food #food poll #tumblr polls #australia

[mybeingthere]

Jorna Newberry, a Pitjantjatjara artist, was born around 1959 at Angus Downs. Jorna divides her time between Warakurna,Irrunytju and Alice Springs where she has family, living between the traditional culture of her indigenous background and a contemporary one.

When visiting her lands she regularly goes bush with the women of her community for sacred ceremony, which is important to heras she has two daughters and wants to pass this knowledge on to them. If she goes camping for several days she will hunt forkangaroo and goanna and collect bush tucker like berries, witchetty grubs and honey ants.

Jornas’ style is abstract and layered to ensure secrecy of important cultural matters. Working with her uncle Tommy Watson, she developed her own style. Jorna began painting in mid 1990′s at Warakurna, creating work for casual collectors. Later she joined the Irrunytju arts centre and started painting for this group. Over recent years she has worked closely alongside her legendary uncle, Tommy Watson. She follows his instruction to favour abstraction as a stylistic mode to ensure secrecy of important cultural matters, rather than taking the more figurative approach of the Papunya Tula artists. She says: Tommy has had a big influence on me. He teaches me to be respectful in the way I paint’.

[tsyllaes]

Grub-tipped sand viper! Grub as in a witchetty grub, and sand of course being red Raykinian sand. It buries itself under the sand with just its tail and half its head showing, wriggling the tip like a grub for birds or small marsupials to eat. Not the most venomous, but one of the more deadly because they’ll strike at anyone passing by. They're not very smart.

SNEKS DONE. At least the Raykinian ones.

#grub-tipped sand viper #snek #snake #wildlife #raykin #artists of tumblr

[funky-bird]

For centuries, the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the deepest seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, Have been shrouded in mystica and supersupersupersupersuperstition. Some say it’s a hostelllll inhabited by the Strangest creeps- others that it serves as a dangerous outhouse. Legend has it that the only hope of EVER getting out of there is a mask that every deep sea cucumber has been craving for years, a mask they say… everyone is prepared to fffffffuck for and risk their life to possess. But the only way of EVER finding out, Is to fuck around, and find out. Bionicle presents the annual Bionicle buffet, a three day event featuring an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of pies and pastries and pizza and grilled salmon and ussal crabs and dumplings and cakes and sandwiches and protodermis and stuffed peppers and mutton and brisket and rusty nails and coins and disc launchers and meatballs and fresh squeezed lemonade and lithium batteries and cigarettes and fingernail clippings and deviled eggs and bicycle chains and cone snails and acorns and scorpions and cactus needles and rubber bands and pencil shavings and grilled salmon and eggrolls and spoiled yogurt and staples and witchetty grubs and paint chips and rotten cheese and battery acid

#IM OBSESSED WIRH THISVIDEO

[tastesoftamriel]

My grandmother once told me “a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” which to be fair considering her may have been sword technique advice. However, I was curious if you’ve ever done food for seduction. If you wanted to get someone into your bed, what would you cook them before hand? And do Tamrielic cultures have a standard “come hither” meal?

If it's a romantic meal you're after, you've come to the right place. Whether it's Heart's Day or something a little more low key, you'll make anyone in Tamriel drool over you and your kitchen prowess with these meals!

Altmer

Just like with anything else in the Summerset Isles, subtlety is key when wooing. Relationships can take centuries to build between Altmer, so some choose to speed things up a little with what's known as a courtship basket: a not-so-simple picnic that's bound to wow. First, pick a stunning picnic location and an even more stunning wine. Load up that basket with all of Summerset's finest, from peach blossom indrik ricotta and Russafeld Heights grape honey to freshly baked spiced loaves and caviar. The rest is up to you!

Argonians

As many know, Argonians become life mates through bonding ceremonies, which are a quintessential part of Saxhleel culture. Bonding ceremonies usually entail a feast, usually with foods purported to put the happy couple in an amorous mood. One of the most famous aphrodisiac dishes is juicy Moss-Foot Croaker tree frog legs grilled in pandan leaves with wild bush honey, served atop gratinated witchetty grubs and Spotted Seatrout roe.

Bosmer

Love is a precious thing in Valenwood, and courtship often involves lots of food to test a potential spouse's skill in the kitchen and as a homemaker. The much-loved Husband's or Wife's Pie (known to some as Courtship Pie) tests those culinary skills from the fiddly all-butter thunderbug carapace crust to the twelve-hour meat and jagga filling. It's an exercise in patience and love to be sure!

Bretons

Nothing is quite as romantic as a night in Wayrest at a nondescript, candlelit gourmet restaurant with a two-year waitlist. If you can't wait that long, do the next best thing and host that dinner at home (the bedchamber is just around the corner, no?). Popular courtship dishes are generally rich and include foie gras with wild berry and shallot coulis, lamb saddle served medium rare with black truffle sauce, and salted caramel and brandy custard mille-feuille.

Dunmer

The famous Queen and lover Barenziah was particularly fond of a certain dish, which Dunmer in the many years after her influence still present to potential mates as a not-so-subtle hint at something more. The dish is none other than the notoriously finicky marshmerrow and comberry choux-fflé, which is exactly what it sounds like: a feat of culinary engineering that combines delicate marshmerrow and scuttle soufflé in a clamshell of sweet saltrice choux pastry. Guaranteed to make any Dark Elf fawn over you as if you were Narsis Dren.

Imperials

Imperials aren't exactly renowned for being the best with big feelings (it's all the Divine guilt), so showing someone you love them with food is the most common love language in the Province. Whether it's one of Salmo's sweetrolls, a hearty home cooked meal, or an unforgettable stay at one of the Imperial City's top hotels, there's no wrong way to go about Imperial courtship food. However, if you really want to impress, go for a dark chocolate and pomegranate torte, with a fudgy melting chocolate centre and topped with pomegranate treacle. Indulgent!

Khajiit

It's said that Khajiiti love is as fiery as their curries, but we all know better than to eat a hot curry on a date. So, what does one offer their partner when romantically inclined in Elsweyr? Try a silk-wrapped box of moon sugar bonbons from the closest gourmet sweet shop! A box of moon sugar candy is one of the most thoughtful gifts you can woo a Khajiit with, whether it's cardamom-milk cakes or hard boiled coconut and ginger sweets. Just be careful at the confectioners, because clashing flavours are a sign of bad taste...

Nords

If there's one race whose digestive system is directly linked to their nether regions, it's Nords. Just the mention of a romantic meal of buttery mudcrab legs with sourdough, twice-roasted elk basted in juniper spiced Honningbrew Mead, and snowberry pudding with a Nord Ale caramel drizzle is enough to make any Skyrim native do that thing where they brush their hair behind their ear while biting their lip at you.

Orcs

Historically speaking, there are two food items that are a must for wooing an Orc: echatere cheese, and proper Wrothgarian ale. Put the two together and you'll be planning a spring wedding. Echatere cheese and Orcish ale fondues, pies, sauces, and much more are the best way to use these star ingredients, but I prefer a bit of a twist: echatere cheesecake with a caramelised biscuit crust and berry-ale compote.

Redguards

Redguards are known for being passionate lovers, who write rambling love poetry and frantically check their birthsigns for relationship compatibility. With that in mind, you're going to have to work hard in the kitchen to gain a Redguard's love. If you're not sure where to start, skip the Middas special camel-stomach meatloaf at the inn and get right to the kitchen to make some rasmalai! This unique spiced dessert of sweet cottage cheese balls are served with crushed pistachios, and a cardamom, saffron, and rose-infused cream. The punchier and more balanced the spices, the more likely you are to pull that date.

#Asks #Food #Romance #Cooking #Tes #The Elder Scrolls #World building #Worldbuilding

[true-blue-straya]

As an Australian I’ve eaten multiple onions raw like an apple I just remove the skin first also have you ever tried bush Tucker before I personally enjoy eating witchetty grubs

@tonyabbottmp this you?

#aussieposting

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[onenicebugperday]

@rub-the-rest-with-yellow​ submitted: G'day again! I found this stripy green mate hiding from the lizards and wondered if you know what it is since its got an interesting colour? We are in south east queensland.

Also, heres a witchetty grub i thought you might like

Have a lovely day, and thanks!

G’day! Thanks for letting me say that I feel very Australian now. Anyway WOW those are intense “don’t touch me” colors. Wish I looked like that. Anyhoo it’s a slug caterpillar moth in the genus Anaxidia, likely Anaxidia lozogramma. I love the caterpillar! I thought only the big white grubby looking caterpillars were called witchetty grubs :o

#animals #insects #bugs #submission #moth #slug moth caterpillar #limacodidae #Anaxidia #Anaxidia lozogramma #caterpillar #larva

[canonical-transformation]

Celica gets Engaged(*) [A'lear Part 5]

(* but nobody thinks it's incest this time)

(Spoilers up to Chapter 4 of Fire Emblem: Engage.)

Chapter 4: A Land in Bloom

Florra Mill Town, featuring windmills and fields of blooming flowers, is on the road to Castle Firene. It's beautiful and... being attacked by the Corrupted, apparently.

Prince Alfred will not stand for this. Time to fight.

Meanwhile, near the centre of town, we meet Alfred's sister, Princess Céline, and her retainers Louis and Chloé. They're fending off some Corrupted.

(This pattern of "two royal siblings, each with two retainers" accounts for 2/3rds of the playable roster. Just like Corrin, I guess?)

Céline (unique class, swords+tomes and eventually staves) has the makings of a consummate stateswoman, one who would rule firmly yet kindly. She frets for the health of her brother, the Crown Prince, and in many ways has tried to shape herself to counterbalance his gentleness... despite being a gentle soul herself.

All this is entirely overshadowed by the writers deciding that "enjoying tea" is a quirky personality trait that should be, like, the one and only thing Céline ever talks about. Also the floof skirt. Between her petticoat and her hair, she is the walking definition of A-Line Silhouette. She's lovely, in other words.

Louis (lance armor) is a stocky gentleman whose eyes are permanently doing the ^_^ thing. He is a rather philosophical fellow who spends his time appreciating(?) pretty ladies(???).

Chloé (lance flier) loves fairy tales and will in due course be delighted to find herself living in one. She has enough girl next door vibes to paralyse my little lesbian heart is fond of folk food, the kind that uses whatever ingredients are around. Escargot, unagi, witchetty grub, hormigas culonas, she's into it so long as it's authentically rustic.

Chloé and Louis tell their Princess to run. It's imperative that she finds Alfred and warns him that the castle is under attack (oh no!, the castle is under attack!). Céline reluctantly flees, leaving her retainers to stand back to back and exchange quips. Louis opens his eyes (they're green) for two seconds, which is basically the only time we see them for the rest of the game.

This is more cutscene badassery than most of the other retainers get, which is very sad.

Céline runs straight into Alfred and A'lear, who are getting ready to fight. After getting over her shock at seeing A'lear awake and walking about, Céline fills them in. The Queen entrusted an Emblem Ring to Céline before bidding her to flee the castle.

An Emblem Ring? A'lear is something of an expert on those.

Meet Emblem Celica: princess, brother-wedder, and the only(?) female Lord before FE7. She detests war and violence, but she'll do what she must in the name of peace.

Celica is a dedicated magic support, offering a Mag/Res boost (and a little Str) to her sync partner. She offers damage reflection against Corrupted, and after a few bond levels, her Resonance skill(*) is pretty good. When Engaged, she gains a special skill, Echo (🥁), which allows her to perform two magic attacks in a row at 50% damage each. (60% for Mystical units.) (*) What's more, her Seraphim tome is effective against Corrupted.

Celica's ult(**) is Warp Ragnarok, which warps up to 10 tiles away and rains fire down on a single opponent. (100% hit, 0% crit, and no counterattack, like most ults.)

The battle begins with Princess Céline and her retainers unlocked. Céline is perfectly set up to Engage and Echo, killing an armor knight and significantly chipping down another. (She doesn't, because we're saving the Engage, but she could, and that's a lovely bit of hidden tutorial design.)

To begin with, Louis and Chloé are alone in the center-east of the map, fending off enemies from either side. They hint to the player that Chloé should deal with the incoming mages, and Louis with the incoming archers and fighters. They do exactly this, and buy themselves a couple of turns.

(...oh no i forgot to take screenshots during the chapter 😐 Um, have some photos of Céline and co. having drip)

A couple of turns is not enough for A'lear and co. to make it to them, not with the nearest bridge broken. Fortunately, the Emblem rings give us a way of getting there quickly.

First is Sigurd, who, when Engaged, grants an extra 5–7 movement, allowing for huge sprints. But that's not quite enough to reach Chloe and Louis in time, and Sigurd's wearer would probably get killed en route.

Instead, Céline&Celica use Warp Ragnarok to cross the river, helping Chloé fend off an enemy flier who had her on the ropes. Then, the two of them swing around to reinforce Louis. The retainers remark on Céline's changed appearance — glowy magical girl costume, red hair, etc. — while they hold a fortification.

(here's a photo with a Levin sword)

Everyone else makes their merry way along the south bank of the river, watching their footing and fighting enemies like in a normal Fire Emblem game. Vander briefly cavorts off to stall an enemy cavalier, gets his ass handed to him, and runs back to ask for help from Alfred.

Then the boss suddenly decides to move in on Céline and Chloé and Louis, and the rest of the team is nowhere near close enough to help.

A'lear curses. "Everyone, this way! Emblem Sigurd, with me!"

But it's too late. By the time A'lear and the main force catch up, Céline and her retainers are having a tea party on the boss's smouldering remains.

A'lear pauses to admire the scenery, which is gorgeous. Truly the Land of Flowers. But in her musing, she lowers her guard, and a Corrupted nearly gets the drop on her.

She's rescued by a someone wielding a Fire tome. This mage turns out to be a small girl, who shyly introduces herself as Veyle (pronounced like veil).

Veyle has white hair with black highlights, which sort of feels like the devs stole my original character A'lear, but whatever. (It's less of a left-right thing and more evenly distributed.) She's barefoot, wearing a fascinating dress made of cascading white feathers. The feathers have very slight blue and red streaks, the only real colour visible on her besides her violet eyes. A matching headpiece encircles her protectively, obscuring a black circlet. The look is completed with dainty arm-length gloves.

To me, her design evokes "baby bird", or something in that vein.

A'lear thanks Veyle, who says there's no need—she's just doing what anyone would have done. But before they can speak much more, Veyle runs off while A'lear is talking to Marth. (Was she spooked by Marth's appearance?)

What an odd character. I'm sure we'll see her again. After all, this is not the first Fire Emblem game to introduce a mysterious little girl with an exotic hair colour and strange powers wander in from offstage right, seemingly on her own.

(I'm implying that, just like Ninian and Sothis and Tiki and Lilith and etc. and etc., Veyle is [TODO: finish sentence])

Wait, I hear you say, you said barefoot. Does that mean Veyle has feet?

Rest easy, dear reader. Veyle definitely has feet.

But are you sure?, I hear you say. Maybe that was a fluke. Remember Awakening? Intelligent Systems is bad at drawing feet.

Um, let me see if the lead character designer, Mika Pikazo, has anything to say on the subject.

...yep, can confirm, those are some well articulated metatarsals, and some pleasantly long phalanges. Oh, and look how pointy those toes are!

Truly, a vintage year.

Wait, what was I talking about?

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(*) Resonance is mutual guaranteed damage, a la Echoes: equipping a tome causes Celica's partner to lose 1HP at the start of every combat in exchange for 2 extra damage. (At time of writing, forgetting about Resonance has caused me to get Céline killed in player phase multiple times.)

Echo is great for picking off multiple weakened targets (and/or Armor Knights), for exacerbating flat damage bonuses like Resonance or A'lear's passive or poison, and for triggering tons of Chain Attacks.

(**) The in-game term for a once-per-engage superpower is Engage Attack, but not only is this confusing to distinguish from Engage Skills like Echo, but also: not all "Engage Attacks" are even attacks! I'll go with "ult" because it's short and fairly common parlance.

I might not have mentioned, but Sigurd's ult is Override, which skewers through a group of enemies standing in a line, hitting each of them once and emerging on the other side. (100% hit, 0% crit, no counterattack.) You'll see a screenshot of this next chapter. It's brutal tbh.

Marth's ult is Lodestar Rush, which is more or less like Astra from other Fire Emblem games. It does 7 hits at 30% damage (100% hit, 0% crit, no counterattack). 8 hits for Backup units, 9 for dragons.

Marth's Engage passive skill, Divine Speed, makes an extra 50% damage follow-up attack, which is fine but honestly kinda forgettable.

#apostrophe a'lear liveblog #fe engage #fire emblem engage #fire emblem spoilers #playing engage #fe alear #fe céline #fe chloé #fe louis #cw: celica of zofia

[blubushie]

Well I'm taking you at your word, then! Round 1: How did you come to do what you do? Was it a sudden impulse/ jumping off the deep end, or a slow and steady march into it? Have you always wanted to hunt nuisance animals for money or did you come by it while pursuing something else at first?

In short: How did Blu become bushie? *chin hands*

It was 100% a result of me losing my mind and going off the deep end.

FUN STORY TIME.

I don't like people. In this kinda way.

"EW. PEOPLE."

People are strange and cruel and nasty and sometimes they'll kill lizards in front of you when you're in year 4 because they know you like them. People do mean things to other things just to hurt someone they don't like, so I don't like people. And there's a fucking lot of people everywhere. There's a lot of people in Alice Springs. There's a LOT of people in California.

And I don't like people.

I'll admit that I got into my own head a lot (still do; I zone out often). And I got this idea, right? The Swagmen of Olde. They lived in the bush with a lot less, er, support than what we have now. Modern day swagman. Revive an old Australian tradition. So I was say fifteen and we got out for I think the term 1 holidays, aaand I was officially a missing child for a week because I packed my swag and disappeared into the Outback. I lived off bottled water, native wells, and my scroggin ran out on day 2 so after that I survived off quandong and witchetty grubs (note to readers, don't go into the Outback without a machete because trying to dig out witchetty grubs with a knife will blister your palms). Basically stayed alive by making my own shelter from shit my dad taught me, or things I read about in books.

Anyway the NTPF eventually put out a chopper for me and dragged me kicking and screaming to civilisation (I was so feral they put me in the fucking divvy van) and it sucked (also I made the newspaper, not the point). But in the 5 days I was gone I just... found some inner peace, I suppose? I was talk of the town and over the next year there were three or four additional attempts to return to the Outback until Mum (and the NTPF) got tired of me trying to dehydrate myself to death and brought us both back to California.

And my California town is bigger than Alice Springs. The town has a population of ~80,000 and there's people fucking everywhere and I hate it.

So I did the same thing I did in Australia and routinely went walkabout to the point our local sheriff knew me by name. It got to the point the LOCALS knew me by name. Half would call in and report me when I was out walking on behalf of my father, the other were of the wildchild mentality and had an unspoken agreement of "Do not send Blu back to that house." (My parents aren't abusive or anything, the locals were just of the idea that at 16 I was finding my own way in the world like kids did back in the 50s, which... Yeah, I was.)

I was given an ankle monitor because I was a flight risk, and I stopped leaving.

Anyway I left high school, got a job working part-time graveyard at Dad's insistence on doing something with my life, and on the side I started talking to the neighbours who know I'm one hell of a shot (courtesy of me recently winning a county sharpshooting competition). And they get this bright idea, right, they've got a lot of coyotes on their property trying to lift their sheep. So I start killing coyotes. They're proud of my work, they tell their neighbours, I start getting paid $25 per pig I kill on their property so long as they keep the bacon. Fine deal for everyone involved.

Between pest control and graveyard and some other odd jobs I made ~$15k over 6 months and I still had this niggling idea in my head of going bush permanently. At 18 I bought my FIRST ute and went east. And that ute was fucking old. Not a '99 Ford, an '87 Ford F-150 with over 300,000mi on it. I figured I'd get to somewhere around New Mexico before it'd cark it because that poor bastard didn't sound right from the get-go.

And cark it it did! But I also learned a few things from my dad, and so I jerry rigged that cunt (which consisted of removing the faulty ignition and replacing it with a fucking screwdriver). I got it started and working again. Got it to Texas, got the ignition fixed, and took jobs in the southwest for 6 months.

And then I got sick of the southwest. I saw the towns I frequented become gentrified. They lost their personality. The mum and pop stores shut down and were replaced with Targets and Walmarts and the land started seeing construction and in six months I'd lost all hope for it.

So I said "fuck this shit" and decided, for the fifth time in my life, that I was going to the Outback. I went back to California, got my passport and all my necessary identification, had a MASSIVE argument with my parents because they didn't want me to leave, but I left anyway and sold the ute and I took a bus to San Francisco, got lost, ended up sleeping in an alleyway at some point which isn't important except to remember that I fucking hate cities, but eventually got my way to the airport with about $10k in cash and debit and I got the first flight to Sydney.

All without a fucking mobile phone.

And I spent every dollar I had save for $2000 on a '99 F-150. And my first night I bought a bottle of plonk (strange buying booze at 19 years old). I smashed it in the bush over my ute's roo bar and I christened her Matilda, my steadfast companion who will come waltzing with me. And I drove her up to Brisbane, and then to Cairns, and while in Cairns I was stopped and detained because of my rifle, and then that was confiscated for a month until I got my firearms licence, and then I had to go BACK to Brisbane to pick it up again but before I did that I met a bloke and spent my last $2k on a camper for Matilda.

So now I'm stuck in Australia with not a dollar to my name, no means of getting money on account of not having a rifle, and a new-christened ute with a camper but no way to pay for petrol.

So I drive up the track, end up heading west until Matilda ran out of petrol, then walked 2km or so to the nearest station who happened to have cattle. Aussies take care of our own. Told the bloke there the story over tea and supper, he says I can help muster if I know how to ride a horse.

Boy, do I.

So I do that for a few months, say hooroo to him after he helps me siphon petrol into my tank, and I return to Brisbane and get my rifle back. I make my way back through QLD, stop for a week in Longreach, then get another job as a stockman. For maybe a year I was a full-fledged stockman and met my heart horse and I met the first girl I ever loved, but then I stopped being a stockman, worked at sea on a fishing vessel for a few months, come back, and ended up getting a job working some pastoral land near there dealing with a small pack of wild dogs who'd been lifting the bloke's sheep, and I start making a name for myself again as one hell of a sharpshooter. And then I got my commercial shooter's licence.

Rest is history!

#blu whos #bushman #enjoy my life story