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""Realistic""HorseController Update quote:

"Something something horse something, later versions are better as along we go, yes design will be open source at some point, this version allows jumps :DD yay, pedals are somewhat templates for stirrup-like components"

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Anyways I've decided to stop gatekeeping so uh here's my Optimized Gardening SetupTM

This has an equal amount of each plant planted, and, in 6-planter spots, is optimized for Special Flower interactions (and thus Special Flower growth). Pretty much all plants will have a Special Flower interaction with the plant(s) next to them and across from them (except for one of them in the corners, who has only 1 interaction instead of 2, but this is the best way I've found so far).

(So to be clear: that's a row of chamomile - rubia - moss, and then bee balm across from chamomile, flax across from rubia, and jute across from moss)

Harvesting special plants will give you 40 light instead of 10, and will give you double the normal plant, so it's also a great bonus in terms of getting money and supplies!

So uhh, go forth and optimize your garden!

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RIDERS OF FALLEN DAWN: AN SSO OC EVENT IS NOW OPEN

From now (28th September) till the 31st of November, the apocalypse has come to Jorvik.

More lore will be continued to be drip fed through October through fic writing. You can use it as inspiration, crossover or ignore it! It is totally up to you!

The Dark Riders (apart from Erissa till some point) are fully available for you to use in your stories!!

Use the hastag: Riders of Fallen Dawn (riders-of-fallen-dawn) or tag this account so I can reblogged your amazing works of fic, art, screenshots and/or roleplays!!

STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO ON AIDEEN’S CURSE AND WHO/WHAT THE AIDEEN REINCARNATION IS

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I feel like I have a gif for the sso starbreeds and their riders

Starshine and lisa:

Alex and Tincan:

Linda and Meteor:

Anne and Concorde: ( prob after she got new Concorde to grow up)

Sabine and Khaan: ( I SWEAR she feeds Khaan jet fuel soo they fast)

Katja and Mortifia:

Jessica and Acerbus:

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Smokey

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spotted honse to break my art block (was a lazy doodle so pls excuse the lack of good anatomy)

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here is kara, one of my sso ocs UGHH I LOVE HER also sse please give us more hairstyles i beg of you

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It is time for the annual October prompt list!

Thirty-one prompts for you to interpret and execute however you wish; in the past six years we have seen art, screenshots, edits, moodboards, stories - all is welcome! (if you’re making a moodboard, please make sure you’re allowed to use the photos, websites like unsplash and pixabay are good for this)

You don’t have to feel pressured to partake in every single prompt, and if you want to come back to this list after October ends you can still use the same hashtags since I keep checking them after the month has ended :)

Use the hashtags #ssopromptober and #ssopromptober2024 so other people can see what you’ve made, and for you to see what others have created! You are also welcome to tag me in your posts (either @ me or use the hashtag #feliciawolfpaw).

If you have any questions just send me a message or an ask. 💌

You will find a list in text form of all the prompts under the cut. Previous years can be found here: 2019 // 2020 // 2021 // 2022 // 2023

Swift

Cargo

Hollow Woods

Spark

Farm

Mountain

Soulmate

Earth

Carrot

Mustard

Grass

Mill

Trouble

Edge

Lake

Sheep

Jorvik City

Estate

Fierce

Wait

Spiky

Wild

Triangle

Beast

Flower

Cauldron

Blanket

Darkness

Landscape

Gallop

Full Moon

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looking up from my phone and seeing this felt like a jumpscare

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Hey SSOBLR, how are we?

Mutuals, we good? I feel like it’s been quiet as fuck lately

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there's something kinda funny how one of the main ways to farm jorvik shillings in this game now is through the path of terra, and more generally by selling lights from hollow woods

you're selling aideen's light. The Goddess Aideen offers you Her blessed light to aid you in your progress through the ancestral druidic arts. and you trade it for money.

you gather 2192418 lights, enough blinding lights to dissipate all the haunting darkness and push garnok back from whence he came. aideen looks upon you from above with pride.

but you shove the lights in your closet, as if but mere clothing

and mutter, "there's a festival very soon and i want the pretty medieval gears, i'll sell all those lights lol"

aideen save us for your chosen one is corrupted

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another drawing of my sso oc’s horse Solis!

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two hors

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I’m hit with a wave of nostalgia whenever I hear SSO’s old soundtrack like everybody else but MAN the newer tracks in the game‘s story quests and new zones are so severely underrated in this community. The Devil’s Gap/Fort Maria story quests got these really immersive and mysterious tracks and it drives me up the wall that you can only hear some of these in-game like, once, for 10 seconds, because it’s a story quests thing so you’ll never hear them again in-game

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PUTTING JORVIK ON THE MAP: SIZE AND LOCATION

WHERE IS JORVIK?

Finding Jorvik’s exact location is actually pretty easy.

”Jorvik, located somewhere between Norway, Iceland, and the British Isles, of which it was once part, is a nexus of worlds.” - Jorvik Calling, Prologue.

This is still a pretty large area, but one that’s significantly narrowed down by reading Four Stories from Jorvik. Anne’s segment Midnight Sun establishes that Jorvik is at the very least partly above the arctic circle, to the point where Anne can see it while riding by Jorvik Stables in the middle of the night. This also puts Jorvik pretty close to the tectonic rift between the European and American continental plates, which handily explains why Jorvik is a volcanic Island.

HOW BIG IS JORVIK?

Jorvik’s size requires a bit more speculation, and I’m relying on two book sources.

1: Jorvik stables is a bus trip from Jorvik city.

Anne lives in Jorvik City but goes to school with the other soul riders in Jarlaheim, and has her horse at Jorvik stables. We know that she goes there by bus, so the distance between Jarlaheim and Jorvik City shouldn’t be too large; I’m capping the max length of the bus ride to about an hour.

2: Valedale is less than a day’s ride from the wineyard.

In The Legend Awakens, Elizabeth and the soul riders are heading to Pi’s Swamp and sleep over at the Wineyard. The soul riders wake up late and leave after having eaten breakfast and lunch. The sun is ”at its highest point in the sky” when they leave, so probably around 1-2PM. It’s twilight when they arrive, and the Baroness comments that they showed up in time for the evening feeding of the horses. Since the days are shorter in late October/early November, which is when this chapter takes place, we can guess that they arrived at around 5-6 PM.

Mapping out the most likely routes for these two trips, the route to the Wineyard is about a third of the bus route from Jorvik City to Jarlaheim. Additionally, the bus would drive on average ~70 km/h because of Jorvik’s smaller roads. The average walking speed of a horse is 6 km/h.

Now, the Valedale-Wineyard trip could take anywhere between 3-5 hours, but I’m inclined to believe that it’s on the lower end of that scale to keep Anne’s commute as short as possible. That leaves us with a 18 km long ride, and a 54 km long bus tour that takes 46 minutes. Pretty reasonable!

RESULTS

With these new measurements, we can figure out the actual distance between different places on Jorvik. Most importantly, we can measure the absolute width from Jorviks westernmost to easternmost point: 92 km, or ~57 miles!

Having figured out an estimate of the island’s size and location, we can now put Jorvik on the map!

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I HAVE ACQUIRED DIRT ON THE BARONESS.

Spoilers for players who haven't rescued Justin yet!

Girl has a portrait of Pinehill Manor in her library. Which if you haven't played the old games... is freaking SANDS'S HOUSE.

She really put a portait of her ex's house in her library

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Listen Im not saying my sso timeline is flawless but:

- I made the estimate of modern sso taking place ~2025, give or take a year depending on Catherine’s age relative to Elizabeth.

- Anne goes missing on a dressage competition in France the summer MC comes to Jorvik.

- Anne is known as one of Jorvik’s best dressage riders; it wouldn’t be unthinkable for her to represent her country on the international stage.

- The olympics are held in France summer of 2024, and among other things include dressage.

I rest my case