#The Overcast October

[valkyrievanessa]

ok, finally finished The Overcast October, Anjo Nala story. Every complain i had about chapter 8, don't exist on Anjo Nala story, quite literally.

The usage of brazilian portuguese, the characters, the names, everything, just kinda fits to the story (that happens soon after Mata Hari death i think).

Everything wrong about chapter 8, it wasn't done in The Overcast October, the story was also a lot better to read than the main chapter itself. Anjo Nala loves Brazil and São Paulo, it was her home, a home that she found and accepted her, where people loved her and she lost it again, brutally and in a really tragic way.

Anjo Nala is the best character of this game for me, she is amazing, everything about her is amazing, she is quite literally a cat, a sad cat that suffered a lot. Quitéria found her eating the chickens raw and alive hahaha.

Also, Quitéria, the old lady that took care of anjo nala, that was a nice choice of a name. It exists on Brazil, not a common one, probably took from Maria Quitéria de Jesus, a brazillian woman soldier from Bahia that pretended to be a men and fought for Brazil independence with Pedro I. She is considered a nacional Hero, not a famous one, but she is.

So, chapter 8, Tristes Tropiques, it is an anomaly, a really, really bad anomaly. I will forever shit on this chapter, it is the worst chapter in this game, and mr. duncan is not a good character too in my opinion, i will forever shit on him too, he still makes me uncomfortable. But the chapter itself is the worst offender and the way it represented brazil is terrible, beyond shitty, it was quite literally xenophobic.

It does feel that was two completly different people that wrote the chapter, specially compared with the overcast october that was released together with it, this chapter is an anomaly that i really hope that never happens again.

And i love anjo nala, she is cute, so cute.

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[makenna-made-this]

BAWKtober Day 9 - Overcast

Omg what if it looked like it might rain and we had to share an umbrella just like a shoujo manga and we were both hens jk jk....unless??

[kalyssto]

Oct 14th 2023 - American Annular Eclipse from Oklahoma (70% coverage)

[dk-thrive]

Twilight to Sunrise. Time Lapse 6:30 to 7:30 am. 60 minutes in 10 seconds. 59° F. October 24, 2024. Cove Island Park. Stamford, CT (@dkct25)

[cuprikorn]

[komorebiandskies]

10/31/2022

[westernstarofthenorth]

Grey rainy October is also beautiful 🩶💦❤️🧡💛🍂🍁🎃

[deepfriedjunction]

Golden yellow leaves

[fallauween]

Edelweiss Farm by Mark Stacey Via Flickr: The Edelweiss Farm near Iron Mountain, Michigan. Beautiful Autumn colors on a rain swept, overcast day create the perfect backdrop for this wonderful farm tucked away in the rolling hills of the southern area of the Upper Peninsula.

[bakelite-bliss]

this genuinely was cooler to me than the eclipse itself

Solar eclipse shadows

[gjphotographs97]

Golden yellow leaves

[maxphotoarchive]

[guinevereslancelot]

cleaning my room will fix me

[dk-thrive]

Twilight to Sunrise. Time Lapse 6:30 to 8:00 am. 90 minutes in 21 seconds. 64° F. November 1, 2024. Cove Island Park. Stamford, CT (@dkct25)

[foone]

There exist another dimension called The Empty World. It's very much like ours, in fact it seems to have been identical up until a few weeks ago, but it always seems that way. If you go there today, it was identical in late february, and if you go there this october, it'll have been identical until september.

It's empty, as you might guess. There's no humans, and no animals bigger than a cockroach. The sky is grey, and it slowly rains ash. It's colder than our world by a bit, enough to require a jacket even in summer. The streets are empty, the cars parked neatly in their garages or in lots, but they're all empty and abandoned, their doors locked like they expect their owners to return any minute now.

The newspapers left on stands don't mention any oncoming disaster. We have no idea what the TV or internet would have said: the power is out. The power is very, very out. Not just the grid, but batteries are drained. The cars won't start, the emergency lights are out, and anything with solar panels seems to be getting less energy than you'd expect, even with the perpetually overcast sky.

It's a very silent world, like the calm after a snowstorm. Sounds don't seem to echo as much as they should, nor does sound seem to travel as far. The radio spectrum is empty except for static, there's no one transmitting on any frequency.

There's fewer fires than you'd expect. Even places you'd expect to soon catch fire without human intervention are still standing, undamaged. Campfires can be lit but with difficulty: something is keeping them from burning as they should. Even if you pour kerosene on a campfire it'll barely grow, it's like something sucked the energy out of everything.

All the locked buildings are still locked. Alarms don't sound if you break in (understandable, given the power situation), and of course no one comes to investigate. So The Empty World is your oyster: you can break in wherever you want (provided you can physically do it: some doors are pretty hard to pry open even with tools), take whatever you want, and bring it back here.

Everything resets when you leave. You always enter The Empty World like it's your first time there, like this just happened and you're late to the party... but the party keeps getting rescheduled. You can even take something multiple times if you want.

When you enter The Empty World you get there at the same relative position as you are on this world. If you're in New York, you show up in the empty New York. If you're in Topeka, you show up in empty Topeka. So you have to travel around this world to get to where you want, and you can't just appear in the middle of a bank vault... unless you break into the vault from this world. (So it's great if you work at a bank and want to steal from your employer without repercussions, but not so useful otherwise).

You don't just have to take things, you know. You can take computers and files and books and diaries. You will have to deal with recharging laptops and breaking through any security when you get back, but it's doable.

So, imagine you've just gotten access to The Empty World. What are you going to do with it? What will you take, and where will you go?