Today’s deck is the Vlad Dracula Tarot.
“But Fer, Halloween-” SHUDDUP. Besides, it’s not a Dracula Tarot, it’s a Vlad The Impaler one which makes it REALLY cool, actually. The illustrations even look like wood carvings.
Today’s reading reflects a fatigue with work from a sense that I’ve been done dirty and it might be my fault.
Which… not wrong. Something something cognitive distortion acknowledged, but not WRONG
Ah dammit, I forgot the monthly reading again. Oh well, I’ll just get to it tomorrow.
I’ve been thinking lately about how cool Dragon Quest Walk is. Honestly it feels like a proper successor to DQ9 in some ways.
The main thing that sticks out to me is the fact that it’s a proper DQ game. You have the elements, the equipment management, the skills. Compared to things like Pokemon Go where the gameplay has been simplified (though I WILL defend it as an alternate design path), DQ Walk is as complex as you want it to be.
I got to thinking about it because I decided to take a walk today to hunt for caves. Long story short, caves are locations in the map with powerful solo fights (rather than raids, basically). You can fight them on the spot OR you can save the location and use 1000 of a specific currency (that you accumulate doing Literally Anything) to fight get to it whenever you’re comfortable.
You do them because they give you stone tablets you use to upgrade your class and (after a recent update) to unlock weapon proficiencies that allow you to basically add skills from one weapon into a different weapon.
I went out hunting them, however, because I had a battlemaster, paladin, and sage with the promotion quest to fight in 10 caves.
Caves range from early to late game (literally from lvl35 tier 1 class to lvl 71 tier 3 class) so it’s not like I can fight in every cave I find and I kinda went through all the ones in my vicinity already.
By the way, not right now but there’s also a “competition” of sorts sometimes where you get points the more caves of higher tiers you complete and do you see what I mean with it being a very complete game? And that’s just with the things related to caves specifically.
I’ve actually been playing DQ Walk since day one technically. I first played back in 2019. I remember because I had just come back from my first and only trip to the US being at PAX West and then I returned resting only one day before heading to TGS and I had stuff to do at the event while I wanted to keep playing DQ Walk.
My feet were KILLING ME that day…
Sadly I don’t have that account anymore. I don’t even think it’s in one of my old phones, I think I deleted the app without thinking.
I really liked the game mind you, I just wasn’t in a good brain space back then.
Back to the caves, I finished the tier 3 of the promotion test after finding enough caves and now the final test is to take 15000 steps while the class is in the party which shouldn’t take long at the pace I live my life.
I literally walked from my house to Umeda and when I was thinking about getting into the train V had just left and wanted to meet up to get Cocoichi Curry.
What a timing lemme tell you.