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And then the grand adventure resumed.

Since last night was a massive exposition fest and general plot progression thing, it seems only right that I wander off to the western side of the map in search of a Tallneck. Look, this is how I play video games, I do whatever random thing comes to mind. Sometimes I push through a game in a hurry, sometimes it takes forever because I get distracted. It makes sense in my mind, at least! Anyway, an odd moment happens when a pile of debris is available to search, but I have to hold the search button much longer than usual to get stuff from it. I pick up an item I'm pretty sure is only available from some pretty strong machines, then as I turn a weird sound happens and it looked like the debris pile had moved in some way...? My assumption was there was a Rockbreaker hiding on me, but I ended up making a lot of noise fighting some Scrappers and it never appeared, so maybe that was just...uh...me hallucinating...?

A dilemma appears, namely that I'm in a valley and where I want to go is on top of the ridge. I could take the long way around, but that's long. Obviously. So I do what any reasonable person would do: Get close enough to the base of the cliff that the campfire on top of it registers as discovered, then fast travel up because I can do that despite not having actually been up there before. Hooray for exploits! I almost stumble onto a Ravager that was just kind of walking in a circle around a rock for no apparent reason with nothing anywhere close to it, thought about overriding it but decided there's nothing else around for it to even fight. Seriously Ravager, what the hell were you doing? Another campfire has what look like AA guns around it, not the first time I've seen stuff like that laying around. There's some Tramplers I ignore and Longlegs I murder and then it's Tallneck time.

Okay actually I overrode one Longleg to help kill the other, then lured it into a fight with a nearby Ravager, then killed it because I don't know how long the override actually lasts, then that attracted an army of Watchers and a Fire Bellowback, and there are some more Ravagers nearby...tactical retreat is a valid option in situations like this, to let the enemies back off so I don't have to fight everything under the sun at once. Holy shit this Tallneck is well guarded, he's got a second Fire Bellowback with him, another pair of Longlegs and two more Ravagers just off his route, plus some Sawtoothes (Sawteeth?) fairly nearby as well. The Fire Bellowbacks go down easy enough to freeze arrows and then pain arrows, the (Redeye) Watchers are jokes and everything else is easy enough to not provoke.

There seems to be a settlement of some sort nearby, plus some non-hostile Shadow Carja guys fighting a ton of machines...might as well go help. By which I mean let them distract the enemies with their deaths. I somehow managed to override a Ravager with another one standing right next to it and not noticing me, then I just kind of looted and when I was done, my pet killbot had wiped out everything. Cool. There's also a corrupted zone, listed as level 34...the double Rockbreaker one was level 32, I think? I'm kind of afraid to see what hell awaits in there, but there's a campfire nearby to save it so it should be all good.

Speaking of corrupted zones, I swear there are a couple of extra ones on the map now in areas I'm sure weren't corrupted before. Do more just spawn as the game goes on or something?
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