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Okay then. Made some more progress, wasn't meaning to play for quite as long as I did but kind of got caught up in it. This may be a bit brief in parts as a result.

So first Rost took me out to some new area to fight a Sawtooth. What is a Sawtooth? Good question, I pelted it with fire arrows to lure it into a trip caster shock wire and by the time it stood up, I had depleted about 90% of its health so even though it did a lot of damage when it hit me, it was easy to finish off. We get the standard mentor "use your strength for everyone!" speech and then head off for The Proving, which sounds like a big deal. Also Rost will be abandoning Aloy forever to avoid tempting her into breaking the whole "no talking to outcasts" rule. Aloy is understandably sad and I'm understandably convinced he'll show up much later in the game to do something dramatic and then die soon after.

We get into Mother's...Heart I think is the town? Hard to keep track of all this Mother's Stuff. The guy we saved earlier is a merchant now and made us clothes that the dialogue specifically mentions fit perfectly...not sure I want to know how he knew the right size. There's a big scene that introduces some crazy sun worship tribe who apparently were insane until their king killed the previous one. Now his people are out there preaching peace and reconciliation. So...these guys are going to be the villains at some point, right? Anyway, spoke to some dudes after, one of whom has a comm badge (called a Focus but fuck that) and is shifty as hell, the other who seems to be a travel agent for Meridian, capital of the Carja sun dudes. He gives a nice speech, delivers some backstory and probably wants in Aloy's pants at some point. Then we go light a lamp that flies...a lamp. That flies. You know, in a game where machines are animals and also suddenly going crazy, that shouldn't stick out as unusual, but it does. Aloy bickers a bit with rock toss kid from the intro (gee, who would have guessed that the kid who had a name in the prologue would reappear), makes friends with some girl and then sleeps.

Onto the Proving! Where we fight some robots. And the asshole guard guy is an asshole. And asshole kid Bast is an asshole. Okay guys, settle down. We take a shortcut to win! Yay! And then the woman does a fake out when she says an outcast can't win and then says OH but Aloy isn't an outcast now! Hooray! Then she dies! Not hooray! Bunch of crazy cult dudes attack, leading to a big fight where everyone that's not Aloy dies. Some big dude nearly kills Aloy, then Rost reappears! Huh, earlier than expected. Why was he up there anyway? Big dude seemingly takes an arrow to the face without much harm, which is certainly something. He stabs Rost, they blow up the mountain to kill us, but Rost shoves Aloy off a cliff to save her. It's a good thing she's a video game character or that fall would have been fatal. Also big cult dude said something about facing the sun so he's probably involved with the sun dudes.
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