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Speaking of, a hint about the backstory was reached just now...!

So we picked off with our intrepid hero Aloy getting lost and shooting at (and missing more than I'd care to admit) random animals in the hopes that their meat may prove to be of value. That sucks so let's skip past it. Reached the gate and something silly happened - I approach from the top of the ridge, so I could look down and see the gatekeeper Varl fighting a Corrupted Sawtooth. I figured hey, I'm up here and can shoot it safely, but that doesn't work. Turns out it's a scripted event where they fight until you get there, at which point the machine dies, but since I didn't realize that right away I got to see Varl trading hits like a boss. Badass Varl sends me to find War Chief Sona, his mom, who apparently is also a badass. So I set out to find out what happened to the war party she led on a quest for revenge.

Came across a little settlement on the way, picked up some sidequests along the way, some of which I may even finish at some point. Found the site of the ambush where the war party wrecked the hell out of a bunch of machines before going down, met a guy who was a messenger from Sona. How convenient! He gave me directions and I crossed the river into some ruins that definitely don't look like the decaying carcass of a modern city, no sir. Also found a "datapoint" that talked about some legal drama in 2063. Gee is this set in the future of Earth I would never have guessed. I mean, besides the fact that the whole trip to the ruins Aloy takes as a kid kind of already made it obvious. It would be more surprising if it didn't turn out to be the case! Speaking of those ruins Aloy went to as a kid, I stumbled across them again. Is there any point to going through them again? I'd check on my own but that place was kind of big to go through for no reason.

I also bought a war bow somewhere along the way so I can shoot shock arrows now. Scrapers officially less of a problem now that a zappy thing to the bum neutralizes them in short order. Between that and using fire arrows to make Grazers explode and take everything nearby down with them, I think I am officially beginning to have the slightest clue what I'm doing. Maybe some day I'll be able to go more than twenty seconds without using PURPLEVISION to assuage my paranoia...well, maybe not.
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