Spoilers for some stuff in Vinland in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla

Butch:

Did a cursed symbol, sifted through sheep poop for a brooch (as one does), went back to the hamlet, built the hunter's hut, hunted wolves with the huntress there (was there more, or was that it with the hunter?), went to Vinland. 

Eivor musing "All this way....just to kill a man...." was interesting. 

Met Orlav the unlucky, learned I need to get resources to buy weapons (other than the never ending supply of axes I seem to have when my adrenaline is flowing...can't I just use one of those?), carried a dead hunter home, am about to raid a camp. 

This is not small at all!  There's, like, five viewpoints, resources to grind, multiple camps....

NOT SMALL AT ALL! 

Feminina:

Yeah, but all the viewpoints are pretty close together and there are no more of them to discover, and everything is fairly contained!

I mean, I did it in one evening, so it must be small. One evening that was -- cough mumble, six and a half hours long, I guess, mumble mumble. It seemed small at the time.

Whatever! I still feel like it's smaller than some of the scires!

I liked how after the sheep/brooch thing Eivor says "I will not help in this way again."

Like, "normally I'm perfectly happy to make a return call, but dude, if you lose your brooch again, you're on your own."

I did some dots. No story, just poking around Suthsexe admiring the countryside.

Butch:

YEAH, MAN!  You're turning into one of those marathon runners who likes to talk about the "short little jog" they took this morning that was "only" nineteen miles!  I'm still normal here! 

It does seem that way.  I hope it's that way.  Do I really need to grind for weapons? 

That and "Why am I doing this?"  She says that a lot.  She speaks for so many video game heroes. 

I hope, some day, when she's in a video game character bar and meets John Marston and finds out he CHOSE to do that for nine hours after his game ended, she kicks his ass. 

Suthsexe?  You said Cent!  Did you finish Cent??????

Feminina:

No, I didn't even start Cent. I was on the way to Cent and got sidetracked by dots in Suthsexe. 

Butch:

Oh, good.  Scared me there.  

But on Vinland.....

When Orlv the unlucky there said that Gorm had a talking crystal, was that something I should've recognized from a prior AC game?  If I'm going to learn more from this game, don't spoil, but did you say "Ah ha! It is the [thingy] from [previous AC game]?"

Feminina:

No, it was more like, "ah, they've got some weird Isu technology." Then later I thought "wait, there's a tribe with connections to weird Isu technology in this region in AC3 [the Boston one], maybe this is how they got it."

But not, "oh, THAT thing that I specifically remember!"

In short, there's probably an intra-game connection, but it's not a major part of the action.

Butch:

Wait, there's a tribe in New England in 1775 with Isu shit?  Do tell! 

I don't care if it's not major!  It's lore!  Lore me! 

I also want to flyt with the native Americans in their language.  BRING IT!

Feminina:

Well, from what's in my hazy memories it was actually a fairly major point in the out-of-Animus story, but minor in terms of actual gameplay.

So you start the game as Haytham Kenway, a Templar (and Edward Kenway's son, I believe), who meets and has a fling with a Native American woman from the general area of Boston. I don't recall which tribe, but the internet says Mohawk, so I'll go with that. She mentions that her people know of some sacred place with mysterious symbols that Haytham is interested in, and that the people out-of-Animus recognize as being remnants from...I'm not sure if they were calling them Isu yet at that point, but at any rate, those ancient beings that we keep running into who are currently called Isu. 

Connor, the main character, also had an Isu artifact that his mom gave him (possibly the same one Gorm has now--connections!)...I think maybe it did talk to him, now that I think about it. It probably was a 'talking crystal'. Way to not put the pieces together, me.

I played that game a while ago, OK?

Anyway, I believe the sacred place was a cave with a mysterious door that Desmond eventually opened in the real world, and he saw some ancient light technology or something that helped him and the crew figure out more about the 2012 apocalypse they were trying to prevent in that game. So it meant something to them, but as far as I recall, not that much to Connor. 

Probably connected, though!

Butch:

Ya think?  Ya think it's connected?  

Dude, I mean, other than it being a similar crystal, connected to the lineage of two games and involving the end of the world, I mean...nothing, really. 

There's also that Haytham/Hytham thing!

HA!  "I knew he had a crystal that talked...but didn't realize it was a talking crystal." 

Shit's about to get WEIRD in this game, isn't it? 

Feminina:

I totally didn't remember he had a crystal that talked until I started thinking harder about it. I still don't specifically remember what it said or anything, I just have a vague sense it gave him advice about...assassin training? Or something?

I dunno, man, this was YEARS ago and I can barely remember what Eivor did last night. There was loot? Maybe a mystery?

Butch:

There must've been loot.  Also, a sad lack of nudity. 

Feminina:

There was definitely that. [Wistful sigh]

Butch:

If this is the bit that commentator mentioned where you "Take all your clothes off and go to kill a guy" then I'm SORELY disappointed.  He said "Take all your clothes off."  He didn't mention "And put different ones on." 

Feminina:

I feel like he was actually talking about the 'nudist' adventure. Which was equally disappointing, as we both concluded.

Wait, did we ever check to make sure we didn't accidentally have nudity turned off? I know I never did.

For all we know EVERYONE would be naked all the time if we hadn't toggled that wrong!

Butch:

I checked.  I very much did.  

Stupid nudists.  

I bet if we had listened to all the NPC dialog it would've been "What if someone from town sees me?  They'll know I'm too stupid to know what 'nudist' means!" 

Feminina:

Hahaha! Nice. 

"I told everyone from town I was in a nudist group, and if they see me like this, they'll know I'm actually too chicken to take off my underwear! My reputation would be ruined!"

Butch:

No, sadly, we are in the midgame "Make the hero weak" bit.  Not naked.  Just weak.  

Except for ALL THE THROWING AXES! 

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