Michael Dorosh
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It occurs to me that I share Palantir's fascination with Evendim perhaps because of the real life locations I've seen that match it, specifically the combination of ancient ruins and hilly terrain. I recall fondly a visit to St. Andrews and the church there in 1990:
More recently, a visit to Leitch Collieries and the abandoned buildings, nestled in the mountains near the Crowsnest Pass:
And my own camping trip last Labour Day in which we did found a reasonable facsimile of the Misty Mountains...
I wonder if we couldn't arrange some AFTK activity this summer, those of us doing real life questing - the goal being to find real life terrain that closely matches that of M.E. visuals in the game. Points (XP) to be given for each such location you find.
It would be bad form to kill anything on AFTK quests, of course, but "shooting" with a camera is not:
The lowly robin is probably only a pittance of XP. If anyone is "lucky" enough to encounter a bear and foolish enough to "shoot" it, I think the rewards should be incrementally higher...
Albertans are fortunate to have a variety of terrain that would suitably stand in for a lot of the different regions in-game; I'll have to see what I can find when I'm out and about this summer. There are even a couple of "ruins" in the city that seem similar to the Leitch Colliers site and are reminiscent of Evendim or some of the ruins sprinkled throughout M.E.
More recently, a visit to Leitch Collieries and the abandoned buildings, nestled in the mountains near the Crowsnest Pass:
And my own camping trip last Labour Day in which we did found a reasonable facsimile of the Misty Mountains...
I wonder if we couldn't arrange some AFTK activity this summer, those of us doing real life questing - the goal being to find real life terrain that closely matches that of M.E. visuals in the game. Points (XP) to be given for each such location you find.
It would be bad form to kill anything on AFTK quests, of course, but "shooting" with a camera is not:
The lowly robin is probably only a pittance of XP. If anyone is "lucky" enough to encounter a bear and foolish enough to "shoot" it, I think the rewards should be incrementally higher...
Albertans are fortunate to have a variety of terrain that would suitably stand in for a lot of the different regions in-game; I'll have to see what I can find when I'm out and about this summer. There are even a couple of "ruins" in the city that seem similar to the Leitch Colliers site and are reminiscent of Evendim or some of the ruins sprinkled throughout M.E.