#daytower

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Please tell me I'm not the only one who killed the Corruptor near Daytower with no issue but got slaughtered by the Stormbird immediately through the Sundom gates at least six times. Even stealthing couldn't save me!!!

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The Way to Meridian

The first time I got to Daytower, ready to finally leave Nora lands and eager to listen to 346 renditions of All That The Light Reaches (I’d been listening to the OST while writing Dragon Age fanfiction, and that track in particular was one of those I liked the most), I was somewhat disappointed I was pretty much instantly sent back to retrieve a soldier drunk on his own misery.

Of course, I could’ve just left that quest to stew for later, but since Walid wasn’t going to find his comrades anytime soon, I decided to not put it off. Sadly, that also meant I ran into my first Snapmaws, and while I remembered them being annoying from the LP I’d watched in 2017, I hadn’t expected them being that annoying. They’re not quite on Glinthawk levels, but close. Very close. (They’re savage fighters if you override them, however. The current machine rampage award is held by two Snapmaws, and they killed 1) the other two Snapmaws at their site, 2) two nearby Sawtooths, 3) a Ravager on the other side of the river, 4) five Watchers on the other side of the river, next to the Ravager, 5) got the final hit on two corrupted Rockbreakers I was fighting in the meantime and 6) a Shell-Walker, before they got killed by the second Shell-Walker that was there.)

Having left Daytower on the road to Meridian, however, wasn’t entirely better. I took the route through the Hunting Grounds, which also leads through a Stormbird site. Let’s say that very first fight, which also involved a herd of nearby Broadheads, was rather messy.

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High Angle on Daytower in the Snow

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A beautiful shot of Carja from the hill below Daytower in Horizon Zero Dawn.

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Daytower

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If you stay long enough on the roofs and upper levels of Meridian Village (you can reach them by creative jumping), NPCs start appearing on the upper platforms.

If you see a broom on those platforms, there’s a good chance a NPC will appear after a little while if you’re on that level, and start using it, but they also appear where there is no broom. They don’t really do anything in that case, they just stand there or they pace back and forth.

But nothing is more unsettling than that random Oseram guy who stands on that roof next to the chimney and stares right at you without moving. (I’ve noticed there’s a broom on the level just under, so I guess that’s where he’s supposed to appear, but he is somehow glitching in the wrong place.)

Also, that guy changes as soon as it leaves your line of sight xD But every time, it’s an Oseram (for me at least).

This also happens in Lone Light. There’s a broom on a platform of the first building to the right, that spawns a npc if you linger long enough on the roofs there.

There’s also a broom (I think ?) on the second level of the inn in Daytower, and it also spawn a NPC, who uses the broom and also repairs stuff. Like the others, he only spawns if you manage to get up there.

No npc spawns on the upper levels of Meridian and this is just sad :(

(edit) Wait, let me amend that. There’s a place on the second levels of Meridian, near the Palace Gate, where I recently discovered a NPC during the side quest The Sun Shall Fall. He gets there because he is alerted to the glinthawks, but he was too far away to see if he was a Carja guard or an Oseram Vanguard.

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I never noticed it before taking those picts, but Balahn has a pretty large scar on the right side of his jaw. It barely even shows in some types of lighting.

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“Hello, can you point me to the closest toilets ?”

*points*

“… That far huh ?”