#fc5 thoughts

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I made myself laugh a while back with the tag that maybe the mac and cheese was bad because John baptised it, and it still makes me laugh

Nick: ...It's watery

John: It's free from sin :)

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Last night I was reading an old-fashioned book and I came across the concept of a rook rifle (alternatively a rook and rabbit rifle) and now I'm having FC5 thoughts...

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In many ways, the Ryes were lucky that the Seeds only brought mac and cheese to their barbeque and not Jacob's mystery meat

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Joey Hudson is implied to be the Deputy's partner at the start of FC5. Do you think it was an accident the game gave us a partner called Joey and an enemy called Joseph?

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Genuinely thinking about what Joseph's birthday might be like in the cult now. He 'let' his followers build a giant concrete statue of him to show their devotion. I assume his birthday um. Goes off.

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Some more details I noticed on my latest Hope County playthrough:

On the Adelaide Drubman billboards you can see around, it says 'Mourning Cloak' in the corner. It's presumably the company that puts up the billboards or hosts the ad or whatever, but I thought the phrase sounded familiar, and yes, the Mourning Cloak is Montana's official (and quite beautiful) state butterfly.

Which is kind of interesting, given that Adelaide is a GFH you can pick up in the Henbane River area, which is run by Faith Seed, who has a lot of butterfly/moth iconography around her.

And I've just learned from googling Facts that the Mourning Cloak is one of the relatively few butterfly species we have in England, called the Camberwell Beauty here. Huh. Nice bit of crossover for Morgan's English family.

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I'm replaying Far Cry 5 again, TRYING to finish a New Game+/Infamous difficulty run so I can just stop worrying about that and restart a new game whenever I wish. Here are my new observations:

After another stint of examing the Henbane River priestesses' get-up, which felt SUPER creepy, I've noticed that:

a) they also have the EDEN GATE tattoo on their hands, so we can all just deal with that

b) they have a huge amount of colourwork tattoos, which answers my question about whether they're okay in the cult - most seem to be blackwork, which I assumed was for graphics reasons, and you could headcanon that colour was Too Much in the supposedly anti-materialist cult. But no and no - there are colour tattoos, and cultists have them. Under Faith's 'branch' at least.

c) they do wear jewellery, like I thought - rings on their fingers. And it's not just cult symbols, because one is definitely a skull, like they've been shopping at Hot Topic

d) Continuing Faith's tradition of risque/not risque clothing - a VERY high neckline and a fairly short hemline - they have their midriff showing and sleeveless tops, but from the waist down they're in thick black tights and combat boots. Aside from holes in the tights there's really no skin at all on show below the waist - which especially contrasts with Faith's bare legs, I think. A weirdly sexy/covered-up cult

e) they have MANY tattoos, all over, but as far as I can tell no cult tramp stamp

f) They DO however seem to have facial tattoos - they all have the big red cross on their face, which I assume is paint/blood not a tattoo, but I noticed while zoomed in there's also what looks like a crescent moon, at an angle, under one of their eyes. Moon symbolism, yay.

I did the Joseph hallucination mission, and noticed something that made me very happy for currently redacted reasons \o/

Also I noticed that when you get to the nuclear wastleland part of that speech, you appear to be at his compound, with his church in the background. Which I guess is foreshadowing of the Resist ending.

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I was today years old when I realised that Jacob is also the name of that famous werewolf in Twilight.