Thursday, May 16, 2019

Exploring Anders's clinic

Since I like to snoop around the companions’ home bases, Anders might have a balcony, too!



Fic often mentions Anders having a back room at the clinic for a bed and other personal belongings, few as those might be. In the game the two doorways at the back of the clinic lead to a space filled with random rubble, which seems to open to the cliffside at one end. I’m willing to believe this is just how things start out, though, like with Fenris’s mansion supposedly having dead bodies for several years, and once Anders is settled enough and has some spare time, this space gets cleaned up.

The open wall, though, is strange. Not that it exists, Darktown is part old mineshafts, maybe that was for dumping cartfuls of whatever unusable rubbish you get when mining, into the canal below. But the light coming in from there is flickering, like a fire, not like daylight. And there definitely seems to be some sort of platform there.

Maybe it’s just that the map designers needed a bright light there so the player can’t see there’s not actually more scenery behind the wall, and put one of those campfires there to provide it, and the platform is just to have something to put the fire on. But also, maybe not. Maybe a balcony. Maybe a signal fire for something. I don’t know, do with this what you will.

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