Had some bad experience that's completely my fault. For some reason I had somehow missed searching a single desk on the second floor of the medical centre. Just that one desk!
And you know what? That's the very desk that contains the key to the basement!
That usually isn't a major problem since they always allow 2 ways to enter an area that players must go to.
Problem is, my Lockpick skill, at 55, was 20 points short.
To make matters worse, there is no way I can return to mainland to complete some other quests to gain the necessary level.
Since I was only about 160 experience points short of hitting the next level and under the assumption that for some reason the developers had somehow omitted an alternate method, I decided to go explore the map and kill some monsters for it.
I cleared the map, checked every corner multiple times and even discovered that the radroaches were the only thing that respawn in the Villa.
But no, I never got to the next level.
In the end, I gave up and googled for an answer before I resort to using console commands to unlock it.
Apparently I was not the only person who couldn't pick the lock, but I was the only person to have searched the entire second floor and still missed it.
/facepalm
Dead Money is easy on Normal Mode. On Hardcore, the HP is slowly drained so it's much harder. Furthermore, sleeping is not possible, hence the only ways to recover health are to eat and use stimpaks. The catch is that caps are not valid currencies except for a few NPCs (only found one so far) and the Sierra Madre chips don't grow on trees.
I believe they tried to make it a zombie game in the horror genre (instead of a thriller like L4D coz it's not scary) but with a Pipboy and plenty of Stimpak, I have no reason to be scared by anything.
Yea sure it's dark everywhere, the enemies moan and drag their feet, but something is still missing.
I think there needs to be more blood stains everywhere. That would have been positively creepy.
...
Now in the casino. A little hard to get to Sierra Madre but definitely not impossible. Almost ran out of ammo for 2 guns but I had specialized in melee anyway.
Apparently, Pre-war Money is usable inside! Yay! I saved up so much thinking it's the next best thing to caps, which don't seem to exist in Dead Money. Now I have plenty of it to buy the Sierra Madre Chips with.
Guns don't seem to be useful where I am now but I believe the Ghost People outside are going to bash their way into the casino at some point in the future. I think I heard some banging noise as I passed the locked main entrance just now.
Now I'm being told to buy some fashion magazines to read.
I'm also browsing through pages and pages of coats and jackets from around the world. I think if I keep staring at the jackets (and incidentally, the models) long enough, I'll eventually be able to acquire a bit of taste. I'm not even talking about "good taste"; just "taste" would be cool.
Microsoft accidentally announces Halo 4 too early. E3's coming, so everyone's certain that was supposed to be their big surprise for that major event.
I wonder if it's really an accident or if there's a reason behind this action that I do not see.
Fantastic weather yesterday. Rained so much Tanglin Mall was flooded. It was so bad there was a small waterfall from the first floor to the basement.
I wonder how escalators handle floods. Maybe they have drains around the motors below. I don't know.
But it was really cool last night and this morning. Too bad it's getting warm again now at 12am.
Now the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources is saying "sometimes despite our best efforts, we cannot win".
At least he didn't give us that "once every 50 years" bullshit like they did last year. It most definitely hasn't been anywhere close to half a century since the last one.
Still, that does not absolve him of this failure. We get monsoon rain every year since antiquity. A very similar flood occured just last year and possibly more had happened in previous years (but I can't recall and I'm too lazy to search for those archived reports).
Do we have to wait till someone dies before they do something about it?
Major flood at one of the most important commercial district in Singapore - similar flood was not prevented on the same month this year.
Some kid drowns in a flooded drain - PUB builds fences next to that drain within 24 hours.
I think the answer is obvious:
A human sacrifice is needed so that our water god can be appeased.
Blood for the Water God!
:3
So now we're asked to mark on a map where floods are occuring.
On one hand, I guess it's not too much to ask for us to do it.
On the other hand, why is this even necessary??? I mean, seriously, we've been getting floods every year, though sometimes they're just minor ones. But how can the authorities still not know where the flood-prone regions are?!?
Shit, this is just an island, man! How many areas can there be??
Even the businesses aren't happy. The executive director of the Orchard Road Business Association actually made a sarcastic comment expressing displeasure at their failure to prevent this flood.
"It's kind of like an anniversary for us. It happened last year on June 16, almost (around) the same time"
People are usually a lot nicer on the news in Singapore.
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