In Fire Emblem Heroes “Deep Wounds” is a status effect that removes the ability for you to heal your units. There are effects that reduce its effectiveness now, but it can still be quite crippling in the current game META. Breath Of Life 4 reduces the Deep Wounds effect the most effectively without cleansing it outright. Breath of life 1 through 3 were basically useless skills basically from the beginning, but now they are the tax you have to pay to get to Breath Of Life 4, which is an excellent support skill.
This knowledge is basically valueless unless you play Fire Emblem Heroes. Nobody I know plays it, so I never get to talk about it with anyone. FEH is a gatcha game, so it has the stink of corporate greed all over it that most sane people avoid. I just really like Fire Emblem, so I play it. Since it’s pay to win on some level it’s extremely challenging sometimes when you can’t get the premium units. You really have to know the mechanics of the game to do the PVE quest successfully sometimes. I always feel like I don’t know what I’m doing, but playing it has made me better at games where money isn’t a factor in winning.
I recently replayed Lyndis’s tutorial chapters from FE7 on the Switch since they added it to the GBA live service thing. I remember them being a little challenging at times if you weren’t careful, but I breezed through them this time. I guess running the capitalist gauntlet provided by FEH made me improve my tactical skills. XD

Anyway, Ed’s line reminded me of the skill and inspired the page title.

Looks like the weather is finally going to start getting cold again and probably a bit stormy. I don’t care for snow, but we still need it for there to be any kind of moisture out here. It’s very inconvenient though. Since we don’t have a fireplace I’m always worried we’ll freeze to death if the power goes out in a blizzard. I don’t know what kind of psychopath builds a rural house without a fireplace, but the one who built ours did. It’s been here for over 100 years and you’d think someone in all that time would have thought to put something in that would burn wood in an emergency. Of course a lot about this house makes no sense. Things are put together in ways I certainly wouldn’t try at least…

Whatever though. It seems like Friday got here fast. The wind down after the holidays is always so disruptive and the fact that we never handed out our gifts because of the sickness means it’s basically been put off until the parties involved have free time. If I were a kid I’d be crushed that my presents were waiting somewhere I couldn’t get to. In this case it’s lucky then that I am not a kid.

Maybe by Monday things will have settled into a nice, boring, routine and I can just make comics and not think about stuff. I’m very much over thinking right now. I will expend what little will I have left for it to wish you a safe weekend. As always, support links are above the blog. Until next time, embrace the silence.

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I can’t wait for the days of endless rains.

I’m not gonna jinx anything about winter in my state.

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This is more of a deep dive thru old trauma than I was expecting.

Yeah, I feel you. Eight year old me would be horrified knowing that the time for presents has arrived, and yet, there will be no opening, despite the presents existing.

Hi, Jackie. We live in a house in Victoria, BC, Canada that was built sometime between 1908 and 1912 (so 100+ years ago), it is one of 3 virtually identical houses in a row on our street, and none of them have chimneys. We suspect that it was originally built to be heated by coal, as it has quite a large crawlspace underneath the main floor (5-foot ceiling or so). Not sure if it was via boiler or just coal stoves, as any remnants are long gone due to renos. Could be your house was originally designed to heat via coal too, which might explain lack of chimney.

I asked my mom and she showed me a picture of the original house. It was a square with a fireplace directly in the center. So the roof came to a point at the chimney. It would have been in the center of the living room now.

This might not be connected, but- I can feel for Ed.
My Dad, I wish every happiness + happy times on him, but- there’s a subject from his childhood, that I won’t talk to him about.

When he was growing up, maybe when he was 10 + older, + maybe for 4 or more years, that he lived in a boarding school, in a different nation.

From the small sentences he has said about it- I guess that he wasn’t happy going to that school,…+ maybe he even had a miserable time, while he was there.

[I think that nation he was in, was also under the threat of- breaking into a giant, civil war…at any time, so that could have been [part] of his unhappiness, in those years.]
I think he returned to his home nation, the USA, when he was about 15-16.

Anyhow, like Ed- I choose not to talk to some people about certain subjects, like I don’t talk to my Dad about that school, because I don’t feel that it would make me or them, any happier.
Whichever.

You need a little propane camping heater, Jackie. You could at least keep one room fairly warm for a while in case of bad weather.

And it’s funny how different I am than Ed; I’d never be able to just sit on something like this, I’d HAVE to work it out, or it’d eat away at me.

Take it from a former Boy Scout: propane camping heaters used inside suck up the oxygen and leave carbon monoxide, a deadly combination. Electric space heaters are a better (but more expensive) option.

Or a large amount of warm clothing and blankets could be used. That’s the approach I take. Clothes, and a thick double layered coat while awake, Two comforters and a weighted blanket at night.

Also a former Boy Scout; not a major concern if you’re heating one room in an entire house, and resolved by just cracking a window, just like with a fireplace. I don’t think an electric space heater is going to be a good solution to heat your house when you have no electricity, unless you are also going to buy, and gas up, a generator.

2773 Deep Wounds.

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