I’m from the PNW and I read this thinking “mmhmm yep I could see how that could happen.”
It took me reading this comment to appreciate how out of the ordinary this must sound to someone not from here.
Just a weekend adventure over here.
Today I learned pnw is pacific northwest. =) Also, side quests are a thing and sound fun.
@ToastedPlanet @Track_Shovel Cascadia for short.
So did they hike to the volcano to loot the missing man’s corpse? What loot did he drop?
He actually broke his ankle, but sasquatch was nearby and was able to mend him, but it took a few weeks before he could properly walk.
I heard he’s doing much better now. Just had a small limp.
That’s if you fail the time challenge. If you’re fast enough, you can instead get the rescue operation quest and collect a higher reward and some fame.
No way, that quest is bugged - if you get close to it, the physics engine freaks out and starts throwing rocks everywhere.
And if you’re too slow, Bigfoot shows up like the Yeti in SkiFree.
“a beer bar”
There are wine bars and cocktail bars. A “beer bar” is the default, so it’s a bit weird to hear, but it also sensible to be specific.
Oddly, I feel like you need to specify this in the PNW…
Beer bar, whiskey bar, coffee bar, chocolate bar. There’s a lot of ten guys out there who’d get confused.
As opposed to a whisky bar maybe?
a pub.
Beer bars (sometimes called taverns or pubs) are legally restricted to selling only beer, and possibly wine or cider. Liquor bars, also simply called bars, also sell hard liquor.
We call them tap houses here, and we have a lot of them.
Oregon has weird liquor laws. Taprooms that only sell beer and can’t serve spirits are actually pretty common, and they’ll have fancy beers brewed in a room behind the counter. (Most of them like to highlight the existence of the brewery by making it visible to the rest of the room.) People don’t usually call em “beer bars” but that’s exactly what they are.
You can definitely tell it’s a non-native by what they call those places
Also how they pronounce some of the smaller cities
Like Chelatche
Is it: Chee-latt-chai?
Haven’t heard anyone say chelatchie out loud before, but I live in the pnw and I would guess it would be pronounced cheh-latch-ee, which is similar to how “Wenatchee”, a pnw city, is pronounced (not helpful but interesting nonetheless).
Very close, sha-latch-ee
No worries though
It’s a really small place and the closer one lives to it the more likely I’ve seen people be able to get it
Spokane is a fun one to hear people say though when they’re from a few states away
I unironically just want to be a Stalker living on the Skadovsk and trading vodka for runors and sidequests.
Living in the more rural areas of my state near the National Forest is not too far off
But have fun being 2+ hours from the nearest city if it rains and 4+ if it snows
Yeah, the west coast can get brutal.
E.G. I know a park that has a standing rule that all visitors hiking north (aka up until the wild) should sign in and out, and that search and rescue will be called on any cars left in the parking lot at night.
Not the police. Search and rescue.
Because if you go off the trails you can literally walk off a cliff because the underbrush is so thick.
