Season of discovery.
You know what I’d like to discover?
The Forsaken learning how to clean their damn living spaces.
Tarren Mill, it looks awful.
I don’t think Tarren Mill ever looked good for being a Forsaken encampment even back in the day. If the purpose of the place is to make it look like they just moved in then ok, I’m not going to expect Cataclysm level of renovated buildings or anything; But would it really have killed them ( 
) to clean the place up a little bit?
I know that Forsaken are supposed to be spooky scary skeletons and all that jazz but… The place is just a tripping hazard. There’s “trash” strewn about the place that you’re just gonna trip over, barrels that are broken that can’t be used (while the perfectly fine barrels that are not broken are outside along the edges of the houses…), chairs you can’t sit in cause they’re broken and titled, tables that you wouldn’t be able to place anything on because whatever you place on 'em would slide or roll off because they’re broken and tilted. Books that are just strewn about because they don’t care about the towns predecessors so lol screw dem books yo and finally a perfectly fine cart that is blocked by two ox skeletons half buried in the ground (what… Who buried them?)
So, I would like… A bit of… drum roll World revamp! Just for Tarren Mill… If it’s fine to completely break class structure and make new tanks and healers and bring in retail skills then you really can’t argue “but muh no changes”. Changes should be made where sensible and all of what I’m about to suggest is still sensible.
- Remove the ox skeleton and repalce them with skeleton horses, make the cart actually appear as if it is used. What, the Forsaken doesn’t transport goods? They’re too edgy for that?
- Put a lot of the broken furniture in the fireplaces and set them alight. There is no place to cook food anyway and it’d make sense for them to clean the place out of the broken stuff.
- However, why is ALL furniture broken? Some should still be functional or they should have imported new furniture. If they can build a bat wind rider perch then they can build a simple chair or table. Apotechary Lydon’s house for example is perfectly fine with its furniture and spooky clutter. Even moved the random bones (who’s bones are those anyway? They got vampire teeth) into the fireplace to get them out of the way!
- If they don’t care about the towns predecessors books then ok, that’s fine… So create a book pyre outside… Not just throw them about the place making it look ugly.
- Does the uh… I’m missing the word for this… The uh… Ground chandeliers? In the church. Why are some tipped over? Why are the pew’s all askew? To me it just looks ugly.
- Why is there bones just strewn about the place? Cause Forsaken? Well that’s a bad argument. Wouldn’t the Forsaken want to use the bones to create new kind of twisted art work? Go look at some of the cultist CAMP objects in Fallout 76 like Bone Chandeliers and stuff. Wouldn’t the spooky scary edgelords want to use the skeletons for that? Again, it’s just a tripping hazard and looks stupid. Outside there is a skeleton head, a ruined torso and an axe that’s just… Lying there. Who dat? Why dat? Why hasn’t anyone nabbed the axe? Why can’t ‘I’ nab the axe? It clearly doesn’t belong to anyone. And tripping over this thing could mean losing a toe, even if you are forsaken it must be annoying to have one less bone jutting out of your flesh.
- Make ‘something’ grow in the farm plot? Even if it is skeleton corn. If this now belongs to the Forsaken and they’re gonna make it THEIR’S then make them look like they are in it for the long haul.
If Lydon’s house can look lived in for a Forsaken then I don’t see why the other house, the church and the Inn have to look like they literally just walked into a place that’s been abandoned for 30 years. If they’ve been here for a while then all houses should look lived in. Alternatively, just make Lydon’s house look like complete and total crap as well. Just because they turn into Jordan fanbois and start cleaning up their room bucko’s doesn’t mean you can’t still make the place edgy. Cobwebs, skeleton artpieces, the hanged man at the church, just the general ambience of the place. Plenty of things that is already there or that you can do to make the place look Forsaken’y.
Another thing I’d like to just point out is that next to the outhouse is one of those butter churners… What are they churning with that? 
This isn’t the most pressing of concerns for SoD or a potential Classic+ but it is something I would like to see at some point. Tarren Mill simply does not look functional and Lydon’s house just exemplifies how bad all the other houses look.