

Most of our Jewish neighbors were the type who measured Jewish authenticity by sense of humor and bagel order, rather than by commitment to Torah study or delight in the Sabbath (indeed, for this group, mild disdain for Jewish practice can be taken as a positive sign of Jewishness). True, it was less of a schlep to get a kosher chicken in Brooklyn Heights than it had been in London’s West End, but we still felt alone. The idyll turned out to be mostly mirage. The day we officially moved in, I climbed up the little ladder onto the tiny roof deck and stood in the frigid night to gaze across at the Statue of Liberty – Emma Lazarus’s “Mother of Exiles”– and listen to the boat horns bellow in the fog, a corny affection for my hometown, whose embrace was wide enough for everyone, swelling in my heart. Our new neighborhood was not overwhelmingly Jewish, like the tight-knit Hasidic enclaves nearby, but even still, we figured we were bound to feel far less alone. We were tired of feeling so isolated, and were anxious to take advantage of the Jewish offerings in Brooklyn, a borough where nearly a quarter of the residents are Jewish. All photography by Paul McGeiver.īut in London, where we’d amped up our ritual observance and where there are far fewer observant Jews, we’d fielded snide remarks from coworkers, found a lack of kosher restaurants, hiked twenty-five minutes to attend synagogue, which had a constant security presence, and noted passersby on the street staring at my husband’s kippah. Our social circle had reacted to our growing religiosity with a sort of benign confusion or indifference, which was usually fine, as we could count on those in our orbit to have at least a passing familiarity with Jewish practice.īrooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. Before we’d lived in London, my husband and I hadn’t had much personal experience with feeling singled out as a result of our faith: we’d become gradually more religious as adults in New York, where it had been easy to forget how much of a minority we were, given the outsized impact on the culture of the city Judaism has had. We’d signed a lease, sight unseen, on a duplex apartment in Brooklyn, only a five-minute walk to the closest Orthodox synagogue. Our young family had recently relocated back to New York City from London. “The security guard is reading the news on his phone downstairs.” This was the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. “There’s been a shooting at a shul,” he said.

You retrieved the power regulator needed to fix the smuggler's ship, and are now able to travel to other parts of the Halcyon System.įinishing Stranger In A Strange Land allows you to fly to the next location: Groundbreaker.On October 27, 2018, I was sitting at our synagogue’s children’s service on Shabbat morning, watching my toddler hug a miniature stuffed Torah, when my husband came into the room and whispered into my ear. Now that the power regulator is installed, speak with ADA to pilot the Unreliable out of Emerald Vale.
Strangers in a strange land walkthrough text install#
In order to get the ship up and running, you just need to install the power regulator in the ship's engine room. You should be able to salvage their power regulator now. You diverted power from the Botanical Lab to Edgewater. You should now be able to redirect the plant's power from the master control terminal. You activated a second switch in the geothermal plant.Īll three switches have been activated. You activated one of the switches needed to redirect power.

The plant's master control terminal is reporting that three switches inside the plant must be flipped before the plant's power can be redirected. Travel to the region's geothermal plant and route the power away from one of the locations.

You've learned that there are power regulators in both the Edgewater cannery and a Botanical Lab elsewhere in the region, but neither can be removed unless power is routed away from them.
