LITTLE KASHY’S SHELTERS
Growing up alone in darkness does not make for an ideal childhood. In the process of surviving, there is a risk that such a person may learn to see life, and the very nature of reality itself, a little differently.
LITTLE KASHY’s CAVE
Little KASHY’s Cave was her home for 10 years. Amongst the rocks that have intruded upon fairground structures, she lives in a world of her own invention with her inanimate friends. Her diet is meagre, and the occasional visitor, well, let’s just say they weren’t welcomed. Throughout, there are signs that Little KASHY knows that not all is right with her, switching between euphoric love, violence and doubt. The shelter build’s concept was to create an environment of unease, an environment of innocence corrupted, punctuated by uncomfortable messages and structures that have also been corrupted. This shelter has been used in multiple episodes of Little KASHY’s Story to convey those feelings. Also featured in the videos RELAPSE and THE DARK SIDE
Location: Abandoned Digsite Shelter.
Difficulty level: Moderate
THE PRISON
The Prison was conceived as an adjunct to the CAMP KASHYZKABAN (shown together in the video below). Heads wobble from the floor in the lower level, alongside unkempt grass and access to other shelters. Upstairs are rooms she appears to have set up for sleeping, eating, experiments, along with cells for LOST and other apparently random creatures and things. Mist randomly appears throughout, as do mysterious glows that re-shade surfaces. *Note - Video inside shots only are from this shelter
Location: Missile Silo Shelter
Difficulty level: Moderate+
THE CELLAR
The Cellar was designed as a single-path maze of stone walls and hanging vines that takes visitors past visual experiences and through some interactive ones that deliver bangs and fizzes harmlessly. Blood-red light emanates from a drain in the centre, while the drain at the back is bathed in green, both without apparent source. Each turn reveals a new wonder, finally leading to a small dead-end with integrated shelter accesses for exploration to continue seamlessly.
Location: Root Cellar Dungeon Shelter.
Difficulty level: Advanced
SIGGY’S CAVE
With countless skulls and mysterious light decorating its rock walls, Siggy’s Cave identifies her as a cultist. A modest room in the middle serves as a place for private worship, apparently of the Mothmanwoman and the chems she is similarly addicted to. A sermon area sits to one side, close to a room with tortured souls and a shack that seems uncomfortably like a containment cell. At the other end, a similar shack provides a comfortable place for Siggy to sleep. If it wasn’t horrible, it would be nice. Featured in the videos THE DARK SIDE and SIGGY
Location: Abandoned Mine Shelter.
Difficulty level: Moderate+
BONEY MANS BASEMENT
Workshops, shelter accesses and buff areas can create clutter, compromise concepts, and tie up build budget above ground, so it made sense to Little KASHY to place them all in a convenient basement, as all other sisters have done. Hers is made up of many small rooms
Location: Vault Utility Room Shelter.
Difficulty level: Moderate+
THE FIREHOUSE
The Firehouse is based on the concept of a naive girl who always feels cold wanting to feel warm for a chance, and of course overdoing it. Fires rage inside and out, making every window, wall and floor flicker and glow. It feels hot just to visit. As a dream, it is a fantasy, full of teddy bears, strange decorations and a twisted idea of what a cosy and warm guest bedroom might be. There is a strange room for a purpose that is unclear but doesn’t feel good, and a large room behind that serves as a strange way to access shelters. It’s all a bit weird, so entirely expected of her.
Location: Vault Storage Shelter.
Difficulty level: Moderate+
THE SEMM-A-TARY
The Semm-a-tary is as dark in concept and execution as you’d expect from Little KASHY, with an overgrown graveyard behind a high fence ahead, and a small church to the left. The graveyard sweats in its own red mist, containing many little things for the avid explorer to discover. The church features mysterious twin red lights in each small round window up high on both sides, while alternating hints of yellow and blue reflect off small floor pillars. An unsettling workroom of some sort, perhaps for drawing useful ingredients from corpses, sits to one side, with glowing yellow skeletons on the walls and at the end a series of small floor-mounted contraptions that seem to emit sparks. An ante-room leads to various shelter entrances. The Semm-a-tary is partially shown in the second part of the video “The Unresting Place”
Location: Soundstage Shelter.
Difficulty level: Advanced
BONEY MANS FAKTREE
Little KASHY likes to help dead mans and bad mans (aka soon-to-be dead mans) get rid of all the smelly stuff so they can become clean Boney Mans. There were so many, she had to build a factory to keep up. There are 6 large green boilers to remove stuff, with soaking tubs for remaining bits and buzzards to help out too. Sometimes bones get misplaced, but there are re-assembled by the diligent workforce. Often the right bones go back together, but unavoidably not always. Outside, fires burn mysteriously in the desert, with no apparent source - but what did you expect from this hellish scene?
Beside the “faktree” is the outdoor “semm-a-tary” (Little KASHY is not great at spelling) featured in “The Unresting Place” video, perhaps as storage for “work in progress”, or maybe she’s allowing the worms to help out, I’m not sure. The build looks SO MUCH BETTER in the fog in the video, but Bethesda dictate that weather machines we pay lots of real $$$ for are not allowed in shelters for no reason at all apart from Bethesda being Bethesda so the bright 24/7 sunlight is all we get. Still, it’s an unexpected experience for visitors, and in the hot dry weather although there are interesting sights and sounds (the factory is noisy), at least it doesn’t smell.
Location: Flatlands Shelter
Difficulty level: Advanced
THE BALNEUM
Little KASHY seems to have discovered an underground complex over 3 levels. The uppermost level is overgrown with all sorts of greenery, so she set up a place to rest there with her teddy bears, under the supervision of Dolly, as you’d expect. There is a room that glows sickly green, with skeletons appearing to to be trying to rise from the floor. There is also a snake-themed corridor with small snakes on the floor, snake lamps and long-fingered hands that reach out at passers-by, a dead cow floating in red water, and finally a large snake surrounded by bones of its victims bellowing out acrid black smoke to hellish sounds. The level down seems to be where Little KASHY does, err, “experiments”, for reasons best known to herself. The lowest level contains the original baths, presumably built to take advantage of an underground stream centuries ago, but now serving as a place for skeletons to, let’s say, rest a while, to the sound of rattling bones. It is a visit not to be forgotten.
Location: Radiant Remedy Shelter.
Difficulty level: Advanced
KASHY KUTS
A “butcher-shop” sits ahead of a, err, “preparation area”. For hygiene, floors are concrete so can be washed down easily to clean up, the, umm, consequences of helping unhappy animals find new homes, as she sees it. There is a hatchery, a waiting area, a very full cold room, a pickling room and a hot and breezy smoking room (in which smoking isn’t allowed). The shop itself has a variety of items for sale, and there is a wholesale arm as well, which seems to include the sale of arms, and legs, and all sorts of … meat products.
Location: Nuclear Test Bunker Shelter.
Difficulty level: Moderate
