

Noah was on the phone with me moments before I walked into the Coben house and again moments after I left. The first was my friend Noah, who introduced me to Coben’s writing and told me that the writer was an Amherst alum. There were two people intricately connected with the venture. I was not conducting the interview alone. So the prospect of interviewing him made me a wee bit, well, nutty. He is one of my favorite writers, and I have read every one of his books. The kinds of mysteries that hit the New York Times best-seller list. The kinds of mysteries that leave you turning the solutions’ beautiful symmetry over and over in your head years later. The kinds of mysteries that can suck hours out of your day. So when he told me in passing that he handwrites all his first drafts and later types them into his computer I wrote it down diligently in my reporter’s notebook, as if I were copying down a quote. I told him I was interviewing him for an article in Amherst, but what I really did was memorize every sentence he uttered, in an attempt to absorb his writing skill by osmosis. He may not have realized that I interviewed him under false pretenses. He may not have realized he was doing this. You can only get this at random, so it’s just about luck.I wrote this article in longhand before I typed it into my computer. In my opinion, the easiest way to farm these is by killing Vampire Mages.

Town – Place Suburbs in a diamond formation.

Burned Forest – Place a Storm Temple next to a forest.Oasis – Place a River next to a Desert or Sand Dunes tile.Blooming Meadow – Place a meadow next to any other structure.Mountain Peak – Place nine rocks or mountains in a 3×3 formation.Reed – Place a river next to the road and it will become a Reed.Bandit Camp – Pace two villages and it will appear next to one of them.Hungry Grove – Place a Blood Grove next to a Grove and then delete the Grove with an oblivion card.Abandoned Bookery – A Bookery will transform into this after exchanging 20 cards.Goblin Lookout – Place a swamp next to a Goblin Camp.Goblin Camp – Appears after placing ten mountains.Shipwreck – Place a river next to a Battlefield.Bridge – Pace a river on top of the road.You can also place Wheat Fields next to the A Village? tile, and it will directly transform into Overgrown Field. Overgrown Field – Place Wheat Fields next to a village, and then delete the village with an oblivion card.A Village? – Appears after placing ten forests.Count’s Lands – After 3 loops, the Ransacked Village will transform into this.Ransacked Village – Put a Vampire Mansion next to a village.Blood Path – Place two Battlefields together.I’ll try to quickly list all of the ones I can find here, but I would advise you to look up another guide for this. This is one of the trickiest achievements to get since there are a couple of enemies and tiles that can be difficult to discover without a guide.
