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So I just finished disco elysium yesterday and I fucking loved it. I took a lot of screenshots and categorized them in folders whose names practically summed up my entire playthrough lmao

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Just started a playthrough with Val Serano mostly blind. As in, barely read the mod description and didn't even look at the photos too much. Literally just saw the words "Companion Mod" and went hey nice, installed and quickly looked at how to recruit him.

So I went out, met this scruffy looking guy right? Really neat recruitment quest.

Then we went back and so I quickly turned to my new companion to continue the recruitment and uh...

Help? I can't focus on anything he's saying because everytime I talk to him it's just yeah whatever you say beautiful

In all seriousness, I've only played with him in my game for like two hours and it's been pretty great so far. Love the voice work, he has some comments on the first few vanilla quests I've done and the personal quest of his that we're doing right now is really interesting. Really excited to play more of the game with him

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Gale's greetings from non-romanced, after the weave scene and after his act 2 & act 3 romance scenes

I fucking love how Gale goes from "hey how can I help :/" to "i do enjoy our conversations :>" and "yes, my love?" throughout the progression of his romance. I've literally never romanced anyone else ever since because his non-romanced greetings feels so cold compared to his romanced ones lmao

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okay what the fuck this scene had me like

kinda miss his orb tattoo

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Can't believe we get to hug a robot but not our love interest, larian let me hug the rizzard please :') this interaction was really sweet though

Extra photo of my tav/durge! I just think he looks so pretty I'm really happy with how his char design turned out

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The squad and I off to beat a certain wizard's ass...

...after seeing what he did to Rolan.

Starring my Paladin Durge, Druid Jaheira, Battlemaster Barbarian Laezel (all colossus buffed), Gale, Scratch, Us, four ghouls, an earth elemental and a Selunite Paladin mommy who needs to go therapy on the way.

Bonus: Giant owlbear Jaheira bout to throw some hands on a certain wizard.

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Non-Spoiler TLDR: I think Vigilant is a great mod, one of the best quest mods I’ve tried to date. It has a shit ton of new content, good execution and great atmosphere but it definitely isn’t for everyone, like I wanted to quit several times. The Gore + Vigilant patch was my saving grace and I loved his integration into the quests. For me, he added so much more to the mod and made it feel more personal that I ended up being more invested in Gore than in Vigilant itself. Would def recommend doing a Vigilant playthrough with him!

A Long Rant of how i became a tad bit too invested in a follower mod (SPOILERS AHEAD):

Vigilant is an amazing mod—the size alone is impressive, the shit ton of quests, new maps, content, and even the design of how it’s meant to unsettle the players at some parts is so freaking good, but I don’t think Vigilant by itself is for me and I def would have just dropped the thing by act 2 if it wasn’t for Gore.

I’m kind of a coward, I hate anything horror related or any unsettling shit. I didn’t like act 2’s dungeon crawl because the way the area and the enemies became more and more freaky felt like a descent into madness. Or hell. Gore was a comforting presence through it all and I loved his integration in the final fight and scenes of act 2. And man, if I thought act 2 was bad. Act 3 was a fucking nightmare for me lol. The only thing that pushed me to go through act 3 was the fact that I had to go find Gore.

Then we have act 4, finally reunited. Hell yeah right? Hell nah. Like you have this guy and he was with me on the journey to defeat Alduin the World fucking Eater. He was with me when I accepted the offer to be a Vigilant of Stendar. He was there when we first entered Molag Bal’s altar under the Stendar Beacon, who pretty much begged me to not make him go and I convinced him to come with me still. He fought ugly ass vampires with me under Windhelm. And then he fucking disappeared when we went in a haunted mansion and I pushed myself through dark rusty hallways and bloody headless figures because “shit I need to go find Gore, I need to find my friend”.

And now, fucking finally he’s here… but he’s not ALL there. He doesn’t know where he is. He’s not remembering things clearly. He pleads with me and asks that I don’t leave him alone. and jesus. fucking. christ. It felt like I was losing him in this wasteland and I can’t help but feel that it’s all my fault. I dragged him into this, I did this and I sure as hell ain’t losing him. The entire quest of act 4 kind of just turned into this giant side quest where the main quest is to find Gore’s memories lol. I had this passing thought when Gore degraded mentally and physically for the first time, like “man what if i don’t find his memories fast enough and he just… completely degrades, like mentally gone, physically crumbles to dust and Gore just ceases to exist” and that just, terrified the shit outta me. God this whole experience really had me care for and emotionally invest in a fucking skyrim follower mod.

Getting his final memory and the reunion made me so happy. I love that after finishing Vigilant you get to have a conversation with him afterwards. Big thank you to Gore’s creator, this is some really good shit.