#ebw plays forgotten realms

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Wyll: Did Zariel know you’d be unable to touch anyone when she crammed that awful thing into your chest? Karlach: Thing is, I *can* touch devils and the like, back in Avernus. I never *did,* ‘cause I’m not a masochist. But I *could* have. Wyll: Gods. I’m glad you got out of there. Karlach: With my new best friend on my tail the whole time. Who knew.

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I’ve had Wyll in my party for like five minutes, and I can definitely see why people ship him and Astarion

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Is Casavir not as tall as I was thinking he is? His model’s taller than Adrian’s, but it doesn’t seem like it’s by as much as I was expecting. Oh well, he’s tall to me. Just like Bevil has brown eyes to me. (Seriously, I 100% remembered them as brown, so starting a new game and seeing that they’re blue was like a jump scare. I remembered Casavir’s were blue, but not Bev’s.)

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So, I didn’t end up convincing Rolan and sibs to stay, at the Grove, which of course meant we didn’t see them in Act II, and then, during the face-off between Dame Aylin and Lorroakan, though he was appalled at the Nightsong being a person, he still sided with Lorroakan. I knocked him out to see what would happen afterwards, if he’d still become the new master of the tower even if he wouldn’t become one of my allies, but I found neither hide nor hair of him. His body was gone and hadn’t been replaced with a pouch, so clearly he did wake up and hadn’t somehow perished off-screen anyway, but I didn’t see him in the tower anywhere though everyone else seemed present, and the animated armour was even reanimated.

What became of him? Did he flee? Go off to find some other wizard to study under? Did he still decide to take over the tower and simply wasn’t in when I visited, or else didn’t want to see me? Did he wonder why this person he could barely call an acquaintance, whom he had allied himself against, spared his life?

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It makes me… probably more pleased than it should that when you tell Astarion, “Repeat after me: ‘Thank you for helping me. That was very kind’” (or whatever the exact wording is), he actually does it, even if he’s put out by it.

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Why is there no failsafe for if Vale dies during the battle in the ritual chamber, with how squishy he is? The post-battle dialogue is still with him even if he’s dead, and then if you want to loot the bodies… you’re stuck. (Can you even still get Garius’ shard if you don’t loot him?) If you talk to any of the other Many-Starred Cloak mages, they just tell you to talk to Vale, and if you try to leave through either of the Keep’s exits, you get a message that you cannot leave right now.

I had to reload twice, and on my third attempt, I had to just eschew fighting and stand right next to him to use a healer’s kit on him any time he got hurt. The Luskans love to target him with spells. My first try, I didn’t even notice that he’d died until I was trying to leave. My second, I couldn’t find him at the beginning of battle, but then I found him once the fighting had moved farther into the room—he was lying dead by the door, quite possibly one-shotted. Honestly. It doesn’t help either that highlighting doesn’t show name and health level above a creature’s head like in the first game; it makes it a lot harder to keep track of everyone.

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Of course I don’t think about writing a fic involving freeing the imps until the next day. I’m not sure I have a save from before then. I might have a quick save. Might. I don’t remember when/where I last quicksaved. Though that’s moot if my dad decides to play NWN2 today instead of sticking to NWN1 and/or BG3 as he has been these past few days.

I’m trying to convince myself not to start over just for that if I don’t, but trying to find a let’s play where they talk to the imp both times and also have Casavir in their party seems. incredibly daunting. It’s not like there’s only one opportunity to talk to him either, or any guarantee that everyone will—I didn’t the first time; I didn’t get around to it and forgot. This time, I talked to him the first time I was back there but didn’t realise you could find him and talk to him again after he flies off until after the trial.

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It hasn’t been long since the plague and the war with Luskan… the plague and the war with Luskan which were many/several years ago…

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I mean. I should hope so.

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Ah man, Cas is getting me in the feels with him wanting to be buried in the Temple of Seasons should he fall in battle… Somehow I don’t think this means he’s gotten any less passively suicidal.

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Since my dad’s got NWN1 reinstalled on the laptop now, I’m starting a game of HotU since this means I can actually cheat. The OC I can manage on the Switch so long as I remember to save often, but HotU? lol

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I would like to think that it’s because he can’t shift any more Chaotic-ward, but I know it’s just an error in the code.

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If this title that doesn’t even technically describe you if you look at the actual connotations of it because the one who created the title made assumptions about what happened and your role in it displeases you, then know that you must make another title

Shut uppppp and stop calling me by that fucking misnomer. I have an actual name, y’know.

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Oh my gods, the Diplomacy roll to see if Bishop will talk to you for 20 gp is DC=3. He’s so cheap.

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I could have sworn I gained a point of influence with Bishop for calling him a dog in Ember when I was playing Camus (“Forgive him, Alaine, it takes a dog to hunt dogs.”) because I specifically remember choosing it thinking it was an insult and being baffled when he responded positively to it—but this time around, there’s no change in influence. How odd. Do you only gain some with him there if you hadn’t gained any with him before then? Or am I straight-up misremembering that?

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I managed not to get an alignment shift toward Good (or any at all) while talking to those kids outside Highcliff, and I’m not sure what I did different. And of course Elanee still started talking about how I was good with kids. Like, I called them stupid and threatened to leave them to the wolves, how is that being good with them/handling them well? Ugh, she’s such a creep. I abandoned her first chance I got and am not looking to next time I’ll be forced to have her in my party (at least, I think there’s a time before Act III when you get to kill her for thirsting over you since you were a child, although of course no one reacts negatively to that part of it… I am looking forward to that one, both so I can kill her and because I’m planning on writing a fic where KC and party react appropriately to the info that she as an adult was enamoured with a child, although I’m not sure yet if I wanna use Camus or Adrian)