It's mine by rights" would be more on the lines of speaking for the group as a whole
Nah, it means exactly as it seems. Its an option to imply its yours personally with assumption its already bound to you. The writing treats it that way.
Here is what happens if you give the Prism to the commander Therezzyn - this exact cutscene plays no matter what if you pick those options - you pull it out of your pocket and it jumps back to you as if its bound to you personally, but even after this cutscene it will be in Shadowheart's inventory still. It does not make sense. Please dont rationalize and suggest that the scene would play the same way if the writers assumed its in Shadowheart's possession. This is another example of writing being insufficient - a cutscene and dialogue just doesnt exist to account for situation where you dont have it but Shadowheart does, even though it seems it's fairly easy to find yourself in this situation.
I also reloaded the save after the Prism and exhausted dialogue options with Shadowheart and there's nothing about the artifact, just the regular options about the relationship. I was able to trigger the dialogue you describe by getting the Chosen scene in goblin area without Shadowheart around.
The same sequence also plays regardless of which character you initiate dialogue with, as you see in this example the person isnt actually playing Laezel origin, he just decided to initiate as Lae'zel because there are some differences in how youre treated in the Creche if you initiate as githyanki (its not specific dialogue for Lae'zel)
I'm not a tech expert, but I do know that individual games can at most only cause game crashes. If you do have full system restarts playing on a different resolution there is something far bigger going own outside of a specific game. You already mentioned it not being GPU or CPU temperature or bad/faulty hardware, those would be my first thoughts too, but from what I know a game can never have such a big impact on your system to cause full system restarts on its own. Even when you give admin permission to a game, as far as I know it should be impossible that a game has anywhere near the access to your system that is required to reach the point where it can crash more than just itself.
Don't really have an idea what it could be beyond that. The only thing I do remember with full system restarts gaming with a high-end laptop I had was that I checked all regular stuff like drivers, CPU and GPU temperatures and all that seemed fine. Then looking through other diagnostic programs I found one that also accessed motherboard temperatures. It was the motherboard temperature that my system didn't register and once that reached ~95 Celsius, my system would crash to protect itself from getting hotter. I don't really know much of the technical side of things, but basically in my case the motherboard was placed in a spot where the ventilators didn't cool it as well as they did for the CPU and GPU, and where the fans did register CPU and GPU temperatures and reacted appropriately, they did not register motherboard temperature and let that component slowly cook itself to a full system restart.
I'm adding a note from a mysterious 'J' to Aerie's inventory, basically just telling her that she needs to get her butt to Baldur's Gate.
Otherwise, the overall vision is that Aerie has essentially evolved into a 'Doctor Who' type of character; a perpetual wanderer drawn to mystery, who doesn't really seek out trouble, but she never turns away from evil and injustice or anyone asking for her help either. She has lived most of her life now as a minority of one, and although she has accepted that she will always be a bit of an outsider, there is of course a deep loneliness.
You will find she jokes and plays with people far more than she used to, and isn't afraid to let people know that she's extremely clever.
Courage, curiosity, and compassion always have been Aerie's core traits, although the traits that led to her getting captured in the first place. But now they are tempered by experience. She's no longer reckless (at least, not usually when it matters) and constantly being told off by Jaheira for putting herself in harm's way when others could have taken the blow more easily. Her compassion is now wise counsel, and her intelligence and curiosity are now backed by, again, years of experience.
The important thing is that she's not just a memberberry, but a character who has realistically grown from when we last saw her. We'll be looking at essentially the difference between a 17/18 year old who is just setting out into the world for the first time (and with a lot of trauma to boot), and someone in their late twenties who is far more at ease with themselves.
Update: Chapter 1 is now published. Return to the end of Baldur's Gate 3 from Fiovay's perspective, and travel back with her and her team to Avernus.
BG3.5 - Hellraisers (Fanfiction) Baldur's Gate 3.5: Hellraisers - an original fanfic story that is a sequel to Baldur's Gate 3 Fanfic: The Afflicted. It picks up immediately after the events of Baldur's Gate 3 as characters from the previous fanfic - Fiovay, Kai, Aelun, Vlyn, and the other members of their party - travel to Avernus. Their quest is to save Karlach but also to hopefully find and rescue Darson, Aelun's father, from the clutches of Demogorgon.
First time was early on, using the Karlach trick to stop close-out of things like the Grove story. This trick works, and you can then go back and the Grove is still vibrant with tieflings, you can then get the goblin leaders at your leisure. Heck, Auntie Ethyl is still selling stuff in her alcove, hasn't even left for the Teahouse, yet.
I've done this several times, it works just fine.
But...I may have gone back into the mountain pass to pick up the periapt, as it's right there. It's possible this new re-entry did it. It did warn me of finishing up stuff before letting me through, but I assumed you could go back and forth at will. I may have been wrong.
Yes that will have been the reason. The Grove is one of the quests affected. But what is the Karlach trick?
