Originally Posted by Walking Kole
That last-minute choice on the pier goes against every single time she said she'd rather die here and now than live a long life in Avernus. With Patch 2, you can now see the 180 with your own eyes. Going to the House of Hope gave her extreme anxiety. Now she's just chilling with a cigar. How did that happen?

I don't know what to tell you, but for me, not enough things happened and not enough time had passed for a change this big to occur.

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All of that despite not having even attempted any other option aside from Dammon. I'm sorry, but in a game where a guy with a magic time bomb in his chest gets to walk it off, that sounds like bullshit to me.

You know what, I think we generally agree, just from different angles.

As in, I think that more things should be added to make this change and the sorrow more believable (and then also preferably fixable. You know. The sorrow as the middle of the struggle, not the end.), not that these things themselves go against her character. Too much effect, not enough cause.

Definitely agree that the shift on the pier is VERY abrupt (have JUST finished the game myself, finally).
I don't know how the dialogue goes without Wyll offering to go, but with him my 'convincing' literally took one line, which... Yeah, doesn't mash well with the whole game of denial before that. I was fully expecting at least SOME attempt to refuse from her. A persuasion check maybe!

One can say that perhaps coming that close to dying Karlach at the last moment got way too much scared and grasped at the first straw you gave her, one can say that those first minutes in Avernus is just her putting on brave face etc etc, but I have to agree there, the tonal shift is jarring. I like the scene, I like the badass run off into the sunset they did, but, like. Knowing what we know I just can't help but feel like as soon as the wave of adrenaline goes down and it fully dawns on her that she's back with possibly no escape again it will be freaking anxiety/depression central.

Originally Posted by Walking Kole
She even begs you to tell her you'll try, that you can fix her. And what can you say in return? You can either lie to her or give her a shoulder to cry on.

...I am also deeply fascinated by this now, because I didn't get any of that in that scene and I wonder if it depends on something.

All I got was vise versa, with her sarcastically being like "right, what, you got a wish spell in your pocket?". The only thing she asked of me (later) was to stay with her when it's her time to go (which. HURT.)

geez this is a lot of quote and spoiler tags hope they are all placed correctly

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