Originally Posted by fylimar
I'm going more practical about stuff. Suddenly the deal with Raphael looks much more appealing (though I might do the House of Hope, don't get me wrong) and using all those stuff in my inventory seems like a really good idea.
My little charismatic gnome feylock/ sword bard has had some lucky roles, so she still has all the pets, Abdiraks blessing (which actually comes into play in honour mode) and managed to talk her way out of some stuff. The fights were ok so far too, despite me not being the most tactical person. I found out, that I can be tactical, if I have to.

Yup, same here. Well, I am not gonna take Raphael's deal, but err, using tadpoles (which I hate, and I really dislike the Emperor too) doesn't sound like THAT bad of an idea. So far have gotten by without absorbing any, but that soon may change. But um, so far the difficulty's not that bad. Had to make some decision making adjustments though, like - not letting Lae sit in the zaith'isk cause those super high checks to get her out before her brain gets too damaged, yeah, I nope'd out of that, plus if I change my mind on tadpoles, that awakened power might come in handy.

But so far my proudest moment is this:

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Killed Ethel while she was running to her lair (so she wasn't attacking back), of course I wasn't planning on letting her live anyway, or intimidating her to give me her hair, either. But that also means losing out on some approval points with companions inside her house, but whatever. Never ever managed to pull this off. Got lucky!

Now I am hoping that knocked out Minthara will show up in Moonrise, so I can ditch Halsin for her. I, uh, had Sazza with me, so I may have started the dialogue with Minthy featuring Sazza, KO'd both of them in the actual fight, a couple of rests later I checked up on them, their KO'd butts are gone, so fingers crossed. I hear that apparently KO'd Minthara doesn't always show up in MT these days? We'll see. In worst case I will let Halsin hit on my MC yet again in act 3, only to reject him...

Anyway, once I had gotten the Luminous Armor, a lot of fights, especially the ones in the Creche have become somewhat trivial. Call me an item abuser, idc. laugh Also, open hand SH kind of destroyed Bernard before he could do anything, and the rest of the robots kept on missing all the time. Dare I say, I went in a bit over prepared.

But the closest I was to a TPK - it was in Zhent's base. Was lvl 4, but I forgot that Zarys starts her dialogue the moment you climb that ladder, and I had persuaded Rugan that we should sell the cargo, cause I wanted to cleanse their base anyway. So, Zarys and her cronies open up with a bunch of fire arrows... I lost the initiative battle and let's say that MC and SH didn't survive that, so it was up to Astarion and Lae to finish the job (which they did). Poor Rugan died in the explosion (managed to free Oskar before the fight so small mercies).