#Shye plays Baldur's Gate

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

I love that I have to talk sense into Gale over the whole ascension thing. Like, I just merc'd the fuck out of Lorrakan for inappropriate aspirations of godhood 2 minutes ago. You were there. Baby boy do you think I won't do the same to you?

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

I find myself torn between Wyll and Gale to romance and I am having flashbacks to my first DA:I playthrough, where I was torn between Josephine and Blackwall.

In one hand, I have Wyll and Josie: both Good and Noble and Lovely, victims of bad contracts/situations and but still in their heart of hearts believe the best of people. I would surely have a fairytale romance with them and be able to give them the world and it would be lovely.

In the other, I have two fucked up little shits who think so poorly of themselves that they believe the best thing they can do for other people is die, who have made so many Poor Life Choices™ all while trying to be good and thinking that they need to be better men. I want to protect and cherish them until they redevelop self-esteem and live happily ever after in a quiet life.

And as much as I want to go for the Sweep Me Off My Feet Romance, I will probably end up 0-2 for "This is my Stinky Trash Man. I found him behind a dumpster eating rocks, and I brought him home to live with me forever."

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

We love a dramatic opening cinematic that includes a Wilhelm Sceam™

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

I have spent most of the last 3 days that I've played (2-4hr each session) exploring the Lower City of Baldur's Gate.

I have stopped a serial killer, found a cat obsessed with Fate, found Gortash's parents and Jaheira's children. I have fucked up some sahuagin by the docks and a bunch of mephits in a sewer (not enough of them, I definitely died and had to reload).

But I have been unable to find one thing that is crucial to the plot and I'm beginning to think I'm probably just stupid for somehow missing it...

Where the frick frack paddy whack is the Elfsong Tavern?!

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Also I've adopted this Intellect Devourer and I will be heartbroken when it dies.

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

How do I know Shar isn't a god I would ever follow?

This fucking "Faith-Leap Trial." It's bullshit, I hate it, and no sticker of Most Special Princess is worth it.

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Not me being genuinely sad that I thought I did everything right but there is no Us in the mind flayer colony...

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

I appreciate that there's an option to tell the myconid Sovereign that you're just lost, and it's treated as an honest answer.

I never know where I am in this game...

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

So...is it a bug or a feature that sometimes when I pass over Gale it reads "Talk (empty)"

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Me: convinces the guard at the Moonrise Tower docks to let me "inspect the cargo" fully expecting to just steal some shit.

Barrel full of tadpoles: just sitting there.

Gale: "Whatever we do, we must prevent these from being used by the Absolute."

Me: "Well if you insist...*yoink*"

So now I have a barrel of tadpoles at camp. But I can't do anything with them (even if I wanted to, which I do not, on this playthrough). So that's good.

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Volo gives me strong Hugh Fitzcairn vibes.