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today is my friday!! which means i might be able to catch up with things.
#vampires will never hurt you ! // ooc#also i don't work until later so i might get some writing done#after a nap#i've just been kind of tired the last few days#and playing a lot of bg3 aGAIN#it's been a death anniversary week so i'm in a weird headspace#and stuck with an uncertainty and insecurity that isn't at all like me#and i think it's partially bc i'm emotional about that and it's kind of bleeding into my hobbies#but i need to pull out of it!!#bc it's so much better for me when i do#death tw
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Anyway, I finished Baldur's Gate 3
#Astarion#baldur's gate 3#bg3#my art#and I'll probably play it again#a fantasy game with choices is always a fun fantasy game#And it has elves#that's the most important thing haha#I really enjoyed the story of Astarion and Shadowheart. My two fav characters from this game#And the game has a lot of great npcs too
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every other party member: im cursed. im going to die. im owned by someone much more powerful than me. my days are numbered for one reason or another -- the tadpole is only the latest life threatening circumstance.
halsin: i like whittling ducks :)
#im in love with him <3#a lot of my favorite mods are getting converted to full release so. goal is to finish the game on this pc#and then mod it when my new one comes in and make another character to romance someone else. or halsin again. who knows.#carly.txt#carly plays bg3#bg3 spoilers
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Cazador's Ritual Runes, Translated
Inner: AMPLIFY + HIM + FLOW + EMPOWR [sic] Middle: WE OFFER THE FORCE OF LIFE Outer: WE GATHER HERE TO INVOKE THE POWER OF BLOD [sic]
Mephistopheles can't spell for beans.
(Detailed analysis & conjecture regarding this text, the Rite of Profane Ascension, & Astarion's translated scars under the cut.)
The second ring was the easiest, as the characters are very similar to Latin letters and clearly read out "WE OFFER THE FORCE OF LIFE." Characters were now known for C, E, F, H, I, L, O, R, T, and W. It wasn't clear yet if there were cases.
I was struggling with the first ring, though after decoding the second, I could get a likely "_M_LIF_ + _IM + _LOW + EM_OWR". Guessing the character for P, Y, and A based on context gave me "AMPLIFY + _IM + _LOW + EMPOWR", but I had doubts over the first characters for words two and three. I suspected they would be HIM and FLOW, but the H and F characters didn't match the H from the second ring's "THE" or the F from "AMPLIFY". Also, "empower" was misspelled, which made me pause.
Abandoning those for a moment, the third ring mapped well onto "WE _ATHER HERE TO I__O_E THE _OWER OF _LO_". Ruling out known letters which were not present, I could guess "WE GATHER HERE TO I__O_E THE POWER OF _LO_", but again the P from "POWER" was not the same as the P from "AMPLIFY" in the inner ring. However, it was very, very similar, and nothing else fit, so I committed, now suspecting there were capital versions of some letters included in the text.
At this point I went digging for resources. I found a copy of an Infernal alphabet on the Forgotten Realms wiki, and while it looks like the typeface Larian used is a bespoke creation for the game rather than a 1:1 copy of this alphabet, the letters for lowercase G, N, K, B, and D were nearly identical. Y (from AMPLIFY) also matched perfectly, confirming that earlier guess. This gave a clear "WE GATHER HERE TO INVOKE THE POWER OF BLOD."
This resulted in: AMPLIFY + _IM + _LOW + EMPOWR WE OFFER THE FORCE OF LIFE WE GATHER HERE TO INVOKE THE POWER OF BLOD
Looking at the wiki for capital letters, the only ones I could find which might reasonably fit the _IM missing character (assuming the Larian alphabet was based off this wiki typography) were A, B, H, O, T, V, and Y. Of those choices, only AIM, HIM, TIM, and VIM were words, and as cheesy as Cazador is, I couldn't imagine him saying AMPLIFY TIM FLOW EMPOWR. Given the alternatives, HIM was the only choice which made sense.
I went through the same process for _LOW, but this character seems unmatchable to me. By far it looks the most like the E from the Infernal alphabet, with maybe a capital Y being a distant second. However, ELOW and YLOW are certainly not words, and absent all other comparatives, the character in question does resemble a fancy F. Barring other languages, FLOW with a capital or unique F fits best.
AMPLIFY + HIM + FLOW + EMPOWR WE OFFER THE FORCE OF LIFE WE GATHER HERE TO INVOKE THE POWER OF BLOD
I did double-check the texts available in Cazador's mansion just to make sure this hadn't been translated elsewhere (after I'd done all the work, of course), and the only written text of relevance is from the Black Mass scroll you find near Vellioth's skull. It reads:
The Rite of Profane Ascension Oh, piteous dead! Oh, ravenous dead! Immortality is your gift, but darkness is your prison and hunger its gaoler. The Rite of Profane Ascension will release you. Walk in the sun. Suffer not from hunger. Grow your power beyond anything you imagined. A pact has been made with the Lord of Hellfire. Deliver unto him seven thousand souls, each bearing an Infernal mark, and you shall be free of your chains. You shall know true power. Deliver the souls. Speak the words. Ecce dominus, Has animas offero in sacrificio, Nunc volo potestatem quam pollicitus es mihi.
The Latin translates (as best I can tell with my incredibly weak Latin) to:
Behold [the] Lord, I offer these souls in sacrifice, I want the power thou hast promised me.
Which is interesting, but not clearly mapped to the Infernal above. Then I started wondering what relationship Astarion's scars have with all this, but thankfully, someone else has done the work here!
Astarion's scars have been transcribed and translated in a wonderfully detailed Reddit post by northpaw_s in 2020, but the salient points are that they appear to be in a mishmash of mangled Latin and Romance languages ("Infernal") and read:
Hoyc inferiu non iurare per igneu Naec virba loquor Eoai mundo muoat
Which appears to roughly translate to:
This soul swears no oath by fire Nor words does he speak In the realm of death
This makes sense if it's a fragment of a contract. I suspect the other spawn's scars are all identical to Astarion's for game mechanics/development reasons, but it'd be wild if they did have minor differences to complete the rest of the phrases! I know the scars don't show on their backs they way they do on Astarion's outside of the moment of the ritual, but it really does make me wonder if there's a complete text of the poem in some writer's documentation somewhere.
Anyway, what did you do with your Thursday night?
#astarion#cazador#no wonder the rite was so secretive mephistopheles didn't want anyone to know he's a terrible speller#baldur's gate 3#plus a lot of talk about astarion's scars' meaning & the rite's text#puzzles! neat!#i don't know what to tag this so i'll be able to find it again#quark plays bg3#quark rambles#each phrase is repeated three times on each ring by the by
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basking in moonlight
#my art#jayfeather#wc#waca#warrior cats#wc art#HIIII sorry for not posting for like a month . got sick for a week + still in the throes of a hyperfixation HAHA#hope everyones 2024 is going well so far :] mines going good!!!#I ALSO HOPE YALL ARE STAYING WARM GOOD LORD .. it's cold and getting colder#classes start again in a few days so im really looking forward to that ^_^#ive been drawing + writing a lot but ive just not been Posting .#but i Havent been drawing a lot of cats. so this was mostly to remind myself i can still do that HAHAHA#hopefully there arent any errors to correct bc im gonna go play bg3 for a while (to the surprise of nobodyLMAO)
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The desire to draw these two again but without the motivation to make something more than one of these little charts (oops)
Thank you Valc0 for making the sheet!
#I still need to play the epilogue#and draw things from the epilogue#and anSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS IN MY INBOX BAREEE IF YOU'RE READING THIS I'LL GET TO IT I PROMISE#IF YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU ASKED THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES THE LONG ANSWER IS IT'S COMPLICATED haha#& then also make fanart of other tavs I've got a backlog of inspiration but commissions and the elden ring DLC are just RIGHT in front of m#What else can I ramble about in here#The way I had to look up all the stupid woods around Baldur's Gate#once again my paranoia that I'll Get Lore Wrong bc I'm invested but not THAT invested lol#They lived in Baldur's Gate for a few years then moved back out to the Cloak Wood that's my headcanon for that#I think these two also have a lot of common interests but they were all too abstract or wordy to put here#like falling asleep on the balcony#or listening to the sounds of the sea#I saw a lot of other people list Gale as lawful pre-game and I'm.....skeptical haha#ok sorry I'm done have a lovely day!#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 tav#bg3 otp#valc0#bg3 croissant#gale#gale dekarios#breadweave
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We should have gotten Kagha and not Halsin as the druid companion from Act 1. In the short time that she is in the game, Kagha is a far more interesting character than Halsin is. She is also someone who can either be made better or made worse and would balance out the number of companions with malleable alignments. Kagha would also be a fantastic character who would constantly challenge and question the player character's decisions as she already does this while in the grove.
I'm not saying Halsin shouldn't be in the game, I'm just saying Halsin is wasted potential being a companion and would have better served as an NPC. Especially since his entire storyline involving Isobel was cut which was a massive L on Larian's part.
In fact, I truly think that if Kagha was a companion, her helping Halsin in Act 2 with the Shadow Curse would serve as a fantastic moment for her to truly atone for her actions in the grove. I also think it would be pretty neat to see how Kagha would have reacted to Arabella now having new magic thanks to her proximity to the idol of Silvanus. I think it would be fascinating to see how she'd interact with all the tieflings in Act 2 and 3. I sometimes try to tell myself that Minthara has no reactions with them cause the tieflings don't actually know it was her specifically who was trying to raid the grove and she doesn't know any of them. But the tieflings and Kagha do know each other and they all know what Kagha tried to do. Her entire redemption arc could be saving the tieflings at every avenue, cause they always need to be saved!
And, my god, don't even get me started on the interactions between Kagha and Minthara. You would end up having two companions who wanted to kill the tieflings, but for vastly different reasons, and neither of them having any remorse for it! I would love to watch how that conversation would play out between the both of them. Especially since Kagha already has a pretty positive opinion of drow and their methods. She would probably be the least judgemental of Minthara and would be the most accepting of who she is. I can genuinely see Kagha and Minthara becoming really close friends and that would be very concerning.
Dammit, now I'm over here brainstorming exactly how Kagha as a companion would actually work on a technical level depending on the choices you make in the grove...
Also, I really want to kiss Kagha.
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#kagha#halsin#minthara#minthara baenre#i mean this as no offense to the halsin enjoyers#but a lot of halsins personality was cut down just so that he could be a companion and was shoved in at the last second#if he was allowed to be an NPC#he could have played a much bigger role in Act 1 and Act 2#also halsin 100% should have been meaner and banished Kagha from the grove#his argument is that she needs to relearn the ways of nature and harmony as a novice anew#what better way for her to learn than to travel the world#but again she could also be made so much worse and would have a phenomenal evil arc
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Gone off with the sunrise Reno never felt so slow Wednesday's child with a rented ride And a head that's full of woe
#fnv#fallout: new vegas#fallout oc#.png#maddox#alternating between wanting to spend a lot of time on a render but also wanting to leave it loose and sketchy idk#i'm playing him in bg3 lately and that's all fun n games but i really#need him to get passed around reno again a little yk
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The gang at Arwell continue to pull their weight while staying at a comfortable distance.
Mechi doesn't let his studying get interrupted by things that are definitely not bad omens.
He studied so much that he figured out how to switch off the twisted obelisk! However, we don't have enough archotech shards to do it, so it can stay put for now. That's fine. It doesn't hurt anyone so long as we keep it suppressed. Plus, it's a kind of cool, edgy decoration—if we're lucky, it might even scare visitors (ugh) away!
We finish with Mechi being easily swindled by small children with sob stories about their younger siblings. Again.
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#rimworld#gracie plays#A Mechanitor's Message#art#traditional art#rimworld art#unpolished art#Mechi never stops being fun to draw#Not a lot of exciting stuff happening today#I confess I've been slightly distracted playing BG3 lately#But Mechi and RimWorld have a siren call that I can't resist#so I'm back again#Hopefully there'll be some fun stuff to draw soon!#have a fabulous day y'all <3 <3 <3#my art
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The Dark Urge. Whatever that is. That is you.
#gale come get ya freak#bg3edit#bg3edits#bg3#baldur's gate#baldur's gate 3#the dark urge#dark urge#durge#tav#dailygaming#userdekarios#mine#mine: bg3#elowen alenndear#ocs tag#saskia plays bg3#she went through a lot of redesign. Again. but im finally satisfied :3
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The post game idea I had for Ronan and Astarion is after a few years of adventuring and looking for a solution to vampirism, they get a proposition from a mutual high-level adventurer they've had dealings with before. She's a dragonborn warlock needing someone to moonlight as her husband on a trip back to Tymanther to make nice with her clan to get a hold of some relic or artifact or WHATEVER. DOESNT MATTER.
What matters is that she asks Astarion to be her 'husband' for the trip since her clan won't let her back into their home without one, hes overdramatic enough naturally to pass for a dragonborn, and since he doesnt know shit about the culture, he can be molded easier into passing for someone of a higher ranking clan than a lowborn weirdo like Ronan who would give the game away within ten minutes of opening his mouth. Astarion will be changed under True Polymorph for the time into a living dragonborn and, once she has her macguffin and they return to Fae'run, she'll use the same spell to change him into the living version of himself permanently. Simple as.
It takes some thinking for both Ronan and Astarion to come to a decision. The trip will be long, months to even a year, and all that time, they wont be making much of an income on top of being half a world away from home. Ronan isnt too keen on returning to his country of origin and Astarion certainly isnt too happy about having to spend so damn long as a lizard. There's a lot of debating, arguing, but this warlock is the only person that they can trust they've found capable and willing to cast the spell and the closest they've gotten to a solution to vampirism that seemingly has no downsides, so they agree.
Before the trip even starts, Astarion is changed in order to get him used to both living and a new body as they make the long trek to Tymanther. He takes to it as well as one would expect: doing just fine while also finding as many reasons to complain about it as he can. It's an adjustment getting used to just the sensation of his heart beating again, the general ebb and flow of biological processes, being warm all on his own, and the dysmorphia when he looks in the mirror to see a dragonborn instead of what he expects, but it's so much more comfortable and right in comparison to undeath.
Now, since Astarion needs to be her husband, one of the stipulations from the warlock is that he and Ronan are not together in any respect for the trip. Ronan is Astarion's bodyguard for this journey and anything closer than that could jeopardize the whole plot given they'll be surrounded by judging scrutinizing vultures looking for any cracks in the warlock's tale and an excuse to kick her to the curb and exile her from the macguffin she needs. Normally this wouldn't be an issue for Astarion, but there's a curious new problem that crops up when his heart is beating once more.
Love and attraction are very numb emotions when one's body is mostly dead. While he knows he loves Ronan mentally, it is not a physical feeling for him. Until he's breathing again and all of a sudden he's got butterflies in his gut when Ronan's around, he's warm when the cleric looks at him, sweating, flushed, shivering when there's a brush of a hand on him, and just thinking about speaking to him makes him smile like a moron despite himself.
Astarion can't stop looking at him. Can't stop wanting Ronan near him. Burning for him in a way he didn't before and its like he's falling in love both again and for the first time. And oh boy, does he hate that considering he can't do anything about it lest he lose his chance to get back to being himself.
That's the setup. Astarion's first taste of being not a vampire comes with being forced into a body that isn't his as he plays mental chess with a bunch of dragonborn to earn his living body back and while he's fighting with Love and Yearning in a physical sense for the first time. Theres a lot of politics, and weird magic mutants, and making googly eyes at each other over dinner, and eventually, Ronan and Astarion break and have a night together, fucking everything up. But then they get the macguffin anyways through their own means and escape and Astarion gets to be a real elf boy again.
Oh and Gale is there too. Because you gotta take your wizard on a walk every now and then to a fucked up displaced lizard continent or he'll start clawing at the walls and doing magical environmental terrorism.
#jacq writes#i figured i might as well put this to a post#i like it a lot#astarions playing 4d chess with a bunch of militaristic fuckers and Gale is dragging Ronan around to go look at magical Stuff and Things#he so excited to what kind of relics are leftover from when tymanther was displaced into fae'run#and the warlock lady wants ronan as far away from astarion as possible as much as possible#also i think itd just be funny to have astarion be a lizard for a while#for fun. and thats it.#i spent too much time considering ways to unvampire him#this is the funniest way#theres also the potentially sad way trying true resurrection but that the body needs to have been dead for less than 200 years#and wish can fail or leave the caster unable to cast it again#divine intervention can also fail#anways!#the warlock lady looks like if that one black and red dragon from the thrones show was a dragonborn and also cool as fuck#dragonbornstarion... has a look in my head but i havent settled on it completely#bg3
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in fair faerûn where we lay our scene.......
im a little late heading into wyll week and im so sad but here's an illustration for day 3: modern au!!!!
wyll gives me theater kid vibes and i think modern au wyll would Absolutely be an actor. and i think he'd be incredible in shakespeare adaptations and historical dramas... so i Had to redraw one of my favorite shots from baz luhrmann's romeo + juliet with him. a modern au in a modern au...its perfect 🎭
#bg3#wyll week#wyllvember#wyll ravengard#baldurs gate 3#baldur's gate 3#wyllweek#shakespeare#my art#herotune#i replaced the crucifixes with the symbol for tyr btw cries#which is hopefully understandable 😭#i Need to go back n check what wylls reaction to the tyr paladins is again its been too long since i played that part in my current run#so hopefully including the symbol for tyr is appropriate weeps...i tried to figure out if theres a diety he follows n Could Not#so i just went w tyr because the symbol for him had a similar enough silhouette and i feel like gd of justice Very much fits wyll...#although theres also uhhhh helm gd of protection and i feel like that would suit him more i just didnt think the symbol for helm would work#its like. an eye on a gauntlet 😭.....#so uh. i. ended up going with tyr#anyway im so so sad im late to wyll week ;_; i love him and i DO have a lot of sketches ive not published of him yet#but i wanna do the prompts too. i do think ill be posting some of those drawings for the free day but i think im also gonna try to get#stuff out for the rest of the prompts even tho itll have to be after wyll week is over...#wait itd still be wyllvember tho :0#his month...yessss im late but also im not. its fine.
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idk i wish if you broke up with astarion for the “you arent ready to have a partner yet” he can like. ask to date again if he stays a spawn. maybe asks to open a courtship idk.
ascended would be sooooo “look what you missed out on ha hu he” (is desperately craving the intimacy his partner provided)
#frankie posts#bg3 spoilers#i know why it doesnt but idk#itd be neat#bc like ur taking the option from astarion if u break up w him right? so itd be neat even if he didnt ask to be in a relationship again#he could talk abt how that was a shit thing to do even if it was in his ‘best interest’#idk#im in a lot of pain and feel awful and im like 20% wanting to call out tomorrow so i can play my little game.#idk im not doing great LoL
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My Dark Urge when Morena Dekarios inevitably asks for grandchildren but I've already promised Jaheira there will be no Bhaalspawn blood matches with duelists who call her 'auntie'
#I got the githyanki egg on this run lmfao#i SWORE to that man I'd raise the child like it was my own flesh and blood. that's a grandchild right there#I hope all of you at home understand how long I laughed about this image before posting it because it was a lot#flashback to the time jaheria cornered me at the epilogue party to be like#'are you thinking about procreating? because you BETTER NOT BE' it was very funny#rosie plays games kinda okay#ah shit here we go again#bg3#baldur's gate 3#the dark urge
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Jaheira looks deeply grim as they loot the bodies of the dead doppelgangers. Whatever good humor she'd had on entering the Harper safehouse has drained out of her, leaving her looking more tired and haggard than ever.
Her expression is carefully noncommittal as she looks at a note left on the table near one of the dead bodies.
"So it is, then," Rakha hears her murmur - the words clearly meant for no one but herself. "The tree has been cut apart at its roots."
She folds up the paper and tucks it away in her pack, and for just a moment Rakha can see a flash of brilliant pain through her eyes and across the curve of her mouth. And then it passes and her expression is unreadable again.
Geraldus is leaned against the wall of the basement, trembling with exhaustion and fear. "Did I- Did I get it right?" he asks shakily.
With visible effort, Jaheira pastes a faint smile and a business-like glance onto her face. "Selune's Tears," she says matter-of-factly with a slight nod. "It is said no false face can stand beneath their light. An old code, Harper - but yes. You got it right. Now... I need your report."
Geraldus straightens with an earnest nod. "We had eyes on suspected cultists in the city, like you asked," he says. "We thought we were tracking them, but..."
"They were tracking you instead, evidently," Jaheira says grimly. "Doppelgangers."
Geraldus nods several times rapidly. "And they're not just working with the cult, High Harper. They're *part* of it. Bhaalists, I think."
"Sworn to Orin the Red, yes," Jaheira confirms. "We've... already had the pleasure. Go on."
The boy shifts his weight uncertainly from side to side; his gaze flicks to Rakha and the others, then back to Jaheira. "Everything seemed fine until... your latest orders. Until we started to search for the Rashemaar."
Rakha blinks at the unfamiliar word. She glances at Wyll but he shrugs uncertainly in response.
"They struck the same night," Geraldus goes on. His voice trembles just a little. "I woke to one of them strangling Chelvin while smiling at me out of her face. She said - it said - that I'd report back to you as normal. Lure you here. And... I had no choice."
An uncomfortable little shiver of pleasure goes down Rakha's back as she considers this image. A brutal way to die, whispers the beast. Our Father's servants do beautiful work... and forced the boy to watch...
Jaheira's expression twists with dismay and regret. "I'm sure it felt that way, Geraldus," she mutters. "The others were likely dragged back to Orin. Tortured. Sacrificed." Her jaw works, her eyes hooding over with effort at controlling her emotions. "I do not expect you to die for me," she says, a touch bitterly. "But to risk Entharl? Any citizen who might have wandered in?"
She shakes her head - and even Rakha can feel the sting of disappointment in her words. "There is always a choice. And a Harper must be able to make the hard ones. Perhaps this isn't the life for you after all, Geraldus."
Geraldus blanches, appalled. "No! Jaheira - High Harper - please! I'm still a Harper! I want to help!"
Jaheira frowns - and again, just for a moment, Rakha can see that flicker of pain, swiftly concealed. "You've scarcely signed up, boy," she says softly. "And there is a war coming. Why die a Harper when you could still live as anything else?"
(A/N: This line fucking kills me. :( I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT HER OKAY.)
Rakha draws a slow breath and hisses it out between her teeth. She can tell, from her position outside the moment, that it is a difficult one for Jaheira - but she is all too acutely aware of the dead doppelgangers around them, the smell of blood in the air. She can't focus.
"Enough," she mutters hoarsely. "What do we do now?"(*)
Jaheira flinches. For a moment, she looks as if she wants to be angry at Rakha's interruption - but then she just sighs and shakes her head. "I'll come clean," she says tightly. "I did not tell you all about what I hoped to learn here today. I will rectify that."
A pause. Then she looks at the boy, who is still watching her anxiously. "But first... Geraldus. Does your mother still own that farm in the Dalelands?"
"Yes, High Harper." His shoulders slump, feeling the blow before it arrives.
She smiles sadly. "Just Jaheira to you, now," she says quietly. "Go on. I have all the help I need."
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(*) In-game line is "Enough of the Harper dramatics," which didn't sound exactly Rakha-ish.
#bjk plays bg3 durge#rakha the dark urge#i am as always very unwell about the feelings roiling under the surface of any moment when jaheira is being Businesslike and Direct#she is NOT doing well in this moment#not only is she upset to see what happened to her harpers but this also means#that they never found out what happened to minsc#so nothing that she hoped for (that was making her at least somewhat cheery upstairs with Entharl) has panned out#and she is alone again with the responsibility for this group that is fraying apart at the seams :(#I JUST HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS#HELP
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I've got too many games I want to play and not enough free time 😭 I still need to finish my BG3 playthrough but since Endless Ocean: Luminous came out I've been playing a lot of that instead. Also just got back into Wizard101 last night. Started playing House Flipper again last weekend. Still need to finish BOTW so I can start a TOTK playthrough and finish Pokemon Shield so I can start on Pokemon Violet. I've been fighting off the urge to start up a new Skyrim playthrough for weeks. My brother just told me that Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is getting ported to the Switch. And now I'm suddenly feeling inspired to replay DAI... And throughout all of this I'm also playing the hell out of DragonVale on my phone. Someone just pay me to play video games all day please
#and before anyone suggests it: no i cant try to get into streaming#the way i play video games is extremely frustrating for other people to watch ahdjsksl#no one is going to give me money for producing a video where i spend two hours checking every barrel in the map while juggling my inventory#and then immediately give up on a puzzle and just sit in silence for 30 minutes while i look up a walkthrough instead#i need a situation that pays me $200 a day just to be autistic at the screen alone in the comfort of my own home#rambling#a few years ago i made it a mission to play all of the dragon age games and dlcs in order and i did not complete it#i got all the way to inquisition before i quit#i had already played it on ps3 but i wanted to replay on my new gaming laptop and unfortunately my computer decided it was too complicated#and also i just wanted to play as an elf again and i was resisting that urge bc i played as an elf the first time and wanted something new#so i didnt connect to my character as much#BUT ive learned a lot about optimizing my games from getting bg3 to run on my computer#so i think i could get it to handle dai now. especially if i upgrade to ssd like ive been wanting#and i just saw a dai post on my dash that made me daydream about possible characters and i was struck with inspiration#when i first played through on ps3 i didnt know anything about da lore. it was my first dragon age game#i was just doing whatever i thought seemed coolest#so i basically modeled my inquisitor after my dnd oc and then just picked a vallaslin i thought was pretty#and then when it came time to pick a specialization i was just like 'i mean my hand has rift magic right? seems obvious enough'#but now i know the LORE. and the dalish really interest me. and i want to make an inquisitor thats their own character#i didnt want to replay another elf mage bc i thought it would be too similar#but at the same time i wanted to re-experience dai (and experience trespasser for the first time) now that i knew more about the dalish#(with mods that fix the annoying bits where your character seems to not know about their own religion of course lol...)#i was thinking about that and i just got hit with some inspiration#instead of 'my dnd character but with a cool tattoo and rift magic and they kinda roll with the inquisitor stuff bc idk whats going on'#what if i made a more intentional character with a much different personality and their own backstory#theyre still the first of their clan but i know what that means now so theyre not really into the herald of andraste stuff#theyre a devotee of falon'din with his vallaslin and fittingly choose necromancy specialization (tho theyre annoyed by all the maker talk)#they can look cool and goth and maybe they even make some different choices about the well of sorrows 👀#i could keep rambling but im running out of tags gah#anyways ive got lots of ideas now and i think the playthrough would be unique enough to be worth it
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