#chi plays bg3

[lonepower]

it does make this screenshot even funnier though like

the weird bloodthirsty waif that minthara has known for like a total of 7 hours: [turns into a 12-foot-tall abomination and throws ketheric across the room]

minthara, heavily concussed: oh no she's hot

[chitrolls]

Still not dead, lads. Just mad busy, but I’m finally about to wrap up some things, which means I can return to normal activities. :)

[macgyvertape]

BG3 Act 1 thoughts and liveblog part 1

With super long games like this (finished in about 110 hours) I like to take notes to 1) remind me of stuff I did at the beginning of the game and 2) to enjoy looking back on because I'm not doing another playthrough for a few years.

Going to suffer through the spider and half spider people since the mods don’t fully work yet and they disable achievements

Going for dark urge first playthough along the lines of Durge is guard dog to those they imprint on and I knew I was rolling a bard, so I watched clips of Felix RedvsBlue as a good starting point for my character roleplay. Starting character quote “At the end of the day, if I'm stronger than you and if I'm faster than you, then I can kill you! And that's better than anything money can buy”

Trying Not to be a “charismatic mercenary with gruff exterior and a heart of gold” 

I killed Commander Zhalk in the beginning area with viscous mockery. True bard experience

Passed the perception check of Astarion pulling a knife, some fun dialgoue options with him, and its a delight to hear his tone of voice really change

I can’t tell if Gale is just flirty/horny or really just dedicated to the facade of being surface deep and a braggart to mask his secrets. Seems both and though he seems full of himself I enjoy this kind of companion who lies about things

I think I like the inspiration mechanic, I got a point for killing the mindflayer “leaving it to burn”

I’m really having to force myself to be “that asshole” and ask people to pay me for helping them

Got another inspirational event for killing the cultists lol. The game gives me a lot of options to talk about my dark urge but I really want to play that close to the chest

I don’t really know about pre-rewrite version of Wyll but he really seems a good alignment nice dude, and unfortunately I want to be almost evil/neutral Dark Urge.

Had to reload to save Nadira, I’m struggling with interrupting actions outside of turn by turn combat

Rapheal sure makes an entrance, my character turned him down but didn’t attack since he seemed so powerful. Keep my options open but it seems like there are a lot of options there

Gale is fucking lucky I had a extra piece of enchanted gear so I didn’t lose my very nice sword. I also feel like I’m throwing away some approval points by my character questioning him but I’m trying to play someone who isn’t altruistic or too trusting.

Ok I failed several perception checks for a kid stealing my stuff then I caught the last one, but then the kid ran off and everyone in the hideout ran out. I’m not sure if anything was still stolen from me or if this is a a bug 

RIP Alfira, was not expecting that from the dark urge. I chose to confess to the others, if my character is murdering people in my sleep only fair to explain and not hide

My character told Karlach to tear the place apart as catharsis for being hunted, and it was fun to see that scripted sequence play out

Gale is telling me his unstable magic backstory, but he’s doing it at camp so there is no reaction for anyone else during the conversation despite him saying he wanted to tell everyone. (edit: Not sure if a bug considering he also referenced being mind whammied by the Almighty before that had occurred in the goblin camp). Also deeply ironic he talks about understanding if my character wants him to leave since he’s a literal timebomb, but this is happening a day after D!urge pc killed someone brutally

Also incredibly funny Lae’zel is now interested in my character, and will sleep with me considering her dialogue post D!urge murder

Wyll gets turned by his patron demon into a semi horned being, ok so I guess just seeing what he looks like shows the obvious decision you made with Karlach

Wtf is up with Wyll, that he’s so proud he made his pact when it was just made obvious he was sent on basically an assassination mission. All his talk of “saving innocents” wonder how many innocents he’s killed from bad intel

The trifling child gang hideout is very bugged

Perception check for the swamp reveal was really cool

I haven’t been taking many long rests so I just now got the Astarion vampire one. Fun to see all the options if you let him kill you, but I save scummed to let him really go for then stop for roleplaying purposes 

I actually realized I was right by the vampire hunter so I loaded a save where Astarion hadn’t revealed himself yet and fun how different it goes, he will kill the vampire hunter out of combat to keep his secret if you don’t intervene and that’s very fun. It also gets brought up when he tries to feed on you for the first time at camp, but I haven't found a dialogue option where you can say “weird coincidence the guy called you by the same name”

Got the scene at the goblin area where the party would get mind whammied if not for the mysterious artifact. I’m really trying to pick a moment when my character would go from “more people is better odds” to “ride or die for certain characters” and I think this is a good point along the line of “oh if these people aren’t with me then they’ll immediately be soldiers against me”

I really enjoy how Astarion treats you like a fool if you say he’ll be safe because you would protect him from Cazador, in the cliche all power player character here to fix the companion’s problems. I mean my character still said it of course because that was my favorite of the 3 options at that point. Interesting I only now can ask about what offer Raphael made, like that was hours and hours ago but guess it needed specific dialogue flags 

No other game has given me an S&M scene like this for a stat buff where its fun and horny. I love Gale’s “well whatever you’re into”. The first time I did the scene (pun intended) Astarion was standing a little too far away, so I only got Shadowhearts dialogue, but its much better with them talking back and forth

My character told Shadowheart she doesn't care that she worships Shar but more along the lines of not that she likes Shar its just she don’t really care about religion 

I am majorly arachnophobic so I just covered up the screen and freed the spiders so the goblins would kill them

My character asked the priestess to meet alone then assassinated her with Astarian cloaked to get an extra out of combat turn. I expect to do this setup a lot more

I found a Selunite outpost and went down there, then reloaded since that seems way too big an area to explore right now

Setting up Minthara to be doublecrossed was a great tactical way to clear out the goblin camp, especially since I’m out of short rests

Killed Dror Ragzlin with barrelmancy, aka stole a bunch of explosive barrels and put them around him and the crowd and then exploded them from the rafters above

Note to self in however many hours when I get to Baldur’s Gate, see how Ronan’s apprenticeship faired (I bet not well)

Astarion calling my character darling and saying he’s going to like me and it's clear I like him too, definitely feels like he’s rolling to seduce and being a bit manipulative so she will like him (tangent: Margaery Tyrell was one of my favorite GoT characters kinda similar vibes) 

My character was upfront about enjoying it but very funny to say that a less trusting person would be suspicious and have him vouch that the only thing on his mind was carnal lust. I tried the immediate agreement then reloaded and I love that his response feels very different like he’s succeeded in a seduction check. 

I made my dream visitor a hot masc teifling and there is big horny energy with his scenes

Got the “morally acceptable massacre” for defending the grove. I created some barricades out of crates, blew up the sappers with fire arrows and then the enemies were just trapped at the bottom as I killed them with archery. Took a few tries for barricade positioning but then was easy and none of the tieflings died

I’d like to think my D!urge character would love massacring the goblins, in the same way she enjoyed getting the Knoll leader to kill the others then kill themselves brutally. Sort of a “I just love killin’” character approach, but my D!urge character dislikes that the Dark Urge takes away her control. 

My character absorbed Minthara’s tadpole at the prompting, I figured my character would be all about gaining power she could control. Astarion certainly had a very camp approval option. 

I then used 4 Ithilid powers across Astarion, Gale, and myself really just to get rid of the menu icon being bright red and distracting

Oh wow I completely missed doing Kagha’s secrets until now, so I could tell Halsin but not much else happens 

Didn’t expect my character could talk Lae’zel into using the tadpole powers and make a good persuasion attempt with Kalrach, and then persuaded everyone else. Playing a charismatic character is fun, she is manipulative af

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entry 7 》 september 21

uuaaahhhh so tired so tired…. i played dnd with my friends today and it was easier because bg3 helped me with the mechanics hehe… i played a samurai named k*gura b*chi………… coughs anyway-!!

Nさん mentioned that he and Kさん might buy a house… he said that maybe i could live with them.. it sounded like a fun option; i don’t have a bad relationship with my parents but it would be nice to move out yknow?!!!

Kさん said it’s because they never had a roommate before haha… i’m a night owl though so i’m not sure we’d be compatible but maybe…

uu….

i read a manhua Hさん recommended… one of the leads is so much like my ocs that i felt like the author saw directly into my brain…. it was really really cute though… i enjoyed it a lot!!

… … i really like Hさん huh.. though i still think it’s okay if things stay like they are too .. but seeing them in person someday would be nice too if i’m able .. they invited me to do a lot of things .. even though it isn’t practical they always seemed to be inviting me sincerely…

[lonepower]

oghhhhhhhhh my god if you get astarion's "such a grim name for such a beautiful flower" banter before the vampire reveal shadowheart says this instead

i'm fucking cackling

[lonepower]

the amount of things this game lets you lick is truly unreal

[lonepower]

i think every npc in rivington needs an exhausted "hi, orin" dialogue option

[lonepower]

i really really love when the narrator breaks her... "remove" I guess?... because something's happened that she has Opinions on, like the redcaps pretending to be sheep or if you talk your way past the ogre priestess. it's not Quite a fourth wall break but it sort of turns her from a non-diegetic game interface mechanic into like. oh this is your DM. if you get me

[lonepower]

i just REALIZED i never actually made you guys look at my durge so here she is. look at her 🔪🔪🔪

[lonepower]

i'm in tears over lilin's reaction to the hatching gnoll

[lonepower]

i am about to commit a *quick headcount* quintuple homicide

[lonepower]

KAR'NISS NO I WAS BEING HONEST-

[lonepower]

i noticed that merry has little vestigial/emergent wings which is So cute, and then i looked up "wait what's the difference between a tiefling and a cambion then", and now i'm even more confused

[lonepower]

@cannibalisticskittles replied to your post “@cannibalisticskittles replied to your post “me?...”:

yesssss, being the child of mephistopheles has a lot to explore on its own, + everything with raphael.... good shit

especially since raphael, for as much power as he's amassed, is still a loser cambion after all these centuries. cambions aren't even full devils. the man is a child of one of the rulers of hell and he can't even earn himself a promotion to a higher form of devil after like a thousand years?? bet he'd have some fear of being upstaged by this new half-sibling, despite all the posturing and confidence he presents

​meanwhile if Meriweather ever finds out, her "ough gods what" to "cringe selfie w my fail bro♡" pipeline is going to be about 0.4 seconds. she is so delighted that this bastard has been bothering her the whole time because he's been babysitting her. (he has not.) she is going to become the obnoxious kid sister she was always destined to be whether he likes it or not.

PLUS LIKE it's even funnier if he does have that whole sudden replacement-goldfish fear but (whatever Dad is actually planning by putting the two of them in proximity) that's just not even on her radar. she's ambitious, yes, but not in any way that even remotely comes close to actually threatening him. her life's mission is to learn the name of god from a mushroom and then turn herself into a squid. she's spent the past 20 years living in the woods eating dirt, she is not in any way a danger to his position but Raphael looks at this little chaos-worshipping gremlin and is like "I have to control the situation for my own safety"

tl;dr they're both fucking losers

[lonepower]

i love withers so much because the one who wrote him actually fucking knows the rules of eme

[lonepower]

hi i would FUCKING DIE for shovel