#hoping i'll finish my first playthrough this weekend! this is absolutely the most hours i've sunk into a single story playthrough of a game

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very impressed by the twist of the emperor's identity! i'm so curious if that's completely missable if you don't chase down wyll's quest or if it comes up later. i hadn't really been intending to do much of wyll's quest, since i haven't had him in my party, but it ended up being pretty tied into the main plot and i certainly didn't mind.

i'm getting to the point where i kind of just want to go to the end so i can start another playthrough - today i picked up the second netherstone, and i'm debating which sidequests i actually want to chase down before heading for the last (i assume after i get the last one i'll pretty much be going straight into the big battle). i've already pretty much set aside karlach and lae'zel's quests on this playthrough; the big one i still need to decide if i'm doing is finding minsc. i'm kind of leaning away from it, although i might start it and i can always abandon it. i'm so rarely a completionist, but this game does a really good job of tying most of the side content to the main thread of the game, which makes it all really tempting. but i also don't want to burn myself out and lose interest, especially so close to the end.