#my first playthrough... the bad guys wanted me to kill Karlach and bring them her head and since she wouldn't talk to me all I knew was that

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Karlach refuses to talk to me or join my party becsuse of what happened in The Grove (I couldn't convince Kagha to not kick the tieflings out so I killed her and then the other druids started killing all the other tieflings. I stopped them as soon as I could but um yeah most died) and if you look up anything about Karlach not wanting to befriend you because of whatever happened in The Grove people online call it "The Evil Route"...

MY CHARACTER ISN'T EVIL!!!! SHE'S DOING HER BEST!!! SHE'S THE HERO!!!!!!!! PLEASE IT WAS AN ACCIDENT

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Stumbling and crashing and tripping with various crashes and a Wilhelm scream into your askbox to ask, YOU PLAY BG3????? ISN'T IT GREAT?!?!?!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH AKSHQKXBQ it's been my Focus since December!!! Who's your favorite so far?? How far are you in?? What kind of route are you doing?? Have you discovered any funny loopholes yet?? What race do you favor playing?? I LOVE to hear about other peoples playthroughs,

IT'S GODDAMN AMAZING AND I ALREADY HAVE MULTIPLE PLAYTHROUGHS PLANNED BECAUSE ONCE IS NOOOOT ENOUGH! I AM IN LOVE. Like I know these types of games (I've been a Bioware slut since KOTOR 2, so I looove this genre), and so I feel very confident saying holy shit, BG3 is one of the best! ALSO IT'S HUGE??? INSANELY HUGE??? AND FULL??? I LOVE IT SM.

Oh god favorites are hard, I'm gd attached to all of these little ducklings following my Tav. So far at least, storywise it's SCRATCH HE IS THE BESTEST BOY maaaybe Astarion. I LOVE his arc, his voicework is stunning, (I accidentally killed him with the big monastery laser and his reaction was hysterical) and his quest has been very moving. A close second is KARLACH, MY GIRL, MY FIREY BFF, like damn I HAD my little battle group (Gale + Astarion + Wyll) when I found her but I adore her so much I'm rotating Gale and Wyll to keep her permanently, SHE JUST WANTED A HUG. 😭

I'm in act 3, I just hit the city! I have no idea how but I am also STILL on my first PT after over a month of play. I love to sniff around under every nook and cranny granted, AND YET I STILL MISSED THINGS, IT'S SO BIG???

So far my route has been a chaotic good route! Outside, uh, occasional murdery hiccups goodbye creche but ya'll were assholes I've mostly managed to follow that alignment, and somehow still made friends with Lae? That was unexpected. I thought she hated my Tav's guts before she hit on her. 😂

Hilarious moments: setting off the giant laser at the monastery cause why wouldn't I grab the shiny weapon (sorry Astarion); being instakilled by Vlaakith at said monastery after basically mocking her with 'if you were really a god you'd be able to just kill someone yourself ha ha-splat'; friends telling me to talk to animals so I got excited when I saw a squirrel and ran to talk to it - it proceeded to bite me, then I failed a persuasion roll about being friends and it told me to fuck off; trying to get to that dwarf lady's husband in the Underdark and shooting an arrow at one of the mushrooms in the field he was in, thinking I could clear them one by one to get to him, only to set off a chain reaction that incinerated him and left the entire field a smoking crater (me as the explosions begin: oh, OH, oh no - wait, sir! Sir! Oh you're fine, you're - oh fuck, RUN SIR RU-shit he's dead); placing my druid in rothe/battle cow shape at the top of a ladder and charging whatever bad guy comes up so they fall back down (catchphrase: MOO, BITCH); and finally, I was having trouble with that one boss guy in the goblin camp, the one that sits on the throne. So when I saw I could get to the rafters, I painstakingly dragged every last explosive barrel and grenade I could find into the room and innocently placed them around the throne, then went up to the rafters and had Astarion shoot a fire arrow. I figured I'd at least bring the guy's health down but instead I set off the fourth of july, blasted that guy so hard he bounced around the room like a pinball before his body wound up glitch-stuck halfway through a wall, but hey, dead as a doornail sooo... it worked? Chaotic good alignment: MASTERED. 🤪

I'm playing a half-elf druid CAUSE I CAN BE AN OWLBEAR OR DINOSAUR TO FIGHT. I now have a chance to run around as a dinosaur druid with my 200 yo elf boyfriend, my BFFs, and find random bowls of poutine, this is the BEST GAME EVER. Also hilariously, I didn't check the stats closely and her intelligence wound up quite low, so she is very wise but also dumb as a bag of hammers, I love her, my first Tav is a good-hearted, unintentional bundle of chaos.

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22, 29, 86!

22. What is your Tav's first impression of the other companions (Astarion, Gale, Karlach, Wyll ...)

LMAO I started thinking of the answer for Gale and it just made me think of one of those... "How It Started / How It's Going" memes, I've answered that one via a stupid doodle

...anyways. everybody else.

Lae'zel: Vennet liked her right away actually! she's good in combat, doesn't take any shit, there's... a lot of similarities between the warlike culture/ attitude towards other species / etc between githyanki & drow. they're also the two who are totally out of place in this environment. I think after ten minutes with Lae'zel Ven was like "right, I get it, I knew a dozen girlies exactly like this back in Menzo"

Shadowheart: probably along the lines of just "wtf is your deal?" because SH is sooo cagey and mysterious at first, and then Vennet also has personal reasons to dislike Shar... it took a long time for her to not be wary of SH but they ended up good friends

Astarion: some combo of "Yikes, Surface Elf, Be Extra Wary" + immediately finding him attractive + respecting how mean he is

Wyll: I regret to inform the people that Vennet also thought Wyll was cringe and that... never really went away LOL, I think she just does not have any patience for his good guy Blade of Frontiers shtick and also that they would have argued A Lot and kinda fought for the role of party leader.

Karlach: Vennet definitely has a soft spot for Karlach and found her really charming and likable despite herself! Karlach is the last person you recruit of the main tadpole squad so by that point it wasn't really a question of "are we bringing this person along" and it was just nice to find a new ally.

29. What does your Tav do about the Goblin camp? Do they free Halsin or side with Minthara? What's their opinion of them?

This is one of those points in my story where the personality I had in mind for my character clashes a little bit with the decisions I made as a first-time player who wanted to stick with what was obviously the "default" good-guy route of the game for my first run... In order to resolve it I lean on the idea that Vennet wasn't really the ~*~Leader~*~ of the group and that it was more democratic like a real dnd party would be, esp that there was a lot of input on the Moral Decisions from Wyll and his main character energy (I love you Wyll xoxo). Vennet starts off as pretty solidly Neutral Evil and it would not be OOC for her to have ignored the goblins attacking the grove or to have even sided with Minthara maybe.

Vennet's opinion on Minthara is... hmm, pending, until I get to know Minthara better lol, I've still only barely just recruited her on my second playthrough and I don't know that much about her yet. I think they would have actually met before the game in some capacity, or at least that Vennet would have known of her, because they're close in age and Minthara is from a very prominent family. Whatever their confrontation was like in the goblin camp, it ended with Minthara dead, so :/

I think there's probably an alternate timeline where I knew about hwo you could knock out Minthara (I knew she was recruitable, but thought it was only on an evil playthrough if you sided with her) and instead of getting no romance ending, Vennet and Minthara were the Underdark's bad girl power couple going on a crusade against Menzoberranzan (sorry to Gale lmao)

As for Halsin, Vennet never really got to know him on a personal level well enough that her opinion moved to anywhere beyond "I am glad that we have this reliable and strong ally to our cause." I just feel like their vibes are not compatible lol I can't imagine them getting along that well.

86. Did your Tav complete the trial of Bhaal?

Asdglhkr yeah you know Ven killed that annoying fucking hollyphant to be named an Unholy Assassin and did not lose a moment of sleep over it. (Actually, Astarion is the one who got the killing blow and the cool cutscene where you're covered in blood, but yeah.) Her good friend Lae'zel was kidnapped by Orin! We had to get her back ASAP, who cares about crossing a little moral line here and there for the sake of our goals!