#seph plays bg3

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I think I just got slut shamed by Lae'zel. To be fair I also seem to have taken this screenshot at a really unflattering moment.

But still. Damn, girl. Harsh. Sorry for being gay.

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I have decided to play a BG3 playthrough that is so... not going to give me a satisfying experience right now and I don't know why except for that I want very specific things from both Rogue and Sorcerer and technically I would have preferred for RP purposes to have started as a Sorcerer because I have been having a bunch of fun with them, but like. Rogue has a bunch of starting stats and abilities that I just kind of need.

Which I know is a fairly normal way to play a DnD character, especially if you don't start that character at level 1, but like. It does feel like I have a little secret I didn't tell when Gale asked if I was studied in magic, and that's that the tadpole ate my sorcery points.

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it's kind of fun to play a Drow/Elf and just like. pretend in my little headcanon brain... to be older than Astarion.

like he has immortality angst from being a vampire, but also elves are just *like that* and can live like 700+ years, so like. somehow the idea of meeting his tortured agelessness with more agelessness is so funny. Also playing Lolth Drow is like "yeah I also come from the Underdark and the sun is pretty foreign to me honestly. Also generally everyone is obsessed with power and torture and poison where I'm from. Wild."

I don't have a real point it's just like. *Funny*?

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I love so much of Karlach’s dialogue about the tadpole stuff is like “I don’t really know how I feel, if you’re doing it it kinda freaks me out but I do believe you probably mean well. Let me know if you’re not trusting yourself and I’ll try and be there however I can to keep you in line.” Or like “yeah, it freaks me out too but I think I need to use that too. We’ll keep an eye on each other, but if this feels real fuckin’ important and I’m not sure I’m ready to take on the challenge as I am.”

She’s just. Supportive and on the level like 90% of the time. And it might just be my play style but still. I like her just being like “yeah, this sucks. I appreciate that you’re not making this decision lightly and will keep an eye out for your safety.”

Also, gotta admit, use way more collected sentences when I’m writing compared to when I’m talking, so her manner or speaking just like. Idk what it is but it feels so comfortable and home-like. Like if I type like a disjointed ADHD redneck, imagine my speech patterns? Ugh. She talks like a friend or peer. I love her lmao.

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Rip Nalzyr's funny eye, Volo popped it out and replaced it with one that can see invisibility, so here's one last image of him with his original look.

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Nalzyr the half elf storm sorcerer is a fucking disaster and a half and I am genuinely like. in my head creating a character who is like. competing with Gale's drama just by trying not to be consumed by his magic which is like... typically something like 'fighting to contain a tornado' which is not exactly something a person can do.

The introduction to wizardry scene is like. 'uh, okay so yeah we definitely channel magic through different gods in different ways, it feels a little like you get rosewater kisses and I get a car batter strapped to my nipples. this is a wildly different experience. I need to talk to the storm lord and maybe get that shit worked out 'cause this is like. when I said easier I mean like. it doesn't feel a little like it's tearing me apart from the inside out?' which is probably also wrong because like. Gale guided the spell and made it fuzzy, but like. also, I'm projecting a chronic pain metaphor because I'm very sore today and I want to.

Bonus Loviatar's Blessing male nipples:

we have fun here kids

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Every fuckin time Arron says “Silvanus be with you”

my raised Catholic ass thinks “and also with you.”

Like he’s about to go “we lift up our hearts to Silvanus.”

“We lift up our hearts to give him thanks and praise.”

And like. Man. I don’t remember the last time I been to church. I saw the John Mulaney bit about how they changed that script so it’s probably been a *while*.

Fuckin’ call and response ritualistic chants. It gets ya forever.

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Lmao, last time I leveled up I multiclassed into a ranger as well as a rogue and suddenly I’m able to do things like wear medium armour and wield heavy crossbows and I didn’t plan around it entirely because I actually have never used multiclassing before. And I completely didn’t think about things like “oh right, now I can do rogue things but also use this other stuff” which is fully insignificant but it did throw me off when I clicked something and it worked…

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There are aspects of playing BG3 Act One that feel like when I was playing DAI for the first time and didn’t realize I was supposed to leave the Hinterlands.

You know the very very first time a lot of players do Dragon Age Inquisition and especially coming off Dragon Age 2 which had only one location and so *some of us* straight up did not leave the Hinterlands for like 12 hours and then it turns out there’s a whole other game taking place outside the mini quest squad of the Hinterlands?

I feel like I have trapped myself in the Hinterlands. I’ve now moved on to the Underdark, but I still think maybe I have probably like. Not even gotten to the actual *game* part yet and am being an idiot.

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Playing a non-Durge Cin run on BG3 because I have anxiety and I just… don’t know? I think of all the characters I’ve started Cin was my favourite but Durge is imposing and I want to just try playing an average Tav playthrough where the asshole angsty bullshit just comes from being Lolth-born Drow, that’s enough edgy bullshit for Cin without going full Durge. They still get to have like… “I’m raised among the death and poison and assassination of the Spider Queen. Being able to walk out in the sun without being blinded or burned is bizarre. Pain and I are old lovers… I give and receive.” Like. I can make a dramatic little Drow bitch without making them a Durge.

And I’m just. Really in the mood to embrace my inner teenage emo edgelord okay? Like. Cinnabar “Cin” the Draconian Sorcerer is like. Fully embracing the Ebony Darkness Dementia Way experience of making an OC only part of my indulgence is how much metaphorical/allegorical/literary or symbolic references I can fit in to make him dramatic, tragic and badass.

And also hot and weird. I’m giving him weird little vestigial wings, since the entry for Draconian Sorcerers says they can develop wings for a short period of time at a curtain level and fly for a couple turns basically. I’ve decided to modify it as he’s born with very small vestigial wings, like his scales, and when he gains the spell and ability to fly the wings grow and develop into larger and more powerful appendages that still technically would not physically support him in flight so there is magic involved, but that much should be obvious given the physical transformation taking place. But yeah. It’s not canon to the game but it’s my OC, my rules. The wings are purely an aesthetic thing and basically a deformity for the first like fifteen levels of the character. But my idea for him is like… someone thought it was attractive and intimidating and since he came with built in magic it was a useful investment so long as he showed results.

So like. Yeah he’s the super special Dragon Drow Sorcerer with a tragic backstory because they were special, like. That’s why he’s a main character. Sometimes that’s the kind of story it is, about the specialist special Drow in the whole Underdark who save the whole world with their feral nonbinary energy and extremely cute badass cool attractive looks.

I’m so stoned and tired.

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so I like. wasn't gonna romance Astarion with Rain. like I didn't know who Rain was gonna romance, he has been playing the field, flirting with whoever, doing whatever. just existing. Being blunt and kind of an asshole because that's Rain's thing.

this has had a result of Astarion having an absurdly high approval for all my playthroughs. and while I was in the goblin camp I had Rain go submit to the Priest of Pain situation and also goad him and the result appeared to be Astarion getting really really into it and like immediately afterwards I triggered a dialogue option where he was like "hey, you. I wanna do you, and I know you wanna do me too. Don't pretend I totally know it's true, bitch. When we're at camp later let's get alone and do something carnal and nasty."

And like Bitch. you were a medium simmer with Lake, vaguely interested in whatever his shit was. Rain you spent half this time like 'oh it's my favourite traveling companion' and now you're trying to climb him like a tree. Cannot believe this man.

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Have I spent like 20 minutes dying my clothes because I like to look fashionable? Fuck off. I know it has only partial effects and I’m wasting dyes on mid to low level armours. Don’t care. Maybe I’ll find more shops with better dyes or learn how to make them myself. I don’t care at all. It’s also why I fully have not been wearing the helmets as much as I should be. I am not sorry. I also quick save before testing dye combinations sometimes. It’s important right now for me to look hot. When I get the look just right maybe I’ll post a pic. I’ve defiled that bright red sun robe to make it goth for Py because his name is all about fucking lying. (Get it? Because pyrite is fool’s gold? He’s a Drow half elf with amber eyes and a goth aesthetic. I swear there was a reason.)

Contemplating also taking him to the magic mirror and adjusting his makeup a little. Maybe put his hair in a ponytail… I like the colours I’ve given him so far, but I think he could have a bit more razzmatazz…

One day I’ll go back to Hymn and get some more spice in their playthrough too because their appearance is fun. I’m just having a lot of fun with Py right now. There’s so much stuff I learn about every new time I play.

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Oh no how did I accidentally end up kind of shipping Karlach and Dammon.

The smith and the “living weapon” trope. Fuck. It’s really cute.

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for some reason I only took screencaps in extremely dramatic lighting.... I made a Half Drow Wizard named Pyrite because I keep naming characters after things instead of names. idk. I'm bad at naming things.

For some reason I also a) played for way way too long and also b) got my ass kicked repeatedly and took on challenges that were way too high because I did not plan on like 50% of them being as high of level as they ended up being and usually Astarion ended up getting downed like. A lot.

This is probably why he revealed he was a vampire like the first night we took a long rest? instead of later on? I just ran all foolhardy into danger like a madman and he was like 'look man I can't fucking do this I'm gonna fuckin' die for realsies out there.'

Although unintended consequence of repeat playthrough, I'm getting a little less cautious, which has resulted in me being a little less goody-goody with some of my behaviors just... incidentally. I haven't technically gotten as far yet with Py's playthrough, he was supposed to be with Gale, but somehow I'm unlocking more Astarion stuff by aiming for Gale, and when I'm aiming for Astarion I just unlock nonstop Gale.

These men are attracted to not being attracted to I swear to god. They can tell when you're not planning to romance them and activate their more interesting scenes. Infuriating.

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So. Why am I stuck in turn based mode after the burning house.. what did I do? Is this a setting I didn’t know I can turn on and off because I’m fucking stupid? Shit. I feel stupid. Aaaaaaa

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Lake playthrough I ended up going through a looting phase where I had a… truly absurd amount of hoarded gold and scrolls… because I’m one of those gamers who keeps thinking “what if I need it for something?”

So I’ve found myself in a situation where I’ve just like… made Gale learn a bunch of spells for no reason. I feel like a weird patron. In regular DnD the time commitment of learning spells from scrolls is like. A pain in the ass. But since there isn’t like. “You have to have this time set aside for studying, you just spend the money” it’s like. “Here Gale have all the scrolls I’ve collected in my dungeon looting gremlin habits”

And now Gale has more spells than he can use. I’m like a fucking dealer. “Hey bro you got blur yet? I got 1000 gold and a million scrolls because I keep forgetting how this fucking game works. Do you need ray of enfeeblement? I have not gone to a shop in three hours, please wear this dumb hat for me. I forgot you have a purple colour scheme because I got this cool set of red robes in my last dungeon and made you wear them. I’m sorry I think you look good I swear.”

He does eat my magical items so I think it’s a little fair, right? Like. If he’s gonna eat my magical items he can at least wear a silly hat about it.

I'm so sorry Gale I don't know what I'm doing and I keep thinking of Ashley Johnson's Gail bit from CritRole and it's really not fair to you that I keep doing this but I swear I deeply adore you. I love High Int/Low Wis so fucking much. I'll buy some purple dye next time I'm at a shop I promise and I'll get some matching boots and gloves or something I promise I'm sorry.