This is going to be Thani's final update unless you guys convince me that a bug has been at work in my game
Thani decided to explore parts of Watcher's Keep, before she would set sail to Spellhold. She cleared the entire first floor. The level draining mists were harmless as she equipped the Improved Mace of Disruption, and she survived the statues thanks to good positioning and some luck. Thani retreated to the room left of the altar. There she would deal with the statues one or two at a time. Later she would do the same in the library.
Her 37 Magic Resistance sufficed to keep her from being Mazed and Symbol:Stunned (this was the luck factor). Maybe it would have been less frustrating if one of those spells had killed her.
She survived two Timestops, and - thanks to the aforementioned MR and her excellent saves (0/0/3/3/0) - various nasty spells such as Chaos, Slow, ADHW, and Sphere of Chaos.
The warrior/rogue/monster statues were Greater Whirlwinded into oblivion. The only statue to really form a threat was the Archer, but nothing that potions of extra/superior healing couldn't remedy.
On the second level doom befell her. She got cursed. I didn't see any stat changes or afflictions mentioned in the character record, but the SCS readme mentions a "Cursed Wounds" that Clay Golems may inflict upon hit (she had just fought one or two on the second level). What the readme doesn't mention is what the curse exactly does, nor how long it lasts or how it can be removed. The Helmite priestess by the Watcher's Keep entrance wasn't able to remove it, as the following image demonstrates:
She rested, woke up and saw that the curse was still there, so it seemed the curse wouldn't wear off of its own accord... However, as it didn't seem to do anything, Thani continued her exploration of the Keep. She had cleared the acid, electricity, and ice libraries on the second level, and would have done the same with the fire library, if it weren't for the curse: turns out that it keeps the character from healing. The following is the last screenshot I have of her, moments before she fruitlessly tried to heal herself with a potion of superior healing and got killed by the Fire Giants that would soon block her way to the exit portal.
My own thoughts: once again my limited SCS knowledge for BG2 showed. This Cursed Wounds issue wasn't something I'd forgotten by the way, but rather something I never knew. I must say that a permanent curse that keeps one from healing, that cannot be removed, and - I just tested this with 4 consecutive rests - that does not seem to wear off, is overly severe imo (except if your name is Grond0 haha), up to the point where I'm wondering whether this has been some kind of bug. So anyone who reads this, is this really how this curse is supposed to work? How did you deal with it? No more healing for the rest of the game?
Edit: Interestingly Thani hadn't noticed the effect of the curse when she rested because DUHM + 20 CON gives fast natural regeneration, which was not affected by the curse. So she woke up fully recovered.
Edit 2:
According to someone at the Baldur's Gate Forums,
"Ah this bug again ! It happened to Proesis aswell, maybe you remember it. I followed your advice back in time and I asked in the SCS thread if someone knew how to cure it, alas, it's working perfectly fine for everyone except us. Normally if can be cured with a simple Remove Curse spell, but for us it's impossible.
We have been afflicted with the very special solo no-reload SCS version of the curse, and the only remedy ... is death.
Jokes apart, get it off with EEKeeper, I think it's the only way."
I don't like reloading after having seen the 'the main character has died' message, but this does seem to be bug then, no? Looking forward to your views.
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