Gate70/Grond0 multiplayer attempt 27 - (2nd and final update)Antimel, half-elf fighter/druid (Grond0) & Sajome, half-elf fighter/druid (Gate70)I was expecting a relatively short session this morning, but got a bit carried away with druidic adventures - so Antimel and Sajome are actually back at the palace now about to report to Duke Belt for assignment to Athkatla.
The session started with capturing the charisma tome at the Gnoll Stronghold (for the second time as last night's session crashed at the end). After helping Brage recover his senses the duo had enough funds to buy some full plate for Antimel and the Dagger of Venom for Sajome before going to the Nashkel Mine. The kobolds were no bother;
Mulahey managed to confuse and then hold Sajome, but meanwhile had been infested with insects and failed to get another spell away.
The amazons looked a bit daunting without summons available, so the duo moved on via Nimbul and Tranzig to learn the location of the bandit camp. Before going there they cleared out an ankheg nest and told a local farmer where to find the remains of his son - he was grateful enough to boost our reputation up to 20. That allowed the purchase of the Cloak of Displacement and Green Amulet from Ulgoth's Beard - also recovered Dushai's ring there.
At the camp Antimel started thrusting his spear vigorously through bandits - but got a bit too enthusiastic and broke it (one of 3 broken in the session). The bandits seemed long on swords and short on spears so Antimel switched to her darts to invade the main tent.
Venkt managed to scare her, but paid the price and the others in the tent were unable to land a blow on Antimel before she recovered.
Silke was hit by insects during the cut scene. Antimel confirmed that the insects would affect neutral characters by running Tarnesh round until the insects caught up. The duo then pushed on with the main quest and rapidly traversed the Cloakwood.
At the mine the party there would have seemed an ideal opportunity to use the Green Amulet, but Antimel intended to open the battle by charming Genthore out of sight of Drasus and using him to attack the mages. Before using charm she doomed him, not realising that would make him (and the others) hostile. Her follow-up charm did work, but
things looked bad when both druids were scared. Fortunately, Drasus was occupied in killing Genthore, while Rezdan had died of insect bites and Kysus didn't hand out quite enough damage to kill Sajome (she was
down to 4 HPs at one point just after this screenshot). The duo ran away far enough that only Drasus followed and were able to kill him before coming back to finish off Kysus.
The boots of speed were put to use to run down the stairs near Hareishan and get away before she followed. After dealing with a few guards who did follow, the duo carried on to Daveorn. The battle horrors were pulled back one at a time and meleed fairly easily with the support of doom and fire protection. Daveorn got a lightning bolt off, but received an insect swarm in exchange and was unable to complete another spell. The duo had nothing that could hurt the mustard jelly, but still pulled it out of position to loot the treasure there.
In Baldur's Gate they picked up the dexterity and wisdom tomes, though not the intelligence one (went back for that later with the thought that 5 intelligence rather than 4 would allow a single potion of genius to make wands and scrolls useable). Also collected the Helm of Balduran, the Shield of Falling stars and a spear +1 (from the Seven Suns - no more breakages for Antimel). The Iron Throne was investigated with the help of one invisibility potion (just ran away afterwards).
At Candlekeep Antimel used the violet potion to get the strength to open the tombs. However, the reduction in constitution made her fragile and
she was surprised here to receive so much damage in the first tomb (she was immune to the lightning) and had to be careful in getting rid of the phase spiders.
The duo had been throwing up their meals on the journey, so back in Candlekeep got an antidote from Marek before taking on Slythe. He had a bad day as the duo now had nymphs available and 3 of them + insects and poisoned dagger made a right mess of him.
At the palace, potions were quaffed before Antimel showed herself by casting defensive harmony next to Duke Belt. Liia was pretty much abandoned to her fate, but Belt took only minimal damage -
at this point 2 of the 3 remaining dopplegangers were held by nymphs and the 3rd stunned by a dart. There was a bit of a hiccup at the end when Sarevok seemed to disappear briefly behind a screen of guards and Antimel only woke up to his location after being hit twice. However, she healed up quickly in order to make use of potion buffs to clear enemies from the maze (except the mustard jellies).
Sajome tried to get the Undercity party fighting among themselves by sending dogs in, but several of those only managed to get Rahvin killed and the duo eventually skirted round the party and went on to the temple. Sarevok was pulled out with a sling bullet and left stranded at one side of the temple when Antimel used an invisibility potion. That allowed Sajome to try dispelling him; her second attempt worked making the subsequent run and shoot fight a lot easier. By the
end of the contest Sajome was down to a handful of throwing daggers and Antimel her last few darts. However, both had significant healing capacity available so would almost certainly have been able to finish Sarevok off in melee if necessary.
As a postscript the duo travelled to the pirate cave (using the Green Amulet against the sirenes) to get the tome there.
Sajome did get a nasty shock against some worgs when hit be a bolt from the blue, but fortunately there was no immediate follow-up. They then went on to Durlag's Tower to get the last wisdom tome (worth having as 21 wisdom provides both a bonus 3rd and 5th level spell).
Stats:
Antimel, fighter 6 / druid 8, 77 HPs (incl. 5 from Helm), 156 kills
Sajome, fighter 6 / druid 8, 64 HPs, 157 kills, 0 deaths
Antimel's HPs are just below average for her 19 constitution, whereas Sajome's are rather above average for her 17 constitution. Sajome took the honours in a nailbiting finish to the BG1 kills race
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