These guys are sometimes quite buggy, something I also thought this was:
How can it kill her when it was disarmed??
A couple of questions.
1 Was Shar teel hasted or wearing boots of speed. That trap is huge.
2 I always avoid it because I found it triggered too easily but think it can be dealt with.
Unlike the SoA trap in Spellhold that I'm pretty sure is instant death regardless.
A couple of questions.
1 Was Shar teel hasted or wearing boots of speed. That trap is huge.
2 I always avoid it because I found it triggered too easily but think it can be dealt with.
Unlike the SoA trap in Spellhold that I'm pretty sure is instant death regardless.
Mordred, a servant & Black Guard of Asmodeus. Before I ever got into the ruins of Ulcaster, my Bard/Herald/Sage was killed after an attempt @ rest. We were beset by Kobolds w/Short Bows & he was hit immediately & a follow on arrow took him down. I elected to go on w/o him rather than return, especially since I didn’t have the gold to begin w/. Another attempt @ rest was interrupted by Zombies which I annihilated w/my Berserker Sergeant. Then heading for the grate that led into the ruins, I encountered three Ghasts & 12-15 Kobolds. I was able to stretch that fight out & defeat them & finally got into the ruins themselves.
In the ruins, my first run-in was a tough one w/an Ochre Jelly & a Mustard Jelly in which my Conjurer & I were both hit w/the Mustard Jelly’s attack & slowed. He got away while I pressed to finish the Ochre Jelly & then went after the Mustard Jelly. I took more hits & quaffed Elixir’s of Health & finally killed it. When I did, I felt a surge of power rise up in me from Nessus, the Ninth Hell. Asmodeus promoted me in that moment!
PROMOTION BY THE LORD OF THE NINE HELLS!
From there I discovered the body of a fallen adventurer w/a Potion of Genius, much needed in my company as they have failed to write to many scrolls, so many I cannot count. There on until the final battle, my party was constantly beating off both Dread Wolves & Dire Wolves, at least 20 of them. I worked my way thru, probably too carelessly for a party w/o a true rogue to Find Traps. It eventually caught up to me when I found yet another fallen adventurer & carelessly went over to pick his corpse of any treasure. Just as we moved him, a Fireball came shooting out & blasted us all, killing my Illusionist.
I got us back together, & went back after a rest, & the three of us, all Lawful and Evil, defeated three Dread Wolves & another Vampiric Wolf. My Conjurer did great work in this encounter & killed the third of the three Vampiric Wolves. I wanted his treasure & I wanted it now, so being the healthiest of my company I went in knowing it was likely trapped. It was. Fireball! Ouch!! I’ll need some toughening before I lead armies in the Nine Hells for my lord Asmodeus.
Key Event: The most harrowing part of the entire effort in the ruins was trying to get back out after the last battle w/the Vampiric Wolf. I led my two Lawful Evil subordinates around the last corner, thinking maybe of another treasure room, only to find it booby trapped w/another Fireball. It tore us all up good & I tried to lead us to the exit. Around every corner were two more Dire Wolves. I kept fighting them off using my subordinates to great extent. My Berserker Sergeant & I were both hanging on by a thread as we fought off six Dire Wolves before I finally found us a corner where we could rest, which I & they did. Once complete, I stormed out of the ruins destroying six Dire Wolves before emerging out of the grate into the air again. Outside, the three of us worked masterfully to fight off three Ghouls, some twenty Kobolds including three Kobold Commando’s & 10 or so more skeletons, four w/Composite Longbows. I wanted to find out what reward I might get for returning the spook of Ulcaster his book but, alas, we could not find him anymore.
SWEATIN' IT TO THE FINISH BIG TIME!
Treasure of Note: Ring of Protection +2 (Me); Oil of Fiery Burning (Bard/Herald/Sage); Arrows of Piercing, Biting (Bard/Herald/Sage)
Next Steps: I’m returning to the Nashkel Mines to descend this time
Level Up: I praise my lord Asmodeus for granting me a promotion to Scoundrel (Anti-Paladin/6) & granted me another Doom spell; My Berserker Sergeant also received promotion to Fighter/Berserker/6
Current Party: (Reputation: 4 – Despised)
Black Guard of Asmodeus: Fighter (Blk Gd)/6; Plate Mail w/Lg Shld & RoP+2, +1 B/Swd** & +1 Flail*
(SSS**)
Kagain: Fighter (Bkr)/6; Splint Mail w/RoP+1 & B/Axe*** & T/Axe** (W/Hammer*)
Eldoth: Bard/6; Chain Mail, Sh/Bow* & BoArchery, +1 S/Swd*, Dgr* (Arm,MM,ChOrb,Mir Img,Knock)
Edwin: Mage(Cjr/5); Knaves Rove & +1 Q/Staff* (Arm,Greasex2, C/Per,LMD,B/Hands,MelfsAA x3,PWS,F/Arrow x3)
Quayle: Mage(Ill/5); Mage Rove of FR, Slg* & Dgr (Ref Img, Blind x4,Blur,Inv,Mir Img)
Mods Used: HardTimes-v2; BG1UB_v12; bg1npc-v20; X0black101 (Blackguard); MegaModKits v1.01L; level1npcs-v1.9; bg2_tweaks-v14; Randomizer-v68; scs-v21 (- Tactical Challenges)
Reloads: 0
** Self-imposed restriction: I require my mages to ALWAYS select spells from their school to learn & memorize in spell slots. They can use others, only one of each from other schools, but after writing all the spells they can for their intelligence, if they find one from their own school, they have to choose one to remove in deference to the spell from their school. Same w/memorization, they must learn spells from their school first before others which I only allow them to learn one of. Any extra memorized spell slots have to go to spells from their school. Bards & plain vanilla Mages aren’t restricted in this way.
CKT, great progress I must say.
Ilydan the swashbuckler - final
Cloakwood proved little challenge for my party - spiders were dealt with easilly, Minsc holds Spider's bane, and after killing Aldeth we accepted a quest (BG1 NPC Project Jaheira personal quest) to find some druid. Amarande hold great hatred for Jaheira and had to be killed, which was done flawlessly.
However, the group which held our target was a much different kind of enemy. Jaheira immidiately summoned Dryads; Xan started Slow, Uther rushed forward, Minsc used his rage to get an extra apr. Druids + BG1 + Concentration check is pain indeed.
Following that, Minsc got charmed, Xan panicked&killed by Insect Plague, Kivan doomed, Minsc charmed by our own dryad, re-charmed by the enemy, charmed by our dryad again only to follow being charmed by the enemy (I kid you not). Uther naturally got charmed as well.
2 enemies were charmed as well (yes, it's a charm-fest).
Kivan died when a bear got to him.
After Kivan's death, only operational character was Jaheira. She got stuck in Entangle, only to get charmed.
I don't think I'm gonna be doing Jaheria's quest no more.
Another exciting adventure CKT!
I wanted to find out what reward I might get for returning the spook of Ulcaster his book but, alas, we could not find him anymore.
I often find he's not there (although he does move around quite a bit). Resting somewhere else and sending an invisible / stealthed character back to search for him may help - it doesn't matter how long you leave it until you return the book.
@ Aasim. Sorry to see that - a less than charming end ...
Another exciting adventure CKT!
I often find he's not there (although he does move around quite a bit). Resting somewhere else and sending an invisible / stealthed character back to search for him may help - it doesn't matter how long you leave it until you return the book.
@ Aasim. Sorry to see that - a less than charming end ...
Thanks Grond0. I was planning to pass thu again on the way to my next adventure & see if I can find him. I kept the tome. CKT
Thanks Grond0. I was planning to pass thu again on the way to my next adventure & see if I can find him. I kept the tome. CKT
One of the copies is easily available in Gullykin, if you haven't been to Ulcaster yet to find out the name of the book, just grab them all. There aren't that many.
Well met and welcome, Mr_Goldbeard! Nice to have you with us and all the best with your challenge. About Black Pits - I'm not familiar with them but as far as I know they are not the part of BG1(EE) but just a side-challenge. What is your aim with them? To accumulate an extra exp? But there are loads of exp in the saga itself for the solo character anyway... Of course you can complete them if you like so but for the trilogy no-reload you need only the *main* games by the rules. I wouldn't object if you add them to your personal challenge - many of us add various difficulty enhancing mods in our setups. But I don't know if those Pits could be considered as a mod 
In any case, good luck with whatever you'll choose!
I did some reading of the black pits, and it appears to mod BG 2 EE. Mods are allowed, I don't see why you couldn't use it, but at the moment, the no-reloads are BG 1, BG 2 or ToB, or Trilogy, which is all 3 starting from BG 1. Thus Black Pits is content you can do while doing the BG 2 no-reload. Regardless, welcome to the challenge Mr. Gold_Beard
@Aasim: condolences...
@Mr_Goldbeard: welcome, your arrival means I'm not the newest kid in town anymore 
@everyone: I wouldn't consider the Black Pits to be part of the Trilogy, it's an arena in which you fight a series of (groups of) opponents that increase in power, but not within the game. It's rather a separate game I'd say, for which you'd create a new character or custom party. I suppose it's possible to import/export characters between the two though. I also have nothing against posts about a solo no-reload Black Pits challenge, though I wonder whether people on here would be as interested as they'd be on the BG:EE forums.
Jianson, I find hasted characters usually trigger that trap.
Welcome Mr_Goldbeard. You've said your plan, fair enough and why not see how it goes.
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Sorry to see your run end Aasim.
Keep up the good work CKT.
The title is "History of the Sisters of Light and Darkness".
Sometimes it is that. But I've seen it be other titles. There's a randomized element to it.
*Warning really long post*- I'd like to start by saying this adventure will be a little different than normal. The things that I post are not apart of any documented lore, I just made up stuff that seems cool, and it can fit the main story line. I have done this run about 4 times with this character before, and only completed it zero times lol. Hopefully this time around will be different.
Rathull's Deception - Vol. I
Written and Narrated by : Cespenar
Prologue -
The year is 217, the Heavens and the Abyss waged a war that lasted over a century. With Faerun playing the stage as a battleground between the forces of Righteousness and the sinister forces of the pure depravity. The All Seeing One with all his glory clashed his angelic steel against the Prince of Demons himself. The battle that saw the demise lasted for over a decade itself. Countless demons and paladins laid waste to each others destruction. Demogorgon had three great generals that acted under him, with each general, that general had a legion of his own. Helm, seeing his fallen comrades in battle, knew he needed to device a plan that would end this war quickly. He imprisoned Demogorgon and his two generals that day on the battlefield, and constructed a large tower, that would later become his acting place as a jail of sorts. Helm ruled that no one would ever speak his foul name again.
But this story isn't about that day, but more about the third demonic general. The highest ranking demon of his kind. Rathull the Glabrezu. Rathull was just a few clicks to the south the battle that ended his dark lord. When word reached his ear, he retreated back to the 88th Layer of the Abyss, and lied in wait, seeing if Demo's return would happen. Centuries past, Demo's cultists and servants on the Prime Material plane begin to diminish. With the absence of prayers and rituals, or even a name whispering in an alley. The 88th Layer began to stop flowing with essence all together. The layer was under constant attack from Demogorgon's enemies, in hopes to conquer the Throne of the Depraved. Rathull and all that remained retreated once more to the Throne room itself and barricaded the gates. Centuries pasts once more, until one day Rathull came across a very peculiar tome found deep within Demogorgon's treasures. A tome that would change the course of Helm's rule.
The Tome had writings about a sacred ritual. The ritual was that in a time of desperate need, a fell/ Angelic spirit may forge a mortal body to spread the doctrine of his patron. With spreading the doctrination, the embodiment of the patron will begin to gather essence, which therefore have a chance to be saved. Unfortunately, however, if this avatar as such were to fall, the immortal spirit would not return to the plane of their existence, but would cease to live at all. The spirit would be slain for good. Rathull understood all these things, and began the ritual immediately. Rathull knew he would be born a mortal babe, and that in the prime material he would need a caretaker. Rathull invoked an ancient pact between the 88th Layer and the 90th Layer of the Abyss. Ilsidahur, heard the terms and conditions and told Rathull he has his word. Ilsidahur took a close follower near where Rathull decided to spawn at, and told his servant to lay his life for the young mortal babe. Gorion was this servants name. Rathull, following the agreements with Ilsidahur, started the preperations for the ritual. The embodiments of Demogorgon : Fear, Hatred, and Depravity. Were used to create a mortal vassal. With barely any of the essence left, Rathull was weak in this form. His arms limited, his breathe was short, his mind having capacity of a mortal. In a since he was cursed, but as long as he can act upon the embodiments of the Swimmer of Darkness, the essence will flow through him sure enough.
Rathull was born of 7 Mirtul 1350. Upon his birth plague and pestilence stormed the land in such a way the common folk started calling it "The Time of Troubles." Rathull was born in a town called Candlekeep, where every tome known to man and mer. As a child he was cruel and abusive, unable to comprehend what his purpose was, but Gorion showed him the path that he must walk, and taught him who and what he was. When he was three, he was at the school house, he stole his classmates rations and the teacher got onto him. Rathull spat in his teachers face, the scholar carries the burns and boils to this day. Everywhere Rathull went the people of Candlekeep felt sick to their stomachs. Rumor was Rathull shook the hand of a wandering scholar visiting the keep, that scholar lied in bed for three days, drained and pale as the whitest snow. Rathull eventually grew of age, and studied the surrounding areas with precise attention and devised a plan that would sweep the Sword Coast and take it by surprise. He would bring Baldur's Gate and Amn to the brink of war, causing fear into the hearts of many, and installing hatred towards their leaders. Rathull's tasks were as follows : 1. poison the Amnian mine south of the Baldurian town of Nashkel, leaving their ore as corrosive as the serpents fang, eating away at the flesh of whoever dawns the iron. 2. slay the Baldurian forces north east of Beregost, and leaving Amnian swords and shields at the wasted army, incriminating Amn as a retaliation. 3. Travel into the only metal resource owned by the Iron Throne (the royalty of Baldur's Gate) and flood the mine and point the finger at Amn, this would surely be a declaration of war brought by Balduran Leaders.
Rathull Lvl 1 Blackguard : kills - 0
HP: 14
Str : 18/00
Dex : 18
Con: 18
Int: 16
Wis: 10
Chr: 14
Rathull's Deception - Vol. 1
written and narrated by: Cespenar
Chapter 1 : A Demon's word is worth a thousand gems
written journal of Rathull and narrated by: Cespenar
I grow tired of these blasted walls, and everyone in them. I figured I would take what I could from the peasants here at Candlekeep, and I managed to do so. Especially that ignorant traveling noble upstairs in Winthrop's hell hole of an establishment, not to mention I have a nice piece of armor that the guard that was beckoned. Gorion was ready to head to Nashkel, and as was I.
Not even a days walk outside of Candlekeep, we were ambushed by a group of traveling paladins. The stench of sin travels far I hear. Gorion laid his life for me this night, when Demogorgon is freed, I will make sure to get Ilsidahur nicely rewarded for this. I continued to venture around the area, nothing major to kill, just a few wild animals. It wasn't until a short time that I stumbled across some carnival, Primes are so pathetic for such things. What was rather interesting was this one particular conjurer, who conjured creatures for the pleasure of others. I stared at the beast the second time it was conjured, and delivered a foul message "the owner and everyone here seek to beseech you, most honorable ogre, kill everyone here and you shall be rewarded!" the ogre turned on its master immediately, but the dumbfounded thing turned on me too. I continued to travel south till I had reached the mines. Seems I have walked to far and stumbled upon some strange being in bright green. He begged me to save him from a bounty hunter, I declined him and laughed at him. Amidst my laughter, Greywolf the bounty hunter did indeed show. I spat on my blade and thrusted it into his gut, the acidic saliva ate him away inside out. I gave this "prism" the same fate.
I tricked the front guardsman of the mine into thinking I am a chief inspector from Amn, I showed him a few papers I forged a few days ago, and he let me in. The Amnian guards became sparse and sparse as I entered the mine, and these yipping little crittens stand their duties. Once I started to see pure iron deposits I begin my work. When the acid touches the iron it shimmers in a pale orange color, once forged it will tear away the flesh of all that wear it. Mulahey the main Amnian in charge is dead by my blade. Within his belongings I had found a note, from some Amnian Ambassador that is staying in Beregost. A pleasant turn of events, perhaps I shall go pay him a visit.
Rathull lvl 3 Blackguard : kills - 85 (Greywolf)
HP : 42
Two Handed Sword : * *
Two Handed Weapon : * *
Crossbow: *
@Jianson, glorious defeat of Aec'Letec! I Love backstabs, especially criticals, and even more on a foe like that one 
As to the future, you'd do well to remain vigilant, as the Helmites would say, but since you've tackled Durlag's Tower, I think the remainder of the game should be doable as well even if you've got little experience with SCS. Keep a wary eye about in the Undercellars, I've had very unpleasant surprises there in the past.
Mr_Goldbeard, you write really well!
Keep a wary eye about in the Undercellars, I've had very unpleasant surprises there in the past.
For different reasons, I've walked through the Thieves' Maze almost ten times now (thank goodness for the improves pathfinding!).
For a cleared out area like this, I find it a lot more convenient to just use the control-J command and bypass it. There's no gameplay or challenge or interest in watching a party wander through the maze. Skip all tedium.
Only thing about your suggestion Matuse is there's a lot of traps in the maze, even if the monsters are dead, so I'm not so sure CTRL + J is appropriate in this case, since you would skip them. This isn't a speed challenge, so if it takes 2-3 minutes to get through the maze, no big deal. In general, the CTRL + J should be used to resolve bugs (that one bug in Durlag's is a good example of where CTRL + J should be used).
Only thing about your suggestion Matuse is there's a lot of traps in the maze
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