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[Aasim]

 

  I've also restarted my long-running monks ...

Damn, you're persistent.

[corey_russell]

Corethief X the dwarven thief - Update 4

Traveling with: Hanna (halfling bounty hunter), Imoen (thief)

 

Hanna said she would like an upgrade for her long sword +1 - Hanna has been forced to tank a lot recently with the dire wolves, winter wolves, ambushes and kobold spawns. So we went to the Nashkel Mines (surface). Hanna laid some snares, the party split up and Hanna triggered the fight - she did OK at first, then Greywolf got some big hits - maybe it's not safe! So Hanna started running - Corethief X used poison, which got Greywolf's attention - the rest of party fired missiles while Corethief X pumped his legs - success!

 

The party then carefully worked their way to the Gnoll fortress, doing the quests that were on the way, such as dealing with Kaldo and Krumm, dead cat, and returning the "dog" to the boy. Traps and ranged fire were sufficient for the Halftooth and pal - Corethief X now has the same dexterity as Imoen - Hanna still has the lead with her 19 DEX.

 

I decided we would not press on to the cave with the charisma tome - we would have spend resources dealing with the trash mobs, but for once I don't need this tome this run. This is because Hanna already has a natural 18 CHA - Hanna also recently pick-pocketed Algernon for his cloak, putting Hanna's CHA to 20 - the tome wouldn't change anything. We had used potions of mind focusing, thieving and perception to pick-pocket the cloak, since Hanna hasn't put any points into pick-pocket.

 

We tried to use traps on the Battle Horrors guarding Durlag's Tower - they are completely immune! Yikes! We of course ran for our lives...thieves tanking is out of the question. So we will probably need to sell/buy back our magic missile wand, and hopefully get one more want to speed up the kill. Will do later, we are trying to save up for dagger of venom.

 

Even though we have already killed Karlat, his clone was found at the Red Sheaf Inn - so we had to run him around again. The spoiler shows him running around chasing one of us, while the other two pumped missiles into Karlat - we would think we were doing a show for the town's citizens! The spoiler also shows a hobgoblin ambush - now that we have a few levels, and Corethief X and Hanna have good AC for thieves (AC 0) we stood our ground and beat these guys - the hobgoblins didn't hit much so looked like a good choice.

 

See more screenies

Spoiler

[corey_russell]

Damn, you're persistent.

What's the phrase? Grond0's nothing if not persistent.

 

I'm glad he relaxed his BG 1 restrictions a bit - this way, they are more likely to get to BG 2, and you know, die there. 

[Aasim]

What's the phrase? Grond0's nothing if not persistent.

It's not irony - he really doesn't give up!

[Aasim]

this way, they are more likely to get to BG 2, and you know, die there. 

[corey_russell]

Aasim said...

It's not irony - he really doesn't give up!

 

Aasim, you must not be familiar with the expression "nothing if not persistent" - the expression means (paraphrased) "Grond0, is persistent, more than any other quality he possesses.".

 

See this link for an explanation.

 

Corey

[Grond0]

At least with BG I do know what I'm aiming for, so can see there is some (albeit a small) chance of success.  There's another game I've played from time to time over a number of years where I'm currently on my 222nd attempt using the same restrictions - I've never got more than about half-way through the game and think it's highly likely that the restrictions I use will actually make it impossible to complete. However, until I actually know that I continue to allow hope to triumph over experience .

[Aasim]

Aasim, you must not be familiar with the expression "nothing if not persistent" - the expression means (paraphrased) "Grond0, is persistent, more than any other quality he possesses.".

 

See this link for an explanation.

 

Corey

Got it, thanks - I'm not a native English speaker.

[Grond0]

Phantasmic 6 {52} - monks party (update 2)

 

After getting up to level 5, while maximising reputation and getting the charisma tome, the monks moved on to the Nashkel Mine.  They made their way to Mulahey without trouble, but Phantom got taken down to 9 HPs by Mulahey's kobolds there.  However, Mulahey himself had only caught a brief glimpse of them and not come to support his troops - allowing the monks to rest up before stunning him.

Spoiler

 

Arriving at Durlag's Tower to seek some quick XP Spectre had just gone onto the roof to find some basilisks when Lamalha went past her.  I was a bit worried when Lamalha then came inside the tower, where 3 of the monks were still stunned from the trap.

Spoiler

However, as often happens when she turns up in places where she really shouldn't she was unable to summon the rest of her party - that meant her script didn't function properly and she didn't turn hostile and just meekly died.  The monks successfully recovered the scimitar and the tome, but left Riggilo alone as well as Kirinhale and the ghost.

 

The sirines were done easily enough and got the monks up to level 6.

Spoiler

It was then time to take on the Bandit Camp, but I made a big mistake there by absent-mindedly travelling directly to the area.  Even though I immediately left again that meant that it was no longer possible to get a lift to the Camp from Teven.  That means there's no initial free attack, but the main issue is that Tazok can't be killed for his bracers.  However, making the best of a bad job they duly attacked and conducted their usual running fight - using fireballs for the first time.  Two rounds of those killed Venkt,

Spoiler

along with quite a few others and they successfully finished off the remaining opponents with just a single Hakt critical on Spectre causing any concern.

Spoiler

 

After looting the Camp and selling things they bought remaining equipment that might be useful before killing Dushai for his ring - though that happened so quickly that no-one noticed there was now a Dushai-shaped gap in the landscape .  

Spoiler

They went on to kill Bentan and Poe - taking reputation losses there in order to pick up horror as a Bhaal power after the Cloakwood Mine.  They've just arrived in the Cloakwood (and shouldn't take long to get through there).

 

Chimera - L6, 36 HPs, 52 kills

Spectre - L6, 44 HPs, 164 kills, 0 deaths

Phantom - L6, 47 HPs, 74 kills, 0 deaths

Wraith - L6, 42 HPs, 80 kills, 0 deaths

Spook - L6, 51 HPs, 87 kills, 0 deaths

Spirit - L6, 41 HPs, 90 kills, 0 deaths

[corey_russell]

Corethief X the dwarven thief assassin - update 5

Traveling with: Hanna (halfling bounty hunter), Imoen (thief)

(this guy has been an assassin all along, guess I should have been saying that in the title...)

 

The party continues to make progress. We decided the sleep wand could be pretty handy for a group of thieves - and it immediately found use when hit by war dogs. We managed to rescue Melicamp successfully. We had to weather yet more hobgoblin ambushes.

 

I decided to unlock Neried the Shoal area - and then managed to clear the entire map. We had used a clarity potion and a haste potion on Corethief X to make sure success against the sirines - but problem was Corethief X hid, then the sirines went after his group mates! Imoen ran, and Hanna held her ground - and Hanna's halfling saves worked against two dire charms! Was impressed. However, by then, Corehtief X had backstabbed and poisoned his weapon and the siriines fell quickly.

 

The large group of ogres were defeated by traps and the sleep wand. Party made it level 5 and got another snare! And imoen has 55% chance to lay a snare, which means we have even more snares to go around. Hanna got another thrown snare which is great.

 

Screenies of the adventure:

Spoiler

 

 

Party Stats:

Hanna - level 6 bounty hunter, 34 HP, 104 kills, Winter Wolf

Corethief X - level 6 assassin, 38 HP, 111 kills, Shoal the Neried

Imoen - level 6 thief, 36 HP, 47 kills, Winter Wolf

[Grond0]

Phantasmic 6 {52} - monks party (update 3)

 

The monks did only minimal fighting as they passed through the Cloakwood to the Mine.  There they tried luring Genthore away with an attack, but he refused to come.  Instead, they tried a salvo of 3 fireballs, but failed to kill either mage with those.  With Drasus hasted by boot and Genthore by oil Phantom used up some charges of the wand of heavens to help kill them.  They succeeded in that, but by then the mages had arrived and Spook was almost dead as a result of a stream of MMMs from Kysus (only a potion of magic blocking preventing the bonus fire damage saving him).

Spoiler

 

They rested once before returning to the area to dash in and pick up the equipment from the fighters.  After more resting to heal up properly they came back to find Kysus waiting for them.  They tried attacking with a first use of stunning darts and stunning blows, before beating a quick retreat when suspecting (correctly) that Kysus was about to launch a sunfire.  Before he could try something else though he was stunned.  

Spoiler

After running away and resting again, they returned to find Rezdan back in his original position - he never moved again.

 

Inside the mine I could have chosen to just stealth past Hareishan, but knew I would want to be coming back to the top level to rest, so it was easier to drag her and the guards back to the level entrance to kill.  There was lots of fighting needed to rest, but they did eventually manage to make their way downstairs and trip the traps near Davaeorn.  I was prepared for a fair amount of running up and down the stairs, but Davaeorn followed them up almost at once.  He opened the battle there with a teleport field, but in the narrow corridor that was of less help to him than usual and he died before he managed another spell.

Spoiler

 

They dodged the slave outside the mine and rested to get Bhaal horror.  They then went to make a few donations at the temple before coming back to get the reputation upgrade on the way to Baldur's Gate.

 

In the City their first target was to get the ogre gauntlets to make breaking down doors easier, but that led to their first casualty.  A pathfinding problem meant one of the monks was briefly visible to Desreta as they came downstairs.  They led her away and were mainly in the shadows, but before they could attack with stunning blows she used a potion of invisibility.  As Chimera found out in the last run, it really doesn't pay to give SCS thieves a fair chance and Spectre didn't quite have enough HPs to survive the critical backstab!  

Spoiler

Desreta was stunned immediately after that and the monks went to find a temple before coming back for Vay-ya.

 

They did a few tasks to maximise reputation and bought a nice shiny new wand of the heavens each.  They also picked up another Necklace of Missiles from Nadine, but the daughters of Shandalar didn't seem to be at home to get the third one.  They've also just done the poison quest, getting to level 7 in the process (gaining the ability to lay on hands to make healing much quicker and easier).  I also managed to remember to pick up a second pair of boots of speed this run.

Spoiler

 

Chimera - L7, 42 HPs, 71 kills

Spectre - L7, 49 HPs, 204 kills, 1 death

Phantom - L7, 56 HPs, 116 kills, 0 deaths

Wraith - L7, 52 HPs, 108 kills, 0 deaths

Spook - L7, 60 HPs, 114 kills, 0 deaths

Spirit - L7, 45 HPs, 118 kills, 0 deaths

[corey_russell]

Just a quick note - during my lunch Corethief X and gang managed to solve the Nashkel Mine problem. The way was cleared with direct attacks, thrown snares (which saved the miner), sleep wand and necklace of missiles. Since Corethief X is the best hider, he did most of the scouting. Time for Mulahey! Snares accounted for the kobold minions. Corethief X did a backstab, Hanna used Greywolf's sword and Imoen some arrows of biting we had lying around. Mulahey couldn't get a spell off - he tried to surrender, but Corethief X said no. Some skeletons had to be killed and Imoen absent-mindedly forgot to take out the arrows of biting, which aren't that great on skeletons (not to mention used up all these valuable arrows). But we did win and the loot is ours.

 

Corethief X will sell and then deal with Nimbul once Corethief X's controller, er, gets back from work.

[Grimwald the Wise]

Enter Starface a female Dwarven Defender.

 

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~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #13 // The BG1 NPC Project: Shar-Teel Relationship Core (adult content): v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #14 // The BG1 NPC Project: Xan's Romance Core (teen content): v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #15 // The BG1 NPC Project: Female Romance Challenges, Ajantis vs Xan vs Coran: v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #16 // The BG1 NPC Project: NPCs can be sent to wait in an inn: v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #18 // The BG1 NPC Project: Alora's Starting Location -> Alora Starts in Gullykin: v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #20 // The BG1 NPC Project: Eldoth's Starting Location -> Eldoth Starts on the Coast Way: v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #22 // The BG1 NPC Project: Quayle's Starting Location -> Quayle Starts at the Nashkel Carnival: v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #24 // The BG1 NPC Project: Tiax's Starting Location -> Tiax Starts in Beregost: v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #26 // BGEE Banter Timing Tweak: v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #31 // The BG1 NPC Project: Sarevok's Diary Adjustments -> SixofSpades Extended Sarevok's Diary: v22_20150614
~BG1NPC/BG1NPC.TP2~ #0 #200 // The BG1 NPC Project: Player-Initiated Dialogues: v22_20150614
~SETUP-WMART.TP2~ #0 #0 // Deidre and Joluv in BG:EE
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #1000 // Initialise mod (all other components require this): v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #1910 // Protection from Normal Missiles also blocks Arrows of Fire/Cold/Acid and similar projectiles without pluses: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #2150 // Make spell sequencers, spell triggers, and contingencies learnable by all mages: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #3030 // Re-introduce potions of extra-healing: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #4040 // Make party members less likely to die irreversibly: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #4110 // Allow NPC pairs to separate: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #4140 // Allow Yeslick to use axes: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #5010 // Move Boo into Minsc's pack: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #5050 // Stackable ankheg shells, winterwolf pelts and wyvern heads: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #5060 // Ensure Shar-Teel doesn't die in the original challenge: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #5900 // Initialise AI components (required for all tactical and AI components): v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #6000 // Smarter general AI: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #6010 // Better calls for help: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #6034 // Smarter Mages -> Mages cast short-duration spells instantly at start of combat on difficulty settings of Hard or higher: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #6044 // Smarter Priests -> Priests cast short-duration spells instantly at start of combat on difficulty settings of Hard or higher: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #6100 // Potions for NPCs -> All of the potions dropped by slain enemies are recoverable: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #6300 // Smarter sirines and dryads: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #6310 // Slightly harder carrion crawlers: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #6320 // Smarter basilisks: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7000 // Improved doppelgangers: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7020 // Improved deployment for parties of assassins: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7030 // Dark Side-based kobold upgrade: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7040 // Relocated bounty hunters: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7050 // Improved Ulcaster: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7060 // Improved Balduran's Isle: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7070 // Improved Durlag's Tower: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7080 // Improved Demon Cultists: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7090 // Improved Cloakwood Druids: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7100 // Improved Bassilus: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7110 // Improved Drasus party: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7130 // Improved Red Wizards: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7140 // Improved Undercity party: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7200 // Tougher chapter-two end battle: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7210 // Tougher chapter-three end battle: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7220 // Tougher chapter-four end battle: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7230 // Tougher chapter-five end battle: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7250 // Improved final battle: v30
~STRATAGEMS/SETUP-STRATAGEMS.TP2~ #0 #7900 // Improved minor encounters: v30
~NPC_EE/NPC_EE.TP2~ #0 #141 // Choose a class for Khalid -> Make Khalid a ranger/cleric
~NPC_EE/NPC_EE.TP2~ #0 #161 // Choose a class for Minsc -> Make Minsc a fighter
~NPC_EE/NPC_EE.TP2~ #0 #242 // Choose a class for Branwen -> Make Branwen a multiclass fighter/cleric
~NPC_EE/NPC_EE.TP2~ #0 #321 // Choose a class for Montaron -> Make Montaron a thief
~NPC_EE/NPC_EE.TP2~ #0 #483 // Choose a class for Xan -> Make Xan a fighter/mage
~NPC_EE/NPC_EE.TP2~ #0 #583 // Choose a class for Viconia -> Make Viconia a cleric/thief
~NPC_EE/NPC_EE.TP2~ #0 #2000 // NPC kit choices
~NPC_EE/NPC_EE.TP2~ #0 #3000 // multiclass kit choice
 

Due to the assassins now being true assassins, and the fact that I have given them better equipment, they almost killed her!

 

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She made her way northwards intending to help some fishermen, but upon being told the truth of the matter, she switched allegience.

 

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She was able to kill the ankheg which attacked her.

 

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After heading southwards she was able to help Mellicamp.

 

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Her reward was a romantic interlude.

 

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She headed south, helped Rufie and then a dryad.

 

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Further west, she got into conflict with yet more assassins.

 

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Who all subsequently died.

 

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She killed a number of gnoll and then to the north, a polar bear.

 

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And on her way back to recharge her necklace of missiles, a winter wolf.

 

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Further north a vampyrric wolf yeilded yet more experience.

 

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As did an assassin south of Nashkel.

 

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Tarnesh was the next to fall.

 

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Heading eastwards she met with an aggressive band of adventurers who would have been wiser to have been less aggressive.

 

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In the same area basilisks were next on the menu.

 

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Followed by some medusae and an insane mage called Mutamin.

 

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She then killed Greywolf.

 

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Before going to the inn in Nashkel for a well deserved rest. She had to kill another assassin before she got it! This one was able to "hold" her but was not able to capitalise on her advantage.

 

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Ogre berserkers even were more of a problem.

 

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[corey_russell]

Best of luck, Wise! Try not to let your mods kill ya!

[Grimwald the Wise]

She then visited Durlag's Tower.

 

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She decided to leave whilst she still could, intending to return later.

 

She then went down the nashkel mines where her necklace of missiles was a great boon in disposing of assassins.

 

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When she faced Mulahey, she managed to kill him before he "held" her.

 

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She survived until the spell wore off and then killed the remaining opponents.

 

Heading back north, she was able to dispose of two powerful assassins, Tristan and Isolde.

 

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She then went to the bandit camp where she met hordes of enemies.

 

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She whittled these down using necklace of missiles, but hurting herself in the process.

 

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She survived and then killed more assassins. Both there:

 

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And south of the FAI.

 

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Silke was next:

 

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In Cloakwood she came into conflict with some druids.

 

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And after killing lots of spiders, an admittedly small dragon.

 

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(I don't like the way that they have nerfed this dragon as it is optional, it doesn't need to be easy)

 

A wyvern was next followed by some baby wyverns inside the cave.

 

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Inside another cave, she met some bigger ones.

 

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On the way to the Cloakwood mines, Lamalha and cronies attacked.

 

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Once again, necklace of missiles saved the day.

 

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One enemy panicked which put them on more even terms.

 

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She returned to the FAI to restock, but was again ambushed, this time by good folk!!!

 

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She was sad to have to kill them.

 

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To the south there were more assassins.

 

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Upon her return to the FAI to rest, Ender Sai "entertained" her.

 

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After re-equipping herself, she went to the Cloakwood mines.

 

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She was successful at the entrance, despite chaos.

 

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In the mines, the mages were equally unsuccessful.

 

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As were all the others:

 

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More assassins at the entrance to Baldur's Gate.

 

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She got involved in a rather violent pub brawl.

 

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And was also attacked elsewhere.

 

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Time for bed said Zebedee. (Those of a certain age in the UK will understand this)

[corey_russell]

Corethief X the dwarven assassin - Update 6

Traveling with: Hanna (halfling bounty hunter), Imoen (thief)

 

The team has suffered their first deaths of the run - and it's all Corethief X's fault! He's not happy about that...

 

One of the first encounters done after defeating Mulahey was to battle Nimbul. Hanna was protected by the shield amulet - so her job was to absorb the magic missiles and help wear down Nimbul's mirrors (with the help of a few friendly guards), while Imoen and Corethief X stayed out of trouble, though Coretheif waited in the shadows. Then when mirrors were gone, Corethief X did a big backstab to end Nimbul's threat.

 

Then we went to Feldeposte's to "battle" Tranzig. Wasn't much of a battle, as Hanna's thrown traps killed Tranzig instantly. But now that we had two magic missile wands (and one was recharged) we went to Durlag's to try to take out those battle horrors. The team did beat those things without deaths but what a pain - we could have used more room, but we made do. We decided this place was more trouble than it's worth, at least for now...

 

Corethief X thought maybe weaker enemies might improve the party's mood, so then we went to the Xvart village - direct attacks, plus the occasional sleep wand and trap made short work of them. Corethief X used backstabs to take out the cave bear in the cave.

 

As usual, my parties provoked Borda - he's not too bad if the person provoking him has the shield amulet active. Hanna did run in fear, but the rest of the party kept up their attacks and once again, with no mirrors Borda couldn't survive Corthief X's backstab.

 

So then Corethief X got the "bright" idea of how about dealing with those Amazon assassins? He got a LOT more than he bargained for...click for full account otherwise read the summary:

Spoiler

Phase 1 - lay traps near party, use thrown traps. Have Corthief X start fight by backstabbing a cleric and run away thanks to haste potion. This worked well, as 1/2 of the amazons died to the thrown traps (the thieves)

 

What DIDN'T work quite as well was Imoen/Hanna got trapped in entangle, Hanna held and amazon clerics not dying to backup traps (not close enough they are casting spells)

 

However a Corethief X backstab finally finishes off Lamalha - only one enemy left!

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But now Corethief X makes a serious error - in his effort to hide and stay out of the entangle, he got the attention of two ankhegs! And Hanna is still held! Our team, with low AC compared to fighters as well as no critical hit protection, is now in serious jeopardy. Zeela is still wandering around causing havoc.

 

The only chance of no deaths were sleep wand and backstabs, but Ankhegs kept making their saves! Zeela was in melee with Imoen who was trapped in an entangle, so was time to finish her off, and she was near death - Corethief X used a magic missile wand shot to insure the death.

 

By this point Hanna is getting targeted by Ankhegs and is still held - Corethief X constantly tries backstabs and Imoen still trying unsuccessfully to sleep them with the sleep wand, but it's not working!

 

So for the 1st time this adventure, one of the trio dies to the Ankheg spit.

 

Imoen finally dies, but Corthief X is not going to let these ankhegs get away with murder - he picks up her sleep wand and finally gets one to sleep and then it's easy to kill.

 

Eventually, there is ONE shot of the sleep wand - will it sleep the ankheg? yes it does!

 

Corethief X then wastes no time in killing this murderer of his friends - justice prevails!

 

But wait! If Corethief X leaves the area to resurrect his friends, looters will take all the equipment! (this is his rationale for the game mechanic of items on ground disappearing after a few days). He needs something to stash his friends' things.

 

Corethief X travels in the shadows and sees a cave - promising! But guarded by skeletons - ah a fireball takes care of that. But when Corethief X goes inside, he sees a ghoul - he lures it outside to kill it - he hides to be safe, even though there should be nothing - but wait another ghould is there out of thin air! Grrr..., but Corethief X backstabs this creature dead.

 

After a long process he stashes his friends' stuff into the container. He then sells the loot at High Hedge. Then he goes to Nashkel to raise his dear friends. Finally the trio arrives in the three tombs area and successfully recovers all their stuff.

 

This was far more excitement than Corethief X was planning...

 

 

Summmary:

I realized after the battle there was a very, very simple way to defeat this group - have Corethief X scout, back off, fire a fireball from Necklace of missiles, hide and repeat until they are dead. It only takes about 3 shots of this normally. Instead, he got Imoen and Hanna killed. Corethief X did win the fight and killed all enemies, but he needs to avoid a repeat performance of this.

 

Despite dying due to his leadership, Hanna and Imoen are staying with Corethief X - he's thankful for their loyalty.

[Grimwald the Wise]

Exploring the gate, Starface was attacked in one house that she visited and had to kill the inhabitants.

 

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The same happened in a mage's tower.

 

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She then investigated a mage's house.

 

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Why is it that mages are so aggressive?

 

She was given the task of retrieving Balduran's Help, but that task had to wait until later.

 

Attacks by assassins whilst in transit on her way to investigate the Section didn't cause many problems

 

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That visit proved to be "interesting"

 

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The Ashirukuru proved to be virtually impossible to hit, so the necklace of missiles had to be used.

 

Lilian Darkwater, another mage proved to be much easier.

 

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Invisibility got her past a host of enemies and into the midst of some more.

 

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She then killed more of the section operatives on the way out.

 

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More wyverns were killed on the way back to Baldur's Gate...

 

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...where some mages in a shop attacked him.

 

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After rescuing Duke Eltan, Slythe and Krystin had to be killed:

 

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The Ducal Palace was a far easier fight than expected.

 

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The party in the underdark proved to be more resiliant.

 

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Taking on Sarevok and his cohorts one at a time was found to be an excellent strategy:

 

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And finally Sarevok fell.

 

(I had intended to complete the Dark Side of the Sword Coast quest, The Drizzt Saga and the other ToSc quests before killing Sarevok, but some of those need a party from a role playing perspective and I wanted to complete the game solo as well. Can't have everything. )

 

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[corey_russell]

Congrats Wise! I see you took my advice and didn't let the mods kill ya! Since it worked so great for BG 1, perhaps you should try same advice for Amn? 

[Grimwald the Wise]

I'm hoping to do Seige of Dragonspear first.

 

Since I haven't played it before, there is great potential for dying.

 

Though I have paid for it an my transaction is confirmed, it is not yet available 9 hours later.

 

I must have patience.

 

EDIT

 

Just discovered that it is a patch for the original game. It was there all the time.

 

I am therefore wondering about installation order.

 

Can I just install it now, or do I have to install it before my mods?

[Grond0]

Phantasmic 6 {52} - monks party (4th and final update)

 

The monks claimed the Cloak of Balduran before clearing Ramazith's Tower and the Seven Suns.  Moving on to the Iron Throne they opened proceedings by warming things up a bit.  

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I only noticed one Shennara die in the text initially, but on stealthing back up and seeing another tell-tale pile of equipment a closer look confirmed that both had snuffed it.  The remainder of the gang didn't last long and the monks accepted the offer of more work for Duke Eltan.

 

Arriving at Candlekeep Chimera was invisible to guard against accidents while the others engaged the ogre magi.  That nearly ended with another death when Spectre was targeted by 2 ogre magi with magic missiles after being hit in melee - the MR from the Cloak of Balduran stopped the last missile which could have killed her.

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Shortly after that Wraith also nearly died after being hit for a big critical, but that was the last near success for the ogre-magi.  

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Looting the bodies then produced no less than 3 Laeral's Tear necklaces!

 

Wands and Necklaces quickly disposed of the Iron Throne leaders on the way to loot the catacombs.  Prat survived an initial assault and retreated into invisibility until a couple of phase spiders teleported in.  However, they were not much of a distraction and a round of wand blasts was too much for him.  

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The monks did need to use one of their green PFP scrolls to ensure Spirit didn't die of phase spider poison, but exited safely after that.

 

Before resting a couple of innocents died to allow Chimera to get vampiric touch as his final Bhaal ability - just in case he feels the need for a few more HPs to protect against traps and backstabs!

 

Back in the City a full barrage of wand attacks failed to kill Slythe, allowing him to get a backstab in before being finished off.  

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Krystin also got a number of wand blasts until running in panic and being hunted down.

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At the palace they potioned up before showing themselves.  All the dopplegangers saved against a horror from Chimera while the other monks used their wands on the mage.  He shrugged off those blasts and when the assassin wandered down towards Chimera he was targeted with the next bunch.  

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The mage was fortunately occupied with a Fist guard in a side room while the monks finished off the others and when he returned got more blasts.  He managed to release a chaos

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that confused Wraith and Spook went to shepherd her while the others finished off the mage

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- immediately running away from Belt to prevent him talking until the chaos had ended.  They then did talk in a side room - allowing Sarevok the pleasure of killing Liia on his own.

 

They fought their way through the maze and then rested to heal up.  As XP is so low anyway they just stealthed past the Undercity party to get into the temple.  The same routine as last time was done there:

- Spectre led all but Angelo into a corner.

- Angelo was defeated by 5 characters protected by PfM and one by potions.

- fireballs killed all but Sarevok.

- he was missiled to death (although he did get a hit in on Spectre he shouldn't have done). 

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After remembering to stealth past the Undercity party the monks reported back to Duke Belt and have just arrived in Athkatla.  They're still some way short of 100k XP (well under half their last run), so will have to be careful in the early stages of BG2.

 

Chimera - L7, 42 HPs, 93 kills

Spectre - L7, 49 HPs, 227 kills, 1 death

Phantom - L7, 56 HPs, 142 kills, 0 deaths

Wraith - L7, 52 HPs, 124 kills, 0 deaths

Spook - L7, 60 HPs, 130 kills, 0 deaths

Spirit - L7, 45 HPs, 135 kills, 0 deaths

[Grond0]

I am therefore wondering about installation order.

 

Can I just install it now, or do I have to install it before my mods?

Gate70 would be the resident expert, but I imagine that installing it will effectively over-ride all existing mods, i.e. you would need to reinstall them afterwards.  I also suspect that there's at least a possibility of compatibility differences, so that mods that worked with your previous version won't necessarily work with the updated one.  The Beamdog Forums has threads about mod compatibility.

[corey_russell]

Grond0 - Hope your monks can stay together in Amn - tough with SCS.

[Grimwald the Wise]

Gate70 would be the resident expert, but I imagine that installing it will effectively over-ride all existing mods, i.e. you would need to reinstall them afterwards.  I also suspect that there's at least a possibility of compatibility differences, so that mods that worked with your previous version won't necessarily work with the updated one.  The Beamdog Forums has threads about mod compatibility.

 

Thanks.

 

This time, I think that I will go straight to Amn, and do a fresh installation for my next run.

 

I have to do a fresh installation for SoA anyway and I think doing it for both games is stretching me a bit too much.

[Blackraven]

Gratz Grondo! Keep up the good work in Amn!

Wise, I've also just bought Siege. I installed it first, and after that a number of mods, not too many because several mods don't work with EE version 2.1. For BG1EE my only mods are two components of Rogue Rebalancing (proper dual-wielding for thieves and bards, p&p spell progression for Bards), BG1 NPC Project, some BG2Tweaks, and SCS. As far as I know those mods don't affect Siege, only the main game, but Siege has improved AI more or less similar to SCS, so you shouldn't miss that mod there.

[Grond0]

Gate70/Grond0 multiplayer attempt 101 - (update 1)

Sean, half-elf stalker (Grond0) & Joak, elf diviner (Gate70)

 

Our latest pairing got under way yesterday.  They made a typical start with Shoal providing a level each before they collected bags from High Hedge, Firebead and Neera.  Greywolf didn't object to passing on his sword after he was blinded and passed on and the same was true of Meilum.

 

There was a glitch early on at the basilisk area though.  After killing the first couple Sean showed himself to the greater basilisk in the south before retreating a few steps and going into the shadows.  The expected behaviour was for the basilisk to come to where he had hidden and stop - ready for a backstab.  However, instead it continued on past and Sean was a bit slow in alerting Joak to the danger.  When he finally called out he was only met with a stony silence .

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I've seen comments complaining about the way SoD has implemented stealth - I think creatures now typically have a 'follow-me' script, meaning that if they lose track of someone they are chasing they will home in on other party members whereever they are.  I presume that this behaviour has also got into the latest BGEE version to at least some extent ...

 

Once restored to her normal flexible self Joak watched as Sean finished off the basilisks before readying a blind for Mutamin - but that wasn't needed.  

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Blind did put Lindin and Baerin out of action though, while a first use of stinking cloud occupied Kirian and Peter for long enough to be shot down.

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After collecting the Ring of Wizardry some more walking XP waited at the Lighthouse.  Sean used the potion of clarity from Candlekeep to tank those without trouble,

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but he was careless in the golem cave - repeatedly failing to target one of the golems with his arrows and getting close enough to be hit in the process despite Joak slowing it down in her role as invisible blocker.

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Before leaving the area Gate70 used a bit of inside knowledge to explain it would be a bad idea to rest in this area using the latest BGEE patch.  Having tried it at the edge of the map I agree .

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The main encounters in the Cloudpeaks were done before the duo collected Samuel and returned him to the FAI.  With reputation at 19 they didn't bother fighting any ankhegs, but just stealthed in to loot their treasure - getting a final reputation boost in the process and setting up a shopping trip to Ulgoth's Beard.

 

After stealthing through the Nashkel mine Joak opened proceedings with Mulahey with a stinking cloud and skull trap.  Although not having seen them, that still prompted Mulahey to call his army into action and Joak quickly ran into a corner and used invisibility.  That meant the creatures all left to gather round Mulahey - grouping together nicely for a first use of a wand fireball.  That panicked Mulahey effectively ending the contest.

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Outside the mine blindness once more set the amazons up for the kill

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before a backstab on Nimbul saved any need for spells.  There was a mistake against Neira when Joak arriving through the door broke Sean's preparations for a backstab and he ended up trying to talk to Neira.  That could potentially have been fatal in single player, but Joak's magic missiles prevented Neira from completing her spell while Sean popped round a corner to hide and set up a proper backstab.

 

Moving on to the Bandit Camp Sean put on some missile protection items while working through bandits.  Taugosz survived a stinking cloud and skull trap, but could do nothing after being blinded.  Inside the main tent Hakt was blinded before Joak used a stinking cloud on the others.  Sean put a couple of arrows of biting into Venkt and the battle was soon won.

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Sean, stalker 6, 81 HPs, 136 kills

Joak, diviner 5, 32 HPs, 44 kills, 0 deaths (1 petrification)

For the second run in a row both characters have very nice HPs.  Let's see if we can take better advantage of their good fortune this time ...