Coltan's contuing adventures in the City of Baldur's Gate:
Coltan and the party continue to explore Baldur's Gate. Fairly dangerous place, the Flaming Fist doesn''t do a great job of enforcing order. For example, why would the city grant entrance to a Ogre Berserker? We entered the Blushing Mermaid and found a powerful Ogre Berserker named Larze. However Coltan had the foresight to do several things: 1) protection from evil on Ajantis 2) Switched Khalid to sword and shield rather than spider's bane 3) Haste for the party, and the most important of all, 4) switched order of party members, rear members in front, tanks in back. Why? Because as we enter the "rear" was facing Larze. What foresight to have the party's tanks there! (leader notes: I have had numerous chunked party members here - I hit him with everything now).
So the party opens with Wand of Heavens from Branwen, magic missiles from Garrick/Imoen, +2 bullet from Coltan and melee from Ajantis and Khalid. Larze gets a good hit on Khalid, and survives first round. We repeat same strategy 2nd round and he
couldn't survive.. Ajantis took a beating but is alive so that is OK.
As we were exploring the city, a iron throne assassin says we were poisoned in our sleep. He says he will give 1/2 the andtidote to us if we cure him of his geas. This sounds fair, but in order to do that Jalantha Mistmyr needed to help us. We didn't trust her so had her give us the cure, then told her we didn't have the wisdom book she wanted. This made her mad, but fell quickly to power's melee/ranged power. No priestess saw that so they stayed neutral. This was fine by us. We also got a pleasant result:
Garrick made level 8. It's been so long since someone leveled, forgot that still happens!
So we gave the cure to his geas to the Iron Throne Assassin at the Blade and Stars. He said the 2nd half was at Blushing Mermaid. We head there and go upstairs and encountered Marek. We didn''t think he would last long, so we just meleed whlie Coltan tried to backstab. He did indeed die fast, but not before
THIS happened. [Leader notes: I always thought Marek was a thief -- apparently he's a thief/mage, I will never take him lightly again) Yep 1/2 the party confused, with a bunch of neutrals in the area! And worse, the only person who has a dispel magic memorized is Garrick and he is confused! Ah man reputation hit here I come.
[leader note: I turned off the AI). There's nothing to do until the confusion wears off. We stand there, but then Khalid targets Imoen. i try to have her run to the stairs, but Khalid is just too good an archer and kills her before she can do that. I try to pick up her stuff (she had a lot). Meanwhile the confused party members are killing civilians then complaining about our actions.
Reputation is toast.After Imoen's stuff is picked up we rush to the Temple of Helm in the North/North part of Baldur's Gate. Strangely nobody complained about our reputation while we were traveling there (possibly because the AI was off). So we dutifully donate 9500 gold (500 gold at a time) to the temple, and got our reputation to 18 - no one left the party (whew). We resurrect Imoen, equip her. I then realized I forgot to loot Marek, especially his nice shortbow which would be a great upgrade to Imoen (you can probably guess what happens next...). So we head back to the Blushing Mermaid go upstairs, and then the party just inexplicably opens fire on the civilians, dropping our reputation to 6! (leader's note: forgot to turn off AI and that the citizens would be hostile). We quickly loot Marek's stuff, Imoen and Ajantis complain and head back to the temple of helm and donate yet another 9500 gold. (leader's note: glad our gold situation is so much better than last run's).
Fortunately the party is none the worse for wear, other than being a lot poorer. We did some tasks for the local thieve's guild, which put us in good standing with them. You can't have too many friends, especially with the amount of enemies we have.
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