I mean entertain, you all with my character's adventures in the world of Forgotten Realms. (WARNING: Spoilers will follow).
Meet Tristan...
As you can see he's a Beserker, quite strong with a strength of 15, though on the low end of average with his dexterity of 9. He is amazingly smart though (obviously takes after his creator), and I intend to turn him into a mage later on in his travels. Anyway, Tristan starts his adventures outside the inn in Candlekeep, the place he has spent his entire life growing up in, with a serious hankering for pie. Oh, and apparently his foster father wants him to pick up gear for a journey, and is apparently agitated about something. But first, pie!
After helping a few people out, Tristan encounters Imoen, the other kid living in Candlekeep. Apparently she wants to come along, but I suspect she's really trying to stop Tristan from finding any pie, the harlot!
After failing to find any pie, Tristan goes and asks his old man for some, but he seems to be more interested in leaving the place. Oh well, there's probably more chance of finding pie outside this dump than in it.
Along the way they encounter a friendly man wearing spikes demanding your foster father (whose called Gorion by the way) to hand you over to him, I wonder if he's got any pie...
Uh oh, big fight starts up, Gorion kicks cake-eating arse but demands that I leg it, which I do. Then spikey guy (I'll call him Sir Spikesalot from now on) stabs him up. Epic Star Wars "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" moment there. Of course, the only way they could have made it more obvious Gory was gonna die was if they named him Obi Wan Kenobi.
Next morning I wake up to find Imoen has followed me. Deciding that I won't be able to find pie by myself she joins my party, which just means I'm gonna have to share any I find. Wench.
We decide to see if there was any pie on Gorion's dead body in case he had been holding out on us. Unfortunately not, though there is a scroll...
Apparently it's from some guy called E, and recommends meeting up with some goons called Khalid and Jaheira. Sound like pie makers to me, better hunt them down.
On the way, we encounter some friendly fellows, though I suspect they may be up to no good, I think I saw one of them eating cake!
Let's take a look at their character sheets...
Ooh er. Evil guys, they are rather evil fellows, particularly that Xzar guy, then again maybe I should have picked up on that when he kept saying "I HAVE BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS!!!" in a rather gleeful way... They are heading down south to some place called Nashkel to solve some iron crisis, or rather investigate it for their secret masters. Anyway, we head on to the Friendly Arm Inn, where this Khalid and Jaheira are supposed to be, and along the way we meet Elminster, the Forgotten Realms rip off of Gandalf except this guy wears red.
Finally we arrive at the Friendly Arm, only this doesn't look like any inn I've ever seen, more like a bloody fortress!
Unperturbed we enter the place...
And meet a rather friendly fellow...
Except that it all goes pearshaped when he TRIES TO KILL ME!! An assassin, obviously sent by Sir Spikesalot to stop me from stealing his pie! That'll teach him!
Fortunately we finally find the ones we were actually after...
And as it turns out, when I mention where Xzar and Montaron, our friendly evil bastards, are going, they also appear to be heading in the same direction as well! Wonder what they
mean about 'any direction'... Anyway, here's their character sheets.
Seem like friendly guys, but they had better learn that all the pies belong to me in this party. Khalid won't be a problem with his stutter, but Jaheira seems a bit bossy, might get pretensions of pie sharing.
And off we got to Nashkel, first stop Beregost.
After a few adventures there we finally arrive in Nashkel, where the mayor tells us of some evil goings-on in the mines. I think he was just trying to distract me from the pies they had hidden down there, poor Tristan just wants one pie, what does he have to go through to get it?
Having lost the pic I was gonna show of the mines, lets jump straight to the end, where we encounter a half orc called Mulahey, whose apparently been storing pies. Oh and been poisoning the metal on behalf of some evil masterminds, but first we need to get at those pies in that chest!
After an epic battle Mulahey lies dead and the chest full of pies is mine!
Except all it contains is a scroll from some guy called Tranzig who is organising the bandit raids and some equipment, bastards are holding out on me! Searching for pies, we encounter this guy.
Apparently his name is Xan, being a mage I figure he'll be useful. I need to ditch some to make room, so I get rid of the evil guys, who apparently feel the same way about me as I do about them.
Unfortunately it seems to be a case of exchanging "I HAVE BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS!!!" guy for chronic depressive "We're all doomed!!!" guy. Oh well.
Finally leaving the mines, we decide to go to a carnival, where we turn a stone statue into a woman. If only real life was this easy...
Apparently she had been encased in it, and is a cleric of what is essentially a viking god called Tempus, and calls herself Branwen. Being a pure cleric I welcome her to the band, while checking her pockets for pie.
Heading back to Nashkel, we encounter a giant of a man named Minsc, who apparently has a companion called Boo and is looking to rescue some witch named Dynaheir, who he is bound to protect. Realising that witches are supposed to conjure food (ergo pie) out of thin air, I quickly agree.
As it turns out however, Boo is Minsc's pet hamster, I'm sorry Miniature Giant Space Hamster, and there seems to be something not quite right with him...
Taking a look at his character sheet confirms it: the guy's off his rocker. However, with battle cries such as "Go for the eyes Boo! Go for the eyes! Ragh!" and "Full plate and packing steel!" he has always had a special place in my heart.
Heading off, we encounter a strangely dressed fellow on the bridge called Edwin who is also looking for a mage called Dynaheir...to kill! Could it be the same person?
Apparently so, if the conversation between them is anything to go by...
However, primarily for my own amusement I get the two of them to both come along, under the pretense that they are to keep an eye on each other. But really because I want to see the sparks fly!!
Oh, here's Edwin's character sheet.
After an epic trek, and epic bridge walking, and a epic struggle with giant gnolls, we finally found her! Wherein the debate began...
Choosing to side with Dynaheir, primarily because I had realised my party had become a bit of a sausage fest and needed the genders evening up, Edwin leaves in a huff. Though slightly less intelligent than Edwin, her good alignment should mean that I get less hassle from her due to my high reputation as a goody goody two shoes. Still no pie however.
After many adventures, all good but which I won't go into the details of (due to no pictures, not any consideration for you my pathetic readers!), I finally encounter...a talking chicken!!
Quickly ascertaining that this is actually a mage who messed up some sort of polymorph spell, we agree to take him to his master, except that it turns out his 'master' is a bit annoyed at him...after he stole his stuff! No pie offered.
It's quickly ascertained that it was actually a cursed item that turned the fool into a chicken, and after having to get an item the master finally turns him back, and takes the idiot under his wing again, to make sure he doesn't mess up again. No pie as a reward.
Deciding I had better get back to the main quest, I head on over to the inn in Beregost where that Tranzig fellow in Mulahey's note is, after realising that the lack of pies was probably a result of all the bandits nicking them!
The conversation doesn't end well...
Now wondering what to do, what will Tristan and his intrepid band do next? Will they hunt down the bandits in order to locate the source of all the villainy? Is Boo really a Miniature Giant Space Hamster or is he just a hamster? Will Tristan ever get to have a pie for lunch? Find out next week (or when I can be arsed to do this **** again) on...Tristan's Adventures in Baldur's Gate!!!
Modifié par FlintlockJazz, 04 mars 2011 - 08:07 .
Retour en haut
I would've broken it up into smaller posts, but Bioware's boards mess up the formatting for copypasting posts as it is and I had to edit it all again as a result already, so I'll probably leave that for now. Plus, I'm sure Bioware's bandwidth can handle it. 
