#Astarion and Sephira. no problem. hell yeah throw that thing.

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I’m doing an honour mode run of Baldur’s Gate 3 (just barely into the underdark) and it’s been going great

I mean there have been some. Uh. Extremely dicey fights. Including one where I was three hp away from a tpk. but generally okay

One big exception though. So I’m playing a chaotic good tiefling, Sephira, so ofc she sympathizes with the refugees and goes off to the goblin camp to take em out. No problems. Gut gets korilla’d, Minthara I did try to keep alive but she was on 6 hp and the game showed me a button that said ‘hellish rebuke’ and uh. One thing led to another you know how it is. and. I don’t remember the third guy. Zirg? Zorg? Dror Raglzin? Something like that. He got barreled. No problem, easy peasy, let’s go to the grove and get our party :)

I walk in using Karlach, bc usually every time I go to the grove for the party Zevlor will NOT let me talk to any of the npc’s behind him and I wanna do that. So Karlach triggers dialogue and I break Sephira off from the group to chat with some npcs.

At this point, four things worth noting.

One: I (erroneously, it seems) recall there is a way to revive Minthara,,, but I left her body in the goblin camp.

Two: I intended, initially, to ignore the creche entirely and just go through the underdark… but the entrance to the underdark is in the goblin camp.

Three: after you kill the leaders, the entire goblin camp aggros on sight.

Four: I am on a voice call with a friend, meaning, instead of this being something I am thinking inside of my brain I am saying it out loud and as a visual aid to the story I have my map open and my cursor hovering over the fast travel point to the goblin camp.

I’m sure you can guess what I clicked by accident.

Thankfully, (ohmygod), because Sephira was separate from the group when I did that, only she went. Switching back to Karlach and triggering the party got Sephira out. Phew.

Do the party. Nearly accidentally romance Gale for the second playthrough in a row. Drinking, merry times, wheeeee!

Parties over. Next day. I have a bunch of loot to sell so I grab it and exit the camp.

Loading screen. Loading screen. Sounds of initiative being rolled. Loading screen paired with the worst sinking dread I have ever experienced.

It put me back in the fucking goblin camp.

By some sheer stroke of fate, despite the party being together, everyone else went to the emerald grove, but that thirty seconds I spent unable to see… holy shit. So fucking scary. Sephira gets the absolute shit murdered out of her.

How do I make sure this never ever happens again.

Be more careful? Make sure I don’t click things by accident?

I get to level five and proceed to slaughter the entire camp. I used the bridge as a funnel for em, set up a grease puddle to keep them back, had Sephira plant a cloud of daggers right in the middle for them to run into, Gale on standby with a fireball once enough of them clumped up, and Karlach hucking this cool spear I (found? Bought??? I don’t remember) to pick off the little guys.

Astarion is back in camp hanging out with Withers in case things go wrong, but they don’t. In fact, things go so right that the only character to leave the fight worse than they entered is…. Astarion. somehow. Yeah I don’t know what he got up to when I wasn’t looking but he lost like 8 hp.

Anyway long story short: got a problem? Could being careful fix it? No. Wrong. Blender.

#mobbtalks #… also uh. I forgot about the owlbear cub. and I couldn’t just leave him there! #he’s safe now :) #also had an extremely dicey moment with that first batch of duegar #with uhhh. gehk somthn or other #mostly bc I failed to kill that guy on the first round and he raised like 10 undead which was extremely unchill #so Karlach is getting slowly punched to death #Gale is having a wonderful time actually he’s parked safely in a corner with witch bolt going #Sephira is scampering around throwing magic missiles and eldritch blasts (<- sorcerer/warlock) #sovereign glut is. uh. well he exploded. #& Astarion is helping out Karlach. no problemo. all good. #aw fuck I forgot about that invisible barbarian guy and everyone is kinda fucked up #he takes out Karlach. I get Astarion up to high ground next to Sephira to pepper him with spells but that fucker follows us so fast #Gale is the only one left alive. and he’s a fucking Wizard. okay. okay okay. maybe if he throws a health potion Just Right it will hit both #Astarion and Sephira. no problem. hell yeah throw that thing. #it lands perfectly between them. they are both in the splashzone. neither heals. #‘FUCK!’ I think #with feeling #and then #it’s the barbarians turn again #he hits Astarion once— insta fail a death save #maybe two #then he picks Astarion up #and #suplexes him directly into the healing potion. Astarion gets up with 8 hp. #Gale got shoved off a cliff like 3 seconds later and died but I was able to pull it back from there #if he hadn’t put Astarion in that healing soup though I may have been on a fast track to honour run 2.0