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I started replaying Wrath of the Righteous again. I had two saves that weren't really working out on difficulty grounds and I could remember nothing I'd decided about those characters so I deleted them and started again. And then, right after the bit with Lariel, I deleted that and went fast doing the exact same thing but at the difficulty I'd meant to choose when I named the character Hardy. So I am only up to the first door inside the Shield Maze but on Hard so it's slightly progress.

I decided to romance Sosiel this time and then realised if you decide to play a black man and then choose between character portraits with no context there is a one in three chance of looking exactly like his brother. Which seems awkward.
Though this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder_Kingmaker/comments/14bngye/for_new_players_who_want_to_avoid_stealing_the/
says the game just changes the character portraits to someone else instead. Which I would not have guessed.

I chose the guy with the bow from Kingmaker, a game I really wish worked on xbox but I haven't replayed because of all the crashing. He is a cleric of Erastil and already I am remembering I never quite know what to do with clerics. But it is nice having a bunch of healing already.

... I only had to restart the fight with the earth elementals three times, but that's fiiiiiine, no problem...

I hope they make another Pathfinder game. I have a few things I haven't done in this one but most of what is left are either things it will let you do but I don't want to (Be Evil) or things it won't let you do because narrative arcs and tragedy etc (Redeem Everyone). It's a good satisfying game on multiple replays but I think I could benefit from playing a different game at some point.

... I tried a few where the movement made me motion sick though, and it's really frustrating trying to narrow down what's least likely to do that, so then I just play the good one again.



Although lately I have been mostly chewing on other 'verses. John Constantine in Wrath of the Righteous would lose his memories, lose his guilt and his Deals, his whole context. I was thinking that doesn't work but now I ponder it I can imagine him unfortunately well in an Azata to Devil mode. Trying out Freedom but taking a Deal instead? Story.

... I would like to give him a nicer Story, but, it gets tricky.



I read Magicians fic yesterday, despite not watching Magicians. It was fix it fic of a What If Q Lived variety, but it got there by killing him a lot a lot. Time Loop fic as depression, depression as time loop. Strong stuff.

Made me have a ponder about days being exactly the same until you do something about that.

I do not have any actual Plans to that effect yet, but, I am pondering the limitations of replay.

Kind of a start.


I have no idea when sleep oclock is today since all times are pretty sleepy without actual sleep ensuing.

Also I need to do more laundry but keep on not putting it on because my sleep is backwards and I know I can hear the neighbours machines.


All the stories where you solve problems by hitting them are simpler and more definitive, but mostly only useful for catharsis.

I should play a genre where it's all diplomacy and making friends instead.

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Today I dreamed I went in the kitchen and found eggs frying
and John Constantine had turned up in actual person
not solely to make breakfast.

So I dreamed acute embarrassment
as if I had sent a fan letter that somehow convinced him there was an emergency.

I mean he is known for turning up to be seen by his writers, but breakfast would be new.



I also dreamed that Ianto Jones was interviewing new applicants for Torchwood
by booking them all in the same hotel, including him, so he could see what they were like outside the formal interview context
and then there would be test/games.

Only then the Hulk turned up and there was a lot of machine gun fire for real, which was rather out of scope for a first interview, though admittedly a fair view of the actual job.

Jonathan from Buffy tried to resolve the situation by using a love spell on Hulk, because he is known for protecting the one he loves.
Unfortunately it turned out magic users had tried it before, so now Hulk was not only not in love, but *deeply pissed off* with Jonathan in specific and particular, which was not going well.

Honestly the applicant who never emerged from their room and seemed to be playing computer games with the sound turned right up was probably having the most surviveable life.

... until Hulk turned the whole whole hotel into something with a flip lid anyway.



Waking up feeling like you accidentally pulled the fire alarm and now everyone you most respect is outside in their sleepwear seeing you in your lack of sleepwear and they all know why
cannot be recommended actually.

Neither can the knowledge that if actual adventure called I'd have to be just that apologetic about it, given relative abilities etc.



If I was writing it though this would be the beginning and the point of the story would be like those Doctor Who episodes where he meets a bunch of random people on a bus or something and it turns out if they work together even random ordinary people can do great things.

... or it would be Midnight. But John Constantine is actually who you want around for Midnight. So that works out.