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beccaelizabethSunday tasks happened correctly and then I played my game.
It gets more and more frustrating. I screwed up another crusade battle and I'm going to have to wait weeks for reinforcements because army went boom. Incubi are really difficult.
The team did Leper's Smile, eventually, the Nameless Ruins, and now I'm starting on Currentglen. ... I've started three times so far because it's a lot harder than I remember.
It does give you a See Invisible and a Death Ward scroll right before you need them, to be fair, but then there's some really gnarly fights, and I am not enjoying it.
My theory that I have spent too much money on healing scrolls and potions and am behind on equipment seems to me ever more convincing. We are getting our butts kicked. A lot.
To be fair it was a lot easier when between Daeran and Nenio we could do the Blur and Barkskin and Shield of Faith buffs on everyone. Using all your spells on don't hit me buffs is a bit boring though, and then Daeran runs out of things to do that aren't channeled energy.
I should try something that isn't the game.
Yesterday I relistened to an 8th Doctor and Mary Shelley adventure. It was pretty good but the Doctor only realising in the middle that he could screw up history by messing her around seems a bit too careless. Still, excellent combination of people to encounter cybermen.
I need an actual creative thing to do. I should do stories but I keep on being stuck on like what if favourite character was Knight Commander of the 5th Crusade, which gets a bit repetitive and few of them have anything unique to say in that setting. Also if John Constantine was there I fear he would go make a Deal about it. But it's never the smart thing. Also the only Path I can see him taking on purpose is Legend, but you don't get to Legend without trying something else, and I'm not sure what is a good fit. Trickster is obvious but it gets all cartoony and drunk. So, Trickster Legend makes sense. But there's no Archdevil tempting him until after he is a Legend that way.
I mostly want to have someone talk to Kaylessa suggesting that going Dark is a stress response, not your skin color showing your alignment. Elves have adaptive biology so what adaptations happen not because of snow or water but because of being stressed out and traumatised for ages? Dark elf. Making it slightly less racist and also suggesting a treatment path. How a game that has a dragon getting tarnished and getting better, treated by a gold dragon who is still an active part of the story, just leaves everyone else to fend for themselves... Gold Dragon ought to be a good path but they end up just being a bunch of scaly racists cause they won't listen or help anyone until there's a dragon in charge. No good, send dark elves to Hal for healing. If there's going to be a way to Fall there has to be a way to climb back up again.
... yes in a game with multiple paths to redeem characters I end up wanting to redeem all the ones it leaves to fall. Or at least give Staunton a way out that doesn't rely on time travel. I hate the version of the story that says the only way to be okay is to never make a mistake in the first place.
... there's probably like one of you who might be reading this that even knows the plot to Wrath of the Righteous, and here I am complaining about details of multiple paths. I'll just cut tag that bit...
The other story that keeps getting stuck is Harrowhall from the Book of Many Things. If you make enough friends there you end up with one ghost in the chapel and another in the library, and I had already been imagining the library ghost as Giles and therefore the chapel ghost as Ethan, before that got double sad.
The thing is I can make up unfinished business for Giles, though the obvious library based one is not compelling. Maybe he can set quests to fill in gaps in the library. Perfectly functional set up that is secretly an excuse to get him talking to Ethan again. Should work.
But the main unfinished business is always the grief of the living, and that's ... a bit tricky to resolve.
I shall continue to think on it.
It gets more and more frustrating. I screwed up another crusade battle and I'm going to have to wait weeks for reinforcements because army went boom. Incubi are really difficult.
The team did Leper's Smile, eventually, the Nameless Ruins, and now I'm starting on Currentglen. ... I've started three times so far because it's a lot harder than I remember.
It does give you a See Invisible and a Death Ward scroll right before you need them, to be fair, but then there's some really gnarly fights, and I am not enjoying it.
My theory that I have spent too much money on healing scrolls and potions and am behind on equipment seems to me ever more convincing. We are getting our butts kicked. A lot.
To be fair it was a lot easier when between Daeran and Nenio we could do the Blur and Barkskin and Shield of Faith buffs on everyone. Using all your spells on don't hit me buffs is a bit boring though, and then Daeran runs out of things to do that aren't channeled energy.
I should try something that isn't the game.
Yesterday I relistened to an 8th Doctor and Mary Shelley adventure. It was pretty good but the Doctor only realising in the middle that he could screw up history by messing her around seems a bit too careless. Still, excellent combination of people to encounter cybermen.
I need an actual creative thing to do. I should do stories but I keep on being stuck on like what if favourite character was Knight Commander of the 5th Crusade, which gets a bit repetitive and few of them have anything unique to say in that setting. Also if John Constantine was there I fear he would go make a Deal about it. But it's never the smart thing. Also the only Path I can see him taking on purpose is Legend, but you don't get to Legend without trying something else, and I'm not sure what is a good fit. Trickster is obvious but it gets all cartoony and drunk. So, Trickster Legend makes sense. But there's no Archdevil tempting him until after he is a Legend that way.
I mostly want to have someone talk to Kaylessa suggesting that going Dark is a stress response, not your skin color showing your alignment. Elves have adaptive biology so what adaptations happen not because of snow or water but because of being stressed out and traumatised for ages? Dark elf. Making it slightly less racist and also suggesting a treatment path. How a game that has a dragon getting tarnished and getting better, treated by a gold dragon who is still an active part of the story, just leaves everyone else to fend for themselves... Gold Dragon ought to be a good path but they end up just being a bunch of scaly racists cause they won't listen or help anyone until there's a dragon in charge. No good, send dark elves to Hal for healing. If there's going to be a way to Fall there has to be a way to climb back up again.
... yes in a game with multiple paths to redeem characters I end up wanting to redeem all the ones it leaves to fall. Or at least give Staunton a way out that doesn't rely on time travel. I hate the version of the story that says the only way to be okay is to never make a mistake in the first place.
... there's probably like one of you who might be reading this that even knows the plot to Wrath of the Righteous, and here I am complaining about details of multiple paths. I'll just cut tag that bit...
The other story that keeps getting stuck is Harrowhall from the Book of Many Things. If you make enough friends there you end up with one ghost in the chapel and another in the library, and I had already been imagining the library ghost as Giles and therefore the chapel ghost as Ethan, before that got double sad.
The thing is I can make up unfinished business for Giles, though the obvious library based one is not compelling. Maybe he can set quests to fill in gaps in the library. Perfectly functional set up that is secretly an excuse to get him talking to Ethan again. Should work.
But the main unfinished business is always the grief of the living, and that's ... a bit tricky to resolve.
I shall continue to think on it.