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Let's Play IWD 2, #24 Motherfucking snakes in this... Tree?

anus_pounder

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Thinking of trying this, anything I need besides the tweak pack you're using?
 

desocupado

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anus_pounder said:
Thinking of trying this, anything I need besides the tweak pack you're using?

Not really, there's a patch for the game, but you can find it easily, and I don't think it fixes anything critical.

The tweak pack is a good idea, in the original game, you can only carry 40 arrows per slot, and you end up filling whole inventories with them.

And they don't go to the quiver automatically, when the 40 run out, you need to manually pick another 40 arrows and put in the quiver. It's a pain in the ass.

With the pack, I made a stack of 700 and gave it to my archer. :)
 

desocupado

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We reach the end of the Targos section! Hurray!

For the viewing pleasure of my audience (do I have one?), here's the third update!

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- So, we are supposed to report to some guy, uh?

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- What's that?

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- The idiots can't hit a bloody barrel?

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- Oh, NOW I understand how the goblins can be a threat.

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- -To the soldiers being trained- Use the pointy end of the spear, you dumbasses!

Soldier 1 - Uh, what? We should not use our foreheads?

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- Bloody moron, hold the spear with both hands, and thrust it in the direction of the target!

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- And remember to keep the sharp end AWAY from you.

Soldier 2 - Uh, okay.

Soldier 2 hits the barrel.

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- Are they recruiting exclusively brain damaged people now?

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Level up! We get the cleave feat. It gives us a free attack after we kill some enemy.

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- See, I told you they were dangerous! I swear one of them swerved to the side when I tried to hit it before!

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- Mortimer, are you going mad, they're just barrels. C'mon let's go!

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- -Looks at the barrels, points to his eyes, then points to the barrels- I'm on to you.

The party leaves the place, and goes report to the command.

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- One gold coin a tenday? What sort of payment is that? A healing potion costs bloody 87 gold, for god's sake!

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- We find at least a month's pay in EVERY goblin we kill! And we don't even crouch to loot it! Not even me!

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- A choleryeh af dir!

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The party searches for Olaf, and...

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- Of course you don't need our swords. The errands, the errands never stop. It's always "fetch this", "grab that", "kill those rats", "save the cat from the tree", "Lassie, what girl? Little Timmy fell down the well? Oh, no!"

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- You sir, you grab one of those buggers that can't hold a sword the right way, and send him on your bloody fetch crap. I'm tired of it. Good day!

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- It's not the best use of our abilities, but at least there's a reason to use us.

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- Let's go.

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- But, isn't Koluhm the guy with the gh- gh- ghosts?

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- Bloody hell, it is him!

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- What now? We boarded the front of his house! He might be dead!

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- That, and I don't want to get close to him.

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- Well, now we need to go there and look for him.

The party reluctantly goes back to Koluhm's house, and even more reluctantly unboards the door.

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- -To Barbaric!- How can he be alive, we boarded the door shut for... 3 hours?

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- ...

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- Alright, you don't need to be supernatural to survive 3 hours without food.

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- Mort, control yourself, a ghost can't take your gold, a ghost can't take your gold...

The party aproaches Koluhm, to find him discussing with the dead.

Koluhm - Yes, indeed the economy is in shambles, but that's was inevitable

Koluhm - No, what are you thinking, the governmet can't pay for that too.

Koluhm - What are you, some sort of libtard? The govenrment can't...

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- Ahem, Mr. Koluhm?

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Koluhm - Well, he first said "UGABUGA, BABALUGEGE, BAGBAGBAGBA!"

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- Hmm, I'm afraid he called you mother a whore.

Koluhm - Hmm... Then he said "GABAULA NIGGERJEW MANGAGA"

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- "You can't see me now, but I'm flipping you the bird"

Koluhm - He then added "AU VARTYFAGGOTO MANBOONGAGA"

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- "I think you like cock as much as you mother. Who I can see sucking spectral dick right now."

Koluhm - This is pointless, I think we are done here.

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- Wait, he might have hinted at something at the end, did he say anything else?

Koluhm - Just "SUGABIROABI AS UGABAGITO"

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- Oh. That's "I saw you sodomizing all these corpses, you disgusting fucker".

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- That's indeed not useful. Thanks for your time.

After the party leaves Koluhm's house.

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- Guys, there was a plan to a simultaneous attack on Targos, we should expect an attack by three commanders any time now.

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- Bloody buggers, wasting my time.

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- Let's fetch them already

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- Hello, we were sent here to get you guys to the palisade.

Black Geoffrey - Sure mate, let me just drink the rest of this tankard.

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- I SAID NOW -Bashes his head with the pommel of the sword-

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Easy battle, one guy is already down

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Second one

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The last one is out too. None of them had any decent loot.

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- We tried very politely, but...

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Seems it's our first real battle. We get Lizzie to cast entangle.

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But only three goblins get stuck, and two are archers. We let Barbaric! deal with those goblins, and send Sir Dwarfington and Mortimer to try to deal with the leader.

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We can't really see in this SS, but there's a hound between those goblins Barbaric! is hitting, and that fucker hits hard. Barbaric! uses a potion that he had, of protection from evil.

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The goblins die, but the damn hounds and the leader are giving us trouble.

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To the point that I pulled Barbaric! to try to heal him with Lizzie

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The goddamn hound changed target, and now is following Wizerella, that damn thing is unkillable, a beast of murder, with only blood in it's eyes.

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And there's another one! Attacking Sir Dwarfington!

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I make Wizerella use one of those oils on the hound attacking Sir Dwarfington. I could not use it on the hound attacking her, because he was too close. Using the oil on the ground, slightly distant from the hound gets him on fire, but prevents friendly fire on Sir Dwarfington.

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I send Sir Dwarfington and Lizzie to kill the remaining archers.

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And the goddamned hound is still alive, and trying to kill Wizerella.

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And FINALLY that thing is killed by a arrow from Lizzie.

To give 37 of XP. The same as a goblin.

A pratically imortal, bloodthirsty monster is worth the same XP as a goblin.

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After the last goblin is killed, the game shows this shaman fucker teleporting more goblins inside the palisade.

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We loot the corpse of the leader. The one that died so quickly I did not see. While the fucking hound destroyed my party.

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And we go kill some more goblins. As you can see, that oil is great.

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Great indeed!

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There's only the leader left...

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And he doesn't last long.

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More teleporting and looting.

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And we fight again. This fight is very long, and those dead goblins you see took some time to die.

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You can see by the state of my party, that it was tough. Especially the shaman, he took hours to kill. I had to use some potions.

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After the shaman is finally dead, we loot his corpse.

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The loot from the first commander is the only interesting thing we find. I give it to Sir Dwarfington.

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In the end, we report, and Finally leave that crappy town!

Next, Shaengarne Bridge!
 

desocupado

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I forgot. Before I started playing that last update, I toned down the characters, they are within IWD2 parameters now.

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Mrowak

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Re: We reach the end of the Targos section! Hurray!

I always loved the battle for pallisade in IWD II - one of the best, most dynamic battles for low-level chars in cRPG history. Although it was heavily scripted, it was fairly believeable - it actually felt the combat was going on and the enemy - in this case savage goblins - were using their strategical and magical potential to their full extent. I wish they had implemented events like later on in IWD or in other games.

Keep up the good work noble sir :salute:
 

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Orc fuckery

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As we enter the new area, the Shaengarne Bridge, we are greeted by this.

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And the fight starts. I tell the archers to hit the orcs, while the melee guys hit the kegs

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Then realize the shaman is the best target

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The battle starts!

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The shaman cast strenght on Sir Dwarfington! Why? Who knows? We can see here that he is also blind, but that's from the battle before, even after resting, it's still there.

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The shaman also casts command...

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On his fellow orc.

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- Why is that orc helping us?

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- Well, sometimes the orcs sacrifice one their eyes, to Grumish, the orc god. That fellow went beyond the call of the duty, and sacrificed both.

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- So he's firing spells blindly? Not as in behind cover but as in, literally blindly? And the other orcs take him with them?

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- Yeah... It's not for nothing that half-orcs get that -2 in intelligence...

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And Lizzie is down. Great. Reload we go.

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We try a better positioning

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Shoot the kegs

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The fight barely started and Lizzie is already full of arrows.

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We put her in the back and use a potion.

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The battle rages on.

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But Sir Dwarfington takes too much damage, so I pull him back

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Where he takes MORE damage

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That shaman fucker attacks.

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Hoping the fuckers switched targets, I take Sir Dwarfington back to the fray, his damage is much needed because...

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...I thought somehow that bringing a rogue would be a good idea. He has, as we can see in this picture, a great sneak attack. 6 piercing damage. EXCELLENT.

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The shaman fucker dies, finally.

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And so does Dwarfington.

:rage:

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Again, we start shooting some kegs and some orcs.

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Shaman fucker summons ANOTHER orc, like the TWENTY orc fuckers weren't enough!

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Everybody is a target now. How do you think this will end?

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Wizerella takes the sharp end of an orc axe.

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And gulp, a potion goes down...

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And the shaman fucker dies, AGAIN. We can't see very well in the SS, because I got him in the middle of the animation.

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We loot the corpses and move on.

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For some reason, I don't think there's much but orcs around these parts.

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We start fighting aaaaaaaaaand...

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We reload back to targos. Someone got a lucky arrow in the eye and kicked the bucket. And this incompetent Lp'er did not SS it. I got tired of dealing with death, so I decided to rest, untill the blind effect on Sir Dwarfington pass.

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And back we are!

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Standard issue by now. Go there, shoot kegs, orcs, shaman, loot.

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There's a clusterfuck of orcs, so we retreat a bit.

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And get a evil beast from hell summoned on top of us.

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Mortimer takes a crapload of damage. How are these fuckers able to do 15 damage on a non-critical hit? That implies a base damage of 10. They probably carry battle axes (1d8) and have a strength bonus of +2.

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Since I wanted those orcs up there to stay up there, I make Lizzie cast entangle.

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Kill the shaman, and go mop up.

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- Guys, the loot on these corpses is kinda decent. They carry between 10 and 30 gold pieces. How does an orc gets so much gold? Those guys at the palisade were paying 1 gold piece a tenday. To get 30 gold pieces, an orc would have to pillage several villages a month for a few months

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- What use a orc has for money anyway? I always thought that rape and pillage were their own reward.

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- Yeah... If you consider the raping and pillaging Mort was projecting, it's a miracle female orcs see any orc wang. How can there be this many orcs? They're practically laying on top of themselves, in piles.

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- Lizzie, do you know anything about how they use their wangs?

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- I... I prefer to not know the finer details regarding orc wangs and their use.

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We go move a bit.

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Find some more orcs.

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Slaughter them all.

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And rest.

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Move a bit more.

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Another big battle.

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Knowing there would be a crapload of orcs, we retreat a bit.

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They follow us, and the shaman (fucker) summons another beast of blood and death.

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And casts chant. That shit is nasty, we can't hit crap with that affecting us. Actually, we can't hit crap anyway, so it might not be that big an effect.

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A quick look to ascertain how much fucked we are.

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Surprisingly, nobody died yet, so we move up to the rest of the orcs.

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If you look at the text, you can see, Auto-paused - Badly Wounded. These fuckers are accurate.

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It's clusterfuck time!

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Cleaning up the rest...

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- Hey, that one is still alive.

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- Ask him about the gold.

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- Alright. DARGGG ARGG ORRGG BLURG?

Dying Orc - DARRRG, FARB DARRR

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- He says he invested the money from his earlier pillage efforts in the stock market.

Dying Orc - DDDIIRRAG AASD BUARR SDAR EEERRR

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- Says he bought "Element proof cloaks" stocks just before the big chromatic dragon hunt, a few years back.

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- Also to look on his back pocket.

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- He means this?

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- Yeah... Anyway, let's move.

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- Can I keep the magazine?

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- Sure.

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We rest and go around exploring.

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I think we killed some orcs before meeting this guy, and I did not SS. But here's the short of it. We found orcs, we killed them.

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That's a talkative fucker.

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Anyway, he opens the way for our party.

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More orcs... More few gold pieces of loot.

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We reach this point, there's this barrel, and one orc lights it on fire.

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It usually does more damage to themselves then to the party.

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We start,

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And we finish. Just a couple of orcs, not worth showing SS by SS.

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- Maybe they're all fags?

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- What?

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- The orcs. Maybe that's how they reproduce. That might be why we only see male orcs.

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- Don't be stupid, how can they be all fags and end up reproducing? You need a female for that!

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- Yes, I know, but I thought maybe they're somewhat different, I don't know.

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- Lizzie!

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- Lizzie!

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- Lizzie, we were thinking if you would know if these orcs are all sodomizing themselves while we don't look?

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- What? Why, why would they do that, and why on this earth would I know about that?

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- Well, you're a druid, understand life and all.

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- Yeah, and we haven't seen the orc women. We were wondering if all orcs were male.

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- Of course there's female orcs. The corpse you are standing on is female!

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- THAT'S FEMALE?

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- Yes. Check if you don't believe.

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- What!? No! No, I take your word for it.

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- Well, now we know why they go out to rape and pillage so much.

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- I almost feel bad for killing them now.

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- Why exactly are you standing on a corpse?

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- These boots aren't very thick, my feet are a bit cold, since we stopped for a bit...

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Couple more of dead orcs... And we meet:

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- If the bitch was powerful enough to teleport, she surely didn't need OUR rescue.

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- Fucking showboat.

Next update, more orc slaughter, and a a lot more death in our party
 

desocupado

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After freeing the druidic lady in the last update, and taking the reward, we follow the open path.

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Find, guess what? Orcs!

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It's hard to think of entertaining things to write when the material you are given is mostly the same.

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These fuckers are trying the exploding barrel thing.

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The barrel is a-lit and I'm a-fleeing

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The explosion takes most of the orcs out.

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And we start the mopping up.

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THE DEMON BEAST CAN'T HELP YOU NOW YOU FUCKERS!

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The conclusion. Looting. As usual, just a bit of gold and some arrows.

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Following the path upwards, seen in the last SS, that's what we find.

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- DIE!

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- STOP SPROUTING FROM THE GROUND, GODAMNIT.

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- HOW MANY ORCS

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- DO I HAVE TO KILL?!

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Things weren't going very well.

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Case in point. That Firestarter packs a punch.

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And the Beast of Murder and Carnage (tm) doesn't help either.

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- BLOODY ORCS! DIE!

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- We need to rest. There's no way we can continue like this.

We rest...

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And a shitload of orcs appear in our sleep. Guess what happens? Reload.

I ended up thinking about what should I do here. Because I kept dieing and reloading, and the game was not advancing. You guys can't see, but these fuckers are tough, and if I keep SSing all the battles, I would reach a ridiculous amount of SSs. Those orcs are supposed to be cannon fodder, and yet I already had a few reloads.

So at some point, can't really remember if it was exactly here or a bit ahead, I decided to lower the difficulty from the 150%, to 100%. 150% doesn't seem much, but in Icewind Dale 2 it affects not only the damage, but the attack rolls and saving throws too, and probably the AC. So, I am sorry guys, but I don't think I can make it at 150%, with a non optimal party.

Returning to the LP.

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We find this here, after the (finally won) last battle. It's a dagger +1, and it goes to Mortimer. Right now, he is dual-wielding this dagger +1, and a MW dagger.

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We move a bit, only to find your favorite orc.

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He then sends two orcs, a runner (sets the barrel) and a firestarter (lights the barrel), they are dead very quickly, I ended up not taking any SS. Won't happen in the future, promise.

As we advance a bit, here's him again.

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The bastard leaves before the battle starts

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We use entangle, but it's not really necessary.

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The thing is over very quickly.

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We procede to the border of the map, and...

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The crappy spell effect hid the troll, but he sneak behind the priestess and stole something, he then leaves and we start.

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We put the guys in the front, and use the ladies at range. The battles are ending MUCH more quickly now.

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Talkative lady. Anyway, we rest close to her, and leave to help the village and search for the troll.

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More talky people.

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Alright, we get the invisible potion. But we use it? Or we try to sneak in with Mortimers hide?

Of course we use, I had enough deaths doing this update.

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- This should be fun. People do all sorts of nasty stuff when they think they aren't being seen.

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- What? That orc is doing his nails? That other one is getting a pedicure? What the hell is this, a spa?

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- I can't believe it, that orc is getting a mud mask! With cucumber slices over his eyes!

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- What the hell, do they want to look pretty while murdering and ransacking?

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- Oh, hell, let's open that gate.

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The gate is open.

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Mortimer returns to the party.

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- Guys, You will not believe what I've seen. The orcs, they get pedicures, and mud masks. With cucumbers!

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- Ah, so that's how they look so young!

Everybody looks at Sir Dwarfington.

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- Oh, c'mon guys, I'm a handsome dwarf, I just have this bags under the eyes and...

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- What!?

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- Have you tried applying a bit of cotton soaked in Camomile tea? It does wonders.

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- YOU TOO!? Guys, enough, let's... let's go on.

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Look how many orcs we found. If this were at 150%, we would be FUCKED.

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It's day 5, so Wizerella can cast spells!

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We see in this SS a charmed orc.

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- - After seeing the charmed orc- Finally eh?

Wizerella shoots a crossbow bold close to his head.

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- Darn it woman, had I not seen you cast, I would say you were still on the rag!

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Battle goes on, nobody is dead or dying

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Mortimer takes a bit of damage.

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And a bit more. But the battle is over.

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We break the kegs, to free the villagers

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We rest and go back to the orc camp.

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But first we report the deed done.

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And talk to this guy, who was not here before. And shop.
 
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anus_pounder said:
Thinking of trying this, anything I need besides the tweak pack you're using?

You may want the widescreen mod to play in your native resolution. The UI isn't stretched and ends up with a black square in the bottom right hand corner, but that doesn't bother me. There are so many beautiful areas in IE games that I can't imagine playing the game otherwise.


Anyone had a problem with the fog of war being messed up around the edges? Essentially what it looks like is that all the edges have the shading as if they were the upper left edge of the fog of war. Happens ONLY with IWD2 as far as I know.
 

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Overweight Manatee said:
Anyone had a problem with the fog of war being messed up around the edges? Essentially what it looks like is that all the edges have the shading as if they were the upper left edge of the fog of war. Happens ONLY with IWD2 as far as I know.

I had that problem before turning on 3D acceleration in BG2. Something about nVidia drivers. Think there was a solution over on SHS forum.
 

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I have a new update, but I need to put it in a third page. This one already has 2.

Any help from the readership reader mom?
 
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oldmanpaco said:
Overweight Manatee said:
Anyone had a problem with the fog of war being messed up around the edges? Essentially what it looks like is that all the edges have the shading as if they were the upper left edge of the fog of war. Happens ONLY with IWD2 as far as I know.

I had that problem before turning on 3D acceleration in BG2. Something about nVidia drivers. Think there was a solution over on SHS forum.

I don't think you can actually turn off 3D acceleration in IWD2, unfortunately. The nvidia card patch for IWD2 doesn't seem to help anything. But meh, I've gotten used to it.

I'm still encountering an annoying problem where large creatures slow the game down whenever they are facing the east direction, but thankfully they are quite rare. Killing the guardian of the Chult temple with disintegrate is most enjoyable :lol:
 

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Finally, a non orc-centric update.

Well, screw it. I will post it on this page. If possible, I will move it later.

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After selling our useless stuff, we get ready to fight.

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- Finally we're going to kill this bugger.

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- You can say that again.

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We retreat a bit, and start peppering them with arrows.

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Very soon, they swarm our melee fighters.

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We go thinning their numbers without much trouble.

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I take Mortimer, equip him with his dagger, and try to get a sneak attack, to speed things up.

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The orcs end up taking him as a target. He does not land a single sneak attack, since they turn to face him.

And forget about hiding, that never works.

Shit, earlier I said a thief is 1/2 of a fighter. Forget that. It's probably closer to 1/10.

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The damage dealers of the party (read, everybody that is not Mortimer) ended up killing everybody while I was messing with Mortimer. We find some loot.

A leather armor +1, useless. Mortimer is already with studded leather, with has a higher AC, and everybody else who uses armor is with medium or heavy armor.

And a +1 Battle axe. That actually has some use. I give it to Barbaric!, while it has less damage than his greataxe, it lets him use a shield.

And a key that lets us move on.

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We move on. In this camp there are a couple of barrels with more useless stuff.

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And more orcs, obviously. But these are just cannon fodder.

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Sir Dwarfington was in the back of those tents because one of the barrels was there.

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Barbaric! and the archers (of the party, not the orc archers) attack...

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And we finish up.

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- Poor goblins. They were kinda cute. If a bit smelly.

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- Even when they were trying to bust your kneecaps?

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- Especially then! It made me want to rub their bellies and ask "Who is an evil goblin? Who is an evil goblin?"

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We enter the cave.

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- Guys, I think we found the porn stash.

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- What makes you say that?

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- Oh, nothing, just that puddle of sticky goo. Green sticky goo. Orc green.

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- Ew!

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- I think you should be on your guards, because I think I saw the puddle move!

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- EW!

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We quickly dispose of the puddle of orc cum Slime.

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And move a bit north, to find...

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- Guys, I really don't think I want to continue exploring that cave.

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- What in the nine hells is that!?

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- What sort of disgusting fetish produced something like that?

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- How does a bloke dies from being jizzed on?

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- Liz, is orc jizz actually poisonous?

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- AH! I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT! STOP ASKING ME ABOUT GROSS STUFF!

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- I heard that stuff like that happens in some land to the east, but never heard tales of nobody dying from it.

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- These orc sure are sick buggers.

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- Is he actually dead?

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- I don't know, but if he isn't I'm sure he wants to be put out of his misery.

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We shoot him a bit, then get close.

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These things are actually pretty tough to kill. They resist piercing and slashing. Didn't try bludgeoning. I had a warhammer that I completely forgot about.

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After a bit of hacking away, it, er, dies.

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We move a bit further, only to find two more.

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I retreat a bit, and position Wizerella to...

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Aganazzar's Scorcher!

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We mop up.

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And find this Olive slime.

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What's the deal with slime colors? They behave the same.

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And what kind of color is olive? Some homossexual named this, probably. Real men only know one shade of green, GREEN!
Well, it is soon a dead slime anyway.

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Patching up.

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One more (soon to be dead) slime.

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A carrion Crawler. This cave has more variety of enemies than the whole game prior to this point.

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I don't know if the Crawler has some special attack or ability, but he dies before having the chance to use it anyway.

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- Those things look like a giant joint from afar

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After we explore a bit, we find this +1 Axe. It causes bludgeoning damage, and can be throw. I give it to Barbaric!, as a spare weapon.

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- Guys, look what I found close to this corpse.

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(Not made by me, found it on the net)

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- Then these things we are fighting... Ew, I think I need a bath.

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- Me too.

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- Me too.

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- Me too.

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Exploring a bit more, we end up talking to these guys.

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- Perverts.

We go further south...

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Alright, big fight.

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I use Alicorn Lance, on the orc shaman. I don't want anything being summoned, or chant being cast.

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Should've done something else, because the crappy spell only does 5 damage. Meanwhile the enemies get close, and those two perverts get down to the fray

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I charm one of them, and move Wizerella a down a bit.

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I'm trying to kill the shaman...

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He dies, and Wizerella takes one already battered orc down with a magic missile.

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A couple more orcs die.

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And finally it's only the troll.

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Everytime I look to see how much damage the sneak attack has done, I see a critical by Sir Dwarfington. That does has done much, much more damage.

The orc in this SS is the one previously charmed.

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- What did the priestess said about killing the troll?

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- Wasn't something about a stake to his heart?

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- But where's his heart?

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- Have you looked in the place a heart should be?

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- Of course I looked. There's only green crap in there.

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- I think she said to use a silver stake.

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- Where are we gonna find a silver stake?

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- It was fire.

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- It has to be silver AND on fire?! No wonder those things are unkillable!

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- And we still have to find it's heart!

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- No, just throw the oil on him.

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- Oh, right.

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- Wait a second, let me just stab him in the balls one more time.

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We loot the corpses, and the container with the blade.

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Pretty decent, but nobody in the party can use it. Everybody is chaotic neutral.

We leave the place.

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We rest and start leaving this area

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- You know the orcs are dead, right? You are free now!

Villager - Oh, why, thank you, let's all go back to our village now! Wait, it was ransacked and burnt to the ground.

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- Well, can't you rebuild?

Villagers - After the slaughter you made? Do you have any idea the amount of wolves, carrion birds, hyenas and other scavengers are there? Do you want us poor villages to get eaten?

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- Well, no, but I think you are exaggerating a bit. Hyenas live in savannas, the lands are covered with snow here!

Villager - Well, THAT'S THE SIZE OF THE CARNAGE YOU MADE! It attracts scavengers from around the globe! I think I saw elephants too. In fact a whole bloody ecosystem was stabilished there!

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- Well, it seems you want to participate in this new ecosystem.

Villager - Oh, and why do you say that?

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- You act like you want to be made into fertilizer.

Villager - On the bright side, we still have our lives, eh?

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- Let's move.

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We change maps, and a Highland snake attacks us.

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- It's all tangled, I want to sneak attack it, but I can't figure out where it's back is!

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Despite not being sneak attacked, the snake is quickly dispatched.

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We move...

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That fucker blocks our way. Forcing us to detour about 50 meters.

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At least you he could argue that the aspies harpies could kill us.

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Soon, from some hole in the ground, appear orcs, wererats, wereboars, werebadgers, weremother-in-laws...

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I decided to use that oil.

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Some magic missiles.

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And their numbers thin a bit.

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I sincerely have no clue on what happend in this SS

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Finally, Mortimer manages to deal damage in the double digits

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Cleanin'

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Lootin'

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Movin'

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Fightin'

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Clusterfuckin'

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Aganazzar's Schorcer is always fun to use. The ray burns whoever is in it's path, including allies if you are careless, and the ray moves as the primary target moves.

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For some reason, these fuckers decide to not step on the entangle spell.

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That thing affecting the enemies is chant. It buffs the allies, and puts a negative buff on the enemies. I mean, the allies and enemies of the caster. If I had a cleric, I could cast it too, it's actually pretty good from what I remember.

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Tough fight, look at my party hp.

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I try to run away with Mortimer, and manage to get him out of sight. But not by hiding, obviously, because thief skills never work.

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Lizzie is still in danger tough.

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Dwarfington sends a wererat to hell, and comes down bringing the pain!

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I tell him to attack those archers, while praying for Lizzie to remain alive.

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She does.

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Looting, and in we stop here. This area is cleared, in the next update we move on, to finally reach Shaengarne Bridge.
 

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I always enjoyed the bridge. I don't remember much from IWD2 but I do remember the bridge.

Also you need a 6th member of your party to whip these plebeians into shape.. Maybe a 6th level fighter dueled to mage.

Just saying.

edit: Drunk posting sucks.
 

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oldmanpaco said:
Also you need a 6th member of your party to whip these plebeians into shape.. Maybe a 6th level party dueled to mage.

Just saying.

Given recent events in the IWD LP, I suggest calling him "Lord Paco III" (or maybe "Lord Paco IV", since said LP's not over yet).
 

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