Let's Play - BGT with a Codex Crew

[dextermorgan]

All right, thanks to this LP I think I'm finally ready to pop my BG cherry!

I've installed BG1 + TOTSC and BG2 + TOB + BGT.

Now, I'd like to use the widescreen mod to switch it to 1440x900 but can't find info on weather this clashes with BGT or whether my UI is going to get all f***ed up.

Suggestions?

 

[oldmanpaco]

The widescreen mod is Weidu so it should not mess anything up. I have personally found that anything higher than 1280x800 makes the characters to small. But I suppose it depends on your monitor size.

BTW - How badly cheating would it be if Paco goes to bed a Kensia one night and wakes up a Berserker?

 

[bandaid]

BTW - How badly cheating would it be if Paco goes to bed a Kensia one night and wakes up a Berserker?

If you would make it story-wise and amusing, at least I would forgive you.

Also, where is mah UPDATAH?

 

[chzr]

where is mah UPDATAH?

 

[taplonaplo]

where is mah UPDATAH?

Don't really care about kit thing. I would expect trouble with kensai on lower levels and you didn't seem to have too much of that.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Glad no one cares about the kit switch because it's done.

Anyway I have two updates guaranteed for tonight (well one chapter in two parts). I have about 600 more screen-shots that I need to edit. Those will be split into two chapters that I will try to post Sunday.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Chapter 14: Baldur's Gate I - Part 1

On the Bridge to Baldur's Gate

OK people let's all play it cool. No reason to get in the face of the guards or citizens right away.

Yes, this is a good plan. We should avoid confrontation if possible.

How is that playing it cool and avoiding confrontation!?

Avoiding what now?

Helping the guardians of this city is truly a noble task.

So true noble warrior. You see right to heart of the matter.

Gods I love being famous. What did he want us to do?

We Enter the City

What did you suppose he meant by my traits being a weakness?

Perhaps he meant-

Perhaps he is a crazy old man following me around giving lectures. Screw him.

Surely we must help these people at once!

I'm sure there is plenty of time. We will get to it latter. Maybe.

Hmmm...

Did we just agree to do something for crazy girl here?

I think so.

Hmm. Lets check the journal.

Apperently we need to get a book of some sort.

Who wrote that down?

Didn't you?

In the Blade and Stars Tavern

Are we now common criminals?

Don't be silly. We are fulfilling a destiny. Anything we do can be forgiven.

How do you reach that conclusion?

I don't need to explain myself to you. Your job is to be quite, heal us, and look pretty.

Paco! I will not allow you to insult the lady!

Oh good lord. Let's go.

What a tool.

In the Sorcerous Sundries

Does he want us to steal this jewelry?

I have no idea. Lets do it anyway. Hey look our journal has been updated again!

Do you think anyone is going to care that we up and killed these mages?

Nah. From my experience mages are dying all the time. Right DP?

Well not all the time...

Sounds easy enough.

But this is common thievery!

Goddammit Wulf. Keep her quite.

This is a good idea chief. Get a little practice in before the big score.

Someday I hope to have my own personal nymph.

Didn't we already know this?

Ah, but now we have confirmation from a seer.

Yes. I can see how that's better. Really.

Surey we must investigate this incident at once!

Wulf get your priorities straight. We are on our way to preform some minor burglary. We will deal with this later.

I'm sure this guy is on the up-and-up.

Ok lets wait in here until dark.

In The Blushing Mermaid Inn

Wow. These assassination attempts are getting much weaker by the day.

I'm relatively new.. why are people trying to kill you?

Why indeed...

You see DP most people are born, they live, and they die. Like you.

OK.

But every once in-awhile someone is born who has a great future ahead of them. They have a destiny that need to be fulfilled. Like me.

But that doesn't explain why people want to kill you.

Destiny DP. Pay attention for gods sake.

Anyway its several hour until dark. Let's get drunk.

***

Wulf, may I speak with you - away from the others.

Why certainly. We can get a private room to review the scriptures.

Wulf, I am worried.

About what? I can protect you!

No Wulf, I am worried about the path Paco has chosen to walk.

It is a little perplexing I admit.

He ignores the desperate needs of justice to engage in petty thievery and thuggery. It is not right!

I have faith that Paco will choose the right path. All his actions are not suspect.

But enough are. I have secret but you must swear not to tell Paco or anyone.

I swear by my faith not to reveal your secret.

I did not just happen to find you in Beregost. I was sent by the church to watch your actions. Paco's actions.

Why?

Becasue all his spouting off about destiny has a sliver of truth in it. And if he appears to be walking the wrong path I am sworn to oppose him.

Oppose him? With violence?

I pray it does not come to that but if it does I will. Tell me - who will you stand with?

I.. I do not know.

That is OK. You have traveled far with Paco and he is your friend. I just want you to keep your eyes open. Notice what choices are made.

Yes I can do that. Should we return to the others?

Not yet warrior. Let us enjoy the solitude for a few moments more.

Certanitly, er, what are you doing?

Shhhh... just lie back and relax.. you deserve some relaxation...

Ohhh..

****

Alright Tic your up.

Right you are. I'm sure this will go smooth.

Aright this is the real deal people. We get in, get the parts, get out. Try not to kill anyone.

Yes, murder always makes me queasy.

With all that chatter beforehand I thought this was going to be harder. Lets get the shit and go.

And it all works out in the end.

Didn't work out to well for those dead girls.

Don't bother me with details.

Good news chief! I got her ring.

Good work. Where is the other guy?

Let it never be said that crime does not pay.

Well at least they didn't just up and attack like most people do.

Yes. That was quite an improvement over your normal social interactions.

Must we continue to kill people without purpose?

Come on! Those guys were thieves.

We're thieves!!!

Maybe so - but we are thieves of Destiny.

Lot of dead bodies in this house...

Yeah. Lets go.

OK people we have a Basilisk. Wulf you're on point!

My faith is my shield!!

Just not the same Challenger they used to be.

Hey the seer wanted that.

God I love seers.

Why is that?

They always confirm how important I am. It's a great feeling.

I wonder if it is possible to receive a less useful reward. Got to negotiate these things up front from now on.

Everyone telling me I can trust Scar is making me think I cannot trust him..

That's some quality logic chief.

So here they are - The Iron Tower.

Are we going in to dispence justice?

Not yet. Soon though. Lets go into the Seven Suns office.

Alright kill everyone and lets go get our money.

Do you find it a little odd that it took us approximately 5 minutes to solve this mystery but the people in charge of the city were helpless?

Does no one pay attention to me? Destiny Baby Destiny!

Ok he wants us to go into the sewers. Anyone up for that?

Well..

I don't really like dank..

And try getting the smell out of your armor..

And the aftertaste..

I'm not going into the sewers.

DP says we are not going into the sewers. There has to be other stuff for us to do in this town.



Next - We don't go into the sewers.

 

[oldmanpaco]

BTW the update above sucked. I know it and you know it. It does get more interesting though.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Chapter 14: Baldur's Gate I - Part 2

In the Flaming Fist HQ

Ok we have established that we are not going into the sewers. Lets see what else we can squeeze out of this city.

So.. what's everyone thinking?

Doppelgangers.

Seems like it.

Definitely.

We are all in agreement then.

So how many doppelgangers are going to waiting on the 3rd floor for us?

Smooth escape chief.

It worked. Don't say it didn't.

In an Unlocked Desk Drawer

Who keeps letters like this around?

Things that deserve the righteous fury about to descend upon them!

Also stupid people do this kind of thing.

The Third Floor Party

Another job well done. God I'm good at this.

Excuse me?

We are good at this. We.

Are we going to assault the Bitch Queen's temple now?

Maybe, maybe not. We will see how diplomacy works first.

If that's the plan maybe you should let someone else talk...

You people act as if I crave violence. I am at heart a man of peace.

..

..

..

Well, to be honest-

You're two steps away from being a psychopath!

But those are long strides. Let's go.

OK we grab the nymph and leave. No need to spill blood.

You always say that then we always do.

Looks like diplomacy failed. Kill him!

Shocking that it came to this.

Isn't she just adorable. Maybe we should stop at an inn on the way to deliver her. You know, to inspect her for injuries.

No. No, no, no. We deliver her now.

Another Job well done.

Paco! This is beyond evil. He is going to carve that poor creature up into spell components.

Oh I doubt that. She's so cute.

He just said it!

Fine I will ask him.

Ouch! That bastard hit me with a lightning bolt. He's dead. Up the stairs.

No one hits me with a lightning bolt!

Or carves up nymphs!

But mostly you hit me with a lightning bolt! Kill him!

Tic Tac Levels Up

Alright we are done with that. Let's go.

What about the nymph?

Well I think we can all agree that she owes me a thank-you blo-

Paco, you will demand no such thing.

What? I was going to let her go after. Grunker would have let me have my reward.

I would have enjoyed the other reward more.

In the Three Kegs Inn

This is why I need my own nymph people. Anyway rest up.

***

And what do you think now?

He released the nymph.

You made him. If you had not been here what would have happened?

He has also agreed to save the child..

But we haven't yet. What we did do was murder that mage.

Well he was keeping the nymph as a sex slave.

Not that one.

The other one wanted to cut up that poor thing.

Not that one either.

You mean the one in the house? I am not sure why we killed him.

We didn't kill him, we murdered him.

No, there must have been a reason...

Don't worry about it now. Here let me show you something.

Oh my, oh my, oh......

Didn't that diseased guy hide a skull in here somewhere? Let's find it.

Are we truly going to murder someone for this woman?

Maybe, maybe not. We will see.

See I told you I could use diplomacy.

Truly a remarkable day.

In The Helm and Cloak Inn

Paco! Why?

I used diplomacy once today. It's all used up.

Well DP.. Someday I hope to find a mage that can take more that two hits. To bad it wasn't you.

Finidng this behind a painting seems overly convenient.

I have two words for you. Dest and Iny.

Why is everyone just appearing in this house. Seems strange.

I don't know about this. I usually follow a strict kill the druid policy.

Maybe this time we kill the wizard.

Also a good policy.

Get him!

Well I'm all citiedout for the moment. Let's go recruit a new mage and check out Ulgoths Beard.

We Travel to Beregost

Think anyone is ever going to remove these bodies?

 

[waywardOne]

widescreen worked for me on both tutu and bg2.

paco: what's with the boxed up fog of war edges? you have an nvidia card? if so -- http://www.shsforums.net/topic/30840-ie-games-and-nvidia-series-8-video-cards/

nice update. i just finished the mines after 3 failures to install tutu due to a frankenstein bg2.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Fuck you.

Full of anger this one is.

 

[BethesdaLove]

Poor Qwinn...

 

[Azira]

You need more inquisitors in your party. They would whole-heartedly approve of the mage-slaying.

 

[oldmanpaco]

paco: what's with the boxed up fog of war edges? you have an nvidia card? if so -- http://www.shsforums.net/topic/30840-ie-games-and-nvidia-series-8-video-cards/.

I have two 9600GT in SLI mode running on Win7. I read part of that thread but could not gt anything to really work and the Nvidia fix deal wouldn't install. Not even sure if it would help with the 9x series of cards.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Just turn hardware acceleration off.

I still hate you.

Hardware acceleration has to be turned off for the widescreen mod to work properly so that is not the issue.

Also make another char. Maybe one with a little staying power. Although we are close to the time where the casters become tougher than the melee types.

 

[Ulminati]

Also make another char. Maybe one with a little staying power.

http://playithardcore.com/pihwiki/index ... _and_Stats

As you can see from this, non-warriors are best served with 16 on and 18 Dex for +2 HP and -4 AC. Given the very generous 85 points, non-weighted, you should aim for those 2 numbers if at all possible for Max survivability. Also consider not dumping Int too far if you plan to live past midgame BG2, where mindflayers start draining Int and autokill if it drops below 3.

 

[chzr]

Also make another char. Maybe one with a little staying power. Although we are close to the time where the casters become tougher than the melee types.

exactly, some more DPs will die but eventually, we'll have a powerful mage.

 

[taplonaplo]

When will chzr level up? Whenever i see something die, there's a "chzr did xx damage" right above the death line, i'm curious to see if he has been able to take the lead over paco in xp in kills.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Chapter 15: The Ice Island

In the Red Sheaf Inn

OK listen up people: We are looking for a mage.

And what do you need a mage for?

Holy shit what's wrong with your face?

The surges of the arcane that power my abilities can be a bit.. unpredictable.

I don't know.. you seem a little to freaky for our group. And we have this troll of a gnome.

I am a perfectly acceptable female gnome you bastard.

Oh gods it's a woman!

Any non-horribly scarred mages around?

Perhaps your reputation for getting mages killed proceeds you.

More than likely. Oh well, red-eyes you still want in?

Only if you can promise me wealth and power and death to my enemies!

I like your style. What's your name?

You may call me Nickless.

We had a Nickless in our party before. Looked much better than you.

We Travel to Ulgoth's Beard

That was the forth or fifth person crying about the same group of orcs. Someone should really do something about them.

I believe we have agreed to do something about them.

For free? I think not.

Are we common mercenaries now? Working only if the price is right?

People that's enough. We will get to the orc problem when we have time.

Right now we need to stroll around this town where nothing bad could possible happen.

Perhaps we should find this boy's mom and see how many of those activities we can do...

Oh you're edgy. And creepy.

Now hold on! I wasn't even-

Ok that was unexpected.

Gods Paco! If we hadn't murdered those girls we would not be here now!

I wonder where we are?

Why would you kill the daughters of such a powerful mage?

It seemed the thing to do. Let's go inside and find that cloak he wants. I'm freezing my junk off out here.

I just can't abide common thievery.

Do you even feel guilty saying things like that?

One down. This isn't going to bad.

Damn where did the cleric go?

She appears to be mazed. She will return when she can find her way out. Really just a logic problem.

Well she is going to be gone for awhile then. No one get hurt.

Everyone in the party is now confused.

Wow that was interesting.. What's going on?

People are dying! That's whats going on.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!! What happened to Wulf!!!!!!

While you were strolling around that maze he got himself killed. Feel better?

Well things got a little out of hand there.

It appears Wulf was killed by arrows...

But these mages didn't have bows.

Er, well, you see, I might have killed him. Just a little. I don't really remember.

You, you are at fault for this.

Don't blame chrz. Everyone was running around swinging at walls and shadows for a bit there. You missed that fun in the maze.

I don't blame her you idiot. I blame you! You led to us to this island. You led Wulf to this death.

And this gnome thing on the floor. Don't forget about 'her'.

Everyone makes their own choices. I never forced anyone to follow me. You want to leave? Go ahead.

I.. I cannot.

Ah I see what is going on. Following some vague orders from on-high are you? Don't care. We need to get off this island then kill that bastard Shandalar.

There are some very unfriendly mages on this island.

Perhaps it's just you.

No I think they are all just bastards.

Nickless II Level's Up

Why does everyone make a speech before they attack you?

So we can prepare for the battle. If they just attacked that would not be much fun.

Well that was a bit anticlimactic.

Yeah. Those other mages were far more powerful than this idiot.

OK we got his damn cloak. I wonder how -

How does he do that?

There he is. Lets take our vengeance.

Our Party of four attacks Shandala. We die. Then die again.
I was trying to delete the pics from one of the battles but accidentally deleted all of them.
The battle involved confusion, cone of colds, the townsfolk turning on us, and other calamities. Not pretty.

There he is. Lets take our vengeance.

In good time pretty elf. I am something of an expert in vengeance and I feel we should have a full party before crossing this mage.

Fine. Paco let's go find some meat shields for this job.

I like where your head is these days. But first lets loiter around town in direct view of Shandala looking for other quests to do.

Maybe I should be in charge of the money...

You wish. This one looks OK.

Simple dash through some ruins and grab the dagger job. Should be simple.

That other guy said it was deathtrap.

I'm sure he was exaggerating.

I think a sea voyage and an island vacation sounds lovely.

Paco I demand we take our vengeance on Shandalar!

Who?

The mage who sent us to the Ice Island!

You haven't moved on yet? I suppose we can go recruit some people.

We Travel To Beregost

OK people we are looking for two more bodies, er, companions to join our merry group.

And what be our goal?

Money, power, fame. The usual.

We need assistance to extract retribution on a foul mage who caused the death of a noble and true Paladin!

Good Lady, I will raise my sword for your cause!

Bloody hell.

Thank you brave knight! Any others who wish to partake in this most just cause!

The parts about wealth and fame still apply?

We have some destiny thrown in there as well.

Well I guess I ain't doing anything better right now.

We Travel Back to Ulgoth's Beard

OK here is the plan. We stroll up causally and then attack him.

Excellent tactical plan, he will not expect a thing!

I have suggestion chief. I've killed a mage or two before.

Fine go ahead.

Well how abouts you fighter types casually stroll up to him while big boobs and myself find good positions to snipe at him.

My boobs aren't big.

They be bloody huge to me. And you - creepy mage - you start things off with a blast from a wand of some sort.

I don't know.. this plan seems complicated.

Fine we will try it your way.

Nick manages to stun Shandalar with a Wand of Paralyzation.

Well that was easy.

Wonder what would have happened if he resisted that wand?

More than likely horrible deaths for us all. But why think about it.

I spit on his broken body. I hope he burns in hell.

My aren't you an angry one.

Paco and Penny Noia Level Up

OK everyone take five. We are headed to that tower next.

Next - We spend a inordinate amount of time fighting doppelgangers.

 

[ghostdog]

Nice one.

Without exploiting backstab, SCS can be a real bitch with mages.

 

[oldmanpaco]

As you can see from this, non-warriors are best served with 16 on and 18 Dex for +2 HP and -4 AC. Given the very generous 85 points, non-weighted, you should aim for those 2 numbers if at all possible for Max survivability. Also consider not dumping Int too far if you plan to live past midgame BG2, where mindflayers start draining Int and autokill if it drops below 3.

Think of the pile of bodies if we didn't have 85 points to work with. The Bio NPC average between 80-90 points.

Also people who dump int can't use wands and get stuck in Mazes for a god-awful amount of time.

When will chzr level up? Whenever i see something die, there's a "chzr did xx damage" right above the death line, i'm curious to see if he has been able to take the lead over paco in xp in kills.

Next Chapter.

I have about 600 pics from Durlag's Tower to edit. Going to try to get the next chapter up tonight (in 2-3 parts) because it will probably be until next weekend before I can sit down for 2 hours straight to make an update.

 

[chzr]

oh well, i guess someone had to do it :<

 

[oldmanpaco]

BTW I did a real shitty job capturing the battles in Durlag's Tower. The lesson learned is don't drink and play at the same time.

 

[taplonaplo]

So long lil gnome, i hope at least you've stolen some shit. Based on my current playthrough pickpocket is a surprisingly good skill when everything costs 2x as much and you don't get shit for the stuff you sell...

My current cleric/ranger is pretty fun, so he will the next incarnation of my misfit chars:

Name: Trhggr
Race: Half-elf, male
Class: Cleric/Ranger
Alignment: Chaotic Good
STR: 18
DEX: 16
CON: 18
INT: 9
WIS: 16
CHR: 8

Go dual wielding melee with whatever weapon you wish. Memorize some buff spells too if possible.

 

[BethesdaLove]

Finally, the Pala is dead!