Completed Let's solo Baldur's Gate 2 on Insane (feat. The Codex)

[Snufkin]

It would be more interesting if you didnt use exp-remover cap since F/m/t is already strong. Cap remover only turns you into God and kills any challange.

 

[MicoSelva]

Nah. There is still a lot of challenge, because I suck at the game, hard. Also, I am curious how ridiculously overleveled The Codex can become.

 

[Snufkin]

Well without cheats like cap remover you would probably not go F/m/t but mayby gnome thief/ilusionist. Max levels for F/m/t without cap remover are 18/17/22, for thief/mage 20/28. It's all about time stop + shapechange anyways.

 

[MicoSelva]

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What? She attacked me!

Like court would believe you.

Update #86: Siege of Saradush

Update #86

Don't tell me you're a mephit. That would put a serious crack on our relationship. And your skull.

Cespenar

Tell me more.

Careful with that!

Cromwell would be seriously pissed if I told him his craft, which he has mastered for decades, can be performed by a foot-tall bat-creature, just like that.

Uh... okay?

I think I've owned at least one skull of a lich at some point...

Unnecessary. I already am immune to normal weapons.

What? There are missing pages that have to bought separately? Did EA publish this book, or what?

Bronze ioun stone? I hope I haven't sold it at some point.

Yeah, you do that. I have a portal to get through.

That Il-Khan guy must be a radical liberal.

What are you smoking, lady?

I can see this is going to end well.

Not necessary, but highly entertaining.

Ah, shit. I should have expected a similar outcome...

I don't feel like fighting you assheads, so just DIE.

Huh? It didn't work?

I guess we'll just do it the hard way!

Ow. Ow. Ow.

Hard way indeed.

You can't kill what you can't see!

That is not always true.

Time to employ STEALTH TACTICS!

DIE LIKE THE WORM YOU ARE!

This is why some people consider you a huge pain in the... back.

FUCK!

The speed at which some of them are able to quaff these suggests they wear the equivalent of a beer helmet for potions.

Let's see if you're so tough one-on-one!

As expected.

Time for another 'dagger-in-my-kidney' situation.

This is unreal.

Die already!

YES!

As for you...

You don't deserve a direct approach.

Great. First friendly woman I meet in a long time, and she turns out to be a stalker.

Dark magic? Anything a wish spell would help with?

You wish.

I wish I could wish.

Withholding information until I help you. I haven't seen this motive since, like, the previous update.

If you think that backfired on you, you should try crossing me.

And because I have not been provided with a dialog option that would allow me to refuse.

As powerful as me... But is that taking his army into account, or not?

Translation: 'Does anyone in this shithole of a town sell ultra-powerful magical items?'

And the answer to that question usually is 'yes'.

You have to give it to Bioware that they have covered their bases when it comes to passage of time here.

If I knew she was a member of the Teleporting People Guild, I would have killed her on the spot. As it is, I won't remember this when we meet again.

Well, he's dead, that's why.

Luckily, we have that base covered.

I have absolutely no reason for helping you...

...but it's not like I will find any other use for this rod.

Well, you ARE unworthy of my attention.

Maybe I will, I haven't decided yet.

Either people here take sewer security VERY seriously, or this is where I have to go to advance the plot.

You talkin' to me, dwarf?

Hey, I know you!

That is not her.

True enough. That is a HOT mistress.

Uh, no, I'll pass. I don't do that weird incest stuff.

And now she wants to kill me because I turned her down. Typical.

Shit, she's channelling Illasera too!

I like how bystanders just ignore the fight around them with their 'seen that already' attitude.

I should have my own cultists too, am I not enough worship-worthy?

Alternatively, I will reduce all the other cults to zero members, so I will be at worst tied in the number of worshippers.

I think I've just killed a Cold Misleadstress. Get it?

But enough bootleg bullshit, let's deal with the real... uh, deal.

There can be only one!

Step off my gold!

So, they ignored me slaughtering all these people around, but they shit their pants because I am a bhaalspawn? My divine heritage has much more intimidation potential than I realized.

No lock can stop The Codex! No conventional lock, at least.

Slaughtering soldiers too!

Let me demonstrate!

This is for shit-talking me.

The more, the merrier!

Uh...

Shiiit.

How many of them are there?

Fuck!

Let's do this in steps.

Step one: BURN!

Step two...

...BURN SOME MORE!

I hope Melissan wasn't planning on uniting town militia with Gromnir's army, because the army isn't around anymore.

Oh?

Bingo.

A boy and his dog?

If you want to know where inspiration for Fallout vaults came from, watch this film.

Just don't ask me to join my party. I had to kill the last guy who tried that.

They would need to be black reaver levels to make me sweat.

That Melissan isn't doing the best job with keeping bhaalspawn alive and safe. It almost seems as if she tries to kill them off on purpose. Could it be...

Nah, I'm sure it's a coincidence.

I already don't like him.

Such a cheerful fellow you are.

Apparently.

Hey, a temple.

Locking himself in won't help for long.

I'm sure she would be very sad if that happened.

What? Why?

'Such as me'? What? I have a flawless reputation! 20! It literally cannot go up any more! I have just resurrected a fucking dead peasant! For free!

You are evil now, she will not help you.

This is beyond stupid! I hate clergy!

It's fucking unbelievable I have such a hard time convincing people of my good intentions! Fuck!

I need to kill someone to calm myself!

Oh, it WILL.

This is how you want to convince people of your good intentions?

Well... fuck.

GTFO!

Fine, fine, stop whining, I'll talk to him.

How much is it worth to you?

Speaking of which, since I already have the sewer key, shouldn't we just go and kill him?

We could, but we have some pointless side-quests to complete first.

Oh, right.

Let's see what inside here.

What is going on here?

This Kiser dude sounds legit.

Yeah, just like the other one.

Another pointless sidequest in 3...

2...

1...

Score!

another pointless side-quest

I would never be able to sell my mother, for any price, because I never even met her.

People disappear on me all the time. Fucking teleportation spells.

So you've let an important witness, a suspect even, roam around free, and lost him? You get no sympathy from me.

Also, there is NO possibility that she could be blackmailed or something like that. Zero. Null. Nada.

And let me guess who that will be.

He has also lost the bulk of his forces recently, but let's not talk about that.

Not that I'm hoping to learn anything new...

I mean, other than the sewers.

So you say.

Next time: I am sure there will be some exciting developments, as there always are.

 

[Abelian]

Step one: BURN!

Fixed

I was expecting a TPK with all those soldiers surrounding The Codex. I thought they'd interrupt any casting attempts.

Carry on, good sir.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Yeah I was also surprised with no interruption whatsoever, was expecting whirlwinds and else.

 

[Erebus]

I'm pretty sure I never encountered the Cold Mistress. Is she from a mod or did I somehow manage to miss her every single time I played ToB ?

 

[MicoSelva]

I'm pretty sure I never encountered the Cold Mistress. Is she from a mod or did I somehow manage to miss her every single time I played ToB ?

A mod, I think, either Ascension or Restored Content.

I was expecting a TPK with all those soldiers surrounding The Codex. I thought they'd interrupt any casting attempts.

Yeah I was also surprised with no interruption whatsoever, was expecting whirlwinds and else.

They had no enchanted weapons, so it was like hacking through scarecrows. I almost chose the non-violent approach because of this.

 

[Erebus]

They had no enchanted weapons

They must be the only guys in ToB who don't ! I don't think I ever found immunity to normal weapons to be useful in the game.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Yeah, I hated Mellisan for the simple reason that you could see it coming - miles away - and you couldn't do anything about it. Bioware pulls that crap every game.

 

[MicoSelva]

Yeah, I hated Mellisan for the simple reason that you could see it coming - miles away - and you couldn't do anything about it. Bioware pulls that crap every game.

Yeah, they did it again in NWN OC, and it was even worse in that game.

 

[Darth Roxor]

My favourite part is her endgame morphing time. MY TRUE NAME IS... *DRUMROLL* AMELISSAN!

THE PERFECT DISGUISE

NOBODY WILL SUSPECT A THING

 

[Erebus]

Melissan would have been suspicious in any case, since she keeps sending us against powerful Bhaalspawn and we've been told there's a traitor among the Five (it turns out not to be her, but that doesn't really matter). The bit about "the face of an ally, the mask of a foe" couldn't apply to many people other than her.

But the way she behaves makes it even worse : "Gromnir, Charname, stop fighti... Oops ! If only I'd arrived 30 seconds earlier... Oh well, here's what you have to do now." When she turns up after you kill Yaga-Shura, it's no longer possible to doubt that she's manipulating you and everyone else.

I guess that if ToB had been a full game rather than a mere expansion, the plot could have been a little less simplistic.

 

[MicoSelva]

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This is how I imagine Bioware Forums when someone asks to cut romances for the next game.

Update #87: CSI: Saradush

Update #87

Note: I forgot to screenshot Codex's character sheet again (for this and next update). Maybe I will add it later here, or maybe you will have to wait until #89 at least.

Yeah, because someone cares about that.

Another note: Conversations in this update are not spoiler-tagged because they make for the bulk of the screenshots. I briefly considered combining this update with the next one, but that would create a 160+ image behemoth, which I wanted to avoid.

Have you noticed when our hero lost 15 max HP? Analysing the previous update points to somewhere around arriving at Saradush - it seems as if his hell trial +15 bonus has disappeared.

I didn't say so, because you NPCs always speak first!

I'm not sure why we didn't talk to this guy in the previous update.

Yeah, it would make more sense, right?

You don't need 20 INT to figure out that Kisser Jaggedy is blackmailing her and he probably kidnapped this Adric guy.

Someone stashed some booze in here, and a necklace.

Let us talk to countess Santele.

Luckily her house is marked on the map.

Quest markers vs. pre-mapped cities with marked buildings - which is better an why? Discuss!

I did not expect it to be as easy to get the info.

Killing someone never prevented me from doing anything. On the contrary, actually.

Yeah, sure, I will 'speak' to him and 'convince' him.

And his house is marked on the map too. How convenient.

Didn't we meet at the militia headquarters?

Nothing else to add.

Why did you tell me to introduce myself then, you asshole?!

You admit to have kidnapped him, just like that? I barely even mentioned the case!

What the fuck? I have to hear him out even if I refuse? What is this, Mass Effect?

Actually, Mass Effect usually allows you to end conversations early if you want to resort to violence.

Yeah, nobody would suspect you then.

You are really bad at this, Kaiser.

And you won't even give me a good reason NOT to kill you?

Well then.

Your who?

Get back here!

I shall grace you with enough attention to even use one of my HLAs on you.

And done.

I hope he at least paid you well?

Yeah, everyone carries a bunch of invisibility potions with them. Very realistic.

This looks interesting.

Hey, I can turn into a hastened Haer'dalis with this. Cool?

Uh... Maybe?

I wonder where this jail might be.

Down the stairc-

Shh! No spoilers!

Let's loot the place first.

Who keeps a warhammer in a desk drawer?

A very paranoid fella, he was.

I think the trap was worth more than the contents.

Not the case here, though.

I WONDER WHERE THE SECRET JAIL MIGHT BE.

Down-

I THINK WE WILL NEED SOME HELP ON THIS.

Wha-?

Maybe the guy Kisar wanted dead will help.

I am starting to regret coming here.

Yes, yes, divination is our ONLY HOPE.

The best thing is he actually casts a spell that creates a magical staff. You can clearly see the staff in the next screenshot.

Let's investigate then!!!!11!1!!11!one

Who would have figured out to just go down the staircase! Truly, that Jaheri guy was a scheming genius!

Uhm, okay?

Oh?

Cool!

I wonder if he remembered about all these traps every time when coming down here to get beer.

I guess that did something.

Guards! I didn't see that coming!

Wow, seriously? Kizer managed to talk a high-level mage into sitting in a damp cellar on guard duty for him? And I am probably the first ever intruder here too.

Oh FUCK!

I guess everyone and their dog can cast Time Stop now.

I honestly turned away only for a moment...

Death Count: 362

Load.

I don't even want to comment on how much this whole situation doesn't make any sense.

This is the scene where you get wrecked by a 2nd level spell.

I thought Slow was third level?

Whatever.

Good enough.

Stay still...

Fuck you and your invisibility potions!

Improved mantle? Someone's underestimating me.

How could we let this happen again?

Killstealer!

Exploding mages! My favourite kind!

And you're barely worth mentioning.

If I find out who is selling all these invisibility potions, I will kill him! Or her!

Dead end! Fffffuuuu-

Let me guess, Adric?

You were quite content to stay here until I talked to you.

Yeah, right. Except your house. And all other riches. Some of which I may have stolen in previous update...

Better than nothing, I guess.

I somehow missed this building before.

Your last name is 'Librarus'? Seriously?

You can stop calling me 'Mighty The Codex'. It's flattering, but kind of creepy.

You're a newcomer... That owns a library. You know what... whatever, I don't want to think about it.

Small footprints? I think I know who might be involved.

Or, since there are no halflings around, it could be a kid...

Getting confessions from people in this town is really fucking easy.

And I bet this testimony of a bullied street urchin will be enough to prove Hectan's guilt.

Will it really? Tune in next time to know!

'Tune in'?

Whatever.

Next time: The Codex's will fail to get laid once again. Also, someone will explode.

 

[Baron Dupek]

That staff gave me some Star Wars vibes.
But it didn't turned into mage duel (with lightsabresstaffs) :<

 

[MicoSelva]

Bros, let us bump this thing into next page, as we do not really want four updates in the same place.

EDIT:

They must be the only guys in ToB who don't ! I don't think I ever found immunity to normal weapons to be useful in the game.

It is very useful for imported character replays. In ToB, not so much.

 

[JoKa]

Bump!

 

[Storyfag]

Bros, let us bump this thing into next page, as we do not really want four updates in the same place.

 

[Storyfag]

It's my professional duty.

 

[MicoSelva]

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How the fuck is he immune to backstabs? I want that too!

Update #88: Yet Another Episode In Saradush

Update #88

Took us long enough to find the town's tavern.

Only because we are saving the best for last. Well, sort of the best, and sort of last.

You suck at marketing so much.

I see a damsel in distress. Paladin mode on!

Chaotic evil paladin. Right.

If I kill them, will you go to bed with me?

For the record, this is not paladin-like behaviour.

What the fuck is with everyone wanting a thousand gold piece for minor stuff?

High-level inflation.

Let me make a counter-offer, I will kill you for free.

I usually get paid a lot to kill, so this actually is quite a bargain!

Everyone and their mother carries +3 weapons now, common sense be damned.

Maybe they are, uh, were members of Il-Khan's elite force?

I sense fantastical racial tensions.

Yet another proof that CDProjekt is only ripping Bioware off! Even that Geralt guy is clearly a fantasy version of commander Shepard.

Spoiler

Spoiler

Because I KNOW someone out there would have taken that at face value.

I bet you will be able to sell me high-level magical items despite these supply problems.

Q.E.D.

You're overreacting. Half-orcs are not THAT bad.

Are you sure you're not confusing vamps with vampires?

What an idiot. Vampires. Yeah, right.

And if I am?

Score! And with a 60% percent discount too, like during a Steam Sale!

What.

Yeah, I have bought a bunch of duds too. That is why you should always wait for the Daily Deal.

WTF, the crazy guy was right after all.

I have the perfect tool, though.

I guess that put them into place.

Why is it highlighted then!

I guess I'm moving in the right direction.

Damn, wrong weapon. Two unnecessary swings!

It is not like you will run out of stamina, we are not in Dark Souls.

Fuck you!

Aha!

A ghost!

Almost like you talking to your wife.

Yorick?

Seriously, they were biting his skull?

Is there a restroom around here somewhere?

Fine, I'll find it myself.

So vague.

I hope I'm interrupting?

Come to think of it, how exactly do they lure their victims into the old prison without raising suspicion? 'Hey, I know this great place to fuck. Very romantic!'

Either someone had two necks, or could not make a decision.

Yeah, because everyone writes on amulets they gift, especially full sentences like that.

Hi, I seem to be lost.

Nevermind, I will find my way on my own.

WHOA!

DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!

Such puzzle.

In you go.

AH! Stop doing that!

I don't think I have any.

You should have some left from killing Bodhi.

I think I've thrown it away.

What? Are you sure? We never throw anything away.

Yes. I know. It is hard no to know since I have to carry all this junk around! And sometimes I get fucking tired of that! So I throw stuff away!

Calm down. Maybe we can buy some later.

What.

Whew. That was close. Felt like my masculinity was being put into doubt.

Why would lock picking a door do that... It is not sexual.

Are you sure? Think about it.

...I hate you.

Well, that is... an accurate prediction of upcoming events.

Except I'm not using a blade.

Those were some good saving throws there.

Didn't you hear your boss? You should have thrown yourself onto my blade... uh, weapon.

Time to go.

Seems like I'm unable to avoid interaction with priests and priestesses, however I try.

I'll take one.

Timmy fell down a well?

Wasn't this door locked?

What a trolling ghost.

Van Helsing has nothing on me.

What do we have here...?

Didn't I need this for an item upgrade or some such? Anyway, let's go back to the inn.

Where's my free sex?

Who's that? The name sounds kind of familiar...

I don't care.

Yeah, you shouldn't even dream of that.

inn looting

Booze!

Moar booze!

Even moar booze!

You people really need to stop confessing your crimes so eagerly. And you know what, I think you're lying about not having the book on you. That would be smart. Which you aren't.

Make it easy?

Don't bother!

Bluff called!

I knew it! The bastard!

But as simply killing Hectan would be too easy, we shall now reload and try another approach.

I knew the bullied street runt confession would be evidence enough.

Can you even cast spells from a book like this?

Oh?

This should be good.

Yes, go on...

WHOOOOA! Well, that was worth the trouble!

Are you the Quantum Leap guy?

Seriously? I never had any trouble with other bhaalspawn. Until recently, that is. And maybe not counting Sarevok.

Yeah, sure, trying to help you.

Talking to you was a waste of time.

And what is worse, you need to talk to him again.

Why?

Just do it.

Did she lobotomize you and remove the fear-responsible part of your brain?

Right...

Unfortunately, after checking our hero's ability list, it seems like he has not regained his bhaalspawn abilities after killing Irenicus. Another bug, like with the 15 missing HP?

Good thing I can cast spells too, including horror.

But we shall not do that just yet.

No legends have been exaggerated, you got that right.

Ooooooh!

No more inventory problems!

Next time: I have not played that far ahead, sorry. But we will probably try and kill Gromnir.

 

[Azira]

But about the bag of holding.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Seriously, they were biting his skull?

Is there a restroom around here somewhere?

Are you suggesting that they wanted to turn his skull into piss pot?

And I vaguely remember getting that Bag of Holding in the Tower of Durlag or else, with adventurers on the top.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

The only bag of holding should be in the Asylum in BG2. Any others are mod added.

 

[Darth Roxor]

going splat! against the forcefield reminds me of the cabin in the woods

 

[MicoSelva]

The only bag of holding should be in the Asylum in BG2. Any others are mod added.

Nope.

http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Bag_of_Holding

This item can be obtained in the Spellhold maze and another one can be bought from Arcana Archives after completing the subquest: Lazarus' Missing Spellbook.

And I vaguely remember getting that Bag of Holding in the Tower of Durlag or else, with adventurers on the top.

You mean Sister Garlena. She sells a gem bag, which looks a bit similar.

http://baldursgate.wikia.com/wiki/Sister_Garlena