bugarup

'Bug/spider perso' is probably Big Mouth who is a Vithrack surgeon (that is pretty much useless due to the fact that he cannot participate in any ship event that requires a surgeon) that can be recruited in Dunnage, i think. Ac, but can he appear in that event where a crew member tries to hop into the Watcher's bed? Asking for a friend. Also, we can hire a Deathead in Crookspur.

I'm successfully sitting on my hands so far, but 'fraid I'll give in at some point and add a few new games to my stockpile of 300+. And then proceed ignoring them all and play NV and Pillars for another 300 hrs instead.

Skaen Shmaen. Look at this cute lil puppy my puny lvl 6 party got by getting ambushed by some dumb Principi mooks. And he's once per rest, not once per game!

The imps are all Canadians, eh? (Mayhaps not very polite sort though). Better give him Russian accent - also cold-associated plus rare in RPGs. Additional perk of no negative effects from booze and immunity to hangovers would complement it nicely, too.

You probably did not butter Tekehu up in his pick-up conversation or weren't flippant enough on Port Maje. I hit -1 right after getting Tekehu and -2 after inn+brothel.

Kept playing. Aloth's -2 triggered normally, Pallegina did not like me to +2 yet. Also, Now take him upstairs, purchase services of every employee and there it is, your -2.

Pretty sure conversation ending abruptly is a bug, had it with Aloth on one character and Pallegina on another. Still it's fun to think the Watcher is, like totally over Mr High Eyeroller.

Typical. The guy gets the super-duper overpowered ability set, and the game ends. Just like that skill book in the end of Fallout 2.

You know what? You might be onto something and he actually is miserable, hard to please wet blanket, both in text and mechanically. In text always sour and dour party pooper, mechanically only has two peculiar things he likes and a vast array of easily triggered things he does not like. Compare Tekehu, who in text is the chillest dude ever, never gets angry, likes everything, big heart, easy to please. Mechanically - has 6 things he likes that are very easily accumulated and only 2 rather reasonable and not often triggered dislikes.

Josh Sawyer is writing her, isn't he? Seems to be his thing -- remember many unfortunate endings of poor Arcade Gannon from Fallout New Vegas?

i managed to get him to +1 with Post Maje stuff and conversation that comes right after it by basically being the most boring Goldpact Knight on Eora plus yes-manning the conversation. "Yes, Aloth, you're the best. No, Aloth, it's not your fault all those people died". But what I am really curious about is what's the deal with Xoti. I'm running with the Faction Party -- Gina, Maia, Serafen, Tekehu -- everywhere, and in the fleetingly brief time Xoti was in the party she charmed Maia and Serafen to +1 and Teke to full +2. Is she like Geralt the Witcher oozing pheromones all the time?

What is the correct order of doing it anyway? Because I got deadlocked too, would be nice to see the alternative.

As soon as I detected the faint whiff of chemistry starting between the Bull and Dorian, Tevinter fop was benched. Nobody gets between me and my target, Dorian. Nobody. If I ever forget Hinterlands, stupid plot, the singing (the singing, mama! ), Hinterlands, respawning MMO mooks, Hinterlands, bears made of titanium making a beeline for the party and Hinterlands and decide to replay DA:I with a different romance, even then I will not allow Iron Bull and Dorian in the same party. Because Bull is mine.

I finished with Moon Godlike Mystic from White that Wends, Mystic got used quite often, White not really, and speaking of Moon Godlikeness, waaaayyy to display blatant favoritism, Ondra. "Tekehu this, Tekehu that"...what about me, mum?!

Poking around in the files, it looks like taking the romance option at -2 puts you in the same state as kissing him at +2 but deciding not to pursue the relationship. I think this state does result in the "he loves you" slide at the end, which is... interesting. One kiss and the elf is yours! I did notice his default reaction changed after the -2 smooch. Usual -2 reaction is something like "Aloth stares at you with utter loathing and says nothing", now it's back to neutral.

I let him go, he had suffered long enough already. The Queen was pissed but I was, like, "Give me a second chance" and she was "K, go there do that and it's all good". Got a good Huana ending and it correlated nicely with my Watcher swaying Tekehu to be self-reliant and inventive instead of clinging to the old ways.

Well, I have a few saves with her demoted and in one of them the Watcher met her in Neketaka, listened to her sad story and then said something like "Well that's what happens when you do not listen to your bosses" (reminder: it was the Watcher who pushed her to disobey in the first place). It appears that she is quite a hothead and knows a lot of interesting, colorful words. Anyway, I don't have any issues with Gina. Her not expressing her hatred to gods in PoE can be easily attributed to the fact she and the Watcher weren't friends, just some sort of business associates. She was also not codependent like Aloth or personable extrovert like Hiravias or Maneha (or the party staple and necessity like Eder ), why would she confide in person that she simply traveled with - initially because you were going the same way, later probably out of sense of duty and determination to see it through. And she probably did not plan to have that outburst in front of semi-strangers, but well, hothead. Five years later, she is posted in the place way more hostile to her Republic than Dyrwood, the Watcher and Co now are familiar faces and a welcome sight by comparison, so she can allow to drop her guard a little. His Eyerollness, on the other hand, would've benefited from more extensive characterization.

So, poor Death Godlikes get twice shafted.

So, basically a Malkavian run in Wild Wasteland?

The only thing I know about ship terminology is that poop desk is not what it seems, and that's all I want to know. However, as long as I still have my "1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1" tactics, I don't mind if naval combat gets expanded for connoisseurs.

I tried *SO MANY TIMES*. Literally like a *dozen* times, couldn't manage to do it. They run up to him to damn fast, I couldn't even get close. I dumped, like, 5 different stuns on them and unleashed everything summonable next. Still took 2 or 3 tries.

That depends on what you mean by "trash". Something doesn't have to be a boss encounter to be an interesting and fun combat encounter. Some of the most fun I've had were fighting kobolds in the BG Nashkel mines--their hiding behind traps, shooting me from across a chasm, etc. Something that would take less time to clear with "select all"+"right click" and then let AI handle it than with applying skills and abilities. Can't remember anything about BG myself, but from your description that encounter makes you fight smart, not hard. Hence I wouldn't categorize it as trash. Edit: on the second hand, not entirely correct definition. E.g., I certainly could not clear those endless packs of lagufaeth arseholes in White March with auto-attack on hard difficulty, but I still consider them trash. So in this case, "trash mob" would be something that feels like a chore rather than fun. You know, like "cleaning trash" vs "playing games" in terms of having fun.

You would not believe level of effort groups would put just to avoid trash fights in SWTOR, because fighting trash is utterly boring waste of time. That said, I wouldn't say no to boss/semi-boss fights with varied and creative approach -- different behaviour patterns, different resistances, mayhaps an opportunity to use them traps and bombs.

Agreed. I did PoE solo only recently and already forgot what class and race that character even was, it was that boring a run.

Got lucky and the event repeated almost instantly. Cheevo's mine, thanks for the tip.