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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.

New run, ship morale at 40 something, hey, I think, time to get that cheevo. Stock up on cardboard and water, circle around Neketaka for weeks. Finally at 10 or 15 morale there happens a scripted event that looks like mutiny. So I kick one mutineer overboard and I think feed another to piranhas just to make sure I'm really the piece of garbage who totally deserves to walk the plank. Morale goes up to 40. Since then I've been at sea with no food, no water for weeks, the crew survived four deliberate fish poisonings with deliberate refusal to cure them and three lashings, and nothing. What did I do wrong? Did I need to fail to defuse the mutiny in the scripted event? Do I have to hire crew members with specific personalities?

Terry Pratchett has a fitting quote about this: Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know they're there for a purpose, they'd probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn't see the point of believing, of going around saying "O great table, without whom we are as naught"

That boss fight is ****ing good. In fact, that whole questline is one of my very favorites. I especially liked that the main tactic at the end of White March, "CHARGE THE HEEEEAD!", proved to be a rather bad idea here. Heh. As soon as I realized poor thing's immobile I just unleashed Aloth, Durance and my scroll collection on the poor thing, it was very anticlimactic. Also, how do you piss Galawain off? I think I hanged up on him, but apparently it wasn't enough.

Have to say, I love your naming scheme. Anyway, I did not dislike any companions, and sidekicks are non-entities that draw no emotions at all from me (shame about Constanten, though. Loved the intro and the voice. "Ablutions, geddit? Ha!") , so just downvoted Ydwin because I hate vampires.

Well, Woedica had a lot of responsibility once, got dragged down fast. Abyddon also tried to care, caught a moon with his face. And we all remember what happened to ol' Waidwen on that bridge. No wonder the rest of them stay put. Or maybe they've been programmed this way -- if one gets involved with kith too much, the others are compelled to squish it. Then it appears someone forgot to code in "One of them goes after the Wheel" situation, and voila, we have what we have. (One of my own favourite sir Pterry's quotes is Nanny Ogg's about two kinds of opera, so frivolous being as I am I don't mind the gods playing games and bickering instead of tending to their duties )

My favourite as well. The fact that he has a lot to say, has expansive and well done character development arc and personal quest tied to the main plot (which is "Who controls the Deadfire Archipelago". Eothas who?) helps tremendously. As for him doing anyone with a pulse, more power to him. Fidelity is overrated. I was also delighted with the fact the Watcher isn't even his first choice -- if you have Gina in your party, he hits on her before saying 'hello' to you. Oh, and his writer managed to sneak into the romance conversation something like this: "his eyes like stunned tuna's". Tried imagining that, went

This very thing is what turned "the big reveal" of PoE into tiny fart for me. No, lady, they are real, and the word you are looking for is 'artificial'. It also helped me to ignore the main quest of Deadfire better - "bah,who cares what that giant droid wants, I have things to do, political schemes to navigate". Still, I liked the gods and will be sad to see them gone. They are an interesting bunch -- while mostly habitual archetypes (sea/moon, trickster god, reaper), they had peculiarities here and there to make them less cliche -- like fertility associated with birds or Skaen being basically the god of sadistic schadenfreude. I loved those divine interjections they did (great voice and sound there) and how annoyed they were when the Watcher tried to actively participate. Come on, guys, it's my head you're holding this conference in, some courtesy would be nice.

Roll a corpse eater and sample the dudes from Pallegina's quest. Or romance Tekehu. Also, great fanart, although I prefer decaying anglefishhead original Ondra.

Think so. -2 was Tekehu's, btw. Maia actually liked (+1) him.