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Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I'd say Ifan, Lohse, and Sebille. Whatever on jobs.

Yes to all the questions and stuff.

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Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I'll be contrarian and say to confront Griff.
Let her speak.
Swap in Sebille for, I dunno, Ifan.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
So how does the game resolve conflicting quests? Like, if you recruit Sebille first and she ganks the dreamer lizard, are you forever locked out of doing the Red Prince's questline?

Edit: Oh, and take Withermoore's path.

Schwartzcough fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Feb 23, 2021

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
The updates do feel a bit long- that would've easily been 3 updates for most other screenshot LPs. It does seem like documenting every move of every battle is going to be impossible to maintain, but with a battle system as complex as this one, I don't know if there's much of a happy medium between detailed breakdown and "so then we got in a fight with three turtles. We won."

I'll agree with swapping in Beast and going caving.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Agreed with almost everyone else:

Let Birdie live.
Smash the Jar, but bring it to Withermore if it'll get more dialog.
Explore dat fort!
(unless we'd lose our boat opportunity).

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Man, the mini-bosses seem rough enough. I'm interested to see what the "real" bosses look like.

Continue to explore the fort, until you're out of resurrection scrolls!

So your guys don't revive after a fight? They'll just continue laying wherever they died until you come back for them?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
God drat, that is an amazingly unfortunate series of events. Uh... I guess keeping an off-site backup going forward? Yeesh...

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Olive Branch posted:

Nooo, Shoe was too good a kitty to die in battle like that. Valiant cat.

Go back to visit Zalaskar before seeking the Seekers, but swap Lohse for Ifan in order to progress his quest... Just in case Sebille decides to kill him too.
O'en the chest. Get the shiny stuff. Don't allow those heads to 'oss you around!

Sure, do this, and keep Shoe.

Do you have to trek all the way back into Fort Joy to swap characters out, I assume?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Man, the loot from that fight seems like it probably didn't even pay for all the res scrolls and potions you burned. Rough.

And aww, Ifan has a crush on... a skeleton. That's a little weird, guy.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Go to the Seekers. I dunno if it'll happen, but it'd be nice if advancing the plot a bit would get the source collars off.
Ignore the pigs until you can get rid of the necrofire properly.

Swap Ifan and Sebille for Lohse and Beast or whatever Dwarf-guy was called.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Donkringel posted:

As for decisions... Head South. I'm betting you triggered a checkpoint and that is where we will find Lohse so you can switch to her. Best time to switch party members would be right after your lord tells you not to trust the person you add to your party!

Exactly! Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. I vote South.

Also, Save the Pigs.

It seems like that Voidwoken boss was specifically poo poo-talking Ifan- was that just a randomly selected party member, or did the Voidwoken have a beef with Ifan in particular?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Black Robe posted:

Gareth first, let's get these collars off. Unless that locks us out of being able to explore the other places, I want to check them both out eventually too.

Current party continues to be fine I think.

The riddle is shadow.

Yeah, this. As long as the "current party" swapped Ifan out for Lohse. I thought we did that, but then Ifan showed up to cast healing magic, so I'm not sure.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Poil posted:

Why would a shadow shrink in the afternoon? Wouldn't it grow as the sun gets lower? And why disappear at midnight? Surely it'll be gone from dusk to dawn? :saddowns:

I think "afternoon" means when the sun is overhead. In the evening, the shadows would get long again.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Yeah, try Blessing Sang, followed by plan B of killing Sang. And I guess go ex’lore the la’rynth.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

GuavaMoment posted:

Ifan out, Lohse in.

I'm probably too late to vote, but yeah, this.

Boy, was keeping people alive in perpetual torment just a hobby of ol' Braccus? We're tripping over these people left and right.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Black Robe posted:

As for the jars, I don't want to act without more information. Can we hold onto them for now and ask Gratiana why she wants them, without handing them over until she answers? If so, do that.

That's probably what I'd do. And while I doubt I'd go that way, do we know what eating the souls does for us?

Failing all that, I'd probably bring them all to Gratiana except SECHs, but if it seems like it'd be shady, at least break Trompdoy's.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Tell the cub and Keep the Party. Does this path also lead toward the Southeast Caves (I think?) you mentioned, that might have Black/Blood Roses?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

thekeeshman posted:

Can we barter for his clothes, and then fight him? Seems like he'd be easier to beat without his fancy duds.

Yeah, this sounds good. While offering to become pirates sounds fun, I can't imagine the game would actually let you, so poo.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Why didn't your team help you kill that Magister? Just to be fair to the poor guy?

I guess keep the jar? I still don't know what eating his soul would really get us.

How about Retainer.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Prince, Lohse, Sebille.


I don't trust this Malady lady. Can't we go back and hitch a ride with the Seekers, or did they already leave?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
How does a point-blank explosion miss? Twice?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I agree that Fane could use some distinguished facial hair.

As for the problematic slug, let's name him chauffeur.

I also love how nonsensical everything about the Alexander twist of him being on the boat is, even above you stealing his face and exploding his corpse. Even though all the Seekers had already left for the ship by the time you fought him it seems (they weren't around anymore), and you not bringing him on your boat that went directly to the Lady Vengeance, somehow somebody grabbed his unconscious body after you left and beat you to the ship, with time enough to lock him up in the hold. What?

Schwartzcough fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Oct 9, 2021

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
The only sensible thing to do is to lock up all the sourcerers. We should march ourselves back to Fort Joy.

And why wouldn't a Voidwoken take chicken eggs? They're more delicious than raw humans.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I just know things alright

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Tell the kids. It's a shame you didn't keep part of Joe to show the kids. Then they definitely wouldn't make the same mistake he did.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
"You see kids, Joe was ripped limb-from-limb and eaten by a vicious beast, all jagged teeth and primal hunger, while alone and helpless in the vast ocean. Then the vicious beast who ate him was killed by a hellish voidwoken demon. Then my friends and I cut the beast open, and pulled Joe's mangled remains from its belly. This lovely lady here then ate your friend's remains again so she could see the last, grisly, terror-filled moments of his short life. And that's why you should never leave your homes again, ever."

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I also say keep the Hanal Lechet. I have a deep distrust for RNG in games. As an example, I appreciate the way you turned every single attack in that Ninyan fight into a cliffhanger just because the game wants you to miss constantly.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Let's get a rocking song about being undead, possibly birthing the heavy metal genre.
Sure, tell prudence her son sucked. Godly folks wouldn't approve of lying.
I think Fane should get the stew, and pick the "surprise me" option.
I'd let the chef go. Good meat can be hard to come by. Can you give the ring to the ghost?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
That naked post-coital fight is pretty mean. How likely are you to be able to fight back if you don't know it's coming and have your teleporter prisms ready to bring your whole team in?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
So did you get a skillbook from that Lich? It sounds like he offered you a choice, and when you asked about him tutoring you he just threw a random one at you?

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Yeah, Red sounds good, then maybe Blue.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Both the matricidal void chicken and the necromancer squatter elf seem trustworthy and good. Take the chick to his papa and help this poor elf in collecting tablets.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!

Maple Leaf posted:

This being a graveyard, there’s all kinds of things to interact with: everything from caskets and coffins to tombs and catacombs to graves and monuments. Every single sarcophagus is a new thing for me to crack open and try my luck with Lucky Charm.

...

If we needed any more reasons to distrust Ryker, apparently he likes to go around disrupting graves and robbing them whenever he likes.

:ironicat:

Anyway,
Dog,
Rebel (we're not going on much information, but this is usually the "right" answer in video games)
Burn it

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I feel like that whole interaction with the Lady Luck guy got... modified or something at some point. The whole conversation is about being lucky, and he changes something IN you, and it makes you feel greedy and then.... you get a Source potion? What? The entire interaction and the reward don't seem to have anything to do with each other. Definitely feels like it should've been some sort of permanent luck boost, with possibly some sort of corresponding downside.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Agreed, Grey. Escort quests should be completed as quickly as possible to minimize suffering. Then Yellow.

Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
I guess let Peeper live. But if he gets himself killed being dumb, so be it.

Sneak the sneaky way.

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Schwartzcough
Aug 12, 2009

Don't tease the Octopus, kids!
Does Peeper's dad have "I told you so" dialog?

But yeah, that was a bit odd to have all the elves dump that on Sebille just now, when you've interacted with all of them before (and I'm pretty sure Sebille was around both times). Also, pretty hard sell on the "we need you to go to this island and die, thanks." I presume that's what they mean by needing her to become the next mother tree.

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