Putting Bg3 Point And Click Voicelines Together To Sound Like A Conversation Has Brought Me Great Joy,

The current mood

Now, planning my own post-game narrative without the structure of the game as a guide may be tricky to make complete and satisfying but, honestly, I am just so glad to be out of realm of writing Act 3 that I barely even feel it.

Act 3 is definitely my least favourite in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to trying to make a narrative out of it. There's so much going on that it just feels impossible to cover it all, so I had to resort to time skips and just covering the bits that'll be relevant later for my own sanity, but then it felt like I was glossing over things and worrying that would make everything feel all disjointed and, ugh.

And act 3 is so loud as well, I got so overstimulated all the time, there's all these people endlessly milling about everywhere and everyone's talking constantly - and those bloody magicians outside Sorcerous Sundries, oh my god, don't even get me started. That's probably why I like Act 2 so much, come to think of it. It's nice and dark and quiet out there, there's no one around but you and your friends unless you intentionally go to a population centre like Last Light. I find it very soothing for an area that was definitely intended to be horrific.

So, yeah, glad to be out of there.

Anyway, back to planning.

Does Eats Chairs... eat chairs, perchance?

How could you tell?

Unfortunately options for chair-eating are limited in-game but I had to let my girl get her enrichment somehow so I went around smashing every chair I could and pretending that counted (they should give dragonborns a bite ability, those chompers could so some damage if they wanted to), which is how I, quite happily, stumbled across the Club of Hill Giant Strength which I then let her use for the rest of the game because of course.

LOOK AT HER, SHE'S SO PRETTY, SHE'S SO CUTE. I'd let her eat every chair in my house, and so should you-

She's a blue dragonborn so she can spew lightning as well, which is objectively the coolest breath weapon to have. This blue colouration, with the little highlights of gold looks so good to me- it kind of reminds me of the giant adra statue in Pillars of Eternity, if people know what that is. And the mellow fruit dye on her armour, she's just *chef's kiss*. I am never not thinking of her.

Her run was started mostly from me wanting to see what all this Durge stuff was about, and also wanting to romance Gale because his nerdy charms had bewitched me, so my profile picture is actually from a screencap of her the moment after she finished very happily stabbing Gale to death!

^ pictured- someone whose save is about to be reloaded, because I wasn't going to leave it like that. She and Gale are very happy together in Waterdeep with no-one doing any ascending to godhood or accepting godhood or anything of that sort.

^ pictured- someone who is about to smooch that tiny little wizard to within an inch of his life.

Chapter 8!

I like to call this one "why you should actually eat your dinner and get some rest, Turmeric". Alas, it seems she'll never learn.

And we’re off! Next story is up on AO3, and updates should come at least once every ten days as with previous (I just realised I’m working off a tenday-based schedule, this was not intentional), and I will try to post here in case of a delay.

End of an era

HEY that's MY emotional support morally ambiguous misunderstood full of trauma touch starved yearning for love drenched in blood responsible for numerous atrocities comfort character who is TRYING & u will TREAT them with RESPECT

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.

Doe eyed mf

Just realised I haven't shown off Turmeric's new look yet!

When I was first playing with adding mods for some visual uniqueness for new characters, I found this 'winter plait' in "More Hair 2" (by eleanorroos) and immediately fell in love with it for her. I was already planning on changing her hair anyway and this is absolutely perfect in how it looks like a natural evolution from her previous hair - even using the same bit of ear-covering fringe at the front.

I also changed the colour - just by removing the highlights - because all the turmeric's been beaten out of her hair by now, there isn't a hint of yellow left in there. Her current name is now more a remnant of a bygone time as she grows more distant from the 'just a normal bard' phase of her life, and it shows.

In the story, I'm saying the reason for her rapid hair growth is the effect of a wild magic surge from Honeymeans. It was down to her ankles at first, which Bingemir laughed himself silly to see when the next delivery arrived (and Hush was thankfully willing to help in cutting it). Turmeric definitely gained a new respect for Orin's giant braid as she desperately tried to wrangle her own mass of Rapunzel hair before it could continue to trail in the snow and catch against the ridges of the tomb's walls any longer.

anyone else hate asking for help and would rather set themselves on fire than do it or is that just me