Can we discuss the start of act 2?

I made it a point not to roll back my saves for any decision I make. So far, I’ve managed to save the tiefling’s at the druid camp. Being a tiefling myself, I want to see them make it!

This made me all the more excited to see all the tiefling’s that I’d saved make it this far. And boy were there a lot of them. So many people I recognized from previous conversations or quests. I was thrilled! And they of course remembered me.

I say all this to emphasize how hard it hit me when I wasn’t able to protect Isabel. That whole interaction blindsided me so bad. And my initiative roll was horrible for all my characters, I ended up being paralyzed and they just slaughtered her in 2 turns.

It was a freaking gut punch, the likes I haven’t felt in a game in years. All those innocent people, turned to monsters, then forcing me to put them down.

My main character was always so optimistic before this. This interaction is gonna make me change the way I play and the decisions I make going forward, just to really add to the impact of him losing all those people he cared about, thinking the decisions he made led to their death.

Is there anyone living the good life with their tiefling friends in the Last Light Inn? Anyone who saved Isabel? Because my character just lost his people and is a broken person now because of it.

  • marsara9@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So I’m totally save-scumming along the way, at least for my first playthrough. But damn was that fight hard even on normal. Was finally able to save Isobel but it ended up costing me Jaheira as she got swarmed by 3 of the enemies while I was dumping everything into Marcus. And at this point not going to try again.

    Question though, when I got to the inn only a few tieflings were there and the rest had been kidnapped? Not sure what I might have missed to cause that?

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      1 year ago

      They were kidnapped for me as well. But a good chunk I recognized were there. I don’t think you can avoid it, as they mentioned the kidnapping happened while they were on the road.

      I feel bad, I promised a few of the teeflings that I would find the people they care about. And now the people I promised are all dead. Maybe I’ll be able to find the tieflings that were kidnapped when I make it to the tower. Hopefully I can save some… But I feel like I lost a few of my favorites.

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      1 year ago

      This entire thread is making me think that I got incredibly lucky in that fight. It was a cakewalk, perhaps my rolls were just really good, but I had no problem with it at all. I was playing on Normal like you were.