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I used the Enhanced Edition from Steam, but also actually used a mod to group BG1 (and Tales of the Sword Coast), BG2 (and Throne of Bhaal) and even Siege of Dragonspear (that I never did before) into one epic game.\n\nMy plan was to do it with as little characters in my team as possible and find game exploits to get my way through the game. I played with a party as big as 4 people some times and went as far as the Underdark (in BG2), with Ash, a Dragon Disciple (a kind of Sorcerer that has an affinity with Fire) but the game became too easy. It was only me and Haer'Dalis and I was actually keeping my main character in the back and playing only with Haer'Dalis to try to add some challenge.\n\nAnd then it occured to me that I should play the game 100% solo, that would be the ideal challenge. So I started again with Shade, a Gnome Thief/Illusionist. I went as far as the final chapter of BG1 (including Durlag's Tower) but I didn't really like the character. Being an Illusionist, he does not have access to Skull Trap and this spell is so useful in finding script exploits that I finally decided to start again.\n\nThis time, with Maleek, an elf Fighter/Mage/Thief. I needed a Thief part for Pickpocketing that was required for an infinite money exploit I found. Mage because well, with so many spells, there are so many possibilities. And Fighter because I realized in my last run that Thief is not that good in melee, so this should allow me to get rid of critters quickly without needing the mage Big Guns.\n\nI decided to document this run with screenshots and small notes about what I'm doing. As with many things I'm doing (coding, painting, roleplaying, etc) I realize that the action of writing stuff down makes me see things I would have missed otherwise. Also, I enjoyed reading about other people runs, so I hope this one will at least make you have a good time.\n\nWithout further ado, let's go!\n\n## Out of Candlekeep\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200.png)\n\nI talked to Firebead 30 times, which got 300 gold, a nice way to start in life. Also bought arrows from Winthrop in advance for a quest.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576961781650.png)\n\nI found the book from Phlydia. I'll validate her quest for the XP, but I then intend to use Phlydia for killing many people in here.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576961833885.png)\n\nAh shit, it was bolts, not arrows\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964805708.png)\n\nTiny bit of XP for getting Hull his sword\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964807087.png)\n\nAnd same for getting the antidote back to Dreppin\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964808642.png)\n\nShit no, leave me alone Imoen, I don't want to talk to you.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964810158.png)\n\nGot Firebead his scroll, 50 more XP. And protected from Evil, I might go killing a few enemies.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964812155.png)\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964813506.png)\n\nWent on killing some rats. All great stories have to start somewhere.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964815156.png)\n\nFighter/Mage/Thief does not level up very fast...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964816852.png)\n\nThis is the only house in Candlekeep where I can rest. I'm now going to charm people and turn them against each other. As I only have one spell per rest, I'm gonna use this house a lot for resting.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964818785.png)\n\nFirst one to charm is Phlydia. She has some pretty powerful spells for a mage of her level. I just wait for the spell to run out so she turns hostile. Now all I have to do is charm other people and send them her way so she can kill them. Because she will be the one killing them, I won't get any reputation loss (nor XP), but I'll still be able to loot the bodies.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964820354.png)\n\nFirst victim, Dreppin, standing right next to the house.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964822242.png)\n\nOne Watcher down, and a plate armor for free.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964823805.png)\n\nAnother one bites the dust.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964825533.png)\n\nI finally send her against the Priest of Oghma. I was very lucky as he died right when his Hold Perso spell hit her. \n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964827532.png)\n\nI decided to take the opportunity to kill her for the XP and the nice mage robe, even if it decreased my rep. \n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964829042.png)\n\nThis is me when I'm about to leave Candlekeep. Already a magic robe and two set of armors I will sell for some money.\n\n## On my way to Beregost\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964831356.png)\n\nAfter the cutscene where Gorion dies, I went south, just enough to load High-Edge on the map for quick access to it later on.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964833098.png)\n\nWent to loot the old man. I intend to sell the Belt of Antipode for some money.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964835036.png)\n\nI reluctantly accepted Imoen in the group, looting her potions, and dumping her.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964836442.png)\n\nThis wand is actually going to be really really helpful in the first part of the game.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964838357.png)\n\nBecause, with only 9 HP right now everything is going to be challenging. Oh, by the way, there is an hidden stash in this tree.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964840147.png)\n\nAnd a nice diamond inside.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964841929.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964843400.png)\n\nI also found a found a ring +1 in a rock, but also aggroed a wolf and a Gibberling. They clearly outmatch me for now, so I run to the edge of the map.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964845256.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964846255.png)\n\nNow at the Friendly Arm's Inn, and got Evermemory, one of the best rings of the game, doubling my number of 1st level spells. This one is going to stay with me for a while.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964847689.png)\n\nTarnesh tried to ambush me at the entrance of the Inn, but with a well placed Blind spells he stopped seeing me, preventing him from attacking me. I quickly dispatched him, with the help of the guards around.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964849193.png)\n\nInside the inn, I accepted Khalid and Jaheira in my group, just enough time to loot their inventory. The Potion of Invisibility will prove very useful for the Nashkel mines.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964852253.png)\n\nI identified the Belt of Antipode to sell it and have enough to buy Buckley's Buckler, giving me a small bonus to AC and HP. \n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964853859.png)\n\nNow was also a time of Quick Save / Quick Load to learn all the scrolls I looted.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964855063.png)\n\nUpstairs I pickpocketed Landrin for a ton of Antidotes. This stash is going to last me until the end of BG2. I also got the Golden Pantaloon because... Well, I'll try to collect the three pantaloons in this run.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964856556.png)\n\nNow went North of the map to kill the Hobgobelin. I Charmed the first one and made him kill his friends, while I was blinding the second and killing the last one.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964858367.png)\n\nI exited the map on the North, so I could go directly to the Ankheg zone.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964860154.png)\n\nWent straight for the Ankheg pit.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964861594.png)\n\nI decided to actually use the Potion of Invisibility right now. This allowed me to go through the whole cave unscathed.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964863192.png)\n\nNow opening the hoard.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964865636.png)\n\nThis is incredible loot. The Wand of Fireball is one half of a combo that will stay with me for most of the game. The Potion of Magic protection is also incredibly useful. I also took the body to validate the related quest.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964866879.png)\n\nBut now, I have to fucking run to the exit. Fortunately, ankhegs take a few seconds to get out of the ground. Enough for me to run to the exit.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964868537.png)\n\nI got some XP for the body.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964869925.png)\n\nAlso some XP for the ring on the Hobgoblins of earlier.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964871505.png)\n\nI then headed South in direction of Beregost. I took a detour to the right so I could trigger the Larswood on the map. This is where I'll go later when I'll have to deal with the bandits.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964873507.png)\n\nGot aggroed by a wolf on the way. Had to drink an Oil of Speed to escape it. I tried to kill it with arrows while kiting it but I was missing too much and not doing enough damage. I finally donned my plate armor and went on killing it on melee.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964874915.png)\n\nDiscovered an Ogre. Blinded him and killed him with arrows.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964877399.png)\n\nTwo girdles and a ring. I don't remember which one is cursed, so I won't wear them for now. I don't plan on handling the belt for validating the quest anyway. Playing solo I'll have more than enough XP to cruise through the levels by just killing monsters and finishing the main quest line that I don't need to validate every single quest. I'll just identify and sell the belts.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964878708.png)\n\nI was out of spells so I slept, but that was a mistake as it finished the Oil of Speed, so I reloaded. I'd rather be quick than having spells.\n\n## Beregost\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964880718.png)\n\nFinally arrived at Beregost. First thing I did was to go right to trigger the Temple of Lathander area. I think this if from there that I'll be able to get the Basilisk zone later.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964882707.png)\n\nNow header to the rich estate. I lockpicked the main door. Ignored the guards and headed upstairs. There is a locked chest there with a Wand of Lightning that I really want.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964884635.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964885996.png)\n\nFound the chest but my lockpick is not high enough to open it. I only need 250XP to level up so I'm gonna validate a few easy quests in town before coming back.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964888253.png)\n\nI started by a great night sleep in an inn, then went to the other Inn (forgot the names), where I knew someone would try to assassinate me. I blinded the poor dwarf and hit him with arrows. Pretty large sack of HP. But he finally fell.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964890339.png)\n\nThat should be enough to level me up, but I didn't hear the distinctive ding?!\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964892090.png)\n\nHmm ok, so this XP bar is incorrect. Any XP I gain is divided into my three classes, so I actually need three times what is set in the bar before leveling up.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964894108.png)\n\nNo problem, I just needed to talk down drunk Marl and got the XP I needed.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964895844.png)\n\nI put it all into Open Locks.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964897880.png)\n\nWhile I was at it, I pick pocketed the cloak from Algernon.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964899775.png)\n\nBought a book for the old elf.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964901388.png)\n\nAnd Glitterdust as it's a good way to remove invisibility from enemies\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964903316.png)\n\nGreat loot from the Firebead quest, even if it only involved buying a 1 gp book from the Inn right in front of his house.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964904889.png)\n\nGreat, back in the manor this time it worked. Oh well, I actually realized the wand I wanted was on the table, not even in a locked chest. Well… Still, got another Invisibility potion from the chest.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964906744.png)\n\nAs I needed someone able to identify my loot, I did a very quick move to the Temple. And pickpocketed pearls from the Sirines.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964909605.png)\n\nI broke inside the blacksmith shop during the night, stealing his Bastard Sword +1, and selling it back to him the next morning.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964911376.png)\n\nI have my eyes on this dagger, but it is still too expensive for me right now.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964913279.png)\n\nMeeting Neera. I really like Neera, but this run is a solo one. So, I ran away, two guards followed me. I charmed one and turn it against the other. Neera started talking to me, so I added her to the group, looted her gem bag and dumped her.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964915261.png)\n\nI had trouble selecting my charmed guard and the mage used an arrow to almost kill me. Well, using the Wand of Lightning trick to drink 6 Healing Potion in one go and I'm back on my feet.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964919798.png)\n\nOne bodyguard killed the other, then the mage killed the last bodyguard. But now it saw me… I'm going to spam him of magic missiles through the Wand of Magic Missile.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964925920.png)\n\nThis got rid of one of his mirror image and did damage to him. I'm not sure why this happens, I'll have to investigate. From what I understand Mirror Image is supposed to absorb all the hits. So 4 Magic Missiles should cancel 4 images, and only the fifth would actually do damage. But in that case one image was destroyed and the mage took damage despite the other images.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964931182.png)\n\nHe's Near Death, but managed to have his Sleep spell take hold of me. Things are looking dire as the only thing I can do is wait for the Sleep spell to run off. If he ever tried to hit me, I'll automatically hit and likely kill me.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1576964933185.png)\n\nBut weirdly enough he cast Grease on me, which didn't really had any effect, except giving me enough time for the Sleep spell to run out. Back on my feet I spammed Magic Missiles his way through the Wand and now he's dead.\n\n\n## Looking for tomes\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250511463.png)\n\nAfter this hard fight I went to sleep at the Inn. Even after one night, I'm still not fully healed. I guess now is time to go hunt the Tome of Constitution so I can get it over 20, and gain natural regeneration.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250514251.png)\n\nI went directly to High-Edge, that I had unlocked before. Got aggroed by a Gnoll on the way. Blinded him and killed him from afar. Gnolls are still worthy enemies that I should be aware of; I'm barely level 2 in one out of three classes.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250518050.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250520810.png)\n\nFrom High-Edge I go the the Red Canyons, and then to the Seawatcher lighthouse.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250523373.png)\n\nFound the sirines, killed them with Fireballs. One managed to escape; I couldn't find her on the map afterwards.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250526434.png)\n\nThis made me level up. I increased my Stealth a little. I can always increase it more with a potion if need be.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250528888.png)\n\nSecond batch of sirines in front of the cave\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250532600.png)\n\nDied a few times to the flesh golems inside the cave. They hit pretty hard. I finally decided to stealth there, but with my crappy score it took some time. When I finally managed to get invisible, I got stuck in the trap...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250536611.png)\n\nFinally donned my armor and shield, drank an Oil of Speed and ran for the loot. Quick trip inside, getting all the loot and dashing outside. These golems are resistant to magic and the poison of the arrows does not affect them; better just ignore them.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250545541.png)\n\nBut I now have a new wand and the book\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250549655.png)\n\nBack to High-Edge, I identify the book to use it, and buy a potion case to have more free space in my inventory.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250594366.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250596421.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250598531.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250603299.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250605008.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250611409.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250613822.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250615441.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250617200.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250619486.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250622570.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250624448.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250626421.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250632072.png)\nThere's a bunch of other interesting things to buy, but I'll come back when I'll have the funds. I also learned that INT impacts how many spells of a given level I can memorize. I had to remove Infravision so I could learn Protection from Petrification.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250635108.png)\n\nLevelled up and put the max in pick pockets so I don't need to worry about failed attempts\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250638681.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250641274.png)\n\nIn just a few levels I moved from 9 HP to 43\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250644734.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250649646.png)\n\nWent to Trade Way North, with a quick detour to uncover Ulcaster. I don't yet know if I'll go there but at least it's on my map now.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250653940.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250655997.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250658479.png)\n\nFlaming Fist troup. I felt like killing them. Blinded one, who then ran away. Wand of Sleep on the other two. A gibberling joined the fray. Wait they're only worth 15XP? Never mind, I'll pass and leave them asleep in the woods.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250661412.png)\n\nKilled an Ogrillon with one Arrow of Biting, that slows him down, then normal arrows. Great tactic, I'll need more of those arrows or any Poison. Each tick of poison stops them in their track when moving, so I can easily kite enemies without even having the Boots of Speed.\n\n## Nashkell\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250664331.png)\n\nNow on to the Nashkell Festival. Stole a Parchment of Stone to Flesh from this guy. I don't think I'll use it; not very useful in a solo run.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250666777.png)\n\nBuying a Shield Amulet in one of the tents. I don't have any better amulet right now, and not that many spell slots, so it's a good thing to have (and cast every morning)\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250668946.png)\n\nIn a tent, a mage tried to kill me. I chained cast Larloch's Minor Drain to him and he died in a few seconds.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250671263.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250695018.png)\n\nNow headed to the gambling tent. A thief tried to pickpocket me. I killed him with my wand of Magic Missile. Found 100 gold and a much needed Potion of Thievery on him.\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250697662.png)\n\nFinally arriving in Nashkell, someone tries to kill me. The Wand of Paralyzation and its auto-hit feature got quick work of it.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250699456.png)\n\nTalked to Noober enough to shut him up and for 400XP.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250702777.png)\n\nGot the Ankheg plate in the field. AC -5 with it and does not prevent me from using other +1 items, so the best CA for now. Of course I can't wear that and still go Stealth, but I keep it for those cases where a melee fight is unavoidable.\n\n## Nashkell Mines\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250705658.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250729736.png)\n\nFound a Wand, of Frost in a dead tree next to the mines. It's really possible to get one of each wound for free early in the game. The hardest part will be to refill their charges, but we'll soon be able to do that.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250709785.png)\n\nPickpocketed 2 Emeralds from Prism and talked to him to trigger Grey Wolf\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250738541.png)\n\nParalyzed him with the Wand, and killed him. Got a nice sword and 1400XP.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250741145.png)\n\nNow that I can cast Level 2 spells, I turned myself invisible and walked all my way through the Kobolds in the mines.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250748052.png)\n\nThere are traps on this bridge but I can't disarm them because that would break my invisibility. I blindly charged through them. I took 11 and 6 damage, which I can handle with my 43 HP. This one third fighter is really helpful.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250751764.png)\n\nTrying not to inadvertently click on a kobold while sneaking.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250753622.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250756373.png)\n\nHere we are, right in front of the boss. I charmed him through Algernon's cloak and send him kill his kobold minions. Once done, I paralyzed him and killed him. Some mildly interesting loot in the chest. Mostly for money.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250759147.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250761669.png)\n\nOnce outside the mines, a nice little group was waiting for me. I burned them. This gave me a lot of XP, and I leveled up once more.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250764188.png)\n\n## Shopping spree\n\nBack to Nashkell, another assassin. Some help by Rasaad that was standing there.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250766280.png)\n\nI identified all the new loot with my Identify spell (spending a few nights at the inn to recharge the slots). I also sold Evermemory for 9000 gold, but stole it back right after thank to the Potion of Thievery.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250771821.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250814508.png)\n\nUsing the WoL trick, I drank 6 Potions of Thievery, increasing my Pick Pockets to 290. I then took a few real life minutes to sell one Emerald, stealing it back (it will stack with the other one) and reselling it again (because it got stack with a clean Emerald, it does not have its Stolen token anymore). I did that in a loop for a while, getting my 100k gold.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250817088.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250822041.png)\n\nI went back to High-Edge. Bought the Claw of Kazgaroth and recharged all my wands. Took most the gold but at least I won't have to worry about Wands for a very long time.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250824196.png)\n\nBack to Beregost, and I went on killing Tranzig.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250827172.png)\n\n## Bandit Camp\n\nMet the bandits in Larswood, told them I want to join.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578250829874.png)\n\nTazok wanted to test my strength so I paralyze him, but didn't kill him. Instead I went on visiting the bandit camp.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482796.png)\n\nNo one cared that I was in the camp. I could even sleep to recover my spells. I went to the chief hut, protected myself from fire and fired 6 Fireballs in the area. I was careful not hitting the prisoner on the left.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482761.png)\n\nFirst three dead before even talking to me. I hope it won't mess up any upcomIng scripts.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474044.png)\n\nWell, even with their bosses dead, the whole camp is still friendly.\n\n## Cloakwood\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747473997.png)\n\nEven with all the bosses dead, Cloackwood as still not on my map. I had to go pick the documents in the chest for it to advance my quest and put the wood on my map.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474020.png)\n\nI went back to Tazok, which wasn't paralyzed anymore, and blasted him.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474616.png)\n\nWent quickly through all cloakwood area; what I'm really looking for are the Boots of Speed in the last area. I don't really care about any loot in the other areas.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474544.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482711.png)\n\nTried and true technique of firing balls of killing blast from afar. This finally got me the best gear of the game: The Boots of Fucking Speed.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482608.png)\n\nI'm running past everyone, invisible. I wonder if I should kill them. This will give me XP, but I don't really need more right now, I don't want the game to become too easy too quickly. This could give me loot, but I don't think they have anything worth my time. I'm more interested in moving the story forward so I can enter Baldur's Gate.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474343.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474410.png)\n\nNow on my way to the boss, I decided to change tactic and freeze him to death instead of burning him down.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482567.png)\n\nWhy is he wearing two robes?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475843.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475799.png)\n\nOn my way back I forgot to cast Invisibility so I had to kill the group. I got a Haste spell, which is always nice to have.\n\n## Baldur's Gate\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475911.png)\n\nPickpocketed the farmers on my way to Baldur's Gate. That way I can get their quest reward while giving the bowl to the other girl on the next map.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482531.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482503.png)\n\nGave her the bowl, which gave me enough XP to level up again, and managed to kill her before she teleported away\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482423.png)\n\nI got pissed at Elminster trying to talk to me so I attacked him. He summoned a cow on my head... Then disappeared.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482394.png)\n\nBecause of meta knowledge, I know the password to the Thieve's Guild. I'll sell my stuff there. Also picking a magic tome.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482369.png)\n\nThere's a lot to buy around here, but I don't have enough money for that. I could re-do the Emerald trick but I'll instead wait until I got my hands on some Rogue Stones as it will make the trick much faster. There are actually two Rogue Stones in the city, the first one being upstairs in a house not far from here.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482366.png)\n\nOh, I also talked to Cordyr in Baldur's Gate, who asked me to kill some Sirines. As I already did, I talked to him again and he gave another scroll of Haste. Well, I guess I could have not killed that bunch of guards earlier then...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482353.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474143.png)\n\nI chain-read the Book of DEX, and that improved my AC even more.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482168.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747482012.png)\n\nI went all the way up the Iron Throne building, invisible, to just get it over with. Some freezing, arrow of Biting (I need more of them they are SO useful), Blinding and backstabbing and they're toasted\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475139.png)\n\nKilling a few Ogre Mage in the house nearby\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474611.png)\n\nKilling the Dopplegangers and reporting to Scar is worth it.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475604.png)\n\nExploring the sewers and getting lost there, but getting the Cloak of Balduran by pickpocketing it\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476876.png)\n\nFinally found the terror of the sewers. Dammit, one Carrion Crawler managed to stun lock me and kill me. Tried again and fried them all.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474507.png)\n\nWent to Sorcerous Sundry, pickpocketed the cloak from the vendor. Weirdly the Cloack had 40 charges while it's supposed to be a one per day usage. I found out that the first time you get one of those cloaks, they have 40 charges and if you sleep they become one per day. I decided to have some fun with the charges until my next sleep, but for the next cloak I'll get I'll just put it in a container somewhere with the 40 charges and pick it when I need it. \n\nI also bought Sunfire (self-centered fireball), Melf Minute Meteor (fastest range attack) and a Wand of Summon Monster (to mob-lock ennemies).\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476744.png)\n\nCharmed all the mages upstairs. Had them kill themselves by self-casting Melf Acid Arrow. The poison tick was so quick that it prevented them from casting more spells.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481834.png)\n\nHmm, I brought a Carrion Crawler into the streets\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481785.png)\n\nThe Cloak allowed me to charm everyone in the museum, making stealing the Rogue Stone there the easiest robbery I ever did.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474968.png)\n\nStole the book of Wisdom from the priest. Got my Wisdom slightly up.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481749.png)\n\nOne-shot Ramazith on the ground floor.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481744.png)\n\nAlso increased my Intelligence from the book on the last floor of Ramazith.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481718.png)\n\nErf, now that I have a very high DEX, I'm above the limit in Open Locks. I could have set less than that and still have 100. Well, that's 15 point wasted\n\n## Going for Fire Resistance\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475026.png)\n\nNow that I have my two Rogue Stone, I did the infinite sell/steal loop to get another 100k gold\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476336.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475014.png)\n\nBought spells and learned them. \n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481650.png)\n\nWent back to Thalanthyr at High-Edge to buy even more scrolls. From there, I went to the Rocky Coast\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475125.png)\n\nMet a Sirine, she wanted to kiss me, attacked me, and then she asked me to find her shawl back on an Ogre-Mage. He appeared, I killed her. She almost died because of the Poison of my dagger, so I had to heal her during the fight. Finally I got a nice +20% Fire/Lightning/Frost resistance helmet that will be very helpful as I'm throwing fireballs almost every fight.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474848.png)\n\nNow continued to the Gibberling Mountains to pick a Fire Resistance ring.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481604.png)\n\nMet a random mage, Hafiz, that had a Protection from Magic scroll! That's one of the best scrolls of the game, so this was worth it. Casting this on myself makes me immune to all spells, but casting it on a mage prevents him from casting anything. This is invaluably useful in higher levels against Liches.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481518.png)\n\nFinally found the ring in a cache here\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747474637.png)\n\nNow heading to the Wilderness Lake to get my last piece of Fire Resistance from Drizzt.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475241.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481477.png)\n\nI know where Drizzt is on the map. The trick was to move close enough to him so I could see the Gnolls attacking him, but not close enough so I could see him (because he would then see me and initiate dialogue). All I had to do was wait for the Gnolls to kill him. As they are crappy warriors, they need Critical Hits to actually hit. Took a few minutes, but he eventually died.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475456.png)\n\nI picked his Fire-resistance Scimitar and now Fire damage actually heals me\n\n## A bit more shopping\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475411.png)\n\nI went to Ulgoth's Beard on my way to Baldur's Gate to get the quest to add Durlag's Tower on my map. Also went to the shop as they have some great items, like the Greenstone amulet (protection from Paralyzation, Confusion and most mind effects) and some scrolls.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481435.png)\n\nBack to the city I validated the sewer quest with Scar, then talked to him again outside to talk to Duke Eltan, I validated the Iron Throne one, pickpocketed a tome from him and finished the chapter and got teleported to Candlekeep.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481420.png)\n\nI got back to Sorcerous Sundries to buy everything I could before Candlekeep.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475940.png)\n\nThe shop was selling some interesting arrows, but had a very low stock of them. What I did was buy a stack of 5, then selling it back to him. The 5 arrow I sold transformed into 5 stacks of 5, or 25 arrow I did that a few times, in order to increase the amount of arrows in stock before buying a full 80 stack.\n\nThis trick is very useful for the rarest arrows like Dispelling but also cost a lot of money. I could work with any item that a merchant sells in stack, but I couldn't find anyone selling anything but ammunitions in stacks.\n\n## Durlag's Tower\n\nI decided to do Durlag's Tower before I'm too high-level for it.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481238.png)\n\nDid the upper levels and exterior of Durlag by drinking a potion of magic protection and opening all traps and chests. I'll take advantage of my 127% of Magic Resistance and just run through all the traps.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481207.png)\n\nThat's actually even better than anticipated as my enemies are actually hit by the traps I trigger.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475008.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747481198.png)\n\nI also drank a few potions of Absorption to improve my AC against Crushing damage so the oozes can't hit me.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747475127.png)\n\nI'm healing myself by triggering fire traps on myself\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480887.png)\n\nMonsters I can't kill with collateral damage from traps I kite here. They got stuck on one side of the chasm while I can hide in shadows from the other side, teleport behind them, backstab, flee, hide and start again.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476394.png)\n\nThe logic of the rooms in the tower is sometimes pretty weird.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480804.png)\n\nI didn't bother playing by the chess rules. I drank Lightning protection potions, stealth myself in the middle of the room so it triggers the lightning traps. Being immune it just slowly kills every enemy. I still launch a few fireballs in the group to grab some of the XP.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476359.png)\n\nFound the cache of diamond. Mostly went cruising with the Wand of Lightning + Fireball through the dungeon, not even reading the text. This is my third run of the Tower in 6 months and it wasn't even a GREAT dungeon.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480670.png)\n\nFinally got to the Demon Knight. Great magic resistance, but slow. So I can just run to the other side of the room, hide, backstab and in 3 or 4 hits he's dead.\n\nWent back to Ulgoth's Beard. Killed all the Cultist on the front door. Only 300XP each, but that was one of the most challenging fights I had in a while, mostly because I could not just hurl fireballs as there were civilians all around.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480377.png)\n\nInside the cultist lair I first tried to fry them all but it didn't work; I got stunned by the demon. I retried by hiding in a corner so the mage could talk to me and start the sequence, then fireball and arrows of poison to kill the priests I can see.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480132.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480113.png)\n\nI cast many Skull Traps in the middle of the room then baited the demon to come. He dies quickly, but I also took some damage. Thanks to my incredible 163 HP, I survived and he didn't.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476226.png)\n\n## Return to Candlekeep\n\nNow that this side treck to Durlag's Tower is finished, I'm heading back to Candlekeep and Phlydia does not remember she's supposed to be dead.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480102.png)\n\nBackstabbing all Dopplegangers on my way out\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480069.png)\n\nNice loot in the catacombs\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480044.png)\n\nOther great loot!\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747480013.png)\n\nThat's a bunch of liars\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747479729.png)\n\nFeeling better\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477044.png)\n\nNot too bad\n\n## Moving the main quest forward\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747479077.png)\n\nWent back to Baldur's Gate. At that point I wasn't sure how to continue the main quest so I went to the Thieve's Guild. What's with the leather armors?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747479061.png)\n\nAnd whenever I quit the zone, someone is telling me this. Maybe I broke something in the scripts somewhere?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476758.png)\n\nAnyway, back to the Flaming Fist Headquarter. Not speaking to anyone otherwise they'll attack me. Upstairs, Kent, a nice Flaming Fist tells me about his suspicions about Rashad.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476198.png)\n\nNot even a hello, I backstabed him directly.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747478662.png)\n\nI brought Eltan to the Harbor Master. 2500XP but still not moving my quest forward.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476129.png)\n\nWent to the Blushing Mermaid in North Eas Baldur's Gate. Greeted by an Ogre that attacked me. Hitting pretty hard. Half-way through the fight he told me more information about Scar. Then attacked me again. And died.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747478655.png)\n\n## The Ducal Palace\n\nTrying to enter the Ducal Palace. As I'm playing solo, that's funny\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476647.png)\n\nI realized I needed an invitation to enter the Palace. Slythe, found in the bordello underneath the town have one. I spent some time in the Sewers to find the entrance to the place and finally got the invitation by killing Slythe.\n\nAnd only on my way out did I realized that the place was actually right under the Blushing Mermaid, where I was right before. I could have avoided this whole long trip in the sewers...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747478594.png)\n\nFinally got the invitation, and fully buffed for the incoming battle. When Sarevok appeared, I attacked him right away and... died. I don't even know how.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747478470.png)\n\nThis time I tried to paralyze the nobles before the speech. This turned the Nobles hostile (which is what I wanted) but also the guards (not what I wanted). I went invisible and let them fight each other to see how it would turn out.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747478386.png)\n\nMy allies Belt and Liia are killing both Flaming Fist and nobles. Unfortunately it seems to block scripts and I'm now kinda blocked. If I attack Sarevok, a mage named Winski Perorate appears and kills me.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747478229.png)\n\nOn the third try I cast Invisibility on Belt from the start so the Dopplegangers won't target him. Then I paralyze them, and kill them to avoid them killing Belt.\nOnce dead, I give the documents to Belt and then Sarevok turns hostile and everything works correctly.\n\n## Undercity\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477995.png)\n\nI'm running after Sarevok, first through the trapped Maze, then into the forgotten city.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477893.png)\n\nCharmed half the group of enemies here, summon stuff through their spells, cast entangle, and only then start the discussion.\nAnd then, Arrows of Detonation in the group, and they're dead.\n\n## Final Battle\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477842.png)\n\nThis is the final door. I buff all I can before entering.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477762.png)\n\nSarevok called for Angelo and Tazok but I haven't seen them yet. Semaj appeared and came toward me. I tried (and failed) to backstab him. I'm now turning to melee combat with him. I aggro a Helmed Horror by mistake. I'm summoning monsters to distract Semaj while I kill the Helmed Horror.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477754.png)\n\nWell, ok. Semaj is actually killing the horror with a fireball. I remove his Mirror Images with my Melf Minute Meteors. He's casting some lightning that bounces off walls and hits him.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476269.png)\n\nOh shit, Tazok just appeared. Durlag Goblet helped me recover all my health. Tazok is hitting like a tank I have to be careful. Semaj is still sending lightning bolts on me but is also hitting Tazok so it's ok. Finished him with an arrow of detonation as they always hit.\n\nNow, on Tazok. He's so slow I can kite him and even hide in shadows from one side of the room. Two backstabs later, he's dead. Gonna drink the Oil of Speed he had on him.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477579.png)\n\nTargeted a bat close to Sarevok to cast the Scroll of Fireball found on Semaj 6 times. Angelo appeared, and the fireball interrupted his spell. Fireballs hit them a couple of time, but they're speedy and coming to me, shit.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477379.png)\n\nThey resist fire too well. Gonna have to find another method.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476648.png)\n\nAgh shit, I aggroed another Helmed Horror and haven't saved yet… I managed kite everyone to a corner and hide in another one to save. Pfiuu. Backstab and killed the Helmed Horror.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477268.png)\n\nAngelo and Sarevok hidden in the corner. What would be a cool way to kill them?\n\nI wanted to chain web them, so I grabbed a platemail to use as a target of my spell but this broke my invisibility and they came charging toward me. I managed to kite them and hide again.\n\nSarevok moved away, but Angelo stayed, invisible. I broke my own invisibility so he would attack me and sure enough he fired detonation arrows at me. I don't care, I'm immune, but he got caught in the radius and killed himself.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476596.png)\n\nI'm now charging toward Sarevok. Open with a backstab and then full melee. My Fear Immunity is gone, I can't drink from the Goblet. I run away, use the Greenstone Amulet and drink from the Goblet. Hiding, and going for a new backstab.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476569.png)\n\nGood, good, good. Now finishing him off in melee.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747477114.png)\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747476948.png)\n\nAnd… done!" }, { "files": [ "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415162.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415225.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415271.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415294.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415373.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415573.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415602.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415815.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415850.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415915.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747415945.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747416134.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747416184.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747416256.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747416288.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747416354.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747416355.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747416628.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 0-1578747416697.png", "02-bp1/pasted image 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I never played it before, so this will be a whole new experience. I'm documenting it here as I go through.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200.png)\n\n\n\n## First tries\n\nI know I want to do it as a solo run. Challenging encounters are a great way to find new tactics/exploits for a solo run.\n\nI did a first try with a Thief/Mage but got killed in the first fight. Tried again with a Blade, and got killed as well. Gave it a try with a party of four and it was super easy, but it was my Priest of Talos character that did most of the damage.\n\nAt least it allowed me to see the merchants in the next room. By browsing their wares I realized the moment I can equip myself things will get much easier. I just need to find a way to beat those 4 Tasloi.\n\n## Cleric / Mage\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747440288.png)\n\nSo I tried again with a Cleric / Mage\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415162.png)\n\nI cast Command on the Tasloi and it fell prone. Now I automatically hit and kill him.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415225.png)\n\nAh shit, I killed them all in one shot except for the last one where I did only 2 damage. He woke up and one shot me.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747440253.png)\n\nI tried again and was confused this time because in the weapons left on the floor, I could not find the sling (which I'm proficient with). Not being able to hit them from afar proved really complex.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415294.png)\n\nI still cast command, but cast it on a Tasloi that was too far away and by the time I got into melee range he woke up. That's one spell wasted.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415815.png)\n\nFinally managed to kill the second Tasloi but I'm now out of spells. Even my Blindness didn't work.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415271.png)\n\nSo now I wait... this is going to be long, and entirely random.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415915.png)\n\nAh well, I lost the randomness...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747440086.png)\n\nNext try. Somehow this time a sling appeared in my inventory...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747440033.png)\n\nAh, this time it's working. Three commands, three hits, three kills.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415602.png)\n\nBaeloth is coming and bringing me to the main room.\n\nI bought a Wand of Lightning and one of Frost. The Fireball one was too expensive. I also got myself an Aganazzar Scorcher scroll.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747440005.png)\n\nOne use of the Wand of Frost and all the Gibberlings are dead. Still not enough XP to level up.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747439824.png)\n\nI also frosted the second batch of Gibberling, and this time I leveled up. Money is still scarce.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415373.png)\n\nBut I can at least buy that. Things are going to get easier now. I wish I could find a way to make money faster...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415573.png)\n\nOh shit, that's a real group now. I like this kind of fights, but I thinks for now I'll still have to fry them from afar.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747439715.png)\n\nHmm they're dead, but no XP and no loot. \n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415850.png)\n\nHo, that went faster this time.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747439455.png)\n\nDid a bunch of fights, using the Wand of Fireball. Recharging it is going to cost ~12k, which I don't have, so I need to carefully aim.\nThat being said, there's nothing better than Fireballs to kill those ogres\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747439332.png)\n\nKilled most of them with the fireball, but had to finish the mage with a multiple scorcher\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747439222.png)\n\nThis fight is going to be harder. It's the group that was in jail with me. I don't have the wand of fire yet, so I turned invisible. They can see me and somehow clustered around me.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437108.png)\n\nAll my protection spells wore off. Hmm I guess I'll have to freeze them.\nOk, it took two charges but it worked...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416134.png)\n\nFinished the first tier, and got some more gold. 20k will surely help.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416184.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747429168.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747439175.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747439116.png)\n\nLots of great stuff to buy, but I mostly just bought the Boots of Speed and recharged the Wand of Fire.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416288.png)\n\nI wanted to test Sanctuary, as enemies can't hit me while I'm under the spell, I wanted to see if I could still use my wands.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437043.png)\n\nWell, Ankhegs are not the best foes to try as they won't get out of the dirt if they can't see me, and so I can't target them either. I lost my Fire protection pretty quickly into the fight, but fortunately I could recast them from Sanctuary. Potions might be more interesting next time.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747439080.png)\n\nThey all clustered around me and I can't even move. I have to attack in melee to break the Sanctuary.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438987.png)\n\nI tried again, this time I learned Mirror Image, Blur and Shield to give me more survivability, and I'm going to fire at my own feet. That killed them pretty quickly.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438976.png)\n\nI wonder what happens if I cast some Skull Trap where Baeloth appears.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438877.png)\n\nI prepared a small trap for the tier 2 djinni.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416355.png)\n\nHmm this time the area is trapped. Well. I'll just not move, and cast fireballs. Worked perfectly.\n\nI died on the next battle, though. Ogre mage and elemental portals and the only damage I could do was Fire and they were resistant. I tried several times, with Skull Trap, and some Frost but the Quasit was regenarating faster that what I could damage it.\n\nThis made me realize that out of my Cleric / Mage class, I was mostly using the Mage part. Most of what the Cleric does I could replicate through Potions of Scrolls.\n\n## Fighter / Mage\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438786.png)\n\nSo I started again, this time with a Fighter / Mage to get some raw damage power and survivability.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437008.png)\n\nI cast Sleep on the Taslois, got two, killed them and finally turned to the other and being a fighter, it was way easier to kill it this time.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438749.png)\n\nBeing half-fighter with good stats, I got a decent CA and HP already.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438701.png)\n\nI started by buying a scroll of Friend to improve my Charisma. It reduced the price of stuff a little and is almost automatically worth it when buying the Wand of Lightning.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747428130.png)\n\nUsing the rest of my money on a wand of frost, I'm ready for my next battle.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747415945.png)\n\nSimply frost them\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747428015.png)\n\nSame tactic on the next battle, they won't resist either\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438644.png)\n\nThis makes us take a level. Improved THACO, one more spell and doubling of HP. I love taking Fighter levels.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747427637.png)\n\nBought some basic equipment to improve my basic stats. Longsword and Shortbows I'm competent with. Shield for some AC, Helm for avoiding criticals.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747427202.png)\n\nI cast sleep (got two), then went closer to frost them.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747427183.png)\n\nLeveled up again. Bought a scroll of Mirror Image because I can now cast it. I only have two charges left in the wand of frost, so I bought a wand of fire as well;\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747426574.png)\n\nGood call as we have a bunch of Hobgoblin spread in the room that the frost cone would have had trouble hitting.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437005.png)\n\nI took some damage. Unsure how but I think it's the blast radius of one of the fireballs on a target that moved closer.\nFortunately, I now have a lot of HP so I survived.\nOne hobgoblin survived as well, so I cast sleep (because I had Mirror Image on, I knew it was doable) and killed him\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438492.png)\n\nOne more level.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438474.png)\n\nI bought Blur to further buff before the fights.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747438094.png)\n\nHmm, next one is the Necromancer. I thought about buying a scroll of Protection from Undead for this one but forgot. We'll try to do it with the fireballs then.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416821.png)\n\nAnd that did the trick.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437874.png)\n\nMore level up. I'm really looking forward to the big money jump when switching tiers as I'll need to refresh my wand of fire pretty soon.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437806.png)\n\nI bought Invisibility instead of Blur this time, to allow me better placement in the fight.\n\nExcept that I cast it before the fight and it of course dissipated when I talked to Baeloth. Shit.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437361.png)\n\nI'm going to throw fireballs at the one farthest from me because I'm not resistant to fire (yet) and see how it goes.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425878.png)\n\nWent quite well. The Ogre mage is fleeing, I need to finish him quickly, the other ones are right behind me. I'm gonna try to sleep them out.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437269.png)\n\nI worked, I sent two to sleep and then killed them with the frost wand.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437210.png)\n\nPut the last one to sleep, and finishing him off.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425642.png)\n\nI'm now getting level 3 spells. Interesting. I of course went with Melf Minute Meteors.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416697.png)\n\nThis was the full party of adventurers. I cast Invisibility on myself to find the right angle and burn them. I took the opportunity to cast Meteors on myself as I forgot to earlier.\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437614.png)\n\nEven Invisible, they managed to follow me, making it hard to send a fireball to kill them as I might end up in the radius. I actually got caught in the radius and died.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437573.png)\n\nSo this time I cast MMM on myself. Went to sleep, and then cast Shield, Mirror Image, Blur and Fire Resistance before heading to the fray.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437481.png)\n\nThey popped partway in the middle. I sent the fireballs. I got hit in the radius but nothing serious. Two of them are still standing.\n\nTaking care of the archer first. He drank a potion but I still got him. The other is hasted and firing at me. I tried to fire meteors at him, but it seems that it rarely touches from melee so I missed the three times. I then tried to fry him with the lightning, but somehow it ricocheted and I was the one killed.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437139.png)\n\nTried on more time. Again, I didn't kill them all. The warrior and the archer stayed up. I killed the archer, managed to damage the warrior with lightning but he finally got me.\n\nI'm going to change some spells for next game. They do not seem affected by Sleep.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747437427.png)\n\nI'll use Blind this time to CC the leftovers. I also invested in a Fire Resistance potion, so I can recast MMM if needed.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416354.png)\n\nI forgot to swap the wand of fire and fired a bunch of lighting. I was about to reload when I saw that it killed a few of them and got me mostly unscathed.\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747436475.png)\n\nI added the fireballs!\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747436409.png)\n\nA warrior and the archer are up. I know the archer is no big deal so I'm going to ignore him for now. I'll blind the warrior.\n\nHe resisted… So I killed the archer from afar. I now need to finish the warrior. Well, I'll try to blind him again. But he's a dwarf so he has great saving throws.\n\nHaha, it worked. Now casting MMM and sniping him from afar.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425595.png)\n\nAnd that's the end of Tier 1\n\n## Tier 2\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747436228.png)\n\nBought the Boots of Speed and recharged the Wand of Fire.\n\nI guess I can finish many fights just by upping my Fire Resistance with a potion. Maybe worth buying the Fire Resistance ring?\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416256.png)\n\nThis time I bought a fire resistance potion and intent on burning them to crisps. That worked easily.\nThat's an easy battle I could replay if I need more coin.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747435963.png)\n\nNext one is the easiest fight. Just chug my potion of fire resistance, and burn them. This one I can redo several times\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747435625.png)\n\nI had a weird bug. I got hit by the web spell right when the fight was over, so I was technically held when in the antechamber. I can access my character sheet, but nothing is displayed there.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747435402.png)\n\nThis didn't prevent me from leveling up.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747435341.png)\n\nFor the next one, not knowing exactly what to expect, I stacked up on Fire resistance as usual and on MMM and started blasting them from afar.\n\nI finished my last MMM as the last one fell.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747435177.png)\n\nLevel up. More and more spells and not enough time to use them. I can cast two level 4 spells now.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747434897.png)\n\nI bought some spells I know are very useful on level 4. I can only cast two, so the choice is hard.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747434824.png)\n\nI went crazy and also bought a better shield and a better helmet. I plan on having passive 100% Fire Resistance so I can use my money on other stuff.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416813.png)\n\nThis one was the one blocking me in the previous run. I feel more confident this time as I can decently hit on melee or range; I'm stocked with Acid/Frost arrows and protected with the Minor Globe of Invulnerability.\nI have an AC of -2 and 73 HP.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747434561.png)\n\nWell. This didn't work as expected. I managed to kill the portals and Ogre mage but couldn't finish the critters. I also don't have anyway to heal. Next time, I'll buff even more.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425320.png)\n\nBetter buff. I added Blur, Stoneskin and an Oil of Speed. I managed to kill all the portals quickly and finished the ogre mage with a blast.\n\nNow, on to the quasit/imps\n\nThis time I got lucky, there wasn't any golem, wraith or fire imp/quasit. Or maybe I just killed the portals quickly enough.\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747434513.png)\n\nNext fight is against a full party. I buffed with Mirror Image, Stoneskin, Shield, Minor Globe of Invulnerability and Oil of Speed. I have 80% Fire Resistance from my gear but didn't improve it further. We'll see…\n\nFireballs in the main area killed 2 of them. I finished one with MMM. I'm sending more fireballs to last two. Mages are currently immune.\n\nShit. I'm confused. I need to find a gear against that… Still managed to kill one while being confused but now I'm also held. No longer confused but still held.\n\nOne mage killed his friend with a freeze cone. I'm still alive but held.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425072.png)\n\nThey're wasting Magic Missile on me as I'm immune.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416768.png)\n\nShit, Enfeebled.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747434357.png)\n\nThey're summoning monsters but killing them with their own AoE. So far I'm still alive so there is still a chance if I get out of the Hold Person spell.\n\nOh shit, now I'm panicked… Ok, I'm dead. \n\nWhat I learned is that I need to protect from Fear/Stun.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747434260.png)\n\nThis time I pushed my Fire Resistance to the max. Also chugged a potion of Free Action. I could not afford the cloak to protect from fear nor the potion to succeed on all saving throws so I'm not yet completely invincible.\n\nI'll focus on the mages this time.\n\nLaunched a fireball in the center. Didn't kill them. Then focused on one mage. Removed his Mirror Images, but he turned invisible. I charged the other mage, and the melee guys charged me. I sent another fire wave their way. Killed two. The last one is still after me. Tried to spook her. Failed. Tried to recast MMM to finish the mages. Interrupted. Ran and fireballed the warrior. Killed her but she hit pretty hard and I'm out of defenses.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424773.png)\n\nManaged to cast an Mirror Image. MMM was interrupted again. Too bad, I'm now going melee.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747434182.png)\n\nThey're no longer behind a globe of invulnerability, so I'm going for fireball again\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747434088.png)\n\nThespia managed to recast the globe right before the impact and was untouched. She summons hobgoblins that got fried in the fireball the moment they arrived though.\n\nAnd Treacle is immune to fire...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433988.png)\n\nI hit Thespia in melee. Inflicted some serious damaged but got Feebled so I cannot move. I'm trying to finish him with arrow.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433927.png)\n\nAnd shit I'm panicked. I guess it's the end then. I need to protect myself from panic.\nAnd… I got petrified by a lucky chromatic orb.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433887.png)\n\nSo, I redid the spider encounter to get some money. Because of my passive 80% resistance, I don't even need to buff. Just to be sure I did it twice.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433878.png)\n\nI bought a Potion of +50% protection from magic to see how effective this is.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433804.png)\n\nThis time I burned the main group. Finished the last one with MMM, ignoring the mage as I was immune to their spells. The last warrior, Lucille was very tough to kill but a second cast of MMM got her.\nI had to blast a wave of summons and am now in melee with Thespia. He dropped his globe so I'm trying to fireball him. He seems to have a protection spell though and I'm unsure what it is.\nThe fireball hit him but he seems to have 60% Fire Resistance. Still it got him to Near Death. Globe is back up, so I'm finishing him with my sword\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433766.png)\n\nMy magic protection protected me from Horror, but not from Contagion. Interesting.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433701.png)\n\nErf Contagion is ugly. And I'm also slowed.\nI'm recasting MMM to try to overcome the slowness with the high APR and hit Treacle. Thespia seems to be regenerating so I'm ignoring him for now.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433626.png)\n\nMMM is getting through the Mirror Images slowly. But Thespia's Globe is down again, I'll burn him. He died.\nThe Magic Resistance potion is really OP. No spell can get to me. It's even better than the more expensive one that was giving 50% damage reduction and all saving throws success. This is like a better Scroll of Protection Against Magic.\n\nInterestingly enough, Chromatic Orb still drains my Mirror Images but I'm not affected by its special effects\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424687.png)\n\nTreacle has been spamming Chromatic Orbs at me and is now running. I think he's out of spells. I'm gonna finish him with MMM\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424425.png)\n\nHaha, things are getting hairier.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433605.png)\n\nAnd that's end of Tier 2.\n\n## Tier 3\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747416628.png)\n\nThis is my new favorite tool.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424383.png)\n\nThis might also be useful for killing critters\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433577.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433477.png)\n\nOh, this is nice\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433401.png)\n\nThe ring of Spell Turning could be a great way to turn spells against users. But I can learn it as well.\nVictor is nice because it can interrupt anyone.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433372.png)\n\nThis is +50% Fire Resistance. This can be a great improvement.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433330.png)\n\nMaybe one of those?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433303.png)\n\nTHIS. This will be a huge improvement to my CA. I wear no armor currently. But it's so expensive...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433251.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433108.png)\n\nAhem? This is like the best solo item. Improved Haste to kill enemies, and Invisibility to flee. And +2 CA on top of that?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424294.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424197.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747433057.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424132.png)\n\nThis is also interesting loot, but not mandatory\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747432507.png)\n\nSo I asked to go to the next battle so I could see what it was. As it's Fire weak troll, I'll still try it, without any buff, to see what's the problem here.\n\nI almost had them but the slimes are poisonous and that killed me. I also had no way to heal.\nI could do it with some simple buff and a necklace of protection against poison.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747432309.png)\n\nI buffed and tried again. This time first focusing on the group near me.\nFission Slime takes a lot of damage from the sword and I take nothing from their poison. As for the trolls, well, they don't last long against my fire.\nThis is actually an easy fight I could replay for more gold (8k)\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747431991.png)\n\nI wanted to try the next battle. This is going to be a massacre. For me. I know how to counter that, by improving my Crushing AC, but I haven't yet. So let's see how resistant to fire / frost they are.\n\nThe shambling mound can quickly die to fire/frost. The golems are resistant to magic though… But they take damage from my fire shield. Interesting.\n\nI cast improved haste on myself and will try to kill them\n\nThey are immune to Slashing damage. Which renders my sword useless. Immune to arrow of biting as well. Immune to arrow of frost. They can take damage from MMM, but very little. Sunfire had no effect on them.\nWell. With my AC they couldn't really hit me, but there was nothing I could do to them either. Or at least not fast enough to have any impact.\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747431825.png)\n\nI tried again and this time I'll try to have them all around me, while I'm protected with a globe and an AC of -7 and spam Skull Trap.\n\nThis does not work as expected. Their Magic Resistance still protects them.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419129.png)\n\nI did another quick troll+slime fight to get some money. I bought a Mace +2 and tried again.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747418604.png)\n\nApparently, if I stay in the lower corner I don't aggro the ones up the map. Let's see if I can kill those with my mace\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747418098.png)\n\nWith Improved Haste I'm hitting them and in 3-4 hits they die. Weirdly they don't seem to be able to hit me that much. Well, I guess the Mirror Image + Stoneskin helps\nI finished the Shambling Mound with MMM from afar. Improved Haste is really good. I need it in my spells.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747423745.png)\n\nI went to the next fight with all my buffs. Classic Shield + Stoneskin + Mirror Image for melee survivability. \n\nProtection from Abjuration to not be dispelled. Minor globe of Invulnerability + Minor Spell Turning for protection against magic.\n\nI forgot to add the Fireshield, so I'm not 100% fire resistant...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747431551.png)\n\nOh, Cold Salamanders! They will melt easily. They're spread apart which adds to the difficulty, but they should gather easily enough when they see me.\nSome fireballs, finished with MMM and hasted swordplay\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747418005.png)\n\nNow to Fire Elementals. This will require some other tactic. But maybe the Fire Giant is not immune to fire?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747417985.png)\n\nHe takes the piercing but not the fire. Ok, we'll wait for them to cluster around me and we'll frost them.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747417478.png)\n\nI'm frosting them. It's slow, but they don't deal a lot of damage as I'm 90% resistant to fire\n\nI managed to kite them for a long time and kill them with MMM, but the elementals explode when they die and I took some damage there that eventually killed me.\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747431483.png)\n\nThis time I only buffed with a Potion of Speed, Fire Resistance and Regeneration.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747431446.png)\n\nThe Oil of Speed allowed me to kite them easily. The Fire Resistance made me invulnerable to their attacks. Piece of cake.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747431415.png)\n\nKited him. Arrows of Biting didn't seem to actually bite, so ended up using arrows of ice.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747431345.png)\n\nI'm gaining a LOOOOOOT of XP, but I'm now capped. Great, this will only increase the challenge.\n\n## Final Battle\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747426163.png)\n\nI feel like I'm close to the end. I buffed with Oil of Speed, Regeneration, Fire and Magic protection. I didn't bother casting Globe of Invulnerability nor Spell Immunity as I'm 127% resistant to magic. Maybe that was an oversight. We'll see.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425833.png)\n\nSo, a Rakshasa, Baeloth and a dwarf warrior. I trust my AC, so I'll focus on Baeloth and the Rakshasa.\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747423501.png)\n\nBaeloth started with a globe and Mirror Images. Ok. I'll run them down with MMM then. Going all nuke here.\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425652.png)\n\nI rolled really poorly… Didn't managed to get rid of the images. I'm switching my focus to the cat. He's not taking any fire damage from MMM. Not even the explosion effect. And is not affected by my sword. I guess I should have bought a +2 sword. Also unaffected by my arrows.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425625.png)\n\nThardek resists the fireball really well. My protections are wearing off but I'm still protected against magic so they cannot do anything to me.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425546.png)\n\nKilled him with the wand. He was a nuisance but didn't land any significant hit. Baeloth is still protected by a globe, and even casting more shields and spell protection.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425471.png)\n\nI switched to my Mace +2 to hit the cat and it worked. I'm not very proficient in it, but at least it works\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747418062.png)\n\nThey are firing their spells at me, but as I'm immune I don't care. Still, they get hit in the crossfire\nRakshasa managed to touch me for 9 damage once, but I quickly regenerated it. Baeloth is sitting in the Poison Cloud of the cat, stupid.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425188.png)\n\nFinally got the cat. Now on to Baeloth. I can't MMM him as it's reflecting back to me. \n\nHe managed to cast Contagion on me. It really seems like it's bypassing MR. That makes this spell pretty useful as it slows the target.\n\nHis protections are down. I tried to cure poison but it does not cure Contagion.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419967.png)\n\nErgh, he's calling on to the beholder...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419877.png)![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419812.png)\n\nHoly shit. He dispelled everything I had. Ok, beholder needs to die\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419261.png)\n\nThe Wand of Frost can harm both of them. Seems like it is not reflected by the Globe of Invulnerability. Good to know.\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747420518.png)\n\nAh shit. One of the Beholder rays killed me I think.\n\nIf I had to do it again I would first buy a +2 Sword and maybe +2 arrows to get Baeloth down as fast as possible. Maybe breaches would work? Chain casting them? Or just wand of frost on him.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747420145.png)\n\nI needed some more money to do the last fight correctly so I redid what I though would be the Slime/Troll fight but it actually was the Fire Elementals.\nWell, let's see if I can make it work. I'm well buffed, I'll try to frost them and finish the giant with MMM\nI still drank an Oil of Speed. Frost wand killed the Elementals, and Bow + MMM finished the giant. It's an easy fight, but pretty long.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747423383.png)\n\nThis will allow me to hit the Rakshasa\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419231.png)\n\nRedid the Troll/Slime fight for real this time. Much faster and easier. Gives less gold, though.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747420863.png)\n\nI also tried the Ice Salamander one again to see if it could be done quickly enough while still giving me gold.\nIt's actually quite quick. 2 fireball per salamander kills it. For 6k gold. Better than the Fire Giant.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747421788.png)\n\nI buffed to the max. Shield, Mirror Image, Stoneskin for sure. Max MR, max FR (not sure if the FR is needed). Also cast Spell Turning, I don't know if it's gonna work with my MR, we'll see. Oil of Speed and Regeneration.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422661.png)\n\nI start by focusing most of my fireballs on the warrior so he's out of the picture quickly.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422518.png)\n\nActually, Baeloth forgot to cast Globe, so I'm draining his mirror images. He's also cast AoE and Lightning my way, but I'm immune and it damages the warrior.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422966.png)\n\nFriendly fire… sorry, friendly ice\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422378.png)\n\nHe's sending my MMM back at me. That's interesting. I don't know which spell does that.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747423252.png)\n\nMaybe it's Minor Spell Turning. Well I cast the same thing on myself, we'll see if it has any effect.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424071.png)\n\nEven with my MR, I take damage from the Cold Shield\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424000.png)\n\nI finished the cat in melee while Baeloth was spamming spells my way. I'm going to let it drain his spells on me.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422793.png)\n\nNow the beholder is here. But he spawned at the top of the map. Maybe I can avoid him?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422777.png)\n\nShit, this might end badly. I'll just run into the Beholder and try to kill him as fast as I can.\nWell. I died and I'm not even sure what happened.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422640.png)\n\nThis time I bought Skull Trap scrolls and trapped the area where the Beholder is supposed to appear.\nI haven't dealt with the Warrior, I tried to fireball him but that was a mistake, he's too resistant. I'll try to frost him now\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424436.png)\n\nArg the cat trigger the trap but somehow got out of it unscathed. Oh that's right, Rakshasa are immune to spells of level 3 and below.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424868.png)\n\nNo problem, I can cast another (and I killed the cat with MMM). I had to put a helmet on the floor so I could use it as a valid target for the scroll.\n\nHmm, Baeloth managed to cast Contagion on me and I'm now slowed. Drinking an oil of speed fixed that.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747424730.png)\n\nBaeloth is near death. I don't understand when his script is supposed to make him call the beholder so I'm gonna nuke him with the frost wand, hoping to kill him before he could call for reinforcements.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425461.png)\n\nHmm, he's resisting. Still I managed to touch him earlier so this might only be a buff, or just random drow chance. I'm gonna try again. Still resisted.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425332.png)\n\nHmm, one of his buffed dropped. I don't know which so I'll retry\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747425247.png)\n\nAh yes, this time it worked. So he had a Magic Protection spell.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422487.png)\n\nHe's still Near Death, so I assume he's only kept alive because he needs his script to kick off. I charged my next frost wave, just in case.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747426503.png)\n\nWell, his script kicked off, but not what I expected. He didn't call the Beholder.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419217.png)\n\nHe dies and gave me gold. Hmm, what will I ever need that for?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747426281.png)\n\nBecause he didn't summon the Beholder, my trap triggered on the captives that were just released...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747430664.png)\n\nWell, I think I bugged the game. I think the captive were supposed to talk to me but I killed them and now there is nothing I can do except force quit the game :(\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747430538.png)\n\nThis time I focused some frost on Therdak to kill him quickly, while casting a few fireballs to the mage to disrupt their casting.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747428613.png)\n\nKilled the cat in melee while Baeloth was trying to send spells my way. He's protected so there isn't much I can do to him right now. I'm unsure if I should set my trap or not. I guess I'll just wait for the Beholder to show up.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747427013.png)\n\nWell. He just appeared. I'll try to spam skull traps his way and not die.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747422286.png)\n\nThat killed him. Yeah!\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747421979.png)\n\nHis globe dropped so I spammed MMM to kill his images.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747426822.png)\n\nI actually finished him in melee and he fell quickly. Now he's on the floor and a portal is appearing.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747428218.png)\n\nWell, actually two portals. Hmm I don't know who that can be. I don't have any more Skull Traps unfortunately, so I'll turn invisible and see what's going on.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747418569.png)\n\nWhat? Two Golems? Where the fuck are they coming from? Ok I'll take the Mace +2, rebuff and kill them.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747428025.png)\n\nEasy.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747421214.png)\n\nOH SHIT! There was a rogue Skull Trap left from when I killed the Beholder...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747427846.png)\n\nOH COME ON! They still don't want to talk to me… I have to redo it ONE MORE TIME.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747427648.png)\n\nHere we go again. This time full frost on Thardek and he's dead. Next: The cat.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747421160.png)\n\nStuck in a corner, can't do anything.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747427345.png)\n\nDraining his images, waiting for the MR to finish. I didn't put any trap, I was scared I couldn't disarm them if needed.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747427263.png)\n\nI'm pretty sure this is based on some timer as he wasn't even that hurt when he called him.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747420694.png)\n\nDead, and this time I'll disarm the trap\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747428306.png)\n\nHe's chain casting Mirror Image when I hit him.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747428878.png)\n\nAnd now some Golems… Boring.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419790.png)\n\nAGAIN?! I just killed two, he summoned two more...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747428706.png)\n\nHe's reflecting my MMM to me, but still taking damage. And that's ok because I'm immune to the Fire damage. But my Potion of Heroism is out, I'm mostly unbuffed now. This fight should end soon.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747429266.png)\n\nCOME ON! This time I don't care, I focus on the mage\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747429247.png)\n\nHmm weird. I don't know where the Spell Protections Removed is coming from. I was just hitting him with my sword. Something dispelled him. Maybe he did?\nAnyway, I'll focus on the golems.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747429047.png)\n\nFucking shit, I'm unbuffed, the golems are actually hitting pretty hard and I have no way to heal. I'm going to let Baeloth finish his dying speech and see if somehow I can ignore the hostile golem\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419428.png)\n\nPfiuu. Ok, the cutscene seemed to have stopped the Golem and initiate the dialogue. We'll see if I can go through.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747429436.png)\n\nOk, finally finished!\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747419283.png)\n\nHmm, well I think there is some kind of bug here. I have no sound during the final scrolling, and the only text seems to be some sentence taken out of its context.\n\nAnd here finished my solo run of The Black Pits. 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0-1578747446459.png", "03-sod/pasted image 0-1578747446632.png", "03-sod/pasted image 0-1578747446936.png", "03-sod/pasted image 0-1578747447057.png", "03-sod/pasted image 0-1578747447090.png", "03-sod/pasted image 0-1578747447148.png", "03-sod/pasted image 0-1578747447173.png", "03-sod/pasted image 0.png" ], "name": "Siege of Dragonspear", "text": "## Intro\n\nAfter finishing The Black Pits, let's continue our initial storyline right where we left off after defeating Sarevok.\n\nI only played through Siege of Dragonspear once, so I don't know it as well as the other games.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747333808.png)\n\n\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747334087.png)\n\nAh Imoen. Why the hell are you back here again?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200.png)\n\nOh, that's a nice touch. All the loot from the Sarevok fight is on the ground. Not that I need it, but still.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747333754.png)\n\nThat is a needed upgrade! Well, I could actually steal a lot of them from the guards.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747444655.png)\n\nThe graphics are much better than the original games.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747444768.png)\n\nI found a gem bag. I'll keep it to try to exploit it and see if I can duplicate items with it.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747444692.png)\n\nFound a bottle of wine. No idea what it's for. If I remember correctly, I kept it in my bag for the whole of my previous play through.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747447173.png)\n\nTold Ammon how to enter Candlekeep and got some rewards. A Wand of Monster Summoning. Good to have, but I already have one.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747447148.png)\n\nFound this. This summons hostile creature. That might prove handy if I need to kill some bystanders.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747445201.png)\n\nThe number of critters here is impressive\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747447090.png)\n\nDrank a potion of Invulnerability. That makes me almost auto succeed all saves.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747445287.png)\n\nKorlasz and her band of mercenaries are here. Is there anything I could do to make this encounter funnier?\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747445658.png)\n\nWell, nope, just nuking everyone.\n\n## Baldur's Gate\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747446364.png)\n\nBack to the Ducal Palace, Imoen got attacked. As I imagined Imoen would have a plot armor and couldn't be killed, I sent 6 Fireballs in melee. Well, that killed the Assassins, but also killed her...\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747445686.png)\n\nBut holy cow. 80 Oil of Speed on Imoen's body? Well I guess killing her was a good idea!\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747447057.png)\n\nWow, Corwin just appeared.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747446936.png)\n\nWell, you can say that.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747446632.png)\n\nPeople are appearing. I never know if they'll be friends or foes.\nWell, Janatth and Flaming Fists. I'm pickpocketing them.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747444611.png)\n\nShe's, like, super dead, girl. There is only her body as a non-interactive sprite on the floor.\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747446459.png)\n\nI picked the glasses from Zaviak in the Elfsong tavern\n\n![img](pasted%20image%200-1578747446391.png)\n\nI got Minsc in my party, mostly so I can loot him. I'll do the same thing with other members. I didn't know I could actually recruit them so early and was just clicking randomly in the discussions.\n\nAh shit, seems like I buggued the game. I kicked out Dynaheir from the party the moment she leveled up. And all went dark. Ah no that's ok, I managed to click through the UI and finish removing them from the party. I recruited Safana as well, to pick her cloack of non-detection and amulet of fireballs.\n\n----\n\nI'm picking up the game after a break of a few months. I'm not entirely sure where I left off, so I guess I'll just get out of the city and continue the main quest.\n\n![image-20200307221221716](image-20200307221221716.png)\n\nAnd here we go, let's get out of the city.\n\n![image-20200307221516805](image-20200307221516805.png)\n\nA hooded man talked to me. On his way out, I sent fireballs his way, just to see.\n\n![image-20200307221606130](image-20200307221606130.png)\n\nHmm, he took damage, but disappeared. I reloaded and attacked him before he could talk and this time he fled.\n\n![image-20200307222657813](image-20200307222657813.png)\n\nI also killed a Flaming Fist guard right before Imoen talked to me. It summoned a pretty powerful mage that cast Maze on me right when the cutscene started. In this screen I'm supposed to be on the bed, talking with Skie, but I'm actually in the Maze. I don't know how this will play out.\n\nOh ok, I actually escaped the first \"Trap the Soul\", but then he cast it again after the cutscene and this time I died.\n\n![image-20200307223731419](image-20200307223731419.png)\n\nThere are a lot of people outside. I'll try to cast a Cursed Scroll of Summon Monster, see how they react. Hmm, all the NPCs started casting buff spells on me, and the Flaming Fist killed the monster.\n\n![image-20200307224340178](image-20200307224340178.png)\n\nOh right, I forgot I'm out of cash. Hmm. I'll need to find a merchant I can rob to get back on my feet.\n\n![image-20200307224614477](image-20200307224614477.png)\n\nJust for fun, I tried a little barbecue before leaving. They'll remember me.\n\n![image-20200307224652009](image-20200307224652009.png)\n\nPfff. Trap the Soul is cheated. The mage appears, cast it, and I'm dead. Magic Protection does not have any effect. I should try with Spell Immunity: Abjuration but I don't yet have it.\n\n## Starting the war against the Crusade\n\n![image-20200307225426900](image-20200307225426900.png)\n\nStarting Chapter 8 for real. Let's get some fight ready so I can get my old habits back.\n\n![image-20200307230002224](image-20200307230002224.png)\n\nOh! Things will get much much much easier now.\n\n![image-20200307230626479](image-20200307230626479.png)\n\nSometimes, you say weird things in this game.\n\n![image-20200307231442975](image-20200307231442975.png)\n\nClassical quest of the deep monsters lurking in because the dwarves dug too deep.\n\n![image-20200307234421638](image-20200307234421638.png)\n\nOne level deep there is this hulking skeleton immune to fire and regenerating. I'm spamming it with Skull Traps. 5000XP and a Sword to kill trolls.\n\n![image-20200307234847108](image-20200307234847108.png)\n\nI'm slowly using all the charges of my Wand of Fireballs so I'm also using the Potions of Firebreath I'm finding in creative ways.\n\n![image-20200308135122255](image-20200308135122255.png)\n\nI cleared the whole place, using my wand of fireball most of the time. I've now opened the door to the newborn lich. We'll see how we'll get rid of it.\n\n## Getting some loot back\n\n![image-20200308135432714](image-20200308135432714.png)\n\nBut first, I'm leaving this area and trying to locate my loot. Maybe it's in Durlag's Tower. Maybe it's in the Friendly Arms Inn, I don't remember, it has been so long.\n\n![image-20200308140246096](image-20200308140246096.png)\n\nIt was in Friendly Arms Inn. And somehow I found another Kiel's Helmet there. Not sure how I got it, but I already have one on me.\n\nNow I'll need to get some money with my infinite loop scheme. I don't think I can get all the way to Baldur's Gate so I'll need to go to Nashkel which is the only other merchant I know I can steal.\n\n![image-20200308140500738](image-20200308140500738.png)\n\nYeah, I was right. The bridge to the city is closed. Only way in would be using Ctrl-J but I don't want to do that. So Nashkel it is.\n\n![image-20200308141033805](image-20200308141033805.png)\n\nThis should do for now. Took ~2mn of selling / stealing.\n\n## Fighting the Lich\n\n![image-20200308142104107](image-20200308142104107.png)\n\nI told the Lich I would bring him the amulets, but I also pickpocketed the key to its inner Sanctum.\n\n![image-20200308142439825](image-20200308142439825.png)\n\nI agreed to bring him the medallions of the dwarves upstairs. I don't want to kill them, so I'll just try to rest here so monsters attack them.\n\n![image-20200308142627516](image-20200308142627516.png)\n\nWell, they fight well. Apparently I can also pickpocket it from them. That will do. I'll do my part of the bargain, get the reward and THEN kill the Lich.\n\n![image-20200308143549553](image-20200308143549553.png)\n\nLich gave me a Warhammer, I put it on the floot, cast Skull Trap on it and will attempt to lure the Lich to it. But first, I'll have to run for its phylactery.\n\n![image-20200308143746806](image-20200308143746806.png)\n\nI threw the phylactery in the Elemental Plane of Fire, running like wind away from the Lich.\n\n![image-20200308143857064](image-20200308143857064.png)\n\nColdhearth appeared next to me. I trapped the corridor. Well, he never got out, so I had to activate the trap myself. I finally cast The Secret Revealed, the Magic Gem, on him and he died quickly. I'll keep this item for later, it seems to be doing a lot of damage.\n\n![image-20200308144250419](image-20200308144250419.png)\n\nSome damage, removing protections, and Miscast magic. I hope it will work on other Liches too.\n\n## Attempt at breaking a custcene\n\n![image-20200308150536514](image-20200308150536514.png)\n\nBack in camp, a cutscene starts as soon as one of the guards see me. I'm trying to cast some Skull Traps on the other side of the bridge to hurt and maybe kill some of Caelar agents.\n\n![image-20200308183725503](image-20200308183725503.png)\n\nI cast a Wizard Eye right behind the group and I can see that the bridge is already broken. So the cutscene is actually another map, and when it ends, I'm back to this map. So I guess if I manage to add some traps on the other side, they will trigger.\n\n![](image-20200308185926806.png)\n\nIt's even better. When you walk on it it moves to the full bridge. So it's the same area, the bridge is technically always broken, but there is an illusion that makes it look like it's intact.\n\n![image-20200308221648503](image-20200308221648503.png)\n\nI managed to summon a golem on the other side of the bridge, and cast a bunch of Skull Trap on him. Then, when casting started, I moved it. Traps are set, and people are trying to attack it.\n\nWell, Caelar and her two closest friends are immune to all damage. Only the ones in the back can be killed, but they are out of range of all my spells. I tried a lot of different approaches, using a Wizard Eye cast on the other side, explosive arrows, web, fireballs, etc but the time window between the cutscenes is very short and the enemies are too far away.\n\n## Finishing quests here\n\nI did a few quests here, but the Menhir one was buggy. I clicked on all Menhirs and still the quest could not continue. No big deal as I had already pickpocketed the reward to the quets giver.\n\nI also trapped people into statues, killed the mage and unstoned the people. I had a glitch where the mage suggested she could lend her golem for the final battle, but after a reload, this sentence was not available anymore. I had to reload because a wild bear attacking the camp resulted in NPCs attacking each other and the guy that handle the Inn died. And I need my Innkeeper.\n\nI moved to the small forested area. Killed a vampire hunter; the vampire told me I'll have a reward later, but I still did kill him in his sleep. I brought the shield on the vampire killer back to the Halfelin in the previous area and got a dart +2 and also kept the shield. Those are not extraordinary loots, but still, a dart +2 is not bad.\n\n## Chapter 8\n\n![image-20200309001240063](image-20200309001240063.png)\n\nAfter getting attacked on my way, killing a few orcs, trolls and jellies (and getting a Sling +2), I finished Chapter 7. Now, on to Chapter 8. I'm playing as a Neutral Evil character, looking for more power and sure of himself. In a nutshell it means I'll side with anyone that is promising me magical items, and will double-cross them once the deal is done. Actually, if I could join Caelar's Crusade, I will, but the choice never was given to me.\n\n![image-20200309112759725](image-20200309112759725.png)\n\nThis first map stacks on +2 weapons. Not that I'll use them, but pretty useful nonetheless. I'm also stacking on various kinds of arrows. Haven't found anyone selling the arrow of Detonation though.\n\nOn my wishlist I'm looking to a second Bag of Holding. One would be for all the stuff I need often (Wands, Arrows, etc) and the other for all the loot. I would also like a secondary hand weapon improving my attack rate, and a main one doing poison damage.\n\n![image-20200309113128664](image-20200309113128664.png)\n\nBypassing a group of bandits stealthily.\n\n![image-20200309113150167](image-20200309113150167.png)\n\nThere's a band of Trolls further north. Maybe I can force the two groups to fight?\n\n![image-20200309113259017](image-20200309113259017.png)\n\nHaha. Auto-reference joke.\n\n![image-20200309113352335](image-20200309113352335.png)\n\nWell, they ran away when they saw me, so I simply fried them.\n\n![image-20200309113607022](image-20200309113607022.png)\n\nHoly spider! I got killed by a bunch of spider that webbed me and punctured me to death.\n\n![image-20200309115234602](image-20200309115234602.png)\n\nI'm cursed. I don't what did it, nor what effect it has on me, nor how to remove it. Cure Disease, Remove Curse and Lesser Restoration have no effect. I don't see any negative impact on my stats. I guess I'll keep it as a badge of honor. Oh, after sleeping two nights, it disappeared. Still don't know what it was.\n\n![image-20200309115758115](image-20200309115758115.png)\n\nOh great. The Vampire I killed still kept true to his promise and delivered a nice regenerating helmet.\n\n## Wyrm and Spider caves\n\n![image-20200309120128258](image-20200309120128258.png)\n\nHmm, many wyverns around here. I don't like the Poison they have.\n\n![image-20200309120202298](image-20200309120202298.png)\n\nBut they die quick and easy.\n\nWyverns, spiders, bugbears. Many different foes around here.\n\n![image-20200309120434888](image-20200309120434888.png)\n\nOh, my first dragon!\n\n![image-20200309120535887](image-20200309120535887.png)\n\nOh ok, so we don't even talk, you just attack me? Ok.\n\n![image-20200309120725569](image-20200309120725569.png)\n\nHe wasn't immune to Fire and Frost, so it was an easy fight.\n\n## Bhaal Temple\n\n![image-20200309122010799](image-20200309122010799.png)\n\nFound my way to an underground temple of Cyric. Promised a follower of Bhaal to release her, as well as a Dwarf from the crusade in exchange of helping me infiltrate the crusade. Got it by a nasty Hold trap, so I'm writing this while I wait for it to finish.\n\n![image-20200309123145260](image-20200309123145260.png)\n\nKilled a bunch of cultists in various rooms, but when opening the last door: Surprise! A cultist and a demon. I forgot about that. I'm not fully prepared (not that many buffs). We'll see how it goes\n\n![image-20200309123613969](image-20200309123613969.png)\n\nSending my golem in to distract them while I'm casting Ice Storm in the room. I waited a bit outside the room, the Demon/Dragon is not immune, and finished it with a Ice Cone.\n\n![image-20200309124028855](image-20200309124028855.png)\n\nI released Madele and told her to kill in my name.\n\n![image-20200309124115558](image-20200309124115558.png)\n\nOh. Pretty pretty pretty. I killed it with a few Arrow of Biting. It died while keeping its zone of damage, so I lure other monsters into it and that slowly killed them.\n\n![image-20200311125340686](image-20200311125340686.png)\n\nI decided to let the Priestess of Bhaal live, but she was blocking the way to a chest. I moved her, opened the chest. I was trapped, released a lightning bolt that killed her. Well, too bad.\n\nThe fight against the Shadow Aspect of Cyric is much harder. It keeps casting Mislead. Seems to be able to cast it infinitely. This creates a double and the main one can't be killed while the double is here. Killing the double is easy: Arrows of dispelling, but then I have a very narrow window of time before it casts another one. I tried to poison it with Arrows of Biting, but it is immune to it. I should try either some Glitterdust to prevent it from go invis, or arrow of Miscast Magic. I could also try to lure it into a Skull Trap, or into the Neothelyd remains that still inflict damage.\n\n![image-20200311222907706](image-20200311222907706.png)\n\nI slept and buffed again. With Mirror Image, Blur and Stoneskin he's hitting me but not making any damage, letting me some time to try new strategies. Glitterdust didn't seem to have any effect. I'll try to hit him with Melf Meteors.\n\n![image-20200311223104704](image-20200311223104704.png)\n\nMeteors do a bit of damage to the Mislead clone. He's still basckstabbing me. I'll try to spawn some spiders to hit him.\n\n![image-20200311223246172](image-20200311223246172.png)\n\nI'm chain casting Skull Traps on myself as I'm immune, but it seems that it has not effect on him as long as the clone is alive.\n\n![image-20200311223554165](image-20200311223554165.png)\n\nI can kill clones, they seem to never attack me, but he recasts them as they die. I'm turning into a Jelly, see if it makes me more resistant to his backstabs. I'm out of Mirror Images and defensive buffs.\n\n![image-20200311223801390](image-20200311223801390.png)\n\nOh, so Mustard Jelly is immune to backstab. That's good to know. But I have a Strength of 4 so I cannot move.\n\n![image-20200311224802973](image-20200311224802973.png)\n\nI finally cast two shields, along with being turned into a jelly and wait for him to lose HP slowly by hitting me.\n\n![image-20200311224913253](image-20200311224913253.png)\n\nIt seems to be working so far, but I need to finish him quickly before the shields run out.\n\n![image-20200311225016813](image-20200311225016813.png)\n\nFinally, I think it worked. I also cast a bunch of Ice Storms to kill him faster. Seems like the Mislead is still here though.\n\n![image-20200311225118900](image-20200311225118900.png)\n\nWith the shields and the Jelly, I'm mostly invincible.\n\n![image-20200311225143500](image-20200311225143500.png)\n\nI just need to wait for the Ice Storm to end. And finally, he died. That was a very hard fight.\n\n## Some random encounters\n\n![image-20200311230116552](image-20200311230116552.png)\n\nOn the way back I helped a green dragon attacked by giants. I might have already killed his mother.\n\n![image-20200311230213298](image-20200311230213298.png)\n\nThere are strange things written on some random trees.\n\n![image-20200311230250289](image-20200311230250289.png)\n\nI stunned the dragon after he told me where to look for treasure. I'll kill him as well. No good deed goes unpunished. 8000XP\n\n![image-20200311230402208](image-20200311230402208.png)\n\nOh yes, that's a great cache of treasure.\n\n![image-20200312095224342](image-20200312095224342.png)\n\nOn my way to the camp, I got attacked by goblins, and below them was a cave full of Myconids. I used the Greenstone amulet, and went on killing them.\n\n![image-20200312095422295](image-20200312095422295.png)\n\nFound a nice +2 sword. Too bad it's only on a critical hit, but still, this is something I'll add to my \"why not\" list.\n\n![image-20200312095459357](image-20200312095459357.png)\n\nAlso got an Elven Chain Mail, one of the only armor I can wear and still be able to cast spells. But it's AC 5, the same as my Robe of Evil Archimagi, so I'll stay with the Robe.\n\n![image-20200312095544584](image-20200312095544584.png)\n\nAnd I have all this spider silk that Khalid will use to give a present to Jaheira; that I don't really need and can't put in the bag of holding. I'll put it in the chest back at the camp.\n\n![image-20200312095649426](image-20200312095649426.png)\n\nAnd finally found a Lower Resistance spell. I'm actually not going to learn it yet, I might need to chain cast it at some point later, I'll wait for a second scroll.\n\n## Back at the assaulted fort\n\nBecause I saved one of them they let me inside. I remembered Edwin needed to kill a mage there for him to give me a nice Robe of Fire Resistance, so I grabbed him in the group, but could not trigger the discussion. Too bad, I'll just agree to sneak in the fort and kill the refugees. If need be, I'll also kill the Crusaders.\n\n![image-20200313145125031](image-20200313145125031.png)\n\nHaving a look around.\n\n![image-20200313145154264](image-20200313145154264.png)\n\nOops. I sneezed.\n\n![image-20200313145320507](image-20200313145320507.png)\n\nAnd I teleport inside the fort.\n\n![image-20200313145529917](image-20200313145529917.png)\n\n![image-20200313145646280](image-20200313145646280.png)\n\nI really like Neera and what she brings to the story. But this is a solo run, I'll have to let her go to the camp.\n\n![image-20200313145747106](image-20200313145747106.png)\n\nAnd just like that I can dismiss her and tell her to go back to the camp while all the other refugees are here, unable to leave and the main quest is actually to bring them to the camp. Well.\n\n![image-20200313152317235](image-20200313152317235.png)\n\nSpeaking with someone on the roof summoned a Greater Fey. I had never seen that sprite before.\n\n![image-20200313155017958](image-20200313155017958.png)\n\nI put some traps on the other side of the bridge, hoping that will kill/maim the Crusader when the bridge will be lowered.\n\n![image-20200313155111733](image-20200313155111733.png)\n\nHaha, that worked pretty well.\n\n![image-20200313153538988](image-20200313153538988.png)\n\nSo, they let the defenders leave without attacking them. I fireballed the defenders on their way out. No reputation impact. I'll now destroy the Crusader camp.\n\n![image-20200313155549014](image-20200313155549014.png)\n\nFull assault on the camp. Flaming Fist Mercenaries are getting into the fray as well, they might get killed.\n\n![image-20200313160203276](image-20200313160203276.png)\n\nFinal fight on the bridge against a mage trying to explode barrels.\n\n![image-20200313160447612](image-20200313160447612.png)\n\nThey invoked Fire Creatures. I did not remember that part in my first playthrough. I guessed I killed the mage quickly enough. Erf. The Barrels exploded. I have to re-do the whole camp fight.\n\n![image-20200314155401723](image-20200314155401723.png)\n\nThis time I cast Fire Breath through a potion to chests and barrels, and walk around the camp. This was really quick. Unfortunately, during the bridge battle I cast Ice Storm too close to the barrels and destroyed the bridge myself.\n\n![image-20200314160432555](image-20200314160432555.png)\n\nThis time I did a mix of both. My Fire Breath didn't cast and I'm unsure why. Maybe one of the targets was too far? Anyway this time I also managed to Quick Save right before heading to the Bridge. I also learned that what triggers the cutscene is the death of The Barghest.\n\n![image-20200314160731207](image-20200314160731207.png)\n\nI summoned some creatures so I have valid targets to cast spells and will hope that I can kill the ennemies with some skull trap. Well, actually I'll keep my skull traps, they're precious. Instead I simply killed the mage through Melf Meteors quickly, so she could not summon any more demons.\n\n![image-20200314161045063](image-20200314161045063.png)\n\nParalyzed the others and finished them manually.\n\n![image-20200314161735686](image-20200314161735686.png)\n\nExploring the camp and clicking a haystack.\n\n![image-20200314162130593](image-20200314162130593.png)\n\nI crossed the bridge. Another encounter with this hooded figure that seems to know so much about me. I fireballed him but he's invicible, I'll stop wasting resources trying to kill him.\n\n## Coalition Camp\n\n![image-20200314162908820](image-20200314162908820.png)\n\nNow on to chapter 10. The Coalition camp and the Castle.\n\n![image-20200320225324999](image-20200320225324999.png)\n\nPeople's pockets are pretty full around here.\n\n![image-20200320230636210](image-20200320230636210.png)\n\nWell, ok then.\n\n![image-20200320230910534](image-20200320230910534.png)\n\nAnd an hidden merchant with great items. That I can even steal. I'm just going to pick up everything here.\n\n![image-20200320234308121](image-20200320234308121.png)\n\nAlso stock up on arrows. This almost filled the Ammo Belt. This should last me a good chunk of BG2.\n\n![image-20200320234344453](image-20200320234344453.png)\n\nMy inventory is mostly containers. The Potion and Scrolls are almost full, so I have a bunch of potions in the Bag of Holding as well. \n\nMost of my combat tactics rely on the Wand of Lightning + Wand of Fireball. That's why I have Icingdeath scimitar with its +50% Fire Resistance and two rings of fire resistance. There is no better ring for me for now, except maybe Evermemory or the Claw of Kazgaroth but Fire Resistance is too important to pass. I'll switch when I'll get the ring of Gaxx.\n\nFeet are for Boots of Speed, the best item in the game. Belt is mostly useless. I picked Cloverleaf that is giving me Luck. I think it add a bit to hit and damage. \n\nI took the shield giving me the best AC, but as soon as I find an off-hand that gives me better APR I'll switch.\n\nFor the helmet it's Kiel, to be used with the goblet, so I can fully heal with it (and be immune to panic). I put an amulet +2 on my neck, but can switch to the Greenstone amulet when needed.\n\nBracers are improved THACO and damage, but I guess I'll find better at some point. Armor is the Evil Archimagi, which is the best I can find. Great AC, some Magic Resistance. I'll switch to Vecna when I'll have it. Cloack is Balduran for the Magic Resistance.\n\n![image-20200321221717478](image-20200321221717478.png)\n\nQuick interlude on my way up the main quest. Attacked by enemies in an area where magic does not work. I made quick work of the small group of assassins, in melee combat, with some backstab and arrow of biting.\n\n![image-20200321222123609](image-20200321222123609.png)\n\nA troop of displacer beasts at Dead Man Pass. I'm still under the effect of the dead magic zone.\n\n![image-20200321222326396](image-20200321222326396.png)\n\nOops. Ran unexpectedly into some giants.\n\n![image-20200321222731585](image-20200321222731585.png)\n\nEasy.\n\n![image-20200321222854604](image-20200321222854604.png)\n\nFound the cousin of this guy from Nashkel.\n\n![image-20200321222958346](image-20200321222958346.png)\n\nLet's try this group without a wand.\n\n![image-20200323185654761](image-20200323185654761.png)\n\nI moved all the way to Dragonspear Castle. Using the insignia I found earlier, I was able to go past the guards. Now is time for some pick pocket spree.\n\nActually there are too many people in the camp. I'll instead try to kill and loot them. But without turning them hostile, so I'm not interfering with the story.\n\n![image-20200323224147673](image-20200323224147673.png)\n\nI found this. Maybe it will help me stay unnoticed.\n\n![image-20200323230729863](image-20200323230729863.png)\n\nI'm actually finding a lot of weird stuff around here. I'll talk to a few more people, finish a few quests before killing everyone.\n\n![image-20200323231242839](image-20200323231242839.png)\n\nI think your Caps Lock is broken.\n\n![image-20200323231355866](image-20200323231355866.png)\n\nI got tested by a Sentry of Tempus for bringing back a blessed symbol.\n\n![image-20200323231436735](image-20200323231436735.png)\n\nOh this is actually very good. I might be able to wear that and wear a Ring +2 instead of one of my rings of Fire resistance. This also allow me to wear a +2 THACO amulet. I would have worn the Claw of Kazgaroth instead of the ring for the +3 to Saving Throws, but it can only be removed by a spell\n\n![image-20200323232552767](image-20200323232552767.png)\n\nAlso, by correctly answering a Crusade trivia test, I got this nice +1 ring, that I can wear in addition to other CA enhance items.\n\n![image-20200323232952989](image-20200323232952989.png)\n\nI met a troll that didn't answered really well to me trying to put shackled on him. Well I'll let him hurt the crusaders.\n\n![image-20200323233522419](image-20200323233522419.png)\n\nSo I put on Evermemory to get more level one spells. And now I'll try to charm this camp and make them turn against each other.\n\n![image-20200323233706305](image-20200323233706305.png)\n\nI charmed a guy and will now wait for him to turn hostile and see how others are reacting.\n\n![image-20200323233756586](image-20200323233756586.png)\n\nOk, so nobody is actually reacting. Ok, let's charm another and have him being attacked by the first one.\n\n![image-20200323233924653](image-20200323233924653.png)\n\nOh, seems like my newly charmed friend aggroed the hostile guy, which turned everyone hostile. Well, except a few others. I'll stay hidden and see how it plays out.\n\n![image-20200323234732457](image-20200323234732457.png)\n\nHmm it seems it didn't work. Everyone is now hostile. Well, I did all the quests. I guess I can kill them now? The only spells I have prepared are invocations and mind controls. I took a few potions, and will try to do it without the wand of fireball.\n\n![image-20200323234906601](image-20200323234906601.png)\n\nI have a pretty good AC. I guess only spells can be any kind of problem. I'll try to backstab the spell casters first.\n\n![image-20200324000000515](image-20200324000000515.png)\n\nI'm doing equipped my trusty dagger of venom and arrows of biting and killing people one by one, with backstab and other tricks. I used whatever potions I find on the ground. I consider any loot fair game.\n\n![image-20200324000106888](image-20200324000106888.png)\n\nSometimes backstabs seems to have no effect. I wonder if the Fireshield has an impact.\n\n![image-20200324001740516](image-20200324001740516.png)\n\nI think there is an infinite supply of people coming. I saw them getting out of tents and I've been killing them for a while. So much that the game starts to slow down. I guess I'll consider this done and will now report to the camp.\n\n![image-20200324105311987](image-20200324105311987.png)\n\nI went back to camp, validated all the quests I could, then headed to the Underground river.\n\n![image-20200324114804551](image-20200324114804551.png)\n\nI met some wyverns, myconid and displacer beasts so far. Got the Wyvern through the bow (they are immune to poison, so acid arrow). The Myconid died through MMM and the beast simply on melee. I was buffed with an Oil of Speed and Potions of Heroism to increase my HP and THACO. I \"only\" have -6 AC with my dual wielding.\n\n![image-20200324163008809](image-20200324163008809.png)\n\nI found myself at the head of an Ogre band by killing the two rival chiefs.\n\n![image-20200324163504114](image-20200324163504114.png)\n\nThose people are trapped in some nasty vine. I could help them, but before depleting their pockets.\n\n![image-20200324163708673](image-20200324163708673.png)\n\nOh ok. I asked for a reward and those nasty druids invoked all kind of weird stuff on me.\n\n![image-20200324163747350](image-20200324163747350.png)\n\nOh shit, and I flee right into a group of orcs.\n\n![image-20200324163827851](image-20200324163827851.png)\n\nOk, too late for any buff. I'll just gulp a potion of Invisibility and sneak past. I came back with a Potion of Explosion (I still have a few laying around) and finished the other archers one by one. I found a scroll of Magic Missile and one of Hold Person. Let's use them.\n\n![image-20200324164627965](image-20200324164627965.png)\n\nThe druid keep calling on creatures. I charmed one of them and will try to turn the tide against them.\n\n![image-20200324164859402](image-20200324164859402.png)\n\nWell, I managed to get the charmed one almost killed. They're firing too many spells I had to use the Greenstone Amulet to protect me from any mind controlling effect. They are also hitting pretty hard so I gulped another Oil of Speed and ran.\n\n![image-20200324165013552](image-20200324165013552.png)\n\nI managed to poison the druid following me, it interrupts its casting and I'm killing the creatures using Frost arrow I found on a corpse nearby.\n\n![image-20200324165520444](image-20200324165520444.png)\n\nFinally finished them. It was a lot of fun. It is actually a lot more fun to try to beat enemies without using the fireball trick. I'm adding some handicap to the way I play now: I try to make use of whatever loot I find in a given map. This let me see some spells cast by enemies, learn what they do (and how I could use them to my advantage).\n\n![image-20200324170238722](image-20200324170238722.png)\n\nGot attacked by a bunch of creatures asking me to pay a 50gp toll. I used finally used this scroll of Hold Person.\n\n## Under the Castle\n\n![image-20200324171258573](image-20200324171258573.png)\n\nFinally got under the castle. I'd love to kill all those crusaders but... I'll first walk around, pickpocket any named NPC and then I'll see if I can lure some monsters there.\n\n![image-20200324171545362](image-20200324171545362.png)![image-20200324171617349](image-20200324171617349.png)\n\nHmm, this is weird. I spotted a group of Myconids and Umber Hulk, so I activated the Greenstone Amulet. Still, they managed to Feeblemind me while the Amulet is supposed to explicitly prevent that.\n\n![image-20200324171811716](image-20200324171811716.png)\n\nI met Ferrusk, the bad Druid. I managed to steal this from him before he moved away.\n\n![image-20200324171904059](image-20200324171904059.png)\n\nSpeaking to him again triggered a conversation where I could tell him I killed the Druids above \"as promised\" and he gave me some (crappy) potions \"as promised\" as well.\n\n![image-20200324172021557](image-20200324172021557.png)\n\nWell, I didn't like him and I knew he would attack if I try to loot his stash, so I simply backstabbed him. He survived and got enough time to invoke a few friends of him. No worries, this will yield more XP. I'll see if I can lure the monsters into the Crusader camp.\n\n![image-20200324172209880](image-20200324172209880.png)\n\nI got entangled by a Web spell and then a Shambling Mound. I equipped the Ring of Free Action and am now trying to run to the camp. But this also disabled the boots of Speed.\n\n![image-20200324172309139](image-20200324172309139.png)\n\nGreat, they're all attacking the thing. One way or another, this will make things easier for me.\n\n![image-20200324173225921](image-20200324173225921.png)\n\nTreants, Dryads, Shambling Mounds and Spider die easily under my arrows of Detonation. 3-4 arrows for a group like this seems a fair trade. I'm also constantly wearing my ring of free action here. Too many Web traps and Entangling Mounds.\n\n![image-20200324173609560](image-20200324173609560.png)\n\nI've been discussing with (and healing) some crusaders while being simultaneously attacking animated shrubs with fire arrows. Not sure how this will end. Well, it ends with the crusaders fleeing and me taking care of the gardening.\n\n![image-20200324204230624](image-20200324204230624.png)\n\nI then went into Kanaglym. There's a bunch of undead there. How will I kill them without a fireball. Fireball will sure be handy here.\n\nI got them with arrrow of detonation. Their archers were stupid enough to stop early in their tracks, blocking the path for the Bladed Skeleton which in turn blocked everyone. I just had to shoot the furthest enemy and they all died one after the other.\n\n![image-20200324224342571](image-20200324224342571.png)\n\nFound a scroll of Minor Spell Turning. It only reflect 4 level of spells but as long as there is at least one level left it will reflect it. That should be helpful in reflecting high level spells.\n\n![2020-03-24_22h48m32](2020-03-24_22h48m32.gif)\n\nThere is a bunch of dark magicians in this crypt. They are trying to break my stealth but I'm wearing Whispers of Silence, the Cloak of non-detection and it seems that even if the spell effect registers on my sprite, it does not break my stealth.\n\n![image-20200324225028344](image-20200324225028344.png)\n\nI tried to dominate one of the Dark Magicians, but he cast a bunch a contingencies when he saw me, rendering him invisible so my spell was cancelled.\n\n![image-20200324225212615](image-20200324225212615.png)\n\nI'm taking my anti-mage quiver. Arrows of Dispel to remove protections, of Antimagic to prevent them from casting and of Detonation to explode them.\n\nWell, this didn't turn out so good as the Ghost Dragon showed up. I started running, protecting myself from magic using a potion, and firing arrows of detonation. Somehow one of them managed to see me while invisible.\n\n![image-20200324225853610](image-20200324225853610.png)\n\n![image-20200324225940453](image-20200324225940453.png)\n\nI managed to run fast enough to hide in shadows and went back killing mages one by one.\n\n![image-20200324230445986](image-20200324230445986.png)\n\nOne of them was holding a jar that contained the essence of the dragon. By killing him, I released the dragon that helped me kill all the other\n\n![image-20200324231047508](image-20200324231047508.png)\n\nI also used my spectacles to liberate a lich.\n\n![image-20200324231253780](image-20200324231253780.png)\n\nWell, I actually managed to backstab it before he started talking.\n\n![image-20200324231800663](image-20200324231800663.png)\n\nI got him to near dead and then he cast all his protections so my weapons are now ineffective. And now he's time stopping me.\n\n![image-20200324232056515](image-20200324232056515.png)\n\nHmm, I had this thing from another lich I killed. Let's see if it will work on him as well.\n\n![image-20200324232128047](image-20200324232128047.png)\n\nOh yes, it actually worked. Well, let's try to kill him now. The time it took me to find this idea, he regenerated some HP already.\n\n![image-20200324232238670](image-20200324232238670.png)\n\nHaha, killed him with an arrow of Dispelling. Well, this Lich-killer thing is useful. I'll make sure to keep the last charge for later.\n\n![image-20200324232429550](image-20200324232429550.png)\n\nOn my way out, a ghost is blocking my path. I put a Skull Trap for him.\n\n![image-20200324232710824](image-20200324232710824.png)\n\nHoly cow. This thing is draining my levels very very quickly. I had to cast Restoration on myself and finished it with arrows of detonation (this things automatically hit). Anyway, I got a nice new Robe, allowing me a minor sequencer once per day: I'll put my combat protection in it (Blur, Mirror Image and Globe of Invulnerability).\n\n![image-20200324234613632](image-20200324234613632.png)\n\nArgh, I managed to get my way almost to the castle and I failed a pickpocket attempt on a guard right in front of the doors. Well, I guess I'll just try to finish them.\n\n![image-20200324234726128](image-20200324234726128.png)\n\nA patrol walked by, and those idiots of a crusade started attacking them. One of their owns!\n\n![image-20200325001815200](image-20200325001815200.png)\n\nI also encountered a band of drows. I attacked them and they retaliated. They're fast, cast blindness and backstab. Pretty tough opponents. I draw them to the crusade camp and the first thing they did is cast a fireball into it. Ok, now I have some pissed off friends.\n\n![image-20200325002128576](image-20200325002128576.png)\n\nI finished them off with some arrows, but the initial group is still there. And they see through invisibility.\n\n![image-20200325002437617](image-20200325002437617.png)\n\nHaha, I'm having fun kiting them to the camp. The sheer number of crusaders will kill them, but they do take a fair number of opponents with them.\n\n![image-20200325150742378](image-20200325150742378.png)\n\nFinally got into the warrens, the part right below the castle. I didn't put any bwoosh, I guess I'll need to later to validate quests, but for now I'll just keep validating quests and pickpocketing people.\n\n![image-20200325151042552](image-20200325151042552.png)\n\nI overheard what can only be assumed as a meeting between managers.\n\n![image-20200325151808848](image-20200325151808848.png)\n\nNothing really interesting on the ground floor. I got myself hauled up to the first floor and met those gentleman. I remembered from my first play through that it was a tough fight, so let's see how it goes.\n\n![image-20200325152152535](image-20200325152152535.png)\n\nWell, it wasn't that hard. I took a potion of invisibility, opened with a backstabbed, shot arrow of detonation and of biting and finished them.\n\n![image-20200325152719285](image-20200325152719285.png)\n\nI poisoned food and water, a bunch of other crusaders arrived, but never engaged with me.\n\n![image-20200325155307893](image-20200325155307893.png)\n\nI charmed one of their mages, cast some web and started shooting them from afar. Hephernaan is in the group, he'll be a tough one. Actually no. Another group came by, as they were all clustered I shot arrows of detonation and got them all. I also realized that as Web is a level 2 spell, I'm immune to it when using a globe of invulnerability. This will be much more helpful than a ring of free action that also dispels haste.\n\nArrows of detonation are really a life saver, I'll need to stock up on them. I'm not sure arrows of Antimagic are that useful, they should prevent people from casting, but arrows of biting do the same and are more versatile. I'll invest in more arrows of biting.\n\nI don't know how many of them there are but I spotted them invoking reinforcement by group of 6 so maybe I need to focus on the named one to stop the flow.\n\n![image-20200325161142399](image-20200325161142399.png)\n\nThere are actually a bunch of named ones left. I found a wand of paralyzation and a potion of explosions. Gonna use them.\n\n![image-20200325161526125](image-20200325161526125.png)\n\nThat cleared it. Tough fight. Had to use a potion of magic protection (which is not that easily found)\n\n![image-20200325161801631](image-20200325161801631.png)\n\nBut, pretty good loot. Spell Immunity is very very powerful, allowing me to stay invisible or to prevent dispel.\n\nNow I need to go all the way back to the outside world. This means going through caves full of angry crusaders. I'll have to play that properly. Might be time to try my new spells.\n\n![image-20200326150455229](image-20200326150455229.png)\n\nActually, I managed to bluff my way through. But now that I am all buffed, I'll still wreak some havoc here. Starting with charming an enemy mage.\n\n![image-20200326151118214](image-20200326151118214.png)\n\nAfter that, I asked help from my water element friends. Mostly enough of a distraction so it will use their spells while I hack them away.\n\n![image-20200326152950379](image-20200326152950379.png)\n\nBack on the surface, I found two drows amidst my new Ogre group.\n\n## Back to camp\n\n![image-20200327143232982](image-20200327143232982.png)\n\nBack to camp I did some shopping. I wanted to stock up on detonation arrows but Waizahb wasn't selling any. I was sure he was the guy I bought them from initially. Anyway, I sold most of my arrows of Antimagic and took some of Biting instead. They're expensive, but the poison damage is very useful: it slows targets down and interrupt their casting.\n\n![image-20200327144243449](image-20200327144243449.png)\n\nBack at Dead Man Pass, there is some kind of parley with Caelar. I wanted to plant some Skull Traps there to see if I could kill them, but I don't have a saved game recent enough. This taught me to do real saves once in a while, before important events.\n\n![image-20200327144434537](image-20200327144434537.png)\n\nBack at the camp, all my friends are gathered around and mercenaries and soldiers are going north. If I remember correctly, people will come from various sides and I'll have to kill them before they do too much damage.\n\n![image-20200327144639917](image-20200327144639917.png)\n\nGot help from the dwarves I helped with the lich.\n\n![image-20200327145754993](image-20200327145754993.png)\n\nFirst wave are some trolls. I got help from archers, fired myself two arrows of detonation and charged into the fray. And died... Shit, I wasn't buffed.\n\n![image-20200327150617086](image-20200327150617086.png)\n\nThis time I buffed, and they died quickly.\n\n![image-20200327150715799](image-20200327150715799.png)\n\nGot a weird leather armor as loot.\n\n![image-20200327151123104](image-20200327151123104.png)\n\nSecond group are wizards, but thenkfully I had cast some preemptive webbing in their vicinity. Asked the rogues to come with me.\n\n![image-20200327152554821](image-20200327152554821.png)\n\nThe fight was hard, as my webbing ended too soon, and the rogues died when the mages manage to cast their spells. I used all the wands and potions falling from their dead bodies, but soon enough, their assault prevailed and the whole camp was assaulted. I chain casted Domination on the named enemies, hoping to turn the tide in my favor.\n\nAh actually no, charming didn't work and I ended up firing arrows of detonation on the barrels of Bwoosh, exploding the whole camp. Well, I guess I'll have to retry, and this time better handle my defenses.\n\n![image-20200327213328805](image-20200327213328805.png)\n\nThis time I managed to kill all the mages with fire. I *think* I killed a few of my own rogues with it. I also stealthed at some point and this triggered the enemy losing sight of me and prompted a dialogue with my own camp saying that I had retreated too far. Which I didn't. This stopped the three breach events and got all the crusaders coming to the camp at the same time.\n\nShit, this failed also. The barrels exploded. Ok, I'll try again, and this time, no matter what, I'm not retreating.\n\n![image-20200327214517787](image-20200327214517787.png)\n\nThis time, I asked my own mages for help.\n\n![image-20200327214716988](image-20200327214716988.png)\n\nThis was way easier that way. I cast web later, so it would last longer. I also used the wand of paralyzation on the webbed mages, and that allowed me to disable more of them. Unfortunately, they dispelled my protected, so I'm gonna have to ask Dosia to rejuvenate me before the next wave.\n\n![image-20200327215102947](image-20200327215102947.png)\n\nWell actually no I don't have time to rest. Oh it seems I do. Where is Dosia? Can't find her and now I don't have time to rest.\n\n![image-20200327215141347](image-20200327215141347.png)\n\nI did not had time to prepare for this wave. This is going to be tough. I'll try a myconid diversion.\n\n![image-20200327215311306](image-20200327215311306.png)\n\nWell, I don't see any effect with the myconid. Just enough to have the enemies attack them, giving me right enough time to start incinerating them.\n\n![image-20200327215430354](image-20200327215430354.png)\n\nThey hide behind they blades and sanctuaries. Can't target them with arrows. But wands work.\n\n![image-20200327215458737](image-20200327215458737.png)\n\nManaged to paralyze them. Still can't target them, so no dispel is possible. Gives me time to buff, though. I used the Suncatcher Shield to cast a Sunfire spell next to them. The resisted most of the damage and stood there. Then, their spells ended and they died. I have no idea what happened there.\n\n![image-20200327220349466](image-20200327220349466.png)\n\nAnd finally, during a break, I could get all the way to the center, where the group of named NPCs are.\n\n![image-20200327220450947](image-20200327220450947.png)\n\nOpened with some paralyzation that got almost all of them. Took advantage of that to kill their mage, and then cast explosions to the others.\n\n## Chapter 11\n\n![image-20200327221142938](image-20200327221142938.png)\n\nThis is the last part. Now on to attacking the castle.\n\n![image-20200327221246738](image-20200327221246738.png)\n\nAnother cutscene. Another area that I could have trapped.\n\n![image-20200327221314808](image-20200327221314808.png)\n\nThis is my army. Ogres that I saved. \n\n![image-20200327221457968](image-20200327221457968.png)\n\nAnd the same, with labels.\n\n![image-20200327222234501](image-20200327222234501.png)\n\nI got attacked by the winged friend of Caelar, the combat was a blur and I think it died quickly with no interesting loot.\n\n![image-20200327222531135](image-20200327222531135.png)\n\nGot a nice Mace from Mizhena for saving her father. Immunity to fatigue, that would work well with Restoration or Haste. I'll have to check this out. Tested, and it works. If I have this mace equipped, I can cast a spell of Restoration without getting the bad effect of fatigue. This is a nice trinket I'll keep.\n\n![image-20200328220014532](image-20200328220014532.png)\n\nNow, inside the Castle I put on some traps, to see if it would kill someone during a cutscene later.\n\n![image-20200328220535774](image-20200328220535774.png)\n\nNow confronting Caelar, right before Hephernaan betrays her and open a portal to Hell.\n\n## Avernus\n\n![image-20200328220722340](image-20200328220722340.png)\n\nNow descending into Avernus.\n\n![image-20200328221013877](image-20200328221013877.png)\n\nFirst battle into hell. Seems like all my buffs disappeared when I went into the portal. I had to quickly rebuff with the few spells I had left. Drank a potion of Fire Resistance. Gonna try some arrows of biting on those fiends, see if it has any effect. They fucking teleport right to me. Pretty hard to hide in shadows. I don't want them to gang up on me, I need my mobility.\n\nOk, that was hard. Lemure take damage from arrows, but not the poison dot. They all seem to take damage from the arrow of explosion, weirdly enough. Hellcats keep getting invisible, which is a pity. I think I need a lot of AoE, and passive damage to the one attacking me.\n\nI already had to drink 5 times into the goblet in that first fight. I'm now getting much more prepared for the next fight.\n\n![image-20200328222838965](image-20200328222838965.png)\n\nI gained a level right before the last fight.\n\n![image-20200328222904773](image-20200328222904773.png)\n\nWhich allow me to always detect illusion. Not sure I'll need it in the final fight, though.\n\n![image-20200328223125174](image-20200328223125174.png)\n\nAnd now is the final fight. In my memories, it was a very difficult fight. I know this time I want to loot Caelar before ending it, but we'll see how it goes... Her stuff is glued to her. We'll see if I can loot her dead body.\n\n![image-20200328223847221](image-20200328223847221.png)\n\nSo I tried spamming him with Magic missiles. He is resistant to magic. I spammed Lower resistance then tried Skull Trap. Did some damage, but he turns invisible, making it hard to target. Managed to make him lose some health, but he's coming back.\n\nAnd I actually died from my own Skull Traps. I'll need to protect myself from them and just act as a bomb close to him.\n\nAh shit, second try I managed to kill it but died at the same time.\n\n![image-20200328224736892](image-20200328224736892.png)\n\nThis is me, chain casting Skull Traps.\n\n![image-20200328224842979](image-20200328224842979.png)\n\nAnd I finally killed it with some Magic Missiles.\n\n![image-20200328230020945](image-20200328230020945.png)\n\nLooks like my trap didn't really work. Well actually it killed Skie. Before the cutscene started. Hmm. \n\n![image-20200328230247124](image-20200328230247124.png)\n\nOh no, I guess I have broken everything. Now I can't \"kill\" her and get accused. I can even sleep in this cutscene but get out.\n\nI'm reloading my save several times, hoping for her to succeed on her saving throws... I reloaded times and times again and she kept dying. Damn, I don't know what to do. I guess I'll have to re-do the whole Hell thing. Shoot.\n\n![image-20200328234911904](image-20200328234911904.png)\n\nI guess I'm at it again. I'll just turn invisible and run through it all. I don't remember any interesting loot apart from the one from the riddle.\n\n![image-20200328235222993](image-20200328235222993.png)\n\nHmm what? This time the demon invoked friends of his? He didn't do that last time.\n\n![image-20200328235256106](image-20200328235256106.png)\n\nAh ok, I don't know what happened but he considered that I beat them even if I didn't do anything. Fine by me.\n\n![image-20200329000413798](image-20200329000413798.png)\n\nAnd here we are again. This second try was easier, now that I got the hang of it.\n\n![image-20200329000811054](image-20200329000811054.png)\n\nThis time I didn't kill her before I could kill her. Wait, what?\n\n## Chapter 13\n\n![image-20200329000916472](image-20200329000916472.png)\n\nThis is some kind of Epilogue if I recall correctly. I put all my gear into a chest in the castle so I can get it later, so right now it's just me and my spells.\n\n![image-20200329001739780](image-20200329001739780.png)\n\nI crawled my way out through the sewers\n\n![image-20200329002605221](image-20200329002605221.png)\n\nDefended myself against an attack in the woods.\n\n![image-20200329002638997](image-20200329002638997.png)\n\nBut there's nothing I can do, it's the final cutscene. The Shadow Thieves are taking me to Irenicus.\n\n![image-20200329002730908](image-20200329002730908.png)\n\nWeird stuff appeared in my journal. The BG2 intro started playing.\n\n![image-20200329002750811](image-20200329002750811.png)\n\nAnd then I had this screen. Managed to pause the game.\n\n![image-20200329002807981](image-20200329002807981.png)\n\nBut still can't access my inventory.\n\n![image-20200329002828316](image-20200329002828316.png)\n\nGot this in my log, but there is nothing I can do.\n\n![image-20200329002857925](image-20200329002857925.png)\n\nApparently, something glitched somewhere. Irenicus is not supposed to be here at that time.\n\n![image-20200329002953443](image-20200329002953443.png)\n\nAnd the bastard is still casting spells at me\n\n![image-20200329003041829](image-20200329003041829.png)\n\nSomehow Imoen was there and tried to pickpocket Irenicus, but failed.\n\n![image-20200329003156645](image-20200329003156645.png)\n\nI can play during this cutscene\n\n![image-20200329003218797](image-20200329003218797.png)\n\nI'm leveling up Imoen to see if I can pickpocket him. Nope, nothing to pickpocket.\n\n![image-20200522223808016](image-20200522223808016.png)\n\nOk, so this seems to be extra buggy. I'm still stuck in the cage, with Imoen outside and Irenicus just standing there. I think I'll have to reload an old save to try it again.\n\n![image-20200522224326504](image-20200522224326504.png)\n\nSo I'm reloading from the epilogue.\n\n![image-20200522225157491](image-20200522225157491.png)\n\nI redid the last part, with the attack from the Shadow Thieves, which is still as buggy as before. I seem to have a Bag of Holding in my own backpack but can't access it.\n\nWell this is even buggier than I expected. I'm visually stuck on the map from the abduction, but I'm hearing some sound effects of the Chateau Irenicus attack. Hearing Shadow Thieves scream.\n\n![image-20200522225422013](image-20200522225422013.png)\n\nAh finally I'm there. We'll see if it worked this time...\n\n![image-20200522225608139](image-20200522225608139.png)\n\nI could get out this time, but I can't zoom in/out.\n\n![image-20200522225629577](image-20200522225629577.png)\n\nAnd the map is absolutely buggy. I will try a save and reload.\n\n![image-20200522225716476](image-20200522225716476.png)\n\nPerfect. Zoom and map worked ok after a reload. 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"04-bp2/image-20200521222336986.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521222615271.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521222824703.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521223201721.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521223322125.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521223603523.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521223807937.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521224216213.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521224426332.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521224542638.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521224742716.png", "04-bp2/image-20200521225012298.png" ], "name": "The Black Pits: Gladiators of Thay", "text": "## Intro\n\nI just finished Siege of Dragonspear. I thought that before delving into BG2 and ToB I would take a break through The Black Pits: Gladiators of Thay.\n\nI never played it before, but my recent playthrough of the first installment of The Black Pits was quite enjoyable. It's a very scripted way of discovering new classes, spells and foes. Also, by playing solo, it made me finish Dragonspear (and thus, start BG2) with the XP I should have had at the end of BG2. So playing the Black Pits should give me a nice preview of the kind of level I will get will playing through BG2.\n\n![image-20200329154924901](image-20200329154924901.png)\n\nI'll start with a clone of Maleek, the Fighter/Mage/Thief I'm playing in my main playthrough. If it works, it will give me a nice way of testing/learning new tactics. I got pretty lucky with a 85 roll.\n\n![image-20200329155122034](image-20200329155122034.png)\n\nI don't really know what weapons will be available. I take shortbow because it's usually faster than a long bow, and the munitions are important, not the bow itself. I'm going with Two-Weapon Style because it allow me to wear one more item that can have passive buffs, and two pips is enough to reduce the THAC0 penalty in the first hand to zero. Three pips would set it to -2 to the offhand instead of -4 but I don't really care about hitting with the offhand.\n\nNow for the last two pips... I don't know what weapons will be available. Longsword is usually a good pick. I'm keen on daggers usually, or maybe Flail, if the Flail of Ages is available. Quick google check and yes, it's available. I'm gonna try that then.\n\n![image-20200329155553253](image-20200329155553253.png)\n\nI set my thieving skills to be able to hide, even if I'm unsure it could work. Depend if the arena is large enough. I put the rest in Set Traps, I want to try traps for this run. I didn't put anything in pickpocket or lock picking as I don't expect it to be possible. And if it is, I'll use potions.\n\n![image-20200329160206446](image-20200329160206446.png)\n\nAnd, here we go...\n\n![image-20200329160419524](image-20200329160419524.png)\n\nAnd it all started with an ambush.\n\n## Into the pits\n\n![image-20200329160625586](image-20200329160625586.png)\n\nAnd here is our new playground. I'm level 8/9/10 currently. Let's explore this place. First thing I see is that I can't cast spells here.\n\n![image-20200329161507704](image-20200329161507704.png)\n\nOh, my jailor is helped by a Planetaar. That makes things harder. This will be some high level stuff here.\n\n![image-20200329161606359](image-20200329161606359.png)\n\nSo, I start with 15000 gp, and a few merchants. Let's have a look.\n\n![image-20200329161751970](image-20200329161751970.png)\n\n![image-20200329161802708](image-20200329161802708.png)\n\nSome nice gear to boost the elemental resistance.\n\n![image-20200329161905964](image-20200329161905964.png)\n\n![image-20200329161931831](image-20200329161931831.png)\n\nSome nice Flail/Morningstar for me. I'll have to check if the Wyvern's Tail does a dot damage or one-time. But the \"fall asleep\" one could be useful.\n\n![image-20200329162026394](image-20200329162026394.png)\n\n![image-20200329162052940](image-20200329162052940.png)\n\nSome nice daggers. Too bad I'm not proficient in it this time.\n\n![image-20200329162223576](image-20200329162223576.png)\n\nIt's only a +1, but 3 shots/round is good.\n\n![image-20200329162305590](image-20200329162305590.png)\n\nThey're selling all the arrows I need. But they only have one stack of Dispelling and Detonation. Not sure the duplicate stack trick would work. I would need them to have at least two. I'll have to see if I can get some more before buying them.\n\n![image-20200329162617024](image-20200329162617024.png)\n\n![image-20200329162628581](image-20200329162628581.png)\n\n![image-20200329162648221](image-20200329162648221.png)\n\n![image-20200329162714778](image-20200329162714778.png)\n\n![image-20200329162721979](image-20200329162721979.png)\n\n![image-20200329162729885](image-20200329162729885.png)\n\n![image-20200329162740526](image-20200329162740526.png)\n\n![image-20200329162752889](image-20200329162752889.png)\n\n![image-20200329162804777](image-20200329162804777.png)\n\n![image-20200329162812813](image-20200329162812813.png)\n\n![image-20200329162821288](image-20200329162821288.png)\n\n![image-20200329162837900](image-20200329162837900.png)\n\n![image-20200329162845956](image-20200329162845956.png)\n\n![image-20200329162858986](image-20200329162858986.png)\n\n![image-20200329162914358](image-20200329162914358.png)\n\nSome very interesting spells here. I'm sure there are great things to do with a double (Mislead, Project Image or Simulacrum) and some of the very high level scrolls.\n\n![image-20200329162957587](image-20200329162957587.png)\n\nOh, I know them. They were under Dragonspear castle.\n\n![image-20200329163033381](image-20200329163033381.png)\n\nAt least this one is in infinite supply.\n\n![image-20200329163055746](image-20200329163055746.png)\n\nI'll have to find another way to cast speed than drinking this.\n\n![image-20200329163119081](image-20200329163119081.png)\n\nOh great. Fire resistance is infinite as well. And 5 of the other one should allow me to get through tough fights.\n\n![image-20200329163151691](image-20200329163151691.png)\n\n![image-20200329163200721](image-20200329163200721.png)\n\nInfinite Absorption, great against Golems. Infinite Master Thievery, I'll go for some pickpocket/lockpicking later. 15 Invis, that' good enough as well as 10 Clarity, won't need that much.\n\n![image-20200329163246469](image-20200329163246469.png)\n\nOh and infinite fire damage? Ok, I see where this is going.\n\n![image-20200329163403425](image-20200329163403425.png)\n\nI'll have to see if it's the buggy one with lots of charges or not.\n\n![image-20200329165547209](image-20200329165547209.png)\n\nNo boots of speed, though.\n\n![image-20200329165643109](image-20200329165643109.png)\n\nCould be useful instead of drinking potions.\n\n![image-20200329165656689](image-20200329165656689.png)\n\nThis is good. The damage usually bypass magic resistance.\n\n![image-20200329165716764](image-20200329165716764.png)\n\nSome stuff that I could revisit once I have UAI.\n\n![image-20200329165753188](image-20200329165753188.png)\n\n![image-20200329165802152](image-20200329165802152.png)\n\nAnd one of each. This will get very expensive, but I think it's worth it.\n\n![image-20200329170250191](image-20200329170250191.png)\n\nOh wait, looks like I can't use my quick-slot item here.\n\n![image-20200329170931335](image-20200329170931335.png)\n\nOh, I can in the dorms, so that's where I buff. I'll check what's inside later, for now I'm gonna try to open has many locks as I can.\n\n![image-20200329171109617](image-20200329171109617.png)\n\nOh shit, when I came here I got dispelled. The zones outside of the form seem to not allow casting and dispel everything. This is gonna be tricky.\n\nSo I can buff and do stuff in the dorms but as soon as I get out, I got debuffed. This will make exploration very hard. \n\n## First Fight\n\n![image-20200401144638164](image-20200401144638164.png)\n\nAnd I'm onto my first fight. I couldn't find a way to buff before the fight, so I'm going there pretty naked. Also, the whole area is discovered, there is no fog of war as far as I can see, so no way to hide in shadows. Being a thief is then not that useful, if not for the backstabs but I'll need potions or spells to pull that trick.\n\nAnyway, I used most of my gold buying a potion of explosion and a wand of lightning, I should be able to kill those orcs.\n\n![image-20200401144857432](image-20200401144857432.png)\n\nKilled most of them with the explosion but now they are coming my way and I don't have any boots of speed, so the kiting is slow.\n\n![image-20200401144935983](image-20200401144935983.png)\n\nI'm casting Mirror Image to buy me some time, but next fight, I'll surely memorize haste, or buy a potion of haste.\n\n![image-20200401145216845](image-20200401145216845.png)\n\nGot some gold and XP.\n\nI read that in order to gain loot from winning battles, I have to ask for it at the start of the battle. The odds are changed based on how I talk to the crowd. As I don't want to replay battle more often than necessary, I'm checking [in the wiki](https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/The_Black_Pits_II:_Gladiators_of_Thay#Reward_system) to see what I would earn here. Nothing very interesting for me, so I'm going to the next battle.\n\nI bought some scrolls to learn more spells, a Potion of Genius, and the Tuigan Bow. I moved back to my bedroom to drink the potion, and learn the spells.\n\nEven the Genius effect of the potion is disabled when I leave the dorm. There really seem to have no way to pre-buff for a fight. What I'll do is cast a small sequencer with Shield and Mirror Image. At least I can cast that at the start of the fight.\n\n## Second Fight: Minotaur\n\n![image-20200401151543876](image-20200401151543876.png)\n\nI just realized I can have a sneak peek at the next encounter by looking at what's in this area. I wish I could pre-debuff them somehow.\n\n![image-20200401151842415](image-20200401151842415.png)\n\nMy adversaries tried to kill Dennaton. Didn't work.\n\nBut then, I died against the other party. And now I have to redo it. Custcene and all. This is really long, and I'm not even well prepared, so I might die as well. I started with casting my spell sequencer on myself, then haste, but haste got interrupted by their arrows. Maybe I should have cast Protection from Normal weapon, I don't know what they're using.\n\nThis time I'll cast Fireballs first, then Haste. Fireball worked, kinda, but I would need more. I'll need a wand, not potions. I couldn't caste Haste as it got interrupted. Managed to cast my sequencer, but their thief rapidly dispelled the mirror image. And as I don't have any armor, they are killing me quickly. I don't have many things I could do, so I might have to farm the first battle a few times to get more gold.\n\n![image-20200401214707929](image-20200401214707929.png)\n\nSo I re-did the first battle. Fireball, Mirror Image + Haste, and killing them with arrows.\n\n![image-20200401214758390](image-20200401214758390.png)\n\nOh wait. I'm only getting 500 gold this time. Shit. This is going to be very hard indeed. This might actually not even be worth it if I have to buy a potion of fireball each time.\n\n![image-20200401215941922](image-20200401215941922.png)\n\nWait what, I'm just now realizing my stats are not at all what I rolled initially and put as a screen above. What happened? Maybe I rerolled by mistake and accepted the wrong stats? Shit. No wonder I'm not learning any spells, my Int is shitty, my Dex is bad and my Constitution is abysmal.\n\nI think I'll have to restart...\n\n## Reroll as a Blade\n\n![image-20200401220608560](image-20200401220608560.png)\n\nThis time I'm rerolling a Blade. I thought that if I'm gonna play as a Fighter/Thief/Mage I might as well try the Blade so I have Offensive and Defense Spins, as well as the ability to use Blade stuff.\n\n![image-20200401221924184](image-20200401221924184.png)\n\nOk, this time I double checked and I correctly got through the creation process with the right stats. Now I better know how things are working here and I'll have to be very conservative in my money spending.\n\nI will play this run in a YOLO manner, meaning I'll need to get through the current fight in any way possible. If it means buying the one scroll that I need, I'll do it, even if it means not having access to this scroll later in the adventure.\n\nFrom what I gathered from my small playthrough, the first battles will be the hardest because I won't have much stuff, and when you're playing solo, stuff is really important.\n\n## Orcs\n\n![image-20200423213907963](image-20200423213907963.png)\n\nI bought the wand of Lightning Bolts, a Potion of Explosion, and two Wakisashis. I cast haste at the start of the fight, then explosion on the group. Finished the last two with MMM. Haste was the MVP, allowing me to kite the enemies.\n\n## Rebel Group\n\nThis time I bought the Wand of Paralyzation, and one other potion of Explosion. I expect to spam Paralyze on them and put them out of the fight that way. I hope it will work because the custscene at the start of the fight is extremely long.\n\nOk that didn't work at all. They turned invisible. I tried to cast Web, but their archers hit me with poison arrows, preventing me from casting. I tried to paralyze them, managed to paralyze two, but the rest killed me.\n\nI'll try to find an item with Poison Protection and try again. There is no such item, as far as I can tell. No such potion and no such scroll. I'll try a protection from normal missile and see if it works any better. I put Invisibility and Mirror Image in a Spell Sequencer to try at the first of the fight. I also bought a Scroll of Web to try to block them. The issue is that I need to cast too many spells (defense and offense) in a short window of time, so I have to learn the best order: Invisibility, Haste, Protection from Missiles, Web... Either all offense or all defense...\n\n![image-20200423220606731](image-20200423220606731.png)\n\nI started with Mirror Image + Invisibility in a sequencer. Allowed me to move around, and wait for the thieves to go back to being visible. I then chained cast Web through the scroll, and managed to do it unscathed because my mirror images where getting all the damage. Then, Haste on myself because you never know, and then potions of Explosions into their faces. This didn't kill them, then two minotaurs managed to get through the web and I had to run. They drank potions, so I focused on the archers still held in the web, and I managed to kill one with MMM. But I then ran out of MMM, so I started to chain cast Paralyze to kill them in melee once the web is finishing. Are the minotaurs immune to stun or what ? I've been sending them Paralyze rays over and over again, they changed color (which usually means they're affected), but kept coming at me. In the end I died to their blows.\n\nNext time I might buy a bow, to not rely only on MMM and I need to find a way to get those Minotaurs out of my way. Other humans seems to stay paralyzed, but the minotaurs were not. Or maybe I use more potions of explosions? Anyway, this was the best run on this fight I ever did, I'm sure I'll figure a way.\n\nSo, I tried another time and got killed pretty quickly. What I learned is that when I chain cast Web as a scroll, it fires it, not on the targets, but at the point the target was at when I clicked it. So once the first spell is cast, and the target moved, the second scroll will still be cast where I initially clicked. This resulted in my demise as they closed on melee on me and I was still casting spells way far from them.\n\nFor my next try I wanted to test something. I bought a scroll of Mordenkainen Sword, hoping to flood them with unkillable swords. This didn't work as planned, as casting the scrolls took too much time and I only had time to cast two sword before having to run. Somehow I was poisoned but it seemed like Mirror Image did absorb the poison damage for me. I then tried to kill them with MMM, but the swords dispelled before I could kill them. What I learned is that I need to find a way to nuke them all at once when they're immobilized. I might try something with Web to stop them, turning myself into a spider to move freely and nuke them with Fire potions.\n\nThis time I did a few spell tests in the bunk area. Apparently, I won't break Invisibility as long as I cast spells or potions that don't require a target. So I should be able to cast MMM, or drink a potion of Defense, but Haste or a Potion of Explosion will break invi. I also wanted to be clever and pre-cast a Polymorph Self spell on myself to turn into a spider, but even if the spell wasn't dispelled by the no-magic zone of the basement, I no longer had it once in the fight itself. I shouldn't have cast it beforehand, and should have waited to be invisible in the arena. Well, I stock on various potions, so we'll see how it goes this time.\n\n![image-20200424143325823](image-20200424143325823.png)\n\nSo I start with my sequencer of Invisibility + Mirror Image. Now is time to buff. MMM, Stoneskin and Globe of Invulnerability. Then, should I start with haste, or try to put them in webs? What I did is try the Harp of Discord that is supposedly casting Confusion in a radius around me. I wanted to see if it would break invisibility. I used it with the Wand of Ligtning and it did break Invis. I wonder if it's because of the targeting trick of the wand, or if it's inherent to the Harp. I'll have to test again.\n\n![image-20200424143706826](image-20200424143706826.png)\n\nI have two minotaurs attacking me, but I also managed to confuse a thief and an archer. But minotaurs hit very very hard, I'm unsure how I'll defeat them. I casted Haste, thanks to my Images blocking attacks, then attempted to chain cast web. I managed to block most of them. Because I'm in a globe, I'm not affected by web, allowing me to stay inside and have all the others blocked. I MMM an archers, and finished it with an Offensive Spin. I also killed a Minotaur with the rest of the Offensive Spin. I went out of the web while Nearly Dead, and I finished him. But now the web is over and I still have one minotaur and at least two other guys. And I'm no longer hasted. \n\n![image-20200424144158408](image-20200424144158408.png)\n\nI sent Potions of Explosion into the fray. Killed one, almost killed the other two and myself. I'm taking my potion of Invisibility to get to a better position. I'm pretty low on resources, this is getting harder. Possible, but harder. They are apparently out of potions, so I can take some time to buff: Mirror Image.\n\nI'll attempt to cast web into the minotaur and the other guy, leaving me enough time to finish the archer, and then I'll blast the group with fire. Well, no exactly. The Minotaur didn't get caught in the web, so I had to finish him with MMM and Magic Missiles.\n\n![image-20200424144552843](image-20200424144552843.png)\n\nNow it's just me and one last guy. MMM should be enough. Well, it didn't. So just to be sure, I Paralyzed him and will finish him in melee. I'm out of MMM and Magic Missiles and forgot to buy a bow, so I really have to wait for the web to finish, and then finish him in melee. In the meantime, I did some experiment, and I managed to use the Harp of Discord on him, even from far away, by using it through the Wand of Lightning. That's interesting. This allows me to use an item that was proximity only, at range. But it will still break Invisibility. In the end, I didn't even waited for the Web to finish and went with Offensive Spin to kill him. Won 12k gp.\n\nWhat I learned here is that Minor Globe of Invulenerability (MGI) and Web is a great combo. Using the Harp of Discord at range is also a great way to control a crowd, maybe better than Paralyze because they might attack each other. Would be lovely to cast on spell casters.\n\n## Lizardmen\n\n![image-20200424150412156](image-20200424150412156.png)\n\nNew arena. This time I learned Sunfire and Mislead. I'm going to try the same tactic as before: Sequencer to go invisible at the start of the game, then buff, then nuke and/or web. I want to try if I can cast sunfire while staying invisible. I also want to test the Mislead.\n\nI tried Mislead, it created a double of myself, but that cannot cast spells, nor use items. This isn't very useful, unless I somehow manage to cast Invisibility on it, so maybe that means **I** will be invisible forever. Well, I tried to cast Invis on it, but it died too quickly... Well, too bad. And it also seemed to have broken MY invisibility (maybe because I started casting when he died.) Well... now I'm out of invisibility spells, so I guess I'll just have to try to nuke with Sunfire.\n\n![image-20200424150905688](image-20200424150905688.png)\n\nWhoo. Casting Sunfire takes a long time. The Lizards managed to kill all my Mirror Images, but it did kill them. Also, I casted Sunfire centered on myself, I wonder what happens if I cast it on another target.\n\nHmm, the fight did not stop. I guess their shaman/leader is still around, invisible.\n\n![image-20200424151312685](image-20200424151312685.png)\n\nHe finally reappeared and cast a swarm on bug on me. Because I'm hasted, I managed to flee from it and cast Confusion on him. I'm firing MMM at him while dodging the swarm. And he's dead, without the swarm hitting me. Yeah \\o/, 13k more gold.\n\nWhat I learned this time is that Mislead is hard to use in a fight like this. I can't use it to cast consumables, I'll need Project Image for that. I couldn't use it to stay invisible because it died too quickly. Maybe when I'll have better stuff.\n\nIt also confirms that the Harp of Discord is very useful. Confused enemies are fun. My tests regarding Sunfire are not finished, I still need to check what happens if I target monsters, and if it breaks Invisibility, with or without the wand. But the good news is that I didn't use any consumable in that fight.\n\n## Umber Hulks\n\nI only bought a Healing Potion and one of Clarity.\n\n![image-20200424214911353](image-20200424214911353.png)\n\nThey can't see Invisibility, so as usual, I buff at the start of the game. I chained cast Sunfire on them. By targeting them, the fire went to them, but it didn't break my Invisibility. That's almost cheating! I also wasn't affected by the explosion. The way I understand it is that the spell is scripted to be cast centered on myself, and making me immune to it. But by using the Wand of Lightning trick, I change the target, but I'm still immune to it. What I don't understand is why it didn't work for the Harp of Discord. Why did the Harp Break Invisibility when used with the Wand?\n\nHmm, no I recast it and it isn't what happened. No matter what I target, the Sunfire is always centered on myself. Well, I did kill a few of them still, but as they keep moving I couldn't always have them all in the radius.\n\n![image-20200424215410569](image-20200424215410569.png)\n\nI finished by casting Web, being immune to it because of the MGI, I killed the melee one with Magic Missiles, and the range ones with MMM. The last one managed to hit me pretty hard, but I finished it with an Offensive Spin.\n\nI feel like I have a working routine. Sequencer to quickly cast Invisibility at the start of the fight and one buff (Mirror Image), then buff mainly with MGI, MMM and Stoneskin. Sunfire while stealthing to diminish their ranks. Then web and finishing them off.\n\n## Drows\n\nThis might be tricky. Drows are known for their Magic Resistance, and most of what I do is magic. So I bought a potion of magic resistance myself, hoping to also turn resistant to magic and not at any disadvantage on that front.\n\n![image-20200424221345324](image-20200424221345324.png)\n\nOK. True Sight. All my Invisibility is dispelled. I'm in deep trouble. I managed to cast MGI. But their arrows have stunned me. There's nothing I can do. I need to find a way to protect myself from the Invisibility purge.\n\nSo I bought Contingency and Spell Immunity and configured it so whenever I see an enemy, I cast Spell Immunity: Divination on myself. This, coupled with the Invisibility I'll cast at the start of the fight should allow me to stay invisible and buff myself. I also bought a Protection from Magic Weapon, to try to resist their hits. I'm going to try that. This whole fight will be some trial and error.\n\n![image-20200424223131711](image-20200424223131711.png)\n\nMy spell Sequencer worked, but my Contingency didn't. Thankfully, I managed to cast Spell Immunity: Divination myself. Ah, the Contingency finally kicked in, but was too late. So for future fights, I can keep the Contingency idea, but not with something that needs to be cast quickly at the start of the fight because there is some time before it is triggered.\n\nFor now, I'm staying hidden, waiting for them to use up their spells. Spell Immunity will work 1 round / level, and I'm level 21. That should be plenty of time. I don't want to buff too much while Invisible, so it won't run out when I turn visible.\n\nFuck, I forgot to buy the Magic Protection potion...\n\nI tried Sunfire on them, but they seem totally immune because of their Magic Resistance. I guess I'll have to kill them on melee. But for that I need to be totally immune to their magic (through the potion) and to their hits (maybe through protection from magic weapon, I'll have to try)\n\n![image-20200424223849014](image-20200424223849014.png)\n\nSo I turned into a Mustard Jelly with PFMW and tried to cast Harp of Discord. Surprisingly, even with their Magic Resistance, I managed to get one of them.\n\nPFMW works. Drows can't hit me. I'm still waiting a bit for the mage, see what he's doing, and then I'll turn into a killing machine. I confused another one, let's get closer to the mage. Drows are attacking themselves, great!\n\n![image-20200424224311092](image-20200424224311092.png)\n\nI'm back into human form, but I still have those resistances, not sure why, but that's great. What isn't is that they managed to hurt me, and remove all my mirror images. And stun me, so there is nothing I can do. Maybe I should have a Contingency to cast Invisibility on myself when stunned.\n\nFor this next try, I'm going full defense. I'll turn Invisible and protect myself from Divination at the start of the fight. I'll also protect from Dispel. I'll pump my MR above 100% and protect myself from magic weapons. Then I'll try to dominate them (I bought the Captive Audience harp). If dominate doesn't work, I'll just Offensive Spin them, maybe with some Fireshields.\n\n![image-20200424225623529](image-20200424225623529.png)\n\nOk, so they are specifically immune to Domination. I'll try Offensive Spin, then. Well, my THACO is not enough to hit them, it has no visible effect, shit. Maybe I need Tenser in addition to that, or better stuff? I managed to confuse one, he's doing some damage to other drows, but my PFMW is off. Thankfully, it can be cast very quickly so I can up it again. \n\nMMM works though, I can hit them. Even without offensive spin. Two of them are confused. I'm turning invisible. I'm out of PFMW. I hope the confused ones (including the caster) will start attacking each other. Doesn't seem to work that way, they just move erratically.\n\nI cast two fire shields on myself; it did a lot of damage to them, so I guess I'll have to start this tactic again. Maybe just staying as a jelly with double shields and wait for them to come and get killed? Ideally I would need an active way of dealing them damage.\n\nMustard Jellies seems to be Immune to magic, so this makes the mage not a problem anymore. They also are immune to piercing, so the scouts are no more. But only 30% slashing, so I need another way of avoiding their attacks. Mirror Image and Stoneskin could work, with a great AC, it might work better than PFMW. Or I use PFMW and focus on killing the warriors. But for that I'll need a better THACO. Maybe gulping potions of power would help? Or buying a better sword?\n\nI could try to redo the third fight enough time to get the Cloak of the Sewers. The fight is easy, and it will get me -1 AC and a free Mustard Jelly transform. This could also allow me to transform into a rat with 90% resistance to all physical damage, so I just need to find an item that adds +10% to piercing or slashing and I'm immune to damage.\n\nI took a break and redid the Lizardmen batlle. I wasn't ready, spell-wise, so I did the fight with all the spells for the drow battle. Meaning: no sunfire. I decided to try and dominate them. Turns out, once I dominated all the monsters, I won the fight. That's very interesting to know. You don't have to kill them, charming them all seems to be enough.\n\n![image-20200425141619576](image-20200425141619576.png)\n\nI won a spear with immunity to charm and hold. That's okayish, I'll keep it.\n\nI redid the fight a few times. I managed to hit the Lizards with MMM with shitty rolls. Even with Offensive Spin, the combat log was displaying my to hit bonus as +1 (when it should have been much higher because of MMM and OS), but even with a shitty roll of 2 (for a grand total of 3), I was still hitting them. Either offensive spin makes hitting monsters easier, or MMM always hit, or the bonus overflowed.\n\n![image-20200425142648216](image-20200425142648216.png)\n\nThis is weird because this time I'm attacking only with MMM and I have +9 to hit. I still have 5 attacks per round with MMM, no need for OS.\n\n![image-20200425143058218](image-20200425143058218.png)\n\nThis time I have +7. I really don't get the calculation.\n\n![image-20200425143116700](image-20200425143116700.png)\n\n![image-20200425143126627](image-20200425143126627.png)\n\n![image-20200425143236768](image-20200425143236768.png)\n\nFinally got that baby. This will slightly improve my AC and also allow for easier polymorph.\n\n![image-20200425144431939](image-20200425144431939.png)\n\nThis time against the drows, with MMM I have only +4. I really don't get this.\n\n![image-20200425144517888](image-20200425144517888.png)\n\nI used OS and now I have +7... What the hell? OS is supposed to give +4, so I should have been +8. When hitting someone in melee I actually have -4.\n\nOk great, this is working. I used a full stack of MMM on a range scout, and during that time one of the warriors killed himself trying to hit me while I was protected with my shields. Hmm, when they die, they transform into small spiders.\n\n![image-20200425144856851](image-20200425144856851.png)\n\nOk, two warriors down and two scouts down. The army of spiders is slowly getting killed by my shield. Now I have a priest and a mage. Considering that I am immune to magic, it should be doable.\n\n![image-20200425145051564](image-20200425145051564.png)\n\nI wonder where the mage is.\n\n![image-20200425145213924](image-20200425145213924.png)\n\nHe finally appeared. I removed his Mirror Image with one Magic Missile. He is immune to my +1 arrows. Also immune to MMM.\n\n![image-20200425145416996](image-20200425145416996.png)\n\nHis Fireshield finally wore off, I could hit him with MMM. He turned invisible and started to rebuff again.\n\nThis is pretty boring fight. He turned invisible and won't come back. I guess I'll need some Glitterdust for next time. He finally got visible again, I killed him with MMM, he turned into 3 spiders that managed to poison me. Thankfully I had one last Potion of Invisibility. So I could wait for the Poison to end, and rebuff.\n\n![image-20200425145857722](image-20200425145857722.png)\n\nAh shit, I forgot the priestess. She's back. I managed to interrupt her casting. I'm going to go on melee with her and Offensive Spin her. I'll really need to buy a weapon that does poison damage, it's perfect to prevent enemies from casting spells.\n\n![image-20200425150128703](image-20200425150128703.png)\n\nShe's out of spells, she's just running around and I'm stupidly trying to follow her to hit her.\n\nFinally, everybody is dead. That was a great fight, but not one I want to redo\n\n![image-20200425150548015](image-20200425150548015.png)\n\nOh, and I even won this. This is really great armor for me.\n\n## Tier 2\n\nMercants stalls have been upgraded.\n\n![image-20200425150858745](image-20200425150858745.png)\n\nThis will be an undead killer. If I ever have to fight undeads, I'll buy this for the Sunray spell.\n\n![image-20200425151020789](image-20200425151020789.png)\n\nA shortbow firing +3 arrows\n\n![image-20200425151118832](image-20200425151118832.png)\n\nThis. Best item ever. I'm buying that.\n\n![image-20200425151146142](image-20200425151146142.png)\n\nImmunity to disease. Good to know.\n\n![image-20200425163111295](image-20200425163111295.png)\n\nThis will give me +1 Constitution, putting me at 19, and thus enabling natural regeneration. Not mind blowing, but nice to have.\n\n![image-20200425163158045](image-20200425163158045.png)\n\nThis will improve THACO and damage.\n\n![image-20200425163308408](image-20200425163308408.png)\n\nOh, even better than the boots, as it won't make be remove my Boots of Speed.\n\n![image-20200425163332205](image-20200425163332205.png)\n\nIt's nice but will only absorb spells up to level 4. I spells doing much better effects than that.\n\n![image-20200425163404147](image-20200425163404147.png)\n\nSame price as the Sandthief Ring, but this one cast **Improved** Invisibility and can also summon an Air Elemental (not a big deal though).\n\n## Vampires\n\nI did a trial run, not knowing what to expect and I did pretty good. Invisibility + Spell Immunity: Divination (let's call it I+SID for short) allowed me to buff with Stoneskin, MMM, double Fireshield (2FS). I cast some Sunfire to thin their ranks but it was hard to correctly aim as they kept moving. PMW allowed me to be immune to their level drain and I finished them with MMM and paralyzing them.\n\nBut one of them managed to hit me with a level drain, and it didn't went off after the fight. I searched the barracks for a priest, but couldn't find one, nor one that would sell Restoration Scrolls. So I reloaded the savegame and tried again.\n\nActually I tried again, twice, and got destroyed by them. They charmed me quickly and they killed me. I guess I somehow had managed to kill the spellcast with my Sunfires in my first attempt but couldn't replicate it this time. I would need either a Potion of Clarity or a way to protect myself from their spells. Anyway, I searched the place a bit more and finally found priests of Tempus that could cast Restoration on myself, so I'll stay with this savegame after all.\n\n## Githyankis\n\n![image-20200425211452455](image-20200425211452455.png)\n\nI'll try my classical routine. 4 warriors, I should be able to kill them with Sunfire, and if not, with 2FS. Anti-Paladin I don't know what to expect, and Gish is a Warrior-Mage, something I should kill first.\n\n![image-20200425211719566](image-20200425211719566.png)\n\nOk, I'm invisible in the center. Almost fully buffed. Just casting PMW and I'm ready to start the show. I started with the Captive Audience. I managed to Charm two warriors. I'm sending them toward other warriors, and I'll now try to kill the Gish and Anti-Paladin.\n\nWhat. It worked well for a bit, I killed one warrior with my own, and the other got killed by them. Then I **think** I got hit by a disintegrate spell and died. I really need a buff to protect myself from spells.\n\nOh, also I forgot, but I leveled up and managed to get Use Any Item, as a High Level Ability. This means that I can now wear helmets and shields. So I bought a shield that gave me -4 to AC (so I'm at -7 with only an armor and shield) and also gives me immunity to charm, hold, domination and fear. I also slept so I have Spell Deflection.\n\nSo I tried again, this time with Spell Deflection in addition to the other buffs. I opened with Captive Audience on the warriors and the Anti-Paladin. I got two warriors. I had them use Kai and attack the Gish, while I cast Web on the Anti-Paladin.\n\n![image-20200425213621677](image-20200425213621677.png)\n\nI got some of my protections dispelled. Not sure which one yet. Judging by the spell effect I still have either SID or Spell Deflection. MGI is still here, but PMW is gone, shit. I need to recast this, and I guess I'll also have to protection myself from Dispell next time. \n\n![image-20200425213801001](image-20200425213801001.png)\n\nThe good news is that all the Gith seems to ignore me and go attacking their \"friends\". They form a nice cluster that I will Sunfire right away.\n\n![image-20200425213836801](image-20200425213836801.png)\n\nWhoo. I killed most of them, only the Anti-Paladin is up, but looking rough. I'll protect myself from his weapon and finish him.\n\nAfter that I leveled up, but there is no HLA that seems really interesting for the Black Pits. I took the Time Stop trap, hoping that I could use it, but no sure.\n\n## Sahuagin Prince\n\nI'm not buying any new stuff, I'll keep battling the monsters until I hit a roadblock. Some stuff is interesting, but maybe I'll get even better gear if I move to the next Tier, so I'll just keep my money for now.\n\n![image-20200425220502183](image-20200425220502183.png)\n\nThe water weird don't move, so I'll just blast them with Sunfire. I was lucky and the prince got into the radius, but they seem to resist well.\n\n![image-20200425220600587](image-20200425220600587.png)\n\nI'm not sure what is their resistance percentage. Second line would suggest 50%, but the others contradict this.\n\nSecond sunfire, killed the Prince and two Weirds. I finished one, dominated the other and attacked the last one with MMM. Good news is that they cannot reach me if I'm far, bad news is that their resistance makes killing them very long. So I went with Magic Missiles. They are immune to Arrows of Biting, and +2 arrows only do ~1 damage.\n\n## Elementals\n\nI leveled up and picked Spiked Trap and Magic Flute. This is an item I can invoke that allows me to cast up to 3 Delayed Fireballs. As I'm playing the same areas over and over again, I wanted to try to see if I could trap the spawning area of the monsters during fight `n` so it explodes in fight `n+1`.\n\nI kinda found my rhythm here. First fights were hard, but now I'm cruising through it, and not even needing to buy resources.\n\n![image-20200425222409925](image-20200425222409925.png)\n\nSo, I sorcerer and some invocations. I'll try the classic tactic, but if it does not work, I'll come back with spells that directly dispel all invocations and we'll see.\n\n![image-20200425222521024](image-20200425222521024.png)\n\nOk, so he's fucking ready. I might just have to wait for all his protections to die off, patiently waiting in shadow.\n\n![image-20200425222633456](image-20200425222633456.png)\n\nThis could quickly become a messy fight if you're not prepared. Confusion, hasted invocations, crazy sorcerer. I'll really just wait.\n\nWell, I waited so long that my SID disappeared. I recast it, and started buffing myself. I hope he won't dispel everything...\n\n![image-20200425223142251](image-20200425223142251.png)\n\nOh ok. He can cast Time Stop. And I'm stunned. Shit, I thought I was immune to that. I'm supposed to have a Contingency that casts Invisibility when I'm stunned, we'll see if it works. It did. While I'm stunned, all my spells are losing their power. They all disappear, one by one. And I'm still stunned.\n\nAh fuck. When I got out of Invisibility, I automatically attacked Mardii because it was the action I was doing before the Stun/Contingency. But this made me go out of stealth. So I guess I'll have to re-cast Invis.\n\nOk I managed to do that, and I realized he has a missile protection that fires missiles back, so I cannot kill him with MMM.\n\n![image-20200425223645216](image-20200425223645216.png)\n\nAnd he's Time Stopping again. But I'm Invisible, so he's just moving around, doing nothing. Haha, what a waste of a spell.\n\nI tried the Captive Audience and got 3 elementals out of 4. Let's send them on Mardii and see how he fares. \n\n![image-20200425223905444](image-20200425223905444.png)\n\nThe fucker silenced me. Well, this is a great fight, he's very good, I'm learning great spells.\n\nFuck it. He **Maze**d me. \n\nOk I either need a way to better protect myself from his spells, or just kill him quickly.\n\nLet's try again. This time I'm focusing all my efforts on him, and will go fight him on melee. I managed to kill one Earth Elemental and one Water Elemental, but he quickly invoked two more **of each kind**. Maybe I should just leave the Elementals alone.\n\n![image-20200425225121905](image-20200425225121905.png)\n\nHe still has some Spell Deflection up. The moment it's over, I'll silence him.\n\n![image-20200425225303274](image-20200425225303274.png)\n\nSo yeah, I can confirm. There were two perfectly aligned Elementals so I decided to nuke them, and now I have 4 of them. If I'll do this fight again, I'll definitely leave the summons alone until I killed the gnome.\n\n![image-20200425225917563](image-20200425225917563.png)\n\nHmm, ok. This makes hitting him all the harder now.\n\n![image-20200425230029628](image-20200425230029628.png)\n\nThis is insane. Whenever I kill one, two more are coming. Even dominating them is not a good idea. And the confusion fields keeps teleporting me to random places. I'm trying to paralyze them now.\n\n![image-20200425230303736](image-20200425230303736.png)\n\nThere's no way I will survive that. I will try again. But I have no clue how I could kill the gnome. Maybe I need to focus on breaking his protections?\n\n![image-20200425230414439](image-20200425230414439.png)\n\nOh come on! I tried to Silence him and the bastard has Magic Resistance. Ok, he's a very very good mage. I think the only way to kill him is melee, so that's what I'll try next. Paralyze the Elementals, and melee focus on the mage.\n\n![image-20200425230658095](image-20200425230658095.png)\n\nAll Elementals seems to do Crushing Damage, so I could build enough protection from that so it's no problem.\n\n![image-20200425230739215](image-20200425230739215.png)\n\nI managed to pause the game exactly the moment I died.\n\n![image-20200425230817854](image-20200425230817854.png)\n\n...which makes me wonder. What would have happened if I could level up. Would leveling up, and gaining HP allowed me to survive?\n\n![image-20200425231151734](image-20200425231151734.png)\n\nOk, next try. With that I should be Immune to all his spells, have -60AC against crushing, be resistant to fire (to protect myself from his Fireshield) and also protect from mind effects (just in case Magic Resistance is not enough). I also learned Tenser's Transformation and picked up a non-magical Wakizashi. This time, I'm going straight for the little gnome.\n\n![image-20200425231512789](image-20200425231512789.png)\n\n![image-20200425231529621](image-20200425231529621.png)\n\n![image-20200425231654672](image-20200425231654672.png)\n\nThis should protect me from all the attacks. Here we go. The fucking gnome is running everywhere, I can't hit him. So I'll break invisibility by trying to Paralyze the goons.\n\n![image-20200425231843487](image-20200425231843487.png)\n\nSo, crushing protection works. When I hit the gnome though, I roll a Critical Miss -_-\n\n![image-20200425231922121](image-20200425231922121.png)\n\nOk, let's switch to regular Wakizashi then.\n\n![image-20200425232001033](image-20200425232001033.png)\n\nWhat? Why so low? I'm trying to turn into Tenser. But he keeps fucking running around. And now he's invisible. And Paralyzing the goons does not seem to work.\n\n![image-20200425232435922](image-20200425232435922.png)\n\nOut of options, I started sending LIghtning bolts, hoping to touch him. Oops, it touched Dennaton.\n\n![image-20200425232523997](image-20200425232523997.png)\n\nHmm. It seems that Mardii's sphere is reflecting my lightning bolts, and thus hurting his own goons.\n\n![image-20200425232614826](image-20200425232614826.png)\n\nOh, I hurt him enough with blind rays that he had to use a contingency and drink a potion? Well, I'm gonna keep sending random bolts then!\n\n![image-20200425232906221](image-20200425232906221.png)\n\nHahaha, this is the craziest, stupidest, tactic I ever used. I was running around in the arena, dropping arrows, one by one on the floor, just so I could have a valid point to target with the wand. Then, when I saw that Mardii was close (because I could see the spell effects floating around him, but not him) I would hurl a Potion of Explosion, and he would get killed by it, even if I could not see him. Now I just need to finish the goons.\n\n\n\n![image-20200425233119945](image-20200425233119945.png)\n\nBut first, I'm placing three Delayed Fireballs in the entrance. I want to see if they are still here next time I enter this arena.\n\n![image-20200425233151344](image-20200425233151344.png)\n\nNow I need to kill the monsters. Took a bit of time, but as they cannot hit me, I finally did it.\n\n## Demons & Devils\n\nI didn't buy new things this time. I also realized that I am now capped at the max spell level. I can gain new spell slots, but never learn level 7, 8 or 9 spells. This is a bummer as there are some really good spells at level 7 or 8 (I'm not a fan of the level 9 spells. Some are really powerful like Time Stop, but maybe too powerful and not versatile enough. Wish is awesome, though, but I should be able to handle it with Project Image).\n\nAnyway, I took a few different spells, and am heading to the next battle.\n\n![image-20200429135135727](image-20200429135135727.png)\n\nHmm, so this is a large group of monsters this time. I bet most of them are immune to fire as well. We'll use the classical tactic, and adapt if needed.\n\n![image-20200429135238873](image-20200429135238873.png)\n\nHmm, this didn't work out. One of them cast True Sight before I had time to cast SID. So I ran away, cast SID properly and THEN Invisibility. This time it worked.\n\n![image-20200429135424388](image-20200429135424388.png)\n\nNow that I'm invisible, they seem to be fighting among themselves. Great, I'll just wait to see who wins.\n\n![image-20200429135527995](image-20200429135527995.png)\n\nHmm. I though I was protected from Divination spells. Apparently not enough. Oh shit, now they stunned me and killed me. Ok, next time I'll protect myself from Magical Weapons and find a way to be immune to stun.\n\nThis time I bought the Sensate Amulet that provides Protection from Evil. Not sure it will have any effect on the creatures, but we'll soon find out. I also took a potion of Invulnerability to enhance my Saving Throws, and a Potion of Clarity (but I'm unsure if it does protect from Stun or not).\n\n![image-20200429140423157](image-20200429140423157.png)\n\nAh shit. I started with SID, but they cast Fear on me. And a salamander teleported next to me. Ok, so I need equipment that prevents fear now.\n\n![image-20200429140506760](image-20200429140506760.png)\n\nGood thing is that they are busy killing each other so maybe I can survive long enough to have the fear effect dispelled. Yep, it worked. I managed to cast Invisibility + Mirror Image, and drink my potions of Invulnerability while they are still fighting each other. I'll have to focus on the Marilith and kill her next.\n\n![image-20200429140700252](image-20200429140700252.png)\n\nOk so it's confirmed. Spell Protection: Divination does not protect from the Marilith illusion dispelling. I tried running away to cast PFMW, but they interrupted me. I tried to cast Sunfire, and they killed me.\n\nSo now I know. I don't need to bother protecting from Divination. I need to bolster my saving throws, protection from magic weapons, focus on the marilith and THEN turn invisible and finish them off.\n\n![image-20200429141056445](image-20200429141056445.png)\n\nOk, I'm protected from spells, mostly. I cast PFMW, but I wonder if I should protect myself from Dispel as well. I guess not.\n\nI tried to cast Sunfire, but because of the Ice Shards and fogs I got interrupted. I might need a real globe of Invulnerability. I'm gonna try to paralyze them, see if they resist. They have magic resistance, shit.\n\n![image-20200429141326425](image-20200429141326425.png)\n\nGrumpf. They stunned me with Power Word. I think there is no save against that, so I'll need Immunity or a Spell Protection. My contingency worked, but got automatically dispelled. Maybe I should cast Otiluke Sphere on myself instead?\n\nThey did hurt me with their weapons. I'm not sure if that's because they are not magical, or because my PFMW was over. I might have to try Protection from Normal Weapons. Or maybe turn into a Mustard Jelly and just wait for them to fight each other?\n\nI'm out of money, so I'm going to replay the first battles a few time. I'll improve my reputation this way and get a bit more coin.\n\nArgh fuck. I did the first battle against orc, forgot to save and started the Demon battle again.\n\nI started by turning into a Jelly. Cast Delayed Fireball on the monsters, but only the Gerudon (Ice Salamander) took damage. Not very useful as it's usually the first to die anyway. I sent some Lightning Bolts next and only the Erinyes took damage.\n\nI then realized that my Magic Flute can cast Fear Protection and Globe of Invulnerability, which is quite nice to be honest. I cast the Fear protection, and then got attacked by the monsters. I'm going to try to dominate them, see if does anything.\n\nThe Marilith has a lot of attacks. Each hit seems to add some elemental damage (Ice, Fire, Magic, etc). As a Jelly I'm immune to some of them, but I still take the Slashing damages. The Glabrezu does crushing damage (is that the same as bludgeoning?)\n\n![image-20200429142656709](image-20200429142656709.png)\n\nThey seem to have resisted my Dominate. And the marilith killed me.\n\n## Replaying battles for reputation\n\nSo I'm gonna take a break from the Marilith fight and replay the previous fights 3 times each, as to increase the chance to get a reward. And also to try ideas.\n\nI cast Mislead and then used my sequencer on it, to turn it Invisible. It failed. I wonder if that's because the other spell in the sequencer was Mirror Image and it made the target invalid. I then cast a real Invisibility on Mislead, which allowed me to walk around freely. But the moment I cast a spell, my Mislead clone became visible, not I.\n\n![image-20200429154023126](image-20200429154023126.png)\n\nThis time I put Protection from Evil and Invisibility in the sequencer and tried to cast it on my Mislead clone, but it still failed.\n\n![image-20200429154219224](image-20200429154219224.png)\n\nThere is not much my Mislead clone can do. No quick slot items, no special ability, no spell, no item ability. I note that some are grayed out, and other seems to just be disabled. Not sure if relevant. Also, the clone is no affected by the Boots of Speed it should have, still moving at regular speed.\n\n![image-20200429154440656](image-20200429154440656.png)\n\nI tried protecting him behind Otiluke's Resilient Sphere but he made his save? I kinda expected it to be an automatic success. I guess it's only a success when I cast it on myself, but the clone is a different creature.\n\n![image-20200429154546098](image-20200429154546098.png)\n\nSo I turned the clone invisible. At least it won't die too quickly. I could still cast Sunfire without turning visible, nor him. There's that at least. Still easier to just cast Invisibility on myself, but at least it's consistent.\n\n![image-20200429154745633](image-20200429154745633.png)\n\nHmm actually no, that's weird. One of them attacked me while my sprite is still invisible, and so is the Mislead one. \n\nWell, playing a Bard song with the Mislead turned him visible. I am really confused as to what break Invisibility or not.\n\nI tried again a Mislead + Invisibility. I had it play the Bard Song before getting invisible, but I think actually playing it while invisible broke Invisibility. So, I haven't really found a great use of Mislead in an arena so far.\n\nI tried the MGI and Skull Trap on myself when surrounded by enemies. Works great, ~60 damage each time. I still need to have some decent AC or Stoneskin to not get interrupted though. \n\n![image-20200429161131346](image-20200429161131346.png)\n\nI might have to work on my AC, having something close to -10. I'm at -7 so far. The Shield, Armor and Ghost Armor spells do not change the AC as the mail already is better. It would help is I was wearing clothing, but I'm not. Blur gives me an additional -3, so -10. But there are already so many great spells at level 2. I might need to buy the ring that adds more slots.\n\n![image-20200429224740957](image-20200429224740957.png)\n\nI tried the lizard battle a few times and it seems that I can lay traps in between rounds. So i put a Time Stop trap in an earlier battle, and now I have a Time Stop ready to kill them all, haha.\n\n![image-20200429225407169](image-20200429225407169.png)\n\nOh, and I can create 6 Magic Flutes at once, allowing me to technically cast 18 delayed Fireball. Unfortunately, it breaks my stealth doing so.\n\n![image-20200429232713537](image-20200429232713537.png)\n\nMMM and Improved Haste is 10 attacks per round. This kills pretty quickly.\n\n![2020-04-29_23h27m48](2020-04-29_23h27m48.gif)\n\nStill, I have trouble killing the drows. I should get some more money so I can buy the bracers that give me Improved Haste, so I can keep my three slots of PFMW, they really help but I'm not killing them fast enough, and they still manage to hurt me with spell. And more specifically, stun me. I really need to find a way to prevent stun, maybe a ring of free action, but it would cancel the boots of speed.\n\nI also discovered that my effects (like PFMW) wear off during the enemies Time Stop. That's not logical nor fair, but I'll have to deal with that.\n\nI have a small time window at the end of each fight, just enough to cast a trap. So I always put a Time Stop trap in the arenas. When they trigger in subsequent fights, it allows me to place myself to cast Sunfire. I killed the vampires in one go that way. I also bought the Bracers of Striking, to cast Improved Haste from the item directly.\n\nI died against the Gith because they hit with normal weapons, not magical. And I forgot to protect myself from Divination so they break my invisibility. Thankfully, my Otiluke Contingency worked when the stunned me, but when it stopped, they just killed me. I'm not sure this is the best Contingency as it does not last long. Maybe Invisibility was better.\n\n![image-20200430140926783](image-20200430140926783.png)\n\nYou can clearly see my Time Stop trap in the middle.\n\nSo I redid all the fights so far three times, to improve my reputation. Except the Drow one, I keep getting killed at this one, and I don't want to consume a potion of magic protection. What I'll do is buy all those potions, and get back to the Demons & Devils fight. It should move me to the next tier, and I'll see if the potion stock is replenished; if so, I might use one potion per fight.\n\n## Replaying battles for rewards\n\nI also started redoing some fights to get the rewards.\n\n![image-20200501151614361](image-20200501151614361.png)\n\nThis can summon minotaurs, and works with the wand of lightning, so I can summon 6 of them. It does break Invisibility though.\n\n![image-20200501151654067](image-20200501151654067.png)\n\nThis is a great Club for doing damage poison. \n\n![image-20200501151715270](image-20200501151715270.png)\n\nI already have Jhor the Bleeder and I'm as proficient (one slot) in both so I'll have to see which one is better. Base damage of the Bastard sword is better obviously. Jhor does 2 damage per round for 5 rounds, Gnasher seems to only do it for 4 rounds. I don't really care about the amount of damage done, what I'm interested in is the ability to prevent spellcasters from casting. Jhor seems better on paper, but I'll have to give Gnasher a go. Oh wait no, I'm not proficient in Clubs. Well, I'll keep Jhor then.\n\n![image-20200501152413828](image-20200501152413828.png)\n\nThanks to the Time Stop Traps I put on previous battle, I can perfectly aim my Sunfire and kill all Vampires i one go.\n\n![image-20200501152545218](image-20200501152545218.png)\n\nGot this nice sword. I like the fact that it's healing me. I wonder if it works even when I have MMM. It also does protect from charm and domination, but so does my shield. If I start using this sword I might be able to upgrade the shield.\n\n![image-20200501224754350](image-20200501224754350.png)\n\nGot a nice ~+3 weapon. Mostly +3, useful against demons and devils I think.\n\n![image-20200501230201923](image-20200501230201923.png)\n\nI might be using that now. Great way to know enemies weaknesses.\n\nNow that I can invoke minotaurs, killing the drows is slightly easier as they hit pretty hard on the Scouts and Priestess. It still requires me to play with fire (ie. casting double Fireshield and PMW and wait for them to die on my shields), but it's doable.\n\n## Back to Demons and Devils\n\nI keep getting killed in that fight. All the walkthrough of soloing the Black Pits I read mention this fight as one of the easiest, just having to wait until they kill each other. But for me, I keep dying. The Marilith especially is regenerating very quickly and has like 6 attacks, doing poison damage and can break my Invisibility protection.\n\nI will have to try again, and maybe buy specific scrolls or potions to get through. I think I'll have to try a full-fighter approach. Beefing up my AC, and playing with Tenser, Improved Haste, and hitting with melee weapons.\n\nI'm going to replay some old battles to gain some more cash. There are a few items I want to buy to improve my AC. I redid the Vampire fight a few times because it's one of the easiest and fastest. I bought the Help of Balduran for +1 AC.\n\nI'm now going back to the fight and I'll try to tank damage as long as I can.\n\nOk, I got it. But I forgot to document it haha. If I remember correctly, I started with protection from magic. They triggered a Time Stop trap, allowing me to drink some Heroism and Power potion, getting me to ~300HP. Then I went into melee, used the wand of frost on them while they were fighting. I cast PMW so I could buff a bit more. I did some Mirror Image that was quickly disppelled. I did some more Stoneskin, Wand of Frost. Then I summoned MInotaurs as a distraction so I can hurl MMM at the demon. All this time they were taking damage from my Fireshield Blue, and I finished by kiting the Marilith and killing her with MMM.\n\nI did it, but it took one potion of Magic Protection, one of Heroism and one of Power. They are all in limited stock, but because I finished the tier, the supplies got refurnished. It only goes up to their maximum stock, so I was right in buying all the potions before the end of the tier.\n\nThe infinite arrow exploit I wanted to pull won't work. I wanted to buy the whole stack of 5 Detonation Arrows, so I could then sell one back and it would have been added as a whole stack of 5. But as it was the only one in its inventory, selling it back to him, or waiting for refurnishing, only adds 5 stacks of one. There is nothing I can do with that. So best case scenario, I have 10 arrows of detonation, not an infinite stack.\n\n## Tier 3\n\n![image-20200503150449789](image-20200503150449789.png)\n\nThis kills Golem that fail a Save. Could be useful if I encounter Golems.\n\n![image-20200503150540690](image-20200503150540690.png)\n\nI'll have to test the Stun effect, but if it stuns everyone in the path with no save, that's pretty powerful.\n\n![image-20200503150612655](image-20200503150612655.png)\n\nOh, this is very nice. Being transformed as a rat through the Cloak of the Sewers already gives me 90% resistance to all physical damage. With that, I'll have to see if it makes me invincible to all physical damage. But that's 45k gold.\n\n![image-20200503150737435](image-20200503150737435.png)\n\nI should try to see if I can reliably auto-blind myself. If I can't see enemies, they can't see me either, so that could be a way to nuke them.\n\n![image-20200503150826690](image-20200503150826690.png)\n\nOh, this is very good. I take that in the offhand, and this grants me one more attack in my main hand (in addition to the offhand attack). Also, the bleeding effect is nice.\n\n![image-20200503151005619](image-20200503151005619.png)\n\nThere is also those two that also add the +1 attack, but don't have the bleeding effect and are only +2. Sure they are less expensive, but I think I'll save for the Ninjato.\n\n![image-20200503150915303](image-20200503150915303.png)\n\nNot bad either. Improved AC and more spell slots. I think I already have enough spell slots of those levels, but there might be some exploits to try with spell slots gained and lost.\n\n![image-20200503151141507](image-20200503151141507.png)\n\nThis would be +5 AC. Good to keep in mind for when I need to tank.\n\n![image-20200503151250260](image-20200503151250260.png)\n\nHmm, good replacement for the Helm of Balduran that I just bought. And actually cheaper.\n\n![image-20200503151326282](image-20200503151326282.png)\n\nI like the healing effect, but it would actually be cheaper to just buy potions. Note that I never had to heal myself in any fights so far.\n\n![image-20200503151406534](image-20200503151406534.png)\n\nOh, shiny. More AC is always good, improving THACO as well, and even more spells? This could allow me to swap my ring of spells for something else.\n\n![image-20200503151450219](image-20200503151450219.png)\n\nStrength of 20 would allow me to hit harder more often. And there are not a lot of good belts out there. I might buy this if I still have some cash.\n\n![image-20200503151537406](image-20200503151537406.png)\n\nGood to know, but not worth buying if I can't have a full set that grants +100%\n\n![image-20200503151600037](image-20200503151600037.png)\n\nOh, this looks very good. I'm not sure the movement speed would be worth it as I already wear the boots, and often am under Improved Haste. But the fact that it can cast it for 23 fucking rounds (much better than the 20s of the other item) is incredible. Also it states \"increased movement rate\", so I wonder if I can exploit it with the wand of lightning.\n\n![image-20200503151728576](image-20200503151728576.png)\n\nFire Resistance +50%. I'm pretty sure there are enough gear to have Fire Resistance above 100% in this game. This opens possibilities of a full-Fire character that is getting healed by fire. But I already played that character in a previous BG1/BG2 run, so I'll pass this time.\n\n![image-20200503151841449](image-20200503151841449.png)\n\nRing of Free Action. If it does protect from Stun, I might use it, even if it cancels the Boots of Speed.\n\n![image-20200503151914105](image-20200503151914105.png)\n\nAlso good to have. Not that expensive, and could really help in some circumstances.\n\nI'm not sure what to buy yet, I'll do a few other fights before. But for now, I'll level up.\n\n![image-20200503221039803](image-20200503221039803.png)\n\nI took Evasion, and it actually works with the Wand of Lightning!\n\n![image-20200503221121285](image-20200503221121285.png)\n\nHaha, ok I think I found something useful. Only three rounds, but that's three rounds of virtual invincibility. This made me wonder if the same trick would work with Offensive Spin. Unfortunately no, I only gain the benefits once, it does not stack.\n\nNow, let's try the next fights. I think I'll do the same kind of workflow: win fights until it's too hard, and then replay old fights 3 times to improve reputation, then again to gain items, and get back to the initial \"too hard\" fight.\n\n## Monks\n\nSo this time it's 6 monks. I started with usual Invisibility and SID. They also turn invisible. Let's try some Sunfire nukes to see if they resist. They move super fast. As fast as me, I won't be able to kite them.\n\n![image-20200503221822888](image-20200503221822888.png)\n\nMy Time Stop trap triggered, allowing me to have two in the radius. I'll only cast it once, to see if I can one-shot them. I managed to kill one. They all are resistant to Magic, but the Sun Soul Monks are also resistant to Fire.\n\nSo I buffed with Mirror Image, Stoneskin, Double Fireshield, Improved Haste, MMM and finally PMW and am summoning my Minotaur friends. The minotaurs are actually dealing some pretty impressive damage.\n\n![image-20200503222438975](image-20200503222438975.png)\n\nThis is way easier than anticipated. I might redo the fight 2 more times and ask for rewards right away while I have the hang of it.\n\nI did it a second time, killed 2 through Sunfire. Then Minotaur and Improved Haste and MMM. Did it a third time as well. I won some crappy gloves, and finally a nice Ion Stone\n\n![image-20200503224018864](image-20200503224018864.png)\n\n## Golem\n\nHmm, this one is a very large Golem. I'm going to try to hit him and protect myself through the potion of Absorption. Maybe I'll buy the weapon that kills golem if I'm having a hard time.\n\n![image-20200503224320097](image-20200503224320097.png)\n\nHe triggered the Time Stop trap, so testing some Sunfire to see if he's resistant. I expect him to be very resistant to magic. Yep, no effect. I'm adding all the buffs I have and testing his resistances.\n\n![image-20200503224613323](image-20200503224613323.png)\n\nHe's immune to Frost, Lightning and Poison. He still takes fire damage through the flail. He takes crushing damage, but resists half of it. I'm not a very good fighter, I only have two attacks, so it might take a while. I'll switch to MMM and see. Even on melee, I manage to hit him with MMM. He's only taking a couple of damage each time, but still.\n\n![image-20200503224841346](image-20200503224841346.png)\n\nI tried the Minotaurs for help, but their weapons are not working. BUT they are acting as a shield, preventing him from moving and allowing me to keep sending MMM his way.\n\n![image-20200503225013771](image-20200503225013771.png)\n\nWait, what? When he died he split into smaller parts? Ok... This is going to be longer than expected. They still can't hit me, but still... This is very very long. They can't hit me, but I'm really slow at killing them. Fireshield blue does nothing. They can only take fire damage. They can't be charmed. I might have to use Tenser, or a potion to increase my attacks and THACO. They can still hit me with critical hits.\n\nI'm going to do it again. I bought the Rod of Smiting, that should kill the Golem quickly. It's not meant to be used by any other than a cleric or mage, but thanks to UAI it will make this fight so much easier. I also got the Ninjato to gain one attack, and stock piled on Improved Haste and even got a Tenser transformation in it as well.\n\nI redid the fight, simply gulping potions of Absorption. He still managed to hit me with 19 and 20, not exactly sure why. I cast one Fireshield Red, but I'm unsure if it actually hurt him. I tried the rod of Golem Smiting, but he seemed to always succeed his save, even with a 2, so I'm not sure how saving throws work anymore. I switched back to the Flail of Ages, and it killed him much faster. I changed my AI script to auto attack, and waited.\n\n![image-20200504143757861](image-20200504143757861.png)\n\nTried a third time and this time I switched back to the rod to kill the smaller golems, and it worked\n\nI killed it one more time for the reward, and somehow he didn't split into smaller parts. I just had to kill the one big guy. Works for me. I only got a lousy plate armor this time. Trying again.\n\nI now realize that my Ioun stone that regenerates 1HP/round actually regenerates more than that under the effect of Improved Haste. That's a nice combo for me. Passive regeneration. I did not get any reward this time. Trying again.\n\nThis time again he did not split into smaller parts. And I got my reward.\n\n![image-20200504145454533](image-20200504145454533.png)\n\nAh, this would have made the fight much easier. Anyway, now I know I can redo this fight in auto-pilot and win some cash each time if I need. I could even maybe use that in the offhand for the passive Strength, it might actually be useful.\n\n![image-20200504145604059](image-20200504145604059.png)\n\nThis is the THACO and Damage difference with or without Crom Faeyr in the offhand. 4 to -3 in THACO, double the damage. Ouch, this is actually better than I expected.\n\n![image-20200504151213810](image-20200504151213810.png)\n\nSo I bought the Defender of Easthaven and tried the combo with turning into a rat and....\n\n![image-20200504151239329](image-20200504151239329.png)\n\nIt worked! Now I have a way to be immune to all physical damage, and almost immune to missile. I think it will just reduce the damage to zero, it will still interrupt spells and I might still be afflicted by effects. It's not the same as having a very low AC, but it should help a lot. The problem is that I cannot cast spells in that form, only use wands and stuff. But still, it's a great way, along with Fireshields, to tank and deal damage at the same time.\n\n## Picking up the right weapons\n\n![image-20200504160157262](image-20200504160157262.png)\n\nI now have those four weapons. The Flail of Ages +4, Defender of Easthaven, Crom Faeyr and Ninjato of the Scarlet Brotherhood. I have to pick the best combination.\n\nObviously the Defender should be circumstancial, as part of the Rat Defender combo. Nice to have in the backpack, but maybe not in all fights. \n\nThe ninjato should always be used in the offhand, as it gives me one additional attack on the main hand. \n\nNow, I thought I would keep the Flail of Ages in my main hand, but Crom Faeyr strength bonus is so huge that it gives me a +6 bonus to THACO, just passively, not even counting the +5 of the weapon itself. So having Crom Faeyr in the main hand as opposed to the Flail of Ages already makes my THACO -3 instead of +4. With the Ninja-to in the offhand that's -3/+3, which is actually pretty powerful. I think I'll keep it that way.\n\nI'll keep the Flail of Ages if I encounter enemies that need to be hit with a specific elemental damage.\n\nNow is the time where I don't have enough slots in my inventory to store all the great stuff. Reminds me of when I was doing duels on BG2 in my old guild.\n\n![image-20200504161955758](image-20200504161955758.png)\n\nIn my tests, I also discovered that the Missile bonus of this amulet stacks with itself, so you can cast it on yourself many times and become virtually invincible to range attacks.\n\nI also leveled up and took Avoid Death and Greater Evasion.\n\n![](image-20200504172030460.png)![image-20200504172054989](image-20200504172054989.png)\n\nGreater Evasion with the Wand of Lightning seems to give me incredible saving throws, it also set the AC to -24, just like regular Evasion. I don't know if it's a display issue or an engine limitation; the details correctly displays -36 as a modifier.\n\nChain casting Avoid Death though is not worth it. I don't get the HP bonus several times, nor the Death Save bonus. I'll reload and take something else.\n\n## Lich & Bone Golems\n\n![image-20200504181250670](image-20200504181250670.png)\n\nHmm, 5 Bone Golems and what they call a Lich. It's a different sprite than the liches I'm used to fight so we'll see how she fares. Usual problems with Liches is that they cast Time Stop and are resistant to Magic. I might have to buy the Daystar sword to kill it if I'm having too much issues.\n\nBut first, let's try the usual tactics. Ah shit, won't be able to do that, I forgot to change my spells.\n\n![image-20200504181457955](image-20200504181457955.png)\n\nSo, she seems to be protected from Fire/Frost/etc and even Magical damage. She has some spell turning and spell deflection. She also protects herself from Magical Weapon, this is a bummer. Maybe I'll kill here with my Minotaurs then.\n\nI turned Invisible and SID, it was enough to get protected from her True Sight. I then started casting Fireshield to see if they would take some damage. And then I died because I forgot that I had enabled auto-attack AI...\n\nLet's try again. Still invisible. MMM, Stoneskin and Fireshields. They triggered the Time Stop trap, gonna try the Sunfire on the bone golems.\n\n![image-20200504182916380](image-20200504182916380.png)\n\nI got a \"Spell Ineffective\". That's not even Magical Resistance, nor immunity to the damage type, but something more powerful. Maybe immunity to a specific school of magic or spell level.\n\nShe cast Time Stop to rebuff again (Mirror Image, etc) but also a Dragon's Breath. I might die. And web. That's clever. She's also casting Magic Missile, which is weird, as I'm not supposed to be targettable.\n\nOk, so she can target me even when invisible... That's pretty fucked up. I might have to just go full on her. I died.\n\nI did the Golem fight again, to get some money to buy the Daystar sword. Oops, it's 15k, I only have 5k. I'm gonna try the fight again, normally.\n\nI protected myself from Divination so they cannot break my Invisibility. I also protected from Abjuration so they cannot dispel the protection, and finally from Evocation so the Big Damage Spells like Magic Missile or Dragon's Breath should not do any damage.\n\nNow I add some Fireshield, for scientific purposes, see if I can damage them. Then I will to Greater Evasion to have better Saves and AC, and try to hit the Lich if I can, otherwise killing the golems. Ah shit. I understand why/how the Lich managed to target me. I was still in auto-attack AI. Balls!\n\nI was lucky and my Time Stop Trap (TST) triggered and I tried to hit the Lich. \n\n![image-20200504192148354](image-20200504192148354.png)\n\nI'm not sure what this means. What is this \"Fire Shield: Rajiik\" am I doing damage to her, or is she doing to me? I understand she's immune to Lightning though. I also tried to hit with a non-magical weapon, and I got a \"Weapon Ineffective\". So I guess she's naturally immune to normal weapons, and cast a PMW spell in addition. I might have to break her resistances.\n\n![image-20200504192404394](image-20200504192404394.png)\n\nSo what I understand is that I'm immune to bad stuff she was supposed to cast on me, but she is also immune to most of what I do, except for slow, which is pretty good for me.\n\nI tried the wand of frost, and the golems are immune (Spell Ineffective). I can hit them with with Crom Faeyr though.\n\nThe good news is that with the Haste spell, the amulet and the Greater Evasion, I am fucking fast, which allow me to kite them easily. The bone golems take some damage from MMM, but it's faster to hit them with the hammer directly.\n\nShe still casts Web, and then remove my protection. Evasion was great. I think Evasion, then PMW, should get me through the Golems. I need some spell protections at the start (maybe I should buy a scroll so I can protect myself from everything. But it would be faster to just buy a potion of magic protection). Maybe just bolstering my saves would be enough. Evasion provides that. I will need some potion for when I'm out of Evasion.\n\nI tried another one and I think she dispelled my protections. I'm not sure. Either that or my Evasion run out. Still, she killed me with some spells. I think she cast Abi-Dalzim and Skull Trap, which are Necromancy spells. I should get some protection against that.\n\n![image-20200504232407940](image-20200504232407940.png)\n\nI tried again. What I learned is that Dragon's Breath is not Necromancy and it dealt a lot of damage. I might need to build up my fire protection, or protect against Evocation (if that is truly evocation).\n\n![image-20200504232447917](image-20200504232447917.png)\n\nWhat I also learned is that I need a (minor) globe of invulnerability, to protect myself from the web spell. I also got affected by Fear. I need something to protection from fear. Maybe a potion of Clarity.\n\nOne more try. This time I correctly protected myself against Necromancy and Evocation, and beefed up my Fire Resistance. She cast some Skull Trap my way, even if I was invisible, but it had no effect. She is also casting Abi-Dalzim, and still no effect. Maybe I should just wait for her to use her spells? But no, I decided to keep buffing and start attacking her minions.\n\n![image-20200504233153210](image-20200504233153210.png)\n\nAnd here we go.\n\n![image-20200504233210970](image-20200504233210970.png)\n\nThey seem to not be able to hit me.\n\n![image-20200504233244773](image-20200504233244773.png)\n\nSo, I miss with a 1, that's expected. I hit with a 6, that's good. They take full crushing damage, but no Lightning damage. They only take half damage from my slashing ninjato, and are not affected by the poison effect.\n\n![image-20200504233410615](image-20200504233410615.png)\n\nI'm in the midst of two Abi-Dalzim spells, and I don't care. I need to be very careful when my Evasion wears off, so I can cast it again. Thankfully, it's an instant cast, but I have to be very reactive on the space bar the moment I see the icon disappear.\n\n![image-20200504233607161](image-20200504233607161.png)![image-20200504233558054](image-20200504233558054.png)\n\nHmm. I don't know what she did here, but she apparently dispelled my \"combat protection\" using a wand, even through my Spell Immunity.\n\n![image-20200504233643877](image-20200504233643877.png)\n\nMy icon still seem to have the three SI. Seems like she dispelled my Evasion though. Ah shit, I forgot to protect against Abjuration. Silly mistake. That's why she could dispel me. Gonna cast that right now.\n\n![image-20200504233930101](image-20200504233930101.png)![image-20200504233940681](image-20200504233940681.png)\n\nWell, she seem to have used another wand. And this time I lost control of my character (frozen in place with the confusion symbol above his head). My Otiluke sphere kicked in, but I know I'm dead. I might need to drink a potion of Invulnerability, or Magic Protection to have better Wand Saving Throws next time (and protect myself from dispel).\n\n![image-20200504234431540](image-20200504234431540.png)\n\nHmm. She managed to target me even while I was Invisible. I think the order in which I buff is here very important. I need to cast a Globe quickly so I don't get hit by this nor the Skull Trap nor the Web.\n\n![image-20200504235028518](image-20200504235028518.png)\n\nOh, the potion of Magic Protection does protect from all Elemental Damage. I thought it was only \"Magic Damage\". Well, that's very good to know. I might actually stop protecting myself from Evocation and Necromancy then. Her spells might actually heal me.\n\n![image-20200504235254531](image-20200504235254531.png)\n\nHoly cow, she keeps doing that. She removed my Stoneskin. I still have the Spell Immunities, but she dispelled the Stoneskin and she can dispel the Evasions as well. Maybe I'll just bait her into using her wands?\n\nI cast Mirror Image, she didn't react. I cast Stoneskin, she dispelled with her wand, but I kept the Mirror Image. I'm really not sure what her deal his. I cast Defensive Spin to try. She didn't seem to mind. I cast a fire shield, she didn't care either. Improved Haste: no reaction. Now I'm going full Evasion, and we'll see.\n\n![image-20200504235801512](image-20200504235801512.png)\n\nI'm killing her golems, and she does not react. Her fireshield went down, and she didn't recast it. Maybe she's out of spells? \n\n![image-20200504235847725](image-20200504235847725.png)\n\nMy own protections are going down. I'm only protected against Evocation, which is useless now. I should maybe recast Spell Immunity. Maybe Divination so I can run in hiding if need be; or Abjuration so I cannot be dispelled. Definitely not Necromancy as I'm already resistant to all damage and succeed my saving throws. Going with Abjuration.\n\n![image-20200505000134002](image-20200505000134002.png)\n\nOk, they are all dead. Now, let's try the lich.\n\n![image-20200505000345616](image-20200505000345616.png)\n\nShe's fleeing when I approach her. I can hit her, but it only removed Mirror Images. She protected against Magical Weapons. I tried the flail of ages, hoping that the elemental damage would get through, but it didn't. Thankfully, I had packed some normal weapons, gonna try that\n\n![image-20200505000512384](image-20200505000512384.png)\n\nStill does not work. Well, protected against all sorts of weapons, I guess I'll just have to wait and keep hitting until her protection wears off. I've been using that spell a lot myself, I know it does not last long.\n\n![image-20200505000651043](image-20200505000651043.png)![image-20200505000659075](image-20200505000659075.png)\n\nI still have pretty good magic protection, but I still cast a globe of Invulnerability on top of that.\n\n![image-20200505000816735](image-20200505000816735.png)![image-20200505000824771](image-20200505000824771.png)\n\nWhat the fuck? One moment after I took this screenshot, my resistances went back to normal.\n\n![image-20200505000858718](image-20200505000858718.png)\n\nThanks to the fireshield I still had some fire resistance, which protected me from the dragon's breath but I'm in trouble.\n\n![image-20200505000933456](image-20200505000933456.png)\n\nWell, I didn't want to use one of those potions, but now I think I don't have another choice.\n\n![image-20200505001034092](image-20200505001034092.png)\n\nShe keeps casting PMW and Abi-Dalzim, but I'm still protected from magic and I can hit all day, we'll see who gets tired first.\n\n![image-20200505001150980](image-20200505001150980.png)\n\nFirst sign of weakness I see.\n\n![image-20200505001232558](image-20200505001232558.png)\n\nHmm, she managed to decrease my Magic Resistance. I still need to be careful.\n\n![image-20200505001605399](image-20200505001605399.png)\n\nI'm finally breaking through her Mirror Images.\n\n![image-20200505001729053](image-20200505001729053.png)\n\nFinally, switching to the Flail, I managed to deal her some damage. But she keeps moving around, so It's gonna take a while.\n\n![image-20200505001933757](image-20200505001933757.png)\n\nSeriously? She turned invisible and hid behind a pillar to cast Stoneskin. And there is nothing I can do except wait.\n\n![image-20200505002121393](image-20200505002121393.png)\n\nI put some delayed Fireball. She is the opaque sphere. Invisible. And me, I'm waiting. \n\n![2020-05-05_00h22m51](2020-05-05_00h22m51.gif)\n\nAh, she finally turned visible again. And I'm now chasing after her to deal 2 points of damage.\n\n![image-20200505002417311](image-20200505002417311.png)\n\nAnd at some point, just like this, I was able to hit her for a good hit, and she died.\n\nSo, this is a fight I think I can replay. The key is the Potion of Magic Protection. That, plus Evasion and Improved Haste to kill the golems. But it's still a very long fight, and can I don't have an infinite supply of Magic Protection potions. I'm gonna try other battles first.\n\n## Rakshasas\n\nThis thing I now realize with the High Level Bard is that I will never get level 7, 8 or 9 spells. No Mordenkainen Sword, Project Image, Simulacrum or even Wish. It really limits the possibilities. In the context of the Black Pits, it does add some challenge that I like, though.\n\nAnyway, let's try the Rakshasas.\n\n![image-20200505221300636](image-20200505221300636.png)\n\nFrom what I remember, they tend to turn invisible, are protected by Fireshields and can't be hurt by spells of level 3 or less.\n\n![image-20200505221411926](image-20200505221411926.png)\n\nOne Maharajah, two Ruhks and Three Rakshasas. They got protected with Fireshield, protection from elements, spell turning, blur and Stoneskin.\n\n![image-20200505221545239](image-20200505221545239.png)\n\nI took advantage of my TST to cast Sunfire on the 3 Rakshasas. Spell Ineffective. The Marajah also cast Mislead. I think this is going to be pretty boring to counter.\n\n![image-20200505221705474](image-20200505221705474.png)\n\nThe \"Marajah\" died from my Sunfire, but I'm pretty sure it was only the decoy.\n\n![image-20200505222045461](image-20200505222045461.png)\n\nI buffed with MI, Stoneskin, 2FS and of course Improved Haste and Evasion. I killed a Rashasa in 3 hits, and they can't hit me so far.\n\n![image-20200505222139291](image-20200505222139291.png)\n\nI missed the Ruhk with a 21... \n\n![image-20200505222208131](image-20200505222208131.png)\n\nRakshasa still take cold damage from my shield. I'll try to keep focusing on the Ruhk while they get hurt by the shield.\n\n![image-20200505222315866](image-20200505222315866.png)\n\nThe Ruhk cast Breach, which is an Abjuration spell and it still manages to remove my fireshield, stoneskin and Evasion. Maybe I'll need something to protect against Breach...\n\n![image-20200505222554139](image-20200505222554139.png)\n\nI killed the Rakshasa easily and quickly, but now the Ruhk have too many layers of Mirror Image and Stoneskin here. I'm trying the Flail to get through those layers quickly but, it's not proving very effective.\n\n![image-20200505222649991](image-20200505222649991.png)\n\nI managed to summon the minotaurs for distraction, and the Maharajah finally got out of his Invisibility to cast Time Stop, Alacrity, Death Spell (this will kill all the summons), Comet and PMW.\n\nThen, one of the Ruhk hit me with his sword and stunned me. I really need to put an Invisibility instead of an Otiluke in that Contingency. They seem to auto-stun on hit. I'm not sure how to protect myself from stun. I'll try a potion of Clarity.\n\nSo, I checked and only a Scroll of Magic Protection would protect from Breach (but that would make it useless as you can't have any magic protection under such a scroll), or Spell Shield (but it's a level 8 spell, that I will never have, and even then it will be consumed). So I won't be able to avoid the Breach. Then maybe I should just bait them into casting Breach when I only have a few protection spells.\n\nAlso, they are immune to level 5 and lower spells. So I guess I really have to hit them on melee.\n\n## Redoing the Demons & Devils\n\nJust for fun (and for completion's sake) I redid the Demons/Devils fight. I didn't even have the right spell list prepared, but I just buffed with Improved Haste and Evasion and went in melee killing everyone. It was a piece of cake. Crom Faeyr really changes everything. I'll be doing this fight a couple of time to get Blackrazor and Celestial Fury.\n\nAh, I died because I got charmed. I might need to cast the globe faster next time. Or just wear the shield that protects from charm. I used the shield next time, and just ran into melee killing everyone. This was so easy. I can't believe it took me days and countless attempts to beat them initially.\n\n![image-20200505230214193](image-20200505230214193.png)\n\nAnd this baby is mine. The stun is incredible, I hope it works against the Rakshasas.\n\n![image-20200505231548229](image-20200505231548229.png)\n\nI bought a scroll of Champion's Strength because I can now use Priest scrolls.\n\n![image-20200505231611133](image-20200505231611133.png)![image-20200505231633543](image-20200505231633543.png)\n\nWell, it actually makes my THACO worse. Sure it gives a nice bonus, but because it decreases my Strength, it's not worth it. Too bad.\n\nI retried the Demon/Devil fight a few time and kept dying. First the Erinyes charmed me, then the demon vorpaled me. Ah and now Symbol Death. And now I take a fear and start running. Seriously. Now I got a Symbol: Stun and a Fear. I don't get it. This was a super easy fight and now I keep getting killed by random demons. Ah and this time the Cornugon stun me. Rhaa this time I got charmed. And Feared.\n\nFINALLY. After SO MANY TRIES. This was getting frustrating.\n\n![image-20200506000036974](image-20200506000036974.png)\n\nThis is very very good. Immunity to charm and fear in a weapon. I won't need to have my shield anymore. Draining levels on every hit, with the ninjato that will render people helpless. Also increasing my STR, means I might not even need Crom Faeyr. I'll have to see if the haste somehow stacks with other things.\n\n## Back to the cats\n\nI bought Breach, Lower Resistance, Pierce Magic, True Sight and Summon Nishruu myself and gonna try a few of them on the cats.\n\nThey got hit by my TST at the start of the fight. I tried to hit them, but the Maharajah was untargettable. I then tried a Ruhk, I seem to have moved toward him, but then the Time Stop ended, so I'm not sure if I can hit them.\n\nI killed on Rakshasa with Black Razor and Crom Faeyr but I don't think Blackrazor triggered. I'll keep using Crom and Ninjato to kill the simple ones quickly.\n\n![image-20200506144628117](image-20200506144628117.png)\n\nThe maharajah did a Time Stop and Comet, but he took damage himself. The then breached me, which remove the GI and then spammed Magic Missile on me. I will try next time to summon a Nishruu and see how they react, if they waste spells on them.\n\nSo, I can hit the Ruhk when in a Time Stop, not the Maharajah, but I take damage from their shields. I will need a way to protect myself from that\n\n![image-20200506145235987](image-20200506145235987.png)\n\nWell, Time Stop and this. I think I'm dead.\n\nStill, what I learned is that True Sight takes a very long time to cast, but is very good in dispelling their buffs. I could cast a simple Shield to protect myself from the Magic Missiles, or a MGI for broader protection. And some Fire Protection through a potion and I should avoid most of their damage without using a Potion of Magic Protection. I still didn't had time to try the Nishruu thing.\n\nI guess the key is into having enough protection to kill the 3 simple ones, avoiding the hits from the Ruhks.\n\nAfter a break of a few days, I'm coming back to it.\n\nI started with Improved Haste, hoping to hit them during the TST. I couldn't hit any of them. Somehow they were not targetable. Maybe I should cast True Sight before. I tried to summon a Nishruu, but the Time Stop ended and they interrupted the spell.\n\nI turned invisible and used True Sight myself. If did remove a lot of their protections. I buffed and started attacking the smaller ones. They breached me. I cast Mirror Image, they breached me again. I managed to kill the smaller one, I can even kill them with arrows of acid. I tried to bait them with a Magic Shield, but they didn't Breach this time. I stayed alive quite a bit, but I couldn't find a way to kill the Ruhk. They have either too many layers of Stoneskin/Mirror Image or are immune to my attacks.\n\nI can kill the first three easy, but I have no clue how to fight the remaining threes. Maybe just wait for their spells to end, like I did with the other spellcaster. Stay invisible, and bait them? I guess I could redo the Lich fight, win the Staff of the Magi and have an infinite number of Invisibilities.\n\n## Farming the Lich\n\nI went back to the Lich. With just a Greater Evasion and Improved Haste, I could kill all the golems. Then, it's a long battle between me and the lich. I use a Magic Protection potion, wait for her to use her spells, remove her protections, wait for her to get out of her invisibility, and finally she died. \n\nWhat I learned is that the moment I cast Stoneskin, she uses her wand of dispel. That's a great way to have her get out of Invisibility.\n\nI asked for the reward, not improving my reputation, and I got this:\n\n![image-20200508232004097](image-20200508232004097.png)\n\nNot very useful at the moment, no.\n\nI'll try to redo it another time, farming the staff this time. Then I'll redo it for the reputation.\n\n![image-20200508232257057](image-20200508232257057.png)\n\nI have time to cast Improved Haste, Spell Immunity, drink a potion of Clarity and almost kill one of the golems at the start. Ah, shit, she chain casted magic missile my way during a time stop. I might need a MGI instead of Spell Immunity.\n\nI retried another one, and transformer into an invisible troll. I allowed me to regenerate and I also think it is immune to many effects. She has been cast so many spells my way, and I just avoided them. I can confirm that she attemps to dispel me with a wand whenever I cast Stoneskin. But I was stupid and used all my Stoneskins, so now I have no way to make her go out of hiding.\n\n![image-20200508233609267](image-20200508233609267.png)\n\nOnce again, all the golems are dead, and the game is now to manage to hit her. I tried to summon a nishruu to have her use all her spells on it, but she simply dispelled it. It was a bit long, waiting for her to get out of hiding, but I finally got her. Didn't get the reward, though...\n\nThis time I started with Improved Haste (I *think* it makes me cast faster). Then during the TST, SID and turning invisible. Then Immunity to Necromancey (to avoid Abi-Dalzim) and Evocation (to avoid most damage spells). Mirror Image because she does not dispel it, and a potion of Clarity just to be sure.\n\n![image-20200511222021518](image-20200511222021518.png)\n\nThen, we go killing the golems, recasting Greater Evasion the moment it's down.\n\n![image-20200511222125906](image-20200511222125906.png)\n\nThey can still hit me on a Critical Hit, even with my -24 AC apparently. I regenerate about 1HP/second so I should be ok as long as I don't get two criticals in a row.\n\n![image-20200511223220513](image-20200511223220513.png)\n\n![image-20200511223235225](image-20200511223235225.png)\n\nI forgot how powerful this was. Even just the AC, Saving Throws and Protection from Evil makes it a great staff. Add permanent invisibility and a huge Spell Trap and it feels like the ultimate weapon.\n\n![image-20200511224031889](image-20200511224031889.png)\n\nMy sprite is pretty impressive.\n\nI'll now redo the fight two times for the reputation. I think I have the hang of it. Spell Immunity: Divination and the staff allow me to buff as much as I can. I use an Immunity to Necromancy, a Globe of Invulnerability and Potion of Clarity and went on killing the golems while protected by Greater Evasion. Once done, Dispel the Lich, hit her, True Sight, hit her and done. Long fight, but not dangerous if done properly.\n\nNow, let's get back to the Rakshasas.\n\n## Back to the Rakshasas again\n\nThis time I took a few summon spells. Animate Dead and Spider Spawn. Just summoning them made them waste some Time Stop and Comet on the summons while I was buffing on my side of the arena.\n\nThen, (ab)using the Staff of the Magi, I cast some Remove Magic (I was incorrectly using Dispel Magic on my previous games, actually debuffing myself) on them and then attacked with Celestial Fury and Crom Faeyr when their protections were down. Remove Magic removes the Fireshields, while True Sight removed the blur and invisibility.\n\nAnd that's it, I'm victorious. It was actually really easy this time. The key was to Remove their Magic protections\n\nI asked for a reward, but didn't get anything. Gonna do it for the reputation now, and then for the reward again.\n\n## Next battle\n\nAh shit, I clicked on \"Next battle\" by mistake. I might not be prepared, we'll see.\n\n![image-20200518144229383](image-20200518144229383.png)\n\nOh, Illithids and slaves. Hmm I guess with a Potion of Clarity, the Illithids won't be an issue. We'll see.\n\n![image-20200518144358831](image-20200518144358831.png)\n\nI cast a Mislead. With the staff of the Magi, he is invisible. I'll see if it allows me to stay Invisible as well.\n\nHmm, this seems extra-buggy because I could kill all three Illithids without them even reacting. Their max HP bar was refilling though, but I think that's because I hit them with Blackrazor, draining levels, so they ended up maxed in HP, but drained in levels.\n\n![image-20200518144755483](image-20200518144755483.png)\n\nBecause they can't see me, they don't attack, so they keep running. I had to stop them in a web to be able to finally hit them reliably.\n\nThis was the easiest battle I ever did. I just had to hit them until they died, dispel a few protections, and done. Gonna do it again for sure.\n\nOh, and it brings me to the next tier. Hmm maybe I should have bought some more stuff before the tier jump so it gets replenished. Too bad.\n\n## Replaying Cats and Tentacles\n\nRedoing the Rakshasa and Ilithids a few times for the reputation (Rakshasa 3 times, Illithids 2 times) and then the reward.\n\n![image-20200518161750297](image-20200518161750297.png)\n\nWith Improved Haste, I'm able to kill the three Rakshasas during the Time Stop trap.\n\n![image-20200518165233867](image-20200518165233867.png)\n\nWon that, but as I cannot cast spells of those levels, it does not grand me slots, unfortunately.\n\nThe Mind Flayers are really easy. I just run in the center while invisible with the Staff, cast Sunfire. With some luck I kill them all, otherwise one or two are still Near Death. Then I Mislead, Improved Haste and go kill the Illithids. Blackrazor and Ninjato seems to be the best combo. No risks involved, and almost no buff needed.\n\n![image-20200518170544914](image-20200518170544914.png)\n\nAlso got this. Borderline useless to me. \n\n![image-20200518180015099](image-20200518180015099.png)\n\nThis on the Rakshasas. Magic Resistance is great if and only if I can get it to 100%. Immunity to Death Magic could be situational. Greater Restoration is great because it fully heals me. Not sure if this is better than a potion, though.\n\n![image-20200518224613817](image-20200518224613817.png)\n\nFinally, I got what I wanted. One more attack under improved haste.\n\n## Shopping spree\n\n![image-20200518224710997](image-20200518224710997.png)\n\nBecause I redid the last two fights several times, I'm now pretty rich. I'm going to buy some interesting stuff at the merchants.\n\n![image-20200518224946491](image-20200518224946491.png)\n\nThis could be part of a MR combo.\n\n![image-20200518225042732](image-20200518225042732.png)\n\nThis could help me summon some creatures. I'll have to try and see if they are useful summons.\n\n![image-20200518225141571](image-20200518225141571.png)\n\nHmm, this could be interesting. If the effect bypass MR and has no save it means that with 6 attacks per round, I cripple the THAC0 of 12 points, making the target unable to hit me. That could be interesting.\n\n![image-20200518225245383](image-20200518225245383.png)\n\nAh, interesting to kill some undeads.\n\n![image-20200518225423977](image-20200518225423977.png)\n\nOh, this could do a lot of damage in the hands of someone that can actually use a staff (ie. not me)\n\n![image-20200518225514853](image-20200518225514853.png)\n\nI'll have to test how much Movement rate I can stack\n\n![image-20200518225740768](image-20200518225740768.png)\n\nAh, now we're talking. With Simulacrum, I should be able to cast high level spells from scrolls without consuming them.\n\n![image-20200518225930173](image-20200518225930173.png)\n\nThe 7th level is wasted on me, but two more slots of 5th and 6th level is interesting.\n\n![image-20200518230014224](image-20200518230014224.png)\n\nA +3 ring. Unfortunately, I cannot wear those rings with my armor, that already includes a bonus.\n\n![image-20200518230126668](image-20200518230126668.png)\n\nWhy not. Slightly better than the Cloak of the Sewers, and I can still keep the cloak for when I need to turn into a jelly or a rat.\n\n![image-20200518230207005](image-20200518230207005.png)\n\nOh, this could actually maybe open some interesting play with Simulacrum, Mislead and other clones that would not take any damage from lightning but bounce it everywhere.\n\n![image-20200518230341735](image-20200518230341735.png)\n\nMy favorite potions got a restock.\n\n![image-20200518230844567](image-20200518230844567.png)\n\nI bought a few spells, hoping to cast them through the Simulacrum.\n\n![image-20200518231222101](image-20200518231222101.png)\n\nI can cast a Simulacrum, which itself can cast a Mislead. His mislead does not have the staff of the Magi, while mine does.\n\n![image-20200518231329747](image-20200518231329747.png)\n\nIt *seems* that even if I kill the Mislead, me and my Simulacrum are still invisible.\n\nIf the Simulacrum casts Time Stop, he's the only one affected, not my main character. This makes sense, but I needed to try.\n\nAlso, apparently I can leave the Mislead in the dorm and move outside while still being invisible and able to cast spells.\n\n![image-20200518233142786](image-20200518233142786.png)\n\nI had fun sending lightning between me and a clone, both protected by the cloak. It killed all the merchants and summoned The Winged that just one shot me.\n\n## Planetars\n\n![image-20200518234205486](image-20200518234205486.png)\n\n6 Planetars. They seem to start the fight invisible, I cannot target them.\n\n![image-20200518234257729](image-20200518234257729.png)\n\nWell, not all of them. The Fallen Devas are, but Ariziel is not, I can hit him during a Time Stop.\n\n![image-20200518234342933](image-20200518234342933.png)\n\nThey seem to see me, even when I'm invisible, but I still outrun them.\n\nI can kill a few of them when protected behind Greater Evasion, but they are hard to debuff.\n\n![image-20200519000026365](image-20200519000026365.png)\n\nThey are not immune to Lightning, so I tried firing a lot of Lightning through our two cloak, but they move too quickly for this to be super effective. The stun from the Staff of Power does work though, so that with a great debuff I should be able to do something interesting.\n\n![image-20200519000217169](image-20200519000217169.png)\n\nFiring enough bolts horizontally and they all get stuned. But they recast Mirror Image so quickly it's hard to actually hit them. Oh I actually realized that I can be myself stunned by the ray. Hmm, I still haven't found a reliable way to prevent stun.\n\n![image-20200519000325075](image-20200519000325075.png)\n\nThat being said, this absolutly unorthodox method seems to work. Even if my clone and myself are stunned, as we are aligned and bouncing rays, anyone getting in the line gets the damage and the stun. Now I just need to be lucky and have the last angel go in the line.\n\n![image-20200519000443795](image-20200519000443795.png)\n\nThat worked.\n\nThis is actually a fucking brilliant tactic. Take a Simulacrum with the Cloak of reflection. Have it send Regular LIghnting bolts, or Paralyzation lightning bolt at you and do the same. You create an infinite ray of light and you're immune to it.\n\nWell, the **only** issue with this tactic is that it is creating so many bolts that the game is slow to the point that it's unresponsive. Dennaton congratulated me, I clicked \"Continue\" and all I can see is the arena and all I can hear is the lightning bold sound effect. The sound moved from lightning bolts to the sound of the Pits. I'm just going to force quit and I'll have to redo the fight.\n\nI tried again, and couldn't attack some of them during the first Time Stop, it seems there is some kind of bug and even if I click attack, my character does not attack. I still managed to make him attack one of them and almost kill it, but then Time Stop ended. I could avoid most of their attacks with Greater Evasion (they still hit with 18+), and then they used Harm, which reduces my HP to 1. I need to protect against that.\n\nThis is a +2 weapon (hits like a +5), from Necromancy. Meaning I can protect against it with Spell Immunity or PMV. Spell Immunity lasts longer, so I might go with that.\n\n![image-20200519141134348](image-20200519141134348.png)\n\nSo I started killing the first one during the Time Stop Trap. Also managed to create a Simulacrum. I then used Greater Evasion to lure them to me while the Simulacrum was able to cast Improved Haste on himself and chain cast Time Stop from a scroll (I wanted to see if they would stack). At the same time, I was dispelling them and kiting them. When the Simulacrum finished casting Time Stop, and went into killing one of the devas.\n\n![image-20200519141321942](image-20200519141321942.png)\n\nCrom Faeyr in main hand with Ninja-to in the offhand is the most reliable way to inflict damage.\n\n![image-20200519141411922](image-20200519141411922.png)\n\nSo the Time Stop does not stack with itself. Chain casting it does not seem to have any impact. Still I managed to kill two Devas during the Time Stop with the Simulacrum. I can only imagine how devastating this would be with a Fighter/Mage that could cast it several times.\n\n![image-20200519141715033](image-20200519141715033.png)\n\nTwo of me with Mirror Image, protected from Necromancy and with Improved Haste, we're just killing them. They still managed to stun me at the end, so I couldn't set another Time Stop Trap.\n\n![image-20200519142112800](image-20200519142112800.png)\n\nI was redoing the fight for reputation, but weirdly enough, it happened in another arena. So I still have my Time Stop Trap.\n\n![image-20200519142251575](image-20200519142251575.png)\n\nThis time it didn't work at all. I couldn't even kill one of them during the Trap and didn't even had time to protect myself from Necromancy before getting stunned.\n\nI tried again and didn't manage to do much with the Simulacrum, but I could tank with SI:N, Mirror Image and Stoneskin, enough to actually kill them. The Simulacrum died too quickly to do much. Also, True Sight is much better than Remove magic against them.\n\n![image-20200519144200578](image-20200519144200578.png)\n\nWhen I can pull it, hitting them with a Simulacrum during a Time Stop is perfect.\n\nI could now redo the fight for Carsomyr, but I don't think I'll need it.\n\n## Demi-Liches\n\nNext fight is against two demi-liches (the floating skull types). I'm going on this first attempt testing what they can do, not do. I already know they will try to Imprison me, so I'll protect against Abjuration. They are also highly resistant to Crushing damage (90%) and I expect them to be even more resistant to slashing and piercing.\n\nBut I don't know if they can see invisibility, if they are affected by the Mace of Disruption or Daystar, etc. Let's see.\n\n![image-20200519145709071](image-20200519145709071.png)\n\nThey can be hit with MMM, albeit not for very much damage.\n\n![image-20200519145742744](image-20200519145742744.png)\n\nThe Mace of Disruption *seems* to be working, but as I'm in a Time Stop, there is no visible effect. I'm going to try to hit the other one.\n\n![image-20200519145834047](image-20200519145834047.png)\n\nWell, that's what written, but they are still both very much not destroyed.\n\n![image-20200519150025464](image-20200519150025464.png)\n\nThe Sunray had no effect, but hitting them with the Sunray sword seems to inflict some magical damage. I tried hitting them with Magic Missile, but no effect. But just hitting them with this sword seems to be enough, they die quickly. Because I was protected against Abjuration I feel like none of their spells could hit me.\n\n![image-20200519150454918](image-20200519150454918.png)\n\nDaystar +2 is a much better weapon than I expected. It does default slashing damage, but seems to also add its bonus as Magic damage, and when hitting undeads, it does another 2 points of Slashing, but another magic damage. The fact that it's Magic damage is important, because very few enemies are resistant to it. I'm gonna keep that sword when hitting undeads, that's way more powerful than I expected.\n\nI tried again, and I kept getting killed. They stun lock me, than kill me. I guess I might have to also protect against Necromancy.\n\n![image-20200519151949847](image-20200519151949847.png)\n\nFinally got the Cloak of Mirroring. From what I understand, I can no longer be harmed by Magic Missile, Melf Acid Arrow and such. Not sure if I can be hurt by wands, or Fireballs. I guess I can be in the radius, but as monsters will target me and not an empty space near me, maybe I will be immune. I need to do a few tests in the dorm.\n\nSo it does block Magic Missile. Does not prevent Piercing damage from MMM, but does cancel the Fire Damage. It does protect from the Lightning bold fired from a wand, but not from their rebounds. Does not prevent casting of Web or Clouds, but is immune to Skull Trap.\n\n![image-20200519153333357](image-20200519153333357.png)\n\nAnd finally, the great ring. AC +2, that stacks with other AC. Quick regeneration. Immunity to Disease and Poison.\n\nMR +10% is great (but really, MR is only ever reliable if you have 100%). Invisibility is useless with the Staff. Improved Haste could help as a last resort if we already used all other IH we have.\n\n## Exploration\n\nSince I discovered that I can cast spells and use items if I let a Mislead in the dorm, I'm going for a bit of exploration and shopping.\n\n![image-20200519230954706](image-20200519230954706.png)\n\nI missed this line the first time, but it grants +3AC and stacks with my armor. Silence Immunity is also useful. I'll keep it.\n\nI tried to summon a sword and a shambling mound from the dorms, but it seems that summons are disabled. So I went in the enemy team lodge, stole a few items, nothing fancy.\n\n## Dragons\n\n![image-20200519233554179](image-20200519233554179.png)\n\nOne large dragon and two wyvern like. I'll try the usual IH and Greater Evasion, and we'll see from there.\n\n![image-20200519233712253](image-20200519233712253.png)\n\nIt takes lightning damage, but no crushing. Let's try another weapon.\n\n![image-20200519233741501](image-20200519233741501.png)\n\nOk, so seems immune to crushing, but takes all the elemental damages.\n\n![image-20200519233947980](image-20200519233947980.png)\n\nThe smallest ones take normal damage.\n\n![image-20200519234037799](image-20200519234037799.png)\n\nOh, and the bigger one seems to not be immune to Imprisonment. ✔ Done.\n\nThat was super easy. Gonna do it again. On the second try the Simulacrum got scared and killed, so I had to finish it with my own Imprisonment scroll. Third try, killed the two wyverns during the initial TST. Had the Simulacrum cast Time Stop and Emprisonment, and done.\n\nWhat I learned is that the Improved Haste from the Ring of Gaxx can be used in a Time Stop, without having to wait for the spell to be cast at the end of the Time Stop. Pretty great for buffing during the Time Stop.\n\nI must say the Simulacrum casting Time Stop and Imprisonment while I distract the monsters works wonder.\n\n![image-20200520000223151](image-20200520000223151.png)\n\nI won this. Strength 22 is less than Crom Faeyr. Immunity to level drain I can have it with other gear. Additional fire damage is nice but not extraordinary. I might have to try it though, to see if it has any hidden capabilities while in combat.\n\n![image-20200520000432694](image-20200520000432694.png)\n\nThis might be better. 2d4+5 damage is great, +6 against undead, demons and devils is situational but pretty frequent. Only issue is that it's a bastard sword and I'm not proficient in it.\n\n## Bhaalspawn\n\n![image-20200520000728589](image-20200520000728589.png)\n\nThis time it seems to be Bhaalspawns.\n\n![image-20200520000955529](image-20200520000955529.png)\n\nI took advantage of the TST to create some spectral blades and cast sunfire.\n\n![image-20200520001037769](image-20200520001037769.png)\n\nThis killed many cultists, but got me flying prone. Not sure why. Maybe they explode when they die?\n\n![image-20200520001203483](image-20200520001203483.png)\n\nAh ok, one could turn into a Slayer. Maybe I should have focused on this one first.\n\n![image-20200520001336089](image-20200520001336089.png)\n\nHe did what? The slayer backstabbed me in plain sight for 80 damage. Shit.\n\n![image-20200520001415457](image-20200520001415457.png)\n\nAnd he is immune to Time Stop, he keeps moving even during my clone Time Stop. I'll still try to Imprison him. But I died before being able to see if it would work.\n\nOk, let's try again, and this time, focus on the guy before he turns into a slayer.\n\n![image-20200520001717260](image-20200520001717260.png)\n\nThis time I managed to kill him during my TST. But the duration of the trap seems buggy. Sometimes it seems to reactivate a second time.\n\n![image-20200520001858472](image-20200520001858472.png)\n\nThe second one can also transform into a slayer, but is easier to kill.\n\n## Rebellion\n\n![image-20200520002445213](image-20200520002445213.png)\n\nSeems like it's now the start of the rebellion. The Winged and her hunters are away.\n\n![image-20200520003019818](image-20200520003019818.png)\n\nI prepared a trap for the guards, but they somehow went through.\n\nI charged into the rebellion head first and got myself killed. I'm going to try again, but being very sneaky and trying to see if I can abuse the scripts.\n\n![image-20200520141302414](image-20200520141302414.png)\n\nSo, I can move all the way to this spot without triggering the Rebellion (the talking NPC is still behind the fog of war), but I can cast spells. It means I can cast Mislead and go exploring and lay traps. I can even sleep.\n\nShops have also been replenished:\n\n![image-20200520141630236](image-20200520141630236.png)\n\nA +5 Vorpal weapon; this is powerful. I'm not proficient in axes, though.\n\n![image-20200520141720053](image-20200520141720053.png)\n\n![image-20200520141727925](image-20200520141727925.png)\n\nDoes a lot of damage to undeads. I don't think there are any undeads in the final fight, though.\n\n![image-20200520141802873](image-20200520141802873.png)\n\nThis, is very good. The level drain should happen consistently, but it's a two handed weapon. There is a few great two handed weapons out there, I wonder if I should try to wear them. The issue is that it will greatly reduce the number of APR, and APR seems the most important stats, considering all the on-hit effects the weapons have (usually more important than the default damage it's doing).\n\n![image-20200520142138405](image-20200520142138405.png)\n\nThis is another very good two handed weapon. Paralysis and Poison on the same weapon? This is insane. I might buy it just for fun.\n\n![image-20200520142252255](image-20200520142252255.png)\n\nDouble movement rate ? Whoa, this seems very interesting for a fight type. I will have to buy it and see how it works. I tried, and it's basically the same effect as Paws of the Cheetah, but they do not stack. Could be interesting for warrior-type, to free up a boot slot, but there isn't even that many great boots.\n\n![image-20200520142333340](image-20200520142333340.png)\n\nThat's a better version of my chainmail. The Protection from Normal Weapon at this stage in the game seems useless, but I'm sure I can find an combo/exploit of some kind by firing stuff at myself. \n\n![image-20200520142508216](image-20200520142508216.png)\n\nOf course, there is also this. The AC is good, but not that extraordinary. But the Casting Time reduction is huge. I wonder if it also applies to scrolls.\n\nSo I now have to choose between -10 AC and Protection from Magic Weapon, or -5 AC and Casting Speed decreased by 4.\n\nI also bought the Bow of Gesen to see if it was firing Lightning Bolts as I was remembering, and see if I could reflect it with the cloak. So now, it's firing (slow) arrows of lightning, but it is not reflected.\n\n![image-20200520143954731](image-20200520143954731.png)\n\nI prepared a trap in the fighting room.\n\n![image-20200520152327151](image-20200520152327151.png)\n\nI started the Rebellion, almost got myself killed by the guards. There are too many people fighting (and allied mages casting Time Stop) to be able to read the log and really understand what is going on. So I put on my Mirror Image, Improved Haste and Evasion and went on hitting them.\n\nI'm letting my \"friends\" do the fight, while Invisible, there are too many people doing too many things.\n\n![image-20200520153044350](image-20200520153044350.png)\n\nAwesome. The Near Death mage managed to put me to sleep right before turning invisible. This sleep effect is lasting a very very long time...\n\n![image-20200520153201130](image-20200520153201130.png)\n\nAnd now a guard is waiting for me to wake up. I woke up firing lightning bolts while wearing the cloak that reflects them. This killed everyone in the room.\n\n![image-20200520154002009](image-20200520154002009.png)\n\nFound some stuff in the vault. Useless at this point.\n\n![image-20200520154044329](image-20200520154044329.png)\n\nGreat AC boost.\n\n![image-20200520154119378](image-20200520154119378.png)\n\nThis is very good. Very very good. I loot it.\n\n![image-20200520222233719](image-20200520222233719.png)\n\nI then started the rebellion for real. Got thrown into the pits with \"friends\" and Humber Hulks. I killed all the Hulks with Sunfire, but it killed some of my friends as well. So far I think not many of my friends survived.\n\n![image-20200520222444542](image-20200520222444542.png)\n\nBut wait, my \"friends\" gave me a lousy potion of Strength and it dropped the Flail of Ages I had in that spot? No way. I'm going to see if I ever go back to the previous arena to pick it up.\n\n![image-20200520222610240](image-20200520222610240.png)\n\nOh this time another \"friend\" gave me a Scroll of Protection from Magic. This is the Ultimate weapon. All those items I receive are assigned to my first inventory slot, and if full they drop the item that was there on the ground. This time I was able to pick the scroll on the ground and ditch the potion of heroism they gave me instead.\n\n![image-20200520222803484](image-20200520222803484.png)\n\nI managed to drink the Potion of Power quickly and picked up an item to replace it. I feel like the final fight will be on that area...\n\n![image-20200520223123131](image-20200520223123131.png)\n\nActually I moved to another arena. I feel like I will have several arenas until I get to the last part, so I'll have to be careful with my use of resource. This time I was lucky and my TST worked, so I could send a few Sunfire in them.\n\n![image-20200520223312299](image-20200520223312299.png)\n\nThis killed a few but not all of them.\n\n![image-20200520223725556](image-20200520223725556.png)\n\nI'm trying all my items to not use too much resources. I killed a few more with some lightning bolts from the wand, but THIS staff is incredibly powerful. The stun has no save and lasts for a while. It takes some time to cast though, so maybe I should have kept the Robe of Vecna, but still.\n\nI finally moved to the last battle, against all the group. This is very hard. I *think* I can find a way to buff before the fight at least to have SI:D because they can see invisibility and The Winged kills with Vorpal hits. I almost killed Dormammu during the TST. I will try to cast more Time Stops and maybe block the mages under Scroll of Magic Protection. I'll also protect againt magic myself. This is the last fight. If I don't use my consumables now, I will never use them.\n\nI killed the Humber Hulks without using any consumables this time, buffed and saved in the area.\n\n![image-20200520230149261](image-20200520230149261.png)\n\nBecause I was more ready this time, I could cast two Sunfires in the group.\n\n![image-20200520230223454](image-20200520230223454.png)\n\nI also hit the dwarf in the last seconds of the trap, and only one survived. One last hit of Crom Faeyr and she's dead. I'm now buffing in preparation of the last fight.\n\nSpell Immunity: Divination so I can stay Invisible and True Sight so I break their illusions. As I'm already protected against magic I should not need any other spell protection. I plan on casting a longer Time Stop during the first one, to make it longer. Then disabled spellcasters through Scroll of Magic Protection and casting a simulacrum.\n\n![image-20200521221605056](image-20200521221605056.png)\n\nSo here is the full cast. The Winged is the one I'm most scared of as she can one-shot me with her vorpal sword. Bannor is not a problem, I'm highly resistant to crushing damage. I guess the Joker hits hard, and Dormamus and Pol Pyrrus will cast all sort of weird things.\n\n![image-20200521221753417](image-20200521221753417.png)\n\nI was right, all sorts of protections. Immune to spells 1-3. Immune to elemental damage. Immune to magic weapons. Spell turning, Stoneskin, Improved Haste and True Sight.\n\n![image-20200521221849275](image-20200521221849275.png)\n\nSlightly less for the Salamander. Only elemental protection, Stoneskin and a Fire Shield.\n\n![image-20200521221952298](image-20200521221952298.png)\n\nToo bad, I dispelled them all. They cannot be affected by magic of any kind (ie. no buff) and can't cast spells. I just hope I don't need that to actually hit them.\n\n![image-20200521222110731](image-20200521222110731.png)\n\nI can hit the Winged during the Time Stop. I still take a few damage (technically I think I shouldn't as I left her gloves in my chest, but still). She is barely resistant to lightning so I can still hit her with Crom Faeyr.\n\n![image-20200521222221271](image-20200521222221271.png)\n\nContingencies are firing from the other fighters. Because they are both under the effect of a Time Stop and the Scroll of Magic Protection, I don't know if they will work or not.\n\n![image-20200521222336986](image-20200521222336986.png)\n\nI could only get The Winged to Badly Injured and the other contingencies seems to work correctly. At least I can see the Fireshield special effect.\n\n![image-20200521222615271](image-20200521222615271.png)\n\nSo Pol Pyrrus has the sprite of a mage and cast a lot of Contingencies but can actually also Enrage? Pretty impressive combo.\n\n![image-20200521222824703](image-20200521222824703.png)\n\nSo it seems that the Scroll correctly dispelled anything they had, and prevents them from casting, but Contingencies were still passing through, so they are protected from magical weapons, and have their shields up.\n\n![image-20200521223201721](image-20200521223201721.png)\n\nI finally managed to cast a Time Stop with my Simulacrum and went on hitting the salamander, but she turned invisible because of a contingency. I don't think my True Sight will kick in during the Time Stop, so I'm going for another target.\n\n![image-20200521223322125](image-20200521223322125.png)\n\nThe golem is highly resistant to crushing. I'll have to try something else. Ah shit, no I can't change weapons of the simulacrum. Gonna try another target instead.\n\n![image-20200521223603523](image-20200521223603523.png)\n\nI cast another Time Stop through the Simulacrum and send him killing the Winged. He took some damage (is not badly injured), but at least he killed the beast.\n\nI buffed him with a Mirror Image and Stoneskin during the Time Stop to give him more resilience. I send him kicking the salamander ass and got it.\n\n![image-20200521223807937](image-20200521223807937.png)\n\nAt the same time I summoned some Spectral Bladed to distract the Djinni. Didn't really work as the swords move way to slowly compared to the others.\n\n![image-20200521224216213](image-20200521224216213.png)\n\nSo I cast another Time Stop and killed the djinni with Crom. I took some fire damage from the Fireshield, but I survived. I ignore the golem for now, he will be very slow to kill as he is immune to most of my damage, but I'm also immune to his damage.\n\n![image-20200521224426332](image-20200521224426332.png)\n\nHere we go. Me and my clone went full melee on Joker and killed him a few seconds. Now on to the Golem.\n\nThis Scroll of Magic Protection given to me at the very last moment was OP.\n\n![image-20200521224542638](image-20200521224542638.png)\n\nOh so he really is immune to almost everything.\n\n![image-20200521224742716](image-20200521224742716.png)\n\nIt took a long time, 3 damage per 3 damage, but he finally fell.\n\n![image-20200521225012298](image-20200521225012298.png)\n\nWhat a twist. The bad guy was not the worst, there is another one even worse above him." }, { "files": [ "05-bg2/image-20200522230116163.png", "05-bg2/image-20200522231318982.png", "05-bg2/image-20200522232238790.png", "05-bg2/image-20200522233227582.png", "05-bg2/image-20200522234910513.png", "05-bg2/image-20200522235253717.png", "05-bg2/image-20200522235707141.png", "05-bg2/image-20200523000423511.png", "05-bg2/image-20200523000518918.png", "05-bg2/image-20200523000549488.png", "05-bg2/image-20200523000607879.png", "05-bg2/image-20200523002015804.png", "05-bg2/image-20200527162556900.png", "05-bg2/image-20200527162756393.png", "05-bg2/image-20200527162924678.png", "05-bg2/image-20200527163215993.png", "05-bg2/image-20200527163231159.png", "05-bg2/image-20200527163430544.png", "05-bg2/image-20200527163816991.png", "05-bg2/image-20200530231224250.png", "05-bg2/image-20200530231247886.png", "05-bg2/image-20200530231319367.png", "05-bg2/image-20200530231325838.png", 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"05-bg2/image-20200728225747928.png", "05-bg2/image-20200728230040669.png", "05-bg2/image-20200728230651028.png" ], "name": "Shadows of Amn", "text": "This is the start of my BG2 solo run. I went through BG1, TotSC and SoD with this character, and also did BP1 and BP2 with another character.\n\n![image-20200522230116163](image-20200522230116163.png)\n\nI'm a Fighter/Mage/Thief with a lot of experience. I think I'm close to, or even above, the BG2 cap. So even if I'm playing solo, my level might make the game easy, so I need to add some handicap to still have some challenge.\n\nI might not pick my gear from previous games right away. I think I will also do some question outside of Athkatla first (last run I did I stayed in the city). I might also ignore all the mooks and go directly to the bosses. What I'm looking for are challenging fights and nice gear.\n\nBut first, let's get out of this dungeon.\n\n## Chateau Irenicus\n\nOk, so I *will* get the Paws of the Cheetah back as soon as I get out of here. I hate walking that slowly.\n\n![image-20200522231318982](image-20200522231318982.png)\n\nSo this is how I chose to spend by pips. Now that I finished Black Pits 2, I remember that Blackrazor (Longsword), Flail of Ages (Flail) and Crom Faeyr (Katana) are great weapons. I won't get Blackrazor until the very end of BG2 so shouldn't really wait for it. Crom Faeyr main selling point is giving me 25 STR, but I already have 24 naturally so I can manage without it. But the Flail of Ages is a very nice weapon. I might need to use some pips in it. In the meantime I guess I'll have to be on the lookout for nice daggers.\n\n![image-20200522232238790](image-20200522232238790.png)\n\nAt least I can one-shot goblins.\n\n![image-20200522233227582](image-20200522233227582.png)\n\nI also still have my trusty backstab.\n\n![image-20200522234910513](image-20200522234910513.png)\n\nGot attacked by a few golems in the chambers of \"the Lady\". Killed them with MMM.\n\n![image-20200522235253717](image-20200522235253717.png)\n\nI'm fighting mephits that are blinding me. Which in my case is more of a blessing than a curse. While blinded, I can easily turn invisible and backstab them.\n\n![image-20200522235707141](image-20200522235707141.png)\n\nI also killed the Dryads, because why not.\n\n![image-20200523000423511](image-20200523000423511.png)\n\nAn assassin just standing next to a mephit and doing... nothing.\n\n![image-20200523000518918](image-20200523000518918.png)\n\nSo I charmed him so he could help me around here.\n\n![image-20200523000549488](image-20200523000549488.png)\n\nWell, he turned hostile very quickly.\n\n![image-20200523000607879](image-20200523000607879.png)\n\nThat was a very short romance.\n\n![image-20200523002015804](image-20200523002015804.png)\n\nAnd finally, I'm out of the Chateau!\n\n## Athkatla\n\nFirst thing I'll do is get my stuff back. I might not re-equip everything right away, but I will at least take the boots and containers.\n\nBut I can't get out of the city that quickly, I first need to get to the gates, and for that I need to cross the Slums.\n\n![image-20200527162556900](image-20200527162556900.png)\n\nAs soon as I got to the Slums, I saw Gaelan Bayle, who told me his deal. I need 20k gold to move the plot forward.\n\n![image-20200527162756393](image-20200527162756393.png)\n\nNow the full city is available to me. Contrary to Baldur's Gate in the first game, I can go everywhere. Seeing this blue map of unexplored areas remind me of so many great memories of the first time I explored this city. It kept on delivering quests after quests, I leveled up so many levels here...\n\n![image-20200527162924678](image-20200527162924678.png)\n\nArgh, wayland by enemies on my way to the Gates... I luckily was invisible thanks to my sneak ability, and I could cast Mirror Image, Stoneskin and MGI before turning visible again. I wanted to backstab one, but I guess now all I have to do is Sunfire them.\n\n![image-20200527163215993](image-20200527163215993.png)\n\nAnd all dead.\n\n![image-20200527163231159](image-20200527163231159.png)\n\nSome XP, really not much.\n\n![image-20200527163430544](image-20200527163430544.png)\n\nStill got a nice loot. Immune to Hold and Paralysis. I don't think it protects against Stun, but I should try.\n\n![image-20200527163816991](image-20200527163816991.png)\n\nNow on my way to Dragonspear Castle, 6 days from Athkatla, on the other side of the map.\n\nI took back my stuff but decided to not re-equip myself with it for now. I only equipped the Boots of Speed, but kept all the containers in my backpack. I want to see how far I can go with only the stuff I loot.\n\nMy next stop will be to get the unlimited bag from Hexxat; that way I can have one bag for my old loot and one for the new loot.\n\nFirst stop is at Ribald's:\n\n![image-20200530231224250](image-20200530231224250.png)\n\nI will need this, to try some combos with my clones.\n\n![image-20200530231247886](image-20200530231247886.png)\n\nThis is always useful; the damage seems to bypass the Magic Resistance.\n\n![image-20200530231319367](image-20200530231319367.png)\n\n![image-20200530231325838](image-20200530231325838.png)\n\nThose two are amongst the more powerful scrolls. I will need to buy them at some point.\n\n![image-20200530231418587](image-20200530231418587.png)\n\nI should try to see what can be done with that. Can I heal someone that isn't dead? Does it have any effect on undeads? Range is unlimited, does it mean I can resurrect a friend from any map? Can it allow me to teleport a friend somewhere where I am supposed to be alone?\n\n![image-20200530231601132](image-20200530231601132.png)\n\nBase AC4; that could be useful in the beginning; but I'm still too low on money.\n\n![image-20200530231653808](image-20200530231653808.png)\n\n![image-20200530231722553](image-20200530231722553.png)\n\nSome spells I don't yet know. I stole them.\n\n![image-20200530232001879](image-20200530232001879.png)\n\n![image-20200530232032204](image-20200530232032204.png)\n\n![image-20200530232041416](image-20200530232041416.png)\n\nSome other items I will most definitely need to wait a bit for.\n\n![image-20200530232253988](image-20200530232253988.png)\n\nStole this from Ribald.\n\n## Getting Hexxat's Bag\n\n![image-20200530232641717](image-20200530232641717.png)\n\nI grabbed Hexxat from the Slums and am now heading to the Graveyard district.\n\n![image-20200530233133149](image-20200530233133149.png)\n\nI tried Shocking Grasp on the thieves. One casting allow me to do that damage. It's... not that impressive when I usually do 19 damage with my dagger only. Maybe with a backstab?\n\n![image-20200530233504078](image-20200530233504078.png)\n\nFound this in the pre-tomb to enter Hexxat's dungeon. The AC+2 is nice for a staff, but the cure effect is not very potent.\n\n![image-20200530233704008](image-20200530233704008.png)\n\nChanged my good old dagger +1 with a +2.\n\n![image-20200530234653022](image-20200530234653022.png)\n\nI was having some trouble against the Shadow Fiend. The drain levels and are immune to fire. They also seem to hit through Stoneskin and Mirror Image. So I decided to send a Skeleton Warrior friend for help.\n\n![image-20200530234830440](image-20200530234830440.png)\n\nThe skeleton killed one. I killed one with MMM. And now trying to kite the last one and kill it with MMM. Hmm they seem to keep spawning, I can't keep up. I crawled into a tomb, we'll see where it goes.\n\n![image-20200530235240080](image-20200530235240080.png)\n\nOn the other side was Burich. Another one that drains levels. I managed to backstab him to death, though.\n\n![image-20200530235311244](image-20200530235311244.png)\n\nOops, I let Hexxat getting killed... I think I'll have to reload...\n\nOk, so this time I levelled up Hexxat and put everything in Hide in Shadows / Move Silently so I can have her stay at the entrance and not hinder my progress.\n\n![image-20200530235629638](image-20200530235629638.png)\n\nFound a Protection Scroll against Undead in a coffin. Will make EVERYTHING easier. I ran back to Hexxat, managed to protect both of us, but still got one level drained in the process.\n\nThis time, because of my protection, Burich didn't even talked to me. So I killed him to get the key. The Devil Shade can still attack me, even with my protection...\n\n![image-20200531000234966](image-20200531000234966.png)\n\nDragomir is here. I think he should be talking to me but can't because of the protection spell. I'll try to bring Hexxat here, see if it make him react;\n\n![image-20200531000605982](image-20200531000605982.png)\n\nNope, no reaction. Well, let's keep exploring, then. Ok, she can't get past the magical light in the tunnel either.\n\n![image-20200531000838797](image-20200531000838797.png)\n\nSo I backstabed Dragomir three time. He never reacted. \n\n![image-20200531001325669](image-20200531001325669.png)\n\nWe then moved to the last room and swapped Hexxat for a new Hexxat.\n\n![image-20200531001616352](image-20200531001616352.png)\n\nGot attacked by a random encounter on my way to the Copper Coronet. I can't blast sunfire in them or I will kill Renfeld, the guy on the floor.\n\n![image-20200531001923058](image-20200531001923058.png)\n\nKilled the mage. Gonna play with his toys.\n\n![image-20200531002106077](image-20200531002106077.png)\n\nGhoul Touch is pretty useful actually. Every hit can paralyze for 5 rounds (meaning next hits are auto hits). The Paralyzation timer seems to restart on each hit, so it stun locks them. It does non-lethal damage, though, which might not be very much. But I guess that coupled with a few invocations, this can be devastating. I can't kill them with it, they just turn unconscious, but I can paralyze them alright.\n\nRenfeld body needs to go to the Docks. I'll do that quickly and then head back to the Copper Coronet.\n\nFound Joluv at the Copper Coronet that is selling some very nice items:\n\n![image-20200531003146116](image-20200531003146116.png)\n\nDraining stats is an easy way to kill enemies.\n\n![image-20200531003231678](image-20200531003231678.png)\n\nThis is something I REALLY need. But I'm afraid I didn't put enough points in Scimitar...\n\n![image-20200531003318103](image-20200531003318103.png)\n\nInteresting; I'll have to see its effect on my clones.\n\n![image-20200531003338432](image-20200531003338432.png)\n\nThis, while transformed into a rat would make me invincible. I think one of my next stops might be the sewers.\n\n![image-20200531004824414](image-20200531004824414.png)\n\nTo keep some challenge to the run, I decided to leave all my containers (except the Bag of Holding) on a table at the Copper Coronet. I bought a Scroll Case and kept Dragomir's Respite. Whenever I find a named item, I keep it in the blue one. All stuff to be sold and equipment to swap in specific circumstance will be added to the orange. As for scrolls, I'll keep a few utilities, but will mostly try to use whatever I loot. No more hoarding of things. Trying stuff with what is lying around usually makes me discover new stuff.\n\n## Windspear\n\nFirst step is outside of the big city; trying the Windspear quest.\n\n![image-20200531005120129](image-20200531005120129.png)\n\nAnd it starts with some monsters attacking me. I fried most with Sunfire, then went full stealth for finishing them with backstabs.\n\n![image-20200531005259496](image-20200531005259496.png)\n\n![image-20200531005327689](image-20200531005327689.png)\n\nI don't understand why a x5 backstab only does 37 when I reliably deal 19 with a regular attack.\n\nI then went to Windspear hut, killed the bandits, and leveled up. I took a pip in Flail\n\n![image-20200601225952307](image-20200601225952307.png)\n\nI now also have access to the HLA of the fighter type. I never had them before so I guess I'll have to read and experiment a bit with them.\n\n![image-20200601230038455](image-20200601230038455.png)\n\nSets the APR to 10, but -4 THACO. The second one cancels the THACO malus. This seems very powerful.\n\n![image-20200601230134858](image-20200601230134858.png)\n\nThis kills enemies of level 10 or 12 on hit for two rounds. This aren't usually a threat so I'll pass.\n\n![image-20200601230225875](image-20200601230225875.png)\n\nSets Magic Resistance to 50%. Useless, as it won't stack.\n\n![image-20200601230505881](image-20200601230505881.png)\n\nThe first one stuns for 2 rounds if fails a save at -4. Why not but I think a Whirlwind attack with Celestial Fury is more interesting on average. But the improved one makes all attacks critical hits for one round. This will be very impressive with the Greater Whirlwind and/or a backstab. I like that. The last one also knock enemies over and send them flying. Not very useful to me.\n\n![image-20200601230616852](image-20200601230616852.png)\n\nThe last two are a fear effect and a +40% to resist damage. Not that useful compared to the others.\n\n![image-20200601230644693](image-20200601230644693.png)\n\n![image-20200601230721046](image-20200601230721046.png)\n\nHmm, what is surprising is that I also have access to the HLA of the thief and mage. Now I have to make a very hard choice between the three.\n\n![image-20200601230818090](image-20200601230818090.png)\n\nI think I will take this one as it opens the way to the most combos with items.\n\n![image-20200601230843759](image-20200601230843759.png)\n\nBut those will also provide nearly infinite AC.\n\n![image-20200601230907999](image-20200601230907999.png)\n\nThis will make all my hits backstabs for one round. This could be devastating with the Whirlwind and the Critical Strike combo. 10 critical backstab per round if you can cast them all fast enough.\n\n![image-20200601231622238](image-20200601231622238.png)\n\nI took UAI, so I can now use this but it seems to only lower my stats and that's it.\n\n![image-20200601231707145](image-20200601231707145.png)\n\nWhat's weird is that it put my strength with a /52. I don't remember if that's something I rolled initially or not.\n\nAnyway, I should try to see if it can kill me if I use a cursed scroll of it it loops the value. So, I'm keeping the item for now.\n\n![image-20200601231822690](image-20200601231822690.png)\n\nI also looted two scrolls. I didn't learn them as I cannot yet cast them, so I keep them seeing if I will need to cast them from a scroll later.\n\n![image-20200601232538851](image-20200601232538851.png)\n\nI also tried to backstab with Shocking Grasp. It kinda works. The nonlethal damage seems to be multiplied, but not the electricity.\n\n![image-20200601232734419](image-20200601232734419.png)\n\nI met the Dryad, friend of the dryads of the first dungeon. Even if I had the acorns with me, she attacked directly, not completing the quest. Shit, maybe it wasn't worth killing them back there.\n\n![image-20200601232824997](image-20200601232824997.png)\n\nEspecially now that she summons her friends. I'm going to retreat and try again.\n\n![image-20200601233131577](image-20200601233131577.png)\n\nI came back, backstabbed Vaelasa (and got a named +2 Dagger). The two Sirines broke off their invisibility and tried to charm me, but I had Arbane equipped (that should protect me from hold and paralysis). I think my elven heritage shove off the other charm spells.\n\n![image-20200601233257597](image-20200601233257597.png)\n\nWhat? Now there is an Ankheg joining the fun as well?\n\n![image-20200601233409460](image-20200601233409460.png)\n\nHmm, seems like casting MMM considered that my off-hand wasn't equipped anymore; so I'm not longer protected from hold and paralysis. That's good to know.\n\nI killed on Sirine, looted some Arrows of Biting off her, and I'll now try to fire them at the other Sirine, to prevent her from casting. That worked, but I got poisoned. Used an antidote I pickpocketed the main Sirine earlier. I finished the bears with arrows.\n\n![image-20200601233947555](image-20200601233947555.png)\n\nAccording the wiki this is what I should have gained, if I had not killed the Dryads. Well too bad. I have too much XP already.\n\n![image-20200601234226387](image-20200601234226387.png)\n\nAlso met a bunch of \"Fighters\" that actually seem to be Werewolf in disguise. I started casting a chain Sunfire when the fight against their gnolls was still going on and now they are endlessly talking. As soon as their talk is over they will churn.\n\n![image-20200601234345182](image-20200601234345182.png)\n\nAnd, fried werewolf on the menu today.\n\n![image-20200601234546276](image-20200601234546276.png)\n\nAnd found the entrance to the dungeon.\n\n![image-20200601234604619](image-20200601234604619.png)\n\nIt starts with an ambush. I know my Sunfire can kill groups like this easily, but I don't have that many Sunfire memorised. I will need other lower level spells for work through groups like this. Or I simply ignore them and walk by.\n\n![image-20200601234704793](image-20200601234704793.png)\n\nWell, actually that seemed to work. As they couldn't see me, I simply stealth through.\n\n![image-20200601234731074](image-20200601234731074.png)\n\nMore of them later on. I will need potions, or wands, to get rid of them. For now I'll just sneak by.\n\n![image-20200601235149664](image-20200601235149664.png)\n\nWait, amidst all those low-level enemies, there is a Ruhk. This is a whole new level. I might try to sneak past and attack from behind because I won't have enough room for maneuver in the large room as it's still teeming with monsters I avoided.\n\n![image-20200601235321235](image-20200601235321235.png)\n\nNice opening, but not enough.\n\n![image-20200601235351842](image-20200601235351842.png)\n\nHmm, the kobolds exploded, but didn't killed the Ruhk.\n\n![image-20200601235445626](image-20200601235445626.png)\n\nFinished the Ruhk and got my first Fire Protection ring. Could come in handy if I start throwing Fireballs.\n\n![image-20200601235557631](image-20200601235557631.png)\n\nNext room is a trap. Orcs on both sides, firing at me with their bows. A locked door in front, another locked door in the next room and a golem after that. But I'm so fast I could hide from them and keep exploring.\n\nThere are two Stone Golems, and one large Adamantine. They are immune to backstab, so I might need another way to kill them.\n\n![image-20200601235845569](image-20200601235845569.png)\n\nI killed one with my daggers (and a potion of speed). I then run to the other room and hid because the two other golems were following me. I went back, killed the last small one. But my weapons seems to be ineffective for the large golem. He's totally immune to magic and only +3 weapons can kill it. So I had to rest and invoke an Enchanted Weapon\n\n![image-20200602000854945](image-20200602000854945.png)\n\nStill, it's taking a very long time. This is the first time I can Enchanted Weapon. I would have thought that it would have invoked a new weapon in my hand, just like Shocking Grasp, but it actually kept the same weapon, but seems to be treating them as +3 for the purpose of hitting. All I had to do was to protect myself with Stoneskin and Mirror Image, and I could kill the golem.\n\n![image-20200602001115067](image-20200602001115067.png)\n\nHoly shit. Vampires now? I will need to Sunfire them, I don't see any other choice. I must not be touched because I can't heal the level drain. One of them saw me and came to attack me. Even with the Stoneskin and Mirror Image, she managed to drain some levels. I'll have to reload.\n\nI send a summoned skeleton this time to attract them, put myself invisible and cast Sunfire. Killed most of them, except for one. I'm now using a hit and run/hide technique against her. But it implies a lot of reload as one hit and I lost levels. I'm actually using another Sunfire to finish this faster.\n\n![image-20200602003127674](image-20200602003127674.png)\n\nI explored the area a bit more. Found a key to open a locked door, met a women trying to loot a tomb, and met Tazok, my old friend. There was a trap in the room right before that I was able to lure his guards to and that killed them. Now I'm doing back and forth and backstabbing him. Tried to Cast Vampiric touch but the casting time is too long and I got interrupted. I will need to cast that on neutral targets or wait for the Robe of Vecna. Found a few +1 and +2 items on him as well as the Sewers Key.\n\n![image-20200602003517464](image-20200602003517464.png)\n\nAnd a very nice cache of riches. The double Rogue stone means infinite money.\n\n![image-20200602151219865](image-20200602151219865.png)\n\nSo I left all the small rings, gems and +1/+2 stuff I found. I was planning on selling them later to get some money, but now that I know I can have infinite money, I don't need them anymore. I kept the Laeral, Star Saphire and stuff I know is worth a lot because... because I don't know but it feels wrong to let them here :)\n\n![image-20200602151526734](image-20200602151526734.png)\n\nI met some NPCs fighting each other. I let them kill themselves and lured a band of Orog here before stealthing. They won't bother me here.\n\n![image-20200602151643105](image-20200602151643105.png)\n\nMet some knigts that tried to lure me into a trap. I should have backstabbed them before talking.\n\n![image-20200602152458781](image-20200602152458781.png)\n\nI thought it was great that those NPCs were named, and I remembered how I always have trouble coming up with NPC names in my pen and paper games. I thought I should start to write the names down so I can find them later as inspiration in my own games.\n\nBut when I started saying those names aloud \"Falik\" sounds like \"Phallique\" in french and \"Grancor\" sounds like \"Grand Corps\" as well. I can't use that for the games I play in french. No way.\n\n![image-20200602152656668](image-20200602152656668.png)\n\nThe guy started yelling \"Yes, the ambushed worked\" while I was stabbing him.\n\n![image-20200602152824747](image-20200602152824747.png)\n\nThose doggies can't open doors, so it's just a matter of hide, backstab, close door, stealth again.\n\n![image-20200602152900821](image-20200602152900821.png)\n\nFound a nice horn that I'm going to try right away.\n\n![image-20200602153046802](image-20200602153046802.png)\n\nThe Greater ones regenerate pretty quickly, so I need to take them one by one.\n\n![image-20200602153325890](image-20200602153325890.png)\n\nI triggered a lot of traps, hoping to lure some monsters in it, but the all succeeded on their saves. No problem, I can kill them with the arrows I just found.\n\n![image-20200602153529451](image-20200602153529451.png)\n\nOops. I might have opened the wrong door here.\n\n![image-20200602153717038](image-20200602153717038.png)\n\nI tried to cast some Polymorph other on him, but he kept interrupting them with Magic Missiles and a lot of other attack spells. Somehow one seem to have landed and even if not polymorphed, he seem to have been paralyzed. Ah no, it was just his animation been blocked while he was casting Burning Hands.\n\n![image-20200602154017851](image-20200602154017851.png)\n\nSo instead I cast a MGI, which should protect me from most of his spells, and I'm sending Skull Traps in the entrance of his room. Hmm, didn't work as well as I expected. He wasn't moving so the traps never triggered. It's only when I moved closer that they exploded and got caught in the radius and died. That's interesting to note: the proximity trigger is smaller than the blast radius.\n\n![image-20200602154500335](image-20200602154500335.png)\n\nI opened the doors to all six guardians, and when I entered one, he spoke and attacked me. I ran, to hide back in shadows, and will come backstab him.\n\n![image-20200602155158754](image-20200602155158754.png)\n\nAfter getting the six parts of the mask from the six Guardians, there was one last Fire Guardian to kill. I tried to lose him in the maze to go behind him, but the door wouldn't open, so I had to find him again and kill him.\n\n![image-20200602155336568](image-20200602155336568.png)\n\nFinally found the tomb, looted the stuff, but the band of adventurers, friends of Samia arrived. I think they will try to kill me, so I need to find a way to kill them instead. But this time I'll note their names.\n\n![image-20200602155554984](image-20200602155554984.png)\n\nHere is the sword I looted. Long Sword +2. Immunity to fear is useful, the regeneration is too slow and Detect Invisibility is less interesting than the Thief ability. Might keep it for the Fear immunity.\n\n![image-20200602155652404](image-20200602155652404.png)\n\nThis is much better. Already in this dungeon I can get as high as 65% Fire Resistance.\n\n![image-20200602155944445](image-20200602155944445.png)\n\nSo, they did turn hostile, and a thief is right behind the mage, preventing me from backstabbing the spellcaster. What I did was to put some arrows on the floor. Now I'll move very far away, right at the limit so they don't see me, and I'll cast Chaos on the arrows, hoping to turn them one against the other.\n\n![image-20200602160112219](image-20200602160112219.png)\n\nSeems to have some effect.\n\n![image-20200602160242263](image-20200602160242263.png)\n\nThey are fighting each other. During that time, I'm backstabbing one that got away.\n\n![image-20200602160519860](image-20200602160519860.png)\n\nThat killed a few of them. Next I looted a wand of Fear on their still warm bodies and used it against them.\n\n![image-20200602160831388](image-20200602160831388.png)\n\nThen, playing with the doors and their confused states, I isolated them and killed them one by one.\n\n![image-20200602161054248](image-20200602161054248.png)\n\nThe loot is mostly +1/+2 weapons and armor. I let it on the floor.\n\n![image-20200602162248788](image-20200602162248788.png)\n\nFound this at the bottom of a well. So it's a grand total of 90% Fire Resistance for this dungeon only. With the Fireshield scrolls found, that can make me immune to fire easily.\n\n![image-20200602162551590](image-20200602162551590.png)\n\nAnother set of Golems that seem to be guarding some treasure. I don't have any Enchanted Weapon memorized so I won't be able to kill them without a rest. I'll first loot, then rest.\n\n![image-20200602162648262](image-20200602162648262.png)\n\nHow, that's a +3 weapon right there. I'm not proficient with it, but if I managed to have the golem stuck in a doorframe, I'll be able to kill it from afar.\n\n![image-20200602163229138](image-20200602163229138.png)\n\nSo, it IS stuck in a doorframe, but I didn't have time to loot the container yet. So I guess I'll just rest and do it with Enchanted Weapon and Stoneskin.\n\n![image-20200602163447604](image-20200602163447604.png)\n\nWhoo, this is stupid. I finally used the Horn of Blasting on the monsters that pop up during my rest and I was the one stunned? I could still level up while stunned though. I tried my new Assassination once out of Stun. \n\n![image-20200602164014603](image-20200602164014603.png)\n\nSure, it does what is written on the tin, but that's not that impressive. I do an average of 37 damage with backstab, and 19 without. The difference is not that big. I think it will start to be more interesting once I have a weapon better than +2 (as it will also be multiplied) and with more attacks.\n\n![image-20200602165932218](image-20200602165932218.png)\n\nI then went on seeing Firkraag but died almost instantly. I have no idea what this \"damage bonus\" is, though. Ah I see, he is reducing my Fire Damage to such a point that I'm taking bonus damage because it must be negative now.\n\nAlso, I remember that I forgot to go kill the Adamantine Golem. Gonna have to trace back there.\n\n![image-20200603224013716](image-20200603224013716.png)\n\nTook me a bunch of healing potion, but after a ton of hits for 1 or 2 damage, he finally fell.\n\nWell, made me realize that Assassination was really not as good as Whirlwind, so I reload an old save before picking it up. It meant I'll have to redo part of the dungeon, but so be it.\n\n![image-20200603230114766](image-20200603230114766.png)\n\nI had to redo the Djinnis, this time opening combat with a Ghoul Touch backstab. Works very very well as they got paralyzed.\n\n![image-20200603230508188](image-20200603230508188.png)\n\nI also chained cast Vampiric Touch on another, seems like even if he turned invisible in between two casts, I was still able to target him. I didn't get the additional HP several times, but he did take the damage several times.\n\n![image-20200603230641076](image-20200603230641076.png)\n\nWent head front toward the Director with a MGI, I only got it by the rain of ice.\n\nI trapped all the looters in with some Skull Trap and redid the Confusion thing. This time when levelling up, I took the Time Stop trap.\n\n![image-20200603234413957](image-20200603234413957.png)\n\nNow, I don't know why, I have two Adamantite Golems... That's more XP for me, that's fine. I can just fire at them with regular arrows, as they are considered enchanted as +3 because of Enchanted Weapon, I can kill them just fine, one damage at a time, because they are stuck in the doorframe.\n\n![image-20200603235817890](image-20200603235817890.png)\n\nI'm now heading to Firkraag. I'm trapping the room upstairs with Skull Traps, hoping to catch his intendant in it. Well, it seem to have made the game glitch as when I came back upstairs, Iltha died and no trace of Conster.\n\n![image-20200604000420985](image-20200604000420985.png)\n\nI tried again, and this time I managed to steal that from the mage before he teleported away.\n\n![image-20200604000550011](image-20200604000550011.png)\n\nHmm, the same thing happened when I get back to the prison. Iltha died, and no sign of Conster. I think it's because I chose to make a deal with Firkraag.\n\n![image-20200604000835120](image-20200604000835120.png)\n\nAnyway, that work for me, I got this cloak. I know it is glitchy and the bonus will stack, which can make me immune to missile weapons.\n\n![image-20200604001008230](image-20200604001008230.png)\n\nI managed to cast Feeblemind on him on the second try (he succeeded on his save on the first, but didn't turn hostile).\n\n![image-20200604001045712](image-20200604001045712.png)\n\nFeeblemind, as far as I understand, makes the target unable to even move or attack, and is Permanent.\n\n![image-20200604001136350](image-20200604001136350.png)\n\nSo yeah, I can attack him without him even reacting. I'm adding this spell to the shortlist of best spells.\n\n![image-20200604001613783](image-20200604001613783.png)\n\nAnd that's it; one dragon down.\n\n![image-20200604001656595](image-20200604001656595.png)\n\nAnd that sweet Carsomyr, that I can equip because of Use Any Item. I need to test if the Magic Resistance is set or added. If added, I will need to start making a a Magic Resistance gear. Actually, the to-hit bonus of the weapon is so strong that it offsets the malus of not being proficient. I have the same THACO with that than with my dagger +2. This might come handy when dispelling enemies.\n\nMy job here is done, I'll now head back to town to sell all the stuff.\n\n## Buying some stuff\n\nI bought the Ninjato of the Scarlet Brotherhood that I'm going to equip right away in my main hand. I'm still going to keep Arbane in the off-hand for now as the hold and paralysis immunity it gives is very helpful. Rings of free action do the same, but they also cancel Haste from the boots.\n\n![image-20200604003653663](image-20200604003653663.png)\n\nI recharged all my wands for ~50k. I already feel (too) powerful.\n\n![image-20200604003936375](image-20200604003936375.png)\n\nI bought this because I want to try the Wisdom drain effect.\n\n![image-20200604004022891](image-20200604004022891.png)\n\nSame, seems something to investigate.\n\n![image-20200604004236764](image-20200604004236764.png)\n\nI bought this one, hoping that \"Hit Points\" meant current HP and not max HP, and that maybe equipping it in a loop would heal, but no, it increases the maximum HP pool only.\n\n![image-20200604004427230](image-20200604004427230.png)\n\nTook this as well. I now realize there is a lot of great two-handed swords here. That would be a great specialization to take with another character (not this one, as I cannot backstab with them).\n\n![image-20200604005034255](image-20200604005034255.png)\n\nOf course.\n\n![image-20200604005050393](image-20200604005050393.png)\n\nSame. The base of so many combos.\n\n![image-20200604005124760](image-20200604005124760.png)\n\nAlso taking that, so I can do the Eyeless one quest.\n\n![image-20200604005159232](image-20200604005159232.png)\n\nAnd this. Now that I can use bard items, I need to see if I can use that while invisible.\n\nI actually have so many combos to try. I might be doing some small quests like the slavers in the Copper Coronet, or the Eyeless one (including the Illithid part of the Sewers) to try my stuff.\n\nNow that I'm equipping the Robe of Vecna, it made me realize that I did the whole previous dungeon without wearing any armor. And I can also ditch my AC 8 bracers as the robe as AC 5 included.\n\nRibald is still selling some interesting stuff, but I might have to come back later; I already have so many things to try.\n\n![image-20200605164952765](image-20200605164952765.png)\n\nPretty strange but Lord Jierdan is still at the Copper Coronet. I don't remember how I got access to Windspear in the first place, but it wasn't from him.\n\n## Testing combos\n\n![image-20200605211542509](image-20200605211542509.png)\n\nI took a room at the Inn to test the Ninjato draining Wisdom, seeing what happens if I have like 1 Wisdom and wear the Cloak of Dragomir that add a -2. But I have 25 Wisdom and the drain only lasts for 2 rounds, and has a Death save so it's unlikely it will work.\n\nEven for a classic combat, -2 per hit for only two round, I don't think that's very helpful. Unless I can combine it with a spell that reduces the Wisdom of the target.\n\n![image-20200605212009831](image-20200605212009831.png)\n\nAlso realize I can't backstab with a Wakizashi, so I guess I'll keep it in the offhand. I wanted to have a weapon with Poison effect on the hand where I'll be hitting the most with, but not at the price of backstabs.\n\nI'll also test Everard's Morningstar, see how the \"spell erased from memory\" works.\n\n![image-20200605212634366](image-20200605212634366.png)\n\nThis is what I have before a hit.\n\n![image-20200605212654862](image-20200605212654862.png)\n\nAnd after a hit. There was a spell effect above my head, no save. I lost one of the highest level spells I had. That's interesting. That could be a great way to remove high level spells from some enemies.\n\n![image-20200605212810185](image-20200605212810185.png)\n\nAnd my Simulacrum also hits pretty hard with it. It's 2d4+2, while my dagger was 1d4+2. I don't think I can backstab with that, though.\n\n![image-20200605212913152](image-20200605212913152.png)\n\nNo I can't. Still, it's a pretty useful weapon against spell casters, I'll keep it handy.\n\n![image-20200605213030941](image-20200605213030941.png)\n\n![image-20200605213120123](image-20200605213120123.png)\n\nThis time it removed Stoneskin and not Contagion.\n\n![image-20200605213204408](image-20200605213204408.png)\n\nMaybe that's because it's removing spells from the rightmost slot in the spellbook, not the rightmost slot in the spell quickbar. They seem to be ordered differently. In the spellbook they are ordered alphabetically, while they might be ordered by internal SPELLNAME in the bar.\n\n![image-20200605213805909](image-20200605213805909.png)\n\nHmm, this is weird. I went to see my spellbook after casting a Simulacrum and it seems to have glitched. I have spells memorized, but the max number is wrong and they are darken.\n\n![image-20200605213916581](image-20200605213916581.png)![image-20200605213925784](image-20200605213925784.png)![image-20200605213939341](image-20200605213939341.png)![image-20200605213949264](image-20200605213949264.png)![image-20200605214001006](image-20200605214001006.png)\n\nIt feels like I have access to my Simulacrum spellbook, but ingame I can still cast all my real spells.\n\n![image-20200605214927954](image-20200605214927954.png)\n\nSo, what I wanted to try is to see what would happen if I attempt to cast a spell that was just removed from memory. I had my spell bar opened, and got hit by the mace. So technically the rightmost spell is remove. In that case it would be the protection from lightning. But because my bar was opened, the spell is still here. Can I cast it?\n\n![image-20200605215043875](image-20200605215043875.png)\n\nApparently yes.\n\n![image-20200605215104662](image-20200605215104662.png)\n\nOh, that's because it removed the Animated Dead one. I don't get it.\n\n![image-20200605215200935](image-20200605215200935.png)\n\nOk, so let's try again. I have two more Level 5 spells. I *think* Protection from Acid is the one that will get erased.\n\n![image-20200605215315555](image-20200605215315555.png)![image-20200605215338096](image-20200605215338096.png)![image-20200605215351059](image-20200605215351059.png)\n\nThat's right. Still, I could cast it from the opened bar. And it worked.\n\nOk, so that's a bug. A very minor one, as no-one will ever hit their own characters with the mace, and I couldn't find an exploit from there; but still.\n\nI then tried some Pickpocket with the Simulacrum. First try I got 2 gp that were automatically added to the party gold. Second time I pickpocketed something, and when I killed the Simulacrum I could loot 1gp. I'm not sure why the two different behaviors.\n\nNow I wonder if I can make plot-important items disappear with that trick. What happens if my Simulacrum pickpockets an important item, then disappear because the spell ends. Will he have the item next time? Will the item be on the floor? Can the Simulacrum pickpocket from my main character? Let's try.\n\n![image-20200605220004701](image-20200605220004701.png)\n\nI could not have him pickpocket me. I guess it's because I am a Thief myself so there is a large malus. I will need to try with a Potion.\n\nI had him pickpocket people in the room. I want to see what happens once the spell ends.\n\nSo I can confirm I can access my Simulacrum spellbook. When selecting him and going to the spellbook, I see his max spells and grayed out spells. Removing or adding spells only affects my main characters though.\n\nI will have to find the Flesh to Stone and Maze spells. I want to see the effect on a Simulacrum.\n\n![image-20200605220518264](image-20200605220518264.png)\n\nPickpocketing with the Simulacrum this time added gold to the party funds. Still, he has other items on him.\n\n![image-20200605220550952](image-20200605220550952.png)\n\nI was able to pickpocket some from him. I have no idea why he had money on him, and why I could steal it without it being added to the party funds.\n\nOnce unsummoned, he disappeared with everything he pickpocketed. So yes, it seems to be a way to make items disappear forever. Why would you need that? I don't know, but now I know it's possible.\n\n## Slave pens\n\nI then went on to the slaving complex behind the Copper Coronet. I took a bunch of different weapons from my bag in order to try them out.\n\n![image-20200605234335610](image-20200605234335610.png)\n\nBut first, I backstabbed the Beastmaster.\n\n![image-20200605234439773](image-20200605234439773.png)\n\nAnd looted this nice bow. I now have 4 APR with this.\n\n![image-20200605234544912](image-20200605234544912.png)\n\nThis is Carsomyr. No backstab, dispell and 24 damage, but only 1.5 APR.\n\n![image-20200605234850038](image-20200605234850038.png)\n\nJoril's Dagger. 1 Frost effect, and confusion on hit. Overall I find that the two-handed weapons can have interesting effects, but they will only be useful if I have a high APR. So Greater Whirlwind, but I'm not sure I want to invest two HLA into it when I can already hit the 10 APR mark with dual-wielding and Improved Haste. Maybe if I have points left.\n\n![image-20200605235443494](image-20200605235443494.png)![image-20200605235507948](image-20200605235507948.png)\n\nNow that Lehtinan is dead, Bernard has a lot more spells to sell here.\n\n![image-20200606000433514](image-20200606000433514.png)\n\nI also stole that from Bernard, it's & a +2 Morning Star, doing 2d4+2 damage and a chance of putting the target to sleep.\n\n![image-20200606000524122](image-20200606000524122.png)\n\nAlso took that, in case I encounter undeads.\n\n## Slums Sewers\n\nBut for now, I'll go into the sewers. Specifically I want to go see the Illithid camp, and get my hands on the Cloak of the Sewers. Anything else is a bonus, and a way to try my new weapons and scrolls.\n\n![image-20200606000953106](image-20200606000953106.png)\n\nI backstabbed a Kobold and got this Circlet. THACO +2 is great. Not sure if Caster level will apply, and the Bless spell on the summoned spirit will definitely not apply. I prefer my Vhailor's Helm, but this is interesting if I need to increase my THACO.\n\n![image-20200606001124841](image-20200606001124841.png)![image-20200606001135529](image-20200606001135529.png)\n\nAlso got this staff to create Goodberries. They heal 1HP each. Not very interesting. Unless I can sell them. Still, it's an easy way to fill a Simulacrum inventory, if I ever need that. Oh actually, maybe I could want to fill their inventory so next thing they pick up falls on the ground.\n\n![image-20200606001311970](image-20200606001311970.png)\n\nI'm putting all that in my bag of holding; we'll see if they stay there or disappear.\n\n![image-20200606001545909](image-20200606001545909.png)\n\nI tried the Harp of Pandemonium on a group of Hobgoblins. They were sent flying backward and are confused. Not sure when I would need to send ennemies flying away.\n\n![image-20200606002318894](image-20200606002318894.png)\n\nThe Harp seems to always send people away, but they are confused only on a failed save. So that can be interesting to clear an area that is not well situated for me.\n\n![image-20200606002406965](image-20200606002406965.png)\n\nThanks to Arbane and its protection from charm and confusion, I can fight those mushrooms easily.\n\n![image-20200606003650632](image-20200606003650632.png)\n\nOnce in the Slaver's Compound, I charmed them and made them fight each other.\n\n![image-20200606004143854](image-20200606004143854.png)\n\nI managed to polymorph another into a squirrel.\n\n![image-20200606004521057](image-20200606004521057.png)\n\nSo the Sleep effect of The Sleeper actually bypasses Mirror Images. One mage down, I can focus on the next one.\n\nI actually removed the Ninja-to from my offhand to keep Arbane. Its protection from hold is so useful, I will take the Ninja-to when I'll have another way to protect from those.\n\n![image-20200606004758622](image-20200606004758622.png)\n\nI found three of those on the corpses. That's the first time I see this potion.\n\n![image-20200606005249202](image-20200606005249202.png)\n\nI was attacked on the street on my way back to the Copper Coronet, and got some help from an Amnian guard. That's good to know, they attack hostile creatures. Meaning I can charm someone, wait for the spell to end so they turn hostile, and have guard kill the NPC without any Reputation loss for me.\n\n![image-20200606005406740](image-20200606005406740.png)\n\nI have also purposefully cast some magic, so an Enforcer arrived. I will have to summon more of them to get my license.\n\n![image-20200606005617789](image-20200606005617789.png)\n\nI found \"Storekeep\", aka. a fence, that was ok buying my goodberries for 1gp. INFINITE GOLD EXPLOIT! No, just kidding. She does not buy stolen stuff, though.\n\n![image-20200606005811049](image-20200606005811049.png)\n\nI gained this from finishing the Slaver's quest, as well as a Plate Mail. Plate mail, seriously? Not even a magical one.\n\nI tried the Potion of Icedust, it gives +100 Fire Resistance to everyone in an area. It stacks with gear, but only lasts 1 round. It's a nice potion to drink when you have a Fireball incoming.\n\n## Illithid camp\n\nNow going to the Temple district, to find an entrance to the main Sewers. I want to open the Illithid door. I might take a detour to the Guarded Compound to have an interesting fight while I'm there.\n\n![image-20200606141800941](image-20200606141800941.png)\n\nBought some scrolls from the priests of Helm. This one is best defense against Undeads of any kind. For two whole hours, no Undead can attack me. They cannot even initiate dialog (which may be a curse or a blessing).\n\n![image-20200606142108324](image-20200606142108324.png)\n\nFound a group of adventurers in the Sewers. Now, we'll have our battle.\n\n![image-20200606142345283](image-20200606142345283.png)\n\nI tried the Harp of Pandemonium against six of them, but my first target moved in the fog of war before I could use it, so it actually canceled the item casting, but still used a charge. So now I know, it's better to target the first target as something that won't move.\n\nMy second casting was a Dire Charm. I managed to get a few of them. Now I'll use them against their comrades.\n\n![image-20200606142603713](image-20200606142603713.png)\n\nOne of them is a Priest. So many spells I don't even know.\n\n![image-20200606142654038](image-20200606142654038.png)\n\nThose two spells are marked as Blade Barrier, but with different icons. I'll have him heal me.\n\n![image-20200606142819864](image-20200606142819864.png)\n\nThis one cast Hold Person on his friend.\n\n![image-20200606142844040](image-20200606142844040.png)\n\nWhile this one is firing arrows on the mage and keeping him distracted.\n\n![image-20200606143054680](image-20200606143054680.png)\n\nAnd this one is healing me while I kill his friend.\n\n![image-20200606143326632](image-20200606143326632.png)\n\nThe spell finally ended, but it allowed me to deplete them of many important ressources.\n\n![image-20200606143457498](image-20200606143457498.png)\n\nThe Robe of Vecna when chain casting spells from scrolls is incredible. I don't have the casting delay anymore for most of my spells. Here, I was chain casting a lightning bold (just because I had the spell lying around, as it is effectively exactly the same as using the wand). And it fired them all at the same time, dealing a lot of damage.\n\n![image-20200606143951591](image-20200606143951591.png)\n\nFound this on their corpse. Charm immunity is always useful, but a helm that does only that... nope.\n\n![image-20200606144041181](image-20200606144041181.png)\n\nFound another throwing axe. I need to see if I can dual wield them at range.\n\n![image-20200606144221899](image-20200606144221899.png)\n\nAh, no I can't. So it's clearly inferior to Azuredge +3.\n\n![image-20200606144120620](image-20200606144120620.png)\n\nAh, this is much better. I can't backstab with that, but it's a great thing to dual wield with the Ninja-to for poison damage.\n\n![image-20200606145150185](image-20200606145150185.png)\n\nGot stunned on my way to the entrance of the Illithid camp. Arbane didn't protect from that. I STILL don't know what protects from Stun.\n\n![image-20200606145314364](image-20200606145314364.png)\n\nGot myself into a room full of hostile people. I'll need to find a way to kill them in large groups.\n\n![image-20200606145611131](image-20200606145611131.png)\n\nI had my clone summon a Fiend from a scroll in the room. We'll see how it goes.\n\n![image-20200606145827214](image-20200606145827214.png)\n\nDidn't work so well, the Glabrezu died quickly. Instead I'm pulling enemies one by one with arrows, and backstabbing with the clone in the corridor.\n\n![image-20200606145930883](image-20200606145930883.png)\n\nI invoked a Nabassu this time, and closed the door. I can hear the sound of spells being cast, but the Nabassu fell quickly; from what I can read mostly from the Umber Hulk damage.\n\n![image-20200606150113126](image-20200606150113126.png)\n\nI managed to turn the Umber Hulk into a Squirell, but the others are hasted and on me. And they stunned me and are now eating my brain. Shit. Really, stun is the most powerful effect.\n\n![image-20200606150306115](image-20200606150306115.png)\n\nThis time I opened with my clone one-shotting the mage with a backstab. They all then went around him, and I could send a Skull Trap with my main character, harming most of them. Then I closed the door, and put a Time Stop trap in the corridor. Drank an Oil of speed, cast MGI.\n\n![image-20200606150613918](image-20200606150613918.png)\n\nAnd open the door...\n\n![image-20200606150719336](image-20200606150719336.png)\n\nHit one of the fighter during the Time Stop, not enough to kill him. Then managed to turn him into a Squirell; I'm going to use him to block the others while I'm trying to charm them.\n\n![image-20200606150827490](image-20200606150827490.png)\n\nCharmed the Assasin, sent him on a suicide mission.\n\n![image-20200606150845512](image-20200606150845512.png)\n\nI finished the Umber Hulk on my side of the corridor.\n\n![image-20200606151041378](image-20200606151041378.png)\n\nManaged to hide in shadows when the Assassin died. \n\n![image-20200606151155204](image-20200606151155204.png)\n\nBlinded the archer, killed the squirrel so I can hide again, and attacked the fighter. The archer can't see me, so I can kill the fighter directly.\n\n![image-20200606151344810](image-20200606151344810.png)\n\nHahaha. I managed to stuck the Mind Flayer behind a door. What a mastermind. Well, I can't backstab him but I guess I can have him from afar.\n\n![image-20200606151436651](image-20200606151436651.png)\n\nOh, he managed to get away. The good news is that now I can backstab him.\n\n![image-20200606151610077](image-20200606151610077.png)\n\nNext room seem a whole new level of complexity. What I need right now is a Potion of Clarity. As I don't have, the closest thing is the Helm of Charm Protection. I'm backtracking and picking it up again. Yes, I know I could sleep, but I want to see how far I can go without sleeping.\n\n![image-20200606151926112](image-20200606151926112.png)\n\nI managed to backstab an Ulitharid than ran away. They sent me a lot of spells, stunned me and drained some intelligence from me. Luckily, I was too room away, so they didn't pursue.\n\nThen, it was a matter of backstab, running away, backstab, killing the one fleeing, and so on. Apparently, they have a limited number of casts of their spells.\n\n![image-20200606152648025](image-20200606152648025.png)\n\nThe last one, in the last room, is an Alhoon. This one is casting spells. I hit him with Carsomyr to dispel the protection, then backstab.\n\n![image-20200606152832755](image-20200606152832755.png)\n\nHmm, this is not over. I have a tactic that works: bringing them one by one, and backstabbing, but it's a bit boring at this stage.\n\n![image-20200606152934888](image-20200606152934888.png)\n\nAh shit, not so boring. It failed. They managed to stun me while I was still pretty close. I guess I'll have to be more careful.\n\nAh shit, I tried again and this time the Alhoon just killed me outright by stunning and devouring my brain.\n\n![image-20200606153219740](image-20200606153219740.png)\n\nThis time I'm trapping the area.\n\n![image-20200606153312851](image-20200606153312851.png)\n\nI opened the door and this happened. I thought my traps where melee damage, but apparently they can fire missiles?\n\n![image-20200606153355325](image-20200606153355325.png)\n\nWait, what? They are poisoned? I really need to read the spell description.\n\n![image-20200606153603631](image-20200606153603631.png)\n\nI don't know why, but they all gathered here. I unfortunately don't have any AoE right now. I'm going to try to loot the room to see if I'm lucky. It could have worked. One of the spells hit me and I got confused in the next room; they all gathered around me and kill me. I'm sure there is a way.\n\n![image-20200606153916543](image-20200606153916543.png)\n\nOh, actually there is this Skull Trap scroll I bought earlier. I'm going to try that. Didn't really work, they are highly resistant to magic.\n\n![image-20200606154044854](image-20200606154044854.png)\n\nI drank my last Oil of Speed and looted the container, then ran to the entrance. I'm tailed by a lot of spell. My plan is to close the next door and even if the spells land, they wouldn't be able to pursue me.\n\n![image-20200606154142454](image-20200606154142454.png)\n\nOh, I was lucky. I managed to close the door and none of the spells worked!\n\n![image-20200606154209171](image-20200606154209171.png)\n\nOne nice hammer in the loot. Part of Crom Faeyr IIRC.\n\n![image-20200606154230350](image-20200606154230350.png)\n\nAnd the Wand of Wonder. One of my favorite items. The Flesh to Stone effect is random, but has no save. I remember winning a duel in my guild with that. Sorry, Ather. Also, back in the days, firing the wand on a loot on the ground was discharging all effects at once. Thanks Keelor for that tip.\n\nNow that I have the loot I could just walk away, but I want to try the wand on the group.\n\n![image-20200606154513090](image-20200606154513090.png)\n\nHoly shit. I tried to fire the wand on the loot container, and it discharged everything as planned, times 6 because I used it with the Wand of Lightning. And I wasn't properly aligned with the container so everything started bouncing on the walls.\n\n![image-20200606154629215](image-20200606154629215.png)\n\nThey seem to not care AT ALL. Magic Resistance FTW. Let's try again, this time targeting them directly.\n\n![image-20200606154725762](image-20200606154725762.png)\n\nHmm, seems like I petrified one.\n\n![image-20200606154845541](image-20200606154845541.png)\n\nI tried to fire the wand at an object on the ground, oriented so I could have the Illithids, but I forgot that it would also cast web, and now I'm entangled in my own web.\n\n![image-20200606155227395](image-20200606155227395.png)\n\nI stabbed my way through them all; this one is still petrified. Could not pickpocket because was still hostile. Tried hitting with Carsomyr to see if it would unpetrified, but it killed him.\n\nNext time I should try to Charm them, see if I can pickpocket them, or unpetrify them once charmed, or dispel the stone effect.\n\nI guess the next couple hours will be learning to use the wand to the best effect.\n\n## Temple Sewers\n\n![image-20200606220850218](image-20200606220850218.png)\n\nI continued in the Sewers. I dropped an item in the center of the pit, walked far away and targeted it with the Wand of Lightning and the Wand of Wonder. My cursor was registering that I had a valid target, even if in the fog of war.\n\n![image-20200606220955419](image-20200606220955419.png)\n\nAnd I was actually able to discharge the wand safely from afar.\n\n![image-20200606221043488](image-20200606221043488.png)\n\nOops, it apparently went very far and hit a bystander.\n\n![image-20200606221135713](image-20200606221135713.png)\n\nAh shit, made him hostile. And I need that guy for what he is selling/buying. Well, gotta reload.\n\n![image-20200606221709454](image-20200606221709454.png)\n\nTried again from another angle and backstabed the Rakshasa (he's immune to most spells of the Wand). Got this in exchange, which I think is the best cloak of the game. +1 AC that stacks. But also polymorph into a jelly (immune to magic and backstab) or a rat (immune to damage when equipped with the Defender of Easthaven).\n\n![image-20200606222017479](image-20200606222017479.png)\n\nRoger the Fence is actually, a fence. I bought a potion of Master Thieve from him, drank it, the sold Carsomyr and a few other expensive items and stole them back. Then sold them again and stole them back again. Easy way to have infinite cash. But items are marked as stolen now, so I won't be able to sell them to anyone else.\n\nI also did it with Vhailor's Helm, the Harp of Pandemonium and the Horn, which recharged their \"per day\" charges.\n\n![image-20200606222853824](image-20200606222853824.png)\n\nI found a secret entrance in the sewers leading to what looks like a wizard tower.\n\n![image-20200606222916815](image-20200606222916815.png)\n\nSome interesting spells found already, especially Contingency. This seems to also be a potentially-glitchy spell that I will have to try.\n\n![image-20200606223043823](image-20200606223043823.png)\n\nThere is a group of Yuan-Tis in the room behind the fog of war. I'm targeting the chest with the WOL from where I am, and trying to see if I can use the horn from there.\n\n![image-20200606223147971](image-20200606223147971.png)\n\nIt definitely seem to have worked. I can cast spell items without line of sight when using the WOL and targeting a container. I need to test if it works from any distance and if the WOL is needed.\n\n![image-20200606223349115](image-20200606223349115.png)\n\nThis didn't kill them and I got confused by the Yuan-tis, but fortunately, kept hitting them. I think they had a Stoneskin because even if the combat log was telling me I hit, I didn't see them take any damage and they surely didn't get poisoned. I start to feel like the poison effect of the Wyvern's Tail is not that potent.\n\n![image-20200606223622202](image-20200606223622202.png)\n\nSo this time I'm staying at the opposite of the level and trying to use the Harp of Pandemonium through the WOL on the container in the rightmost room.\n\n![image-20200606223704078](image-20200606223704078.png)\n\nMy character moved all the way to here and cast it. So there is a maximum range, but no need to have a line of sight. Interesting.\n\n![image-20200606223953963](image-20200606223953963.png)\n\nSo I will use the multiple wand on Mekrath, the mage hiding here.\n\n![image-20200606224117070](image-20200606224117070.png)\n\nThat got him unconscious and panicking in no time.\n\n![image-20200606224214275](image-20200606224214275.png)\n\nGot a wand of Cloudkill and one of Resurrection. I don't think I'll ever use that one as the Wand of Wonder is better, but I'll keep it in case I need a less devastating wand. As for the Resurection one, I still don't know what to do with it. As I'm playing solo I will never have to resurect party members. Maybe I can resurect dead sprites? Or kill undeads with it? The interesting thing is that it has \"Range: Unlimited\". Maybe I can use it to trick another item into having an unlimited range?\n\nWell... actually it seems to have worked. I clicked the Wand of Resurection, selected a chest in a nearby room, then switched the Wand of Resurection with one of Cloudkill, and it send a Cloudkill through the wall, into the room. Now just for scientific purposes I need to test without the Resurection part. No, my character attempts to move. And with the Lightning one? Ah this time it works. I managed to send 6 cloudkills through a wall.\n\nHmm so maybe it's just the fact that I'm swapping two wands that makes it go through walls. I'll try in reverse. Nope, this time didn't work. So I could send through walls with Resurection and Lightning as the first wand. Now I'll need to test the range.\n\n![image-20200606224737791](image-20200606224737791.png)\n\nSo I'm in the lowest part of the room and I'm going to try to send some Wonders on the altar at the top.\n\n![image-20200606224820309](image-20200606224820309.png)\n\nIt worked, but I forgot that it would send a lightning bolt, which does not goes through walls, so it can be pretty dangerous to do this tactic with the WoW. So, Cloudkill is actually a great wand.\n\n![image-20200606224938846](image-20200606224938846.png)\n\nWent to the altar room and can confirm it worked. Worked with both lightning and resurection. The room is pretty small here, I will need to test on a larger area to see if one wand or another does any difference. But anyway, being able to cast wands from the other side of the map is a pretty beefy exploit.\n\n![image-20200606225313589](image-20200606225313589.png)\n\nAlso found the Harp of Discord, another \"per day\" item that I'm sure I'm going to use a lot.\n\n![image-20200606225737897](image-20200606225737897.png)\n\nAnd this, but this is pretty useless I think.\n\nI did a few more tests with the \"use wands through wall\".\n\n![image-20200606230021227](image-20200606230021227.png) Monster Summoning: Didn't work, moved my character to the range limit before summoning\n\n![image-20200606230047020](image-20200606230047020.png) Frost: Kinda worked. My character didn't move, but the cone was still bursting from me.\n\n![image-20200606230208658](image-20200606230208658.png) Fear: Kinda worked. I had to move closer, but the range is still longer than Monster Summoning.\n\n![image-20200606230338884](image-20200606230338884.png) Fire: Kinda worked. Same, had to move closer, but range more than Summoning, but less that fear\n\nThis whole range thing is weird, it does not reflect what is written in the description. For reference, here are the actual ranges written: Frost (100ft), Fear (100ft), Fire (90ft), Cloudkill (60ft), Summoning (20ft). And in my tests, Cloudkill can be cast from the edge of the map (same for Frost). Then Fear, Fire, and finally Summoning.\n\nThe WoW has no range written, but seems to very long as well.\n\nI also give up on the Wyvern's Tail. I remember it to be a VERY potent weapon in the original game as it was inducing a DoT poison damage almost on every hit. I remember getting killed by that in duels. Maybe it was re-adjusted in patches, or maybe it was another weapon. This one is only adding +5 Poison damage on a failed save, not as a dot. So... useless, I'll ditch it.\n\n![image-20200606231750366](image-20200606231750366.png)\n\nActually, that's exactly what's written. I should know better.\n\n![image-20200606231815266](image-20200606231815266.png)\n\nWhile the Ninja-to is explicit about it being a damage per round.\n\n## Guarded Compound\n\nNow I'm doing a detour through the Guarded Compound. I still haven't slept, but I recharged my \"per day items\" (PDI), and got a new wand trick to try, so I'll give it a try against those guys.\n\n![image-20200606232239802](image-20200606232239802.png)\n\nExactly as I remember, many creatures are being invoked.\n\n![image-20200606232303758](image-20200606232303758.png)\n\nBut (and I didn't remember that), because I'm invisible, they actually attack each other. I'll watch. I Nishruu saw me and attacked, but I quickly dispatched it in a small room.\n\n![image-20200606232432439](image-20200606232432439.png)\n\nNow it's only the Efreeti and Glabrezu that are left. I'm going to help the Efreeti.\n\n![image-20200606232529534](image-20200606232529534.png)\n\nI killed the Glabrezu but the Efreeti turned into Gazeous form to regenerate, twice.\n\n![image-20200606232859519](image-20200606232859519.png)\n\nI was weighing my options in terms of buff before going upstairs and saw that my item actions didn't have a number. Does that mean I can use them as many times as I want?\n\nAh no. And shit. It means the Nishruu ate the charges. Even the ones that were in the Inventory. Fuck. It made the WoL disappear. This will make things more challenging, for sure.\n\n![image-20200606233236516](image-20200606233236516.png)\n\nBut not impossible, I'm still gonna try. With Carsomyr and a Potion of Magic protection, I'm at 100% MR. This should help a lot. With the WOW and some backstab, it should work ok.\n\n![image-20200606233433094](image-20200606233433094.png)\n\nOh, that's a mistake, being all grouped like this. I'm going to drop something at their feet and use the WoW. It took some of them in the Web, I could fire arrows at them and hide in shadows when they came to my room to investigate.\n\nThen Koshi (the one I was shooting) came into the room while at Near Death.\n\n![image-20200606233747332](image-20200606233747332.png)\n\nI quickly killed him and looted that beauty. Booming Thunder is very nice. As I have ~3 APR, and it stuns for 1 round, there is a far chance of stunlocking them. Shocking Blow is interesting in its wording. 5% is the same as a Critical Hit. Is that two different rolls, or the same? If same roll it means that with the fighter HLA that makes every hit a crit, it will also proc the +20 Lightning damage on each hit.\n\n![image-20200606234026781](image-20200606234026781.png)\n\nNow testing if I can cast Agannazar from a scroll through the wall with the wand. No, and I got myself stupidly into my own web. Luckily I managed to get away but I still brought two of them in my room before being able to hide.\n\nArgh I died stupidly stepping on a trap...\n\n![image-20200606234255385](image-20200606234255385.png)\n\nOk, let's try again. This time I managed to stay hidden so maybe I'll open with a backstab.\n\n![image-20200606234328245](image-20200606234328245.png)\n\nYes. One mage down in one hit. Funnily enough, his contingency still cast stoneskin on his dead body.\n\n![image-20200606234412914](image-20200606234412914.png)\n\nThey all grouped in the small room, gathering where they saw me the last time. Same tactic, using the WoW on a container from afar.\n\n![image-20200606234538969](image-20200606234538969.png)\n\nHoly crap, I got one hit by Koshi and I'm down. That's very unlucky. He will do the stunlock I was talking about. No, I'm lucky he got entrapped in the Web, so can't hit me. If I'm lucky enough I'll be able to flee before the end of the round. Nope, not lucky enough.\n\n![image-20200606234737872](image-20200606234737872.png)\n\nThird try, same opening move. Backstab and having them grouped here.\n\n![image-20200606234848959](image-20200606234848959.png)\n\nThis time I equipped Carsomyr and went into the spells (as I'm immune) to hit them. But because I dispel on hit, I also removed the Web on the minotaur. I guess I'll have to kite him outside and backstab him.\n\n![image-20200606235012938](image-20200606235012938.png)\n\nAh damn, there was an assassin hidden. Ok, I'll run into the spell room again.\n\n![image-20200606235048640](image-20200606235048640.png)\n\nOh actually, I'm going to create another spell room right here.\n\n![image-20200606235402971](image-20200606235402971.png)\n\nI managed to hurt them badly enough. I finished one trapped in the web with arrows, backstabbed Koshi twice, and I'm now about to backstab another one with Celestial Fury that I just looted.\n\n![image-20200606235451699](image-20200606235451699.png)\n\nGreat. This does pretty good damage.\n\n![image-20200606235541609](image-20200606235541609.png)\n\nFinished the Minotaur one-on-one. With Celestial Fury proccing, it's easy.\n\n![image-20200606235728159](image-20200606235728159.png)\n\nThe other interesting loot is this; if I want to protect myself from elemental damage of any kind. Full MR is actually cheaper but hey, why not.\n\nI'm now going to open all the chests with my 100% MR.\n\n![image-20200606235842248](image-20200606235842248.png)\n\nArf, I'm not alone.\n\nKilled her with Celestial Fury (CF) and looted a Wand of Paralysis and of Frost, some Potion of Invisibility.\n\n![image-20200607000225124](image-20200607000225124.png)\n\nAlso found this that seems very very potent for someone proficient in darts.\n\nI also decided to finally level up and rest before continuing on my journey.\n\n![image-20200607000542902](image-20200607000542902.png)\n\nI have 3 abilities to take, so I guess I was 3 levels behind.\n\nI choose to took Power Attack (all attacks stun for 1 round) so I could take Critical Strike (all attacks are Critical for one round). If it's a critical, it means that it hits. So, that's perfect for an opening backstab. I also took Evasion (-4 AC, -2 Saves for 3 rounds).\n\nI memorized some spells I never use, to try them out.\n\n## Bodhi's Request and Cowled Enforcers\n\nNow, I'll be heading to the graveyard, to meet with Bodhi. I don't have a Wand of Lightning on me because a Nishruu ate mine. I'm ok continuing without one, because it's part of the challenge, but it's also an important part of my combos so... I guess I'll continue until I find another one. I'm sure I'll find another one soon.\n\n![image-20200607221250059](image-20200607221250059.png)\n\nSo, she is right there. Can I steal from her? Feeblemind her? Feeblemind failed because of Magic Resistance.\n\n![image-20200607222045790](image-20200607222045790.png)\n\nSo I listened to her offer and accepted. I think it's the first time in all my runs that I side with her. I have been thinking about the game difficulty and realized that considering my current level and the spells and items I have access to, the game is going to be relatively easy. So I decided to \"rush\" the main quest so I could unlock Throne of Bhaal quickly and have some real challenge there. If it's too hard, I will finish exploring BG2, but I don't want to spend too much time exploring all the areas here.\n\nI also changed my mindset from \"find the best build\" to \"discover as you go\". I hit a sweet spot in power already (as the Firkraag dungeon proved) and I can bypass most dangers even without armor and no rest, so I don't need to have all the best gear. I'd rather explore and discover, testing items as I find them.\n\n![image-20200607222844627](image-20200607222844627.png)\n\nI also explored a tomb. The lightning damage is not tied to the critical hit apparently. But the Shadow Fiend took a lot more damage. I didn't know they were vulnerable to lightning, that's interesting.\n\n![image-20200607222931513](image-20200607222931513.png)\n\nYeah, definitely not tied. I had it proc without a critical and not proc on a critical.\n\n![image-20200607223014956](image-20200607223014956.png)\n\nFound a nice scroll that could act as a trap. I think scrolls are always cast at level 10, so it would last 5 rounds.\n\n![image-20200607223219978](image-20200607223219978.png)\n\nI cast Stoneskin when arriving at the docks. I forgot that it would summon the Cowled Wizards. And one vampire friend is here. We'll see how it goes.\n\n![image-20200607223332004](image-20200607223332004.png)\n\nHmm, I think I can handle that, but maybe I will need Carsomyr for protection.\n\n![image-20200607223451388](image-20200607223451388.png)\n\nAh, the vampire fled. And the others are buffing. Well, I guess I'll have to kill the mages the usual way. For now I'll just wait and see what they cast.\n\n![image-20200607223558761](image-20200607223558761.png)\n\nWonderful, I also got aggroed by the thieves at the same time. The docks are going to get bloody tonight.\n\n![image-20200607223702758](image-20200607223702758.png)\n\nI tried to hide in a house, but more thieves arrived.\n\n![image-20200607223726620](image-20200607223726620.png)\n\nEmotion: Hopelessness cast one one of them had another fall. So it's a kind-AoE effect. I'll ignore the one sleeping for now and try to kill the others.\n\n![image-20200607223927723](image-20200607223927723.png)\n\nThe stun effect really proc very often. The dance is to stop hitting one when stunned and attack another. For fun I also had them confused through the Harp.\n\n![image-20200607224152494](image-20200607224152494.png)\n\nSomething is weird here. All the thieves are hostile, drinking potions, but not attacking me. Ah my bad, they are attacking me, they were just too slow and I killed them before they had time to drink their potions.\n\n![image-20200607224514347](image-20200607224514347.png)\n\nI then tried to sneak up on the mages, but they saw me. I cast Spell Immunity: Divination, but they breached it and send a fear spell. So now I'm running at full speed in the area.\n\n![image-20200607224624103](image-20200607224624103.png)\n\nHaha, I have been running for so long that the sun is coming up.\n\n![image-20200607224809942](image-20200607224809942.png)\n\nI went too far down and met this the dockers I'm supposed to kill. Cast a Mirror Image for protection and apparently, it triggered more enforcers. I don't understand why my previous SI:D didn't trigger them.\n\n![image-20200607224928763](image-20200607224928763.png)\n\nAnyway, gonna try to backstab this one.\n\n![image-20200607224946554](image-20200607224946554.png)\n\nAh, talked to me before I could hit him.\n\n![image-20200607225117067](image-20200607225117067.png)\n\nThose idiots are sending lightning bolts in the city.\n\n![image-20200607225135809](image-20200607225135809.png)\n\nThis was bound to happen.\n\n![image-20200607225310291](image-20200607225310291.png)\n\nOk, so I need more preparation. I moved into an empty house to buff, and we'll try again. Ah shit no, they silenced me... Ah it's over.\n\n![image-20200607225349491](image-20200607225349491.png)\n\nBut they followed me here. Ok, game on.\n\n![image-20200607225520960](image-20200607225520960.png)\n\nGood to know, the stun effect can proc (and work) even when the target as Stoneskins on. Gives me more time to peel the layers.\n\n![image-20200607225552540](image-20200607225552540.png)\n\nDO YOU REALLY THINK NOW IS A GOOD TIME?\n\n![image-20200607225716590](image-20200607225716590.png)\n\nHitting them wit Carsomyr to debuff the Stoneskin, then Celestial Fury works great. I shouldn't even bother to buff as they debuff me too quickly (and I don't have any anti-debuff memorized).\n\n![image-20200607225953974](image-20200607225953974.png)\n\nThey are now attacking themselves because of a misplaced fireball.\n\n![image-20200607230018102](image-20200607230018102.png)\n\nAh but I have an Abi-Dalzim on my heels. Time to hide in a house.\n\n![image-20200607230246006](image-20200607230246006.png)\n\nSo, now will be a good time to test the range on my wand exploits. I'm at the topmost point of the map, the Wizards are Down to the Shipyard Docks. I'm going to try to use the WoW there through the Wand of Resurection.\n\n![image-20200607230405896](image-20200607230405896.png)\n\nArgh no, didn't have time, one of them followed me.\n\n![image-20200607230512948](image-20200607230512948.png)\n\nI sent a Sequencer with two Melf Acid Arrows in it into it, and it triggered another Cowled Wizard group.\n\n![image-20200607230704789](image-20200607230704789.png)\n\nI have no idea what they're doing, but they're killing each other. Fine by me.\n\n![image-20200607230930816](image-20200607230930816.png)\n\nOh no, I killed a fisherman with a Skull Trap. Minus 7 reputation. I could reload, but it won't be fun. I'll give money to a Temple afterwards.\n\n![image-20200607231141514](image-20200607231141514.png)\n\nGot a +3 throwing axe. Make a dual wielding warrior specialized in axe possible. But not very useful in my case.\n\n![image-20200607231214195](image-20200607231214195.png)\n\nAlso found these. Albeit not magical I think they could be useful against mages. Gonna try them right away.\n\n![image-20200607233132864](image-20200607233132864.png)\n\nI think it was the last one. Maybe I should try to cast something else to bring more of them?\n\n![image-20200607233341868](image-20200607233341868.png)\n\nBut first, let's fix this reputation issue.\n\n![image-20200607233649416](image-20200607233649416.png)\n\nI tried the wand once again. It is not unlimited range, and there seem to have no need to go through another wand. It seems that it is possible to target a loot or a container even through the fog of war, and the character has to move to the range limit to cast. It usually is not an issue as normal targets are enemies, so they are visible in the fog of war. \n\n![image-20200607233808672](image-20200607233808672.png)\n\nUsing the wand did summon the Cowled Wizards though.\n\n![image-20200607233843805](image-20200607233843805.png)\n\nHaha, but he appeared right in the middle of the lightning bolts and it almost killed him. And then I managed to stun him. But he's invicible, so he finally summoned the others and with Carsomyr + Celestial Fury killed them. So far, no other mages appeared, even when I cast some spells.\n\n![image-20200608094555570](image-20200608094555570.png)\n\nI continue visiting the area and found a vendor selling Throwing Daggers. I bought a stack, to see how they fare in combat.\n\n![image-20200608094717229](image-20200608094717229.png)\n\nBought a Nymph cloak, hoping that it would be one with a lot of charges, but it seems that this only works when looting it, not when coming from a container.\n\nI will have to do some tests with a Nishruu if I can invoke one and see how it impacts charged items.\n\n![image-20200608095328624](image-20200608095328624.png)![image-20200608095337649](image-20200608095337649.png)\n\nSelling and stealing back Carsomyr to fences is also a very quick way to make money.\n\n![image-20200608101145527](image-20200608101145527.png)\n\nOn my way to seeing Bodhi, I visited a few tombs, hoping to find parts of Kangaxx. Instead I met two Skeleton Warriors that hits with Azuredge just killed outright. Either I was very lucky, or this weapon is devastating against undeads.\n\n![image-20200608101253200](image-20200608101253200.png)\n\nI also found this on their bodies. This does recharge spell slots when hit with spells. I need to test that with the clone. Can it regain slots of higher levels than what he initially had? Is MMM considered a spell?\n\n![image-20200608101455264](image-20200608101455264.png)\n\nSo this is the spells my Simulacrum has before testing Spell Trap.\n\n![image-20200608101602012](image-20200608101602012.png)\n\nI cast Feeblemind on my clone and here are is spells. Same, but Feeblemind didn't land. Magic Missile was absorbed.\n\n![image-20200608101724837](image-20200608101724837.png)\n\nBut he still took damage from the Skull Trap.\n\n![image-20200608101801763](image-20200608101801763.png)\n\nI had my Simulacrum summon a Djinni before the end of the spell, to test that as well.\n\n![image-20200608101830395](image-20200608101830395.png)\n\nThe djinni has a few spells, I'm going to try them on the Spell Trap. It correctly blocked the Lightning bolt damage, but the bolt still was reflected against walls.\n\n![image-20200608102008154](image-20200608102008154.png)\n\nStinking cloud was not trapped. The spell fired, and the effect was still working. So I guess it only traps spells directed at the user (so it would trap an AoE, in regard to gaining more spell slots), but won't prevent the effect from triggering. That's why I was hit by the Skull Trap, and the cloud.\n\nIt does not appear that I can gain more spells than I initially had.\n\n![image-20200608102204619](image-20200608102204619.png)\n\nWhich made me realize Stinking Cloud is a level 2 spell, but my highly trained clone still was affected. So, not to be underestimated.\n\n![image-20200608102315496](image-20200608102315496.png)![image-20200608102330106](image-20200608102330106.png)\n\nIn comparison, the wand of Cloudkill mentions two different effects. It does kill every 1-4 creature. 5-6 are allowed a Saving Throws (not sure if at -4 or not). And 6+ should still take damage every round, but my experience is that many creatures are marked as immune. I think it's because they are too high level, so I'm unsure if the description is accurate or not. If it really does deal poison damage every round to everyone, then it's a weapon I'm going to use more.\n\n![image-20200608102537218](image-20200608102537218.png)\n\nActually, I'm going to try right now. And yes, my clone is taking 1d10 damage every round, yay.\n\nNow I will need to try to see what happens if I cast spells at myself. Would casting a level 1 spell at myself regenerate a level 1 spell slot, thus allowing me to cast them infinitely?\n\n![image-20200608103457268](image-20200608103457268.png)\n\nSo I CAN cast Magic Missiles at myself, but if someone else does it, they are absorbed. \n\n![image-20200608103650598](image-20200608103650598.png)\n\nI also tried casting Simulacrum from a Simulacrum and it kinda worked. The new one does not seem to have any gear except for quick slot items, but it does have the exact same spells as the first-generation Simulacrum.\n\n![image-20200608103812748](image-20200608103812748.png)\n\nAs well as all my innate abilities. So that means I can put three Time Stop Traps if I want.\n\n![image-20200608103932437](image-20200608103932437.png)\n\nThe Simulacrum also seem to have a buggy hit box. When I requested them to pickpocket me, they actually just went on the exact same spot as myself. Maybe that's something that can be exploited to get past some people? Anyway, 2nd generation clones do not seem to be able to attack. Even if it seems that they have items equipped in their melee weapon, clicking on it does not select it.\n\nThey also move slowly, indicating that they don't wear the boots of speed.\n\n![image-20200608104121303](image-20200608104121303.png)\n\nBut if I cast Ghoul Touch, now they can attack. I guess the same will happen if I cast any summoned weapon. I had it use Critical Strike to hit me, but all I got was \"Critical Strike Averted\", because I was wearing a helmet.\n\nOh, I tried to have it use the quickslot items, and apparently it's a glitch, just like the weapons. It is displayed that it has some, but he can't use it. Seems like he can only attack (if a weapon is conjured), use innate abilities, cast spells and pickpocket.\n\nI did some tests with the Nishruu as well. Whenever it hits, it drains one charge from a charged item either equipped or in the inventory. I tried to have my gear bar opened so I could cast the ability even once drained, but the bar actually updates in real time (as opposed to the weapon that removes spell slots). Items with \"per day\" charges seems to stay in the inventory (Cloak of the Sewers, Harp of Pandemonium), but items with limited charges will disappear. It does not affect potions or scrolls.\n\nI also discovered that \"per day\" items don't recharge if they are on the floor while you sleep.\n\n![image-20200608105337083](image-20200608105337083.png)\n\nThis is my inventory before being hit by a Nishruu.\n\n![image-20200608105404557](image-20200608105404557.png)\n\nAfter one hit. It actually drained from all items at once, so there is no possibility of putting one buffer item in the inventory to absorb the charge draining. Only items on the floor or in containers (including Bags of Holding) are safe.\n\nBut it only drains one charge per item on each hit, so if an item has several abilities (like the three polymorph of the Cloak of the Sewers) only one is drained each time.\n\nAlso, as soon as you start casting the ability, it can't be drained, even if you're hit while casting.\n\nNishruu can't be dispelled, but can be stun through Celestial Fury.\n\nRegarding item recharging: they recharge if they are in the inventory when sleeping, even in a bag of holding. They don't recharge if they are on the floor or in a container (excluding bag of holding). They always recharge when they are sold to someone.\n\n![image-20200608231653055](image-20200608231653055.png)\n\nBack at Bodhi's Lair, found an interesting Mace, pretty similar to Azuredge, but can't be used at range, so I'd rather use Azuredge (but I think this mace can be upgraded later).\n\n![image-20200608232945070](image-20200608232945070.png)\n\nI visited the spider nest as well, avoiding the spiders, just for the loot.\n\n![image-20200608233047343](image-20200608233047343.png)\n\nBackstabbed the one that looked like a mage. It triggered the combat music but did not turn the other hostile. I looted this nice figurine on her.\n\n![image-20200608233325038](image-20200608233325038.png)\n\nAlso found this, which I don't think I'll use.\n\n![image-20200608233402295](image-20200608233402295.png)\n\nVisiting further, I was attacked by some undead. I'm going to test the Mace of Disruption and Azuredge further on them.\n\n![image-20200608233624103](image-20200608233624103.png)\n\nI didn't kill any of them with one-shots, and the vampires drained a few levels from me.\n\n![image-20200608234555561](image-20200608234555561.png)\n\nExploring another crypt the Crypt King feared me. Thankfully I'm too fast for him and we are just running in circle around the coffin. The rare times he manages to hit me, I then regenerate.\n\n![image-20200608234756110](image-20200608234756110.png)\n\nBut won a Silence Sword +2 as a result. I might have to try the ability, see if I can cast it on NPCs, see if it prevents them from initiating dialog. If at least I can cast it without them turning hostile, that could be a great way to start a fight (maybe against the Cowled Wizards)\n\n![image-20200609134905195](image-20200609134905195.png)\n\nI took Jan Jansen with me just long enough so I can take his gear. \n\n![image-20200609134937320](image-20200609134937320.png)\n\nA +1 crossbow.\n\n![image-20200609134954099](image-20200609134954099.png)\n\nImmunity to Blindness and the ability to detect invisibility. I don't think I'll have any use of that.\n\n![image-20200609135026858](image-20200609135026858.png)\n\nI'm not wearing any gloves, I can wear that.\n\n![image-20200609135050810](image-20200609135050810.png)\n\nOh, apparently I can't. Even with UAI.\n\n![image-20200609135125538](image-20200609135125538.png)\n\n![image-20200609135137719](image-20200609135137719.png)\n\nWell, apparently I can't use any of his items. That's too bad, I thought that I could use stuff from NPCs with UAI.\n\n![image-20200609135533819](image-20200609135533819.png)\n\nStole this from Tolgerias in the District Area. I remember back in the original game I could steal that from him when meeting him outside the building, and again once inside the building. Seems like he is no longer outside the building now.\n\n![image-20200609140520154](image-20200609140520154.png)\n\nWhile picking up the key on Gaelan Bayle, in order to kill the Shadow Thieves, I summoned some Cowled Wizards. I'm going to try Namarra on them.\n\n![image-20200609140607095](image-20200609140607095.png)\n\nLaw enforcement at its finest.\n\n![image-20200609141005297](image-20200609141005297.png)\n\nHaha, the Amnian soldier is actually attacking the mages.\n\n![image-20200609141647318](image-20200609141647318.png)\n\nI finally did it with a +50% MR potion and Carsomyr. One mage kept having tattoos (contingencies) firing up with a Mirror Image whenever I was dispelling it.\n\n![image-20200609141829940](image-20200609141829940.png)\n\nThe good news is that I found this scroll on the bodies. This opens a lot new combos.\n\n![image-20200609141941390](image-20200609141941390.png)\n\nI tried casting Wraithform (to summon more Wizards and take advantage of my potion), but it didn't summon them. And the spell prevented me from casting anything else. I'm immune to normal weapons, but that's too expensive a price for not being able to cast spells.\n\n![image-20200609142141094](image-20200609142141094.png)\n\nI attacked the Shadow Thieves with my WoW on a table.\n\n![image-20200609142401139](image-20200609142401139.png)\n\nHmm, I got myself Entangled in my own web even with Arbane.\n\nI tried killing people with throwing daggers. It does a lot of damage (~20) from afar, which is interesting, but it fires pretty slowly. Daggers take a long time to fly and hit their targets. Bows do a lot less damage (~10) but fire more quickly.\n\n![image-20200609143023521](image-20200609143023521.png)\n\nWand of Wonder in an area, then firing missiles from a distance works very well.\n\n![image-20200609143518388](image-20200609143518388.png)\n\nI found a scroll of Carrion summons, so I summoned some. I didn't expect much, but they can paralyze, which could be useful when there are many opponents.\n\n![image-20200609145359780](image-20200609145359780.png)\n\nFound this, not useful. I might have to discard all the loot that seems not interesting.\n\n![image-20200609150429168](image-20200609150429168.png)\n\nGreat loot on Mr Linvail. Vocalize will be very useful against all those mages trying to silence me. Magic Resistance is always good to have. Immunity to Level Drain was sorely needed, and decreasing spell casting in addition to what the Robe of Vecna is already giving me will be powerful.\n\n![image-20200609150600522](image-20200609150600522.png)\n\nMy first Ring +2 since BG2 started, I can replace my +1 I had before.\n\n![image-20200609150626569](image-20200609150626569.png)\n\nNice, but not interesting compared to other armor (Vecna) I can have.\n\n![image-20200609150737441](image-20200609150737441.png)\n\nOh, this is new, and interesting. I'll have to keep it until I can get another WoL and see if I can invoke several djinnis.\n\n![image-20200609150822384](image-20200609150822384.png)\n\nA quick test shows that the Djinni has a few spells. Melf Acid Arrow is nice, as is Stinking Cloud (a level 2 spell I might be using more).\n\n![image-20200609151458082](image-20200609151458082.png)\n\nBack outside I cast another spell to summon Cowled Wizard. This time it summoned a named one. I set a Teleport field to confuse them and turned into a Jelly. Somehow they summoned creatures and started attacking them.\n\n![image-20200609151619337](image-20200609151619337.png)\n\nThey are just firing AoE and getting teleported while I stand in my gelatinuous form, immune to their damage. Finally finished them all off, the Named one included, but could'nt find her body. I killed an innocent bystander in the process, so I'll have to give some money to a Temple.\n\n![image-20200609220428080](image-20200609220428080.png)\n\nI actually found a faster way to get money, thanks to Roger the Fence in the Sewers. Just selling the most expensive gear I have, and then stealing it back.\n\n![image-20200609220639346](image-20200609220639346.png)\n\nRoger is the only fence in the game I know, so I made sure to do the trick a few times, to not have to worry about money for a long time.\n\n![image-20200609221057970](image-20200609221057970.png)\n\nI tried to pickpocket Bodhi and managed to get a Shadow Thieves dagger. This is weird as she already gave that to me earlier, but I guess her sprite always have that equipment. I got greedy and tried to steal again, but this time she caught me and killed me. I'm gonna try again, and wanted to see how I could escape if she caught me.\n\n## On to Spellhold\n\n![image-20200609221808699](image-20200609221808699.png)\n\n![image-20200609222531084](image-20200609222531084.png)\n\nWell, Brynnlaw is lawless. Most of the pirates are hostile to me as soon as I arrived.\n\n![image-20200609222613524](image-20200609222613524.png)\n\nI cast Clairvoyance to reveal the map, making moving around easier. Just beeline to the interesting areas.\n\n![image-20200609223031389](image-20200609223031389.png)\n\nPickpocketed that from a Pirate standing in the middle of the street.\n\n![image-20200609223516100](image-20200609223516100.png)\n\nBought a Wand of the Heavens at the temple. Only 5 charges, I'll have to sell it and buy it back, but not here as the priestess does not buy it back.\n\n![image-20200609223917340](image-20200609223917340.png)\n\nI tried to set traps where an NPC would appear to kill him before he could kill the mage I was talking to, but it didn't trigger.\n\n![image-20200609224438020](image-20200609224438020.png)\n\nI hacked my way through Galvena's underground.\n\n![image-20200609224626813](image-20200609224626813.png)\n\nI managed to backstab + stun Galvena without her even talking to me. The other two didn't react. But, it broke the script as they stayed silent and Claire couldn't give me the hint to get into Spellhold.\n\n![image-20200609224841353](image-20200609224841353.png)\n\nNext try I had time to send a poisoned dagger into the mage before the dialogue started. It should incapacitate him.\n\n![image-20200609225558091](image-20200609225558091.png)\n\nNext, met with Perth, the mad mage, and he killed himself with a fireball.\n\n![image-20200609225625292](image-20200609225625292.png)\n\nI could loot his magical spellbook.\n\n![image-20200609225637909](image-20200609225637909.png)\n\nBut his Mislead clone stayed up. I had to kill him again. This time I got the XP. Weird.\n\n![image-20200609225945476](image-20200609225945476.png)\n\nI duplicated the tome by having my clone turn one of its page, then killing him. It would be easier with the WoL but I still haven't found one.\n\nThe whole Spellhold dungeon is clearly not my favorite part of the game. I might be rushing it a bit, in order to get to the Sahuagin city faster.\n\n![image-20200610095655977](image-20200610095655977.png)\n\nI managed to outrun the Coordinator in charge of the guided tour and went all the way to Imoen.\n\n![image-20200610095849778](image-20200610095849778.png)\n\nAh shit, I just realized I don't have my Harp of Discord anymore. I remember putting it on the floor in a fight, to use it to target it with the WoW but I don't even remember when it was. I might even have been in the Shadow Thieves compound. Well, I guess the Harp is lost now...\n\n![image-20200610100926427](image-20200610100926427.png)\n\nYay, found another Bag of Holding. I will now have one bag to hold every item I need to use regularly, like one-per-day items and various weapon combos.\n\n![image-20200610101126472](image-20200610101126472.png)\n\nI can confirm that the goodberries in a Bag of Holding do not disappear after 24h.\n\n![image-20200610101630727](image-20200610101630727.png)\n\nI summoned an Illithid, an Umber Hulk and a Beholder, but thanks to a Potion of Clarity and the Shield of Balduran, killed them quickly. Found this ring, I'll have to test it and see how it impacts the Boots of Speed and Stun.\n\nI does cancel the boots of speed, and even if I remove the ring, I need to re-equip the boots to have them work.\n\n![image-20200610102256035](image-20200610102256035.png)\n\nThere is a Lich, just lurking around, but I cast a Protection from Undead, so it should be easy. Hmm apparently she cast Time Stop right when I was casting my scroll and it somehow didn't land on me. So I ran, hid behind a closed door, and will cast again.\n\n![image-20200610104117270](image-20200610104117270.png)![image-20200610104139250](image-20200610104139250.png)![image-20200610104208418](image-20200610104208418.png)![image-20200610104229508](image-20200610104229508.png)![image-20200610104258356](image-20200610104258356.png)![image-20200610104324292](image-20200610104324292.png)![image-20200610104359334](image-20200610104359334.png)![image-20200610104434605](image-20200610104434605.png)![image-20200610104514206](image-20200610104514206.png)![image-20200610104557185](image-20200610104557185.png)![image-20200610104628948](image-20200610104628948.png)![image-20200610104702211](image-20200610104702211.png)\n\nHere were all the twelve riddles.\n\n![image-20200610104725170](image-20200610104725170.png)\n\nWhich got me another ring of regeneration. I might swap my Ring +2 for that. \n\n![image-20200610110845125](image-20200610110845125.png)\n\nTeleport Field + WoW is fun. All that is left to me is to shoot enemies when they appear in my LoS.\n\n![image-20200611092108694](image-20200611092108694.png)\n\nThe Shield of Balduran also reflect Gauth rays, so this one got paralyzed by trying to attack me.\n\n![image-20200611092235698](image-20200611092235698.png)\n\nWoW in small areas works wonder™.\n\n![image-20200611092334852](image-20200611092334852.png)\n\nI also got a Limited Wish spell that I will need to try. But, to make this easier I might have to wait to find another WoL.\n\n![image-20200611100718158](image-20200611100718158.png)![image-20200611100730606](image-20200611100730606.png)![image-20200611100741506](image-20200611100741506.png)![image-20200611100416415](image-20200611100416415.png)![image-20200611100707997](image-20200611100707997.png)\n\nMore riddles.\n\n![image-20200611100443908](image-20200611100443908.png)\n\nGot this in the riddle game. This, coupled with a clone is a perfect way to send infinite lightning bolts.\n\n\n\n![image-20200611101008076](image-20200611101008076.png)\n\n+2 AC that does stack with other rings. I find the Amulet of Power more useful in the long run (spellcasting decreased, Vocalize, immunity to level drain), but this is also good to have in case I want to have the best AC ever.\n\n![image-20200611101215697](image-20200611101215697.png)\n\nFound this on the altar. Simple +2 club with some more damage to undeads. I don't think I can see any usefulness to that.\n\n![image-20200611154502740](image-20200611154502740.png)\n\nSame kind of not-so-useful gear. +2 AC against Slashing is great, don't get me wrong, as many enemies deal slashing damage, and this will stack with other AC, but I won't have enough hands to carry all the good swords.\n\n![image-20200611154603406](image-20200611154603406.png)\n\nWay too situational. More damage toward Evil creatures, when you have Carsomyr that does even more damage to everyone, this is not so useful. Same for the MR, this is not as good as Carsomyr.\n\n![image-20200611154715686](image-20200611154715686.png)\n\nHa, finally a scroll I can get some use of. I will have to try on a Simulacrum, what effect it has. I want to see what happens if the Simulacrum ends before the Maze, does he come back for an infinite amount of time? Can I Maze a Mislead, and be always under the effect of Invisibility?\n\n![image-20200611155225576](image-20200611155225576.png)\n\nFound another of those.\n\n![image-20200611160159549](image-20200611160159549.png)\n\nNow I'm close to Irenicus. I'm supposed to gather the inmates and attack him with everyone at once, but I want to try to kill solo. The issue is that whenever he sees me, he kills me in a scripted \"Wish\" event. So let's see how we can circumvent that.\n\nMy first thoughts are sending some AoE in the room, or going there with summons and a Wizard Eye.\n\nAaaah. I cast Wizard eye but before I could cast it a scripted Slayer transformation interrupted it. I'll have to sleep again.\t\n\n![image-20200611160510678](image-20200611160510678.png)\n\nWizard eye can go inside without triggering the event.\n\n![image-20200611160542701](image-20200611160542701.png)\n\nI sent summons to attack him, which started the fight. We'll see if I can win that.\n\n![image-20200611160633372](image-20200611160633372.png)\n\nAh, I thought that triggering him hostile will prevent him from speaking to me, but apparently no. Hmm ok, now I'll try with a clone and try some blindness/feeblemind on him.\n\n![image-20200611161026523](image-20200611161026523.png)\n\nMy project him could go as far as there, weirdly enough there is no fog of war there. But I don't see him either. \n\n![image-20200611161106480](image-20200611161106480.png)\n\nA Wizard Eye cast by a Projected Image does reveal the fog of war. That's interesting.\n\nI had the projected image turn a page of the book of infinite spells. This way, he has an item in his inventory, so if he dies, there is a loot on the ground I can target with my wands.\n\nI tried Feeblemind and Blindess, but he always saved against it. I'm going to try to backstab him and turn into a jelly.\n\n![image-20200611161643943](image-20200611161643943.png)\n\nProject Image disappeared, now going with a Simulacrum. Irenicus takes damage from Skull Traps.\n\n![image-20200611161746300](image-20200611161746300.png)\n\nHe killed my Simulacrum with Power Word: Kill.\n\n![image-20200611161820110](image-20200611161820110.png)\n\nBut now there is loot I can target from the other side of the wall.\n\n![image-20200611161929353](image-20200611161929353.png)\n\nHe is Near Death and webbed, I sent my spider killing him. I kinda think he can't die but, we'll see...\n\nI discovered that the Lightning bolt from the Book of Infinite spells can go through walls as well.\n\n![image-20200611162115082](image-20200611162115082.png)\n\nI think he's invicible, there is no way I'll kill him like this. I guess I'll have to ask for backup, but maybe he'll still be injured.\n\n![image-20200611162623751](image-20200611162623751.png)\n\nSo yeah, it worked, he was Near Death even after I summoned all the inmates.\n\n![image-20200611162719245](image-20200611162719245.png)\n\nAnd it's done. In just a few seconds I killed him (well, he escaped) but all the inmates died as well.\n\n![image-20200611162850379](image-20200611162850379.png)\n\nBut I forgot about the assassins. I'm in trouble here, so I turned into a rat to take no damage.\n\n![image-20200611163502700](image-20200611163502700.png)\n\nLast loot of the area. I should try the Lightning spells with the Cloak, maybe it will heal me. I tried both directly on me and it didn't do anything. No damage, no heal, no rebound. I should try with a clone and see how it goes.\n\n![image-20200611163555049](image-20200611163555049.png)\n\nAnd a Horn of Silence. I should try if it prevents people from talking to me.\n\n![image-20200611163828828](image-20200611163828828.png)\n\nAnd I can now transform into a Slayer. STR and DEX upgrade is the same as my base stats. -9 AC is what I can have once equipped. MR 40% might actually reduce it, I'll have to try. 4 APR, need to see if it increases with gear. +100HP is nice, need to see if I can have +600 with the WoL. And Immunity to Stun! At least something that protects from Stun.\n\n![image-20200611164134412](image-20200611164134412.png)\n\nI also did some tests with Lightning Bolts. On a Projected Image, it didn't reflect anything and the Projected Image actually took damage and died I think. On a Simulacrum it does reflect the ray back at me in a loop. With the right angle, it does create a lightning ray of death that no-one will be able to cross. This is something I will definitely need to try in an encounter next.\n\n## Sahuagin City\n\n![image-20200611231625640](image-20200611231625640.png)Now leaving Brynnlaw. Attacked by Githiankis and Sahuagins. I lost the Silver Sword Saemon just give me.\n\n![image-20200611231948844](image-20200611231948844.png)\n\nAnd now, I'm heading underwater.\n\n![image-20200611232040363](image-20200611232040363.png)\n\nThe only problem is that I was targeted by a Hold spell on the boat, and I still have it affecting me during all the talking. I just hope it will go away before the fight.\n\n![image-20200611232219695](image-20200611232219695.png)\n\nIt went off just as the fight started. I cast Feeblemind, and the Ettin stopped attacking.\n\n![image-20200611232408512](image-20200611232408512.png)\n\nI stole a Magic Rope, and some quest items from the King, which allowed me to also open the Treasure chest and got this rod. Gonna try it in the next battles.\n\nThe area is clearly one of my least favorite areas to explore. I don't like the Sahuagin sprites, they seem too cartoony. I don't like the map and its corridors. The enemies are too low level to be a challenge, and the only way to get out of here is to use the rope. But there is some good loot, so I'll do it, but I guess I might just kill everyone to get it over with.\n\n![image-20200612223823104](image-20200612223823104.png)\n\nFound a +2 Cloak, which is actually interesting as I don't wear +X rings so far.\n\n![image-20200612223855824](image-20200612223855824.png)\n\nAnd this, I never really understood how to use them, but I will give it a try. Seems like a Protection from Normal Weapon once per day. Not that useful at that level.\n\n![image-20200612225720874](image-20200612225720874.png)\n\nI killed the King with a Spike Trap the moment he became hostile. I didn't even had to put the trap exactly near him, it triggered even from a distance.\n\n![image-20200612230727340](image-20200612230727340.png)\n\nAnd THIS. This is the best I think. Especially when running solo as I know most spells will be targeted against me. I'll need to see if it blocks things like Finger of Death.\n\n## Underdark\n\n![image-20200612230904576](image-20200612230904576.png)\n\nAnd I'm finally in the Underdark. On my last play-through, this is where I stopped because I was bored and I am again feeling this boredom of the game. Everything is too easy right now and I have too many magical items.\n\nSome of them are extremely powerful just by themselves, others are interesting when combined together. I feel like I don't need to find new combos as what I already have in stock is usually enough for the encounters. I rarely need to improve my AC as enemies die quickly enough thanks to the stun effect. \n\nBut I know in the Underdark there is a shopkeeper where I'll be able to get some Improved Haste. With that, much will be easier. So I might wait until then, and keep exploring everything.\n\nI might start rummaging through my old bags, finding items to get the best gear to cruise through encounters. Or I try to refine some tactics.\n\nActually I liked the double lightning thing, and I think I will need to refine it. But my clones don't last long enough for me to have it as a permanent spell. Also I don't have lightning wands.\n\n![image-20200613230903269](image-20200613230903269.png)\n\nI leveled up. I put one pip in Katana, because I thought I had one, but I didn't. Now I have my 9/2 APR. I also took one more level 6 slot and one more level 7 slot, as this seems to be the two best levels.\n\nI now decided to be rummaging through my old Bag of Holding and see if there are any items I could use.\n\n![image-20200613231052708](image-20200613231052708.png)\n\nFirst on the list is the Staff of Striking. I want to see how good this is for backstabs.\n\n![image-20200613231154592](image-20200613231154592.png)\n\nAh yes, this is pretty impressive. Only 25 charges on the staff, but nothing I can't recharge.\n\n![image-20200613231947111](image-20200613231947111.png)\n\nI attacked some drows by having them waste their True Sight while I was wandering around. Then I cast a WoW from afar, and killed the others with arrows of biting, to prevent them from casting.\n\n![image-20200613232752424](image-20200613232752424.png)\n\nI encountered some Myconids that confused me, but they kept coming at me, so my confused characters chopped them down. But there were too many of them and at some point I aggroed a wandering Kuo-Toa and he killed me. I need a way to protect from confusion, but I don't have any more potions of Clarity with me. I should have taken the bottle bag.\n\n![image-20200613234426573](image-20200613234426573.png)\n\nI also bought this spell. I want to study its effect on the Maze spell. Can I Maze a clone and then Free him in another area? Can I use that to \"smuggle\" quest items from one zone to another? Like the death ray machine from the Cult of the Eyeless.\n\n![image-20200613234610847](image-20200613234610847.png)\n\nFinally! This will be my go-to level 6 spell, doubling my attack speed.\n\n![image-20200613234726422](image-20200613234726422.png)\n\nI also bought this, but I don't think I'll need to use it as I will be able to get one of them from the Book of Infinite spells.\n\n![image-20200613234858368](image-20200613234858368.png)\n\nI could also pull another infinite money trick with this and the WoL. Just use this 6 times to create 6 Rods when turning a weapon back and selling it. Pretty slow process, but would work without needing a thief.\n\n![image-20200613235811020](image-20200613235811020.png)\n\nFound this in my bag, would have been useful in the previous fight. I'll keep it handy.\n\n![image-20200613235840064](image-20200613235840064.png)\n\nI tried that with my 25 DEX, but it didn't change the value at all.\n\n![image-20200614230133956](image-20200614230133956.png)\n\nI released a mad mage from a soul machine and he started casting Maze on me. Thankfully, the Maze animation is slow, so I had time to cast SI:Conjuration. Oh, but it apparently didn't work. I'll need to do more tests about that.\n\nSo I first tried to auto-Maze me and it worked. I then tried with SI:Conjuration, and it still worked. I don't know why. Oh ok, I found why. It's because I was casting it on myself, and in that case it seems to bypass all resistances. When a clone was casting it on me, I was correctly protected. However, I have to be protected BEFORE the animation starts, otherwise it still works.\n\n![image-20200614231421418](image-20200614231421418.png)\n\nGot this on the last guy invoked. Killing them was actually pretty easy as they take a few seconds to appear, but you can still target them and attack during the animation. So I could backstab them, and if lucky they died in one hit, otherwise I still had time to hit once or twice more, and sometimes they even got stun. So, most of them I killed without them even attacking me.\n\n![image-20200614233133703](image-20200614233133703.png)\n\nI found this cursed ring in the Svirfneblin village. Dragomir cloack only reduces INT and WIS by 2. I will need another item that reduces more. I could try with the Wakizashi that reduces it even more on hit.\n\n![image-20200614233854589](image-20200614233854589.png)\n\nWell actually, just wearing the ring puts my screen black and there is nothing I can do. I even try with a Contingency casting Remove Curse on myself when helpless but it didn't trigger. There is nothing I can do with the character.\n\nI think I will need to get my hands on some cursed scrolls and do some testing. They should decrease some stats, so in combination with the Cloak of Dragomir, I should be able to have some negative values of stats without stopping on zero.\n\nAlso, I will need to test if I can use the WoL trick to really decrease the values or if I can pick another target than myself for them. I think I have a bunch of those scrolls on my other scroll case at the Copper Coronet.\n\n![image-20200706121245312](image-20200706121245312.png)\n\nGot some Bracers for helping saving a child around here. It does improve my AC by one, putting me at -3.\n\n![image-20200706122000299](image-20200706122000299.png)\n\nKilled a Balor with a Spike Trap and some hits from the Katana. Got this Mace in return.\n\nBut I died to Svirfneblin that were Stunning me. Then I reloaded and died to the Balor this time, Stunning me as well. He is casting Symbol, Stun which seem to be really powerful, and a spell I'll need to learn. Next time I got on the surface, I'll go grab Mazzy because she seem to have a sword that can protect from Stun.\n\n![image-20200706123230113](image-20200706123230113.png)\n\nThis makes those darts also very powerful. I'm not proficient in it, but I might keep them, just to see if I can stun a whole group with 10 APR.\n\n![image-20200706123817423](image-20200706123817423.png)\n\n![image-20200706123826061](image-20200706123826061.png)\n\n![image-20200706123841121](image-20200706123841121.png)\n\nSome mildly interesting items found on Demon Knights. The Soul Reaver could be interesting if I ever need to keep a monster alive but not doing any damage. Don't know why I'd need that, though.\n\n![image-20200706125226592](image-20200706125226592.png)\n\n![image-20200706125245108](image-20200706125245108.png)\n\nFound a bunch of those on Kuo-Toas. This is even better than the Darts as I could fire them very quickly. If I can find a way to duplicate them, it will make using a Crossbows very very useful.\n\n![image-20200706135247437](image-20200706135247437.png)\n\nFinally managed to kill the Kuo-Toa Prince. He was regenerating very quickly so I had to stun and Critical Strike with Improved Haste, but he finally fell. And I got those bracers. I don't think I'll wear them, better having an Improved Haste spell ready.\n\n![image-20200706135551482](image-20200706135551482.png)\n\nAh and finally a Mordenkainen Sword. This will be helpful. Casting 6 of them and hasting them makes fighting horde easier.\n\n![image-20200706140124334](image-20200706140124334.png)\n\nMet a bunch a Drows on a bridge. Did not even tried to discuss, and killed them through the Wand of Wonder and some Skull Traps.\n\n![image-20200706140203614](image-20200706140203614.png)\n\nFound some other bolts of stunning. Every single monster around here seems to stun.\n\n![image-20200706140314673](image-20200706140314673.png)\n\nAlso found this, which sets my APR to 4 (9 with IH), which is good enough for me, and would work well with all those Stun bolts I'm finding.\n\n![image-20200706140516185](image-20200706140516185.png)\n\nI could also pickup an infinite amount of Corrupted Tadpoles. Interesting if I can sell them maybe.\n\n![image-20200706140645683](image-20200706140645683.png)\n\nEquipped with the Cloak of Reflection and the Shield of Balduran, this was easy.\n\n![image-20200706140727281](image-20200706140727281.png)\n\nThe Beholder feared himself while trying to fear me, and the Gauth kept casting Cause Serious Wound on me, which got reflected.\n\n![image-20200706141646092](image-20200706141646092.png)\n\nKilled some other Beholders in another cavern with the same combo (plus SI:Conjuration as they were casting Maze).\n\n![image-20200706141714764](image-20200706141714764.png)\n\nGot myself a small trinket.\n\n![image-20200706142051191](image-20200706142051191.png)\n\nI somehow even dominated one, as he was spamming domination at me and it got reflected.\n\n![image-20200706142339582](image-20200706142339582.png)\n\nFound this in a small alcove. Gotta try it on the next monsters.\n\n![image-20200706143037438](image-20200706143037438.png)\n\nFinally, found a Gemstone Amulet in this run. Killing the wandering Illithids will be so much easier.\n\n![image-20200706143249702](image-20200706143249702.png)\n\nI can't believe this is actually an easy fight.\n\n![image-20200706225014976](image-20200706225014976.png)\n\nGot myself captured by Mind Flayers, and now I have to fight in an arena to get out. I have absolutely no memory of this part of the game from my previous playthrough; this feels like something totally new to discover. I love it.\n\n![image-20200706230002664](image-20200706230002664.png)\n\nAfter the first fight, I go some allies in the Githyanki, which helped me open the arena doors. Now, I'm cruising the complex, killing Kuo-Toas and Illithids. With the Greenstone Amulet, it's a piece of cake.\n\n![image-20200706230217122](image-20200706230217122.png)\n\nFound this, which would be useful weren't I running solo.\n\nI managed to charm an Illithid to open the doors, but my so-called allies then told me they will flee. I quickly attacked them, turning them hostile and killed them. Somehow it teleported me in my cell, with Illithids quickly teleporting behind me.\n\n![image-20200706232050456](image-20200706232050456.png)\n\nI have no idea why, nor if I'll be able to open the doors. I'm going to kill them, except for one that I will charm. Well, it didn't work, they just keep popping each time. I guess I broke something by attacking the Gith.\n\nInstead I put a time stop trap next to the door, so the moment the dominated Illithid turns hostile, it triggered, leaving me enough time to kill it and move through the door, without having the Gith dialog initiate.\n\nAllowed me to wander in the dungeon on my own. Thanks to the Greenstone Amulet, I could fight each group one by one. Their devour brain ability is still very powerful, so I had to resort to a lot of Improved Haste and Critical to kill them quickly.\n\n![image-20200706234823807](image-20200706234823807.png)\n\nI then found that. Domination with no save? Really? That seems too good to be true.\n\n![image-20200706234900064](image-20200706234900064.png)\n\nAnd 21 charges? This really seems too good to be true.\n\n![image-20200707000426859](image-20200707000426859.png)\n\nOnce sold and bought back it goes all the way to 25. I'm going to have so much fun with this staff!\n\n![image-20200707173532218](image-20200707173532218.png)\n\n![image-20200707173548626](image-20200707173548626.png)\n\nSome items to buy in Ust Natha. The +10% MR is only useful if I can get a full set to 100%, but I kinda think Carsomyr and drinking a potion would be enough, or turning into a Jelly.\n\nAs for killing golems on hit, why not if I get to a place where there are a lot of them.\n\n![image-20200707173726839](image-20200707173726839.png)\n\nA throwing dagger dealing fire damage. I'll have to try this, I'm proficient in daggers. But at that point in the game, any weapon does basically as much damage.\n\n![image-20200707173808334](image-20200707173808334.png)\n\nOh, but that is better. Nice AC boost, I'll keep it.\n\n![image-20200707175620220](image-20200707175620220.png)\n\nWon a blade in the pits. The fights were so quick the mage didn't even get the chance to cast anything before I was on them and stunning them.\n\n![image-20200710135942858](image-20200710135942858.png)\n\nStole this from Solaufein before he could teleport away.\n\n![image-20200710140048909](image-20200710140048909.png)\n\nAnd again after he teleported.\n\n![image-20200710140815397](image-20200710140815397.png)\n\nA nice halberd on a group waiting for me outside.\n\n![image-20200710140906507](image-20200710140906507.png)\n\nThis does a lot of different damage, I'm going to keep it for when a target is only vulnerable to a specific kind of damage.\n\nI also continued questing for Phaere and Solaufein in the city, doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that.\n\n![image-20200728220701776](image-20200728220701776.png)\n\nAccidently discovered that I can trigger my own Symbol: Stun spell and stun myself.\n\n![image-20200728221342812](image-20200728221342812.png)\n\nPhaere wants me to kill Solaufein and bring his piwafwi cloak as proof. Even prior to killing him I have two of them that I managed to pickpocket off him. Maybe I won't have to kill him and can finish this quest?\n\n![image-20200728221459384](image-20200728221459384.png)\n\nThat worked. And didn't even had to move from here nor talk to Solaufein. I'll check him out later and see what he has to say.\n\n![image-20200728222635764](image-20200728222635764.png)\n\nStole this off of Ardulace. Not that useful considering I have a cloak with a permanent similar effect, but I should still try this thing.\n\n![image-20200728223447124](image-20200728223447124.png)\n\nHad to kill a bunch of slimy monsters for a side quest.\n\n![image-20200728223619780](image-20200728223619780.png)\n\nWand of Wonders in the center, then Bolt of Stunning from afar.\n\n![image-20200728224642139](image-20200728224642139.png)\n\nKilled Deirex the Lich following Jarlaxle clever plan. I only had two Protection from Undead scrolls and didn't want to waste them, so I had my simulacrum cast one on myself.\n\n![image-20200728224838493](image-20200728224838493.png)\n\nMeh.\n\n![image-20200728225732226](image-20200728225732226.png)\n\nMeher.\n\n![image-20200728225747928](image-20200728225747928.png)\n\nMehest.\n\nWeird loot there.\n\n![image-20200728230040669](image-20200728230040669.png)\n\nSo, I infiltrate the Jae'llat house, but everyone is hostile. The good news is that none can detect invisibility, nor is casting True Sight. It means I **should** be able to kill them with stuff that does not break my invisibility. Maybe confusing them, or turning them against each other?\n\n![image-20200728230651028](image-20200728230651028.png)\n\nWell, using the WoW did break the Invisibility. Wasn't I able to use wands from invisibility before? Or maybe it was only items/spells that didn't require a target, like Sunfire. Anyway, the horde of guards just kept coming at me, but they were easy to defeat with Improved Haste and my Fire Shield and my regeneration. No loot, though.\n\n\n\n## Nextld" }, { "files": [ "06-emrys/image-20200509214044979.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509214115388.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509214250511.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509215011804.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509220001996.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509220211604.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509220408368.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509220656431.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509220814113.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509221004438.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509221251907.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509221331882.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509221443581.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509222007261.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509222523211.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509223154206.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509223405266.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509223858888.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509224829372.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509224950655.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509225618751.png", "06-emrys/image-20200509231433857.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510165043578.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510165337126.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510170214021.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510170223181.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510170228814.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510171724935.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510224519696.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510225252318.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510230150869.png", "06-emrys/image-20200510230437001.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513143807441.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513143940080.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513145058591.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513213810589.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513214056889.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513214634791.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513215228376.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513220202517.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513221220149.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513221419137.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513221754490.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513222801987.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513223128056.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513223222316.png", "06-emrys/image-20200513231511208.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514230343495.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514230527554.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514230534827.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514231722168.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514231751121.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514231802527.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514232213500.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514234359912.png", "06-emrys/image-20200514235251704.png", "06-emrys/image-20200515000407316.png", "06-emrys/image-20200515000453420.png", "06-emrys/image-20200515001517451.png" ], "name": "Wild Mage solo run", "text": "## Intro\n\nI was playing the Black Pits: Gladiators of Thay as a solo Blade. But I got bored of those high level fights in small arenas, and decided to take a small break.\n\nSo I started a whole new BG1 solo run, this time with a Wild Mage. This will force me to play differently as I won't be able to kill people in melee, nor to get infinite money. I'll play as a pseudo-speedrun: not killing everyone, but going to the end as directly as I can. Might not do all the quests, and sneak into the dungeons.\n\n## Wishlist\n\nI know there are a few items I'd want in that run. I'm going to add them here so I don't forget, and cross them as I get them.\n\n- Wand of Sleep\n- Wand of Fireball (Lower Chiontar)\n- Wand of Lightning (Beregost)\n- Wand of Paralyzation\n- Boots of Speed (Cloakwood)\n- Tome of Strength (Candlekeep Catacombs)\n- Tome of Dexterity (Thieve's Guild)\n- Tome of Constitution (Lighthouse, with Flesh Golems)\n- Tome of Intelligence (Ramazith Tower)\n- Tomes of Wisdom (West Baldur's Gate, Candlekeep Catacombs, Durlag's Tower)\n- Tome of Charisma (Gnoll Stronghold)\n- Dagger of Venom (Beregost, 18k)\n\n## Character Creation\n\n![image-20200509214044979](image-20200509214044979.png)\n\nThis is me.\n\n![image-20200509214115388](image-20200509214115388.png)\n\nIt's funny how the wild mage is by default multicolored.\n\n## Candlekeep\n\n![image-20200509214250511](image-20200509214250511.png)\n\nAs usual, talked to Firebead and went on doing a few errands for Dreppin, Phlydia and Hull.\n\n![image-20200509215011804](image-20200509215011804.png)\n\nDoing all those quests didn't lend that much XP. I'll now have Phlydia kill a few guards for me so I can resell their gear. I have charmed, then go to sleep. She is now hostile and will attack any friendly creature that go near her. Meaning I just need to charm someone, and she will attempt to kill him or her.\n\nThe easiest way to have guards around is just to sleep in the middle of Candlekeep, just outside of her reach and charm them.\n\n![image-20200509220001996](image-20200509220001996.png)\n\nNow leaving Candlekeep.\n\n\n\n## Friendly Arms Inn\n\n![image-20200509220211604](image-20200509220211604.png)\n\nImoen joined me, I just took her potions of healing and oil of speed and left her alone in the woods.\n\n![image-20200509220408368](image-20200509220408368.png)\n\nTaking the diamond from the tree.\n\n![image-20200509220656431](image-20200509220656431.png)\n\nTook Evermemory from the Inn tree.\n\n![image-20200509220814113](image-20200509220814113.png)\n\nWent into the first home on the left, took a quest from Joia to bring her ring back.\n\n![image-20200509221004438](image-20200509221004438.png)\n\nCharmed Tarnesh, had him cast Magic Missile on himself, and then the guards finished him. Did not get the XP, but was an easy fight.\n\n![image-20200509221251907](image-20200509221251907.png)\n\nI identified the Belt of Antipodes for 100 and sold it for 250. Also bought this book because Tethoril will ask for it in Beregost IIRC.\n\n![image-20200509221331882](image-20200509221331882.png)\n\nI now know a few spells. Nahal isn't useful for now, but will be and I'll have access to higher level spells. I'll now.\n\n![image-20200509221443581](image-20200509221443581.png)\n\nTook Khalid and Jaheira just long enough to take their Potion of Invisibility.\n\n![image-20200509222007261](image-20200509222007261.png)\n\nI tried charming the Hobgoblin and instead there was some explosion. First Wild Surge! \n\nHad to run a bit and managed to blind him so I could hit him from afar. My THACO is abysmal, so it's taking some time, but Blindness lasts for two hours, so I'm in no hurry.\n\nI charmed the other one, but there was no one to have it fight against, and I failed at blinding him, so I continued on my way. Far enough so I could sleep and came back to blind him again for real. He didn't have the ring either. Damn, maybe that wasn't the right group. I'll have to continue on this road.\n\n![image-20200509222523211](image-20200509222523211.png)\n\nHa, that's better. I charmed one, he's going to get killed by the other two. I managed to loot the ring after two of them died, and then I ran, couldn't kill the last one.\n\n## Lower Chiontar\n\nThis zone is much higher level than I am. I could kill the Ankhegs quickly if I had a sleep spell, as they are affected by it, but I don't. I'm just here for the loot for now.\n\n![image-20200509223154206](image-20200509223154206.png)\n\nI went into the Ankheg's Pit and drank the Oil of Speed. I ran to the hoard, running around pillars to block line of sight with the ankhegs so they wouldn't spit on me. One hit and I'm dead.\n\n![image-20200509223405266](image-20200509223405266.png)\n\nI got out with all of that. Pretty good for a level one. I gave the dead child to his father, and went back giving the ring to Joia.\n\n## Beregost\n\n![image-20200509223858888](image-20200509223858888.png)\n\nOn my way to Beregost, I stopped on a rock there to grab a Ring +1.\n\n![image-20200509224829372](image-20200509224829372.png)\n\nOnce at Beregost, I accepted Silke quest, but blinded her beforehand. Nobody attacked her, and she didn't react, so I could just kill her with bullets from afar.\n\n![image-20200509224950655](image-20200509224950655.png)\n\n900 XP, the more I ever had so far, and some gold.\n\nI then went to talk to Marl, and got 900 more XP. 300 for giving Firebead a book.\n\n![image-20200509225618751](image-20200509225618751.png)\n\nThen got ambushed by Karlat in the Inn. Same tactic, blind him and run far away to send stones. But he is tough, and my THACO is still very bad, so I have to rest in the Inn next door to recharge my magic missiles before I can kill him. Well, this is not working, he's healing when I rest. I guess I'll just have to avoid this Inn for a while.\n\n![image-20200509231433857](image-20200509231433857.png)\n\nSo, I have an issue. This door is locked, I can't force it, and I won't have Knock until the end of Cloakwood. So... I will either have to play without the Wand of Lightning trick, or find another way in.\n\n## What next?\n\nNow I'm not sure where to go next. Maybe Nashkel so I can move the main quest forward, bringing me closer to the Boots of the Cheetah, but even if I can get all the way through the boss, I'm not sure how to kill him. I might need a Wand of Paralyzation, or at least an Identify spell.\n\nI think I should be able to be safe enough if I can get at least one level 2 spell, allowing me to cast Invisibility. For that I might need to farm either the Ankhegs (this will also bring me cash, but I'll need a wand of Sleep), or the Basilisk (but even them, I'm not sure how I can kill them with my mediocre THACO).\n\nSo I guess I'll go to High Edge, buy some spells, then do the Ankhegs, and then the Basilisks?\n\n![image-20200510165043578](image-20200510165043578.png)\n\nBecause I didn't want to aggro anyone, I blinded myself when traversing the High-Edge estate. Works well, but is very slow, so I reloaded. Nice trick though, I might reuse it to get through a dangerous map I already explored. This might even be better than being invisible.\n\n![image-20200510165337126](image-20200510165337126.png)\n\nI charmed the burglar, and send him killing the skeletons.\n\n![image-20200510170214021](image-20200510170214021.png)\n\n![image-20200510170223181](image-20200510170223181.png)\n\n![image-20200510170228814](image-20200510170228814.png)\n\nI bought a Wand of Sleep, the Potion Container, and a few more spells, even some from levels I cannot yet cast. Identify is a must have if I want to keep my money, Protection from Petrification will allow me to farm the basilisks.\n\n![image-20200510171724935](image-20200510171724935.png)\n\nI went south, freed Melicamp from a Wolf (Blinded it, and killed it with stones). Then went back to High-Edge, tried to turn invisible using the Dweomer but instead made some gems appear (more gold for me), tried again and summoned 9 squirrels. I used them to distract a Skeleton while I ran to the estate, gave Thalantyr a skull and polymorphed Melicamp back. Got 2000XP for that, level up!\n\n## Lighthouse\n\n![image-20200510224519696](image-20200510224519696.png)\n\nTook me a while to get from High Edge to Seawatcher. If I get wayland by enemies, I die pretty quickly. If I encounter one skeleton, he will kill me, so I had to sleep to turn invisible. But when monsters appeared, I had to travel back to another map and try again. I guess it took me several days in game time to get to the Lighthouse.\n\n![image-20200510225252318](image-20200510225252318.png)\n\nI skip those, I'm heading toward the Sirines.\n\n![image-20200510230150869](image-20200510230150869.png)\n\nHere they are. My tactic is to cast a Fireball on them. Worst case scenario I expect them to charm me, but there is nobody I could harm.\n\n![image-20200510230437001](image-20200510230437001.png)\n\nAh shit, no, that didn't work. Being charmed when you're the only character seems to be considered a death. Hmm, I will need to come back with either a Wand of Lightning, or Potion of Clarity.\n\nReally, the Wand of Lightning is the item I need the most. And I couldn't find a way to open the house in Beregost where there is one. According the baldurwiki, all the other wands in the game are all in the city of Baldur's Gate.\n\nSo, I canceled this trip to the Lighthouse and went back to High-Edge on my way to Nashkel\n\n## Nashkel\n\n![image-20200513143807441](image-20200513143807441.png)\n\nGot attacked by a Ghast on the way. Blinded it and threw stones.\n\n![image-20200513143940080](image-20200513143940080.png)\n\nThis took forever so I took a gambit and tried to cast a Skull Trap through Nahal's Wreckless Dweomer, and all it did was change my gender. Tried again and got myself silenced this time. Ah no, I silenced the Ghast. Useless (but fun).\n\n![image-20200513145058591](image-20200513145058591.png)\n\nBack at Beregost I finally managed to open the door on my second try with the Strength spell.\n\n![image-20200513213810589](image-20200513213810589.png)\n\nFinally got this. I feel confident going to Nashkel on my own now. Actually, I think I will recruit Neera first. I know I said I wanted to do a solo run, but I already did two solo runs of BG1 and I want something new. I think having two Wild Mages could lead to some funny crazy moments.\n\n![image-20200513214056889](image-20200513214056889.png)\n\nInteresting, I purposefully cast Blind on myself before being talk to by Neera, hoping that if I can't see the enemies, they won't see me. Weirdly, it seemed that the cutscene magically cured me of my blindness.\n\n![image-20200513214634791](image-20200513214634791.png)\n\nI took the bodyguards to a back alley, put them to sleep and killed them.\n\n![image-20200513215228376](image-20200513215228376.png)\n\nI turned both of us Invisible and we went all the way to Nashkel.\n\n![image-20200513220202517](image-20200513220202517.png)\n\nGot attacked by the Assassin. I don't yet have much attack spells, so I let the guards do their job.\n\n![image-20200513221220149](image-20200513221220149.png)\n\nGot the Wand of Frost in the tree at the mines.\n\n![image-20200513221419137](image-20200513221419137.png)\n\nGoing both invisible in the mines.\n\n![image-20200513221754490](image-20200513221754490.png)\n\nI took the trap, so Neera can go after me (she only has 8 HP). Having Neera with me so far only adds to the difficulty.\n\n![image-20200513222801987](image-20200513222801987.png)\n\nKilled Mulahey with the Wand.\n\n![image-20200513223128056](image-20200513223128056.png)\n\nI dropped an armor next to the group outside, put myself just at the fog of war limit and send a firebal at the armor.\n\n![image-20200513223222316](image-20200513223222316.png)\n\nAnd boom, level up.\n\n![image-20200513231511208](image-20200513231511208.png)\n\nBack in Nashkel, got attacked by Nimbul. The guards helped me.\n\nThen, I spent a few nights here to Identify all the magical gear I had. I plan on going to High-Edge and sell everything to buy a Robe of Neutral Archimage, or something else.\n\nActually, I wasn't rich enough so I bought spells for Neera and I. I then went to the Lighthouse to get some more cash and XP.\n\n## On to the Lighthouse again\n\nKilled a few sirines on my way with the wands\n\n![image-20200514230343495](image-20200514230343495.png)\n\nTook the loot while invisible, and cast invisibility again on my way out. Neera got held by a trap, so I had to wait for her.\n\n![image-20200514230527554](image-20200514230527554.png)\n\n![image-20200514230534827](image-20200514230534827.png)\n\nImproved my Constitution through the book. I'm not slowly regenerating, which makes traveling much easier.\n\n![image-20200514231722168](image-20200514231722168.png)\n\n![image-20200514231751121](image-20200514231751121.png)\n\n![image-20200514231802527](image-20200514231802527.png)\n\nMe and Neera seem to bond well.\n\n## Back in Beregost\n\n![image-20200514232213500](image-20200514232213500.png)\n\nI charmed Algernon in the Inn, so he would be killed by Tranzig and I could loot the cloak.\n\n![image-20200514234359912](image-20200514234359912.png)\n\nRecharged the Wand of Fire, I had just enough cash.\n\n ![image-20200514235251704](image-20200514235251704.png)\n\nI charmed Raiken in the Peldvale, which allowed me to get to the Bandit Camp.\n\n![image-20200515000407316](image-20200515000407316.png)\n\nWe went invisible to the Bandit camp.\n\n![image-20200515000453420](image-20200515000453420.png)\n\nI went into the tent, initiated dialog, turned invisible as they turned hostile and burn the group of three, then finished the last one with magic missiles. I looted the containers.\n\n![image-20200515001517451](image-20200515001517451.png)\n\nAs I couldn't sleep inside, I went outside, put the two guards to sleep, killed them and then slept on the porch. I then blasted the name guard for his loot.\n\nI had to go back to the chest inside to pick up the documents again as they are meant to trigger Chapter 4 but didn't in my game on the first try." }, { "files": [ "08-ash/2018-12-02_21h19m20_628452005.png", "08-ash/2018-12-02_21h19m37_676277545.png", "08-ash/2018-12-02_21h20m14_377035389.png", "08-ash/2018-12-02_21h21m03_272612482.png", "08-ash/2018-12-03_22h49m14_550909241.png", "08-ash/2018-12-03_22h49m34_702873360.png", "08-ash/2018-12-04_22h15m02_639879424.png", "08-ash/2018-12-04_23h00m12_567874531.png", "08-ash/2018-12-04_23h00m31_821065025.png", "08-ash/2018-12-04_23h04m22_338894263.png", "08-ash/2018-12-04_23h09m04_521310614.png", "08-ash/2018-12-04_23h20m50_806897303.png", "08-ash/2018-12-04_23h40m44_785607681.png", "08-ash/2018-12-05_09h45m50_272348313.png", "08-ash/2018-12-05_09h47m16_304642556.png", "08-ash/2018-12-05_22h25m26_724888913.png", "08-ash/2018-12-05_22h40m08_505277643.png", 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