Shar's Temple - 2D20 Pair

Blessed Nightsinger, witness our adoration. See how we serve you, only you. We have emptied our hearts of falsehoods. We have vanquished your foes. In darkness, we see your truth. Embrace us, your loyal warriors. Cloak us in your shadow. Guide us to your victory. Shar's will shall be done. As sure as night will fall.

Moving into the Shadow Cursed Lands

An explorer's journal in Faerun:

Pages 1-10 - Pages 11-20 - Pages 21-30 - Pages 31-40 - Pages 41-50 - Pages 51-60

game play first, cinematic second.

The lighting effects in the gauntlet of shar are amazing.

Last chance to form alliances before Croissant opens a can of arcane whoopass :)

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Beautiful Shadowheart

🟣🐲 missed my dragonborn guy enshi so have a headshot and messy scribbles

i still need to decide on his fashion sense bc in bg3 hes just wearing that harness all the time dskfksdjfsd

Update:

♦️ I convinced the doctor and nurses to off themselves. Took the battered lute he had. Went to wake up Art and talk to him. Halsin is now at the Last Light Inn waiting for me to meet him by the water.

♦️ Currently doing the Shar trials for bbg ShadowHeart 😂 I did Faith-Leap Trial & Soft Step Trial, gotta do the last one (where tf is it lol)

♦️ Met the Golden Woman, tried many times and many different ways to get around her, kept dying. sis got like 500 health 😭

♦️ Where do i find camp supplies? I been looking everywhere and i basically cleared out the Last Light Inn for supplies 😭

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Tonight's misadventures: I've recruited Minthara on this Astarion origin run and I brought her along to face the Thorms. Tragically, Shadowheart triggered the Gerringothe convo and her miserable +1 to Persuasion didn't do it, even with as much inspiration as I could spare. In the ensuing fight, both Astarion and Minthara got turned to gold, but not before Gerringothe hit Astarion for 637 damage (he was holding 12k gold). :(

That was bad enough, but once that fight was done and we made it into the back room, I had Astarion break the statue of her out of spite. Hilarious, right up until it fell over, through the floorboards, and down the level below, taking Karlach and Minthara with it on the way down.

I honestly don't know why she's sticking around at this point. (As an aside, I'm realizing typing this that I forgot to actually jump down there and loot. Both Minthara and Karlach jumped back up immediately with their thighs made of steel springs, and I got distracted with the little gold bits scattered around the map! I'll head back tomorrow and finish the loot.)

Even more tragically, Minthara then triggered on Malus Thorm, and despite her very good CHA she couldn't make all the checks & we had to fight them too. Astarion did finally push everyone aside and get there first on the Thisobald one, though, and was successful in talking him out of existence.

Look at how mad he is to be playing this lute.

So Lae´zel got jealous yesterday, and my character just 😬 and looked to Gale. 🤣

(Since I´ve been using a mod, the sentences are prematurely cut off, so I apologize for the distracting pace.)

my durge tav had a fling with both astarion and lae’zel at the same time. when i played through it originally, astarion’s hug scene triggered before lae’zel’s ‘i have feelings for you and i need to fight you about it’ scene, and so that meant that my tav’s relationship with astarion deepened and it was ultimately lae’zel that prompted the ‘choose one of us’ dialogue.

i recently went back to an old save shortly before the astarion hug scene because i wanted to check how that scene had triggered (iirc it triggered organically, so without talking to araj or killing yurgir first). i was at last light inn, spammed like two or three long rests, and instead of having the hug scene trigger (which i now believe only triggers after raph gives you the quest to kill yurgir), lae’zel’s scene triggered instead.

this was nice because i got to see it + hear the subsequent ‘choose’ dialogue from astarion rather than lae’zel, but oh my god i cant stop thinking about the implications. lae’zel was SO close (literally only 2-3 nights!!!!) to admit her feelings to herself and confess to my tav!! had i played slightly differently, gone somewhere else, picked a fight in a different spot, the defining moment of who my tav ended up picking (and thus falling in love with) might have gone differently. and like. imagine being lae’zel. imagine kicking yourself repeatedly over and over again over the fact that you’re… feeling things for this fucking random tadpoled dumbass you met just recently. imagine growing up in a society where love and romance is scoffed at, and the second you’re removed from that environment, you find someone who stirs those embarrassing feelings in you! imagine slowly working up the courage to even just Begin to accept your feelings, to be working towards being able to acknowledge them out loud, to be literally One Night Away from taking this huge, scary personal leap… and then someone else beats you to it. you were one night away from doing one of the scariest things you’ve ever done, and then someone else fucking destroys that opportunity for you. and it’s just over. you end it with the person you were so close to falling in love with, because they’ve fallen in love with someone else and you hesitated.

i just. lae’zel my wittle baby im so fucking sorry. i love you. i didn’t know. bapey girl my heart breaks for her!! she deserves the world and if you don’t like her im literally killing you with my mind

Temple of Shar

picked planescape torment out of the pool of post-bg3 recs. ~10 hrs in and i love this interplanar city, i am chewing on it, i am turning it around between my fingers. the way it nails the strange-familiar....miévillesque

When the dark wood fell before me And all the paths were overgrown When the priests of pride say there is no other way I tilled the sorrows of stone

Sweet Shadowheart

the self-same trial in the temple of shar is the first time astarion has seen himself in 200 years.