Still in the first act. Cool mushroom guy wants me to kill some guy called Nere, and a Gnome wants me to free some slaves. I get to the Grymforge area or whatever it’s called, and every Duergar I meet is piece of shit slaver, so eventually I go “fuck it” and kill every slaver I see on sight, which turns out to almost all of the Duergar, so my dumb ass almost died having to fight like 10 guys at once lmao. I did manage to use speak with animals to convince one of the Duegars pet spiders to leave him though lol. Get wrecked. I love speak with animals.

So once all the slavers are dead I free Nere and the Gnomes from a cave in, but it turns out Nere is a shitty slaver too so now I have to fight him too. Let my party rest for the love of god. Anyway, now the Gnomes can leave and they’re all like “lol why did you save us anyway?”

BRUH. WHAT DO YOU MEEEEEAN?

What is it with this game and characters being surprised by someone not being a complete sadist. Like, Shadowheart does this too if you open her pod on the squid ship “It would have been easy for you to just walk past…” In what universe does the average person find it easy to leave someone to die? The Forgotten Realms apparently.

Mind you, if you look at how we treat the homeless… maybe it is realistic after all. But come on, hating slavers shouldn’t be surprising. The game treats you like a weird bleeding heart for showing the bare minimum of humanity.

Anyway, next I’m going to check out the temple of Selune and then head to Moonrise. Is there anything I should make sure I do before that? I haven’t gone to the Gith creche, because as a druid I figure my character would be more inclined to follow Halsins advice. Hope I’m not missing anything though.

Also how do I get Halsin to join my party?