My default icon is particularly apropos right now

I've done most of my whining about being sick on Tumblr, but I'm on day 5 of this bout with The Infection (not COVID, just some different recurring respiratory thing) and still miserable :(

I mean, it's better than it was. But coughing up yellow phlegm is gross, the coughing is painful, and I have barely slept for days because it's hard to breathe unless I sit up. I can think more or less clearly again, though I'm unsurprisingly tired, but /mutter mutter, gripe gripe

BG3: meanwhile-

I'm pretty sure that I won't replace Shadowheart with Astarion for the Larissa run, even though it would make for a much more well-rounded party (and he has many cool abilities, alas). It's just, a) I like Shadowheart a lot more than Astarion, b) I do like the cleric of Mystra-cleric of Shar dynamic between Larissa and Shadowheart, but mostly c) I'm massively entertained by Shadowheart/Lae'zel playing out in the background of the Gale/Larissa/Mystra drama.

I probably like Shadowheart/Karlach best of the non-Tav Shadowheart ships, but Shadowzel is very fun, and a scenario where it's the more functional and less dramatically disastrous relationship is just kind of delightful to me.

Since this game is providing the structure for the f!Gale/Gaila fic, I'm thinking that I'll pick up Shadowheart -> Gale -> Astarion, let Astarion stick around long enough for Gale to give him the very funny cold shoulder, then switch him out for Lae'zel for that A+ Shadowzel content. (I also love that this party make-up allows Larissa [14 INT] and Gaila [17 INT] to feel like they're holding the party's brain cells and just these normal, smart, stabilizing influences on everyone before they get consumed in their dubious life choices.)

BG3: recording Gale's introduction

Now that I have ULTIMATE POWER!! figured out how to record the game, I went back to record some cut scenes, including Gale's introduction. It's not quite as epic as Lae'zel's or as enigmatic as Shadowheart's, but it's very endearing, and it also is the first time Larissa's allegiance to Mystra in particular affected anything:



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BG3: oops

The thing about temporarily carting around Astarion as Party Member #4 with three full spellcasters is that now the most muscular, buff, athletic person in the party is ... Shadowheart the cleric.

(I'm pretty sure nobody in the party is strong enough to even lift the awesome greatsword I got from the boss on the nautiloid ;_;)

BG3: it begins!

Feels good, feels right