Baldur's Gate 3 - Solo Honour - Netherbrain / Final Battle Atop the Netherbrain - Rogue/Melee

This turned out to be much easier than I thought it would be with this build. I was planning to save Executioner from Killer's Sweetheart for the Netherbrain, but I very quickly got sick of seeing it pop-up.
This is my third run using a melee focused rogue style. I am avoiding using archery again this playthrough.
I lost my first attempt at melee rogue style destroying Mystic Carrion's jars. I lost my second attempt rescuing Volo in Act 3, mistakenly thinking that I entered turn-based mode and then moved next to the smokepowder barrels after freeing Volo, right before they explode.
I generally take videos of every combat encounter, but I'm only uploading significant encounters right now, as it takes ages to sort through the videos and to upload them. If there is a specific encounter that is not uploaded that someone wants to see, leave a comment and I will upload it. I don't have time to record commentary, to edit or to rewatch the videos. There are a few instances of playing more than easy encounters or insignificant bits of the game on Steam Deck, so they would lack videos.
I sometimes make mistakes, sometimes get unlucky or lucky, and sometimes things just do not work out as planned or expected. It is easy to say in hindsight what could have or should have been done differently, but c'est la vie.
0:00 Loading
0:45 Prep
2:15 Entering Atop the Netherbrain
2:40 Dominated Red Dragon / Emperor / Dream Guardian
12:00 Clearing Illithid Arcanists
16:50 Making it safe for Orpheus to move up / Moving Orpheus to the Netherbrain
17:40 Channeling portal to Netherbrain
18:55 Final battle with the Netherbrain
23:17 Success and ending

[@QuiteDisquietly]

Time stamps:
0:00 Loading
0:45 Prep
2:15 Entering Atop the Netherbrain
2:40 Dominated Red Dragon / Emperor / Dream Guardian
12:00 Clearing Illithid Arcanists
16:50 Making it safe for Orpheus to move up / Moving Orpheus to the Crown
17:40 Channeling portal to Netherbrain
18:55 Final battle with the Netherbrain
23:17 Success and ending

[@klasgelinder]

Well played! I am doing a Eldritch Knight darkness build solo run at the moment, but you have inspired me to start a melee rouge too. Thanks!

[@QuiteDisquietly]

I have had some issues with using Darkness, so I have avoided basing anything around it. I tested some things with it in Act 3 and quite often I kept getting ranged attacked or casted on into the Darkness. I don't know if you have experienced that or not, but it was frustrating. The enemies doing such did not have any certain skills which would allow that. I am not sure what was going on there, but it did not work out for me.