42:50 You passed the athletic check, otherwise you have to use oil or cast a spell to hit that statue to be able to move it. Your idea was right, but the positioning wrong, the one to the east, the second to the west, but you have them both oritented to the wrong direction, to the north and to the south. Always reset your view before such things ;)
Chiming in to say that I completely understand the sustainability on the future of BG3 series. With that said, I am very much invested in Orrick and the gang! Hoping we continue to see the crew and their adventures in the future :)
@@RetconRaider I also really love this series. Its great hearing your commentary on plot developments, and how you analyze character actions, encounter building, environment layout, etc
Same, this has been a great play through. But yeh if it's not doing any numbers then it's time to let it go. It will be a shame not to see Retcon's reaction to the Guardian reveal though :D
Was about to comment about the direction of the statues, but you already noticed. The maintenance hint in the book is now irrelevant IIRC, as you succeeded the athletics check to start the rotation on the first statue. Should you had failed that, the application of oil to the mechanism would be one way to get it going.
I do appreciate how the astral prism looks sort of like a d20. The githyanki have a bad habit of building cities on corpses of dead deities found floating in the astral sea. Considering how gods in this setting can influence things while dead and can be revived via multiple means. Building cities out of them could result in some interesting situations.
This is another fight that is a good bit more fun on honor mode. The oil bit (and the base v statue) is for helping with the actually rather difficult athletics check your 21 str warlock succeeded at first try. I understand views are dwindling as the series goes on, and this is only the end of act 1, so going to be hard keeping it going for the rest of the game, but I at least love watching it. I do think you'd have more fun on honor mode though, its a shame they won't let people add in those difficultly options sans save slot changes.
That "don't hurt yourself" response to Lae'zel's wanting to think was brutal 😂 Was there any particular rationale for not letting Lae'zel into Orrik's head? I can understand if Orrik wouldn't trust Lae'zel to not immediately go rooting around somewhere else she wasn't wanted.
Eh, the Dream Guardian didn't exactly give us any compelling evidence, so I was worried if I let Lae'zel review the conversation she'd just dismiss it wholesale.
I mean, I have no way of knowing that ahead of time. We'll just have to hope that Vlakiith literally trying to have her killed is enough to sway her. :)
I read somewhere that the big skeleton in the astral prism might be Myrkul's body, something like in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer from Astrla Plane.
I didn't trust the queen or the creature in the astral prism. If the creature in the astral prism does not want to deceive you, then why appear in the form of a love dream? SoI tried to "resolve the issue" withcreature with the sword she offered. And naturally nothing came of it and she said that she couldn’t trust me anymore.🤪
From what I've heard, the Dream Guardian was *originally* supposed to be a manifestation of the tadpole in our head. It would help protect us early on for the sake of mutual survival, but eventually start pushing us to let it take over and complete the ceramorphosis process. Sadly, that all got cut in the actual launch build, so I have no idea who the Dream Guardian is supposed to be at this point. My money's still on Orpheus, but I've had a few folks imply it's not. :)
Imagine thinking you forced someone into a small trinked to do your bidding just for them to get back out and ask "what was it you wanted again...?" and pop back in when you were about to start shrieking at them to avoid your wrath XD
42:50 You passed the athletic check, otherwise you have to use oil or cast a spell to hit that statue to be able to move it. Your idea was right, but the positioning wrong, the one to the east, the second to the west, but you have them both oritented to the wrong direction, to the north and to the south. Always reset your view before such things ;)
Betrayed by a power-mad lich with delusions of grandeur? Whoever could have seen that coming?
Chiming in to say that I completely understand the sustainability on the future of BG3 series. With that said, I am very much invested in Orrick and the gang! Hoping we continue to see the crew and their adventures in the future :)
Yeah, I wish there were more BG3 episodes than one a week ;)
Unfortunately, even just doing one a week is a strain on analytics. :(
@@RetconRaider I know that, it is just a wish ;)
@@RetconRaider I also really love this series. Its great hearing your commentary on plot developments, and how you analyze character actions, encounter building, environment layout, etc
Same, this has been a great play through. But yeh if it's not doing any numbers then it's time to let it go. It will be a shame not to see Retcon's reaction to the Guardian reveal though :D
Was about to comment about the direction of the statues, but you already noticed. The maintenance hint in the book is now irrelevant IIRC, as you succeeded the athletics check to start the rotation on the first statue. Should you had failed that, the application of oil to the mechanism would be one way to get it going.
I do appreciate how the astral prism looks sort of like a d20. The githyanki have a bad habit of building cities on corpses of dead deities found floating in the astral sea.
Considering how gods in this setting can influence things while dead and can be revived via multiple means. Building cities out of them could result in some interesting situations.
I was so not ready for you to bust out etrigan's rhyme.
Thank you for doing so.
curiosity killed the dragonborn .. well not this one but dragon-born of softer metals
Orrik is pretty solid
This is another fight that is a good bit more fun on honor mode. The oil bit (and the base v statue) is for helping with the actually rather difficult athletics check your 21 str warlock succeeded at first try. I understand views are dwindling as the series goes on, and this is only the end of act 1, so going to be hard keeping it going for the rest of the game, but I at least love watching it. I do think you'd have more fun on honor mode though, its a shame they won't let people add in those difficultly options sans save slot changes.
That "don't hurt yourself" response to Lae'zel's wanting to think was brutal 😂
Was there any particular rationale for not letting Lae'zel into Orrik's head? I can understand if Orrik wouldn't trust Lae'zel to not immediately go rooting around somewhere else she wasn't wanted.
Eh, the Dream Guardian didn't exactly give us any compelling evidence, so I was worried if I let Lae'zel review the conversation she'd just dismiss it wholesale.
inquisitor didnt even ask if that person inside prism is dead... did he assume it is dead?
I think it's safe to say that Gith aren't really great at long-term planning. :)
You kind of screwed up by not letting Lae'zel into your head. That's part of a system of counters that bend her towards the good path. Unfortunate.
I mean, I have no way of knowing that ahead of time. We'll just have to hope that Vlakiith literally trying to have her killed is enough to sway her. :)
I read somewhere that the big skeleton in the astral prism might be Myrkul's body, something like in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer from Astrla Plane.
Myrkul was dead during NWN2 MotB, but he was one of the gods that were brought back after the Second Sundering. So he is alive when BG3 takes place.
That amulet is useless on Gale. He doesn't do melee damage. It is more for a gish toon.
The Necklace of Elemental Augmentation? That one doesn't seem to say anything about melee. :)
@@RetconRaider You're right. I was thinking of a different amulet. My bad.
@@KudzuHaiku No worries, there were at least two other items in this episode that *were* for gish builds. It gets confusing. :)
I didn't trust the queen or the creature in the astral prism. If the creature in the astral prism does not want to deceive you, then why appear in the form of a love dream? SoI tried to "resolve the issue" withcreature with the sword she offered. And naturally nothing came of it and she said that she couldn’t trust me anymore.🤪
From what I've heard, the Dream Guardian was *originally* supposed to be a manifestation of the tadpole in our head. It would help protect us early on for the sake of mutual survival, but eventually start pushing us to let it take over and complete the ceramorphosis process.
Sadly, that all got cut in the actual launch build, so I have no idea who the Dream Guardian is supposed to be at this point. My money's still on Orpheus, but I've had a few folks imply it's not. :)
Imagine thinking you forced someone into a small trinked to do your bidding just for them to get back out and ask "what was it you wanted again...?" and pop back in when you were about to start shrieking at them to avoid your wrath XD
I would absolutely set up an elaborate Tom and Jerry esque trap for them
so "weapon" has some sort of tracking device on it? or how do gith know where it was?
They probably used divination magicked to locate it.