Last weekend we didn’t play Baldur’s Gate 3, but we made up for it a bit tonight by making our way through Shar’s Trials. I got some good footage! We’ll see how long it takes before getting around to it. I’m recording in HDR, and the software that I use doesn’t support it yet. I’ll either have to convert the videos to SDR manually, or wait for support. Either way I have plenty to keep me busy while waiting for implementation. More games to play, more projects for me to go back and forth between.
Baldurs Gate 3
Sunday Of Play
Today was one of those days where I couldn’t settle on just one game. Began by getting one final achievement in AMID EVIL, freeing up a few gigs for my gaming library, unlocked a new ship in Whisker Squadron Survivor, played a bit of Neo Cab on my Steam Deck, and then inevitably ended the evening with BG3.
We rescued Minthara and made Astarion read a pretty yet evil book, and made a small child whole again… hopefully. Other than that we did typical adventuring and looted all of the things. It’s a good note to end the evening on.
Lost In Shadows
We went about our usual Sunday adventures in Baldur’s Gate 3. We’re still adventuring the Shadow Cursed lands, but we’ve managed to survive some fights, and an annoying demonic child and his parents, or what was left of them. We also rescued a missing child with the help of Halsin, a brave Druid. Or at least the physical properties of a child… the Shadow Curse has a good hold on him, will probably look further into that next weekend.
It’s been fun not having to stress about anything for a week. I have one more day of it before I have to return to reality and chaos, trying not to think too much about it until tomorrow. Tonight is my last night of full enjoyment, gotta make it count. As it is I’ve been having fun tying up a couple loose ends, playing games longer than an hour, late nights reading and partaking of tea and snax, sharing a meal with a friend, etc.
At My Sunday Best
Today’s Sunday was slightly more sociable than the others. A friend of mine had a birthday today, and what better way to celebrate than by going out for a bite and knocking back a drink? We strutted town until deciding on a place, we had some tacos to absorb the booze. Unfortunately he didn’t like his drink, but everything else was excellent. I came up with a fun idea of buying a backpack, hiding presents in it, and then wrapping the backpack as a giant present. Kept him busy for awhile. 😛
Then as evening came, and we said our goodbyes, it was time to shift gears to another friend of mine and continue our epic journey into Act 2 of Baldur’s Gate 3. We’re currently evading the evil shadows and their curse. We made it to a camp after saving a group of people who tried to ambush the True Souls we were blending in with. I’m glad we finally made it to Act 2. It took us a few months to get here, and I’m sure it’ll take a few more before we reach the end game. Of course, it goes without saying that I’m savoring every moment of it. 🙂
One Hell Of A Butt Plug
We finally managed to escape The Creche! But not without seizing the sun, or in this case, a weapon that looks the part. I had fun disarming the traps to get to it, in a good way. My lockpicking skills have pretty much ascended Astarion’s at this point.
Beware The Easter Githyanki Eggs
Happy Easter, and Happy Trans Visibility Day! Or it was… it’s evening now at the time of writing this. Still, a perfect reason to play Baldur’s Gate 3! I mean you do find eggs in the game, sometimes… and we’re both currently playing as Trans characters, so maybe every weekend is Trans-Easter? I just confused myself…
There were many surprises waiting for us in the Creche. We spoke to a Queen that betrayed us and fought many Githyanki. Next time we play we’ll have to find some Ceremonial Artifacts, and probably battle more Githyanki in the process.
Fun & Fantasy
Sunday is always my recharge day, and I needed it. An orange kitty made sure I got plenty of rest, and I treated myself to a breakfast bowl with ingredients from last night’s dinner. We had our usual weekend BG3 sesh! We defeated a Witchy Biznitch and are currently making our way to a monastery. We fought some explosives drunks and demon cats along the way.
I also made time to do a little bit of animating this afternoon. I haven’t touched SFM for about a week, needed to scratch that animators itch. It’ll still be awhile, but I think I’m finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on this one… maybe after another week or two. I’m planning to release it next month, so no rush. I might even put in a little more time before calling it a night. The more I pour into it, the less I’ll have to do later.
Into The Underdarkness
As the sun set on another lovely lighted day, we ventured into The Underdark and completed a quest as well as a BBQ with a couple of Minotaurs. We’ve since gone topside, did some looting and called it a night. We’re planning to continue the adventure tomorrow, as is the current weekend tradition Yutram and I have decided to take on. It was a wonderful evening of Pizza and Magic that we both shared between two countries. Now it’s only a matter of time before the Watermelon Oolong Tea wears off and allows me to enter sleep mode.
The Cozy Gaming Weekend Continueth
Another rainy day where I play more than one game! I finished another Chapter in Control, and learned more about the projector and Jesse’s backstory. During my travels I found a couple jukebox tokens. Next tine I might try the challenges again, in the meantime the Underdark called me back into its void.
Last night I forged some badass armor, and tonight Yutram found some lightning robes that work well with my character. I gave the mushrooms some head (Nere’s) and collected a few fancy titles that will probably never be used on me again. They even threw me a psychedelic dance party.
It was a fun couple hours of adventure. Between yesterday and tonight I think I’ve had my fix until the next weekend. Today was perfect day to play, mostly because we had electricity. We lost power for a couple hours this morning – fortunately for me I slept through most of it. The wind was bad enough that it did wake me up a few times. Everything was up and running though once I came to life. Even did some video work! More details on that at a later date. Today was more of a chillax kind of day. Might do something a bit more productive tomorrow.
Chill Weekend Open Thread
Kicking the weekend off proper with more BG3. Finally killed the Forge Boss, and officially made a new friend at our camp!
It wasn’t entirely an evening for BG3. I made time for Whisker Squadron Survivor, haven’t checked on it in ages and they’ve made a LOT of changes since my last visit. They added a boss battle in Zone 5 on any map, unavoidable cursed choices and challenges. I’ve already completed all the easy ones, one hard, and I think one medium… Oddly enough the medium challenges are harder than the one hard challenge I unlocked.