Achievable Life Goals

Feminina O'Ladybrain

May 8

Spoilers for Baldur's Gate side quests

Butch:

Well, this is going to be a day. Going to two book sales (help me), home depot (fuck houses) and the store. I hate houses. I like book sales. Stores are stores.

Played! Stole the telescope, by which I mean I went in the front door, picked it up and left. Worst heist ever. I did meet someone named Alora and I think she's glitched. She had that portrait that implied she'd come with. She was all "I can show you other neat stuff!" I said "Awesome! Lead on!" and....nothing. No "alter party" prompt, no more dialog, she just stood there. Every time I tried talking again, she just said the same thing. I eventually just left. What did she do with you?

Then, tried to do the other heist. That one went less smoothly. I kept dying or killing too many people, as one does. I wanted a clean heist, man. After a million tries it hit me: Invisibility is a thing. Grabbed a scroll from the magic guy (making a SWEET cloak out of nymph hair when I was there), made Imoen vanish and BOOM. In, out, HEIST, man. Like a thief in the night. Literally.

I was so proud.

I got nothing much else to do, so seven suns ahoy! Maybe tonight. There's hockey, though.

Off to book sales!

Feminina:

Yeah, the telescope theft was a big nothing. Went in at night, no one was around, grabbed it, left. No guards, no magical alarms, no nothing.

Well, no one was around except the other thief, Alora, and yeah, yours must be glitched or something. Mine joined the party with no issues -- that's the new person I have at the moment, though she's yet to show me any other cool stuff, and with Imoen around she's kind of redundant. Not quite as redundant as Neera when I have two other mages, though, so Neera was the one who went back to the Friendly Arm in a huff.

Invisibility is such a thing! That's how I did that heist as well, after getting in a few fights first. Now I can cast it, so we're going to be invisible all the time! The backstabbing potential is through the roof. If I can remember to memorize it.

Butch:

Backstabbing! I forgot about that! How to I go that????

First book sale was nuts. Off to the second!

Feminina:

I don't know! I always forget about it too! I'm guessing you have to be hidden and behind someone and then use thief skills on the menu bar and attack, but I have never actually done it. Imoen is great at locks, but I haven't really put points into her hide-in-shadows, so she's not very sneaky and the times I wanted to try it, she has never managed to stay hidden. But with invisibility, that's not a concern! She's going to be knifing every back we see!

Actually, the internet says you just have to be out of sight of the target and using a weapon you can sneak attack with, so I guess there's not even a 'thief skills' button for it.

Butch:

Oh dude. My Imoen SUCKS at stealth. She could be all alone in a concrete bunker on a deserted island and it would be all "hide in shadows failed."

Feminina:

It's so much more important to get at things behind locks than it is to hide! But invisibility will change all that, I can feel it.

Butch:

Dude. Book sales.

I picked up a copy of Obama's Audacity of Hope to see if it was a first printing. It was. It was also signed.

Signed. Just sitting in the pile.

Gnomelife

Apparently much of the gnome life involves ripping off little old ladies.

Feminina:

Hey, don't leave your loot lying around on a pile of things for sale (or behind a locked door) unless you don't mind losing it.

Gnome tax!

Butch: