a little morning pick-me-up
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A morning on the way to Baldur's Gate. The party booked themselves into an inn and enjoyed real beds, hot baths, and privacy for the first time since the Nautiloid.
Gale and Mayhew shared a room, of course. They were filled with the relief of surviving the shadows and the glow of finally getting together, so their private room was probably a blessing for the whole party, honestly.
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This was some ascended anatomy practice! Referenced some great stock from @null-entity.
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I am seeing some of the WORST takes about tdp season 4. Sweet, sweet tumblr users. This season was a lot of set up, not everything was supposed to be explained or resolved, or even "should" have been. Season 4 had to do the heavy leg work of re-establishing characters and arcs and the plot moving foreword. It just needs a little time to be able to act on everything it's now established. It did a good job building off of arc 1, and now we are fully indoctrinated into arc 2!
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I can only speak as a person raised Catholic (heh...), but let me present a wild scenario.
Could you imagine the actual Holy Spirit having a clear and direct sentient influence in your child's life?
With this connection to the Holy Spirit, he starts performing absolutely insane miracles that a Child shouldn't be capable of and by the age of 8 God's chosen priest shows up like "Hey kid, have you heard of our lord and savior Jesus Christ? In my day, he was super sexy. You’re special. I'm going to train you and later you should probably go to a religious school."
And then, by age 17ish, Jesus himself shows up like, "Yes, twas me the whole time. Let me train you one on one my child." And then a year later, your son tells you he's sleeping with Jesus?
Like...does this help anyone understand what happened to Gale better? Or does it help that the Mystra analog is depicted as a man? Do you need me to hold your hand and tell you that even if Gale showed interest, it was on Mystra, as the omniscient god with all the power in the relationship and Future sight?!, to not fucking sleep with the mortal who maybe became an adult 5 minutes ago?
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Very interesting to me that being outwardly anti-slavery nets you disapproval from Astarion, despite the fact that he's pretty straightforward about his past as a slave. Gives me big "if I suffered, so does everyone else" vibes, which is annoying gameplay wise, but narratively makes sense.
Especially because (and here gets a bit spoilery) I think his approval softens up into acts 2 and 3. There are hints of him being "nice" in act 1, when he approves of you saving the owlbear cub, but if you get his approval decently high going into acts 2 and 3, a lot of the things that (I think) would have netted negative approval in act 1 are now positive -- like sympathizing with that child and giving him some food and money, or freeing the vampire spawn.
If you dont follow through with the black mass and you free the vampire spawn, I think that's kind of the culmination of his arc in which hes like "hehe oops, looks like I was perpetuating cycles of trauma". He even gains approval for defending Wyll and the others, and even as early as act 1 says something about how it would be a shame to lose lae'zel.
Astarion you can't trick me into thinking you don't care. I have eyes. I see you.
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