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Orrin, human archer: Part 14 - KPIs and Appraisal Since this is a party run, I thought it'd be appropriate to provide a brief overview of our team members as well as to assess their performance. Included are character sheets and inventories ahead of the final battle in the Temple of Bhaal. If...

Orrin, human archer: Part 13 - Back to Baldur's Gate (continued) With Liia's efficient scripting, I'm no longer as concerned about the palace fight as I used to be. Knowing that she's going to be fine, we can fully focus on our own safety and offense. Our party prepared by setting two traps...

Orrin, human archer: Part 13 - Back to Baldur's Gate Our first task upon returning to the city was to save Eltan from the clutches of his caretaker. Orrin and Montaron were best positioned to handle this - undetected, they reached Eltan's quarters and eliminated the doppelganger by their...

Orrin, human archer: Part 12 - An Overly Long and Unnecessarily Dramatic Post About Candlekeep (continued) We wait for Imoen to recover, heal up our injuries, buff Orrin with arcane ProPetrification and send him ahead to dispose of the greater basilisks with Darts of Stunning. In case you're...

Orrin, human archer: Part 12 - An Overly Long and Unnecessarily Dramatic Post About Candlekeep (continued) I’d pay a fortune for Invisibility 15’ Radius at that point in time so that we could just fly past all the enemies and return to Baldur’s Gate as soon as possible. Unsurprisingly, it...

Orrin, human archer: Part 12 - An Overly Long and Unnecessarily Dramatic Post About Candlekeep My initial concern regarding the Candlekeep homecoming was how to deal with the SCS ogre magi ambush at the gates. They're a lot, they're annoying and usually the most efficient course of action (at...

I believe you did, because I must have discovered the community around 2013 when it was based on the old BioWare forums (but not the old old forums you mention).

Aye, I do remember it featuring in Alesia's runs! The problem with storing such information is that it must have kept out something important during all those years, lol! Anyway, it's great to see you back. I've trying to progress with SoA lately, so I'm a bit behind with the write-ups, but...

Orrin, human archer: Part 11 - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Do you also find that coastal cities are somehow more bearable? I don’t live in one and I certainly miss that fresh breeze, the fish & chips stands and the screaming seagulls. Baldur’s Gate has it all plus it also rocks...

Make sure to drop by! Orrin, Viconia, Jan, Cernd and Mazzy are just in, celebrating Mazzy's rescue from the Shadow Temple. We'd love to say hi to Alena and her friends before departing and Samuel has just announced Happy Hour on Black Bitter Ale. Edit: Conveniently, none of the participants...

Orrin, human archer: Part 10 - Davaeorn's demise Drasus was dead. With our potion buffs still running and our spellbooks mostly untapped, we decided to proceed into the mines without resting. Wearing our newly acquired Boots of Speed, Montaron was tasked with removing the guards at the...

@Alesia_BH Haha, I'd consider that fairly exaggerated, but thank you nonetheless! While copying my peers has certainly made me somewhat better at utilizing my characters' potential, there's still a lot to learn in this respect, even more so with a party. As of the later stages of BG1, I began...

Orrin, human archer: Part 9 - Drasus & Co I should probably make a disclaimer that any resemblance to strategies suggested and/or employed by fellow forumites is not coincidental and should be plainly apparent. While our party might get a D- for creativity, they certainly deserve an A on...

Orrin, human archer: Part 8 - Through the Cloakwood Forest (continued) We collect Spider's Bane (which could have been a fitting nickname for Orrin, actually), report to Tiber and seek out the remaining phase spiders in the area for some extra XP. This turns out to be somewhat chaotic when five...

Orrin, human archer: Part 8 - Through the Cloakwood Forest No sooner had our party finished licking its wounds suffered in the Bandit Camp at the Friendly Arm Inn than when we're under attack again, this time by Lamalha's amazons. We start the fight by activating Orrin's Greenstone Amulet...

Orrin, human archer: Part 7 - Chapter 3 finale Looking in retrospect at the screenshots from the Bandit Camp battle, I think that they don't do justice to how messy and troublesome this entire endeavor actually was. But let's follow the chronological sequence of events. Despite the initial...

@Alesia_BH I'm pondering this one: "Imoen's Pierce Magic takes down Kangaxx's Spell Shield. She follows with a Khelben's. Note that there's a tactical error implied by that first sentence. This one is super high difficulty. I'll say it again: Imoen's Pierce Magic takes down Kangaxx’s Spell...

Orrin, human archer: Part 6 - Getting ready for the Bandit Camp (continued) With the ambushers out of the way, we could finally let Orrin retrieve the CON tome. He used stealth to bypass the sirines, Greenstone Amulet charge to foil the traps and +1 arrows to take down all the three flesh...

Orrin, human archer: Part 6 - Getting ready for the Bandit Camp Returning to Nashkel meant confronting my favorite supporting villain of BG1 - Nimbul. Viconia played the main role on our side, since the plan was to disable him L2 divine spells (both Hold Person and Silence are capable of...

Orrin, human archer: Part 5 - Nashkel Mines It seems that I might have finally recovered from the heavy partying last week, and so I thought this could be the right time to continue Orrin's story. First things first! There's a noticeable crack in our party's only arcane spellbook and that's...