So, we got all sneaky for our rematch with Minsc. Myles sneaked into the Pipe of Frustration, crept as close as possible, went into turn-based mode, drank a potion of invisibility, and then the cutscene kicked in and it was on like Donkey Kong. [And voilà, invisibility gone]. We had a better go the second time around, managed to knock Minsc out, kill the fake Jaheira, kill the Zhentarim runner, and then, after some heated convo with Minsc, got the Emperor to shut down his tadpole so we could calm him down. He's currently in camp with Boo (miniature giant space hamster). Jaheira got all teary-eyed over us spending the time to save one person when the whole coast is at risk. Wyll's winged devil mistress popped in and we broke Wyll's contract. Then it was back to the sewers to let Nine-Fingered Keane know we dealt with the Stone Lord. Of course, when we turned up, her hired Zhentarim guards were staging a coup, so we put them down like the dogs they are, although Craig did try to take out the Thieves' Guild as well with a spike growth. Keane is now on our side, and our band of allies is growing for the inevitable fight with the Elder Brain. As we left Keane, we robbed the Thieves' Guild vault, because it was there. We went shopping, 'cos that's what you do, stopped at the bank to return the stolen gold, and for a reward, we got the key to a vault we had already looted. Zaph sweet-talked his way out of a couple of high-security areas he wasn't supposed to be in, and we won't talk about what Craig did.
We stopped at someone's art show, whilst Craig and Myles were discussing the forged art, Dave ran into Councillor Florrick in the street who tried to convince him that Wyll was rotten to the core. Luckily, history was on his side, and he convinced her that Mithara was a lying devil and not to be trusted. She gave us the story about an ancient dragon under Baldur's Gate that Wyll could awaken, in return, we informed her that Ansur (the dragon) was dead, and recently re-dead.
We stopped in at the House of Hope (hidden Church of Shar), they refused to let us into their secret area, so Zaph knocked on the door with his legendary two-handed sword, and we greased the locks with the blood of the unbelievers. After a descent into the secret temple of Shar, we faced our toughest fight yet - 4 of us, plus a couple of Craig's summons against 20 Sharrans. They kept dropping darkness on us, but luckily, half of them died walking through Craig's spike growth. Dave was downed, Craig did his owlbear impersonation, screamed with rage which scared the shite out of Zaph, who ran away straight past some Sharrans who stabbed him to death. Craig transformed back to help Dave, but was confused in the dark and ran down the stairs instead of up. Many healing potions were consumed, much blood was spilt, arrows of smoke powder fired, elementals summoned, darkness spells survived before we finally emerged triumphant into the Daylight (Craig's spell for banishing darkness).
Stay tuned as we get down to looting, baby.
(So much darkness)
