The Cursed: Jokes on Me
[Part of the Cursed story line]On the way to the stronghold the party encounters "the fastest dart thrower in the West". This joke brigand manages to hit Rasaad right in an eye, proving how terrible an...
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[Part of the Cursed story line]Khalid finally leads Party Girl, Catharina, Minsc, Dynaheir and Branwen to the Nashkel mines. On the way the team encounters yet another assassin group but have the...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Shortcut to Death
[Part of the Cursed story line]The "shortcut" exit leads into a plateau littered with small tombs. In one such cave, Minsc (and Boo) are dragged under the soil by a trio of ghouls, removing them from...
View ArticleThe Cursed: That was Wild
[Part of the Cursed story line]Down to half strength, the party returns to the Friendly Arms Inn to recruit Dorn the orc as well as Neera and Baeloth who (seem to be getting close) returned there from...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Firewine
[Part of the Cursed story line]On the return trip from the goblin lands the party goes by Firewine Bridge, a ruin rumored to contain great treasures - and even more kobolds. Outside they find a hapless...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Bandit Hunt
[Part of the Cursed story line]The Firewine Ruins are home to more kobolds who have rigged traps galore. As the party gets separated while wandering through the tunnels, both Safana and Viconia are...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Cloakwood
[Part of the Cursed story line]Following the clue from the bandit camp, the team heads next to the massive Cloakwood forest - home to a multitude of wolves, ettercaps, annoying web traps, jihadi...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Mine Later
[Part of the Cursed story line]The mine boss is a talented mage, but seems to be restricted to where he teleports to. A cloudkill does the job of interrupting his spells and killing him but his two...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Durlag's Tower
[Part of the Cursed story line]Rather than head for Baldur's Gate, Catharina opts to try explore the remaining areas on the map first and thus the team finds themselves at Durlag's tower, a massive...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Durlag's Basement
[Part of the Cursed story line]With the higher levels secure the team heads downstairs and finds a thief NPC who is leaving the grounds and basically acts as a EULA that the dungeon below is more than...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Is this Azkaban?
[Part of the Cursed story line]Down the well the party runs into a dead end by way of locked doors and without a thief or knock spell, they have no choice but to leave Durlag's tower for now. Instead...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Faceless City
[Part of the Cursed story line]Only now do we finally reach the titular city.Having lost yet another party member, the team heads to Baldur's Gate proper to look for new blood - but despite finding...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Unfinished Business
[Part of the Cursed story line]After much searching through the city, the team finally finds Catharina's poisoner at a tavern and slays him for the antidote he carries around with him. What an odd...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Durlag's Guardians
[Part of the Cursed story line]Despite knowing there is a demon knight lurking about, the party descends into Durlag's basement and finds the locked doors that stopped them before to still be an...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Shipwrecked
[Part of the Cursed story line]The team returns to Ulgoth's Beard to turn it what few quests they can from their last foray to Durlag's tower, as well as hand in the stolen sea maps to a curious...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Den of Wolves
[Part of the Cursed story line]The huge boat is home to packs of wolves and wolfweres, and the team does their best to lure out the hordes to the larger spaces outside. This works a few times before a...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Alphas
[Part of the Cursed story line]The alpha wolfwere's fast regeneration is very problematic for the three remaining heroes so Catharina has to get creative with her spells, and is thankful she spent all...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Beast Masters
[Part of the Cursed story line]Needing party members Catharina decides its finally time to return to the basilisk garden, this time fully prepared for the beasts and wiping them and their crazy mage...
View ArticleThe Cursed: Durlag's Cheese
[Part of the Cursed story line]Good thing nothing respawned in Durlag's basement, so the team can continue where they stopped previously with Catharina using the skull trap nuke to eliminate all four...
View ArticleJune 2019 Status
May turned out to be a mess but not for the reasons I expected. Death is never expected I suppose. The loss of my dad last month really threw a spanner into scheduling stuff, and into being inspired to...
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