An Impromptu Witcher Lets Play - now with the Witcher 2!

[porous_shield]

When you mentioned stumbling into the Squirrel base and it being awkward it made me laugh because I just imagined a bunch of real squirrels sitting around minding their own business and you come crashing in.

Fighting that golem sounded very aggravating. I don't even remember fighting him and had to look the fight up on youtube to figure out what you were talking about. I saw how little damage I was doing and thought there must be a better way so I used the pillars to kill it.

I mentioned Swallow and Cat because what I remember most vividly about that game were instances of "F$%^! I wish I had some Cat," and likewise for Swallow. Tawny Owl is good and Blizzard is great for some fights but it is very annoying in that it slows down time outside of battle as well. Willow is useful too for certain annoying enemies and fights because it stops you from getting stunned or being knocked down.

You can make a pretty tidy sum from some fat turkeys at dice poker a little later in the game (if you want to suffer through that) so I'd just buy the books and stuff. Books are fairly plentiful though and you find them all over the place.

I'm looking forward to your reaction to some of the interesting encounters coming up.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

White Raffard's Decoction - basically instant health regen., unlike swallow which takes time to regenerate your HP, this one does it on the fly (not fully but it's quite useful later in the game)

Oh? How do you make that one? I don't have a recipe for it yet. This sounds like a good one to have!

It might be because the game is on the same engine as Neverwinter Nights just modified a bit. Although I dunno if NN was in 3.5 ed or not.

Neverwinter Nights, I believe, used 3.0 rules. Possibly 3.5, but both used the same experience chart, so that would be the same anyway.

Fighting that golem sounded very aggravating. I don't even remember fighting him and had to look the fight up on youtube to figure out what you were talking about. I saw how little damage I was doing and thought there must be a better way so I used the pillars to kill it.

Oh. So THAT's what those damn pillars were for.

See, I wouldn't have thought of doing that because Lightening is what powered the golem up. I'd have assumed that more lightning would heal him or at least not harm him. Oh well, what do I know? ^^;;

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Mini Holiday Update:

Where the FUCK is Ramsmeat? The quest tracker (both of them for him) say he's in the Inn.

I've been at the inn in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening, at midnight, at 2 AM, at 3 AM, and at 4 AM. He is not in the fucking inn.

He is not at his fucking house. I killed his guards (they've since respawned) and looted his house. Nothing. I checked there morning, noon, evening, and night as well.

Where the hell is this guy?

This is starting to get really frustrating. All quests require me to talk to Ramsmeat to proceed. All Ramsmeat quests point to the Inn. He is not at the Inn. ARG!

 

[exxxed]

White Raffard's Decoction - basically instant health regen., unlike swallow which takes time to regenerate your HP, this one does it on the fly (not fully but it's quite useful later in the game)

Oh? How do you make that one? I don't have a recipe for it yet. This sounds like a good one to have!

I really have no idea how you could normally get the recipe for it, I found it while drinking unknown potions, likewise for White Honey.

Have fun!


EDIT:

By the way, the quest tracker will often leave you to dead ends if you don't read the journal regarding the specifics of the certain quest you're tracking, I remember meditating for ''in-game days'' to meet certain characters to no avail... just to find them later on in a more logical circumstance.

But regarding Ramsmeat... well I killed him as far as I remember .

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

By the way, the quest tracker will often leave you to dead ends if you don't read the journal regarding the specifics of the certain quest you're tracking, I remember meditating for ''in-game days'' to meet certain characters to no avail... just to find them later on in a more logical circumstance.
But regarding Ramsmeat... well I killed him as far as I remember .

I tried reading the journal entries. For Ramsmeat, it just says "he's a suspect and he attacked that guy at the hospital" which tells me nothing new.

I went to the hospital just to be sure. Nothing.

Also, weirdly, I can no longer buy stuff from the Red Rose knights shop, and I can't find Siegfried in his usual spots.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I tried reading the journal entries. For Ramsmeat, it just says "he's a suspect and he attacked that guy at the hospital" which tells me nothing new.

I went to the hospital just to be sure. Nothing.

Also, weirdly, I can no longer buy stuff from the Red Rose knights shop, and I can't find Siegfried in his usual spots.

I remember a lot of pointless running around at the same part of the game you're at now. A lot of fruitless searching for wandering NPCs. A lot of opaque quest instructions.

The first Witcher game positively delights in being counter intuitive. It was a major factor in me eventually just putting it down.

 

[exxxed]

Right, there's something along the lines of allegiance towards a certain faction if I recall, Squirrels or the Flaming Rose, depends on whose tasks your solving the most, there isn't really a gauge that defines this at this point in the main quest, as far as I remember Raymond is the only ''neutral'' link for now, Ramsmeat is a bugger that should not concern you this much until something more important regarding his actions/lack there of hampers with one of your quest lines... but I sincerely apologize for not remembering .

As far as I can tell if you already killed that darn Golem just go to the cemetery crypt and be done with it.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Update: Ah HA! Success! Finally.

Okay, here's what happened.

After spending some time selling loot to the dwarven merchant since the Rose one won't speak to me anymore (is this because I gave Vivaldi the letter, exxxed?) I decided to drop by the Hospital and see if anything was going on. Shani yelled at me about dead bodies in the hospital and then said she wanted to meet me later. Okay, fair enough. I rested in the hospital until dark and then stopped by the inn to pick up the dog tallow I'd been saving up for the grave digger. And, while I was there - Ramsmeat! So I talked to him and insulted him mother and he told me some info I needed. Groovy.

Why does Ramsmeat only spawn sometimes at night? I tried three nights in a row - nothing. I talk to Shani and bam, he's there. Was talking to her the key?

Anyway, I go to chat with her. Granny still loves me, so I head up. Shani is... wearning a nightgown and I can clearly see her panties. Her very modern panties. What, does Victoria have a Secret society in this world that Shani has connections with?

For some reason, she's throwing a party for Geralt and some bard - the same bard that the gossip was talking about. Apparently we're old friends. Neat! She needs some alcohol, which I happen to have on me due to recent looting and the fact that I picked up a couple of drinks for potion making (I now have 13 Swallows and 9 Cats - thank you swamp critters). And Geralt is supposed to invite a date.

Let's pause for a moment. Shani, while Geralt stands in her bedroom and she wears nothing but a see-through nighty and bra/panty set from Victoria Secret, is asking me to bring a date to her party. AWKWARD.

But Geralt is not phased by social awkwardness. And so off I head to find a date.

My first though is that I'd LOVE to bring Siegfried as my date and just own that whole ambiguously gay thing they had going, but he's still mysteriously missing. Bastard. So instead I head to see Carmine, the ONLY OTHER WOMAN NPC in the whole damn town (not counting the Gossip or Waitress). She agrees to go - for 100 gold. Pfft, no. But wait, perhaps I can gamble 100 gold out of her and then give her her own money back to attend with me? No such luck - she only has around 50 on her. Meh, never mind.

Instead, I decide to bring the Detective. Mostly because he's the only other NPC in town I don't suspect of being a criminal. I get to his place and - holy fuck assassins. Group Style dispatches them and I give my report to the detective. Horray for progress! This clears another NPC (Ramsmeat, damn him). And then the Detective leaves so I can't invite him to the party! Crap!

Instead, I rest at Vivaldi's until morning. Make that noon. And look, it's my dwarf friend. So I invite him, because he is another old friend a why the hell not? And I head over to Shani's even thought I'm sure she'll be at the hospital at this hour - oh, wait, no, there she is. Granny seems worried about Shani getting knocked up by the Bard. Since we now know that Geralt is sterile, I think I can guess how Geralt will prevent that fear.

Upstairs, they get started with the drinking. The Bard says he remembers Geralt getting stabbed to death with a pitchfork. Huh.

Let me guess: I'm playing a CLONE of Geralt. The reason he doesn't remember anything is because the real Geralt is dead and he was grown in a tube and is really only like a year old.

Anyway, we get drunk. Like, very drunk. I get sent downstairs to steal food from Granny. Good thing I already looted the entire building (and every other building in town I can access) and already have all of those key items in my inventory. Then there's singing. And it looks like Shani is getting interested in some drunken debauchery. Probably for the best I didn't bring Carmen then. But... no. When the party ends, everyone leaves, including Shani!

The quest guide says I should bring her a rose. To the Gardener! I trade him a mutton leg for a Red Rose. And I talk to a woman who wants her dead husband's spirit put to rest, which I already did, so I shake her down for a reward. Awesome.

Since I have some time to kill, I go to Ramsmeat's house to tell him he's off the hook. And he's there! Horray. He says that the detective likes to burn prostitutes. Huh. I take a moment to wonder if he means with candle wax (kinky fun), a hot poker or branding iron (which, depending on the location, can be anywhere from seriously hardcore S&M to sadistic madman torture), or to death (for full-on homicidal loon status).

Great. More and more, the detective is reminding me of Christopher Lloyd in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Anyway, I time-skip to midnight and head to Shani's. She's wearing her Victoria's Secret outfit again, and one Rose later, Geralt is getting the fashion show in rather more detail.

Now that I've noticed it, it really bugs me that all the sex scenes show the same woman in the background. It doesn't even look like Shani. Also, they were clearly on that TABLE, not the bed, as the previous cut-scene made clear.

Whatever. Shani promptly kicks Geralt out post-coitus. Having nothing better to do, I head over to the Detective. Oh, there's news! Apparently we need to do an autopsy on that guy I was trying to question earlier. This time I take the opportunity to meditate and spend the night there. In the morning, I go over and ask the grave digger for the body. And a way into the cemetery - finally!. Except he wants bribes. He wants dwarven spirits for the body and help repaying his debt to the Fence for the grave yard.

The Dwarven spirits are easy enough. I head to the inn and grab a jug from storage. I also stop by the hospital on my way and ask Shani to do the autopsy. She tells me to hush about such things and to talk to her later. Back at the grave digger, I hand over the spirits and get the body sent to the hospital. It will arrive at midnight.

I head to see the fence and Geralt has nothing to say about clearing the Grave Digger's debt. Instead he specifically says that the Fence can get him a pass. Weird. Okay. He wants to be cleared. I guess the autopsy will do that?

The Journal says that I can also talk to the guard, so I head over to see Vincent, but he doesn't bring it up (although he does say that autopsys are for pussies). Since I already read a book on forensics, I don't need to do more, but I ask a few people for their thoughts anyway. I also try talking to other guards, but no one even has dialogue much less offers me a pass. Jerks.

Fine. I talk to Shani after work and she agrees to the autopsy. I time-skip to midnight and head to the hospital, where she's waiting for me. We get all NCIS on it and determine that an Alchemist used poison, then cut out the tongue to make it seem like a stabbing. All signs point to the Alchemist.

Sigh. I didn't want this. I wanted him to be innocent so we could go raid that tower together. I'm never gonna get paid that 1000 gold, am I? Too good to be true, obviously.

Anyway, I head to the Fence to tell him he's been cleared. Except... I don't have that option. WTF?! I just proved it was the Alchemist - all other suspects should be auto-cleared! Fuck.

Okay, to the Detective then. Maybe I have to make it official first? He agrees that it's the Alchemist and says that Ramsmeat is in on it too and needs to die.

Um... Ramsmeat was a weirdly upstanding guy. Also... my wolf badge is vibrating! Assassins must be on the way in! I check downstairs, but the vibrations slow and stop. I check outside - nothing at all. I head back in and head upstairs and watch as I approach the Detective.

FUCK.

So I accuse him of being a monster. He claims that he has wards on. Why the FUCK would wards detect as monsters? Also I point out some of the other unsavory things I've heard about him.

He denies it all and... that's that? And, because the house is "safe" I can't draw my sword and murder him "just to be sure." Shit.

This is going to bite me in the ass.

But, fuck it. I'm obviously on the Railroad now. Woo woo. I go kill Ramsmeat, which is immensely fucking satisfying, particularly when the hoard of bodyguards show up and are carved into quivering bits by Group Style. It is even better when I find a ton of cash and a piece of meteorite on Ramsmeat. Neat! I'll have to upgrade my sword(s) at some point here - I seem to be collecting a lot of random stuff to do so with.

I head back to the Detective - can I kill him now? - and he.. gives me the last sephirot and says I should use the tower as bait to lure the Alchemist out. Right.

Well, at least I can get my reward now. Maybe? I head to the Alchemist, but he has no new dialogue - I have no "hey, I got all 10 sephirot, wanna head to the tower with me" options. Seems like an oversight.

I head over to Shani to chat about her and Geralt's recent sex. I talk with her, and she tells me about some Sinister man in her life. Geralt obviously. ... or not. The Fence? Wow. Way to make poor Geralt feel worthless, Shani. But, hey, is this the evidence to clear the Fence?

I go to the Fence to find out. Surely he's off the hook now - Shani says he's working for the government, and I've got proof it was the Alchemist. So that's it, right? Right? Apparently not, because I still can't declare him cleared and get my stupid pass. Hey, Geralt - WHY NOT FUCKING LIE?! He'll just give you a pass if you tell him he's cleared. The others all gave you nifty info when you told them they were cleared. Why not just say what he wants to hear. Or hell, just say "it was the Alchemist, so you're off the hook" - there, done. No?

Okay, what if I get him drunk? Maybe I can...

.....

The fucker drank me under the table. Damn it.

I head back inside and sleep in front of his fire until I'm sober again. And then I buy another meteorite from him. That's three - I'll have to do that when I get back from the tower.

So, to the swamp! I should probably deliver that letter, but I want to check out the tower first. I put the Sephirot in their slots and go to the tower and - lookie, it's the Detective. Sending me in first. Alone. Right oh, I'll just save out here first.

I go in, ready for a long dungeon and... it's one room. I learn a new spell (cool!) and open a chest with a book and some loot. Cool. And... that's it? I can take the book to the Alchemist for the reward? Or maybe just kill the Alchemist and loot his body? Yes? Maybe?

Nope! Outside the Detective turns out to be the guy I've been hunting for. Apparently he killed the real Detective a while back and that's why my badge has been vibrating. Lovely. He calls up the Professor and it's bossfight time!

Actually, this is pretty fucking awesome! I was in group style from recent combats, so I stay with that, and it seems to be doing pretty well. They both have a lot of HP, but I'm hurting them both equally, and keeping them fairly stun-locked so they aren't doing much to me - nothing a swallow potion isn't easily soaking. You fucker are going down! And -

... and suddenly there's a cut scene. Instead of winning, I am now losing, because Cut Scene. Damn it!

They escape, and Geralt has apparently been wounded.

And then Triss is tending to Geralt. Well, no, she's on the Portal Phone, but apparently she has been. There are sinister dealings I am to not learn about (Cloning project, I bet) and then Triss hangs up and... apparently Triss is also a member of the Secret society of Victoria.

More Triss sex already? ... apparently not. I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or not - the sex scenes have been a let down overall. I know from Goggle Image Search that Triss and Geralt will have sex again (because the card online I found for her said Triss 2 on it, and wasn't the same as the one I got earlier) but apparently not yet.

And I now have access to the Market District, and Triss has a fancy house there. Huh. Okay.

So... this leaves me with a major question - can I still collect my 1000 gold from the Alchemist? What about getting into the cemetery? And what about that letter I was supposed to deliver? Has the recipient died in the apparent Squirrel uprising that happened while I was out cold?

But, I had no more time to play today, so those questions will have to wait until tomorrow.

Unless one of you wants to answer that for me. ^^ Pretty please?

Also, was that an unwinnable boss fight? Is there ANY reason for me to reload that save I pointedly made outside the tower? Is it worth going back to deliver that letter? Can I actually kill them with a better use of spells and potions? Or will I just end up right back where I am now?

Let me know!

End of Chapter 2.

 

[The Madman]

The autopsy can actually go a couple different ways based on how well you prepared before going into it. For example Ramsmeat doesn't have to die and it's perfectly possible to figure out beforehand that the real detective is dead and it's an imposter in his place. Doesn't really change how the boss battle thing goes (It ends the same way no matter what), but it's possible and now that Ramsmeat is dead in your game you can expect some consequences for that later on down the road.

You should be able to finish up all your other quests as well. You can leave the upper district and head back to the swamps if you really want. Pretty sure you even have to eventually, though it's been awhile since I last played the game so don't quote me on that.

 

[exxxed]

Vincent should have given you a pass for the cemetery if you cleared him.

And yes, as The Madman said, it's the same outcome no matter how you fight in that battle.

Also, that letter you delivered to Vivaldi was a quest for the Scoia'tael so it counts as helping them, Siegfried is in his ''office'' usually, on the road to the cemetery right after the Flaming Rose merchant there's a ''enterable'' house of sorts.

And now the game starts, have fun!

 

[Something Amyss]

In this case, because the game is so beloved by its following. Certain aspects of its reputation pissed me off (although it is turning out that some of those issues are undeserved... others are, but we'll see).

That's contrary to your prior words:

I wasn't going to play that game. I had reasons.

So, at a mere dollar, I was willing to take a risk and see if it was good or not. Even if it sucked, it was only one dollar lost, and bitching rights gained.

Which is fine. It's also not what I would express as:

I wasn't going to play that game. I had reasons.

Look, I get being willing to risk a dollar on something I'm interested in. What got me, what puzzled me,w as that you expressed a DISinterest in playing.

Also... I believe I'm waiting on a reply to a PM I sent you.

I'll give you a spoiler: I never read it, I never will. I wouldn't hold my breath on a reply.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Vincent should have given you a pass for the cemetery if you cleared him.

What counts as clearing him? I proved it was someone else. Why doesn't that work?

Siegfried is in his ''office'' usually, on the road to the cemetery right after the Flaming Rose merchant there's a ''enterable'' house of sorts.

I checked in there. Siegfried isn't in there either. I'm kinda scared I somehow got him killed.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

General thoughts so far:

I don't think the detective quest was the game putting its best foot forward. It's not a bad quest, but it has some very clunky aspects and involves more pointless running around than even the biggest Planescape Torment fan can really get behind. It's not even a problem with the gameplay, although the quest does demonstrate some issues with the gameplay - it's just badly explained and too interconnected with what appear to be sidequests.

For example, it is now clear that I could not move forward until I talked to Shani more. However, when the game gave me the quest "go talk to Shani" she had nothing new to say where I usually found her (at home afterhours). It wasn't until I saw her at the HOSPITAL again that the plot moved forward, but the game made no indication that it mattered where I saw her. Thus, after two or three visits at night, I gave up and didn't bother for a while. The same thing goes for the Party - that seems like an optional quest, but it is necessary to move forward to the autopsy (or it seemed to be - a lot of things happened at once right after that).

The detective quest got so frustrating and boring that the Swamp actually felt really fun and engaging by comparison. I found myself looking forward to going there and killing monsters for fun.

I wonder how much of the ire directed at the Witcher stems from this quest. It was a neat idea, but ultimately rather futile. Geralt is honestly no better off than he was before he met the detective. The "screw you" end of that quest line makes the entire thing feel rather pointless - why did I go through all that effort if it didn't matter.

One way or another, I'm glad to have it behind me. In spite of the above, I'm still enjoying the game. I don't think it's the "best RPG ever" the way several people in this thread seem to, but I also don't think it's a steaming pile of shit (as others in this thread have expressed). I can certainly see why it is polarizing, though.

So those are my thoughts before starting Chapter 3.

Oh, and one other thing. I read "the Witcher" short story, and have started on The Sword of Destiny story collection. So far so interesting. Particularly since, unless I'm mistake, Triss mentioned the Princess from "the Witcher" at the start of Chapter 3.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

And Micro Update:

I loaded my save in Chapter 3 and did a little checking around.

A) I can no longer deliver the letter. That bird has flown.
B) I CAN now get in the grave yard. Yay.
C) Siegfried is still MIA.

So, of my lingering quests, I only really lost the results of the letter quest.

SO, I loaded up that save and delivered it. Then, in the follow up quest, I ended up killing several Rose Knights. Whoopsie. Well, I guess that puts me firmly on the Squirrel side of the war. On the bright side, they each dropped 50 gold, so it was some very profitable murder.

Anyway, I returned to the tower and again saved outside. I think I'll replay the boss fight just to see what results I got from the letter quest and for the extra 500 gold I earned.

 

[exxxed]

Vincent should have given you a pass for the cemetery if you cleared him.

What counts as clearing him? I proved it was someone else. Why doesn't that work?

Well he could still be dirty, you'll figure it out, but since you can enter the cemetery it doesn't really matter as far as I recall.

As for Siegfried, he's probably just out hunting something, you'll have plenty of chances to change your allegiance or be neutral as the game progresses.

And I very much agree about the investigation quest, I was fortunate enough to have found something that rather shortened it so I didn't feel the side effects as strongly as you .

 

[porous_shield]

I remember having some trouble with the way the quests were laid out and not knowing exactly what to do, but even saying that, I solved it pretty quickly and didn't really fret over it.

The autopsy can have some implications for your game and I managed to implicate Azer Javed so the quest didn't seem pointless for me though I could see how you feel that way given that you implicated Kalkstein. I never felt Kalkstein was capable of anything so the only options were Ramsmeat and Azer.

Can you bribe the gravedigger to get into the graveyard? It seems like I remember doing that but I could be wrong.

Ramsmeat was a pain in the ass to find. He was usually in that back room behind where the innkeeper hangs out. He was also only there certain times of day but I remember having difficulty finding him.

I remember Sigfreid being in the swamp. Did you check there?

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Update: Chapter 3 Begins!

So I refought the bossfight (using no potions this time, and getting my ass kicked accordingly, but still surviving) and ended up in Triss's room as per my plot defeat. Oh, and the Squirrels on the battle this time. Triss still seems to think I need to learn to take sides, though, which is odd since I just did. Whatever.

Triss wants Geralt to go plant some sensors around town so that she can pinpoint some sort of magical anomaly. Okay, sure. Furthermore, she wants me to attend a fancy party that afternoon. It is 8 AM now, the party is at 6 PM, so I'll keep that in mind.

I take a quick run around the Trade district, looting plants and barrels and drop off the first sensor. Then, because I CAN, I head to the graveyard to kill ghouls. Yay! And I drip off another senor there. I emerged from the graveyard into the Temple district and, on my way into town, I bump into Siegfried! He's training a new group of Rose Knights since the last batch got murdered in the swamp (tee hee). He wants me to... kill ghouls in the graveyard at night. Righto, can do.

I stop by his room and loot the place. Then I run over to the Inn, drop off some of my very full inventory (including the diamond dust and runes from the tower) and loot there as well. It seems that all the barrels have refilled between chapters, so more random foodstuff for me. Yay! I sell some ham sandwiches to the waitress to free up some inventory space and head off. I stop at every open house I come to (including Ramsmeats) to look the fresh objects. I make a point to hit the Detective's (now a Dentist apparently). Oh, and I drop off the last sensor.

I sell some crappy weapons to the Dwarf merchant, say hi to Vivaldi, and attempt to drop off some Aghoul marrow at Kalkstine's. He isn't there and his bed is missing. Is he dead? Or is he just elsewhere? So instead I loot his house. And Shani's house. I stop by the book seller to sell of a large pile of books and scrolls I've already read, and sell some more random foot and alcohol (weak and medium) to the peddler there.

It's getting lateish, so I head back to Kalkstein's and use the mysterious teleporter to head back to Triss's house. Maybe Kalkstein is at the tower? I'll have to check later.

Triss says I need to kidnap Alvin (him again?!) from the Hospital because Shani won't give him up. AWKWARD. But not my problem right now because it is PARTY TIME. In... an hour. Oh well, I head to the new inn anyway where there's a board full of new quests. I read those and then drop them off in the inn storage. The Bard is there and apparently missing his lute. I'd go get it, but it's just about time for the party.

Upstairs, I attend the party. And... yes, it IS the Princess from the short story. Last time Geralt saw her, he was biting her neck to keep her from killing him. This is gonna be weird.

Geralt mingles, at first with Triss, then without. I go in a tempting door and loot everything, including a letter that talks about assassins - which Geralt does not comment on or really seem to care about. Okay. I'm pretty sure their target is Geralt, but apparently that's too political for the Witcher. Eventually Triss leaves to go talk to people, and I chat up the Princess some more, and she sends off her Rose Knight guard so she can talk to me about sex. Yup, it's weird. Geralt sticks with the sweet talking, because the not sweet talking options sound like they'd end with Witcher head on a pike. She asks me to bring her a snack, but won't tell me what.

So I ask around. Turns out, she still likes the taste of HUMAN FLESH - or monster flesh anyway. Which is particularly funny since she spent her first 7 years of life eating human flesh.

Yeah, that story was pretty fucked up. Adda was the product of incest, and she didn't survive her own birth. She was dead for 7 years, and then returned as a monster (a Striga [http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Striga]) and spent the next 7 years killing people and eating them. Then Geralt broke the curse transforming her back into a living 14 year old girl, somehow, considering she was dead for 7 years. And, in those last moments before the transformation back into a human was complete, she almost killed Geralt and he bit her on the neck to stop her from killing him. In case you didn't read.

THIS is the girl who is flirting with me now and wants me to bring her a raw monster steak. Since Geralt clearly does not remember how insanely FUCKED UP this is, he complies.

And then she takes him in that room and fucks his brains out while Geralt's witcher pin VIBRATES. She pulls the pin off and throws it across the room.

WOW.

That was incredibly fucked up right there. I'm not even sure what to say about that. Well, one thing - she never did answer his question.

When Geralt picks himself up and finishes regenning (not really, but I imagine she drew some blood and that he needed to fast heal for a few minutes after they were done) he heads out to the party again and finds her gone. Bummer. But now Geralt gets to talk to the host without interruptions. Yay?

This guy previously agreed to help Geralt with the Salamanders. And Geralt treats him like shit for no good reason. WTF?! I guess Geralt is still traumatized by the wacky monster girl sex?

Whatever. Triss promises to boink Geralt when they get home and then Geralt leaves since no one else is left to talk to.

Outside, the Fence is getting shaken down by Adda's idiot chaperone. I side with the Fence because A) he has a good point, B) he just helped me, C) anything to piss off the Rose Knights and stay on the Squirrel's good side, and D) seriously, fuck that guy.

I chat with the Fence again inside the inn and he proves his point to me again, as if I didn't get it the firs time - no sig equals fake. Apparently this is a quest?

Whatever. It's night time; I have ghouls to kill.

On my way to the graveyard, I get attacked by Salamanders and weird monsters that look like they wandered out of fucking Silent Hill. WTF?! I can't even harvest anything from them. Suck. Where's the book on these thing?

In the grave yard, I meet a Ghoul who talks. OKAY. He says that he isn't killing people, Elves are killing people. Oh crap. I don't wanna kill any elves. I let him go because I didn't know it was elves until after I agreed to do so. Then I head over to see the elves and... they let me not kill them. Yay! Instead I go inside the crypt and kill a bunch of undead, get a bunch of loot, an save some people from being eaten. Awesome.

Time to go tell Siegfried something. I have no idea how I'm gonna spin this to not piss off the Squirrels.

BUT WAIT! As soon as I step into the Temple district, Shani is there. She doesn't want to give Alvin to Triss. Um, Shani, Alvin was talking to spirits in the last town. I think he's better off with Triss. But I don't say that yet - I'll kidnap the kid first.

Shani KISSES Geralt. She's acting like they're a couple.


Yeah, this isn't going to end well. This, in fact, has BAD written all over it.

Since Siegfried is asleep, I head to Triss's and rest until dawn.

And that's where I'm at.

I don't really have much to say. So instead I'll just post this picture of the beautiful princess Geralt just had sex with.

Goodnight everyone!

 

[porous_shield]

Yep, things are going to get messy. Another great read and makes me want to play the game again. I'd like to try it on the hardest difficulty but I don't want the frustration and all that potion usage that entails.

I think it's funny you say Geralt doesn't know how fucked up finding a raw monster steak for her is, and then you, controlling Geralt, run along and find one for her. I know you have to do it for the game to move forward but your reactions are the same, he knows it's messed up and does it anyway to get information and you know it's messed up and do it to move the game forward.

 

[exxxed]

@porous_shield

I played it for about four times since it was released and only once did I drop the difficulty from hard, it's really not that hard, it actually made the game feel better after my ''normal'' playthru', and the list of potions that I posted here earlier were the only ones I had to use (not often either I might add, probably because I used the random food I gathered between encounters rather than consuming potions for every turd I stepped in).

@Bara

Indeed a good read yet again, makes me wanna have time to finish the second one faster so I can replay the whole series again (knowing ''what goes where'' since you can import the final save game into the second to spruce things up).

Hehe messy is one way to put it, I'm quite curious how you'll handle things from now on, allot of them are morally questionable and plenty of them make more sense in the bigger picture but will make you feel dirty afterwards...

Cheers!

 

[porous_shield]

@porous_shield

I played it for about four times since it was released and only once did I drop the difficulty from hard, it's really not that hard, it actually made the game feel better after my ''normal'' playthru', and the list of potions that I posted here earlier were the only ones I had to use (not often either I might add, probably because I used the random food I gathered between encounters rather than consuming potions for every turd I stepped in).

@Bara

Indeed a good read yet again, makes me wanna have time to finish the second one faster so I can replay the whole series again (knowing ''what goes where'' since you can import the final save game into the second to spruce things up).

Hehe messy is one way to put it, I'm quite curious how you'll handle things from now on, allot of them are morally questionable and plenty of them make more sense in the bigger picture but will make you feel dirty afterwards...

Cheers!

Might just give it another go in hard after reading that since I can understand how the game would be better in hard. I planned on playing it in hard the first time but I didn't get a hang of the combat and potions until I was far enough into the game I didn't want to start over. The second time, I played it, I was more ore less fooling around.

I can't really think of another game that I thought so hard about the decisions I had to make. Bastion I guess would be one (only make two decisions though) and a few times throughout the Neverwinter games (like the trial in the first game).