Baldur's Gate 24: Oopsies

Right. I got slaughtered. 

So I decide I'd better get outta the ship and go do the quests I missed, according to the FAQ. I found most of them, but I think I already slaughtered a few of the monsters that had the quests items. 

One really nice quest, however, was to the Sireen queen to retrieve a dead body. Now, I could fight her and her minions, but they love to charm my characters, and my characters are strong enough now to wreak true havoc when charmed. Against me. 

But I wanted the stuff the FAQ said the queen had. So ha! I decided to do it peacefully, get 2,000 points for that, then pickpocket the queen. I was able to get Corwin's pickpocket skill up to 60 recently, but that really isn't good enough. It is with a master thief potion though, and I had one of those. So he gulped that down and picked her pocket of most of the stuff I wanted, including a goodly handful of Arrows of Biting. I'm running seriously low on arrows.

Actually that doesn't matter, because the only fight I've got left here is the Werewolf boss, who can be harmed with only three weapons. I've got two of the weapons.

The guy slaughtered me on my first major attempt. I was whaling away at him without realizing I'd selected the wrong sword for Ajantis. Poor Ajantis was clinging to life, gulping down health potions, and causing no damage at all to the bad guy.

So now I'm really ready. I've cast my spells; I've arranged my weapons; I've just got to gulp down some major potions and get to it.

The first time I was able to kill the boss's wife, who shows up--the FAQ says to get her first. That was fairly easy. Then his minions go down in the general melee.

But now I've got six slow spells ready to lob onto him. I'm going to use only Ajantis and Jahira on the boss (she has one of the weapons and she's skilled with it). They will both gulp down major potions to keep them as invulnerable as possible. I've also put my two boots of speed on them, so I won't have to worry about my haste spell running out.

Then they're just going to whale away at the guy. Problem is that Jahira won't be able to cast too many healing spells--she's going to be busy. 

With my speed and slow spells, I ought to have a chance this time.

Till tomorrow!

(Oh, yesterday I managed to get the author of my FAQ, Haeravon himself, live on his Facebook page. I learned that the Animate Dead spell comes with a cleric I don't have in my party. The mages will get it eventually, but not yet. So that's why I couldn't find the thing.)

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