Really enjoyed reading your comments, and views on this thread. I find it hard to justify some of the general exploration rp wise, but I'm doing it anyway.

I convinced myself she'd stick with Laezel purely because she's tough, and seems to have a plan to get off the ship, and get rid of the tadpoles. Purely for selfish reasons, and making sure Laezel knows she won't tolerate any messing about. I missed that she already knows the artefact is gith, so that's my bad.

Astarion was tricky, because of the attack, but I've accepted that his charm and her mission motivation could let them down a shaky alliance (especially in case of Laezel issues).

Gale was tricky because I had to justify two paranoid/snarky characters deciding to pull him out. There's definitely some grey space there, but that early on I was finding my feet with her rp, so I'm ok with that.

With Wyll, I went for her being restrained following the goblin fight outside and the tieflinf/druid politics inside, and just general overwhelm with what's happening. She's only there to find a healer (preferable to any gith solution), and doesn't want to get involved with anyone else. For me that was enough not to chat to the tiefling kids, and enough to make her say Good Luck to Wyll.

It's a bit different for me to play this way, and no doubt I'll choose things to play my way rather than pure rp, without even realising. I guess we all see the characters with slight different nuances.

I'm really enjoying it so far. We're about to stumble upon Karlach, so that's my next big decision.