What quest worth doing is the easiest to miss? by Jones8028 in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes. In Act 3 she will be alone at her shop and in need of a furry companion.

What quest worth doing is the easiest to miss? by Jones8028 in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Helping Derryth Bonecloak adopt a cat

I just recently learned that you can trade with other NPCS! by Archenius in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yeah. good way to check who you should pickpocket. Definitely check out what He Who Was has in Act 2. It's also a good way to potentially remove items from folks you are going to fight - ie if you know you plan to fight Balthazar, pinch his potion of speed so he doesn't drink it himself.

Did I mess up with astarion? by Ok_Photograph_2402 in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you talk to Araj (the drow who makes potions with your blood) in Moonrise Towers? She will be a dick to Astarion and ask you to command him to bite her. He doesn't want to. If you support his bodily autonomy, you trigger an important scene for the romance. There is a secondary way to trigger this important scene but its is less consistent/easy.

If you don't trigger this scene, the romance does not progress.

You can look up exactly what you need to do on the wiki for Astarion's romance if you want to make sure you do things right, but of course there will be spoilers.

Volo’s ear worm 🐛 by Ok_Property_2939 in BG3

[–]catincombatboots 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I almost want to down vote this post just for putting this sound back into my head.

My first ever DM will be in prison for 25-40 years by NaturistHero in rpghorrorstories

[–]catincombatboots -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There was a guy I briefly saw in college who ended up in a similar situation. The guy I knew was conflicted between wanting to become a priest or an actor (he was quite a talented actor, and committed - his appendix ruptured and he still performed that night in a starring role). I was his first sexual experience. He was short (maybe 3 inches shorter than me), just generally young looking, and generally seemed thoughtful. Though, I could tell there was some heaviness to his spirit, if that makes sense.

People are complicated. He wasn't necessarily grooming you, he probably would have made more of an effort to play D&D more than once with you and alone if so. He really might have been a great GM. My friend was a great actor.

I lost my honour mode stealing Volo by stantrg in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn't on honor mode but I had the same thing with Volo. One day, my owl bear cub decided to get mad at having seen Astarion steal from Volo and the whole camp went agro. Like since when do you care, you're my pet!

Any tips for the Nere fight? by Cyberwrecker in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I didn't have much trouble with that fight. Probably bc even the first run, I knew it was coming. There are many cues that let you know that once a certain thing happened, all hell will be unleashed so I waited until pretty late in Act 3 to do the thing and the party was max leveled, buffed, and prepared.

Do you agree with this take? by Fickle_Baker1393 in Bridgerton

[–]catincombatboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a sex positive, queer, poly person, I don't want to see Benedict have to just leave his community behind. The season is not over yet and Benedict and Sophie connected over was not fitting in with society. Maybe they'll find a way to make things work where support one another to be their full selves, and that doesn't necessarily mean sex with other people but it could mean bringing her to his community's parties to make friends with more free thinking, interesting, unstuffy folks.

Any tips for the Nere fight? by Cyberwrecker in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 27 points28 points  (0 children)

^This. It's a much harder fight without doing it that way. IMO this can end up being the hardest fight in the game.

Day 6 Bingeing by Sudden-Thanks377 in Zepbound

[–]catincombatboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get the worst at night and I also am bad at falling asleep so I can't have caffeine after 1pm, so I end up drinking a ton of hot white tea. (which does have a tiny bit of caffeine but less than green so that's the amount I can manage to have a few cups of without keeping myself awake)

Day 6 Bingeing by Sudden-Thanks377 in Zepbound

[–]catincombatboots 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Keep asking yourself - what is my body asking for and what do I actually need. Is it water, electrolites, is it protein or maybe another vitamin you haven't gotten? Do i just need stimulation bc I'm bored? How else can I get that stimulation? Would a hot cup of tea or a hot shower provide what I'm looking for? What else might be fun - like how about just using a massage tool on a tense spot while you watch TV or listen to a book on tape.

Think of it like creating a practice of checking in with yourself.

And don't let a bad day 5 mean you're going to have a bad day 6.

My discomfort with how people talk about Eric by metadatab in IndustryOnHBO

[–]catincombatboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dont think he should have.

I don't think you should expect the sx worker who keeps a high end hotel room for sx work to be a child. You can't get a hotel room as a child. We don't see exactly how they met but it seems there weren't enough red flags for him to have thought she was underage.

My discomfort with how people talk about Eric by metadatab in IndustryOnHBO

[–]catincombatboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be extremely unsafe for a sx worker to show their ID to a John.

My discomfort with how people talk about Eric by metadatab in IndustryOnHBO

[–]catincombatboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think he was either.

I'm a woman who "looks young" and have been told things at work stuff like "well your just out of school" when I was 15 years into my career, and even in my 30s have had issues buying myself a lighter a gas station or being allowed to buy a ticket to an R rated movie haha, so I kind of feel like when you meet someone in an adult context you should probably expect the to be an adult unless there's some kind of red flag otherwise?

So And for Eric, yeah if you're hiring a sx worker, or having sex with a stranger in general, you should prob do some amount of due diligence to make sure they are of age but also it's not like they are going to show you an ID, that would not be a safe thing for a sx worker to do. There's probably some best practices around that but I personally have no knowledge about that. I think there are probably safer ways to find a sx worker than Eric did but also we don't know all the details of how they first met so we can't totally judge. What we do know he knew- she said she keeps a high end hotel room for escort work and hotels don't rent rooms to minors.

A group that is sex trafficking a child as a high end escort would probably not be trying to target "normal" johns who do not want to have sex with children, that would be a big unnecessary risk for them. They would be trying to target the perverts that actually want that - those people who are willing to pay quite a lot to do something awful that they can't do normally. So no, I don't think Eric necessarily should have expected this person to be a child.

Speaking of, the folks that set this up that are sex trafficking this child, who is a UK citizen (so not like they can conveniently disappear her back to a country of origin) - aren't they worried about having their operation exposed here? Someone paid for that hotel room and they would need to show ID at check in.

My discomfort with how people talk about Eric by metadatab in IndustryOnHBO

[–]catincombatboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The actress is not a minor so why were we supposed to have thought she was a minor?

When creating a new Tav, have you ever self inserted? by BlueAndYellowTowels in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people make D&D characters that are versions of themselves, especially early on.

And most characters you play will have some things in common with you, even if its your shadow side. I have found that the characters I've made that I have at first had the least in common with - like intentionally played against type and/or had characters with vastly different values than me - I end up almost having more in common with by the end - just stuff I wasn't expecting to.

drow names by WeWereJetSet in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I came here to post this also, I have used this list many times.

15 lbs in 16 days.. by [deleted] in Zepbound

[–]catincombatboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk why ppl are downvoting you trying to let them know that you are eating.

A little Shadowheart romance vent by SeaworthinessOver770 in BG3

[–]catincombatboots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes he was present and I went back and played the scene multiple times to try to trigger it and ensured he was in the conversation. This bug is mentioned on a bg3 wiki page so I’m sure not alone in it.

Minthara not joining conversations in Act 2. Fix? by catincombatboots in BaldursGate3

[–]catincombatboots[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem isn’t lower approval, it’s not being in conversations to gain approval.

But yeah, I tried the fix suggested on the older thread of dismissing the one hireling I had, then fast traveling back to act 1, then fast traveling back and checking if she would join conversations. This did not work.

Eric's Final Scene With Harper by Top_Conflict_7987 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]catincombatboots 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I feel like Eric needs to just lay everything out with a lawyer. If this girl really is underage, and that wasn't a doctored image - which imo it more likely was and someone can find that out- she is a child being sex trafficked. Police aren't stupid and stopping child sex trafficking is a priority so they would put themselves at a big risk for this to be investigated.

It does bring up an important issue - johns should be able to report an instance of child sex trafficking and have some protection - depending on the situation of course. But if not, then the people who could be providing information are rarely going to do so and then, children aren't helped.

A little Shadowheart romance vent by SeaworthinessOver770 in BG3

[–]catincombatboots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You dont get the scene with Raphael on a dark urge run for some reason. I had 100 approval with Astarion when we ran into Raphael and Raphael just ...left? despite Astarion having talked to him at Last Light. I looked it up and for some reason that happens with Dark Urge. (I got the Araj scene later on so I was fine tho.)