Ever have one of those days where it all goes wrong?
In my limited reload run through BG2, CHARNAME M/T and his noble allies, Jaheira, Anomen, Mazzy, Jan and Valygar were all bravely adventuring through the Druid Grove.
It was all going swimmingly, everyone's on decent health, starting to clear out the troll mound when.... critical cascade failure. Two giant trolls appear, get joined by two more from the fog of war, and all decide to focus fire Mazzy to death in two rounds flat, not even one of them failing their save against CHARNAME's Chaos.
As soon as she fell, they turned and took down Valygar in another few rounds, then Anomen, despite him managing to blind half of them with his last holy smite. A heavily injured Jan managed to take one down with his wand of fire just before dying himself, before Jaheira managed to survive long enough tanking three at once for CHARNAME to finish putting up fresh stoneskins, mirror images and fire shield before taking down all three trolls at once like a sexy elven god of war.
Annoying, but not the end of the world. Naturally Jaheira doesn't have harper's call memorised, but it's pretty late, so after picking off the last troll in the troll den, the pair head outside to take a nap, dropping some snares just in case of an ambush before resting...
Romance event. Jaheira caught by five bandits, and CHARNAME didn't have any stone skins left active after all that troll slaying, so instant 50% damage and everyone is clustered in the cramped quarters of the opening of the troll den.
Three perfectly aimed skull traps and some melee later, and a heavily wounded CHARNAME and Jaheira emerge victorious! Phew! That was tough, but now we can finally raise-
And then Meronia shows up.
"Hey, Jaheira! Come to a Harper meeting!"
"Okay! It's not like I had anything else to do today! Teehee!"
So now CHARNAME has been left completely alone in the middle of a hostile area, has used a bunch of his best damage spells for the day, and is surrounded by mounds of loot for his party that he can't possibly carry.
CHARNAME is... going to be romancing Aerie this run.
So what are some nightmare situations you've had in the past?
In my limited reload run through BG2, CHARNAME M/T and his noble allies, Jaheira, Anomen, Mazzy, Jan and Valygar were all bravely adventuring through the Druid Grove.
It was all going swimmingly, everyone's on decent health, starting to clear out the troll mound when.... critical cascade failure. Two giant trolls appear, get joined by two more from the fog of war, and all decide to focus fire Mazzy to death in two rounds flat, not even one of them failing their save against CHARNAME's Chaos.
As soon as she fell, they turned and took down Valygar in another few rounds, then Anomen, despite him managing to blind half of them with his last holy smite. A heavily injured Jan managed to take one down with his wand of fire just before dying himself, before Jaheira managed to survive long enough tanking three at once for CHARNAME to finish putting up fresh stoneskins, mirror images and fire shield before taking down all three trolls at once like a sexy elven god of war.
Annoying, but not the end of the world. Naturally Jaheira doesn't have harper's call memorised, but it's pretty late, so after picking off the last troll in the troll den, the pair head outside to take a nap, dropping some snares just in case of an ambush before resting...
Romance event. Jaheira caught by five bandits, and CHARNAME didn't have any stone skins left active after all that troll slaying, so instant 50% damage and everyone is clustered in the cramped quarters of the opening of the troll den.
Three perfectly aimed skull traps and some melee later, and a heavily wounded CHARNAME and Jaheira emerge victorious! Phew! That was tough, but now we can finally raise-
And then Meronia shows up.
"Hey, Jaheira! Come to a Harper meeting!"
"Okay! It's not like I had anything else to do today! Teehee!"
So now CHARNAME has been left completely alone in the middle of a hostile area, has used a bunch of his best damage spells for the day, and is surrounded by mounds of loot for his party that he can't possibly carry.
CHARNAME is... going to be romancing Aerie this run.
So what are some nightmare situations you've had in the past?