September #7 Shadowheart Origin #6 Honour Mode part 1 Act1:1

 I had limited time before leaving the country for a couple of weeks so I thought maybe I'd try to clear Bg3 again with my last remaining Origin character: Shadowheart (SH).

The party

Note: pretty much all 4 members have the same stats, 10/16/15/8/16/8 except SH who had 10/16/14/8/16/10. I gave the other 3 members Resilient:Constitution as their level 4 feat while SH took Wisdom to 18.

Shadowheart Trickery Cleric 3

I decided to keep her Trickery (more like I forgot to change it) but also had some vague plan that I would keep her on Trickery domain until act 2 and if she decides to dye her hair I'd go Light Domain then.

Lae'zel War Cleric 3

I was originally going to kill her like I did SH in the Lae'zel run BUT as I was in control of SH, SH didn't do her usual "ew a Gith" dialogues by default so was much more reasonable on both sides.

War cleric charges are AMAZING I burned through them so quickly though. You get an extra attack with your bonus action which is like gold dust before level 5. And I'm all-clerics so we don't have access to Extra Attack anyway (I think).

Lae mainly rocked the Everburn blade for a bit but would switch her to Dexterity based stuff later and a shield.

Gale Tempest Cleric 3

This class didn't pop off yet (later it would)

Astarion Death Cleric 3

Starts with Sleight of Hand so he's my lock picker when I don't just tear down doors/break chests. Nothing too exciting (yet)

Timeline

September 18th: I didn't actually end up doing all that much but it was eventful. Managed to command:drop the Everburn blade. I escaped the Nautaloid with a very friendly/helpful Lae'zel and Us and had to fight the Intellect Devourers alone. Blow up the tank next to them and just kite away and shoot back at them. Took only one psychic blast to the face but killed them.

Almost ran into Astarion but instead went around and got Lae'zel first - messed up the scene so had to figth the two Tieflings to the death (they are way stronger) but then recruited Lae. She is so single-minded about the zaithisk purification. I was watching for any tension with SH specifically but all seems well.

Got Astarion and Gale and then cleared the bandits/Withers' temple easily enough. I have a thing on thse 'all-class' runs where I'm not allowed click any other class so Astarion was 'Rogue and Cleric' and Gale was 'Wizard and Cleric' etc for a bit but then later got to re-spec everyone at camp to pure Clerics. I believe it was after the battle outside the gate of the grove, which I finished in record time by simply blowing up two nautaloid tanks next to the goblin warband. Combat ended after round 2.

Usual Grove checklist EXCEPT I messed up after a bit; I had Lae'zel use her Mage Hand to pick up the Druid's statue which caused the druids to become hostile. You have to rob it later, not mid-ritual. Cue huge druid versus tiefling war. I managed to escape relatively unharmed out the back door with Sazza but it was a massacre. I left Lae'zel behind (she was stranded on the Harpy beach) and noticed all the druids bunched up in the druid prison cell. Had an idea: what if I blew them all up?

So I went around the map with 3 characters and grabbed every firewine, oil and smokepowder barrel I could find. I talked my way through the Blighted Village (SH had Trickery: Disguise Self so became a Drow) and into the Goblin Camp. Basically searched most of the map short of the main blockages (Flind, Ethel, etc). I accidentally aggro'd the outer Goblin camp (sigh) by trying to finish off Crusher in a duel. Crazy run. So fled out of there for the moment.

But then finally at the end of this particular session I blew up all the druids.

Assessment

It's fine - slightly more interesting than my failed all-Wizards run even with almost no spell slots left.

September #6 Ogame bits

 I was mainly trying to unlock level 18 in Lifeform techs again; got closer to level 15 on most of my planets.

		Quarters	Farm	School	HiSchool	Silo	Skyscraper	Lab
1	Iasryugard	65	60	13	8	42	29	27
2	Phair	67	60	13	8	42	29	27
3	Ophi*	65	60	14	10	42	30	27
4	Aether	65	60	13	8	42	30	27
5	Emerald	65	60	13	9	42	30	27
6	Six*	66	60	14	9	42	29	27
7	Kala	67	60	14	10	42	29	27
8	Xenog	68	67	13	9
9	Necut	70	62	15	10	42	32	27
13	Dragonine	67	68	15	10
10	Fimbul	65	60	13	8	42	30	27
11	Myrna	66	60	13	9	42	29	27
12	Elfenglasse	66	60	13	8	42	29	27
	human 18:	74	68	15	10	42	29	27
	(rocktal) 18	75	78	16	11

I had to park it in late September but managed to get planet 13 mines in line with everywhere else and completed the Silo/Lab/Skyscraper minimum requirements on all planets. Many of them were around 38/27/25 or something like that but got them to 42/29/27 on all human planets easily enough, even started to expand the schools/hischools. Will probably have to switch some of these over to Rocktal eventually, maybe just the 4 deuterium planets but idk.

September #5 Halo 1 co-op online

 I got to play a couple of sessions of Halo 1:CE this month, myself and my friend Dave got as far as just after Assault on the Control Room. Firts session we just did Pillar of Autumn but session 2 we got through AOTCR.

Hopefully we'll clear Halo 1 and 2 over the coming months, he's never played those.

September #4 Gears of War Reloaded Co-op Campaign part 2

 We cleared Gears 1 easily enough!

September #3 Gears of War Reloaded Co-op Campaign part 1

Dom-curious!

Dom stealing some artwork... I was Dom for once!

It was good fun - we managed to clear as far as Act 4 on Normal mode. No sense going for unnecessary frustration with Hardcore mode or whatever.

I don't actually have the Hardcore or Insane achievements on the Steam version (plus all the multiplayer ones ugh) so will have to go back for that one day. Plenty of time, I hope.

September #2 GTA: San Andreas Definitive Edition & the quest for 100%

 I had finished the game on 1st September 2026 but had a ton of stuff to do. Work was postponed for a couple of weeks at the start of the month so not much else to do.

1st September - Horseshoes, Snapshots & Vigilante all an hour or so each (with a map guide and a tank).

2nd September - Oysters & extra missions (Cesar car missions, Woozy heist missions)

4th September - conquered all territories, cleared Ambulance & Taxi; maxed weapons and skills;

5th September - cleared all the races for a million dollars; started the pimping missions but failed before the end

11th September - cleared pimping missions despite flipping the car again and whatnot; Cleared Mt Chiliad Challenge, Boat & Bike Schools; then all the asset missions (throwing parcels through hoops) then all the stadium missions. I finished the valet missions and then the Quarry ones. Nothing too difficult anywhere

12th September - cleared trains, trucking and then finally the 30 cars for import/export to get 100% complete

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Still need to get the perfect dance, basketball 30 points and redo Madd Dogg rhymes mission but am otherwise done; I see I have GTA Vice City and 3 Definitive Editions too, will have to go back and do them one day. Will move onto Wrath of the Righteous I think and then maybe GTA 4 sooner or later (need to complete the DLC)

September #1 GTA: San Andreas The Definitive Edition

 Finished this once again; nothing was too difficult especially when I did the Firetruck missions early on for fire immunity.

The Definitive Edition isn't much to look at - some QoL improvements but other than that it's just an upscaled version of the original. Some of the character models are UGLY