shes a baddie im just gonna say it
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I really enjoy the elves in this game. When they like you, they blush SO hard whenever they talk to you, it’s hilarious. Their quests are a lot of fun too.
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No taverns in the elf village. They probably all just do cocaine.
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tfw galadriel asks you to meet her in the bathroom and you know there’s a 75% chance you’ll just wind up being sent on some dip shit quest but you do it anyway
(outwardly) I am so honored you entrusted me with this
(internally) I am never going to learn a single lesson
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I thought I just had a few things to clean up on my second run but it turns out there are a lot more side quests you can take on if you just wander a town and talk to people. In some cases, I wondered whether completing a quest was actually a good thing to do as it wasn’t obviously helping anyone and might even put someone in danger. At least twice, at the end, a pawn said something like, “I think we may have done a bad thing.”
Also, I’ve learned that if you get a random person’s affinity up high enough they follow you everywhere. It’s funny to leave home after sleeping to find several townspeople waiting outside the door. One of them even wanders inside.
This time, I solved the five sphinx riddles. When the sphinx flew off, I jumped on and got to take a pretty long flight. And now there are more sphinx riddles. One of them is to find a specific person somewhere in the world. I went ahead and used a guide for that, and the guides were helpful in identifying the right town but they kept saying to look at subtle differences in the person’s hair to be sure you have the right one while the more obvious distinguishing characteristic is chest scars. I still have a couple riddles to go. I’m kind of putting them off because I don’t want to mess them up.
I didn’t use the gear-switching Warfarer ability at all until my second run (I guess because I got the class so late in the game), but now I’m finding it extremely useful to have a staff as my secondary weapon that I use only to levitate.
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Ohhh, that’s why the little orphan girl kept following me around even in the middle of cutscenes! This game is so good
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Bitterblack Isle is really creepy!
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I tried so many times to kill a griffin in D-Dogma 1, and they always escaped no matter what I tried. The same was happening to me in D-Dogma 2 until yesterday. It turns out the mystic spearhand with a fire spear just DECIMATES griffins. All you have to do is stand on the beast’s back and whirl your spear around incessantly until the griffin’s wings catch fire, then it’s all over.
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In more orphan girl adventures, I took an oxcart out of town to Melve, and the little girl FOLLOWED ME OUT, marching in the back like a little mercenary.
She also casually said, “I don’t tell half as many lies as my parents!”
Uhhhh, WHAT parents, little girl?? You’re not supposed to know that…
Anyway, I like that this little orphan girl has become my best friend just because her subquests required me to give her 6+ things.
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Bitterblack Isle feels so AD&D to me. It rules.
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This game respects my time yet I’ve put 70+ hours in because I still enjoy simply ambulating and discovering and fighting.
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Jeeze. The Dark Bishop is really kicking my ass. This is like the first time that the game has really forced me to go study how pawns operate and to really hone in my build/spec. I still don’t know really how I’m going to pull this off, but I have one thing in mind for now.
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I recruited a friend’s Pawn that’s a level 65 mage and just drops meteors on everything (meanwhile I’m lv 30). We beat the dragon just now on the road?? He whispered, “you’re not the vessel…” and then died. 
Pretty funny to be able to take this guy on when before I had to run away from him or make him run after depleting a single life bar. His corpse is now just a roadshow attraction next to a lake, his head perpetually drooling.
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Update: turns out a day later, the dragon revives and is ready to rumble again. This could be a good way to farm its dragon blood material thing, though I have no idea what that’s used for.
Meanwhile, I’ve been putting off finishing up the royal court quest because I want to sneak into beast land nation and get the holy sword thing repaired just to see if that will change the royal court cutscene
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Screeeeaammmmmm I spent so long getting to Bathal beast land nation, getting everyone killed and dying heaps of times on the way, and then I learn there’s no oxcarts or Portcrystals in the town?? On top of that guards are always auto-starting convos to check who I am, then immediately back down when they see I’m a beastman. I tried to make them nicer to me by giving them flowers but it doesn’t stop any of them from constantly accosting me randomly, though if I talk to them again, then they’re very lovely to me.
I search around, meet a guy who needs a dried quince (a fruit?) for a quest, and start the quest to get the royal sword repaired. I end up finding some dried quinces in the cave I need to dig ores from for the sword, and think, neat I accomplished two things at once. I got back to town, turned the ore in and the blacksmith is like come back in a few days when I’m ready. Then I head over to turn in the dried quince, walk up to the quest giver and find I don’t have any in my pockets???
Turns out my main pawn has the personality to sort stuff on her own and make potions automatically. She thought it’d be funny to make my dried quince into dried fruit. So I’m like ok fine that’s on me, I shouldn’t have had an even number of quinces on me so she could do that. I decide to kill time by searching around the city, find that one inn charges 9999 bucks while another charges only 2000 (what is this scalpers market), and get chased out if a palace after I got too close to a secret lab entrance for the guard’s comfort, making all the palace guards take turns jumping my ass as I ran away in a panic.
I searched the area and found a not-secret back entrance into their lab and just go up to everyone and say hey what’s up, and they are more than happy to tell me about their horrifying experiments. I was actually creeped out, it’s so interesting what they’re doing there. Just got a big ol’ dissection table and then a basement with a giant carcass, doing ungodly science.
Anyway, I ran around the coast and found a guy who would sell me a portable Portcrystal for all the dragon blood I was farming so I was like hell yeah, I need to go back to town and get my stock of that delicious dragon rocks. But I was so far from town I figured I might as well explore some more. I go up north and discover that there might be a secret path back up to the human country from the far eastern coast of beast land??? I trudge up, get my pawns killed by getting into like three or four boss encounters, and finally have to stop because my pawn blew up a bridge that lead to the mainland so I figured I should head back to town.
By this point, I had more quiches and they were close to getting dry. I figured by the time I run back to town, they should be ready for me to hand into the quest giver. So I ran alllllllll the way back, found some other bosses and lost all my pawns, found a rift crystal so I could summon some more, and make it back to town hours later. I walk up to the quiche quest man, open up my inventory and
NOTHING
MY FUCKINT PAWN DECIDDD TO AMKE DRIED FRUIT AGAIN TUCHUDIDHDHDBSJW
I immediately swapped her personality into something else with whatever scroll I had in my bank. I should’ve thrown her into the ocean for that rhhfjdhehehshdghdh
Anyway, after that, it’s way past when I should’ve gone to bed so I figure I have to end the night on some kind of win, so I grabbbed some dragon blood and ran back to the guy who would sell me a portable port crystal. I buy one plus that arrow that can kill anything in one shot but the game auto saves after you use it (what a great legacy dragdogs conceptual weapon), and then I think, “oh I harvested some quiches on top of where this guy lived last time” so I go up above the cave he lives and search around. Then a fucking griffin showed up, spooked me because my pawns were all weak guys I filled my spots with just to have someone in there, and run away. Except I don’t remember how to get off the roof of this cave, so I’m running in circles avoiding this griffin and trying to find a path down.
I wasn’t paying attention and I slipped off the side of the mountain, and on to a cliff side that faces the ocean. I’m like oh good, I didn’t fall in, I can just jump back up.
I CANT. THWRES NOWHERE FOR ME TO JUMP UP I JUST SLIDE BACK DOEN
I tried suicidjng into the ocean but it just respawns me on the cliffside, and now I’m stuck in my own personal fucking hell
The only way out I can think of is to use a port crystal but the only points I have are the human capital and the one random town by the beach. I never got to throw my portable port crystal down because I got sidetracked by the DRUPID FUCKING WUICHE SHSHJSJSHSNBABA
So this is why I’m screaming
I hope I can reload an old save and hopefully not be on the death cliff scream cry throw up
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I got permanently stuck on a cliffside like that once. I’d jumped down to get a seeker token and slipped a little too far. I don’t remember whether I did an inn reload or used a ferrystone.
An item sorting pawn messed me up when I was supposed to collect five flowers for that one guy. There are flowers everywhere, of course, but I had to act quick and keep that pawn at a distance. Took longer than it should have.
A useful thing I learned is that if you counterfeit an elite camping kit, you end up with another functional one. Those do eventually get destroyed and I don’t think you can buy them anywhere so it’s good to have a spare.
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i loved the tricks you could do with counterfeiting in the first game. like you could do a quest to get a powerful spell book for a guy, then give him a fake book instead, then later he shows up to rescue you during another quest but the book doesnt work and he’s pissed at you afterward
Or faking the really cool ring that speeds up your spell casts instead of giving it back to the Duke and when he tries to use its power to open a chest for you it does… nothing. and he just goes “oh huh that’s weird” and you get to keep the ring in place of a different armor piece
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Update on my Cliffside saga: turns out I had a skill that lets me jump real high before slamming back down as an attack, so I was able to use that mid jump to get a boosted jump and get back up the cliff!!! 
I continued my quest lines, gave a quishe to the store owner and now he wants the second soul eater book, which I totallly have but I don’t want to give him the original, so I have to make a bootleg at the checkpoint town. I also continued the blacksmith sword quest except it requires me to go to a volcano island to rescue the blacksmithing apprentice? But the path to it was blocked off? I looked it up and found out I got here too early so I’m just stuck and the quest is time limited so I dunno, guess I’m down one ceremonial sword. Guess I’ll head back and continue the normal story progress 
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