POLL: Dumbest thing you've ever done in BG1-2?

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Whats the stupidest thing you've ever done in bg1? Like, Attack Firkgragg with normal bastard swords or something else?
Mine was..
Well, you know in BG1 in ulcaster there is this halfling who wants to sell you a "Gem of true seeing" for 1000? Yeah, well I bought that useless Topaz and when I couldnt find the ulcaster dungeon hole I kept trying to put it in my quick slots..even though it wasn't highlighted.. *sigh* Im not sure what fumes I inhaled that night..

 

Accidentically using the fake talk bug on firkragg. I was so annoyed he didn't fight back that I had to reload. *Grumbles*

oh, and there was one time I used Shadow Keeper and it trashed my game, had to delete everything and reinstall then start over. Boy was I grumpy...

 

Uhm... I installed tob and then as soon as I started it my whole comp restarted. I had been messing up my install dir so I thought that was the problem. So to try and fix it I reinstalled my entire windows98, only to find out it did the exact same thing on a clean windows session. It was a bug which could be fixed with a patch. Although this is prolly not one of the catagory stupid things you meant

 

Paying the 500gp for the Stone to Flesh Scroll to release Branwen instead of buying it at the temple for 250gp. DOH

 

Clicking on Minsc's "berserker" option, when there was only one badly injured monster left in the room. (I think in the Guarded Temple in Temple dist - tough fight!) Everyone was wounded, some of us pretty badly - and I thought we needed the help. (Bad call, you'll see).

Anyways, as Minsc goes bonkers, my assassin plugs a Bolt of Lightning into the last baddies' left eye socket. Minsc, having no more targets for butt-kicking, goes ahead and swings at the nearest living thing - which happened to be Aerie.
He cleaves her into 2 even halves - critical hit - doing around a zillion damage with Lilarcor.

(I wish I had realized that last bad guy was so close to dead. I admit, I reloaded and had to fight the whole stinkin' crew over again!)

 

Doing the paladin stronghold quest where you hafta guard the girl, I worked myself into a lather trying to find the safehouse in the Bridge District (at least that's what I thought he said) Spent an hour doing this, then finally went back to ask where it was again. I looked closely at the dialog this time, and it clearly said DOCKS district! Oops!

 

Trusted Yoshimo.

 

Nothing new that's exceptionally stupid from me since the last time this topic was up...
This might still be worth mentioning though:
On my first time in Spellhold I found a big trap (guess which one ). Not expecting her to fail (she had the ring of danger sense), I told Immy to disarm it, and then to move forward... *SQUISH!* The corridor painted red with Immy's blood...

Reload...

 

Going to Spellhold for the very first time, I didn't know that Yoshimo would cause a little plot twist so I left him at the Copper Coronet. When I got Imoen, I had to dump Jan there and I even thought I could just come back and get him again later!

 

The other day I ran out of identify spells and wanted to use Namarra's Silence ability, so paid a quick visit to the Shadow Thieves' HQ. I forgot to change the menu from he buy/sell one to the identify one and as a result accidentally sold the handy blade to a grinning shadow thief for 1 gp, who promptly put it on sale for 10500 gp. Cue a long cry of "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" followed by much swearing when I realised I hadnt saved the game for ages and couldnt be doing with going all the way back to my last save. Oh well; at least its not much compared to the stupid things I mentioned in previous incarnations of this post.

 

Dumbest thing? Turning my computer on "just to play for an hour or so".
Yeah right...

 

Has anyone had this happen?

One of my NPCs (Yoshimo, I think) got hacked in a tough battle I didn't want to repeat, so I went to a temple to get him back and was feeling cheap so I went for resurrection rather than raise dead... He comes back with 1 hp and suddenly in bursts that guy who throws a coin at you (doing exactly 1 damage), and throws it at Yosh. who promptly dies again. Since I have a policy of never reloading unless something gets screwed up permanently, I had to shell out for another spell. The worst thing was the priest just saying something like, 'Oh yes, that's just some harmless crazy guy, ha ha.'

My apologies if this is standard every time you resurrect someone for the first time. (Is it?) Anyway, it never occurred to me that I should save before resurrecting.

 

stopped playing bg2 for a year >_<

 

the crushing trap in spellhold. after trying to disarm it i just send imoen through them both resurecting her when she died. then it occured to me. monster summoning.
having edwin kamikazeing with a cloudkill and killing a recently resurected korgan was pretty dumb to

 

I'm positive that I've done things even dumber than this, but its the only one I can remember right now:

Edwin had transformed into Edwina, and at the copper coronet talked to this horny elf, who put the moves on him/her. Edwina goes nuts and hits him with a magic missle, making him go red, as well as everyone else in the tavern within site (except for that fat bartended, forget his name). So I pause the game and turn off the party AI before they go nuts and slaughter everyone in the place, and I'm now worried that I'll forget and wander in there later, with the AI on and kill everybody inside.

So Demons kill everything in sight right? and you don't lose reputation for that. I cast protection from evil, and {sigh} summon a pit fiend, while its gating in, I realize I need the bartender to survive, so I cast protection from evil on him too (I think I'm pretty smart at this point).

The Demon gates in and immediately launches a fireball killing most of the bar patrons and the bartender.

 

I wanted to go through BG with a ranger, than bring him throuig BG2 and ToB as an archer.

I realized He was a Fallen ranger Only once I was in BG2. Go back into my BG1 saved game to see from when He became "Fallen ranger" and did not found....

So I play him through BG1 without beeing able to do an archer in BG2 with him....

 

Fill my characters bags full of gems! stupid Gem bags!

 

Here's a good one.
I cast febleemind on the black dragon.
He was standing there hopeless.
I wanted to see if I could charm him.
I wanted him to a have full life pet dragon,
so I cast heal on the dragon.
After that he attacked me
No pet dragon for me.
Next time I'll try to charm him 1st

[This message has been edited by StressedE (edited November 15, 2001).]

 

Well at the fight with Baron Ployer, he calls up the 3 mages to help him, well I figure no match for me, when the game autopauses with enemy sightings, I'm being clever, casting a silence spell, what I forget is, then mages aint there yet, just coming thru dimension doors, and well it backfired and rendered ½ my party useless, and boy did I get a whooping..DOH

 

I whacked the Ilthilids in their lair BEFORE I got that door open... Had to do the whole lair again...

Ara
(Just got out of the Oulu version of Spellhold for youths... overjoyed)