Realized I should probably have a pinned post because that’s a thing you can do now. (For a while maybe? I don’t know. I wasn’t paying attention. XD )

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We did it, folks! After literal years of on-and-off liveblogging I have finally completed Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn!

(And am thrust directly into Throne of Bhaal, but that’s another post. :D )

I have to say, after everything leading up to it, the final celebration with the elves felt a little bit like an anticlimax. Though Ellesime did give us a very nice speech.

And that’s that!

The game then headed off into a series of two very interesting cutscenes back to back, which I’m just going to link here in their entirety because I don’t think cutscenes would do them justice. (Check out the animation on Irenicus’s face – pretty goddamn well executed.)

TLDR: Irenicus remains in hell, gets consumed by three billion little imp demon things and burns forever, and it could not have happened to a nicer guy. And some folks sitting around a table with Bhaal’s symbol on it are very concerned about Caden becoming “too powerful”, but that there is “no reason to be concerned” because his fate has “already been sealed” and “the spawn of Bhaal is doomed.”

That seems uh. Concerning.

I need to eat, so we’re going to leave it on that mini-cliffhanger and I will continue with Throne of Bhaal very soon! Excited to see how Caden’s story is going to wrap up!

Thanks as always to everyone who’s been following this story along and enjoying it. <3

The music in this final showdown with Irenicus is fucking INTENSE.

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As the last key slides into place, there is a tremendous, rumbling crash. The door cracks open, and a flash of flaming light explodes all around them, knocking them backwards along the floor.

Within the light, a form coalesces, a familiar shape. Like them, Irenicus bears the scars of their battle back in the world above that killed him; one of his eyes is a blank socket and the wound Caden sank into his stomach gapes bloodlessly, a great dark hole, glistening with viscera.

He looks at Caden with a slow smile shivering with madness.

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Yoooooo, we get a big ol’ buff for each key we put in the door!

Every time we get one of these, wings shoot out around Caden’s body. I think it’s the same wings that shot out when he turned into his slayer form which is…disconcerting.

OK these buffs are not messing around actually. Apparently they would have been different ones if we’d gone the evil route through the trials, but Caden’s innate goodness has not come without its perks - this is some big improvements.

A good thing too, because a Big Cutscene started as soon as the last key was placed. o.o

The final trial. A strange-looking demon, this one, not quite like the others, more angular and sharp, with a cunning look to its eyes as it examines Caden and his friends.

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Door #4!

This demon has a different VA than the others - an older woman instead of growly dude. She sounds sort of concerned about the whole situation (possibly because up to this point Caden has been sidestepping the evil path on everything that’s been laid before him :P ).

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All right, kiddos, what’s behind door number 3?

OK, time for another one, let’s roll.

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Took a look at the sword the demon gave us and holy yikes:

On the bright side, it’s not straight-up cursed, which is what I was expecting, but this feels highly unsettling and I am thinking we want to maybe not use it unless we are absolutely forced to.

Let’s see what this powerful creature is that we were supposed to use it on…

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