Dorchadas Plays Baldur's Gate II, Part XXIII: The Affairs of Wizards

I walk up the stairs out of the maze and am immediately ambushed by kobolds with flaming arrows. This happened all the time in the first game and was probably the single larger source of my deaths in the first dozen hours of the game, but hasn't been much but an annoyance since then. Here, some of them are standing on pillars and should theoretically be inaccessible, but because Baldur's Gate II doesn't actually have a Z level Minsc and Chiyo are easily able to run over and splatter them. Aerie and Xan's spells take care of the rest, and as soon as they're all dead, a cloaked "apparition" appears and tells me that the Tests of Madness have begun:( Read more... )

Darker than Black, Week 18: Tcho 99% Dark Chocolate Critters

I admit, the entire reason I bought this chocolate is because of the name. Lined up next to each other on the counter, all the Tcho's next to each other, all I could see is "Tcho-Tcho," which of course immediately made me think of Lovecraft and required that I buy this. That they were animal forms was even better, of course. After all, how better to cast their horrific sorceries and expose thousands to the glories of cannibalism than through tasty dark chocolate shaped like hedgehogs and owls and rabbits?
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