Dorchadas Plays Baldur's Gate II, Part XXIX: Dungeons & Dialogue

I wish that Baldur's Gate II had been able to do more with lighting, because that would have made the transition from the Underdark a lot more dramatic. And this point, Chiyo and her companions have spent days underground in total blackness. It'd be a moment like when the Lone Wanderer leaves Vault 101. Most of the party are elves or half-elves and can see in the dark--low-light vision for elves wasn't implemented until D&D 3.x's, so here they still have infravision--but Minsc and Imoen are not. Minsc probably would take everything in stride, but I'm surprised that there were no scenes of Imoen panicking. Captured by a vengeance-obsessed(?) archmage, imprisoned at the moment she thought she was freed, had her soul ripped out, and when she was rescued, dumped into a city of shark people and then into total blackness filled with what she knows are one of the most unpleasant cultures on Faerun? That's a lot to take in.

But no, I just get a chapter transition.
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Darker than Black Week 26: Madécasse Toasted Coconut

This will be slightly shorter than the usual Darker than Black because I just wrote five and a half thousand words about video games. But I haven't done this in two weeks and wanted to get back into the the habit. Of writing, I mean. I never got out of the habit of eating chocolate.

The packaging claims that this company was started by former Peace Corps volunteers started the company in order to make chocolate "as a vehicle for social impact" in Madagascar. Going online, I found a whole page on their website here dedicated to the topic. I do not know enough about chocolate processing or about Madagascar's economic situation to comment on whether that is a worthwhile goal or a worthwhile way to go about it. But it's good chocolate.
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