Honour Mode Run Fails
Or, how my poor impulse control shot me in the foot 😆
Two amusing fails today in my HM playthrough, one of them was a setup that no actual DM would have subjected me to and the other was 100% impulsive button mashing.
Karlach is now an Oathbreaker Paladin - no take-backsies
So get this - I finished up the Gauntlet of Shar and circled back to gank Balthazor in his lab because I haaaate fighting him in the Shadowfell. Astarion kicks things off with a clutch sneak attach crit, and the rotten old necromancer tries to run. Karlach landed the killing blow (Oath of Devotion Paladin) and...breaks her oath?! I guess because we started the fight sneakily?
We long rest, Oathbreaker Knight is still in camp since you retain the option to change your mind and try to re-pledge your oath. I'm running through my morning routine, the last step of which is for Astarion to bite one of the hirelings so he starts the day with his Happy buff. Andddd Mr. Oathbreaker aggros on the whole camp.
(Poor Scratch is so scared!)
So uh... no take-backsies on the oath breaking I guess? He was level 12 and had almost 300 HP so I was nervous for a sec he'd wipe the floor with us, but he was down after one round and another sneak attack from Astarion.
Shadowheart Went Dark
Look...do I know, as a rational-minded person, that HM runs are not the time to try new things and take risks? Yes. Did I choose the shiny new dialogue option unique to me as a cleric of Selûne?...Also yes. I trusted you, Shads! I should not have, but I did! Rather than go the usual persuasion roll route I chose the Selûne option that told her to let the Nightsong live because Shar would never stop demanding sacrifices of her. She looked me dead in the eye and then stabbed Dame Aylin. FAFO at its finest, now everyone in the inn died and I gotta live with that 😭
Gonna go touch grass now or something, I need a break after that letdown.