Bow down before me plebes! I own this here Castle Kreepy (in keeping with the actual initials of the place)!

ahem

Your only bug was having your head turn to a black blot? My bugs to date: text on the buttons to level up and save/load files turns to mush and are unreadable. Levelling up was based on memory of "next" and "recommend". Praise be the saves/loads have pictures included so I could tell that I wasn't saving or loading the wrong file; after defeating Garius the screen suddenly starts spinning in a rapid 360 and would. not. stop. It had done that once before somewhere else, but I was able to stop it after a minute. This time, I was truly getting nauseous and had to kill the game. Reload, re-battle, everything is peachy-keen.

I did the same thing with Vale - tried to leave without him - a couple of times during that raging battle, I probably smacked a couple of Vale's men because I couldn't tell them from the bad guys with all the freakin' spells flying about. I apologized later. And constantly fighting with that damn camera doesn't help.

Shit, I'm going to have to go back to the goblin caves to pick up some needed item if I want my own golem. They won't be happy to see me at all. I wonder if I can get in/get out through the Duskwood door? I wonder if I already have said item? I'll have to throughly check my inventory.

Yap, when you finally get around to playing DA:O, you will recognize some story elements that appear to have been lifted whole-cloth from NWN2.

I left off with the Gith (not to be confused with the yanki gith) woman having joined our little soiree. Once I've checked out Castle Keepy, the first person I'll recruit to my lair will be Deekin! He needs a place to hawk his wares.

Yeah, my Alien beast is getting long in the tooth; however, with my enormous backlog I'm in no hurry to upgrade.

I stopped at the exact same place you did. Damn that woman can talk in circles and say a lot of nothing.

Remember the kids you helped out? (Little girl caught stealing, little boy accosted by one of the Luskan thugs) The one named Wolf who said he appreciated your coming to the urchins' rescue and took up residence in the Flagon (only you never really saw them)? The kid who told you Algernon (who is the epitome of the absent-minded professor) wanted to see you? That's who teleported you to the courtyard at Castle Kreepy.

Deekin will have a place in Kreepy, as will the miners in Old Owl Well and the "artist" in Port Llast. I'm trying to remember if anyone else is just hanging around waiting for a "patron"... I think there's a guy in Soggy Bottom (or whatever the name of our original village is) who wants out, too.

I've got miners, a farmer and Deekin. I've got Kana training soldiers - opted for not-quite-the-best she could find. We've repaired the merchant's shop, the west wing and made some improvements to roads and fortifications. We just told Mr Obsequious Builder to fix the Blacksmith... now I just need to find one. Did you keep the guy lurking in the corner of the main hall? Unctous or something similar. I told him to piss off. Oh, and spidey is holed up in the basement :shiver:

This is very similar to the Awakenings expansion for DA:O but this one is much more micro-manage-y. I prefer the hands off approach of DA. And don't forget tithing!

We've found two items for the construct - I don't think we really need it, but I want it because it's shiny. [Image Can Not Be Found]

On our way to Port Llast to pick up the miner there, we had a random encounter with some bounty hunters: the gith woman was face-down in the dirt in a heartbeat. She'll be fun dragging around later. [Image Can Not Be Found]  I should probably tell the miners about all the ore deposits I've found previously as the way this is headed, I'm sure I'll need it for my soldiers.

Tithing is done by talking to Kana. I haven't done it yet because Castle McKreepy is still in a state of disarray. I want to get the roads fixed a bit more so that I get more merchants/peasants/people on walk-a-abouts travelling through.

I've fallen behind as I've been mucking about with Castle McKreepy. I've built it up just about as much as I can for the moment. I sent some adventurers off on some odd little mission (they sent a report back); then sent two greycloaks to protect a village from bandits. That last bit was ill-advised as reports came back that everyone died. oops. The Old Owl Well miner has gotten uppity. He tried to leave and I was able to convince him to stay, but he's become quite surly. I suppose killing him is out of the question? [Image Can Not Be Found] I've got a mess o' farmers working the land and it appears I've some sort of revenue stream, but from where is a mystery.

I'm working my way through the statues for the purification ritual. I've done Rivendale (that crazy Rib-smasher guy was a hoot. He was even smashing up chests) and left off in the Temple of Seasons.

I probably should have trained the men more before sending them out to defend that village... live (or die) and learn. [Image Can Not Be Found]

I've done the entire Keep - I think part of the contruct quest is restoring the library so that Algernon will tell you to keep an eye out for a specific book about golems and the Shadow King; courtyard is done except for the church - we even have a tower; fortifications are done for the nonce (or so Obsequious Builder says so); roads improved to the max (again for the nonce) and I've done 2-3 upgrades for armour (I think we're at actual metal now). Oh wait, now that I think about it something for the road is still undone as I was just short of the 50K needed.

You mean I'll have to go back to some of those places and re-click on the ore deposits? Well, that's just stupid considering how many you come across before even getting the Keep!

Did I mention the band o' pixies that tried to waylay our travels? I mean, really... a band o' pixies?! They wanted my gold and clothes (!); however, when I told them they'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands they ran off.

Act 3 and hell's a-popping!

What is Bishop on about with that whole conversation with Caviar? He does like stirring the pot, doesn't he? Will my alignment take a nose dive if I punch in the 'nads? I'm suspicious of everyone, now. Including Nevalle. It's rather convenient he makes me go to Neverwinter alone and suddenly there's an attack on Nasher.

So now I have glow-face in my party instead of Shandra. Girlfiriend went out with about 80K worth of gear. If I'd known ahead of time, I'd have stripped her bare! The demons taunting each other was entertaining.

Yap, when you do get around to playing DA:O you will recognize many, many plot points.

*edit - I hate this software. That is all.

hmm, I don't think I looked to see if there was a chest near Glow-face. I got distracted by Nevalle and now that I'm back at the Keep I haven't had a chance to look around as Dadgum showed up with news of the Mere just as I was headed into the Inn. If Shandra's stuff is back, that'll be nice as I can sell it all off. I'll miss her.

I'm the same with the ore situation and that miner is surly as hell. I went back to Ember to see if I could reinvigorate them and it was a no go. I can't upgrade my greycloaks' gear again until I find a new ore vein. Stupid game.

My perm members seem to be Snotty Q, Lizard Lady and Petco + whoever I need to drag along. There are times, there's so many spell effects I can't see what I'm supposed to be hitting! The succubi in Jerro's tower were upset there weren't any males in my group. [Image Can Not Be Found]

Since invoking the Destructificator, I've only died once - when they swapped out my gear for that stupid ceremonial crap and I didn't notice until just before I fell face down. That was quite annoying to say the least.

And herding those ghosts in the gem mine was like herding cats what with turning all those glow lights off and on.