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and so the fight begins!
he has parry skills, that's cool. i don't particularly care too much since Sylvando's breath attack doesn't seem to trigger it, though ST magic is, along with skills. didn't see it work on Woosh, so i mean... it just was a simple enough fight of attack, heal, attack, heal, repeat. took a while but eventually i win, get 2k EXP and gold, and a cutscene plays out. worth mentioning, i quite liked the random bubble before the fight of angry Veronica.

we beat Jasper and his soldiers wonder how i beat him. uh, by beating him. like, i've kicked a couple of your buddies' asses when it was just me and the guy you tied up, you don't think the loli who scared all of you with fireballs was weaker, do you? okay maybe Jasper IS the smart one because these guys are dumb.

and yet we're cowering away, even though i'm pretty sure we could massacre them all now that Jasper's weakened. fortunately Sylvando has a new plan where he jumps off the ledge. we following? no, we're not. alright, then i take it that's his boat along the way. blah blah blah, and yep, there we go, man posing on a boat. i'll give him style points for that one, pretty cool. we move forward with the idea of jumping on and uhh, dude did you forget that Vero-- oh, nope, apparently Serena and i help her get on it like a child. good. i'm also gonna take this captain's nickname for him as what he'll be called forward: Sylv. much better. as we make our escape, Ultros appears!

i uh, kinda forgot i read about him in a book. yeah, this was a given. so, ship fights a thing? Jasper also says some odd phrasing here... "MY dear tentacular..."? So that's your monster, then? I'm half expecting to just ram the thing's eye in but nah, a bunch of other ships come by and scare him off. the Italian mute has a voice now! somehow he got found after all, that's good. but i'm confused, how did this work?

i was in town, they went to find the boy.
they somehow found him as i got to the center. so... they cured him right before i was fighting, then? also all 3 split up, Erik and i were together the whole time, so does that mean Serena specifically found him or did the others do, they somehow met up, and managed to do that before i was done fighting? also, this kid managed to tell his dad, convince him that i'm good, the empire is evil who literally curses children, and the guy managed to get a bunch of townsfolk who swear i'm the Darkspawn to get on their boats to shoot Ultros? he convinced them all to defy the big evil empire and all this happened in the timespan it took for me to do a stealth section? and Jasper wasn't in any way suspicious over the fact that like, 6 boats just fucked off, including the dad of the kid he cursed?

this all seems extremely unlikely, just sayin'.
but hey, video games.
"And an hero must escape to fight another day, si?"
Actually... no, it's quite literally the opposite when you an hero. I mean you're escapin' alright but it sure ain't fightin'. >_>;

but before the scene ends, we have Dave be our plot point for finding the Rainsbough in an oh my god this accent is ridiculous way. screenshoted it so i could type it out. Ahem.

"I 'ave as it 'appens, Sylv! Word on the grapevine is the fella wot bought it 'eaded over Zwaardsrust way!"

Fucking 'ell, mate.
Speaking of accents, Erik has completely lost his. Like we're not even pretending there's an ounce of British in his voice, that shit's gone full American in these cutscenes. i'm okay with that, somebody's gotta be the voice of reason in this game.

and with that, cutscene ends and i'm on a motherfucking boat. Sylv has gone up massively in my stock, the guy's turning out pretty great. he makes a showy entrance to save my ass, he makes a clear stealth mission idea to save my bud, he jumps off ledges to pose spectacularly on boats, he's even funny on deciding to go on the quest, seemingly for the hell of it. pretty good chap so far, hope he doesn't betray me.

also hope we don't have coronavirus in this game, ships are a pretty bad place for that one and it'd lead to a really fucked up ending. hope he stocked up on toilet paper because i don't want the only solution to be using Woosh on my anus.

one thing i didn't mention in this section would be the NPC reactions when i was a wanted Darkspawn, they were great. especially the item shop because the lying thing triggered and he ended up saying he's the demon of darkness too, which utterly confused me for a second. like really, THAT is when it triggers? when everyone thinks i'm explictly that guy's servant? brilliant.

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"Maybe it's a tentacle, molesting the planet itself. - Aschen Brodel.