Playing too much Rogue Trader has rotted my brain so now I’m just working on more elf shit. Story of my life.
The Babbies
All of my babbies, in chronological order
Can You Kiss the Elf?
I got distracted from my BG3 Honor Mode run somewhere in Act II with Rogue Trader. I guess because it is an all new story so it feels fresh after a few play-throughs of BG3. I tried it a bit a while ago, but I have returned with renewed vigor after realizing that you can ALSO kiss elves in Rogue Tader.
In the beginning I accidentally romanced Cassia because it seems completely impossible not to. You just be kind to her and now suddenly you’re in a relationship. Like I get how she would easily fall for the character in her circumstances,,, but literally I just told her she was beautiful when she was feeling insecure about her looks and then suddenly we were in a relationship. I guess that’s how Courtly Love works or something. The only way to avoid it was to be unnecessarily harsh with her. I had to break that off. I’m playing an old scoundrel ex-mafioso, I don’t thinks Cassia REALLY wants him.
I even tried reloading and playing it where I did NOT tell her she was beautiful (which I still think I should be allowed to do without wanting a relationship with somebody), and STILL it was a almost impossible to avoid a relationship! I get it, she was sheltered and just read a bunch of books about knights and princesses and you just rescued her life from a harrowing ordeal so she imagines you’re all gallant and stuff. It makes sense she would have a crush. But why does the game flag me as being in a relationship just because she wants to be?
It was like BG3’s Gale in the earlier days where the dialogue options were all either “we bang now ” or “kick him in the balls.” There’s no “I’m flattered but no thank you.”
Anyhow, sorry Cassia, you’re better off without me. I brand bratty elf boy-toys now, you wouldn’t be into it anyway.