Game:

Icewind Dale II (2002)

Duration: 18:34

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The final chapter, and its quite straightforward. Heading right up to the top in order to start the two necessary quests (poisoning and the ritual) is the fastest method. On the way down we create the poison and get the ritual items before heading back up. Its important to do the ritual before talking to Riki, as she'll just tell you to get that quest chain resolved before the half-dragon emissary talk required to spawn Captain Pudu. A small note on the dragonkin fight; out of all my attempts this was easily the most unlucky when it came to them making the save against Wail of the Banshee.

The final battle would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. They really did a rush job here, and it shows. If you choose the bottom option when telling Isair your motivations, it immediately cuts to combat - but doesn't set the flag for Madae to attack quite yet. Thus we can talk lock her, and easily kill Isair (using the anti magic scroll to remove his protections first of course). After they teleport to the fountain, you can again talk lock Madae. Heres where it gets even worse. Normally you're supposed to put the vial of elven water in BEFORE the fight; however, doing so actually will break the game and make it impossible to complete. Yet if you put it in DURING the fight it will instantly put Isair's HP to 1 before the trigger that summons Orrick the Grey, which means one single attack ends the fight.

Overall notes on this run as a whole: Its evolved so much better than I had hoped when I first got around to thinking of routing it. I think a solid time in this game (single segment at any rate) would be 2 hours and 30 minutes. There are some more things that are worth looking into for a segmented run, but for now I'm focused on getting a solid run of this in.

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