Alexander BG2 1st episode
Alexander has pretty much been shredding through Amn. I think what made it easier was the metagaming and, taking after Blackraven, only make spellcasters pre-cast when created in my line of sight. This made the mage battles A WHOLE lot easier.
Here he is, after Irenicus' dungeon. As I said in my bg1 run, he is made in my own image, so his stats arent very powergamy at all..
Get containers, some xp, and steal some mannneeeyy.
Start doing the thieves guild quests. Rayic Gethras is able to fend of a first attack, but after Alexander stumps his golems, Yoshimo throws a trap from the corner and it works.
After that its time to do some big side quests and get the FOA.
Hilarious. I forgot to switch over to katana, so Yoshimo CRITS Glacius with a dart of stunning from behind while invisible (hide in shadows) and the warrior is stunned. I LoL'd.
We lure Torgal into a heavily trapped room (thanks to Yoshimo) and kill him.
Next is the Unseeying eye, which fell by fireballs.
With our high levels, we thump Mencar and co.
Cernd and Faldorn exchange insects, but Cernd has healing potions and hits harder.
Aerial servant singlehandedly wrecks unimproved (install cant handle improved vampires, leads to crashes) Bodhi, hitting her for about a 100 damage. It was over before I knew it..
We still get ambushed, no running away bandits even though we were relatively high levelled. Aerie got backstabbed but priests cast hold person at raged Alexander... :/
I wanted to do the planar prison for boots of haste and maybe Haer Dalis before heading for spellhold. Unfortunately this caused 2 deaths in 1 fight. I didnt take screens because I was running for my life, but what basically happened was:
Raelis Shay started the summoning ritual in the five flagons, and we stupidly cast stoneskin, causing 4 high level mages to spawn and trapping us inside the room (on the right side of the room, being cut off from the stairs).
While we retreated the fight with the planar creatures continued, and the game treats Haer Dalis as an ally, so the mages attacked and, very rapidly, killed him for good 
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After that they came for us, and while running for the stairs, they ADHW'd our team and cone of cold Yoshimo, who gets splintered along with a few good items.
Well... that was awkward..
After fleeing and resting we head back into the inn, this time without the thief at our side. We destroy the first group with relative ease. Again, the no-prepare mode for mages renders them quite weak.
ICE and FIIIAAARRR!
Master of thralls has low hp and cant take the beats.
When the wardens huge array of protective spells finally ran dry, we were able to hit him.
Now its on to spellhold. Nothing really worth mentioning happens except we do avoid Perth cause we cant backstab him without a thief.
Some never seen before dialogue here, nice.
Preparing for battle in the asylum.
Aerial servant dealing freaking 74 to beholder.. bye bye..
A group of yuan ti decided to show here. What were they doing here?
Even though underequipped, the yuan ti mages cant take Keldorns 1.5x level dispel + poison weapons.
I prepared big time because I was scared and itemless, like last time facing Jon. But as I said, due to install he didnt trigger his usual 10 protection spells. Which.. I must say.. is logical, as he was surprised big time.
So when I saw a golden opportunity to trap Jon between our men, I took it! Being trapped, Irenicus couldnt go anywhere!
He seriously was trapped for like a minute by loonies, summons and our team, desperately trying to get any spell off. Even Tiax interrupted him once when he got a hit in XD... freaking hilarious.
Hoped you'all liked this episode. Next is the underdark.
Cheers!
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