The Journal of Linn Rhett of Candlekeep, Skald
LadyEibhilinRhett
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EDIT: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR NEW READERS:
ALL THE PHOTOSHOP LINKS TO THE ORIGINAL POSTS FROM 2012 AND 2013 HAVE BROKEN. I HAVE BEGUN TO RE-POST THE JOURNAL ALONG WITH NEW PORTIONS OF IT IN TEXT. THIS BEGINS ON PAGE 2. THANK YOU.
only imposed two rules on myself. 1. Stay in character. 2. Only write in the journal when my character would actually have time to write in her journal. No updating it with every little event. So that's before and after rest, in safe areas, or times when I can make it make sense.
Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to copypaste the text, I tried and it didn't work, so I'm doing this through screenshots.
...Also, my entries are only numbered because I found out fairly early on that the user journal, for some reason, kept entries in alphabetical order instead of chronological order, so it's just to keep them from getting all mixed up.
Sorry for how long this post is. It's the result of like three different play sessions yesterday. The other updates will likely be in shorter chunks. Anyway, feedbackis appreciated, and I hope you guys like this.
ALL THE PHOTOSHOP LINKS TO THE ORIGINAL POSTS FROM 2012 AND 2013 HAVE BROKEN. I HAVE BEGUN TO RE-POST THE JOURNAL ALONG WITH NEW PORTIONS OF IT IN TEXT. THIS BEGINS ON PAGE 2. THANK YOU.
only imposed two rules on myself. 1. Stay in character. 2. Only write in the journal when my character would actually have time to write in her journal. No updating it with every little event. So that's before and after rest, in safe areas, or times when I can make it make sense.
Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to copypaste the text, I tried and it didn't work, so I'm doing this through screenshots.
...Also, my entries are only numbered because I found out fairly early on that the user journal, for some reason, kept entries in alphabetical order instead of chronological order, so it's just to keep them from getting all mixed up.
Sorry for how long this post is. It's the result of like three different play sessions yesterday. The other updates will likely be in shorter chunks. Anyway, feedbackis appreciated, and I hope you guys like this.
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You should be aware that every update appears to be making personal journal entries disappear, at least until you move your party around a bit, save, and reload.
To be safe, you should copy/paste your journaling into a backup Word file. I'd compose in Microsoft Word, if I were you, and then copy/paste the entries into the BG journal. (I hope that would work - I haven't tried right-clicking on the journal in game to see if the "paste" command comes up.)
If you don't find a convenient way to backup your journal entries, I would not recommend spending a lot of effort writing that could be lost at the next update.
Looking forward to the next entry!
Copypaste isn't working. Anyways, if I don't have the Beamdog client, doesn't that mean I'd have to update it manually anyway? Not sure on this, I may have my info wrong.
As for backup, I have these screenshots, don't I? XP
...Though if someone can figure out how to copypaste text from journals into a text file, I would be very grateful. @rodneyandsteptoe
Haha, it's actually something I've done for all my playthroughs in the BG series, I'm just posting it this time. The others were more just for my own personal enjoyment. Plus it made things feel more real. Though a lot of those I wrote down on actual paper, mostly because of the entry limit per chapter in the original games. After a certain point, entries just wouldn't show up, or they'd show up with errors and make the game lag. I am quite pleased that BG:EE does not have this issue and is friendly to people who write a whole lot. However, the wiped journal problem sounds troubling. I have had a problem with this, but with the quests tab, not my user-created journal.
In my head, it was always more of an Irish accent.
Then again that's probably because "Eibhilin" is an Irish Gaelic name.
But that really makes no sense since she was raised in Candlekeep, so when I recreated her for BG I ended up hearing something that was...well, different in my head. Still works, but...not Irish. Not any accent that I know of.
So. Uh. Just think of her as having an Irish accent, because I can't describe the one she has now.
I also though it was funny that your character writes these in her colloquial dialect, yet somehow manages to punctuate it correctly
A hungry feeling
Came o'er me stealing
And the mice were sqeeling
In my Candlekeep cell...
Well it's also because of where I originally got her name. I mean, I said earlier that she wasn't named after me, it was the other way around, but that's not entirely true. See, I spent some time in the SCA, and my SCA name was Eibhilin inghean ui Niell. I was a traveling minstrel and I specialized in traditional Gaelic songs. The concept for Eibhilin Rhett was originally based on my SCA persona, but when I played her in Skyrim she ended up evolving into a whole other character. And then I adapted her for BG. So I may have also assumed Irish accent because the persona she was based on was Irish.
...and I chose that persona partially because I'm half-Irish.
Um anyways, sorry for rambling. heh.
Dude, yours is so much fun to read! Can we get a screenshot of her character sheet (I am curious about her stats/alignment/portrait you chose). Also, she is totally crushing on Xan, don't deny it
I have decided to not do mine, or at least not yet as it started out drastically similar to yours (not much else you can do at the start). I started as a Gnome Fighter/Illusionist, and I was trying to write mine differently than yours but it was difficult because I ended up doing very similar things.
When I do mine, it will almost certainly be of a Blackguard, as I really want to see the diary of a power-hungry warrior with a two-handed sword who ISN'T Sarevok, but is very similar. His journal will almost certainly be different than yours.
I'm not really sure about that. I mean she definitely felt something, but I'm not sure if you could call it a crush.
...Especially since she is already totally crushing on Rasaad. . -c .
But you know, the fun thing about roleplaying is that you never really know completely how the character's gonna turn out, or how they're gonna react to the others until you actually roleplay through it. So maybe there is some chemistry between her and Xan that even I have not seen yet. So I guess I don't know yet. ^^;
Draw your own conclusions. Maybe you'll even catch on to something about her before I do.
Only because Rasaad is 'officially' a romance option. If Xan had dialogue options for romance (in some crazy attempt to persuade him that not everything is miserable) I am sure you would try it.
Also, forgot to mention, Xzar's antics are AMAZING. When you get to talk about it in-character, he totally seems like someone I would want to travel with, so long as Montaron isn't with him (I would NEVER travel with Montaron if I were CHARNAME, because I would be afraid he would kill me in the night. That said, my Evil CHARNAMES are really not like me generally, so they can pal around with him).
I would try it on some playthrough, that's for sure, but I'm not sure if I would with her, specifically.
Official or not, she (and I) liked Rasaad from the moment she saw him.
Honestly, I really like Xan, and maybe that's kind of showing through? But one of my favorite CHARNAMES romanced Xan with the BG1 NPC project. I'm not sure if it would be awkward having a character other than her feel that way about it. At the same time I don't entirely agree with Xan's characterization in the BG1 NPC project, and it would defs be interesting to roleplay out a relationship with him WITHOUT that stuff going on. Honestly it's been a while since I've played WITHOUT the NPC project, and by a while I mean at least 4 years, and now that I'm playing EE, I have to admit, I like my imagination better than theirs.
...Huh,. Maybe she is crushing on Xan, and I wouldn't admit it to myself. I dunno.
Well. I guess we'll just see what happens.
I've never played with the NPC project, so I can't fairly judge how they characterize Xan.
For the most part I am teasing you, because I can tell how much YOU love Xan (regardless of how Ms. Linn feels about him). Oh, and I am glad that other people are starting to like Rasaad besides me (not in a romantic way for me, but I think he is very cool). I have seen a lot of complaints about how he isn't useful, but I beg to differ!
So long as Rasaad is there, I don't think that Linn will have her feelings split too much--he is just too awesome. And he is so polite and delightful! I know I would prefer to have an optimistic romantic partner than a pessimistic one (just saying...)
As always, feedback is appreciated!
i just want to scream at my party right now
its like I started out in control but now i am just the vessel through which the story takes place and my mainchar has a mind of her own and stuff is getting strange.
XAN STOP BEING SUCH A WUSS. I SWEAR IF YOUR MORALE FAILS ONE MORE TIME...
LINN STOP ENCOURAGING HIS WUSSERY
LINN WHY DID YOU LET NEERA INTO THE PARTY I WAS SAVING THAT FOR NEXT PLAYTHROUGH.
NEERA STOP DYING.
NEERA WHY IS YOUR QUEST SO HARD I SWEAR THIS IS SO ANNOYING I MUST HAVE GOTTEN TPK'ED AND HAD TO RELOAD LIKE, TIWCE ALREADY. THIS IS INSANE.
XAN STOP RUSHING INTO MELEE COMBAT WHEN I CLEARLY TOLD YOU TO USE YOUR FREAKING SPELLS.
LINN STOP HAVING CHEMISTRY WITH XAN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ROMANCING RASAAD.
RASAAD SAY SOMETHING ALREADY OR DO SOMETHING OR HAVE SOMETHING HAPPEN TO YOU JUST DON'T STAND AROUND DOING NOTHING AND SHIT BECAUSE THEN ITS BORING AND YOU AREN'T GIVING ME AN EXCUSE TO WRITE ABOUT YOU.
XAN STOP GETTING INTO DEEP SHIT AND FORCING ME TO WRITE ABOUT YOU.
IMOEN STOP SAYING 'GOOD ON YOU IF YOU SAVE THE DAY' LITERALLY EVERY FIVE SECONDS.
...ahem. I'm sorry. I just. Got a little carried away there.
...I shall try to update the journal tomorrow.
Oh right, you are using Xan...and a Skald... :P Good luck!
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As always, feedback is appreciated! I want to know what you think so far!
What link? I never posted a link. I posted some images, and they're showing up fine for me, so I don't know what to tell you.
Well, there's part one of the latest update! Hope you guys enjoy it, and again, sorry for being gone for so long!