Skie Silvershield & unlikely comrades
recklessheart
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So I have just concluded by second run of BG:EE, transitioning swiftly into BG2:EE. Despite my playthroughs of BG in the past, which no doubt exceed being counted on both hands, I find there are still companions in BG1 that I have yet to play with. Acknowledging this, I took both Xan and Skie with me on my most recent run.
I don't know about you, but don't you find that even if on paper your characters don't seem the best, sometimes they just really outperform themselves? Although she arrived in my party significantly later than my other primary companions, Skie racked up a ton of kills with her shortbow by the end of the game. She's probably the least convenient of all the NPCs in the game to recruit, and I doubt I will ever use her again, but she gets a good review from me!
I can't help but feel she has a very sad story. A naive, fairly dumb girl, yes, but at times between her complaints that she hasn't had a hot meal in ages or that she has a headace, occasionally she will quietly state "I want to go home." And the way the voice actress does it genuinely makes you feel a little bad for taking her along! Her lines are probably annoying to most people, but so acclimatised to the command dialogues of most party members I am that I just found it a good change of pace to acquaint myself with a new voice. My one regret is that when her father is killed at the end of the game, she seemingly has nothing to say on the matter. Admittedly she is such an unlikely companion to the protagonist as they attempt to overcome Sarevok that the developers might not even have thought of it, but it still seems a pity.
Have any of you ever played with Skie? What do you think of her? While we're at it, it might be interesting to compile a list of companions that you have never brought with you into the final battle (regardless of which playthrough you are on).
Here is mine:
Neera;
Yeslick;
Garrick;
Eldoth;
Quayle;
Tiax;
Faldorn.
I don't know about you, but don't you find that even if on paper your characters don't seem the best, sometimes they just really outperform themselves? Although she arrived in my party significantly later than my other primary companions, Skie racked up a ton of kills with her shortbow by the end of the game. She's probably the least convenient of all the NPCs in the game to recruit, and I doubt I will ever use her again, but she gets a good review from me!
I can't help but feel she has a very sad story. A naive, fairly dumb girl, yes, but at times between her complaints that she hasn't had a hot meal in ages or that she has a headace, occasionally she will quietly state "I want to go home." And the way the voice actress does it genuinely makes you feel a little bad for taking her along! Her lines are probably annoying to most people, but so acclimatised to the command dialogues of most party members I am that I just found it a good change of pace to acquaint myself with a new voice. My one regret is that when her father is killed at the end of the game, she seemingly has nothing to say on the matter. Admittedly she is such an unlikely companion to the protagonist as they attempt to overcome Sarevok that the developers might not even have thought of it, but it still seems a pity.
Have any of you ever played with Skie? What do you think of her? While we're at it, it might be interesting to compile a list of companions that you have never brought with you into the final battle (regardless of which playthrough you are on).
Here is mine:
Neera;
Yeslick;
Garrick;
Eldoth;
Quayle;
Tiax;
Faldorn.
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I have to say, I do not love Xan. Mechanically, I don't hate him: he is a challenge, and despite common expostulation on the forums, I find he does just find in melee with the right bracers, spells, and allies to cover him. I was playing a Sorcerer, so there was nothing exemplary any of the other mages could have brought to the table anyway, except for Edwin, so I thought it was high time to take him along. Yeah, his personality just sucks.
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/13292/karoug-didn-t-know-who-he-was-messing-with
And yet - looking back on our journeys, I wonder at what I myself might have been too inexperienced to discern. For all her lack of preparation for such a life of hardship and travel, Skie still had the urge to peek beyond her cozy confines. To step over the threshold of the gilded parlours she was so accustomed to, and taste the freedoms that lay beyond. That she did so at the behest of a wandering mountebank was regrettable, yet still I find myself wondering if Skie would have had the wherewithal to find another means of escape, had Eldoth simply never chanced upon her. Perhaps so, and perhaps I will not think the less of her, denied the opportunity for so much as she was.
Once she'd taken the measure of such escape and found it ill-fitting, it was a different story, of course - but still she plodded dutifully along, sniffling and murmuring to herself. One can hardly deny she had resolved herself to made the best contributions she was able, and I can hardly condemn any who search for different experiences and who must therefore leave a once-comfortable home behind them, hm? Perhaps it was Shar's will and my privilege to witness such a deeply affecting loss, though one could hardly recognise it at the time for all the bemoaning of the latest trivial catastrophe to befall the wael.
Garrick is one I will probably never use... don't like the guy plus, my kick-ass Blade PC notwithstanding, I'm pretty averse to bards, especially in BG1 (Haer'Dalis makes it into my TOB team once but mostly stands at the back with Improved Bard Song on permanently).
mmm I think the only person who stands out as never having made the final battle with me is Coran I don't really know why I quite like him I just rarely use him for very long, I think again it just comes down to liking Alora more and Coran being another late npc sort of makes it hard to fit him in with her especially as I play them both with similar roles. Theres a good chance ive never taken the bards or skie too though I know i've used them all I just cant remember who has or hasn't been taken to the end
What more can you want in a companion?
Edit: After reading about all these companions, I've realized that I didn't even know most of them were able to join you. Maybe I should stop killing everyone as soon as I meet them.
Edit: Corrected
Edit: weird. Looks like if you help her she stays in Beregost, but she has additional lines in Chapter 7. Except all of them have to do with being at the coronation. So I guess the games original creators never implemented something to move her from Beregost in chapter 7. So thats kind of weird!