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  • Rik_KirtaniyaRik_Kirtaniya Member Posts: 1,742

    But at least you tend to know who they are, whereas the Witches stay anonymous and wear masks. Hence the saying above, better the devil you know.

    @Contemplative_Hamster
    Is so, then what will you say about our Overlord Ao?
  • Well what has Ao ever done for me? :)
  • Rik_KirtaniyaRik_Kirtaniya Member Posts: 1,742
    edited December 2017
    Things you never even realized that he did. He works with subtlety and anonymity. ;)
  • But we knew he'd do that, based on the observational evidence of hardly ever seeing him act.
  • Rik_KirtaniyaRik_Kirtaniya Member Posts: 1,742
    It's hardly possible to predict the actions of one so nicely hidden.
  • Nor is it possible, as you did above, to predict that he DOES act since he is so well hidden.
  • Rik_KirtaniyaRik_Kirtaniya Member Posts: 1,742
    edited December 2017
    He DID act during the Time of Troubles.

    But well, let's keep these small differences aside and be friends. :)

    (Arguments like these tend to continue for eternity.)
  • Contemplative_HamsterContemplative_Hamster Member Posts: 844
    edited December 2017
    Yes, and they're pointless, too. 'Twas but a distraction from a boring task.
  • Rik_KirtaniyaRik_Kirtaniya Member Posts: 1,742
    Let's get back to our works then. :D
  • tbone1tbone1 Member Posts: 1,985
    edited December 2017

    Well what has Ao ever done for me? :)

    The aqueduct?


  • UnderstandMouseMagicUnderstandMouseMagic Member Posts: 2,147
    edited December 2017
    @Rik_Kirtaniya

    Oh dear.

    Well, let me elucidate here.................

    Everybody wants to be Edwin
    Because Edwin's the only cat who knows where it's at
    Tell me, everybody's pickin' up on that wizard beat
    'Cause everything else is obsolete.

    A mage with a hat
    Makes you wish you weren't born
    Every time he casts.
    But with Elminster in the act
    You can set magic back
    To the caveman days.

    I've heard some corny mage who tried to chant
    Still Edwin's the only cat
    Who knows how to swing
    Who wants to dig a long-haired gig stuff like that?
    When everybody wants to be Edwin

    A mage with a hat
    Makes you wish you weren't born,
    Every time he casts
    Oh Facio, Voco, Vere
    With Elminster in the act
    You can set magic back to the Caveman days

    Everybody wants to be Edwin
    Because Edwin's the only cat who knows where it's at
    When casting spells he always has a welcome mat
    'Cause everybody digs a castin' cat

    Everybody, everybody
    Everybody wants to be Edwin
    Hallelujah
    Everybody, everybody
    Everybody wants to be Edwin
    Everybody, everybody
    Everybody wants to be Edwin
    Everybody, everybody
    Everybody wants to be Edwin.

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  • Rik_KirtaniyaRik_Kirtaniya Member Posts: 1,742
    edited December 2017
    @UnderstandMouseMagic
    I don't want to be Edwin. Got it?

    Let him go to Baator or the Abyss, and rot for eternity! I hate him even more than I do Irenicus or Firkraag or Kangaxx or almost anybody you can name. Even if I didn't hate him, I would never be him or like him or even anything resembling him.

    And yes, my hatred is not due to his amulet or his power, but because of his character, his ethics, his disposition, his manners, his actions, his attitude, and so on, and so on...
  • @UnderstandMouseMagic

    While on the subject of 1970s disco, I think you could do wonders with Boney M's "Rasputin", especially Turisas' folk metal cover.

    I mean, substitute Edwin for Rasputin and it writes itself:

    Rasputin
    Boney M.
    There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
    He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
    Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
    But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
    He could preach the bible like a preacher
    Full of ecstasy and fire
    But he also was the kind of teacher
    Women would desire
    Ra ra Rasputin
    Lover of the Russian queen
    There was a cat that really was gone
    Ra ra Rasputin
    Russia's greatest love machine
    It was a shame how he carried on
    He ruled the Russian land and never mind the czar
    But the cassock he danced really wunderbar
    In all affairs of state he was the man to please
    But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
    For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
    Though she'd heard the things he'd done
    She believed he was a holy healer
    Who would heal her son
    Ra ra Rasputin
    Lover of the Russian queen
    There was a cat that really was gone
    Ra ra Rasputin
    Russia's greatest love machine
    It was a shame how he carried on
    But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
    For power became known to more and more people
    The demands to do something about this outrageous
    Man became louder and louder
    This man's just got to go, declared his enemies
    But the ladies begged, don't you try to do it, please
    No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
    Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
    Then one night some men of higher standing
    Set a trap, they're not to blame
    Come to visit us they kept demanding
    And he really came
    Ra ra Rasputin
    Lover of the Russian queen
    They put some poison into his wine
    Ra ra Rasputin
    Russia's greatest love machine
    He drank it all and said, I feel fine
    Ra ra Rasputin
    Lover of the Russian queen
    They didn't quit, they wanted his head
    Ra ra Rasputin
    Russia's greatest love machine
    And so they shot him 'til he was dead
    Oh, those Russians
  • FinneousPJFinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,455
    @Contemplative_Hamster A mere mention of Turisas automatically wins the thread. Good on you sir
  • ArtonaArtona Member Posts: 1,077
    edited December 2017
    Oh, those Thayans. ;)

    Damn you @Contemplative_Hamster! You were faster. :P
  • UnderstandMouseMagicUnderstandMouseMagic Member Posts: 2,147

    @Contemplative_Hamster

    Excellent.
    Anything that bestows righteous and deserved praise on EO is welcome. :)

    I think,

    "Oh, Oh Odesseiron"

    Would work with the lyrics and rhythm particularly well.
  • Oh Oh Odesseiron
    Slay'r of the Rashemi scum
  • Damn, now I must abandon my Good run in favour of one with Edwin.

    Did you know you can play with Edwin (or any NPC) as the protagonist?
  • UnderstandMouseMagicUnderstandMouseMagic Member Posts: 2,147

    Damn, now I must abandon my Good run in favour of one with Edwin.

    Did you know you can play with Edwin (or any NPC) as the protagonist?

    You know it makes sense. :)
  • Contemplative_HamsterContemplative_Hamster Member Posts: 844
    edited December 2017
    @UnderstandMouseMagic

    I don't know if you know, so just in case you don't:

    You CAN, REALLY, I am NOT kidding, make Edwin the actual Protagonist/CHARNAME.

    Check here, my post towards the bottom of the page quoting the discoverers and summarizing the procedure.

    https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/29289/did-you-know/p81

    And if you console him in at the beginning of the game - C:CreateCreature('Edwin') - you can probably waltz straight out of Candlekeep as Edwin! AND either pick up a subservient extra Edwin in Naskhel, for a grand total of TWO Edwins in your party, or feed the imposter to your summoned Xvarts.

  • UnderstandMouseMagicUnderstandMouseMagic Member Posts: 2,147

    @UnderstandMouseMagic

    I don't know if you know, so just in case you don't:

    You CAN, REALLY, I am NOT kidding, make Edwin the actual Protagonist/CHARNAME.

    Check here, my post towards the bottom of the page quoting the discoverers and summarizing the procedure.

    https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/29289/did-you-know/p81

    And if you console him in at the beginning of the game - C:CreateCreature('Edwin') - you can probably waltz straight out of Candlekeep as Edwin! AND either pick up a subservient extra Edwin in Naskhel, for a grand total of TWO Edwins in your party, or feed the imposter to your summoned Xvarts.

    Thank you for explaining how, I checked the thread. :)

    But I wouldn't dare.
    Too much power and awesomeness for a player to handle methinks.

    Players.......... know your limits. :D

  • Contemplative_HamsterContemplative_Hamster Member Posts: 844
    edited December 2017
    Bah. You're no Edwin. Edwin would not let power slip away like that. *I* will play a full bg1-》TOB run. Edwin, Son of Bhaal! Edwin, Lord of Murder!
  • tbone1tbone1 Member Posts: 1,985
    Hm, I may have to write a love ballad for Viconia, set to Steve Goodman’s perfect country-and-western song “You Never Even Called Me by My Name”

    Well I was drunk the day my drow got outta prison.
  • UnderstandMouseMagicUnderstandMouseMagic Member Posts: 2,147
    tbone1 said:

    Hm, I may have to write a love ballad for Viconia, set to Steve Goodman’s perfect country-and-western song “You Never Even Called Me by My Name”

    Well I was drunk the day my drow got outta prison.

    Never heard that before so had a quick listen, how about this?

    Viconia, you're breaking my heart
    You're shaking my confidence daily
    Oh, Viconia, I'm down on my knees
    I'm begging you please to come home

    Viconia, you're breaking my heart
    You've killed my dog and my mother
    Oh,Viconia, I'm down on my knees
    Please don't run off with my brother
    Come on home

    Making love in the prison yard with Viconia
    On the night train (making love)
    I got up to wash my face
    When I come back to bed someone's taken my place

    Viconia, you're breaking my heart
    I'm drinking a bottle daily
    Oh, Viconia, I'm down on my knees
    I'm throwing up in the toilet,
    Come on home

    Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba

    Jubilation
    She loves me again
    I fall on the floor and I'm laughing

    Jubilation
    She loves me again
    I crashed my truck and I'm laughing

    Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
    Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
    Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
    Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

    Think I covered all the bases. ;)

    (Apologies to Simon and Garfunkal)
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