Baldur's Gate: The Zero Reload Saga

Hostile kobolds around the corner…

You have to wonder. How did all this shit get down here in the first place?

(BUT LORPH IT IS A SEWER SO IT IS NOT AT ALL UNUSUAL THAT THERE SHOULD BE SHIT IN IT HAR HAR. You know what I meant. Shut up.)

Do all these monstrous humanoids come down here in the hopes that they can finally make a name for themselves and strike it rich in the refuse conduits of the big city? Why would they want to live in a sewer instead of, say, staying out in the wilderness, where the air is fresh and the land is bountiful, with food that one can eat without having to receive several castings of Cure Disease afterwards?

The Otuygh made sense because Otyughs actually feed exclusively on sewage and filth, but HOW DID IT GET THERE? Perhaps some bright spark put it there on purpose so that it’d help clean the place up a bit, but if they were going to do that, you’d think they’d have had the sense to train it not to attack everyone it comes across.

Presumably the sewer has to undergo maintenance from time to time. How is anyone supposed to do that with all these angry hobgoblins and kobolds running rampant?

Wait. Maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s why they’re down here. Maybe they *are* maintenance workers under the employ of the city, and the only reason they attacked was because we were getting in the way and fouling up their efforts. Maybe the “monsters” that we’ve been mercilessly slaughtering have simply been concerned citizens trying to do their part to keep Athkatla’s streets free of crap.

Of course, either way, they’re still easy experience that nobody complains about us taking, so we don’t really care. It’s just something to consider.

Kobolds are even less of a threat than hobgoblins, so there really wasn’t much of a strategy here. We just charged right in and hoped that we could kill those shamans before they managed to cast Entangle…

Nope. Well, that means we’ve got to wait about an hour for it to disperse so that I can save the game. I’m going to get a sandwich.