The Video Game Revue

Tomi Undergallows

Sunny and I got some Neverwinter Nights time in last week, but I haven't had much of a chance to sit down and blog about it until today. We didn't get very far into the adventure; we're playing the original, official campaign, her with a hack n' slash fighter, and me with a cleric. Together we set out to find the waterdhavian creatures, and we quickly found that not being able to pick locks was kind of a downer--we're both accustomed to playing rogues, in some capacity. I suggested that we hire on that slippery little twerp, Tomi Undergallows, which is where things started to get interesting.

For starters, I guess my character had a better charisma score or something, because Sunny's fighter couldn't talk Tomi down lower than 225 gold to sign on, but my character managed to hire him for only 175. So we set off with Tomi under my command. Well, I'm playing NWN on my laptop which, unfortunately, isn't the most stable thing for 3D games. Most games don't give me much trouble, but once in a while something will crash (yeah, yeah... I'll look into getting some graphics driver updates.) Anyway, so we're in the middle of the overrun prison area, and some badass prison gang leader starts beating the shit out of us. Tomi dies, Sunny runs in the other direction, and I start running with the gang leader in hot persuit. The damned guy is really persistent and doesn't let up even as I pass through several areas.

Just then, my computer crashes. Sunny uses her stone of recall to get back to the temple, and after I manage to get back into the game, I do the same. Tomi is there, but he doesn't recognize me--he just keeps saying "sorry, but I'm here with somebody else" even though I have his scuzzy little contract in my inventory. Oh well, no use arguing with an NPC who is only scripted to repeat himself over and over, but we really need a rogue to open chests and stuff. Since we were barely 15 minutes into the adventure, we'll probably start that chapter over with the same characters. This time I'll let Sunny hire Tomi, since the PC that she's using is more stable than my cruddy laptop. Personally, though, I just think that Tomi is trying to milk more money out of us.

posted by Parappa @ 5:52 PM