This is the Story of How I Died: my worst but funniest run of Iron Throne (SPOILERS for Act 3)

!Featured: my Mephistopheles tiefling storm sorcerer who was one of a variety of tavs I created mostly to entertain myself and explore a bunch of bg3 options, but has ended up being one of the most fun characters to play, flying dramatically across the screen in a flurry of electricity every time he casts a spell and unintentionally looking like he moonlights as the lead singer in a pop band, signing selfies of himself making kissy faces at fans. !<

!The cast: Astarion, Lae’zel, and Gale.!<

!The setting: Iron Throne rescue. !<

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!To begin, despite starting a bunch of runs, I’ve only ever played all the way through the end of Act 3 with one other character, so I headed into the area with the submersible and thought the fight with the Umberlee followers happened first.  I got all set up before talking to Redhammer and remembering.  Saved, and then started Iron Throne.!<

!Having only completed it once before, I forgot exactly how the layout worked and sent the wrong people the wrong direction and ended up needing to reload.!<

!The next run was almost flawless.  Got Ravenguard on the submersible with almost no trouble, even from those stupid explosive spiders, and had almost everyone else on board.  With two turns to go, I had my sorcerer who can fly and equipped with multiple haste/misty step/dimension door type options set to rescue Omeluum.  Despite having practiced this on multiple other reloads, I apparently mis-clicked or cast the spell wrong, because this time he LEFT ME BEHIND. !<

!Immediately after, one of the few remaining Sahuagin cast net on me, leaving me stuck for the remaining two turns.  I used every trick I could think of to get quickly to the submersible, but with multiple turns blocking my line of sight, I only just didn’t make it, and got to wait through an agonizing last turn while all the bubbling spawn points very slowly did not create any new enemies, and my team sailed victoriously away without me. !<

!I thought you had to get everyone back onboard for a success, and at the time thought that tav dying during a timed quest like this meant game over, so I was bemoaning Omeluum’s betrayal and preparing to reload when the cutscene triggered and I got a brief glimpse of myself dead on a beach somewhere while everyone else celebrated their win. !<

!The cutscene ended with us back at the submersible dock, and I wasn’t sure if trying to exit would now trigger game over or I’d immediately be sent into the Umberlee fight with a party of three. !<

!It was the fight.!<

!This was basically the last thing I had to do before the final questline, so without being able to fast travel and rez my tav, plus being leveled all the way up, I figured I’d at least see if I could do the fight with three.  It was pretty easy, right up until the end at which point someone surprised me and pushed Astarion off a ledge into the water and he died, leaving me with a party of two to finish the fight.  I forgot the Umberlee casters like to summon elementals near the end, so I ended up with multiple elementals and all the remaining Umberlee mobs surrounding Gale with Lae’zel on the other side of the facility having cleared out everyone over there. !<

!Decided to try wall of fire to see if I could get rid of multiple of them at once and see if we couldn’t end this fight.  It worked great.  I was prepared to make a note that wall of fire was super effective against water elementals.  Then the fight ended. !<

!Redhammer thanked me for saving him, and in the middle of my accepting his loose change for SAVING HIS LIFE, he walked into my wall of fire and aggroed on me, so I ended up having to kill him anyway.!<

!Then all the people I’d just rescued from the Iron Throne started wandering out of the submersible. !<

!And you guessed it, walked right through my wall of fire and died. !<