This Guy Are Cute!

Nathaniel is damn cute.

There's these dialogue lines (well, they're actually action descriptions, but in game mechanics they come up as dialogue - just in brackets though) that come up every so often in the game where the PC catches him staring and he either blushes, fiddles with his backpack strap, gives the PC's hand a squeeze or says something inordinately cute and sweet. At one point he even grabs onto the PC's arm - he says it's because the area they're in gives him the creeps (I think I was in the sewers between the Copper Coronet and the Slaver Compound) but one can't help but wonder if that is the only reason... XD

And then there's plotty stuff like the panic attack he had - I do wonder if that will come up again later.

Anyway, just about to move on to Trademeet, but I feel like I'm missing bits because I haven't yet been into the Bridge District to do the Skinner Murders. That gave me shit last time though, it was one of the quests where the guy who I was supposed to report back to to resolve the quest kept coming up as "[NAME] has nothing to say to you." in the dialogue box.

Anyway, I'm going to have to do something soon about some character trades but it looks like the only character I'll be able to trade is Anomen because I can only swap out Nalia for Yoshimo or I won't have a thief at all and dammit but thief abilities are useful and I won't load that damn hack that takes out all locks - that feels more unfair!


Aaaaand most of you probably have no clue what I'm nattering on about anyway. Go read ciceqi's fics Pollen and Filtered, if you haven't already.


ETA: Ooooh! The list of actions available if the PC initiates talk with Nathaniel is just as damn cute as Nathaniel's... is that the flirting component?

Only now I have to decide when I'm going to start messing up the nice order of my team - Nalia's plot is done now but I don't want to swap her just yet because I like having the extra mage on the team. Also, I think the Jaheira romance has been put to an end - a quite final exchange came up that demanded Merric say one way or another. I might consider using her space for an optional character - maybe Valygar, since I have yet to do the Planar sphere.
I can't shift Anomen around yet because I'm waiting on his knighthood.

Actually, I am wondering how long it will be before something definitive happens with Nathaniel, OI! twetwe123! can you give me a clue? Merric just got kissed by a nightmare-suffering Nathaniel. I'm still showing stage 1 in the romance though.

Actually, I've been getting Imoen mod dreams coming up the last few sleeps I've put the team down for. It makes a very odd and slightly ironic juxtaposition with the Nathaniel plot. Of course I have reasoning developing in my head - it's a slightly weird last gasp of Merric's heterosexuality. "Slightly weird" because it is his sister he's dreaming is kissing him.

But I should lay off for the night, work tomorrow and I should go to bed.