sideways | the original sin is the number of empty loot crates

A random selection of very roughly transcribed Divinity: Original Sin 2 shenanigans to date, feat. myself (Clemency the undead human knight + wizard Fane companion) and the long-suffering

syntheid (Tselle the elven shadowblade + battlemage Lohse companion).

• The important thing is we made it at least a few hours into the game before we switched to the Explorer difficulty setting.

• L: "I think you can open this door by setting the poison on fire... I can't get the candle to work though, hmm."
[...] [.......] [HUGE EXPLOSION]
W: "Yeah, so I figured it out. Ow."

• "Wow that's bunch of really big crocodiles OH MY GOD THEY TELEPORT D8"

• The funniest possible move in any given fight: polymorphing someone into a chicken.

• "Noooo stop running through the fire / poison / ice / other harmful substance your AI should have enough basic braincells to avoid!"

• BEST GIRL BUTTER, aka the idle NPC flirting that lead to something surprisingly heart-warming. I will meet you in Arx, Butter. I promise.

• [wacky sax plays as L runs around for 3 minutes trying to click on a rat]

• L: "Don't set yourself on fire."
W: "I'm just going to-" [immediate huge fiery explosion]
L: "I said DON'T set yourself on fire!"
W: "I misunderstood how the 'ignition' skill worked!" ;o;

• "Hey there's something over there." "WHERE IS 'OVER THERE'" x 60 (We did eventually discover the Ping feature.)

• "[collective distressed noises over a sad dog (followed by reloading like six times to try and get the best ending for the sad dog)]"

• "Wait, is this NPC being undead supposed to be a secret? Girl, you're not wearing shoes. I can see your bones."

• Have you heard about the Shriekers? Play DOS2 today and you, too, can hear about the Shriekers! From every single fucking NPC on the Reaper Coast!

• [gets lost in the map] [gets lost in the map] [gets lost in the map] ("L, you can just double-click your portrait and it'll zoom back...") [gets lost in the map]

• "[COLLECTIVE DISTRESSED NOISES OVER A SAD BEAR CUB (THERE WAS NO BEST ENDING)]"

• "I kind of want to choose [the silliest / sassiest dialogue option]" "Do it!" x 60

• "Okay if we can't heal the pigs from their curse we have to come back and kill them." "Oh my god, don't kill them." "They're suffering!" "We're going to heal them!" "Okay but if for some reason we can't, they have to die!!" "DON'T KILL THEM!" "THEY'RE SUFFERING!!!!!" (We healed them from their curse.)

• [wacky sax plays as characters slip and fall over on ice multiple times in the middle of battle]

• "Why are there SO MANY empty CRATES who DESIGNED THIS."

• L: "So this NPC is saying there's danger up ahead- did you just run past me?"
W: "Yeah I was just going for the ches- ooh I just triggered a fight. Uhhhhh. This is a lot of guys and a really big demon."
W:
W: "[pathetically] Help."

• "[wears cursed helm] Whoops, that cursed me. [wears cursed ring] Oh damn, that really cursed me. [demon appears, summoned by repeated use of the cursed helm] I am making a lot of bad choices today." ("Oh... one of the curses makes me less resistant to fire." "That's the last thing you need.")

• Said demon then proceeded to be on the receiving end of the most embarrassingly one-sided ass-whuppings we've dealt anyone so far, though, so. Should have stayed in the helm and continued to give me source-juice, Kraken the Krill-licker or whatever your name was.

• "I guess Clemency is duel-classing as a knight and a necromancer now. Which is kind of appropriate considering I keep giving her cursed gear from the evil necromancer tyrant guy. ...This feels like a villain arc."

• [swaps inventory items like a married couple exchanging pickles]

• "...Want to fight it?" "...Yeah alright let's fight it." x 60

• So the magisters have this terrible weapon, abominations that drain the life force out of people, they're called the Shriekers-