Zaram Maldovar's Ignore Imoen Challenge

ZaramMaldovar

ZaramMaldovar

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Greetings Mortals,

It is I, Zaram Maldovar, the returned! I have been summoned here by @arvia to partake in this merry band of players. I present to you the latest in my multitude of mad machinations: The Ignore Imoen Challenge

The Rules are as follows:
1. You may create any character or party configuration you wish, so long as it never includes Imoen (yes even after you rescue her)
2. You must postpone proceeding to Chapter 4 as long as you possibly can (you may still proceed to Chapter 3 for additional items and quests but Chapter 4 must occur as late as possible)
3. The following Quests must be completed in their entirety before proceeding to Chapter 4. Other quests are optional, but encouraged.

-Your Stronghold and all related quests (For this reason you are permitted to play a class that does not produce a stronghold unless you have mods to compensate for this error)
-Any and all Subquests tied to your party members that can functionally occur in Chapters 2 and 3
-Slavers in the Slums
-Windspear Hills (including killing Firkraag and helping Dryads)
-Umar Hills (Including Killing Shadow Dragon and Mimic Blood Quest)
-Planar Sphere
-Planar Prison
-Bridge District Murders
-Harpers/Xzar Quest
-Circus Tent
-Find Proof of Maevar's Treachery
-Trademeet (Druids, Genies, Mantle, Reijek)
-Cult of the Unseeing Eye (Including killing Roger's Sea Troll)
-Twisted Rune
-Kangaxx
-Watcher's Keep

You are permitted to rescue Imoen as the game requires, but you are not permitted to add her to your party. Roleplay this however you wish, so long as Imoen remains unharmed and un-added to party.

Have Fun!
 

Urdnot_Wrex

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A warm welcome to you! Such mad challenges demand a Krogan drink for courage!
(Be careful, if you happen to be human, it will warm you for the rest of your life, which may or may not be much longer than it takes to drink up).

I'm curious, is this the layout of your own latest challenge, or are you looking for participants?

Firkraag, Kangaxx and the Twisted Rune in Chapter 3 sounds like quite the challenge... good luck with that!
 
Antimatter

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Ignoring Imoen is my favourite approach to take. I don't like her much, to be honest, and prefer to play through all Chapter 2 quests in Chapter 2. The last time I even tried to do that with limitations imposed by the SCS mod, such as handling Kangaxx, Firkraag and the Planar Prison fights without all Chapter 4-5 equipment and HLAs. This has indeed been memorable.

I also prefer Nalia to Imoen.
 

Urdnot_Wrex

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I never had the heart to leave Imoen behind in BG2, she always was like a clingy annoying little sister to me who later grows on you. I never liked her in BG1, but later she matures a bit and still keeps a slightly mischievous streak despite the torture and everything. But that opinion I had for a long while was probably heavily influenced by the game story, assuming that she's kinda supposed to be with you, which I thought until I learned that Imoen was basically added at the last moment. That totally changed my attitude towards her.

And yeah, if I had to choose between her and Nalia, I'd always go with Nalia. She's intelligent and compassionate, and grows out of her slightly condescending noble naivity very quickly once she's exposed to the real world. She's a good person, not her fault that she grew up rich and privileged, and she still always tried to do the right thing instead of what's convenient even then.
Speaking of convenient, unkitted mages are totally underestimated anyway, and she makes a much better mage than Imoen.
 
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