Talk:Marek and Lothander/@comment-68.104.97.45-20180918045232

In 1998, as a 13 year old kid playing this game, and enjoying the huge freedom this game gave me... also made me make a few 'rash' decisions.

Such as, in my very first playthrough, I straight up ganked these two guys right as they talked to me in BG NE for the first time. Didn't think anything of it, simply didn't like the way they were talking to my badass evil Fighter. So I showed 'em lol.

Long story short, I kept on playing my game, enjoying all of Baldur's Gate, and suddenly I sleep at The Blade And Stars and upon waking up *boom* dead. Game over. I had no freaking clue what happened, I was wondering if some huge secret boss killed me, or if someone had killed my character in their sleep... So of course I reload, die again. Repeat. Now I am panicking. I reload an earlier save (of which I only had 1, plus the Quick & Autos) from a few days earlier when I was about to fight the group of mages in Sorcerers Sunderies... but the save was AFTER I had killed the two Iron Throne goons. So I traveled out of the city, and promptly died again. Keep in mind, I still have NO FREAKING IDEA that these two guys poisoned me.

So now I have to use the internet to try and figure out how to unbreak my game that had 100 hours played on it, and in '98... that was some tough sledding trying to figure this out. Even harder for a 13 year old kid who had no clue what was going on lol. I eventually find out that I was poisoned and put on a timer, and I had broken the quest and therefore, my game.

Lesson learned lol

No Keeper program for me back then either. It broke the game. Broke my heart too.