Did it live up to its hype
Indeed. Though the situation is admittedly desperate, it doesn't make sense to entrust the salvation of a city to a random stranger. The matter seems dire enough to send a team of trusted investigators...yet instead they send you, the random stranger...
Lost Souls: A bereft lover. A masterless familiar. Friends gone their separate ways. Time marches on, and destiny heralds the meeting of comrades old and new. Can they find what they're seeking? Or will the search bring them only more pain?
The desperation of the situation was overdone, I feel.
- Promising recruit (I've been told at least a dozen times in the Prelude...) or not, I'm still a n00b (cheesily shunted to level 3 by the end of the Prelude). Let Aribeth go out and find those damn creatures herself; I'll take her place in the Halls of Justice and stand around all day handing out temple services and too-general hints.
- I'm only in Chapter One now, but every time I ask for assistance (Aribeth, any the guard commanders, whoever) the answer is "we're too busy keeping order". Hello!! Is the microphone working? I'm trying to save a city here!
- If it's really as bad as is described, Neverwinter would be a ghost town in days. Well, it's been a few days since I've graduated and the place is still as busy as ever.
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