Minor spoilers for some quests in GreedFall

Butch:

You do the first part of Afra? 

Feminina:

I feel like I did something for Aphra, but my brain is kind of fried right now so I can't remember what it was. Catching up with all the emails I didn't answer while on vacation on the dank, weedy beach.

Last night I did the ghost camp with Kurt.  A bit grim, that.

Butch:

Ooo!  The ghost camp.  Quite grim.  So romantic.  

This was the bit with Aphra where you have to track some elders into the forest which was kind of jerky, I thought.  

We'll talk.  Later.  Relax. 

Feminina:

Oh yeah, I did that! And I also felt like kind of a jerk doing it, and wondered why it wasn't an option to refuse, but you really can't refuse much in this game, can you? There is an occasional actual choice, but for the most part it's 'get mission, do mission' even when one might have serious moral concerns about said mission.

Hm. I'm not sure if it's lazy storytelling (easier not to have a bunch of branches based on decisions, you know!), or if it's making a point about how De Sardet gets swept up in things and has to do stuff because of her duty as legate or whatever. I kind of argued earlier that it might be about that, that it's pointing out for us that choices are constrained by circumstances and it's not always up to us whether we go along with this or that thing...but sneaking around after the elders was not exactly a diplomatic move, and Aphra doesn't formally represent another nation we're trying to make nice with, and...yeah, just in general, these things are seeming more like something we SHOULD have been able to make a decision about. But we still can't.

Hm.

Siora was with us, too, and she was not happy about sneaking around spying on the elders' rituals. Sorry, Siora. 

Butch:

I felt the same way!  This wasn't diplomacy!  This was helping the Bridge spy on dudes to learn shit!

I like Siora, and when she was all "We shouldn't do this," I agree we should've been able to say "Yup.  Agreed."  Not only could we NOT do that, we were locked in to doing it before we could do any other companion quest!  

Maybe it'll be that she has some epiphany or some shit and we'll feel great about being jerks. 

Feminina:

Maybe. I mean, it's not that it turned out to be a horrible disaster and ruined our relations with the natives forever, or anything, it turned out OK and we learned some interesting stuff, but also...it just seemed like we should have had an option there.

Hm.

Butch:

Do you know more than I do? 

I'm guessing epiphany. 

She better not ruin my chances with Siora.   She's cute, she's cool, and there would be no mother in law!

(I am so sorry.) 

Feminina:

No, no, I haven't gotten anywhere with that story yet other than having spied on them and that bit.

Then I moved on to help Father Petrus dig up dirt on the Mother Cardinal (what IS his angle, man?), and then I helped Kurt shut down the ghost camp. 

Butch:

MORE dirt?  You finally find Candy Cane?  Did you do something past that? 

Feminina:

Yeah, I found him and...that was anticlimactic, no? 

"So, tell me the thing!" "Fine, it is this.""OK, thanks, bye!"

The very specific timing and the buildup of him as a badass made this not exactly what I expected. Although I was fine with it. I don't NEED to fight everyone I talk to! After all, I'm a diplomat!

Then Father Petrus said he needed to think about it some more, so that's what he's doing.

Butch:

Dude, I was so underwhelmed I thought the game was glitched when it said the quest was over.  I googled it and everything.  

I guess it was all 

DeSardet: OK, obvious badass....let us draw our weapons and-

Candy Cane:  Nah, man.  It's cool. 

DS: What?  Are you not the terror Candy Cane?

CC: Listen to yourself. 

DS:......yeah, when you say it that way, you're not very bad ass, are you? 

CC: Not so much.  

DS:  Cool.  Can I have my XP?

CC: Here ya go. 

Feminina:

It was certainly not what I was anticipating.

I mean, I thought he could have at least handed out gumdrops or something. If you're not going to fight, at least give me candy!

Sort of a weird version of Trick or Treat. 

Fight or Treat!

But no, there was nothing. I'll take the XP, though.

Butch:

That would've been awesome.  If he was some demon that looked like the weird assed shit from Candyland. 

Of course, Willy Wonka beat them to that particular nightmare.....

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