Lore Accurate Graf Gänsedreck

Since I'm writing this on my lunchbreak I'll keep it short but consider the following 2 times the thing royally fucked me over:

1. I am currently playing Titanquest 2 and was wondering how I could remove talismans from weapon's sockets - in the first Titanquest game, there was an enchanter NPC you could go to and either destroy a piece of equipmemt to get all the socketed upgrades or destroy the upgrades to free up the socket - I was 10ish hours into the second game and hadn't found that NPC yet so I thought I'd google because I wanted to move some poison-damage bonus from my old dagger to the sweet new sword I had found - sure enough, google AI spit out a summary which sounded legit at first, started off with 'in the game Titanquest 2' (even putting the title in bold), referenced 1-2 tidbit about the game that checked out and then gave instructions which sounded very similar tp Titanquest 1... a little TOO SIMILAR - nevertheless, i started looking for the enchanter, didn't find them, thought maybe I just wasn't far enought, continued with the story for 1-2 more hours, the next larger map came, alomg with a new hub town, but still no enchanter... then I started klicking around in the menue and found out that you apparently cam just de-socket and re-socket stuff in the inventory by doing right-click (and maybe shift? not sure and won't fire up the game on lunchbreak at work) in the item-description! Cut to me checking back witht the stupid google AI: sure enough, it had given me a bunch of results on Titanquest 1 but actually fucking changed the titles of the forum-posts and articles it listed to say 'titanquest 2' alongside stating confidently several times that the enchanter npc is still in the game!

2. This one is even stupuder but at least I immediately called it...: so I was messing around with Mogghunter's 'linear side battler' plugin for RPG Maker MV and was wondering how to transform enemies in sidescroller mode - what's the point in making a game if bosses can't have multiple phases afterall - I had noticed that the usual 'transform enemy' function in RPG maker as well as the corresponding Java scriptcall you't usually use for that didn't work with the plugin because the plugin handles loding in the graphic assets when creating a new scene such as a battle differemtly from stamdard rpg maker. I had already messed around with the code of the plugin and gotten it to at least transform the enemy 'on paper' and load in the new database-object with their new set of moves etc. but atill sidn't update the graphics. Sinve people love transformimg boss enemies and a lot of people also use the Mogghunter series of plugins for MV I thought some other asshole om reddit or in the rpg maker forums might have encountered the same problem as me - most of you already know what I'm going to say next so let's keep it short...: Google AI did not provide any usefull articles, but it repeatedly stated in a very confident tone, that the Transform Enemy command works fine actually while correctly repeating the name of the plugin that we have just established it doesn't fucking work with - you want to know what it's sources were: the basic ass wiki page on the Transform Enemy command in RPG Maker MV, the homepage for the Plugin (no infor about transforming enemies or about any compatibility issues for that matter) and a forum post stating that they encountered the same problem as me but also not providing any solution!

So, we had this one-shot once that turned into a several evening ordeal during which I lost like 3 characters to bad dice-luck and my party getting so anoyed with my first character that they simply didn't revuve him after he got a stake driven through his heart by a pissed off Gangrel. Eventually I got kind of fed up with characters I had put some actual thought in dying, so I created The Trashman - in his human life he was a body-double for Danny Devito (had that flaw where you look similar enough to another more famous vampire to be mistaken for them) and I convinced the DM to introduce the background lore that Danny Devito was actually a high ranking Gangrel who turned his body-double to throw off assassins from some other clan he had beef with!

(My character was of course also a deranged Devito fanboy who stled his entire personality after the 'I'm the Trahsman' bit but that's another story - point is, at least in the realm of that Vampire oneshot that kind of became a mini-campaign because the DM seriously underestimated or level of dumbassery, Danny Devito was actually a Vampire and OP's fears are justified!)

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*and I say*...: NO.... Ohhhhhhoh, I just