#golias

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It went pretty much as I expected it to go (as I was wondering whether there would be more twists I wasn't noticing at certain points, but there weren't). I feel like overall it was okay. There were good things about it, but it also fell to some very specific writing pet peeves in my book that prevented it from standing out in comparison to other job questlines. My one particular frustration was the amount of time it forces you to follow along with what Innocent Stork does despite the fact that her villainy is revealed pretty early on and overall telegraphed rather clearly even without the cutscene that revealed it. There was a similar moment with Misija in Bozja, but that was kind of mitigated by the facts that Bozja was a longer story overall and we don't spend half of it doing the villain's bidding as our characters stay oblivious, as well as Misija being a more complex/ higher-stakes villain (which Innocent Stork is not). I know I criticized one aspect of the Sage questline on EW release, which is that the villain's writing suffered because of a poorly landed "villain who seemed to have reasons is actually just an asshole" twist (as we only get hints of him being sympathetic, but never buy into the idea wholly for the twist to work). I feel like Innocent Stork's character suffers a problem that is kind of the opposite, where she is a clear-cut evil antagonist with no redeeming qualities, but also the clarity of it makes certain moments in the story frustrating because you are also locked into following along. I think this is the case where showing less would have been more, and her betrayal being less foreseeable would have made the first half of the story easier to follow. On a brighter note, as I already said, I really like Keshkwa's character and his (initial) awkwardness. It creates some moments that range from funny to endearing, and I like how he is actually capable despite it and learns to overcome it over the course of the storyline, eventually managing to pull Golias out of trouble. I kind of wish his personal vendetta against Iq Soq Xmajun/ the loss of his comrades was more elaborated on, as it is a personal bit of the character, but at the same time I feel like if it was, the questline may have ended up too similar to the ShB tank role questline. Overall, he is a highlight of the questline for me. I don't think I particularly feel one way or another about Golias. I suspected something was fishy about him early on, but it also became pretty clear a quest later. I guess it makes sense that he is so easy to read, with him being that naive and gullible. I guess good for him that Keshkwa bailed him out and made him his assistant.