(Took me forever to append the images, so I stopped halfway through and popped them into an archive.)
Edit: aaaaand I forgot to attach the archive. Champion!
The writing in this last patch is easily, by far, the worst I've seen in anything these guys have ever put forth. Either I need to replay the game and refresh my memory to how poor the writing really was or they hired someone new to... write... some last second drivel to act as a placeholder for actual scenes. That or the writer is recovering from a stroke. If that's the case, I wish him/her/they well.
"Sabia could see the look of shock flash on Ylva's face. But only for an instant..." Dafuq? Shock flash? Tell me they didn't outsource this to someone in a land far, far away.
"I have studied exensively, and am well versed in all spring-lore." Uh, okay? Everyone appears to be at least thirty IQ points lower than last the last patch. Maybe it's just me? Am I going crazy? Where the hell am I?
Or how about immediately after Ornshakar explicitly implies they will be both raped while trying to dispel the wards, Sabia quips:
"Honestly, it feels like a letter of the law thing to me"
Truly a watershed moment, I stand in awe of this patch. I haven't managed to actually get to the scene yet, but hopefully it keeps the LOLWTFBBQ coming!
G'day stranger!
(Sure as shit never thought I'd post here as much as I am.)
A look of x emotion flashing across someone's face isn't poor writing, I don't think - a common phrase from what I've read.
The letter of the law thing is when you're on the Sabia-Ornshakar path, assisting Yvla because she trusts Sabia, while Sabia is trying to back up Ornshakar so she doesn't fall pregnant too soon.
For that sequence Ornshakar is trying to unbalance her (the whole 'power dynamic' thing really gets me going).
*Flick through the archived images
So when Sabia says that it's unguardedly, thinking out loud, as it supports Yvla's position - I have to say my favourite thing about this update is (only having played the sub + Ornshakar path) how Yvla keeps getting Sabia into shit: 'Bah, even for a human, she's stronger / smarter / whatever than you doggish orcs', queue Sabia getting railed by the boys.
Or this: