So the first time we beat Braccus we both chose not to ascend thinking we could make Ifan do it instead (so that we could shirk responsibility and cavort around the world freely) but that turned out to be a bad idea. Oops, sorry world! So we reloaded and this time we both chose to ascend, which put us in battle, 2v2, my undead Sir Dante Bonyfinger and Lohse vs his lizard Lord Fish Face and Ifan. Lohse went down pretty much right away but after that is where it got fucked up...
Basically, what happened was I killed the other main character (thus winning the fight for ascension) while charmed. We achieved this quite by accident; I had cast Shackles of Pain on Lord Fish Face, who was very low on health, and then Ifan hit me with a Charm arrow. The damage from the charm arrow was enough to kill Fish Face via Shackles, resulting in victory for me, but it also left me charmed, which meant that in the ensuing "pick which ending you want" scene, my character was now being controlled by my friend, and he got to make the decisions. From my computer, I couldn't even see the conversation, just look around the room. Then it cut to the ending cutscene for him, but not for me, and once Charm ran out I could get up and walk around the arena. Turns out Braccus doesn't have any loot on him... Basically I got stuck in the end fight arena while he went on to the epilogue on the boat. Interesting...
So we loaded it up once again and this time didn't go for any fighting shenanigans, just ran through the ending. Once we got to the boat at the end, I decided that after everything I had fought for, all I really wanted was to run around in all my naked skeleton glory. Fish Face came over to see me, and laughed because when I took off my armor I lost enough strength to make me encumbered, and I couldn't move. So I was thinking, what to drop so I can move, when I remembered that I had picked up a Deathfog barrel back in Arx to carry around for emergencies. So I dropped it between us and as I was swinging he yelled, Wait! FUCK!, and died
Ifan, Lohse, and Han didn't seem super fussed that I was a skeleton, but then I went and talked to Tarquin, and he was all, "The dead have risen! Attack!" and it started combat. He disappeared, though, so it was, for some reason, me in combat vs...Lohse? Wat? And I couldn't damage her, if I hit her no numbers popped up at all, she was invincible. She was also neutral towards Fish Face, so she revived him, and he joined combat, on my side but still friendly toward Lohse and Ifan, who now wanted to kill me because Tarquin is a little bitch.Once I died and was revived, though, they were neutral to me again, and so we sailed off into the blue.
