[ACT II] Warning, everyone: Don't drink with Thaler.
At first I thought he was just being a really inhospitable jerk after I was kind enough to share my [not so] precious vodka with him, since once he's through getting drunk with you he drags your spent body back out onto the street, where you eventually wake up . . . but then I happened to check my pockets, and found that nearly half my money was gone.What a guy.This is the sort of character I wish the game would allow me to kill just out of spite, or out of principle -- ridding the world of another good-for-nobody jerk....But then again, Geralt himself seems to have a habit of walking into people's houses and robbing them, in plain sight, of whatever happens to be loose in their cabinets, dressers, bureaus, baskets, barrels, wine racks etc. . . . so I guess Geralt isn't exactly the one to be passing judgment....Or, wait . . . maybe that's not Geralt's unethical habit, but rather my own....Sigh... self-assessment. It hurts.
At first I thought he was just being a really inhospitable jerk after I was kind enough to share my [not so] precious vodka with him, since once he's through getting drunk with you he drags your spent body back out onto the street, where you eventually wake up . . . but then I happened to check my pockets, and found that nearly half my money was gone.What a guy.This is the sort of character I wish the game would allow me to kill just out of spite, or out of principle -- ridding the world of another good-for-nobody jerk....But then again, Geralt himself seems to have a habit of walking into people's houses and robbing them, in plain sight, of whatever happens to be loose in their cabinets, dressers, bureaus, baskets, barrels, wine racks etc. . . . so I guess Geralt isn't exactly the one to be passing judgment....Or, wait . . . maybe that's not Geralt's unethical habit, but rather my own....Sigh... self-assessment. It hurts.
Or if not: then some passerby while I was lying unconscious out on the street.Besides: I wouldn't consider losing over 1000 coins to be a fair loss for a drinking game. No, that's called getting robbed while you're unconscious.(And, no, the manual doesn't say otherwise.)I'll admit though, having gotten myself to 'lose' to others, that they'll rob you, too, if you lose. So, true: it's not just Thaler. It's anyone you lose to.As for the vodka, I have to say: it doesn't always matter, sometimes vodka will just get you both drunk more quickly, although in Thaler's case: if you choose beer you'll win, if you choose vodka you'll lose. Odd, but at least there's some strategy to the matter, which is a good thing.Thaler's a tougher drinker than the drunkards at the inn, but... of course, the drunkards are half-drunk already, while Thaler has the luxury of starting out sober.
