I finally got to the crèche itself in bg3 this weekend. but then i found out that a plot-and-character-relevant cutscene had mistriggered as I left into the mountain pass, so I needed to reload — i had done so few long rests that multiple things "needed" to trigger before I left the first main area, and they eclipsed one another in a not good way. this meant going back four or five hours and manually longresting—wasting food—to make sure things can trigger "overnight", which is fine but frustrates my lifelike (and mouselike) desire to hoard food, and frustrates the part of me that is, for the most part, not save scumming so that I have a more linear throughline of a narrative my first play through.
I had felt so good finally getting back to the game and making progress, maybe even getting close to finishing act 1 someday. 63 hours in—i'm not subtracting the time I spent that will now be retread; but hopefully the retread might go quicker since it's lost its suspense... but i'm seriously at a "do I want to even go forward. what if i re-installed wotr instead" or "what if i bought mario wonder for the nintendo switch handheld entertainment system"