Funny story:
One of the NPC adventurers came to my house and was all, "Let's have a drink to deepen our friendship!"
He proceeds to immediately drink a crim ale and vomit about six or seven times in my "meeting room", which is a large area with chairs and carpet tiles in the middle of my compound.
As he's vomiting everywhere (and I vomited about twice myself), he's also suffering from not one but TWO ######+ blood sucking items. Every time he takes a step and vomits he also spills about two or three tiles worth of blood.
In the end he died rapidly, but not before absolutely covering my house in vomit and blood.
The only thing holding my character back right now is better gear. I can get money readily enough, but I'm having a hard time actually finding worthwhile pieces to equip.
Have you gotten as many companions you can lead as decked out as possible?
I don't, but that is because I had really low charisma from an item for a while. Right now I just have my mount (A little girl covered in glass gear) and my beginning little girl. My charisma has recently raised significantly (from 3(10) to 23(23)), so I need to start investing in new pets.
I need some stronger pets though, like an asura, but I just traded a miracle necklace for "a girl's diary" so I'm going to start bringing her along.
Mainly I've been running a duet with my little girl for simplicity's sake, but I recognize that might be holding me back.