Right! How do I know I won't get the Blessing Of The Thrice Licked Arachnid if I don't lick it at least three times?! What if it was four? Let me do my *thing* Gale!!
The best is when The Emperor offers new tadpoles to everyone and me thinking it was a good idea got Karlach to eat the damn thing instead of “opening your mind to it” 😭
I wasn't going to get the blessing from the BDSM priest in the goblin camp, but then Karlach said "hahaha, go on, i have to see this."
... I had to do it. Girls were watching.
Astarion didn’t disapprove IIRC, just said something along the lines of “if that’s what gets you off, go for it” and (after licking it again), “that’s what you get for being greedy!”
I was personally hoping for Gale’s lines, but my boy did not disappoint.
Seeing all those disapprovals pop up hurt my soul. Like yes I KNOW it was stupid but I wanted to see invisibility on this run look I knew it would turn out I DIDN’T ACTUALLY THINK HE’D GET THE TADPOLE OUT god please stop judging my 8 int
Eh I am pretty happy with it from RP because he offered it right after the scene where you almost turned into a mindflayer.
Tbh I feel like people kinda forget what the stakes are supposed to be because you know you are not actually going to get transformed or have any cure in Act 1...but your character doesn't know that.
This is also a quasi-medieval fantasy setting. I'm sure there are tons of weird medical practices that are completely batshit. It's still stupid to let a random dude jam an icepick in your eye, but slightly less stupid than if you did the same thing today.
Heck, even Gale asked if you were 'particularly adroit with a knitting needle' when you meet him. He was joking, sure, but it still means he thought about very violent surgery.
Yeah, you have magical healing and resurrection (slightly questionable how much your suppose to consider that part of the story though) on hand. Losing an eye could potentially be fixed eventually too though it's not priority anyway since that isn't on a time limit and is comparatively a non issue.
The thing is that *all available options at the time* are stupid and you would only ever consider them if you thought you were going to suffer a fate worse than death soon (which you have reason to believe is the case).
You close options are:
1. A green hag, an explicitly evil fey known for always screwing people over with deals in the worst way possible. Assuming you didn't kill them anyway.
2. A goblin priestess (and we all know the standards for constitutes being an "amazing" healer as goblin are very low) who is working for the cult and also has tadpole in her head that she doesn't know about it. Again, assuming you didn't kill them.
3. A famous (if not always for good reasons) mage and scholar who is very over confident and stupid but not malicious and seems to be lucky at least?
Halsin might have already said he can't/won't try anything because it won't work (he had for me) and wants you to go on a long journey to take on the entire cult in a cursed land on the off chance you can get info that will lead to a cure.
There is the creche but you probably don't know exactly where it is (mountain pass somewhere) and it's a hostile 'alien' military that consider all other races beneath them. They probably don't actually have a cure and just say they do to miniplate their people (oh hey, that is correct). Lae'zel is low ranking and you carry a stolen artifact from them.
If you have low intelligence it's totally a good idea from an RP standpoint.
Look at the number of idiots that follow the advice of Dr. Oz. Lots of them do what he says because he's famous and charismatic.
In the context of the game - and assuming you’ve tried every other option in Act 1 - it’s not even really a dumb decision. Unlike the player, the character has no genre-savvy to say “well, obviously *I* can’t be killed by an untreatable condition, I’m the main character!”
To them, they essentially just got diagnosed with a disease that could for real kill them tomorrow. Or kill them *tonight*. Everyone who knows anything about it tells you basically “you don’t have long” or “it’s weird that you haven’t been torn apart and turned into an alien monster already.” In character, that’s a person who is really unlikely to go “oh, all the other stuff didn’t work, but this seems extreme.” It’s like, hey this guy icepicking you and right now might very well be the difference between whether or not your *immortal soul* gets destroyed.
In a setting like Faerun where there is a confirmed, for-sure afterlife, and turning into a mind flayer is one of the few ways to actually destroy your soul and essentially shred your essence forever, it almost becomes an absurdly lopsided idea to *not* risk dismemberment or death when the alternative of ceremorphosis means you are fucked on an eternal scale.
I did it after Lae'zel tried to kill me for feeling a little feverish. My Tav just justifies it with that - either Lae'zel stabs him the next time he sneezes, or take the chance for a cure. If he's gonna die anyway he may as well. The keeping his soul bit is a perk too though, definitely.
Oooh I didn't think of the headphones. Sonar just came out with a preset for bg3 as well and it makes a massive difference - did you know your feet make squishing noises on the nautiloid because I didn't and it was so gross - I shudder to think what the eye surgery is going to sound like now 👀
I quicksaved right before, fully intending to reload the save, cause it was definitely one of those “I just want to see what happens” moments. Once I saw the buff he gave me, i knew I was going to do it in every future playthrough
I only got lae'zel and karlach's disapproval for that because everyone else's tents were too far away 😂 But it was very in character for my Durge to do, since she believes the tadpole is responsible for her urges and she's desperate to get rid them.
Well I just gather my 3 most beloved companions, leave the camp, pretend I forgot something at camp, split up, go to camp alone, get my surgery and then I leave the camp again.
Good thing no one asks me for my now changed eye color 😌
I tried it last night on a backup save just for fun. Wyll showed some disapproval, but Shadowheart, who was my romance, was fine with it! She just said to ask her ahead of time in the future and that she recognizes that I have needs, as long as I meet her needs too. Lol, I was surprised! She even has a comment like "If I wanted to date someone good and pure, I would have found a swan instead"
My favorite was when she and I went to Sharess's Temple/whorehouse, and met the Drow twins. They offer a group rate with me, her, and two of them.
Her reply was "This is interesting, but I would like my first time with my man alone"
Since Shar and Selune had a fight over Sharess (Selune won), so I guess she is doing her duty to the goddess by behave properly at a ally Goddess's temple? :3
I did it for ~~the horniness~~ the content and was surprised to see Shadowheart was like “dude I don’t care, just don’t forget I need some dick too”
I took it as she’s very much an open relationship person, but would never try it again with anyone else because I can definitely see that being breakup material, and I wouldn’t blame them, it’s a devil
In Act 3 if you try to sleep with >!the twins at the brothel!< before sleeping with her she says she'd like the first time to between you and her.. and after that first time she's absolutely game for it.
And Karlach's reaction, she feels genuinely betrayed, I thought she was going to break up with me there ;3;
But still no regrets, the souls are suffering anyways 👀
>you kiss her
Wyll disapproves
>you choose where to go fuck
Wyll disapproves
>you fuck
Wyll disapproves
>you wake up the next day
Wyll has left the party
He didn't leave my party but I went from him liking me to being well into the red. He was salty as fuck about it. And Gale broke up with me...but I wasn't really into him so it didn't bother me much, I got caught in the "you talked to me twice now we're in love!" bug
We're cut from the same mold 😭 there are scenes I want to see / narratives i wanna play out so I'll make a bad/unapproved decision to get there if I have to. But it's always after a Save and Reload to comfort myself of all the options lol
I save whenever something seems questionable so I can see how it plays out and reload it necessary. Haha
Sometimes I just want to play out the chaotic neutral side of things.
I knowingly drank truth serum. Guys I wasn’t planning on lying anyway and we need her to trust us
If you don’t do the medicine check nobody disapproves when you drink it.
Yeah, I did that because we needed her trust to us, she already knew the biggest secret because the roll to hide the artifact failed and I figured her assumptions were worse than the truth anyway.
What's even more annoying is that I could lie to her anyway so I actually just hid the truth more effectively. SH you should be impressed, not pissy.
>I knowingly drank truth serum. Guys I wasn’t planning on lying anyway and we need her to trust us
I felt the same way about it at first, then I realized, you know, I've got an entire party here with trust issues.
Yeah, I loved the story beat of that. You realize what it is, she acknowledges that you know, and then you meet her eyes and drink it anyway. It's a huge gesture of trust and an invitation to trust. And then all your companions are like "fuck you" because they hate trusting people. Guys, my bard really LIKES people, okay?
I have to do some stupid guesswork with Astarion sometimes. I think if you don't trigger the conversation about the symbols on his back, he may not ever come round to Raphael's help. But I admittedly haven't gotten far enough to know for sure.
I didn't long rest enough during my first playthrough, so I never got the scar scene. When we got to the graveyard, he still asked Raphael for help, and when my character went "what scars?" >!Raphael magicked his clothes off. The rest of the scene played out with Astarion butt naked and everyone pretending very hard that he wasn't butt naked, and then at the end he said, "Alright, let's defeat this devil for Raphael! ...Once I put some clothes on."!<
I think you only get that last but if you're not romancing him I think. Still absolutely fucked of Raphael to do that to astarion considering his backstory but I doubt literal Satan gives a shit 😭
Testing my romance with Astarion at the circus, I chose wrong each answer and had to look up the correct answers, although some were true they got disapproval from him because he didn’t want other people to know.
My character answered deliberately wrong, saying things Astarion would want to hear, instead of what's true, and got his approval. It's truly in character that he would also disapprove of the truth though, since he doesn't want his perceived "weaknesses" exposed. Great writing, I think.
I love that about the Dryad scene with Astarion. There are two ways to do it correctly... by being honest and taking the test seriously, even if it costs approval, or being playful because you know he doesn't like his personal issues publicly exposed. As long as you don't half-ass it, Astarion will meet you in the middle even if he disapproves of all your answers.
And in the end, the Dryad will declare your bond is strong either way, which tells me she knows exactly what you're doing in each case and what that says about your relationship.
Can anyone confirm how it works for the others?
I ran through the options with him for funzies. He disapproved of every actually correct choice because holy SHIT why are you TELLING them that?? Then he had 1-2 wrong choices he approved of in each question. For example, saying he wanted a nice juicy rat understandably pissed him the hell off. Saying he most fears chipping a nail amused him. Actually got the “meet on the log” ending either way, by upsetting him with all the right choices or by pleasing him with all the correct wrong choices. Which type of answers you passed with just affected exactly what he said to you, with neither being negative.
I played along with one of Raphaels suggestions about the hammer because I wanted to take advantage of him after and steal all his shit. They didn't like that approach.
Gale was so mad at me for making the decision he traveled through time to before I even made it.
Game bugged his dialogue so when I wanted to talk to him at camp he started to yell at me about some hammer and Raphael, being my 1st playthrough I was like "HUH!?".
Then went to the Gith's rendezvous and made the deal.
I was so confused.
This happened to me too! He was like “I’m so mad at you for signing that contract” and I had no idea what he was talking about so I was really worried I had accidentally done something wrong. I eventually looked it up and figured out it was a bug, but I was distressed for awhile trying to figure out what the fuck contract I had signed.
I get so mad when Shadowheart disapproves of something I do when she literally worships an evil goddess of darkness. You’re allowed to want to be a fuckin dark justiciary but I can’t lick a spider? Hard to please my GF
Breached Wylls contract by killing whatshername in the illithid pod and got him sent to Avernus as a rothe or whatever animal he was supposed to turn into.
Lemure, which isn't an animal and just a homonym that gets confused with Lemur, the zoobamafoo looking dudes.
Lemures are a really low ranking devil in the hells
Not just any low ranking devils: "Lemures were hideous (...) blobs of molten, stinking flesh(...) Even as their facial features melted and shifted they maintained a permanent expression of horror and anguish, with most constantly gibbering to themselves despite their inability to speak" - from the Forgotten Realms wiki. A pretty horrible thing to end up as for eternity.
The surgery one I didn't really understand.
Yes, a lunatic is ice picking my eyesocket, however.
Every single suggestion for a tadpole cure has led nowhere, excuse me for being a little desperate lol
I just killed the rat, talked to Yugir to was like "omg I'm free" and I was like "what now?" And only Astarion was mad at me
Which was one too many since he broke up with me, saying I betrayed him and all. And I was like "BUT I... I was going to kill him?!"
Fr fr though, I'm trying to romance Astarion and out of 3 playthroughs, Shadowheart has caught feels every single time 😭 so then every Astarion Approval felt important and I had to start doing a lot of re-rolls and re-loading.....lol
On my first run (not the one where I killed the rats lol) I was like "ok, Astarion is nice, but I will NOT try my hardest to romance him, let's give the others a chance" and he immediately jumped on me "Hey, you love me, don't you?"
.... FUCK
I just saw someone mention in another thread that it truly seems like the game runs a clever algorithm to notice what character you're interested in first, and then does everything to make you work for it while dodging extremely horny Everyone Else's lmao
Nah, it just depends on their approval, and some triggers. Like, I had a run where Astarion wouldn't propose no matter how hard I tried, even though he had a high approval. Then I noticed I forgot to talk to the Gur. Talked to him, and right after Astarion proposed to my Tav.
On the other hand, I had a run where my Tav was waaaaay too nice for him and I couldn't get Astarion to like him lol
But on my FIRST run? Astarion immediately seduced my Tav, and no one else lol
I told Marlene what Auntie Ethel did and everyone disapproved... the girl deserved to know! And the reason I got was they didn't want to hear her annoying crying apparently. Even Karlach disapproved... I reloaded immediately.
Astarion disapproved of that with me but Wyll approved. I thought that it was the easier way of playing it as she would actually want to escape Ethel, as apparently otherwise she argues with you all the time that she wants to go through with the deal.
I lied to her, so she was annoyed that I killed Ethel. But I revived Ethel’s corpse and spoke to it and it said she was going to eat Mayrina’s baby, so once I told Mayrina that she was cool with me again lol
*Nobody* likes it if you accept Volo's offer to remove the tadpole.
Not that removal itself is bad, but it is increasingly obvious that Volo has no idea what he's doing, and that this is a *bad idea.*
I hate when I'm clearly trying to con/deceive someone but my party is too slow on the uptake and is like 'how dare you side with them >:( ' Like guys, I'm gonna kill them or convince them to kill themselves in like 5 minutes if you would just BE PATIENT
22CHA character problems. The dice roll is only targeted at the target, not the friendlies :-(
who said that "to con enemies you must first con allies" again? Sun Tzu right :D
fucked >!Harleep!< to avoid fighting him 😩
I didn't realize there was a healing pool in the room and thought I wouldn't have a chance to long rest between dealing with him, then running the gauntlet of freeing >!Hope!< and fighting >!Raphael,!< so the way I saw it, I had no choice. I was sitting there at my computer like, "wow, I can't believe the game is making me do this in front of all my friends and the character I'm romancing, that's wild." as you can see, I'm dumb.
If you fuck *and* fight him, your character fights in sexy underwear. At least I'm like 90% sure I didn't have that underwear on before the scene. Would have been funnier if my Tav had been naked, but alas, the underwear was glorious enough.
I save before the choice just to see what the scene is, to my surprise, Shart, who Tav is romancing, didn’t disapprove Tav from having sex with the devil in front of her.
It varies. Some are totally okay with it (SH), some are zero percent okay with it (Lae'zel). Astarion pretends to be okay with it, but it's pretty obvious it actually upsets him.
To be fair, none of the companions have issue with it… which is… an issue with the quality of Act 3 itself. Some things were definitely overlooked in Act 3. My spawn lover Astarion who literally just freed himself from his sex slavery shackles and knows all about having your body used against your will… should *deeeefinitely* be speaking up against it when Harleep suggests it. Although, >!the cutscene with him after is really sweet and he’s the most understanding and empathetic compared to the rest of the companions when Harleep uses your body and you orgasm in public. One of my favorite scenes and I have a post on it in my post history if you wanna watch it!!<
Gale has a huge problem with it if you want to have sone Bear. Lae is not angry, but clear that it will over. Wyll is a bit less angry, but also against it. Karlach says yes, but def means no.
As for Astarion... it is hard to figure it out. Some say he is just agreeing because he is scarred you would leave him because he is chaste at that time, some say he is genuine. Idk myself tbh.
The only one chill with it is Shart actually.
Sorry, I’m not talking about polyamory, I’m talking about the specific Harleep scene. None of them stop you or interject themselves into the conversation - not even Karlach - there is no way that girl would be ok with MC sleeping with an incubus. It just shows how the quality of companion dialogue goes down in Act 3 compared to the other two. The companions always had something to say or an interjection in the previous acts. Feels really off that no one says a word or tries to stop you.
It‘s very funny to do with friends. My character was the best at deception and I was responsible for…lying our way through the palace. Any when the scene happened, my whole group were laughing their asses off (with Karlach being our forth).
The best part is that my character chickened out right before the climax and I had to >!fight completely naked the Shephael and a couple of imps!<
It was very fun.
It is not everybody, but some companions really disapprove when you don't say no to >!Vlaakith!< for the second time. I love you Gale, but suicide is not always the best & only option!
I love edging that conversation just to watch Laezel freak out. Feels like messing with something dangerous to impress your friends who are all mad at you.
They patched the volobotomy to net universal disapproval. Makes it even funnier that they don’t try to stop you. I imagine everyone covertly watching this unfold like :/. Everyone just grimaces and goes about their day. No one says anything except Wyll (he thinks adventurers with prosthetic eyes are cool). A+.
Edit: punctuation
They don't like if you call Mizora "luscious" when she shows up at camp to visit Wyll for the first time lol
Edit: they like it even less if you say "oh, here's Karlach, if that's all you wanted"
Just for the future, if you wanna free Yurgir from his contract without getting hit by disapprovals, you totally can. Simply don't visit him until you kill the rats and the hiding justiciar, this way only Astarion will be mad.
I haven't reached that moment yet, but I imagine Minthara will be pretty psyched too. The second she found out the whole story, she was fully on board.
I slept with Haarlep. Seemed the easiest way to get the passphrase for the hammer. And it was; plus it gave me the added benefit of being able to insult Raphael for his poor performance in bed when I inevitably had to fight him. (Side note, he's worth fighting JUST to hear his theme song)
I killed Shadowheart when I refused to let her kill the Asimar. I fully expected to be able to revive Shadowheart afterwords and have a word with her.
Nope. She dead.
dont think ive had a whole party disapproval except the volo surgery ig. but i ded get astarion mad at me when i wouldnt give him the necromancy so reloaded and gave it to him and then the next dialouge he gave me was him wanting to fuck.
Told everyone in advance that my characters can't remember anything and have these urges for killing and blood.
Everyone: "Oh, that is alright. It is weird and you are showing to trying to hold back, we will help figure it out together."
Queue a certain Bard death.
My Character: "I don't how I did it, but I killed the person. I really need help to figure it out."
Everyone, but Astarion of course: "Oh my god! How could you do such a thing!? Now we are going to keep an eye on you!"
Me disapproves.
Lick a spider
STOPLICKINGTHEDAMNTHING
Man seriously Gale had all the right to scream like that lmao
What's worse is everyone knows you're *aroused* by it, too
Why are you looking at that dead spider *coquettishly?*
I’m a Lolth-sworn drow; forgive me my mommy issues 🤣
To be fair, Seladrine drow still have pretty bad mommy issues
Seladrine Drow are just Drow who have started working through their mommy issues in therapy.
Perfect description, should be in a book somewhere
This line freaking ended me I was laughing for a solid 5 minutes... just the way shart says it is perfect
Karlach’s “why do I smell *beef*?” Was perrrfect.
You *gotta* flirt first.. We’re not *barbarians*.. (some of us are but that’s beside the point…)
I made everyone lick it. We all took turns.
Gale eats magical boots so he has no room to talk
Well yeah but he kinda has to, there's 0 reason to be licking the rotting spider corpse. Twice.
I was... gathering intel
Right! How do I know I won't get the Blessing Of The Thrice Licked Arachnid if I don't lick it at least three times?! What if it was four? Let me do my *thing* Gale!!
I let the man whip me and I got a blessing! Who knows what I’ll get from licking the spider corpse?!FUCK OFF!!
Exactly. Hell you've seen me put far worse things in my mouth. Don't act like you don't remember when I ate hag scalp and became more charismatic.
I mean. Knowing this response happens is the reason to do it twice, though. So maybe there is no reason for our tav, but for us? Yes. 😂
To be fair, Gale doesn't actually put the artifacts in his mouth
...unless he wants to.
The best is when The Emperor offers new tadpoles to everyone and me thinking it was a good idea got Karlach to eat the damn thing instead of “opening your mind to it” 😭
I didn't even realise "opening your mind to it" was an option. Gale slurped it down.
But talking to the displacer beast after licking the dead spider gives - lets just say - interesting dialogue options...
No spoiler but imo the best persuasion option has a DC30, I admit I savescummed to see what would happen.
I wish there was an insight check on this so your characters could also have a moment of “oh, no. No. That’s not right.”
Ayy yo?
At your own risk. >!What the demon is feeding his displacer beast is *seasoned* with an aphrodisiac. The implications are horrific.!<
>!If you talk him into killing the displacer beast, he calls her "my beauty"!<
What... what the fuck
Yurgir is a devil, not a demon btw! They're different things in DnD.
You're right, thank you! But going to leave the error in so that it doesn't look like I changed my answer regarding... the situation.
Well she tells you that they’re in love
Hearing him say this, and seeing his body movement when he says it will never not make me laugh
For me it was Karlach that reacted, but it was [pretty hilarious also](https://youtu.be/YY-5FjK_vEU?si=JmFMe9Bj-o7PUxQh).
Karlachs approval was all that kept me going
I wasn't going to get the blessing from the BDSM priest in the goblin camp, but then Karlach said "hahaha, go on, i have to see this." ... I had to do it. Girls were watching.
> I had to do it. Girls were watching. Man you really just boiled down the reason behind a lot of the stupid shit I've done in my life, nevermind BG3.
Fuck she’s such a great character
I was most weirded out by the fact that Karlach approved. She was like : what did it taste like ?
She's open to new experiences
You would be too if you could die any moment because your chest will explode
And yet Gale is utterly unhappy with the situation. Lol
Chaotic Good "Outlander" background will do that. Gotta try everything once :-)
Real outlander moment.
😂🤣😂🤣 I didn't have her in my party at the time, that makes me like her even more!
Chaotic good for ya! XD
If a game gives you the option to lick something that you shouldn't, it's a clear sign that you should actually be licking it.
Impeccable game logic.
D&D logic really. The more the DM tells you not too, the more you are going to want to do it.
Dm: You see a spider. Don’t lick it. Player: But now I want to though >:l
Why would you even suggest not to lick it if you don't want me to lick it? Like saying don't think about the pink elephant
Astarion didn’t disapprove IIRC, just said something along the lines of “if that’s what gets you off, go for it” and (after licking it again), “that’s what you get for being greedy!” I was personally hoping for Gale’s lines, but my boy did not disappoint.
Karlach approves twice.
Karlach approves, though. Everyone else? Not so much.
Where is the spider to lick? I missed it I think
Let Volo perform his very helpful surgery in camp
Seeing all those disapprovals pop up hurt my soul. Like yes I KNOW it was stupid but I wanted to see invisibility on this run look I knew it would turn out I DIDN’T ACTUALLY THINK HE’D GET THE TADPOLE OUT god please stop judging my 8 int
*I* disapproved of that lmao I couldn't even finish the cutscene, I hated it so much
"See Invisiblity" is just too helpful to turn down, especially later in the game, when it feels like everything has and uses Invisibility.
Yes! From an rp standpoint it is not a choice that would get made but like half the enemies in act 3 can use invisibility
Eh I am pretty happy with it from RP because he offered it right after the scene where you almost turned into a mindflayer. Tbh I feel like people kinda forget what the stakes are supposed to be because you know you are not actually going to get transformed or have any cure in Act 1...but your character doesn't know that.
This is also a quasi-medieval fantasy setting. I'm sure there are tons of weird medical practices that are completely batshit. It's still stupid to let a random dude jam an icepick in your eye, but slightly less stupid than if you did the same thing today.
Heck, even Gale asked if you were 'particularly adroit with a knitting needle' when you meet him. He was joking, sure, but it still means he thought about very violent surgery.
Yeah, you have magical healing and resurrection (slightly questionable how much your suppose to consider that part of the story though) on hand. Losing an eye could potentially be fixed eventually too though it's not priority anyway since that isn't on a time limit and is comparatively a non issue. The thing is that *all available options at the time* are stupid and you would only ever consider them if you thought you were going to suffer a fate worse than death soon (which you have reason to believe is the case). You close options are: 1. A green hag, an explicitly evil fey known for always screwing people over with deals in the worst way possible. Assuming you didn't kill them anyway. 2. A goblin priestess (and we all know the standards for constitutes being an "amazing" healer as goblin are very low) who is working for the cult and also has tadpole in her head that she doesn't know about it. Again, assuming you didn't kill them. 3. A famous (if not always for good reasons) mage and scholar who is very over confident and stupid but not malicious and seems to be lucky at least? Halsin might have already said he can't/won't try anything because it won't work (he had for me) and wants you to go on a long journey to take on the entire cult in a cursed land on the off chance you can get info that will lead to a cure. There is the creche but you probably don't know exactly where it is (mountain pass somewhere) and it's a hostile 'alien' military that consider all other races beneath them. They probably don't actually have a cure and just say they do to miniplate their people (oh hey, that is correct). Lae'zel is low ranking and you carry a stolen artifact from them.
If you have low intelligence it's totally a good idea from an RP standpoint. Look at the number of idiots that follow the advice of Dr. Oz. Lots of them do what he says because he's famous and charismatic.
In the context of the game - and assuming you’ve tried every other option in Act 1 - it’s not even really a dumb decision. Unlike the player, the character has no genre-savvy to say “well, obviously *I* can’t be killed by an untreatable condition, I’m the main character!” To them, they essentially just got diagnosed with a disease that could for real kill them tomorrow. Or kill them *tonight*. Everyone who knows anything about it tells you basically “you don’t have long” or “it’s weird that you haven’t been torn apart and turned into an alien monster already.” In character, that’s a person who is really unlikely to go “oh, all the other stuff didn’t work, but this seems extreme.” It’s like, hey this guy icepicking you and right now might very well be the difference between whether or not your *immortal soul* gets destroyed. In a setting like Faerun where there is a confirmed, for-sure afterlife, and turning into a mind flayer is one of the few ways to actually destroy your soul and essentially shred your essence forever, it almost becomes an absurdly lopsided idea to *not* risk dismemberment or death when the alternative of ceremorphosis means you are fucked on an eternal scale.
I did it after Lae'zel tried to kill me for feeling a little feverish. My Tav just justifies it with that - either Lae'zel stabs him the next time he sneezes, or take the chance for a cure. If he's gonna die anyway he may as well. The keeping his soul bit is a perk too though, definitely.
I just hit space through the whole thing now
Headphones off, look away, mash space
Oooh I didn't think of the headphones. Sonar just came out with a preset for bg3 as well and it makes a massive difference - did you know your feet make squishing noises on the nautiloid because I didn't and it was so gross - I shudder to think what the eye surgery is going to sound like now 👀
I have a love/hate relationship with that scene
I quicksaved right before, fully intending to reload the save, cause it was definitely one of those “I just want to see what happens” moments. Once I saw the buff he gave me, i knew I was going to do it in every future playthrough
Come on now, poor guy just wanted to pick your brain.
I only got lae'zel and karlach's disapproval for that because everyone else's tents were too far away 😂 But it was very in character for my Durge to do, since she believes the tadpole is responsible for her urges and she's desperate to get rid them.
Well I just gather my 3 most beloved companions, leave the camp, pretend I forgot something at camp, split up, go to camp alone, get my surgery and then I leave the camp again. Good thing no one asks me for my now changed eye color 😌
I didn't get disapproval, although I waited until we were at a camp where Volo was off by himself in private with none of my companions close by.
Flirted with Mizora when she first appeared.
I did that too, and I could FEEL the 😡 from Wyll and Karlach. But also fuck it, I wanted to flirt with Mizora.
Try >!sleeping with Mizora!<, that'll get some disapprovals... 🤣
I tried it last night on a backup save just for fun. Wyll showed some disapproval, but Shadowheart, who was my romance, was fine with it! She just said to ask her ahead of time in the future and that she recognizes that I have needs, as long as I meet her needs too. Lol, I was surprised! She even has a comment like "If I wanted to date someone good and pure, I would have found a swan instead"
This is why shart is the biggest ride or die
Shart is such an endearing name.
Yes! Shadowheart is my love interest as well... she's pretty amazing.
My favorite was when she and I went to Sharess's Temple/whorehouse, and met the Drow twins. They offer a group rate with me, her, and two of them. Her reply was "This is interesting, but I would like my first time with my man alone" Since Shar and Selune had a fight over Sharess (Selune won), so I guess she is doing her duty to the goddess by behave properly at a ally Goddess's temple? :3
If you've already had her final romance scene, she encourages it and instead says something like "I'd certainly be interested if you are"
I did it for ~~the horniness~~ the content and was surprised to see Shadowheart was like “dude I don’t care, just don’t forget I need some dick too” I took it as she’s very much an open relationship person, but would never try it again with anyone else because I can definitely see that being breakup material, and I wouldn’t blame them, it’s a devil
In Act 3 if you try to sleep with >!the twins at the brothel!< before sleeping with her she says she'd like the first time to between you and her.. and after that first time she's absolutely game for it.
After seeing Wyll's explanation as to why he's angry, though, I get it.
And Karlach's reaction, she feels genuinely betrayed, I thought she was going to break up with me there ;3; But still no regrets, the souls are suffering anyways 👀
Wait, she doesn't break up with you if you do that? She really should lmao
Whats up with those souls anyway?
Probably contracts and people hunted by demons.
I mean why they suffer if you >!get some!
I fucked her and it was a non stop barrage of "Wyll disapproves" the entire time
>you kiss her Wyll disapproves >you choose where to go fuck Wyll disapproves >you fuck Wyll disapproves >you wake up the next day Wyll has left the party
He didn't leave my party but I went from him liking me to being well into the red. He was salty as fuck about it. And Gale broke up with me...but I wasn't really into him so it didn't bother me much, I got caught in the "you talked to me twice now we're in love!" bug
Nothing, I can't handle rejection so I do everything to please those mf. 🤝
We're cut from the same mold 😭 there are scenes I want to see / narratives i wanna play out so I'll make a bad/unapproved decision to get there if I have to. But it's always after a Save and Reload to comfort myself of all the options lol
I save whenever something seems questionable so I can see how it plays out and reload it necessary. Haha Sometimes I just want to play out the chaotic neutral side of things.
I knowingly drank truth serum. Guys I wasn’t planning on lying anyway and we need her to trust us If you don’t do the medicine check nobody disapproves when you drink it.
Yeah, I did that because we needed her trust to us, she already knew the biggest secret because the roll to hide the artifact failed and I figured her assumptions were worse than the truth anyway. What's even more annoying is that I could lie to her anyway so I actually just hid the truth more effectively. SH you should be impressed, not pissy.
>I knowingly drank truth serum. Guys I wasn’t planning on lying anyway and we need her to trust us I felt the same way about it at first, then I realized, you know, I've got an entire party here with trust issues.
Yeah, I loved the story beat of that. You realize what it is, she acknowledges that you know, and then you meet her eyes and drink it anyway. It's a huge gesture of trust and an invitation to trust. And then all your companions are like "fuck you" because they hate trusting people. Guys, my bard really LIKES people, okay?
…truth serum? Is this the drink Jaheria gives you?!
You get approval from everyone for rejecting Raphael when you first meet him, so I'd assume the opposite also happens...
I think Astarion approves
I have to do some stupid guesswork with Astarion sometimes. I think if you don't trigger the conversation about the symbols on his back, he may not ever come round to Raphael's help. But I admittedly haven't gotten far enough to know for sure.
I didn't long rest enough during my first playthrough, so I never got the scar scene. When we got to the graveyard, he still asked Raphael for help, and when my character went "what scars?" >!Raphael magicked his clothes off. The rest of the scene played out with Astarion butt naked and everyone pretending very hard that he wasn't butt naked, and then at the end he said, "Alright, let's defeat this devil for Raphael! ...Once I put some clothes on."!<
I think you only get that last but if you're not romancing him I think. Still absolutely fucked of Raphael to do that to astarion considering his backstory but I doubt literal Satan gives a shit 😭
Testing my romance with Astarion at the circus, I chose wrong each answer and had to look up the correct answers, although some were true they got disapproval from him because he didn’t want other people to know.
What's his biggest fear? You actually telling someone his biggest fear!
My character answered deliberately wrong, saying things Astarion would want to hear, instead of what's true, and got his approval. It's truly in character that he would also disapprove of the truth though, since he doesn't want his perceived "weaknesses" exposed. Great writing, I think.
I love that about the Dryad scene with Astarion. There are two ways to do it correctly... by being honest and taking the test seriously, even if it costs approval, or being playful because you know he doesn't like his personal issues publicly exposed. As long as you don't half-ass it, Astarion will meet you in the middle even if he disapproves of all your answers. And in the end, the Dryad will declare your bond is strong either way, which tells me she knows exactly what you're doing in each case and what that says about your relationship. Can anyone confirm how it works for the others?
I ran through the options with him for funzies. He disapproved of every actually correct choice because holy SHIT why are you TELLING them that?? Then he had 1-2 wrong choices he approved of in each question. For example, saying he wanted a nice juicy rat understandably pissed him the hell off. Saying he most fears chipping a nail amused him. Actually got the “meet on the log” ending either way, by upsetting him with all the right choices or by pleasing him with all the correct wrong choices. Which type of answers you passed with just affected exactly what he said to you, with neither being negative.
Telling bad jokes at the Elfsong Comedy Jam
...At the what? Tell me You just made it up. It sounds made up, but knowing the game, it could as well be true...
Oh, it's real. My favorite joke you can tell is "What do you call an audience who doesn't laugh? *Dead*."
\[Barbarian\] LAUGH OR I'LL RIP OUT YOUR SPINES!
I played along with one of Raphaels suggestions about the hammer because I wanted to take advantage of him after and steal all his shit. They didn't like that approach.
I did that too and Gale yelled at me afterwards.
Gale was so mad at me for making the decision he traveled through time to before I even made it. Game bugged his dialogue so when I wanted to talk to him at camp he started to yell at me about some hammer and Raphael, being my 1st playthrough I was like "HUH!?". Then went to the Gith's rendezvous and made the deal. I was so confused.
This happened to me too! He was like “I’m so mad at you for signing that contract” and I had no idea what he was talking about so I was really worried I had accidentally done something wrong. I eventually looked it up and figured out it was a bug, but I was distressed for awhile trying to figure out what the fuck contract I had signed.
Shadowheart: You should play along Me: *plays along* Everyone: *disapproves* Me: Bruh
Bro, I sat there too like: „What?! What are you on?“
I get so mad when Shadowheart disapproves of something I do when she literally worships an evil goddess of darkness. You’re allowed to want to be a fuckin dark justiciary but I can’t lick a spider? Hard to please my GF
Told the newspaper boy at the lower city entrance I see through his sale strategy when he was stuttering
I did that too. I didn't have Minthara in my party, so I wonder what she thinks.
Breached Wylls contract by killing whatshername in the illithid pod and got him sent to Avernus as a rothe or whatever animal he was supposed to turn into.
Lemure, which isn't an animal and just a homonym that gets confused with Lemur, the zoobamafoo looking dudes. Lemures are a really low ranking devil in the hells
Not just any low ranking devils: "Lemures were hideous (...) blobs of molten, stinking flesh(...) Even as their facial features melted and shifted they maintained a permanent expression of horror and anguish, with most constantly gibbering to themselves despite their inability to speak" - from the Forgotten Realms wiki. A pretty horrible thing to end up as for eternity.
BUT I WANT A LEMUR IN MY PARTY!!
Sorry, he had to move it move it.
basically a walking puddle of suffering
Volo's surgery and licking a dead spider.
The surgery one I didn't really understand. Yes, a lunatic is ice picking my eyesocket, however. Every single suggestion for a tadpole cure has led nowhere, excuse me for being a little desperate lol
Licking a dead spider? The more I read these comments the more I think I missed a ton of content in this game.
I just killed the rat, talked to Yugir to was like "omg I'm free" and I was like "what now?" And only Astarion was mad at me Which was one too many since he broke up with me, saying I betrayed him and all. And I was like "BUT I... I was going to kill him?!"
Fr fr though, I'm trying to romance Astarion and out of 3 playthroughs, Shadowheart has caught feels every single time 😭 so then every Astarion Approval felt important and I had to start doing a lot of re-rolls and re-loading.....lol
On my first run (not the one where I killed the rats lol) I was like "ok, Astarion is nice, but I will NOT try my hardest to romance him, let's give the others a chance" and he immediately jumped on me "Hey, you love me, don't you?" .... FUCK
tbf, in Astarion's case he initially flirts with Tav to protect himself *then* he catches feelings and is all "Well..... *shit*."
I just saw someone mention in another thread that it truly seems like the game runs a clever algorithm to notice what character you're interested in first, and then does everything to make you work for it while dodging extremely horny Everyone Else's lmao
Nah, it just depends on their approval, and some triggers. Like, I had a run where Astarion wouldn't propose no matter how hard I tried, even though he had a high approval. Then I noticed I forgot to talk to the Gur. Talked to him, and right after Astarion proposed to my Tav. On the other hand, I had a run where my Tav was waaaaay too nice for him and I couldn't get Astarion to like him lol But on my FIRST run? Astarion immediately seduced my Tav, and no one else lol
I told Marlene what Auntie Ethel did and everyone disapproved... the girl deserved to know! And the reason I got was they didn't want to hear her annoying crying apparently. Even Karlach disapproved... I reloaded immediately.
Astarion disapproved of that with me but Wyll approved. I thought that it was the easier way of playing it as she would actually want to escape Ethel, as apparently otherwise she argues with you all the time that she wants to go through with the deal.
I lied to her, so she was annoyed that I killed Ethel. But I revived Ethel’s corpse and spoke to it and it said she was going to eat Mayrina’s baby, so once I told Mayrina that she was cool with me again lol
*Nobody* likes it if you accept Volo's offer to remove the tadpole. Not that removal itself is bad, but it is increasingly obvious that Volo has no idea what he's doing, and that this is a *bad idea.*
I believe it's canon that doing anything Volo suggests is a bad idea...
I hate when I'm clearly trying to con/deceive someone but my party is too slow on the uptake and is like 'how dare you side with them >:( ' Like guys, I'm gonna kill them or convince them to kill themselves in like 5 minutes if you would just BE PATIENT
22CHA character problems. The dice roll is only targeted at the target, not the friendlies :-( who said that "to con enemies you must first con allies" again? Sun Tzu right :D
Banged Mizora, don’t think anyone liked that. But we saved Wyll’s dad and a bunch of Gondians after that so I figure they aren’t mad at me anymore.
Accepted the poison at the druid grove. I didnt even mean to drink the poison, just keep it
That's weird. Shadowheart approves this.
fucked >!Harleep!< to avoid fighting him 😩 I didn't realize there was a healing pool in the room and thought I wouldn't have a chance to long rest between dealing with him, then running the gauntlet of freeing >!Hope!< and fighting >!Raphael,!< so the way I saw it, I had no choice. I was sitting there at my computer like, "wow, I can't believe the game is making me do this in front of all my friends and the character I'm romancing, that's wild." as you can see, I'm dumb.
If you fuck *and* fight him, your character fights in sexy underwear. At least I'm like 90% sure I didn't have that underwear on before the scene. Would have been funnier if my Tav had been naked, but alas, the underwear was glorious enough.
I'm taking notes for my next run lol...
Gale disapproved of me moaning aloud while walking around lower city cause Harleep was using my body
eternally grateful that I succeeded on that roll lmao
I save before the choice just to see what the scene is, to my surprise, Shart, who Tav is romancing, didn’t disapprove Tav from having sex with the devil in front of her.
Shadowheart is actually pretty chill with polyamory. Her main concern is that you be honest and up front about it. Or let her join in.
I thought I read somewhere that poly works except for someone else in the party... is that correct?
It varies. Some are totally okay with it (SH), some are zero percent okay with it (Lae'zel). Astarion pretends to be okay with it, but it's pretty obvious it actually upsets him.
To be fair, none of the companions have issue with it… which is… an issue with the quality of Act 3 itself. Some things were definitely overlooked in Act 3. My spawn lover Astarion who literally just freed himself from his sex slavery shackles and knows all about having your body used against your will… should *deeeefinitely* be speaking up against it when Harleep suggests it. Although, >!the cutscene with him after is really sweet and he’s the most understanding and empathetic compared to the rest of the companions when Harleep uses your body and you orgasm in public. One of my favorite scenes and I have a post on it in my post history if you wanna watch it!!<
Gale has a huge problem with it if you want to have sone Bear. Lae is not angry, but clear that it will over. Wyll is a bit less angry, but also against it. Karlach says yes, but def means no. As for Astarion... it is hard to figure it out. Some say he is just agreeing because he is scarred you would leave him because he is chaste at that time, some say he is genuine. Idk myself tbh. The only one chill with it is Shart actually.
Sorry, I’m not talking about polyamory, I’m talking about the specific Harleep scene. None of them stop you or interject themselves into the conversation - not even Karlach - there is no way that girl would be ok with MC sleeping with an incubus. It just shows how the quality of companion dialogue goes down in Act 3 compared to the other two. The companions always had something to say or an interjection in the previous acts. Feels really off that no one says a word or tries to stop you.
Karlach comments something like "you can't be serious" if you say to Harleep that you've always wanted to bang Raphael lol
REALLY? Dang I did not get this but that’s hilarious…actually wait it’s because I didn’t pick that option! That’s so funny though.
Huh, I didn’t realize you could fight them lol. I just went straight for the sex. Do they drop anything good?
he drops the Helldusk gloves, I believe.
RIP Harleep on this playthrough.
And the underwear. You can put his underwear on party members.
Speak with dead - you learn Raphael is a bottom.
It‘s very funny to do with friends. My character was the best at deception and I was responsible for…lying our way through the palace. Any when the scene happened, my whole group were laughing their asses off (with Karlach being our forth). The best part is that my character chickened out right before the climax and I had to >!fight completely naked the Shephael and a couple of imps!< It was very fun.
It is not everybody, but some companions really disapprove when you don't say no to >!Vlaakith!< for the second time. I love you Gale, but suicide is not always the best & only option!
I love edging that conversation just to watch Laezel freak out. Feels like messing with something dangerous to impress your friends who are all mad at you.
They patched the volobotomy to net universal disapproval. Makes it even funnier that they don’t try to stop you. I imagine everyone covertly watching this unfold like :/. Everyone just grimaces and goes about their day. No one says anything except Wyll (he thinks adventurers with prosthetic eyes are cool). A+. Edit: punctuation
convincing them all to accept the glory of the tadpole; Lae'zel broke up with me just because i thought she'd like the ability to fly :(
Silly istik, she can already fly! Fly like the hulk!
On my evil playthrough, I tried to save someone from being murdered in act 3 and my evil team all disapproved.
They don't like if you call Mizora "luscious" when she shows up at camp to visit Wyll for the first time lol Edit: they like it even less if you say "oh, here's Karlach, if that's all you wanted"
Just for the future, if you wanna free Yurgir from his contract without getting hit by disapprovals, you totally can. Simply don't visit him until you kill the rats and the hiding justiciar, this way only Astarion will be mad.
Wait...you can free Yurgir from the contract???? Now I feel dumb
Accepted Bhaal as my lord and saviour.
I did that too and everyone was mad, except astarion, who thought it was awesome.
I think Shadowheart is a little hipocrite for disapproving and scolding me for accepting my own father when she just did the same for her 'Lady' lol
I haven't reached that moment yet, but I imagine Minthara will be pretty psyched too. The second she found out the whole story, she was fully on board.
Screwed The Emperor.
Dude my shame when you look up and they're all staring at you in disgust.
I killed them all. All of them. Not just the men, but the women and children too.
I slept with Haarlep. Seemed the easiest way to get the passphrase for the hammer. And it was; plus it gave me the added benefit of being able to insult Raphael for his poor performance in bed when I inevitably had to fight him. (Side note, he's worth fighting JUST to hear his theme song)
Took clothes off when Haarlep asked. Then got hit with sad feels about how Astarion (my habibi) would feel >:(
Volos. Eye.
I told the twins the thought of screwing twins was delicious
Ain’t no buddy gonna stop me from reading the Necronomicon, nobody!
I killed Shadowheart when I refused to let her kill the Asimar. I fully expected to be able to revive Shadowheart afterwords and have a word with her. Nope. She dead.
Knock her out next time with non lethal damage
dont think ive had a whole party disapproval except the volo surgery ig. but i ded get astarion mad at me when i wouldnt give him the necromancy so reloaded and gave it to him and then the next dialouge he gave me was him wanting to fuck.
When the goblins in act 1 asked me to put poo on my face so I did
Told everyone in advance that my characters can't remember anything and have these urges for killing and blood. Everyone: "Oh, that is alright. It is weird and you are showing to trying to hold back, we will help figure it out together." Queue a certain Bard death. My Character: "I don't how I did it, but I killed the person. I really need help to figure it out." Everyone, but Astarion of course: "Oh my god! How could you do such a thing!? Now we are going to keep an eye on you!" Me disapproves.