#Mind Flayer Parasite

[shadowkira]

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[hyydraworks]

Next Etsy Update: Thursday April 4th at 5pm ET

Alright thanks to everyone for your infinite patience 😭 and apologies for lying and saying this would be in March. This one’s going to have a lot of new and returning critters, the first round of year of the dragon figurines and lots of Baldur’s gate mugs including new tumblers!

Really excited and will be sure to post up pics of all the other new stuff coming as well!

[bolognamayhem117]

I was clearing out old saves and something went wrong...

That thing is the size of a catfish.

[kororobus]

i adore my bloodthirsty lizard so much

[heartofhyrule]

Noodled a potential sticker / badge design uwu

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

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by Vyacheslav Safronov

[bhaalbust]

bg3 pngs — items found on their respective wikis

[helasquids]

anyone else think the mindflayer tadpoles are weirdly cute?

[multi-lefaiye]

random sunbringer's song thoughts

so, i think it's canon to bg3/d&d lore in general that there are no physical symptoms associated with being infected with a mind flayer parasite.

but i've decided that, in the specific timeline of sunbringer's song, there *are* some tells that someone is infected.

(putting the rest under the cut just in case this gets squicky for anybody--cw for talk of worms and parasites going inside people's heads)

for about 12-36 hours after the initial infection, the eye the worm entered through is red and swollen, visibly bloodshot, with pupils blown wide.

after the initial swelling goes down, there will be a red ring around the corners of their eye that lasts for another few days, and after a week has passed the swelling and redness is healed entirely.

at that point, the affected eye will begin to develop a thin ring of white around the pupil. the longer the person remains infected without either dying or removing the parasite, the more prominent the ring will become.

if you look into an infected person's eye at just the right angle, you can see the reflection of the parasite through that ring of white.

[apricote]

im taking a deal with raphael to free orpheus, i will probably regret it, but the emperor just gives me bad vibes and he wants me to become mind flayer so bad and i don't love that

[vorestarr]

my hottest bg3 take is that killing the entire goblin camp is also an evil choice so if you kill all the tieflings, kill all the druids, or kill all the goblins, some characters should react as if you did a fucked up thing.

[cowdragons]

5 am time 2 post my sloppy doodles of my beloved weirdgirl from bg3

[legacyphoenixx]

Hello everyone please look at how pretty my Ranger is thank you

[crossdressingdeath]

Ohhh you have me thinking about Durgetash with a mind flayer Durge now (au where Gortash lives or where Durge ceremorphs earlier or etc idk). Any thoughts? I want to say that Gortash would still love them (because I’m not sure anything COULD change that, Gortash being Mr “This Changes Nothing” after all) but I also don’t think their relationship could be normal. Not that they ever had a normal relationship before lol but you know, even LESS normal. Or maybe he would be totally pragmatic about it and even a bit excited about the potential the way Minthara is?

I am... honestly just in general not fond of the mind flayer ending. The idea of my character turning into a squid thing just kinda icks me out, I don't like it. Also it annoys me that the mind flayer ending gives you that fun little thing in the epilogue about struggling to contain your desire to eat your friends' brains and all redemption Durge gets is Jaheira bothering them about children like an elderly relative, Larian had the weird and fucked up origin and gave someone else the weird and fucked up epilogue dialogue options, what's with that. Also illithid transformation involves the tadpole eating your brain so by all rights whoever transforms should be fully dead with anything left of their personality just being an echo of the host's and the fact that no one seems all that bothered by the fact that whoever transforms on a very real level might not be the same person feels like a major cop-out. And it makes no goddamn sense that it's even necessary because we know of a good mind flayer who would for sure be willing to help out, why even introduce this one and only truly good mind flayer in the game with Omeluum and then make a big deal of it being in Baldur's Gate with the Iron Throne rescue sequence if you can't so much as suggest asking it to help with the one situation in this game where what you really need is a good mind flayer? I think if you rescued it from the Iron Throne you should've been able to ask it to help with the brain instead of siding with the Emperor or transforming a party member, but even without actually being able to ask it it feels really dumb that you can't even raise the possibility of asking it. I can understand the half-illithid thing (that one I only refuse to do because the concept is icky to me personally) but the full mind flayer ending just feels really forced to me, I don't know.

Anyway. Gortash should be fully against it (because everyone should be fully against it because if you become a mind flayer the tadpole eats your goddamn brain and whether or not you're even the same person or just an echo is in fact a huge question that everyone should be asking), but I guess since Larian apparently forgot about that bit he'd probably accept it. Since if you're fucking a demigod of murder them having tentacles and wanting to specifically eat your brain instead of just kill you now probably wouldn't be a deal-breaker. I don't think he'd like it, though.

[gehayi]

Two goblin leaders down, one to go. Now if my Tav can just keep his party's fighter from killing the healer...

[haresvoid]

I have joked with a few friends on discord an ironic idea that in Omes previous "life" / its host was an asshole mage that potentially willingly went to mind flayers in an attempt at a power grab, but then instead out of that whole thing came Ome instead