#emma plays bg3

[wetcatspellcaster]

"What if I told you I love you" "You'd be lying" "*laughing* But a beautiful lie, nonetheless...." - hahahahahaha screaming crying throwing up

[lowtideandhightea]

my toxic bg3 trait is i have three hirelings who exist to cast the all-day non-concentration buff spells on my party every morning.

[library-seraph]

Choosing all the "gale, that's super hubristic >:c How dare you >:c" responses with Elisset my gay projection tiefling is really funny bc. In baldur's gate 3, elisset is a cleric of Ilmater, but she started as a Pathfinder OC who worships Iomedae, Golarion's Joan of Arc inspired war goddess. Combine that with the "closest thing I have to a self-insert" thing and. Girl you don't have a leg to stand on here. You're not making the right decisions, you're just not in the right universe to make the wrong ones

[lowtideandhightea]

i ask you WHO'S THE REAL DARK URGE HERE

I love BG3 multiplayer

[elvhenmage]

tav qotd: for those with playlists, pick three songs and tell me in the tags how they describe your tav/durge <3

[alicelufenia]

Interview with Emma Gregory, voice of Minthara. This was such a fantastic interview, Emma can clearly talk about Minthara for hours with so much love and appreciation.

They keep it mostly spoiler-free in this interview too, mostly just alluding to her abusive upbringing and struggle to open up to the player and other companions.

[ilikedetectives]

This kiss is hot but due to four orbital reasons behind the box, well...

[blackjackkent]

Oop, one more very revealing Minthara dialogue. I'm really enjoying this, having completely missed her on my last playthrough. :D

(Wyll is sitting very patiently with his exclamation mark over his head waiting to tell me his sad backstory but he might have to wait until Thursday. XD I'm busy listening to Emma Gregory speak to me of bloodshed and violence. 😍 )

"When did you first encounter the cult of the Absolute?"

"A True Soul came to my city preaching a message of togetherness, accompanied by two novices. Menzoberranzen is not fertile ground for such messages. I killed them and hanged their bodies in my garden."

(Cue Rakha trying not to let the beast get too fascinated by this mental image.) "Yet they recruited you all the same."

"Recruited. You could call it that. I intended to wage war on their god and the rest of its presumptive followers. Even as the flesh sagged and sloughed away from their eyeless skulls, their audacity infuriated me. I had to know where they came from. And whoever sent them was counting on my curiosity overcoming my caution."

"You followed their path back to Moonrise?"

"Yes. All it took was a simple act of necromancy, and the corpses told me where I needed to strike. Moonrise Towers."

"Given how we met, it's safe to say you failed."

"It is never safe to point out my shortcomings, iblith. But in this instance, you are correct. Moonrise is the site of my greatest failure. As it turned out, to my shame, I was defeated without even drawing my weapon. I came to Moonrise with a retinue of warriors and assassins, the best House Baenre had to offer. I expected a battle, but found a fully-laden feast table, and a welcome befitting a house matron. Ketheric expected us - expected me - and I fell for his flattery."

"I'm surprised you were so complacent."

"It is a mistake I hope never to repeat. Ketheric proposed an alliance between Moonrise and Menzoberranzan. I admit, I was captivated by him. He invited me to the head of his table as his guest of honor. I was wary, of course. If I had been in his position, the food would have been poisoned. It was not the food I should have been wary of. It was the pale woman at the foot of the table - Orin the Red."

"We had barely begun to eat when she spoke for the first time. I only caught one word - my name. Then, quick as lightning, she climbed onto the table, a dagger in each hand, and skipped toward me, slicing the throats out of my men as she passed them."

(Again, an image that Rakha likes not at all and the Dark Urge likes very much, and any references to or thoughts of Orin seem to make her head ache terribly.) "She sounds delightful."

"Few things frighten me. Orin is one of them." Minthara's voice has suddenly gone uncharacteristically quiet and full of a very muted trembling. "Ketheric held me still. His hand on my shoulder, the grip tight enough to crack the bone. When Orin stood before me, she touched the dagger to my eye, drawing out a tear of blood. I want this one, she said. Ketheric nodded his permission, and I was taken below."

"You've seen the horrors of the colony. Orin kept me there for days. She forced me to watch as my men were processed; some for food, others for thralls. And then she placed the tadpole in my eye herself."

"You'll have your revenge."

"That is certain. You know the rest as well as I do. There were massacres before the Grove - religious communities, mostly. Those who refused to convert. Then there was you, and now there is freedom. Soon there will be vengeance."

[nerdalmighty]

hey, sorry for randomly sliding into your inbox but! i just wanted to tell you that i'm about to start act 3 of bg3, would've started it sooner but i didn't get to play for a couple weeks as i was waiting to be able to upgrade my hard drive. and over the course of playing i've ended up changing several details of my tav's backstory as well as really fleshing out their character and getting into the roleplay, and i'm so attached to them by now that i almost don't want to finish my playthrough lol. i'm thinking of starting a gale origin playthrough once i do finish just so i can see more of tara. and i noticed that you're close to finishing the game as well! can i ask how birdie's adventure is going?

AHHHHHH DON'T APOLOGIZE!!!!!! I love talking BG3 :)

I am INCREDIBLY close to finishing the game. Like, about to go to the Nether Brain for the final battle close.

I've been putting it off FOR WEEKS because I'm so incredibly attached to Birdie and the companions and their relationships to each other and I don't want it to end!!

Since last we spoke, Birdie and the gang had just done the Iron Throne mission (breaking people out of jail). She decided NOT to go confront the other Wave Servants; that chapter in her life has closed. I won't spoil more of Act 3 since you're just getting into it, but I did I think maybe three other Big Plot Things and now it's time to actually do the damn thing and beat the game.

I'm a little nervous about some of the endings I may have gotten for myself (I'm concerned I may have accidentally condemned Gale to godhood) and I know there are some things I missed, purely because it was my first playthrough and I didn't know any better (I didn't get to know Rolan, didn't save Minthara, didn't get the Githyanki egg, etc), but I'm honestly excited for the epilogue sequence. Is it mostly because of happy/soft Astarion? YES! I LOVE THAT GUY! SUE ME!

My roommate and I have been playing the game at pretty much the same pace this whole time, so I'm about to watch HER beat the game this Friday. She's playing as a Gloom Stalker Ranger named "Sevyn" (yes, like the number 😂) who's romancing Gale, but we've made relatively similar choices throughout the whole thing.

I'm not too worried about spoilers since I know a lot of the outcomes, I just don't know how it happens or what the final battle looks like. But like I explained in my previous Birdie post, I like to look things up beforehand/during certain events because I like having help. Similarly, I love watching my roommate play and learning from/with her so I don't feel as in the dark when it's my turn. Granted, I played a lot without her during Acts 1, 2 and 3, but since we're getting to the end, I've slowed WAY down and have let her go first with most big things. It's not for everyone, but it's how I like to play!

I'm so attached to Birdie and this save file that I'm thinking of creating an entirely new account on my PS5 just to start a new game so that I don't have to save over previous Birdie saves.

Like, what if in a new patch, they add a new scene to Astarion's plot line? A new action (hug/kiss)? New camp idle animations? I want to be able to go in with Birdie and do those things, should they ever come up. Yes I COULD romance Astarion again (and probably will because I'm a weak woman) but as you said about your Tav and I've been saying about mine, I'm really attached to Birdie and I'm invested in who she is and how she fits into the world of BG3.

ALSO! Apparently they're adding mods at some point to the PS5 version? It's been taking everything in me not to buy it on my computer just for some of the mods even though I LOATHE sitting at my desk for hours on end. If mods come into play, I'll definitely want to see what kind of fun things I can make happen for Birdie and the gang. Additionally, one of my friends told me that people modded Skyrim to the point where they were adding new plot points and quest lines? If that happens, and they add like some sort of masquerade ball or event where I can dress up like a princess? You bet you're ass I'm going back to Birdie to let her do that 😂 I'd want to play new paths with Birdie in general, but I'm a sucker for a royal ball sequence 🥸

So basically, Birdie's story in Baldur's Gate may be coming to an end fairly soon. I don't know exactly when yet, but I've been having a blast and can't wait to play the game again and again and again. Right now that's hard to imagine, but I know I'll pick it up with a new Tav eventually because it's such a good game and you can't help falling in love with the world and the writing and the characters. I shall grieve the loss of this particular story, but I plan on keeping Birdie around for as long as I can.

[horsyunicorn]

the Dream Visitor, nicknamed "Ametrine"

@haeluin

[vosquitransitis]

act 3 time for my horrible creation (carrion)!!! we have successfully entered the toxic doomed yuri phase with minthara and everytime her voice softens when talking to carrion i fucking melt

[wetcatspellcaster]

OK so either approval or cut scenes are ooc and it's up to fic writers everywhere to decide which

[lowtideandhightea]

also tbh. while i recognize it's a different game. i think the best comparison point for lae'zel is sten from dao. tbh, if you treat her almost exactly like sten in dao, she warms up to you almost immediately.

[leofrith]

🫵🏻 KARLACH KISSER

[alicelufenia]

It worked for me with Zenos in FF14, and it's working again with Minthara in Baldur's Gate 3 ^_^

What hooks me in usually requires me seeing their character arc come to a satisfying conclusion that puts everything they've been about in perfect clarity, thanks to having listened to said obsessives.

With Zenos it started with fantastic character analyses and fanfiction delving into the isolation he experienced due to being unable to feel joy in any way but a life or death struggle, and came to a head when the player finally agrees to fight him (specifically by saying they feel the same way) and he exclaims "Acceptance. At long last!"

"Hear me then. Not as a hero, but as simply... you." <- this line never left me either, idk the idea that there's more to the Warrior of Light than the hero they are, and Zenos is one of the few villains to see the WoL as someone more than an enemy, or what their soul used to be, but as a person with their own motivations and failings. Usually only the heroes do that, in their most touching scenes. Anyway this is what a touching scene with Zenos looks like hope you understand.

Whereas I think I would have vibed with Minthara on my own, but minty fuckers delighting over her romance (even when it was completely broken) compelled me to see it through on my first playthrough before you could KO recruit her, and is why I'm sticking with that path post-patch 5. Likewise I have a feeling the "everything comes together" point in her arc is going to be in Act 3 when she reflects on how she was once as broken as Orin, and could have easily died to Tav in their fight against the Absolute like any other random True Soul we've killed along the way, leading her to lament with her puppy eyes "And nobody would remember me."

And I look at everyone whose only experience with Minthara is killing her for her armor (and putting it on Astarion who doesn't deserve it GET YOUR PALE BALLS OUT OF HER CLOTHES YOU-*SMACK* oof sorry about that, touchy subject, er, no hard feelings Astarion stans) and am just like

"oooh she right dun worry babygirl I will guard my war criminal wife with my life y'all see if I don't"

By the way, that scene with Zenos? You get it by just playing the game normally, literally just finish the story and it's like the last major beat, you can't miss it. Minthara's Orin's Madness speech? Easily missable unless specific circumstances occur, and even then you HAVE to pick that first line about vengeance. Like if it were an option that just stayed in her dialogue every time you talked to her after that point it'd be fine, but instead one of the best speeches in the entire game and the best Minthara speech by far, many will miss by happenstance. Anyway that's the life I've chosen now as a Minthara fan; enjoying your favorite character through datamined and youtube archived dialogues and hope I can see them in my own playthrough someday -_-

nothing will change your perspective on a character like someone who is batshit obsessed with them

[noodleguys]

📌💥