#it doesn't just mean whatever halsin has going on lmao

[forcedhesitation]

huge ew at all the people who erase the bisexuality of the bg3 companions. they aren't "playersexual," they aren't "gay coded" or "lesbian coded," there are MANY instances of them expressing romantic and/or sexual interest in other characters of varying genders. and not just your tav. it's not a suggestion, it's part of who they are no matter who your tav is.

[baticeer]

22, 29, 86!

22. What is your Tav's first impression of the other companions (Astarion, Gale, Karlach, Wyll ...)

LMAO I started thinking of the answer for Gale and it just made me think of one of those... "How It Started / How It's Going" memes, I've answered that one via a stupid doodle

...anyways. everybody else.

Lae'zel: Vennet liked her right away actually! she's good in combat, doesn't take any shit, there's... a lot of similarities between the warlike culture/ attitude towards other species / etc between githyanki & drow. they're also the two who are totally out of place in this environment. I think after ten minutes with Lae'zel Ven was like "right, I get it, I knew a dozen girlies exactly like this back in Menzo"

Shadowheart: probably along the lines of just "wtf is your deal?" because SH is sooo cagey and mysterious at first, and then Vennet also has personal reasons to dislike Shar... it took a long time for her to not be wary of SH but they ended up good friends

Astarion: some combo of "Yikes, Surface Elf, Be Extra Wary" + immediately finding him attractive + respecting how mean he is

Wyll: I regret to inform the people that Vennet also thought Wyll was cringe and that... never really went away LOL, I think she just does not have any patience for his good guy Blade of Frontiers shtick and also that they would have argued A Lot and kinda fought for the role of party leader.

Karlach: Vennet definitely has a soft spot for Karlach and found her really charming and likable despite herself! Karlach is the last person you recruit of the main tadpole squad so by that point it wasn't really a question of "are we bringing this person along" and it was just nice to find a new ally.

29. What does your Tav do about the Goblin camp? Do they free Halsin or side with Minthara? What's their opinion of them?

This is one of those points in my story where the personality I had in mind for my character clashes a little bit with the decisions I made as a first-time player who wanted to stick with what was obviously the "default" good-guy route of the game for my first run... In order to resolve it I lean on the idea that Vennet wasn't really the ~*~Leader~*~ of the group and that it was more democratic like a real dnd party would be, esp that there was a lot of input on the Moral Decisions from Wyll and his main character energy (I love you Wyll xoxo). Vennet starts off as pretty solidly Neutral Evil and it would not be OOC for her to have ignored the goblins attacking the grove or to have even sided with Minthara maybe.

Vennet's opinion on Minthara is... hmm, pending, until I get to know Minthara better lol, I've still only barely just recruited her on my second playthrough and I don't know that much about her yet. I think they would have actually met before the game in some capacity, or at least that Vennet would have known of her, because they're close in age and Minthara is from a very prominent family. Whatever their confrontation was like in the goblin camp, it ended with Minthara dead, so :/

I think there's probably an alternate timeline where I knew about hwo you could knock out Minthara (I knew she was recruitable, but thought it was only on an evil playthrough if you sided with her) and instead of getting no romance ending, Vennet and Minthara were the Underdark's bad girl power couple going on a crusade against Menzoberranzan (sorry to Gale lmao)

As for Halsin, Vennet never really got to know him on a personal level well enough that her opinion moved to anywhere beyond "I am glad that we have this reliable and strong ally to our cause." I just feel like their vibes are not compatible lol I can't imagine them getting along that well.

86. Did your Tav complete the trial of Bhaal?

Asdglhkr yeah you know Ven killed that annoying fucking hollyphant to be named an Unholy Assassin and did not lose a moment of sleep over it. (Actually, Astarion is the one who got the killing blow and the cool cutscene where you're covered in blood, but yeah.) Her good friend Lae'zel was kidnapped by Orin! We had to get her back ASAP, who cares about crossing a little moral line here and there for the sake of our goals!

[flowersdaggersviolasandblood]

Assassin with a Heart of Gold

Name: Admaer Daeneiros (He/Him)

Race: High Elf

Class: Rogue (Assassin)

Background: Criminal

WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD

So after that that encounter with the True Soul and his companions, Admaer and the gang continue their trek to the Githyanki Creche. Now, this will mean that they have to pass by the Blighted Village, so a brief few stops were made. Firstly, they encountered that Owlbear that killed the previous True Soul. Such a creature would be worth a fortune (and XP) and they were able to snatch a Owlbear egg.

look at how scared Shadowheart is :(

While we're speaking of the Owlbear cave and Shadowheart, it is here that Admaer learns that Shadowheart is a Cleric to Shar, Goddess of Darkness & Loss.

Regardless, Admaer tells her that he doesn't give a shit about her religious standing (he has worked with people with worse standards and ideologies) and that the parasite is more important than what he thinks of her religion. Which seems to put Shadowheart at ease. She also explains a bit about the wound that she has.

So far, Admaer feels a bit more comfortable traveling with Shadowheart now that she's opened up to him about a few things. However, he did learn that she likes night orchids and can't swim, something he kinda attempts to poke fun at her about (though he struck a nerve with her). She still hasn't came up about the artifact, which is now Admaer's secret goal to discover what that's all about.

Around this area is where you can recruit a dog named Scratch. However, because Admaer most likely had previous experiences where dogs were used to hunt him down or harm him, Admaer isn't a huge dog fan, so I didn't recruit Scratch to my camp (I got like 5 other characters who might be willing tho).

Also, the owlbear can now fly up to your position on high in the full game, something I didn't think was possible in EA (Early Access). It quite literally took me by surprise lmao!

Before we went into the village, I decided to swap out Lae'zel for Wyll, mainly because I'm most likely going to interact with Karlach before going forward with the Creche. Let's see if I'm as big of a dick with this character :D.

Also two, we reunited with this mf!

This is the point where Admaer learns further about Halsin's desire to go to the old temple of Selune and the Night Song. Admaer takes the contract from Aradin's hands, more or less wanting to see if he can find whatever treasure could be hidden there.

Unlike Torment, who is now just going through a whole rampage within the Blighted Village, Admaer is more concerned in getting past them without much hassle. Of course, while we were there, I decided to do a few side quests.

Once of them involved going into the cellar of a village apothecary who wasn't exactly as they seemed as they performed criminal acts against their patients in what seems like a desperate attempt to discover the secrets to the eerie book of necromancy. This is where Admaer picked up a Quasit familiar, Shovel (renamed to Fork) who is now tied to Admaer. Lets see how long this little guy will last.

The book could not be opened without a amethyst opal that fits within the skin covered mouth. This required going into the village blacksmith's workshop where we got a taste of the first level of the Underdark. While there, we fought Phase Spiders, Ettercaps, and a big mama Phase Spider. Finally, we were able to get the item required to open the book, and Admaer decided to give it to Astarion. He made enough bad life choices and he's not magically inclined anyways, so why not let Astarion fuck himself up?

While still at the Blighted Village, we did discover blueprints to create a unique weapon, but it requires Sussur Bark to complete it. Unfortunately, Admaer failed the Nature check to know that it can be found in the Underdark, but we'll get there when we get there.

As I stated before when I first mentioned Astarion, this character is most definitely a Astarion romance run. The second I got his bite scene, I knew exactly what I was doing. Unfortunately, I couldn't probe his mind because I used it up with the dying True Soul (in my personal opinion, that's why Admaer allowed Astarion to bite him to begin with), but, regardless, I let him have a nibble. Of course, this is where Astarion explains his whole deal with Cazador. I won't go into detail about it here again because I already explained it with Torment.

Essentially, Cazador turned Astarion into a vampire and made his life a living hell. Admaer began to sympathize with Astarion since they both share similar stories of slavery and pain. So this gave Admaer someone to confide in, and now he's dotting on Astarion, fighting to keep Astarions' freedom.

And it seems they'll be able to get it on tonight because Admaer offered that Astarion can bit him again...So ;)

[perfectlovepoison]

thots about my first b/g/3 playthrough especially wrt my character (utter disaster of a druid) spoilers for the whole game obviously

honestly im still Going Thru It (in all meanings of the term) but just in hindsight this playthrough is so funny.

i played as foxfoot, a half wood elf circle of the moon druid.

now that i think back on it, over the course of the playthrough he:

failed to save the shadow-cursed lands - i got everyone at last light killed because isobel 'died' in the battle and got kidnapped so i just decided to roll with it. i thought that ended halsin's questline (i think there may have been a way around it though?) so i never completed it and left halsin behind. like i'm also a DRUID that should be my thing even astarion was like 'ugh typical druid (halsin) they care more about nature than people! er but not you of course' but hey we just had...other pressing things to attend to!! can't be helped

obviously, romancing astarion, letting him bite me and supporting him feeding on animals despite that 1. i can talk to animals and i care about the animals and 2. the undead just being the antithesis of what is natural in the first place. but look. we all have blind spots. it could happen to any of us. and it has, clearly

didnt ascend astarion because i wanted to break the cycle of abuse (good!) and then deciding to free 7000 VAMPIRES because i felt i couldn't justify astarion being allowed to live whilst saying the others should die. i have either doomed baldur's gate, or the ecosystem/races of the underdark. with 7000 VAMPIRES. literally obliterated the natural order in one fell swoop. look, nature will just have to adapt to them okay.

funnily enough i am still somehow able to justify his actions from an in-character standpoint, not that i can put it into words rn. but the really shortened version is: umm he's actually kind of a selfish and self-interested asshole, he's not downright evil enough to leave baldur's gate to get destroyed by a giant brain, but....thats also in no small part just because HE doesn't want to be a mind flayer..............

literally i turned against the emperor, saved orpheus, then when orpheus was like 'welllll one of us is going to have to become illithid' i literally was like 'i'm not becoming a mind flayer.' lmao

then at the end i send wyll and karlach to avernus because 1. foxfoot is literally the first to get fucked up in every battle, he will be a fucking liability in hell besides his virtue of being able to become an owlbear and 2. most importantly my vampire boyfriend just started burning up in the sun im really sorry guys but i have to go Thataway now bye bye!!

and in the end i chose the dialogue option saying astarion and i should go to the underdark to find the vampire spawn. which i was really happy was an option. so for me somehow, it was a really good ending, despite everything being so bittersweet. and umm...irresponsible.

im kind of really curious how insufferable this guy (foxfoot) would be in a dnd campaign.........but tbh, the whole reason i made the choices i did was because i when i got attached to the companions, i just made whatever choices i thought would benefit them (or at least, whatever foxfoot's idea of benefiting them was). so he would actually be a great ally, once his trust is gained. he's just chaotic as fuck also

[kittykatinabag]

More update on my bg3 second-ish run:

Done with Act 2 and yeah Moonrise after the Shadowfell is still a slog. Actually everything Shar's Gauntlet is a slog. Not getting rolled as much (and actually keeping Jaheira alive this time by insisting she come with us instead of charging to her death), but yeah still not my favorite part.

Also annoyed that I accidentally ran into Raphael the one time I didn't have Astarion in my party so missed out on that cut scene and then the fucking devil didn't even show up at camp after I killed his charge. At the very least I'm pretty sure the romance scene is almost virtually the same as the one that got triggered at Moonrise after the conversation with the Drow so I don't think I'm missing out on anything beyond a couple voice lines. Plus even though my first run through I wasn't romancing Astarion, I did do the whole scar conversation with Raphael so eh whatever.

Although once again I refused to meet Isobel before the Shadowfell because I don't want the tiefling NPCs to die like they did on one of my total party wipes in my first playthrough. This probably makes a few things a bit out-of-order and I think technically causes me to miss one quest (that doesn't even get resolved until Act 3) but it doesn't actually affect the story as far as I know. But whatever she has her big beautiful girlfriend back so I don't think she's too fussed about it lmao

Also Halsin's quest didn't bug out this time! Now I can have my fill of bara representation and get flustered by his voice lines too (that slight raspy tone kills me every time).

I stopped right before going into Wyrms Crossing because it was like 1am, but I'm also not really looking forward to officially meeting our gaslight gatekeep girlboss of a companion's true form. Because my god they pissed me off in my first playthrough by suddenly turning from low key sus to high key manipulative that I'm only using illithid powers on my Tav and Astarion (because it just seems in character for both of us and despite being much more morally grey and "the ends justify the means" than my first Tav, my current Tav doesn't want to persuade the other party members who are hesitant to use them) instead of everyone. Also the fight that's waiting for me absolutely rolled me last time and while I think we'll do better this time, I'm still not looking forward to it.

Hopefully in Act 3 I won't utterly mess up some of the quests like I did my first time around. I actually managed to complete a few key quests in act 1 and 2 this time that will change a few things so I'm looking forward to that. I also have a better understanding of the time-sensitive quests this time.

[kimmkitsuragi]

okay my comments:

firstly FUCK MIZORA i really thought this would be a more important moment....... and we couldnt even save wyll's father lmao really a flop mission for wyll, but at least i dont feel too guilty for not having him w me 😭 i didnt knowwww you cant go to camp after that point lmao

i hope mol is alive, and where tf did zevlor go????? i saved him and now he's not at moonrise...

ketheric thorm is SUCH a great villain damn!!!!!!!! the voice acting obv adds a lot but his backstory and relationship with isobel and aylin is soooooo fun

also, i totally understand now why u guys are crazy over enver gortash LMAO he looks like such a fun character :) i really enjoyed him in that cut scene

gale did NOT blow himself up yayyyy and after the fight, he wanted to talk. so i assumed he wanted to talk about This. but nooooo he was like i have PLANS i have ideas let's get this incredibly powerful thing and learn how to control it- 💀 i mean... my bro is going thru a manic episode after nearly killing himself fr... and bro like... we literally just went thru 2 boss fights back to back we were nearly dying.... WE KILLED A GOD.... chill for a minute please (said endearingly btw he's the funniest character for doing all that)

talking about gods, my party is now enemies with 3 gods :) this is fine surely. we cant fail whatever the hell is waiting for us :)

aylin and isobel goddddd i get it i get it you guys have the most epic romance of all time. damn. i loved that story as well!!!! soooo cool so fun so tragic and sweet... i wonder if we will keep seeing these characters in later game too because i really like them

but, my girl aylin couldnt help me much when we were fighting a god 💀 girl why did u dieeeee i even tried saving her but then she died again lmao i was really counting on her because like 💀 we are fighting a GOD i mean it's a god avatar but it's a GOD so like. what can i even do. at first, i even thought this was not gonna be a whole combat (ie there will be a cutscene after some point) because are u kidding meeee im just a mere ranger why am i fighting the god of death or whatever???? dang. but miraculously, i beat both of these bosses in my first try lmao. lots and lots of potions lost tho rip

ALSO halsin was at the moonrise too and honest to god i FORGOR that this was his mission too lmaooo i was like bro why are u here???? it was really like a big season finale where every character meets at the same goal lmaooo and he was coming onto me STRONGLY i mean bro is now the time??? also im a taken man pls 💀 im genuinely crying because my mood was generally like "bro why is everyone on my throat rn i just went through a traumatic fight what the hell" when i was in moonrise after the fight lmao. maybe that's the 4am effect too but i was shakennn i was REALLY into roleplaying at that moment

btw I've seen some people say that act 2 is the weakest and honestly??? i had so much more fun than act 1 i think. the story slaps way more harder, all the characters are so EPIC, all the settings and designs go offfffff, we can recruit jaheira!!!! etc etc it was really crazy. i would say everything after the nightsong reveal has been the highlight of my game so far!

now i still have the dialogues to go thru at the camp, and i dont know if act 2 will officially end after this, but im so exciteddddd to see where this will go. before venturing forth, i gotta resupply stuff and sort my equipments because i got GOOD STUFF but i didnt have the opportunity to really organize who will get what lol. so get my mess of a party together before venturing forth etc etc. WE DONT EVEN HAVE COORDINATED CLOTHING ANYMORE. the agony. the embarrassment. this is so important to me guys you dont even know. also wanna leave shart for a while if she doesn't have any important stuff immediately, i wanna take back karlachhhhhhh :((( also wyll too at some point! but also laezel too lmao i miss them all

that's all i can think of rn hope i didnt forgor many things because so many important things happened back to back lmao

ps. it was so funny to leave astarion at camp for this i was like. may i get a goodbye and good luck kiss 🥺 jsjehdhhff

GOD it's 4.30am and this was such a SEASON FINALE of a gaming session WHAT THE FUCK?????? i absolutely adored thisssss and i have many many comments but. it's 4.30am. lol. hopefully i wont forget them all in the morning