#jump plays bg3

[undercut-mcqueer]

me constantly starting new bg3 playthroughs yet still not finishing my current ones:

[lesbianwyllravengard]

No but Astarion wanting to be valued for more than sex and seen for something that's not just sex regardless of who romances him and Wyll wanting a chaste and genuine romance with sincere and committed courtship with no sex regardless of who romances him is insaneeeeee. I know everyone's talked about this before but everytime I stop to think about it I lose my mind. They couldn't be more narratively bound I'm clawing at the bars of my cage

[bonyfish]

more Caper and Karlach!

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

I know its just that the animations aren't made with tails in mind but during the sweet dance scene wylls hand is briefly on the underside of the base of Majexatli's tail which feels... a bit spicy and intimate.

[abib918]

hi og baldur’s gate fandom i beat up sarevok not that long ago ( in the most hilarious way might i add ) and. sorry about what bg3 did to your chaotic redemption arc murder blorbo

if i may offer

and hope this doesn’t contradict canon at all:

bhaal throwing a bitchfit that his spawn got turned to the chaotic good side and just making. Sarevok 2.0

the version of sarevok that he wants

bc lbr bhaal making & using a weird meat puppet copy of one of his kids to flanderize said kid and make more weird spawns(tm) ( hi orin sorry abt ur everything girlie )

isn’t the furthest stretch methinks? if he can make the dark urge he can make a weird copy of his son :V

smash cut to the real sarevok just. Out There. doing his thing. whatever that is now.

returns to the coast eventually.

wym you killed me again i was alive the whole time—???

anyway thanks for reading all this - as a bonus, please enjoy me making sarevok do a lil dance and laugh his ass off:

[alienglowgarden]

dav update: ok I think my brainworms are safe. It sucks.

[converse-luke]

I wish I had recorded it but the way Astarion says ‘sorry’ after tav says ‘delicious? you killed me!’ was such a different tone than what I was expecting from him. Like I felt that in my chest.

[stealthnoodle]

Tragically, the mod I'm using to let origin characters use the mirror isn't compatible with Minthara, Halsin, Jaheira, and Minsc, who can play around with it but not save changes.

RIP sprout Halsin, haunted doll Minthara, nature punk Jaheira, and big purple Minsc. Minsc doesn't even fit the zoom properly, oops

Below the cut, more fashion updates, and even more importantly, major fish updates.

The game automatically changed Shadowheart's hair at the end of Act 2 after she went full Selunite. It accomplished this by setting all colors to white and slapping her new hair on top of her old hair, creating a situation with bonus braids and extensions:

Delightful. If I try to change the hairstyle it fucks up the stacking situation, and I want to keep all the hair, so we're locked in now. I also dyed Shadowheart's costume to reflect her major life change, then took one look at Astarion and realized that one of us had to change:

It's only fair we both change, right? Since Shadowheart has a fixed hair color now, Astarion went red and Shadowheart, afflicted with unsightly black veins after tadpoling too hard, disguised herself as a tree:

Great work, team.

So how's our hot wet Kua-toa dream visitor?

Splendid. Now seduce me.

Good stuff, love the eldritch angles as the animation writes checks that the model can't cash. Time to see this through to its logical Act 3 conclusion!

For the first time ever in BG3, I said yes to mindflayer sex but no to mindflayer form, and here it is. The payoff:

[fizzytoo]

i love when she looks at me like that

[blackjackkent]

Most of the rest of the squad also has commentary to offer, come morning, about Rakha's questionable life choices and her suggestion that they might also want to partake of the good old A-T:

"When I first met you, saving yourself from ceremorphosis was your greatest wish. Yet now you have stepped closer to embracing it. I trust your leadership and respect your decisions - but I truly hope this is not something we come to regret."

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"So there's been a mind flayer inside the artifact - or 'Astral Prism' - the whole time we've had it...? Sounds like utter madness, even though I've seen it with my own eyes. The more I learn, the less I understand just why i was sent to retrieve that thing, but it matters little now. I do not serve Shar anymore, nor the Mother Superior. The Prism is no longer my mission - saving my parents is."

Rakha: "I think that special tadpole the Emperor offered will increase our chances of success."

"I haven't even dared to use the more benign forms of illithid powers - do you really think I'm eager to jump to the next step? Do you know what this entails? Well - of course *you* do. But I don't want that for myself."

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"Gods. A mind flayer's been getting their tentacles all over our dreams this whole time. I'm not really sure about putting any trust at all in this... thing. It's already shown itself a liar. I've got my eyes on 'the Emperor.' And Karlach doesn't blink."

(A/N: God, I love her.)

Rakha: "The Emperor has offered us a special tadpole. We'll become partial mind flayers, but we'll get great powers in turn..."

"Special tadpole? Bit of a contradiction in terms, don't you think? I don't even want a regular one. You're talking about turning into, what, a half-squid? Then again... you can pull it off better than most."

(A/N: Slight discrepancy here - Karlach actually asked Rakha for a worm way back at the goblin camp when Rakha first consumed one, without Rakha even having to use a persuasion check on her, and it was implied that she was already thinking about the possibility of illithid evolution being something that could save her from engine death.

Reasonable to assume, though, that her feelings on the subject are complicated and fluctuating.)

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"I can only imagine what I could do were I to adopt the biology of a mind flayer. It certainly doesn't seem to have done you any harm. Or rather... you've not yet done *me* any harm. Still, there are undoubtedly risks to such a transformation."

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"Don't look at me like that. I know what you're going to say. The answer is no. No."

Rakha: "I wasn't going to ask you to use it."

"Good. I wouldn't have, anyway. I had nothing for so long. Nothing. Not even my own body. I will *not* give it up, now it's mine again."

[undercut-mcqueer]

170hrs in and i finally completed my first playthrough in bg3 LMAO

[sadmages]

From black void to emotional catharsis finally Matt Marja gets the ending he deserves!!!!!!!!!

[chizu117]

BARCUS I love you so much but please come the fuck on. The dick CANNOT be this good.

[natjennie]

christ alive I forgot how annoying grymforge is to navigate.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

On one hand, ToTK not getting game of the year is great.

On the other hand, good god I can't imagine how MAD the fandom and Nintendy are.

Honestly, I think this, combined to the way Aonuma was treated when he did receive the (again, in my opinion well-deserved) award, which was utterly unnacceptable --both for him and for any gamedev who just wanted more than 30 seconds to celebrate their insane achievements in an otherwise very hard year-- might lead to some degree of animosity between the two entities moving forward. Maybe they will move past that, but I don't know a single person in the industry who are happy about how this all went down --from ignoring the open letter about Palestine to refusing to acknowledge the layoffs bleeding talent and leaving them out to dry in a year of record profits, the commodification of gamedev achievements as a platform for more ads and more desperate and gross flirting with Hollywood... A bunch of people are also assuming the 30 seconds rule was explicitely put into place to prevent devs from talking about either topic during their speeches given the amount of buildup and controversies surrounding the event before it even started (I am one of those people), but that it then ended up hitting Aonuma just as much as anyone else might have worsened everybody's relationship to the event...