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The Tadpole thing ✨
Drawing this funky little ball gives me so much dopamine <3
Silly little critter, very kickable, very adorable, very terrifying
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I think it yours ✨
@pizzabox-box
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#artists on tumblr#pizza tower#pizza tower oc#fake peppino#the tadpole thing#draw this in your style
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the fuckin tadpole again but its that one face doorframe makes in object fool intro
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miserable thing
@pizzabox-box
#is the tadpole extravaganza still happening#the tadpole thing#pizza tower#.maybe#sprungj art tag 3000#🐸 <— accurate representation
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"Once you take an illithid by the talon, there's no telling how deep into the abyss it might drag you." (for @theemperorweek)
#the emperor#bg3 emperor#bg3edit#the emperor week#emperor week#gamingedit#baldur's gate 3#illithid#mind flayer#bg3#videogames#the talons have dragged me deep into the abyss indeed#one of my durges making a surprise visit say hello#i love the emperor week idea i love my fave being celebrated#i hope everyone has a wonderful time and everyone gets to share and see wonderful things!#(NO i'm not saying the tadpoling squid is emps because we don't knoooow but i needed illithid claws for my gifset)#*gif
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Of all the companion pairings, I hadn’t expected Wyll/Karlach being my favorite but I just love the dynamic
Because obviously you’ve got the whole thing of him wanting to kill her because he thought she was evil and then realized she was also a victim and was willing to be turned into a demon because he wasn’t willing to sacrifice an innocent person for himself, and her then being willing to stand up to the devils who want her dead on his behalf
But I also feel like as far as a relationship dynamic they would be a Prince Charming/damsel thing except they both think they’re the Prince Charming and the other is the damsel
Wyll lamenting how his endlessly kind wife who only wants to live a simple life where she is treated equally kindly was tricked, sold, had her heart replaced with an infernal engine that keeps her trapped in basically hell, and was forced to be the first line of attack for the devil who did this to her. Meanwhile behind him Karlach is looking at a locked metal gate and just decides to open it by bending the bars with her bare hands, melting the iron as she does because she has flames inside of her body
Karlach talking about her poor husband Wyll who gave up a comfortable life as the son of a duke to be entered into a devil’s pact and made into a homeless hero who would always protect people but never really get to exist as his own person outside of his pact and his folk hero perception. Meanwhile Wyll is eldritch blasting a demon in the face behind her with an entirely casual and unbothered look on his face
They fix Karlach to the point where she can leave Avernus and Wyll goes to his family and friends to prepare them for meeting her, telling them that she can be very sensitive and has gone through some rough times and grew up on the streets so she’s going to be more rough around the edges than they’re used to and it would probably upset her to come back home only to be made fun of, so please be kind. And in walks his 7 foot tall wife who is as wide as the door with her big giant muscles, battle ax strapped to her back, slapping Duke Ravengard on the shoulder and asking “How the hell are ya?”
Karlach goes to her old Baldur’s Gate friends and says she wants them to meet her husband but he’s the son of nobility and spent a long time living in that more polished world so he talks very formal and polite and isn’t really used to how they talk and interact so please don’t make fun of him if you think he speaks funny. And in walks the Blade of the Frontiers with a suspicious amount of not quite dried blood on his pants
They both think they’re the “They said no pickles” part of the relationship but actually if they asked for no pickles and were given pickles they would make eye contact with the person who did it while using their biggest two handed weapon to scrape the pickles off onto the floor
#they are just so#they both deserve gentleness and to be protected while wanting to give that to others#and also are two of the strongest most competent fighters in Faerun#and without the devils and tadpoles and Absolute they are 100% the scariest things in any given vicinity#and no one wants to be the one to bring it up to them#bg3#karlach#wyll ravengard#karlach x wyll#baldurs gate 3#wyllach
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Hmmm squid
#art#cult of the lamb#cotl fanart#cotl kallamar#cotl oc#the squid is the only thing that I want to draw…#mmmm#I shipped Kallamar and Tadpole as a joke…#it’s not a joke anymore
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“You feel the Emperor's fear as if it were your own. An elder brain enslaved is one thing, an elder brain unleashed will be the end of everything.”
This is a quote from early in the long rest scene you get after discovering that Stelmane has been murdered.
The Emperor is afraid because it knows that if the Absolute breaks free of the stones’ control, it will be the end of everything, everywhere, as everyone knows it.
This isn’t some kind of recent revelation, there’s no reason to believe Emps didn’t know this from the start.
So why didn’t it take the protection of the prism and that nautiloid Gortash put it in command of and get the fuck out of dodge? Why didn’t it just hop planes until it was as far from Toril as possible and start a new life? The Absolute would usher in the Grand Design, sure, but that’s not a process that would happen quickly. At least, not quickly enough to reach a rogue illithid who had parked itself at the opposite end of the universe before said illithid died of old age.
Hell, why not try eating Orpheus too? The Emperor will say it’s too risky, if Tav asks it about doing so in act 2, but that becomes a gamble it’s willing to take by the end of act 3.
So why doesn’t the Emperor just give up its life in Baldur’s Gate, retire to the farthest plane it can find, and find out if making Orpheus its lunch will confer the Power to itself. What are the downsides? If it doesn’t work then all Emps has to do is stay outside the Absolute’s zone of influence until something else eventually kills him. Not ideal, but pretty doable considering it would have a spelljamming nautiloid at its disposal.
But guess what? The Emperor doesn’t do that. It says “this elder brain unleashed will be the end of everything” and it scrapes together a plan to kill the Absolute while it’s still able to be killed.
The Emperor had the means and ability to nope the hell out, and instead it put itself at the mercy of strangers with nothing but the hope that they would help it stop this apocalyptic threat. It spends the events of the game in a cage of its own making, with its life, its freedom, and the fate of Toril and ultimately every other world lying in the player’s hands.
And at the end, it doesn’t want control of the Absolute. You have to pass a persuasion check to get it to do anything but command the Brain to die. It wants that threat dead.
Then people want to try and argue that the Emperor is evil and only wants to manipulate Tav into taking over the world.
Yeah okay buddy. Sure. Guess we’re playing different games.
#the emperor#the emperor bg3#it wants to manipulate you into SAVING the world#it could have just hit the bricks!!#but it didnt!!#idc if people think its an asshole because yeah! it is!#but why are we making up lies about it wanting world domination or some shit#it cares about saving everyone so much it decided to put itself in a situation#where it was forced to trust that a bunch of tadpoled strangers would care about the same thing#and then people clutch their pearls about it getting pissed and threatening the player#like what else is it supposed to do?#it has no way out and you’re telling it that you don’t see it as a person#hate my man correctly etc etc
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Tadpole Communication
by @barbozari ^o^
#Minthara#minthara baenre#bg3#baldur's gate 3#Tav x Minthara#Minthara x Kalius#MintharaKaliusComm#OC: Kalius#mybg3Kalius#mybg3commissions#Kalinthara#Baby's attempt to flirt via tadpole communication backfires (splendidly)#tiefling tail doing its thing
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I was doing the "Just one more thing" style of gaming where I was at a point to finish off for the night but kept skulking around and such when Tav called me the fuck out
Moonstone: can we fucking go to BED already???
#BG3#Screenshots#I don't think I like Moonstone as much as my first Tav#Moonstone is a bit of a dick#still does the right thing mostly#But is far more self focused#My first Tav was a chaotic gremlin and altruistic to a fault#While also being a firm believer in “No Gods. No masters.”#Moonstone is more “listen if it keeps me alive I'm down with getting my hands dirty”#Which is all well and good but I miss my first Tav 😂#Maybe Moonstone will grow on me past Act 1#Also she's taking the tadpoles so I'm playing with the ilithid powers for the first time
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Am I the only one who thinks its weird that despite being the most resistant to using the tadpoles powers, the first thing lae'zel does after the nautiloid crash is use the tadpole link to talk to you
#can't sleep so having lae'zel thoughts as usual#it just seems like a very odd things for her to do#I thought maybe it was hinting at it being a gith thing#cuz psionics can be used for telepathy and the way the connection is described is a bit different from the usual tadpole way#but I also don't think lae'zel is quite skilled enough to do that yet#I dunno something to think more on I guess
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THE ULTIMATE CROSSOVER: Peppi-no from DMW and the tadpole from HTN with no context behind the creature’s origins
hweh womp ribbit
this baby brings only fear in fake peppinos
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By the Sundering... The parasite allows us to influence others.
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#wyll ravengard#bg3edit#gamingedit#dailyvideogames#lgbtvideogames#rainbowgifs#userkayluh#.gif#wyll being lowkey receptive to the potential powers of the tadpole is something i find sooo interesting#with another tav i had lae'zel too and she said to resist it but wyll was like Well hold on a second-#just a very fascinating thing about him. love him#q
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imo karlach’s soul coin usage seems like it should have been a little more significant than it was.
she only ever really stops to consider the magnitude of burning through a person’s soul for power during an origin playthrough—otherwise she rationalizes to the player that they’re doomed anyway, and if using them gives her an edge in combat, why not use them for good instead of leaving them to be used by evil? the dialogue with lann tarv in act 2, where he tells the story of each soul he's handing over to her, tries to humanize each soul coin, and still she doesn’t really budge and disapproves pretty heavily if she's told no in regards to using them.
it just seems like something that could have caused some kind of conflict between her and wyll, given he sold his soul to a devil in dire circumstances and takes issue with the player for sleeping with mizora, because she 1) is mizora, and 2) similarly expends tormented souls during her romance scene, even if for a different purpose. but it just... never really comes up?
i love karlach. but that seems like it should have gone Somewhere, from a writing standpoint? karlach values wyll as a person but is willing to use currency forged from souls like his for the sake of a temporary power up. she knows the soul is consumed when she uses them. that whole exchange with lann tarv is there to emphasize that every soul coin she destroys was a person once. but it all kind of loses narrative purpose if this combination of factors doesn't mean anything? karlach doesn't change at all in her willingness to use soul coins, no matter what the player says or how much she cares for wyll.
idk. missed opportunity that wyll doesn't have any dialogue about this, of all things.
#destroying souls is otherwise unambiguously portrayed as A Pretty Bad Thing To Do in bg3. so it just seems weird to go#yeah using this destroys a soul but it makes me stronger and it feels GREAT!#and stick to that no matter what without really questioning it much#ethel's vicious mockery line about her selling every soul but her own just doesn't hit right if it flat out doesn't. matter at all.#plus. idk. something something soul coins apparently are difficult for non-evil characters to even have in their possession#so using them and fully destroying the souls within seems kind of. idk. significant from a character standpoint#disclaimer: not character hate obvi. i love karlach and her relationship with wyll is very good.#but idk. conflict is interesting! and that seems like somewhere it should have happened if you have both in the party#karlach sans wyll might never question using soul coins but karlach with wyll probably should have?#in the same way wyll's character changes somewhat whether he chooses to kill karlach or spare her#as it stands this is like how using the tadpoles makes a grand total of one roll in the game harder. there's no bite. no consequence. idk#not every character has to change to be good but idk. idk!#it all seems set up to make her reconsider at SOME point#and that she just doesn’t is in itself a pretty significant moral compromise on her part#that is just not. recognized or discussed basically ever#karlach#karlach cliffgate#bg3#baldur’s gate 3
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Karlach should be immune to fire damage, while Gale and Astarion should be resistant to necrotic.
#it doesn’t make any sense why Karlach can still be injured by fire#if she’s literally ON fire#and why isn’t Astarion resistant to necrotic damage when all the other undead are???#the sunlight sensitivity going away bc he’s tadpoled makes sense#but he should still be resistant to necrotic damage like other vamps#idk I just think Larian dropped the ball on those three things#karlach#astarion#gale of waterdeep#baldur's gate 3
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Exploring my little pond
#(a fishtank but outside)#tadpoles aremostly grown up and left#but other things have arrived and get all sorts of bugs drinking#need to make a proper wildlife pond :)#op#slug#slugs
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