#we started playing a Tav & Urge co-op with my partner

[proteesiukkonen]

Baldur's Gate Durge run spoilers under a cut but also lmao Durge players please help I am shooketh???

SO I WASN'T PREPARED FOR THE SQUIRREL DEATH. AT ALL.

Not gonna lie it kinda fucked me up a bit, even fictional animal cruelty is a big no-go for me and that was even set up in such a mood whiplash way.

So like any Durge players out there? How much unavoidable animal violence is there gonna be? I've found some info (gonna steer clear of any and all cat memories it seems) and the general consensus seems like the squirrel is the only truly unavoidable one, but I'm not sure if that's accurate.

I also saw talk to animals spell should help but I rolled a fighter so idk if that's available to me, I'm so lost with the ability menus still.

Like I don't mind if I'm gonna be nasty on humanoid characters as Durge but if animal cruelty is an essential part of the run I may have to consider re-rolling as Tav.

[concrete-beach-party]

I started playing Baldur's Gate 3.

As I have nothing else to do, I will report on what happens in my playthrough. Posts will be tagged as "I play: Baldur's Gate 3". Not that anyone will ever see it, but whatever, it may be fun!

I also tag these posts as spoilers, even though I will take an absurdly long time to finish this game.

So, here's what happened so far:

I play in local co-op with my partner

He's playing Tav (Wood Elf Wizard)

I'm a Seldarine Drow Cleric

I picked Dark Urge

I am aware that I can basically doom my entire playthrough, so this is gonna be fun

so far, I haven't killed anyone important, except that one mind flayer

(holy shit thank god my partner decided to stick his head into the rift you rescue Gale from, otherwise he might be dead lol)

so far, so good: we rescued Shadowheart, Gale, Astarion and Lae'zel

Lae'zel, why are you so ungrateful

[sorcerous-somebody]

Zelista 🩸

Race: Mephistopheles Tiefling

Class: Storm Sorcerer

Pronouns: she/her

Age: Unknown, likely late 20's or early 30's

Background: The Haunted One

Romance partner(s): Astarion & Halsin

More notes under the cut (contains BG3 spoilers)

My notes:

I originally started playing BG3 in co-op with my spouse in splitscreen mode on her PC. We never finished that playthrough though due to my spouse's schedule getting busy. But we did manage to get to the beginning of act 3. I was playing a normal Tav then, but had started seeing things online about the Dark Urge origin character. I really wanted to play on my own, so once we determined that the game would actually work on my PC, I started my new run with Zelista.

I really wanted to romance Astarion in our co-op game, but couldn't get it to trigger for some reason before we did all the quests in act 1. Turns out, the big boost of approval you get from defending him after he bites you didn't happen due to a bug in co-op causing the scene to cut off early. So I ended up romancing him properly with Zelista instead.

I stuck with the default class for the Dark Urge origin. I do love playing sorcerers :)

She did end up taking the astral tadpole. In my game, she had just heard Wyll's tale about why/how he became a warlock right before the fight in the astral prism. She had gotten pretty beat up in that fight so I like to think she was feeling nervous about having to confront even more powerful enemies. So she took Wyll's story to heart and accepted the tadpole to fight against a greater evil.

However, she did draw a line at fully transforming into a mindflayer. Orpheus ended up as the mindflayer (the choice I've made in all my runs so far - oops).

She rejected Bhaal and Astarion did not ascend. I do love how well they match each other in that regard.

I did end up romancing Halsin with her as well, though I'm not sure how well that would work out long-term. I do see them as a throuple (with Halsin being long distance) at the time of the epilogue though.

I don't really have much else to add to her existing story in game as the Dark Urge, but I do have a couple oneshot fic ideas.

A few more pics are below (I was bad at taking screenshots then so I don't have many)

Finding out who she is:

From the new smooches patch:

Making stank faces at Auntie Ethel:

Confronting the brain:

(you can see the astral tadpole veins in these pics - most of them are from before the patch that added the effect to the eyes)

That's all I've got on her for now, I may edit to add more as I think of things!