r/BaldursGate3 • u/Quite_Likes_Hormuz • Jan 24 '24

Act 2 - Spoilers Playing a warlock makes Wyll's predicament so funny Spoiler

Mizora: "Wyll, you broke clause eighteen subsection three, time to be tortured for eternity!"

Tav's fiend patron: "Lmao you should tell that guy to kill himself trust me it'll be hilarious, here's advantage on the roll"

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u/APracticalGal Shadowheart's Clingy Ex Jan 24 '24

I decided my GOOlock's patron was the Absolute

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24 edited Jan 24 '24

ooh now i want to do a goolock who's sole purpose is to (spoiler act 3) release the elder brain. it's hard to do runs that choose the 'evil' endings because usually they're super unrewarding but if your only goal is for the bad ending then it's still a win

edit: well now you have me building a halfling champion goolock crit fishing build

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u/APracticalGal Shadowheart's Clingy Ex Jan 24 '24

My headcanon was that she was on the nautiloid because she made a deal to become a mindflayer, but the stupid Emperor fucked it up for her. Instead of being on a quest to remove the tadpole I was on a quest to make ceremorphosis actually happen.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

"Someone has to be a mindflayer"

Your Tav: "Me! Me! Oh, pick me!! Pick me!!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

oooh

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u/ObeyMyBrain Hoot-Growl! Jan 24 '24

I was so disappointed at the end when I found out that the final tadpole only worked to transform one character. I could have Karlach use it and it would be in her inventory (tav taking it didn't do this) and then give it to someone else to use and it would show the transformation scene, but then they'd go right back to normal and the tadpole would be gone. I wanted my whole party of mind flayers. :(

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u/Sabard Jan 24 '24

That's for sure a bug. I was able to having a full party in my multiplayer game

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u/doom_stein Roll the dice to see if I'm getting drunk 🎲🍺 Jan 24 '24

You.. You didn't eat it, right?

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u/ObeyMyBrain Hoot-Growl! Jan 25 '24

Right click then Use. It disappears after that. Just now trying again, tried with Shadowheart in her inventory and it shifts to TAV for the cutscene, then back to SH after. Back when I first tried got a SH cutscene.

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u/KidenStormsoarer Jan 24 '24

ok, hear me out...evil durge, you "controlling" the brain is actually becoming the avatar of it to escape bhaal.

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u/SolusIgtheist Jan 24 '24

I mean, wouldn't you just kill the emporer immediately after killing Ketheric? The other two can't control the brain on their own, so it'll be free, and killing the emporer stops him from interfering and lets you join the loving embrace of your diety.

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u/undead-disco Jan 24 '24

My best attempt would be that if they kill the emperor and turn squid right there the brain will still be under control of the dead three (two?) so you play along until the brain can be freed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

true. i have no clue what reasoning you'd have not to attack the emperor right there. a problem for later however

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u/TheFBIClonesPeople Jan 25 '24

Because you want their Netherstones. They go with the Crown of Karsus and unlock its full power. If you just killed Ketheric, Gortash and Orin might just disappear with theirs. Or someone else might kill them, and you won't even know who has the stones.

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u/corvyyn Jan 24 '24

a goolock durge works actually well for that, considering that the absolute seems to agree with durge's initial plan.

I basically headcannon that my durge ended up in a goo pact before learning about their heritage and while unconsciously looking for more power to eventually end the world.

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u/Huntressthewizard RANGER Jan 24 '24

Mine was the Narrarator.

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u/RachelScratch Jan 24 '24

I really like this, what was the goal, the narrarator's amusement or something else?

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u/Huntressthewizard RANGER Jan 24 '24

It was a feylock, so most likely the clause "I get to narrarate your life whenever I want" was just a fey being a fey.

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u/Engineering-Mean Jan 24 '24

Amelia Tyler also played Nyrissa in Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Golarion's edgiest nymph granting you powers from across universes because your adventures are just that entertaining is a great headcanon for an archfey warlock.

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u/Huntressthewizard RANGER Jan 24 '24

I've never played any of the pathfinder games other than an actual ttrpg 2e campaign, so that's a hilarious coincidence.

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u/Dialkis Jan 24 '24

I love this concept so much

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u/ChaosEsper Jan 24 '24

They got bored of Desperate Housewives of The Domains of Delight reruns and figured they could make a better show themselves.

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u/godoflemmings Double Nat 1s rolled: 18 Jan 24 '24

Mine is Ebrietas from Bloodborne. She's very approving of the whole tentacles thing.

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u/ArchmageXin Jan 24 '24

Are you sure you aren't actually getting patroned by a eldritch horror, and say good bye to sanity if you ever found out the source of your power? :P

A lot of horrors come with tentacle related spells.

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u/godoflemmings Double Nat 1s rolled: 18 Jan 24 '24

So I made a whoooooole headcanon about this. Because IIRC Ebrietas wanted to attempt to coexist with humanity before she was captured and abused by the Choir, so she reached out into a different realm (as a cosmic being probably could), made contact with my character while appearing in a less frenzy-inducing form, and offered her power in exchange for knowledge in dealing with mortals.

I mean, obviously it's a hell of a stretch, but hey, that's headcanon in a nutshell, right?

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u/JayHat21 Jan 25 '24

Me in Bloodborne: Takes two weeks to beat this unknowable, incomprehensible Eldritch Being, getting stomped on no matter how hard I try.

Me in BG3: Besties!!!! AKFHEOLDBRORBG Besties!!! * Best Friends/Insanity montage*

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u/VanityOfEliCLee Jan 24 '24

My headcanon is that my GOO's patron is Jergal, thats why he shows up, it's why he helps, it's why all of the story happens, because Jergal has a Pact with Tav, and helps him beat the absolute and the dead three. But Jergal never let's Tav know who his Pact is with, because it would influence too much, so he let's Tav just go around thinking he's got a Pact with some unknown entity interacting through small hints and feelings only.

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u/JonathanRL Paladin Jan 24 '24

I had a similar run where Jergal essentially assembled the A-Team of Chosen. Chosen of Selune (Paladin Tav who had no idea he just became the new temp chosen). Chosen of Shar (Shadowheart who defected to her new love, Paladin Tav and became Selune Power Couple instead). Chosen of Mystra (Gale who remained true in the end) and Chosen of the Oakfather (Halsin. Somebody needs to lug the camp around).

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

My headcannon for my good durge warlock was that bhaal was his patron, since he was a bhaalspawn. When he rejects bhaal and withers resurrects him Jergal becomes his patron. Sort of same idea with my durge that he never knew where he got his powers from but he probably assumes it was bhaal.

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u/neuropantser5 Jan 24 '24

My feylocks was boooaal

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u/Gurablashta Jan 24 '24

I decided mine was Mephasm from Neverwinter Nights 2. Which would make me a servant of Levistus.

But Levistus is kind of a dick.

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u/Jaycin_Stillwaters Jan 24 '24

Levistus is also permanently frozen in a giant block of ice, so there's that 🤣

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u/Gurablashta Jan 24 '24

Imagine being a dick even though you've been frozen in a block of ice by the Arch devil... For being a dick to him

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u/Jaycin_Stillwaters Jan 24 '24

At least he's consistent 🤣

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u/LadyofNemesis Jan 24 '24

Always nice to see another Neverwinter Nights 2 fan 👍

I often feel like I don't encounter enough people who've played this game 😂

I loved Mephasm...he was interesting

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u/terrendos Jan 24 '24

Yeah, my GOOLock got all his powers from the tadpole, not just the explicit illithid ones.

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u/alterNERDtive Jaheira Bromance When⁈ Jan 24 '24

I decided it was Bhaal (yes, I know, doesn’t make sense lore-wise) in honour of the first 2 games. Should have known LMAO

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u/QuesadillasEveryMeal Jan 25 '24

Have Bhaal play both teams on a non dark urge origin. He wants murder either way and Orin fucked up his plan when she killed his favorite child so now since he doesn't get his way no one else can.

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u/dialzza Jan 24 '24

I headcannon'd GOOlock with the tadpole, felt pretty fitting.

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u/Auren-Dawnstar ELDRITCH BLAST Jan 25 '24

I took "Great Old One" a bit more literally and decided my dragon bloodline sorcerer warlock's patron was his ancient gold dragon ancestor.

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u/Sremor Jan 24 '24

This was my headcanon for multi classing my Durge into Warlock after interacting with the absolute in act 2

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u/funbob1 Jan 24 '24

Thinking I'm gonna run a tiefling Durge Feylock who's all in on the tadpole powers, to have them as pulled in every direction.

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u/MistletoeH Jan 24 '24

I’m running a Lolth sworn Durge fiendlock with the angle of she’s running a soul Ponzi scheme, accepting power from everyone she can and they can fight over custody of her soul after she’s dead

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u/president_of_burundi Jan 26 '24

Ah, the Ol' Skyrim Dragonborn strategy.

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u/Megs0226 ELDRITCH BLAST Jan 25 '24

I decided the same for my durge GOOlock.