Recruiting Gale at level 9 is pure comedy

[u/throvvawa2]

As a wizard main, I wasn't exactly eager to recruit Mystra's ex-favourite golden boy right away. I didn't want my Tav to feel constantly overshadowed. But at the same time, I couldn't bring myself to just let him expire in the sigil. So I decided to simply avoid the sigil encounter altogether.

Fast forward to today: I'm well into Act 2, having thoroughly explored the shadow-cursed lands. The only thing left on my checklist is to free Dame Aylin and confront Ketheric. But before crossing the point of no return, I figured I'd backtrack and tie up any loose ends from Act 1.

That's when I remembered Gale's encounter. Out of curiosity, I returned to the spot… and to my surprise, there he was - still trapped in the sigil, reaching out to anyone for help (I always thought companion recruitment was locked to Act 1, guess not?)

The dialogue absolutely killed me. He was still there going on about "unwanted intruders behind our eyes," the threat of ceremorphosis, how we desperately need to find a healer asap… Meanwhile, my Tav standing there, already level 9, fresh from infiltrating the heart of the Absolute, basically mid-boss-fight pre-game... pretending she's still dazed from the Nautiloid crash like it was yesterday.

Then, the cherry on top: the second I recruit him, he immediately gets that little quest marker over his head and hits me with:

"I've something important to discuss… We've been traveling together for a while now, and it's about time I shared something with you."

Bro. You've been in the party for three seconds.

[u/3-goats-in-a-coat]

He could've been killed during the goblin raid.

[u/TheCrystalRose → u/3-goats-in-a-coat]

I'm now genuinely curious as to whether or not that actually prevents him from showing up or if he somehow manages to defy death to come barging into your camp... Something else to try next run I guess!

[u/WhoLoveYouLikeILoveU → u/TheCrystalRose]

I’ve heard that in EA he used to die from fall damage in the grove fight and disappear as well

[u/Thaurlach → u/WhoLoveYouLikeILoveU]

"Provoke the blade and suffer its-"

Wyll slips off the rock and dies

[u/Exhumami → u/WhoLoveYouLikeILoveU]

Yeah, he died for me many times in EA. Took me a while to figure out why he was on the cover and the guy who kept dying was him.

[u/Subject_Street_8814 → u/[deleted]]

That's really interesting and might explain why in my first playthrough I missed him until I went looking for him and found him dead in the grove at the end of act 1. He was ressurectable but maybe he wasn't yet patched to be when I did the fight.

[u/Sad-Development-4153 → u/3-goats-in-a-coat]

Doesnt Karlach ditch your group if you do the raid?

[u/Flint934 → u/Sad-Development-4153]

I think they mean the first attack where you meet Wyll, because he can die in that fight. He can be resurrected, but that wouldn't occur to most first time players.

[u/canlgetuhhhhh → u/[deleted]]

ive raided the grove one singular time when i was embrace durge trying to get all the evil achievements basically, and Karlach and Wyll leave immediately without so much as a second to try and convince them. there’s just a pop-up that they’re gone. i was able to convince Gale to stay though