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riddlerosehearts · 3 months

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decided i'm going to start posting my thoughts on baldur's gate 3 every so often as i make my way through the game, because it'd be nice to have some of this stuff about first playthrough written down somewhere! my tav is a half-high elf bard named elenion (he/they) who's neutral good-aligned, and despite being a bard he's very reserved and is always feigning self-confidence. also, he's a college of lore bard who honestly would've fit the sage background pretty well but i went ahead and gave him entertainer instead lol. i guess that actually gives me the opportunity to see more of the inspiration goals by not having the same background as gale! anyway though, here's a few thoughts about what i've done while still being very early in act 1:

at the point i'm at in the story right now, i was supposed to go look for halsin, but instead i decided to finally find karlach. i feel like i probably should've gotten her sooner, but once i got to the grove i didn't wanna venture too far from the main objectives--and the grove is where you recruit wyll and learn about karlach in the first place.

however, halsin sounds very wise and capable so i guess he can handle himself while he waits, and the mindflayer tadpole symptoms aren't progressing like they're supposed to, so why not just go off and act like we've got all the time in the world! maybe elenion is just easily distracted. they did waste quite a bit of time earlier when they found alfira and felt compelled to help her finish her song. and speaking of, i was not expecting such a beautiful cutscene for that?! or for the squirrels we talked to using speak with animals to be so mean and hate her song 😭 but i hope we get to see alfira again and that nothing bad happens to her, and i hope i don't eventually regret saying that!

also, wyll did say karlach is a danger to the entire sword coast, which makes hunting her down sound pretty important... and elenion has an interest in history so they recognized the phrase "advocatus diaboli" and were able to mention the blood war when wyll first talked about her. so maybe they're also interested in seeing if they can get a devil who fought in the blood war and is now wandering the material plane to answer a few questions before taking her down. anywway, point is we're leaving the druids and our quest for a cure hanging to go hunt a devil.

took me a bit to find her despite wyll's quest leading you to her, though. i have a horrible sense of direction, which i guess is okay because my horrible sense of direction did lead me to accidentally find scratch and now we have a dog!

eventually i did get to karlach, and elenion's mind connected to hers and gave him a much closer look at who karlach is and what she's doing here than he expected. naturally he convinced wyll to stand down because karlach does not seem evil. and then he tried to ask karlach some of the questions he had in mind back at camp, but she won't reveal anything until we hunt down the paladins that are still hunting her. understandable, i guess. i like her though! i should try and make sure to get her earlier on my next playthrough.

encountered mizora for the first time when i rested at camp, and i'm very intrigued by what's going on with wyll and i actually have been since way before i played the game and found out he was a fabled hero who was also a warlock. which is why i think it's a huge shame that from what i've heard at least, he was given a lot less content for his quest and his romance than the other origin companions were.

i also wandered around the world a bit more and ended up freeing a poor guy who was being spun around on a windmill by goblins. then i got the scene with gale where he teaches you how to channel the weave, and it not only had bard-specific dialogue options but also had an option that specifically reflected my character's proficiency in history, which was all really neat to see. god, there must be an insane amount of different dialogue branches in this game. love that there was also an option to be like "yeah that was neat, but i could've done it myself lol" since a bard is already a spellcaster.

the range of these particular dialogue options is killing me LMAO

i had high enough approval with gale to trigger a very obviously romantic scene and then the game is literally like "okay, so do you want to kiss him or do you want his severed head on a spike" 😭 like wtf do you THINK?! i can't even imagine how i'd roleplay a character who would be cruel enough to get this far and lead gale on so much before picking to project an image of his head on a spike directly into his mind. and yet i am so curious about what happens if you do--but not curious enough to reload and try to find out.

anyway, i picked the romantic walk option. i thought elenion would consider the kiss thing to be a bit too forward. but that was such a sweet scene and i love flustered gale gets when he realizes how you feel about him. going into this game i really thought i'd wanna try for astarion or shadowheart's romances first, and i do like them a lot and want to keep learning more about both of them, but gale surprised me with how much i already liked him from his introduction. he's just really charming and funny and also fits well with the character i made, so i will definitely keep progressing his romance.

i've been progressing a bit slowly because of irl stuff but everything about this game is so good that i wish i'd picked it up sooner. i've been spoiled on quite a bit of things about the story already, but there's also a lot that i haven't been spoiled on and i can't wait to experience all of it anyway.

#star plays bg3 #<- i guess. idk how often i'll make these posts or how detailed i'll make them in the future #baldur's gate 3

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madwomansapologist · 2 months

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I'M FREE TO COMMENT!!! My so different, and yet so similar request is so good! You have no idea how excited I was to see my request 😍 I'm surprised the first picture attached is how I imagined Tav to wear 😲 English is a weird language even though it's my first language and I love it so I don't blame you 😅 I love it especially Karlach can tell how cautious Tav is, she sees Tav as a side of the coin since plenty of things won't matter if no one is seeing it like no reading a book 📖, she's aware of how different Tav is from her, she also knows how similar she is to Tav, she knows how terrified Tav is yet they're brave enough to face whatever in their way to lead & protect their party 👍, she likes all of their sides 🤭, she felt terrible knowing that both Wyll & Tav were thrown away by their families at such a young age especially she used to think all nobles had good lifes 🥺, she promised to hug Tav so tightly their bones will turn to dust 🤣, Rolan genuinely thought how Tav acted is an act they put on 😅, he also hates how Tav still tried to help him even when he doesn't want to & as if he's the bad guy 😞, he knows they didn't use that against him & just wants him to stop being so harsh on himself 🥺, how he realised how much burdens they're carrying when they told him about their family, he agreed that they're not at fault 🥺, how they're a good person for saving so many people when when it's unwanted 😭, he found it quite difficult to hate them after this 👍, what he said to them though (I love Rolan but he can such a mean man who can't be honest 🤣), Zevlor could tell how many people Tav is helping in THEIR OWN PARTY (SO true though 🤣 Was it about Astarion, Gale, and Dark Urge? I really don't know! I was just guessing 🤔), he found it alluring at how sweet & caring they are with leading some of them most troubled people (He had a point!), he's grateful Tav is the leader for saving him even though he doesn't know how they got themselves in this position 🤔, he didn't expect them to defend him & go through the trouble of saving him 🥺, he thought they're the best person to judge him if they knew everything 🥺, they accepted him & told how much they understand why it was so tempting for him 🥺, he told them that they should hate him & want him dead (He's so hard on himself 🥺), and he told them he has another debt he can't ever repay them 🥺 Thank you so much for doing my request because I love it so much :) Can I request now? Only if you don't mind of course!

it was so nice to read this! got me really happy and motivated. also it was about shadowheart, gale, astarion and durge. i love those fics were people but tav and durge in the same party so i wanted to try it too!

you're free to request anytime! if i close my requests it will appear on the ask box, so feel welcome to drop as many ideas as you like!

#ask box #🩷🩷🩷

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